paru (sometimes?) rebuilds package from scratch after sudo timeout

[deviant]

Affected Version

paru -V

paru v2.1.0 - libalpm v16.0.1

Description

Have you checked previous issues?

This is a continuation of #1401, which I cannot reopen due to permissions on the repository. To recap: after building a package, paru uses sudo to install it. sudo by default times out waiting for a password after 5 minutes. paru exits unsuccessfully when this happens. Rerunning paru causes it (possibly not in all cases) to start over building the package.

Side note: obviously it is more likely that sudo will time out if it's left unattended, which is more likely when the package takes a long time to build. So this issue is most likely to affect package builds that are already time-consuming.

Response from @Morganamilo on the previous issue:

Paru caches so the sensible thing to do is just re run your command.

[...]

It's always been like that. There's just some startup time where paru first checks if there's a new version of the package and stuff. But it won't rebuild the whole packages.

After learning this, I played around with paru a little bit, and found that this statement seemed to be correct. So for a while, I began thinking that I had simply gone crazy and full imagined all and any of this having ever happened. However, I just ran into it again just now, so I think that the caching must be broken in certain situations.

Output

Include the FULL output of any relevant commands/configs

Don't cut parts of the input always include the FULL thing

paru.conf and pacman.conf are usually always relevant

Here is the terminal output from the following sequence of events:

1. I ask paru to install grafana-bin.
2. I leave to do other things.
3. The package is built successfully.
4. sudo prompts me for my password. As I am not present, it times out, causing paru to fail.
5. I return, notice the error, and ask paru to install grafana-bin, again.
6. I notice that paru does not install the ready-built package, and is running makepkg again.
7. I kill paru, and verify that the package is already built, and is in paru's cache.

Details

v@Apollo ~> paru grafana
 1 extra/grafana-agent 0.44.8-1 [40.40 MiB 223.39 MiB]
    Grafana Agent is a telemetry collector for sending metrics, logs, and trace data to the opinionated Grafana observability stack
 2 extra/grafana-agentctl 0.44.8-1 [32.61 MiB 193.71 MiB]
    provides utilities for interacting with Grafana Agent
 3 extra/grafana-alloy 1.13.2-1 [75.56 MiB 416.39 MiB]
    OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines
 4 extra/promtail 3.6.6-1 [19.53 MiB 115.81 MiB]
    An agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Loki instance or Grafana Cloud
 5 aur/grafana-bin 13.1.0-1 [+20 ~0.57]
    Gorgeous metric viz, dashboards & editors for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB - binary version
 6 aur/grafana-alloy-bin 1.17.1-1 [+3 ~0.00]
    OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines.
 7 aur/grafana-git v6.0.0.beta1.r3707.g649fa6789e-1 [+3 ~0.00] [Out-of-date: 2026-07-06]
    The tool for beautiful monitoring and metric analytics & dashboards for Graphite, InfluxDB & Prometheus & More
 8 aur/gcx-bin 1.0.0-1 [+1 ~0.75]
    A CLI for managing Grafana Cloud resources, optimized for agentic usage (prebuilt binary)
 9 aur/grafana-apprise-adapter-git 0.1.0.r32.g520f47f-1 [+1 ~0.00]
    Send grafana alerts to apprise for notifications
10 aur/prometheus-xmpp-webhook 0.4.0-3 [+1 ~0.00]
    XMPP-Webhook built for Prometheus/Grafana Alerts
11 aur/gcx 1.0.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    A CLI for managing Grafana Cloud resources, optimized for agentic usage
12 aur/gcx-git 0.4.0.r6.gf28846f-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    A CLI for managing Grafana Cloud resources, optimized for agentic usage (VCS, builds the main branch)
13 aur/gdg-bin 0.9.2-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    CLI tool to backup and restore Grafana dashboards, connections, and other resources (Grafana Dash-n-Grab)
14 aur/gitflux-git r13.e7f31a6-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    Track your GitHub projects in InfluxDB and create beautiful graphs with Grafana
15 aur/grafana-pcp-bin 5.1.1-1 [+0 ~0.00] [Orphaned]
    Performance Co-Pilot Grafana Plugin
16 aur/grafanactl-bin 0.1.10-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    CLI tool for managing Grafana resources as code
17 aur/grafterm 0.2.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    Metrics dashboards on terminal (a grafana inspired terminal version)
18 aur/grafterm-bin 0.2.0-2 [+0 ~0.00]
    Metrics dashboards on terminal (a grafana inspired terminal version)
19 aur/grizzly 0.7.1-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    A utility for managing Jsonnet dashboards against the Grafana API
20 aur/grizzly-bin 0.7.1-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    A utility for managing Jsonnet dashboards against the Grafana API
21 aur/icingaweb2-module-grafana 1.4.2-1 [+0 ~0.00] [Out-of-date: 2023-09-07] [Orphaned]
    Grafana module for Icinga Web 2 (supports InfluxDB & Graphite)
22 aur/loki-cli 0.1.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    A logcli-style CLI for querying Grafana Loki instances
23 aur/mimirtool-bin 2.16.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    Command-line tool that operators and tenants can use to execute a number of common tasks that involve grafana mimir or grafana cloud metrics.
24 aur/profilecli 2.2.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    CLI for Grafana Pyroscope, the continuous profiling aggregation system
25 aur/profilecli-bin 2.2.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    CLI for Grafana Pyroscope, the continuous profiling aggregation system (static binary)
26 aur/prometheus-xmpp-webhook-bin 0.2-0 [+0 ~0.00] [Orphaned]
    XMPP-Webhook built for Prometheus/Grafana Alerts
27 aur/prometheus-xmpp-webhook-git 0.2_5_g8346a2202805-1 [+0 ~0.00] [Orphaned]
    XMPP-Webhook built for Prometheus/Grafana Alerts
28 aur/tempo-cli 3.0.2-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    Command line tool for viewing and manipulating Grafana Tempo backend blocks
:: Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3):
:: 5
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:: Calculating inner conflicts...

Aur (1) grafana-bin-13.1.0-1

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:: grafana-bin:
  .gitignore:
    pkg/
    src/
    grafana*.tar.gz
    grafana*.tar

  .nvchecker.toml:
    [grafana]
    source = 'regex'
    url = 'https://grafana.com/grafana/download?edition=oss'
    encoding = 'utf-8'
    regex = 'grafana_([\d\.]+_\d{10,})_linux_amd64.tar.gz'

  PKGBUILD:
    # Maintainer: Zhuoyun Wei <wzyboy@wzyboy.org>
    # Contributor: S<C3><A9>bastien "Seblu" Luttringer
    # Contributor: Carsten Feuls <archlinux@carstenfeuls.de>
    # Contributor: Gilles Hamel <hamelg at laposte dot net>
    # Contributor: Erikas Rudinskas <erikmnkl@gmail.com>

    pkgname=grafana-bin
    _pkgname=grafana
    pkgver=13.1.0
    _pkgver=${pkgver}
    _build_id=28013217238
    pkgrel=1
    pkgdesc='Gorgeous metric viz, dashboards & editors for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB - binary version'
    url='https://grafana.com/grafana/download?edition=oss'
    conflicts=('grafana')
    provides=('grafana')
    arch=('x86_64' 'armv6h' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
    license=('AGPL' 'Apache')
    install=${_pkgname}.install
    backup=('etc/grafana.ini')
    source=('grafana.service'
            'grafana.sysusers'
            'grafana.tmpfiles'
           )
    install=$_pkgname.install
    source_x86_64=("https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/${_pkgver}/grafana_${_pkgver}_${_build_id}_linux_amd64.tar.gz")
    source_armv6h=("https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/${_pkgver}/grafana_${_pkgver}_${_build_id}_linux_arm-6.tar.gz")
    source_armv7h=("https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/${_pkgver}/grafana_${_pkgver}_${_build_id}_linux_arm-7.tar.gz")
    source_aarch64=("https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/${_pkgver}/grafana_${_pkgver}_${_build_id}_linux_arm64.tar.gz")
    sha256sums=('9e3637d00065b88e051f9950d836ea3ec69f21ab8ab452f3b99a4deb30d41efa'
                '9cbd46f771dae5e2308b991a00d07a25cc1765f9bdd4082726108e3476403b56'
                '3cd6026ba009e05f49ec265d049d590d4f35330c1f14cd90a468c8d588501675')
    sha256sums_x86_64=('4f562bb224b8bb758b47789381babb284cb41687da8d714f2ff0e118e945e775')
    sha256sums_armv6h=('4aa94ad3ef8b4881cc87a6850fbebc142bb4689090e9c5cd01d315d996b4290c')
    sha256sums_armv7h=('4dd1c117d868b3e2c870618468e873fc98098ebc5093c99e6456b5a1a7660f81')
    sha256sums_aarch64=('d5f98305792b917b173320d5fde6b394685ae5df179ae9f9a8f22b56436b389a')

    prepare() {
      cd ${_pkgname}-${_pkgver}
      # set arch linux paths
      sed -ri 's,^(\s*data\s*=).*,\1 /var/lib/grafana,' conf/defaults.ini
      sed -ri 's,^(\s*plugins\s*=).*,\1 /var/lib/grafana/plugins,' conf/defaults.ini
      sed -ri 's,^(\s*provisioning\s*=).*,\1 /var/lib/grafana/conf/provisioning,' conf/defaults.ini
      sed -ri 's,^(\s*logs\s*=).*,\1 /var/log/grafana,' conf/defaults.ini
    }

    package() {
      install -Dm644 grafana.tmpfiles "$pkgdir/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/grafana.conf"
      install -Dm644 grafana.sysusers "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/grafana.conf"
      install -Dm644 grafana.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/grafana.service"

      cd ${_pkgname}-${pkgver}
      install -Dm755 bin/grafana "$pkgdir/usr/bin/grafana"
      install -Dm640 -o207 -g207 conf/sample.ini "$pkgdir/etc/grafana.ini"
      install -Dm644 conf/defaults.ini "$pkgdir/usr/share/grafana/conf/defaults.ini"
      install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/grafana/"
      cp -r public plugins-bundled "$pkgdir/usr/share/grafana/"

      # Remove unit tests
      rm -r "$pkgdir/usr/share/grafana/public/test"

      # Source maps are only useful for frontend debugging and add substantial size.
      find "$pkgdir/usr/share/grafana/public" -type f -name '*.js.map' -delete
      find "$pkgdir/usr/share/grafana/public" -type f -name '*.js' -exec \
        sed -i '/^\/\/# sourceMappingURL=.*\.js\.map$/d' {} +
    }

  grafana.install:
    #/bin/sh

    # arg 1:  the new package version
    # arg 2:  the old package version
    post_upgrade() {
      if (( "$(vercmp $2 2.6.0-3)" < 0 )); then
        echo '==> Configuration moved to /etc/grafana.ini'
      fi
      if (( "$(vercmp $2 4.4.3-1)" < 0 )); then
        echo '==> Grafana now uses static UID/GID 207'
        echo '==> Trying to update your previous UID/GID'
        if ! { usermod -u 207 grafana && groupmod -g 207 grafana &&
          chown -R 207:207 /var/{lib,log}/grafana; }; then
          echo '==> Automatic GID/UID change failed. Do it manually!'
          echo '==> usermod -g 207 grafana && groupmod -u 207 grafana && chown -R 207:207 /var/l{ib,og}/grafana'
        fi
        echo '==> Check the ownership of your files!'
      fi
      return 0
    }

    # vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:

  grafana.service:
    [Unit]
    Description=Grafana service
    After=network.target postgresql.service mariadb.service mysqld.service

    [Service]
    User=grafana
    Group=grafana
    WorkingDirectory=/usr/share/grafana
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/grafana server --config=/etc/grafana.ini
    LimitNOFILE=10000
    TimeoutStopSec=20
    SuccessExitStatus=0 2
    NoNewPrivileges=yes
    ProtectSystem=full
    ProtectHome=true
    PrivateTmp=true
    PrivateDevices=true
    ProtectKernelTunables=true
    ProtectKernelModules=true
    ProtectControlGroups=true

    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

  grafana.sysusers:
    u grafana 207 - /var/lib/grafana

  grafana.tmpfiles:
    d /var/lib/grafana 0750 grafana grafana -
    d /var/log/grafana 0750 grafana grafana -

:: Accept changes? [Y/n]: y
fetching devel info...
==> Making package: grafana-bin 13.1.0-1 (Thu Aug 13 01:51:26 2026)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found grafana.service
  -> Found grafana.sysusers
  -> Found grafana.tmpfiles
  -> Downloading grafana_13.1.0_28013217238_linux_arm64.tar.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed  Time    Time    Time   Current
                                 Dload  Upload  Total   Spent   Left   Speed
100 328.7M 100 328.7M   0      0 17.84M      0   00:18   00:18         37.71M
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    grafana.service ... Passed
    grafana.sysusers ... Passed
    grafana.tmpfiles ... Passed
==> Validating source_aarch64 files with sha256sums...
    grafana_13.1.0_28013217238_linux_arm64.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Making package: grafana-bin 13.1.0-1 (Thu Aug 13 01:52:11 2026)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found grafana.service
  -> Found grafana.sysusers
  -> Found grafana.tmpfiles
  -> Found grafana_13.1.0_28013217238_linux_arm64.tar.gz
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    grafana.service ... Passed
    grafana.sysusers ... Passed
    grafana.tmpfiles ... Passed
==> Validating source_aarch64 files with sha256sums...
    grafana_13.1.0_28013217238_linux_arm64.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting grafana_13.1.0_28013217238_linux_arm64.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Starting prepare()...
==> Sources are ready.
grafana-bin-13.1.0-1: parsing pkg list...
==> Making package: grafana-bin 13.1.0-1 (Thu Aug 13 01:53:21 2026)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> Tidying install...
  -> Removing libtool files...
  -> Removing static library files...
  -> Purging unwanted files...
  -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
  -> Compressing man and info pages...
==> Checking for packaging issues...
==> Creating package "grafana-bin"...
  -> Generating .PKGINFO file...
  -> Generating .BUILDINFO file...
  -> Adding install file...
  -> Generating .MTREE file...
  -> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: grafana-bin 13.1.0-1 (Thu Aug 13 02:03:02 2026)
==> Cleaning up...
[sudo] password for v:
sudo: timed out reading password
sudo: a password is required
v@Apollo ~ [1]> paru grafana
 1 extra/grafana-agent 0.44.8-1 [40.40 MiB 223.39 MiB]
    Grafana Agent is a telemetry collector for sending metrics, logs, and trace data to the opinionated Grafana observability stack
 2 extra/grafana-agentctl 0.44.8-1 [32.61 MiB 193.71 MiB]
    provides utilities for interacting with Grafana Agent
 3 extra/grafana-alloy 1.13.2-1 [75.56 MiB 416.39 MiB]
    OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines
 4 extra/promtail 3.6.6-1 [19.53 MiB 115.81 MiB]
    An agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Loki instance or Grafana Cloud
 5 aur/grafana-bin 13.1.0-1 [+20 ~0.57]
    Gorgeous metric viz, dashboards & editors for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB - binary version
 6 aur/grafana-alloy-bin 1.17.1-1 [+3 ~0.00]
    OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines.
 7 aur/grafana-git v6.0.0.beta1.r3707.g649fa6789e-1 [+3 ~0.00] [Out-of-date: 2026-07-06]
    The tool for beautiful monitoring and metric analytics & dashboards for Graphite, InfluxDB & Prometheus & More
 8 aur/gcx-bin 1.0.0-1 [+1 ~0.75]
    A CLI for managing Grafana Cloud resources, optimized for agentic usage (prebuilt binary)
 9 aur/grafana-apprise-adapter-git 0.1.0.r32.g520f47f-1 [+1 ~0.00]
    Send grafana alerts to apprise for notifications
10 aur/prometheus-xmpp-webhook 0.4.0-3 [+1 ~0.00]
    XMPP-Webhook built for Prometheus/Grafana Alerts
11 aur/gcx 1.0.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    A CLI for managing Grafana Cloud resources, optimized for agentic usage
12 aur/gcx-git 0.4.0.r6.gf28846f-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    A CLI for managing Grafana Cloud resources, optimized for agentic usage (VCS, builds the main branch)
13 aur/gdg-bin 0.9.2-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    CLI tool to backup and restore Grafana dashboards, connections, and other resources (Grafana Dash-n-Grab)
14 aur/gitflux-git r13.e7f31a6-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    Track your GitHub projects in InfluxDB and create beautiful graphs with Grafana
15 aur/grafana-pcp-bin 5.1.1-1 [+0 ~0.00] [Orphaned]
    Performance Co-Pilot Grafana Plugin
16 aur/grafanactl-bin 0.1.10-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    CLI tool for managing Grafana resources as code
17 aur/grafterm 0.2.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    Metrics dashboards on terminal (a grafana inspired terminal version)
18 aur/grafterm-bin 0.2.0-2 [+0 ~0.00]
    Metrics dashboards on terminal (a grafana inspired terminal version)
19 aur/grizzly 0.7.1-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    A utility for managing Jsonnet dashboards against the Grafana API
20 aur/grizzly-bin 0.7.1-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    A utility for managing Jsonnet dashboards against the Grafana API
21 aur/icingaweb2-module-grafana 1.4.2-1 [+0 ~0.00] [Out-of-date: 2023-09-07] [Orphaned]
    Grafana module for Icinga Web 2 (supports InfluxDB & Graphite)
22 aur/loki-cli 0.1.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    A logcli-style CLI for querying Grafana Loki instances
23 aur/mimirtool-bin 2.16.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    Command-line tool that operators and tenants can use to execute a number of common tasks that involve grafana mimir or grafana cloud metrics.
24 aur/profilecli 2.2.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    CLI for Grafana Pyroscope, the continuous profiling aggregation system
25 aur/profilecli-bin 2.2.0-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    CLI for Grafana Pyroscope, the continuous profiling aggregation system (static binary)
26 aur/prometheus-xmpp-webhook-bin 0.2-0 [+0 ~0.00] [Orphaned]
    XMPP-Webhook built for Prometheus/Grafana Alerts
27 aur/prometheus-xmpp-webhook-git 0.2_5_g8346a2202805-1 [+0 ~0.00] [Orphaned]
    XMPP-Webhook built for Prometheus/Grafana Alerts
28 aur/tempo-cli 3.0.2-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    Command line tool for viewing and manipulating Grafana Tempo backend blocks
:: Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3):
:: 5
:: Resolving dependencies...
:: Calculating conflicts...
:: Calculating inner conflicts...

Aur (1) grafana-bin-13.1.0-1

:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]: y

:: Downloading PKGBUILDs...
 PKGBUILDs up to date
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fetching devel info...
==> Making package: grafana-bin 13.1.0-1 (Thu Aug 13 02:09:04 2026)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found grafana.service
  -> Found grafana.sysusers
  -> Found grafana.tmpfiles
  -> Found grafana_13.1.0_28013217238_linux_arm64.tar.gz
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    grafana.service ... Passed
    grafana.sysusers ... Passed
    grafana.tmpfiles ... Passed
==> Validating source_aarch64 files with sha256sums...
    grafana_13.1.0_28013217238_linux_arm64.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Making package: grafana-bin 13.1.0-1 (Thu Aug 13 02:09:22 2026)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found grafana.service
  -> Found grafana.sysusers
  -> Found grafana.tmpfiles
  -> Found grafana_13.1.0_28013217238_linux_arm64.tar.gz
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    grafana.service ... Passed
    grafana.sysusers ... Passed
    grafana.tmpfiles ... Passed
==> Validating source_aarch64 files with sha256sums...
    grafana_13.1.0_28013217238_linux_arm64.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting grafana_13.1.0_28013217238_linux_arm64.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Starting prepare()...
==> Sources are ready.
grafana-bin-13.1.0-1: parsing pkg list...
^C⏎
v@Apollo ~ [SIGINT]> la ~/.cache/paru/clone/grafana-bin/
total 430M
drwxr-xr-x 1 v v  156 Aug 13 02:08 .git/
drwxr-xr-x 1 v v  212 Aug 13 02:09 src/
-rw-r--r-- 1 v v 1.5K Aug 13 01:50 .SRCINFO
-rw-r--r-- 1 v v   39 Aug 13 01:50 .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- 1 v v  158 Aug 13 01:50 .nvchecker.toml
-rw-r--r-- 1 v v 3.2K Aug 13 01:50 PKGBUILD
-rw-r--r-- 1 v v 101M Aug 13 02:03 grafana-bin-13.1.0-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 v v  742 Aug 13 01:50 grafana.install
-rw-r--r-- 1 v v  507 Aug 13 01:50 grafana.service
-rw-r--r-- 1 v v   33 Aug 13 01:50 grafana.sysusers
-rw-r--r-- 1 v v   84 Aug 13 01:50 grafana.tmpfiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 v v 329M Aug 13 01:51 grafana_13.1.0_28013217238_linux_arm64.tar.gz

I am not really sure why this could be happening, with paru sometimes using the cached package build, and sometimes not. Is it perhaps because I was installing this package for the first time on this system (and not upgrading it)? Did I pick the wrong moon phase to do this under? For now, I will continue adding Defaults passwd_timeout = 0 to /etc/suoders to work around this (when I remember to), but it would be great to get to the bottom of this problem.