No packages available, cant open garuda gamer or any other garuda software

[jonathon]

You have some serious issues. Either your filesystem is corrupt or you hard powered down during an update.

If restoring a snapshot doesn’t help then you should reinstall. There is no “easy fix” for this number of errors.

Error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/…/{desc,files,mtree}: No such file or directory

Your local package database and/or metadata may become corrupted if an update process is interrupted, for example if you hard power off during an update. Metadata corruption will generally manifest in a message similar to: error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel/desc: No such file or directory error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel/files: No such file or directory error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/$pkgname-$pkg…