Offline Updates Error

[dgiffin]

Running stock Manjaro/Plasma Mobile as shipped.

I saw that Discover was telling me there were system updates, so I ran them and got a message to say the phone needed to reboot to complete the installation, but after it rebooted I get a message:

Offline Updates
Failed to update 1 package
Failed to update database: unexpected system error

Then there are 2 options: Open Discover or Repair System

If I open Discover there's nothing there, no errors or additional packages to install.
If I select Repair system nothing seems to happen.

This happens every time I restart the phone - any suggestions?

[xnopasaranx]

Yes, suggestion number 1: delete that preinstalled OS so you can boot from sd... it makes a lot of things easier and is recommended at this point of development.
Suggestion number 2: Update with pacman -Syyuu and ignore discovery. It works a thousand times better, is a proven solution and some day when discovery is fixed you can stop doing it through the cli.

[iopser]

Hello

have you try to update from the terminal?
$ sudo pacman -Syyu
maybe you see something more.

[dgiffin]

"sudo pacman -Syyuu" gives me this:

Synchronising package databases
  core
  extra
  community
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from fast mirror.pp/ua : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed retrieving file 'community.db'

then 'too many errors from fast mirror.pp.ua'
skipping for the remainder of this transaction

Starting full system upgrade

there is nothing to do

[Emilio]

sudo rm var/lib/pacman/db.lck
sudo pacman -Syyu

[dgiffin]

sudo rm  var/lib/pacman/db.lck
sudo pacman  -Syyu

I’m not sure what deleting the lock file would do as I am not getting a error about being unable to lock the database, but happy to give it a try ?

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I'm afraid that didn't help (no lock file to delete) but the error regarding fast mirror.pp.ua - that's a Ukrainian server, so maybe there are problems reaching it? If I comment that entry out of the pacman mirrorlist file???

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I'm afraid that didn't help (no lock file to delete) but the error regarding fastmirror.pp.ua - that's a Ukrainian server, so maybe there are problems reaching it? If I comment that entry out of the pacman mirrorlist file???


So, commented it out, reran pacman -Syyuu and didn't get an error, but pacman said there was nothing to do - which I guess is good.

Restarted the phone, logged in and got the same Offline Updates error - everything seems to be working fine but I can't work out why Discover is throwing the error and what packages it's complaining about.

Also, the "Repair System" button just doesn't seem to do anything at all!

This is a voyage of discovery for me :-)

[sexywheat]

sudo rm  var/lib/pacman/db.lck
sudo pacman  -Syyu

I’m not sure what deleting the lock file would do as I am not getting a error about being unable to lock the database, but happy to give it a try ?

---

I'm afraid that didn't help (no lock file to delete) but the error regarding fast mirror.pp.ua - that's a Ukrainian server, so maybe there are problems reaching it? If I comment that entry out of the pacman mirrorlist file???

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I'm afraid that didn't help (no lock file to delete) but the error regarding fastmirror.pp.ua - that's a Ukrainian server, so maybe there are problems reaching it? If I comment that entry out of the pacman mirrorlist file???


So, commented it out, reran pacman -Syyuu and didn't get an error, but pacman said there was nothing to do - which I guess is good.

Restarted the phone, logged in and got the same Offline Updates error - everything seems to be working fine but I can't work out why Discover is throwing the error and what packages it's complaining about.

Also, the "Repair System" button just doesn't seem to do anything at all!

This is a voyage of discovery for me :-)

I'm having this exact problem, on a brand new phone. Any solution to this?

[magdesign]

The solution is:

Code:

sudo rm /var/lib/PackageKit/offline-update-competed