Now I’m confused - where does the different user name come from?
Patience is my computer, Alexandra is my admin name.
… but it was persephone before …?
I have reappeared as admin in the manjaro settings manager, I thinks I’m all good, thanks you all!
Persephone is my name on the forum only
I thought that was the result of:
cat /etc/passwd-
As long as you can now open a new terminal and gain root (su or sudo) all should be well again.
Just because of gobbledy-gook-pasting
I had suggested that their single line should appear similar to that based off of their profile name here.
Somehow that later got copied and used as a command, before something to actually read the file was used.
Now the file appears as
Which is apparently correct for their system/user.
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cat /etc/passwd
Edit removed output
No need to post the whole thing.
If that was and is your user name, then all is well again.
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And it would appear you are back where you should be, but before the pacnew.
I dont know if you removed that already or not.
Similar to the original suggestion with sudo you may be able to regain a pacnew by reinstalling the filesystem package.
Or we could just point out that the difference is the line
root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash
should be
root:x:0:0::/root:/usr/bin/bash
And you can make that edit, or ignore it, and move on.
(in this case on manjaro/arch /bin is symlinked to /usr/bin so it wont really matter…)
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[sudo] password for alexandra:
:: Synchronizing package databases…
error: failed to synchronize all databases (unexpected error)
I still dont have access to pacman?
… can you get root in a new terminal?
That does not appear to be a lack of access (you are prompted for password and pacman continues but fails).
I would reiterate the original steps;
(you do need sudo now if you have exited from su)
Yes, that is what I did, sorry left off the top line.
Trying that now, sorry the mirrrors are taking a minute
I’m still getting unexpected error after doing all that.
I can see in the GUI that pacman is installed. Would it help to uninstall using the GUI and reinstall?
Maybe more .pacnew fallout? What are the contents of /etc/pacman.conf
cat /etc/pacman.conf
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cat /etc/pacman.conf ✔
#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
#HookDir = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
HoldPkg = pacman glibc manjaro-system
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
Architecture = auto
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options
#UseSyslog
Color
#NoProgressBar
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
ParallelDownloads = 4
DownloadUser = alpm
#DisableSandbox
#ILoveCandy
# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required
# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Arch and Manjaro Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro`.
#
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#
[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs``
I ran a small update yesterday, too, using the pamac GUI that as I recall had an update to pacman, not sure if that is relevant.
Hm. That file seems OK.
Some more digging.
ls -la /etc/pacman.d/
cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
And we may get more info from the verbose flag;
sudo pacman -Syuv