After upgrade unable to login to session

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This is not a fix for everything.
But if you want to reinstall all the standard packages you can use mapare;

bash <(curl -s https://gitlab.com/cscs/mapare/-/raw/main/mapare) -IA

And type xfce at the prompt.

When it comes to handling pacnews … here is my suggestion:

Continuing the discussion from Why is the community repo missing?:

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The fast and correct way, including my own opinions, would be

Ensure meld is installed

sudo pacman -Syu meld

Set the DIFFPROG environment variable

echo "DIFFPROG=/usr/bin/meld" | sudo tee -a /etc/environment

Source the environment file to be sure

source /etc/environment

Run pacdiff

pacdiff -s

Use ‘v’ to view, compare, edit, and merge new code.

(note the same file will be presented again after merge/save/close … if satisfied with the marge you can then ‘r’ for remove. Or just ‘s’ to skip … retaining the file for next pacdiff check, such as after a reboot)

The focus is to preserve configurations while adding in the new standards.