@dingo wrote:
I downloaded the older version from here and copied it to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/, then tried the following commands in CLI:
[dingo@forest ~]$ sudo pacman -U --force accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2 [sudo] password for dingo: warning: option --force is deprecated; use --overwrite instead loading packages... error: 'accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2': could not find or read package [dingo@forest ~]$ sudo pacman -U --force accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2.pkg.tar.xz warning: option --force is deprecated; use --overwrite instead loading packages... error: 'accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2.pkg.tar.xz': could not find or read package [dingo@forest ~]$ sudo pacman -U --overwrite pacman: option '--overwrite' requires an argument [dingo@forest ~]$ sudo pacman -U --overwrite accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2 error: no targets specified (use -h for help) [dingo@forest ~]$ sudo pacman -U --force accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2 warning: option --force is deprecated; use --overwrite instead loading packages... error: 'accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2': could not find or read package [dingo@forest ~]$ sudo pacman -U --force accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2 [sudo] password for dingo: warning: option --force is deprecated; use --overwrite instead loading packages... error: 'accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2': could not find or read package [dingo@forest ~]$ sudo pacman -U --force accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2 warning: option --force is deprecated; use --overwrite instead loading packages... error: 'accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2': could not find or read package [dingo@forest ~]$ pacman -U /home/dingo/Downloads/accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root. [dingo@forest ~]$ sudo pacman -U /home/dingo/Downloads/accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz loading packages... warning: accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2 is up to date -- reinstalling resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... warning: could not fully load metadata for package accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2 error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted package) [dingo@forest ~]$ pacman -U --dbonly accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root. [dingo@forest ~]$ sudo pacman -U --dbonly accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz loading packages... error: 'accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': could not find or read package [dingo@forest ~]$ sudo pacman -U --dbonly accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz loading packages... error: 'accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': could not find or read packageThis didn't help much.
I may also have removed it from /var/lib/pacman/local.
In any case, I then opened Pamac and was able to run all pending updates.
I looked at the history in Pamac, and didn't see any interesting output related to accountsservice except:
[2019-05-04 18:57] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] e[1;1me[1;32m==>e[1;0me[1;1m adjusting file permissions for Accountsservice 0.6.55 ...e[1;0m [2019-05-04 18:57] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/accountsservice-0.6.54+2+g204a4ab-2/desc: No such file or directoryBut I don't know if that means anything since two different versions are mentioned.
I also see this kind of message:
[2019-07-03 05:52] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libaccountsservice.so.0 is truncated [2019-07-03 05:52] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libaccountsservice.so is truncated [2019-07-03 05:52] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libaccountsservice.so.0.0.0 is truncated