Can confirm, I've been getting them as well. If the issue persists I'll simply write a little bash script to search for and delete specific empty directories following this pattern, but for now the inconvenience doesn't bother me much. More interested to know about the commit that led to this, did I miss it somewhere?
On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM David C Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > All, Devs, > > From earlier discussions, I thought the empty stray directory problem > in /var/cache/pacman/pkg had been identified and solved. But I was hit > again today with directories created this year, e.g. sudo pacman -Sc > > error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-peUZUV: Error > reading fd 7 > error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-uq8lgk: Error > reading fd 7 > > Where, e.g.: > > $ sudo ls -al /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-peUZUV > total 352 > drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Jan 1 03:42 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 352256 Jan 8 21:56 .. > > I went ahead and just removed both directories. If there are any logs > you are interested in, let me know, but I know the commit that led to > this has already been identified. I'm just not sure of the fix. > > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > >
