Thanks for the explanation. I already suspected something like that. I really need to learn more about packages. I always feel like I install stuff and dependencies and when I don’t need/use them anymore at a later time, then I do not know how to safely remove packages. It always feels like there are a lot of unused packages floating around but I’m not even sure if that is the case.
Why don’t you check the /var/log/pacman.log file? It will tell you exactly what you have removed and will help to identify the culprit.
Just boot into a live ISO and mount your filesystem then you can open that file. You are welcome to post the last part of it here (as it is a large file) showing what you’ve done.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of this log-file, else I would have looked into it already. I showed the relevant lines to a friend of mine and his comment was “Oh my god, just reinstall it from scratch, there were so many things removed, which shouldn’t have been removed that I don’t even know where to start.”
As I have already copied all my personal data to my Windows partition (sadly I just moved to a new country and do not have an external drive available), I guess I should start with the re-installation.
And if you like to have a look yourself, here are the relevant lines:
I understand that it looks different, but I do not understand how this command shows up there, as I followed the instructions that I had posted earlier. Maybe the list of packages to be removed is the result of $(pacman -Qtdq)?
Anyway, I can try reinstalling them as you suggest. However, I do not totally understand what you mean with that line:
Let’s see if it is self-explanatory if I enter the command. Again, I’m copying commands without fully understanding what they do
That’s fine, thanks for the hint - but it does not matter here. From the log file you cannot derive this.
manjaro-chroot has a little bug: If there is only one system you could chroot in it asks you to select a system and it tells you something like enter 0 or 0 and the right answer is 1 instead - that’s all. You will see it if you enter the command.
Thanks for pointing that out. That was what I suspected. But I do not understand, how all these apparently essential packages were identified as orphans? Any explanation?
(base) [manjaro-gnome log]# sudo pacman -Syu cmake electron4 gnome-shell-extension-openweather go js60 lib32-libdbusmenu-gtk2 lib32-libidn lib32-libindicator-gtk2 linux-latest linux-latest-nvidia-440xx linux57-nvidia-440xx python-pytoml qt5-styleplugins qt5ct wxgtk2 xorg-font-utils xorg-fonts-alias
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
error: target not found: electron4
error: target not found: xorg-font-utils
error: target not found: xorg-fonts-alias
This is what I get as a response and it doesn’t seem right to me, nothing is installed and there are only the 3 errors.
Also in the log, it only shows
I did and it seemed it pinged different mirrors and at the end it said
::INFO Mirror list generated and saved to: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core 168.6 KiB 4.12 MiB/s 00:00 [#############################################################################] 100%
extra 2010.2 KiB 11.1 MiB/s 00:00 [#############################################################################] 100%
community 6.2 MiB 12.8 MiB/s 00:00 [#############################################################################] 100%
multilib 191.8 KiB 11.0 MiB/s 00:00 [#############################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade…
there is nothing to do
@freggel.doe, that’s very nice to hear, nevertheless it will take a while until all the rescue USB sticks carry this, at the moment it seems just to reach unstable.
@ElPhysico, it would be probably easier for a gnome user to help you, as some of the packages you have removed seem not ot be in the repos I can see (e.g. electron4). When reinstalling, packages which have been installed as dependency previously then they should be reinstalled as depency again or at least this must be fixed, afterwards.