Updates not working today

General system Pacman
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I think I’ve messed up something.


sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for jim: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 endeavouros is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)

The error listed goes on forever.

2

had that a few days ago

sudo pacman -Syyu

helped me

3

Unfortunately didn’t help me;

sudo pacman -Syyu
[sudo] password for jim: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 endeavouros                               25.8 KiB  66.7 KiB/s 00:00 [--------------------------------------] 100%
 core                                     128.9 KiB   171 KiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------------] 100%
 extra                                      8.3 MiB  7.87 MiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------------] 100%
 multilib                                 139.6 KiB   184 KiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
error: could not read db 'extra' (gzip decompression failed)
4

maybe try to re-rate the mirrors and then try to update

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5

Thanks, that fixed it.

6

I had this a couple of days ago, how bizarre! Wonder what caused it???

7

I was thinking it might have had something to do with the fact that I had installed discover and packagekit-qt5. But when I had issues because of the update problem discover hung and I could not figure it out. So I restore to a snapshot when things were working and uninstall packagekit-qt5 and nothing changes until the suggestion about re-rate the mirrors.

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