On 1/9/26 1:02 PM, David C Rankin 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.
About a week ago? I had the same experience for the first time too. I
just deleted it then, but checking it again now, it looks like this.
```
$ sudo ls -ld /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-* | wc -l
63
$ sudo ls -ld /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-* | head
drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Jan 9 11:48
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-28I5Oo
drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Jan 7 00:12
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-3ZkRUE
drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Dec 27 10:35
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-4aMUAG
drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Dec 29 01:46
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-5JBYpv
drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Dec 24 16:23
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-5w81q8
drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Dec 24 00:49
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-5ZHjo0
drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Jan 3 10:58
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-6n979v
drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Dec 23 16:55
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-7pWCZl
drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Jan 4 01:11
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-8TyCD4
drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Dec 23 16:53
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-8zjKSH
$ sudo pacman -Sc
Packages to keep:
All locally installed packages
Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
:: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n]
removing old packages from cache...
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-wkipue: Error
reading fd 7
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-yC3b43: Error
reading fd 7
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-7pWCZl: Error
reading fd 7
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-CWoUmQ: Error
reading fd 7
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-i4u1Jc: Error
reading fd 7
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-kx8Qmw: Error
reading fd 7
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-RbJkbg: Error
reading fd 7
(... snip)
Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/
:: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n]
removing unused sync repositories...
```
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