Can't Delete User Account & Now Can't Update System

Need to delete a user account with it’s data, but ‘delete’ button grayed out.

Searched forum and see others did a system update and it fixed issue.

Tried to do system update in terminal and got errors:

Blockquote
looking for conflicting packages…
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: jdk-openjdkand jre-openjdk are in conflict

Do I have to do system update to be able to delete the user account?

Is there another way to delete user account?

And how I fix the openjdk conflict?

I’m running Manjaro Cinnamon.

6.2.16-2-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

Thank you!

Mark

You can only delete a user with root privileges.

Do you want to update the system with pacman or pamac ?

And kernel 6.2 is EOL. You need to install a recent kernel first.

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Easy:

Login as root or an admin user, and then use userdel.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/userdel.8.en

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@Keruskerfuerst THANK YOU for your help!
I can update either way…just need to know what to do to fix issue…

OK, will install a newer kernel…

You don’t tell us what you’re using to attempt to delete a user, but if the GUI for the desktop you’re using is anything like KDE’s systemsettings, your own user will have a greyed-out delete button.

I can’t imagine any scenario where you wouldn’t be able to delete an inactive user without an update.

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THANK YOU for your help and info!

Oops, meant to say I opened ‘Users and Groups’ and the ‘Delete’ button was grayed out for the user I want to delete.

I was logged in as with an admin account.

There must be a reason for that, such as — for instance — that you would be trying to delete the user account that you are currently using, or a user account that is currently still logged in.

Either way, just because you cannot do it from a GUI doesn’t mean that you cannot try doing it from the command line… :point_down:

man userdel

That’s an old problem, which you wouldn’t have run into if you had kept your system up to date. Please remember that Manjaro is a (curated) rolling-release distribution and must be kept up to date, and must be maintained — you probably also have loads of unattended .pacnew files on your system.

Please take the time to read this short essay below — it’s not meant to berate you, but rather to bring your attention onto what Manjaro requires. :point_down:

Anyway, I don’t have any link handy with regard to the openjdk issue, but it was abundantly addressed on the forum already, as well as on the pertinent Stable Updates thread when the change was introduced.

Yes, by way of userdel — see higher up.

THANK YOU for all your help and input.

I was logged in as another user (admin account).

System got out of date as I haven’t been using this particular laptop for about 9 months as I’ve using another laptop.

Understand about the nature of Manjaro…I briefly used Arch before I discovered Manjaro…and understand that it’s a rolling release, etc…so, I don’t get mad or upset if I run into a problem…I try to learn from it…I’m probably an ‘Advanced Beginner’ when it comes to linux… :slightly_smiling_face:

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