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Arch Linux: pacman -Syu and “Failed to connect to system scope bus via local transport” errors
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29 December 2025

Problems with upgrades on Arch Linux are very rare, and a situation like today’s is a first for me in nearly 10 years of using the system. So, what happened: installed upgrades with pacman -Syu after installation, sudo reboot would hang managed to reboot only with sudo reboot -f (force) after the reboot – X.Org… Read More »

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Arch Linux: fixing the “yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.13” error
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17 March 2024

After the latest Arch Linux upgrade, Yay reported the following error: yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory First, let’s check if we have the libalpm library file, and which version: $ sudo find / -type f -name “*.so*” | grep libalpm /usr/lib/libalpm.so.14.0.0 So, we… Read More »

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Arch Linux: pacman – error “HTTP server doesn’t seem to support byte ranges”
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30 May 2022

During system upgrade with pacman -Syu, I got internet disruption, and on the next upgrade I got the error from pacman. It sounds like “HTTP server doesn’t seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume“: [simterm] … ==> Retrieving sources… -> Downloading clightd-5.6.tar.gz… ** Resuming transfer from byte position 12288 % Total % Received % Xferd… Read More »

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Arch Linux: package-query: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.11
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26 October 2019

Didn’t install upgrades for a couple of weeks, today packages to be upgraded became over 100, so I run it. Upgrades on my Arch Linux are installed with a simple alias in the.bashrc: … alias osupgrade=”yaourt -Syua –noconfirm” … (seems eventually it’s time to change it to the alias osupgrade=”yay -Syua –noconfirm”) The error Usually,… Read More »

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