Pamac Manager stopped working

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Hey there!
Yesterday I have installed a couple of update packages through the pamac-manager. Unfortunately, the manager does not start anymore. The window opens for like 100ms and then directly closed. When I tried to open it through the terminal, I found the following error:

(pamac-manager:4564): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 10:03:06.217: gdk_window_set_cursor: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(pamac-manager:4564): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 10:03:06.217: gdk_window_set_cursor: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  pamac-manager --updates

It would be nice if anyone could help me :slight_smile:

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Have you tried to open via terminal as sudo?

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Have you tried logging out and logging back in, or better yet, rebooting?

Don’t ever do that. Pamac was designed to be run as a regular user. It is polkit-aware and will ask for a password when needed.

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I know. It is just to see if it starts.
Had the same yesterday. Re-applied the “light” stock theme and after a reboot switched back to dark theme and pamac manager opened again normally.

btw. I also still get the same error in terminal:
pamac-manager

(pamac-manager:5408): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 10:31:05.223: gdk_window_set_cursor: assertion ‘GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)’ failed

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A “couple of update packages”, as in, instead of a full system update?

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I meant all available update packages :slight_smile:

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I have tried it with sudo, and it did work; but as you have said, this is not a solution

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Have you rebooted since then?

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This error also comes, when I start it with sudo (where it does work), so it can not really be the purpose. I think the main error is zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) pamac-manager --updates

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Yeah, it did not work. I think one package from kde or manjaro is a little bugged. Or another guess: The kernel has an error → I am using the newest version 5.l5.7-1

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sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu

Post any errors… or if there were updates … or if ‘nothing to do’.

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Ah thank you :slight_smile: After running the command and restarting, it did work again. It did said something like updated config /var/lib/mhwd/local/pci/video-nvidia this could have been the problem.

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do you still get the error message in terminal with pamac-manager?
In my case I still have the error message. pamac works fine though trough GUI

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pamac-manager is a GUI application …
The errors about set_cursor are more or less cosmetic and probably afflicts everyone … one sec … yup I have it too, next to a kio-mimeapps one.
IDK … I dont use pamac. :woman_shrugging:

PS - pamac is the cli version … such as pamac update

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well, I wasn’t bothered by the error message anyway. GUI works and system updates I usually apply via terminal. Just in this support case when pamac does not start an error message usually indicates something is not right.
anyways, Simax’s problem is solved, luckily. thanks.

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But I also meant it was not the error message … this was:

But, on a hunch, I assumed we didnt need to go getting the coredump and instead guessed that it was a partial-upgrade/mirror/etc situation.

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