Hi, I need help fixing my father computer which runs Manjaro. My father usually uses Gnome GUI package installer to update the system. Recently he was sometimes getting a weird graphical issue, usually when he watches some YouTube videos and all of a sudden many small pixelated area on the screen ap…

Yes, of course. You need to keep the contents of /etc/passwd ! If what is in /etc/passwd.pacnew is not in /etc/passwd: add it. To be sure: what is in /etc/passwd.pacnew ? Is that user already present in /etc/passwd?

[image] michael-novak: Does it make sense that /etc/passwd has 46 different lines, while /etc/passwd.pacnew has only one line? Yes it makes sense, it contains account information for your system. The pacnew is the default so it only contains root. I’d ignore that .pacnew if I were you. The o…

Thank you! that’s what I was doing so far. It seems like in all the files so far the .pacnew had fewer lines, and after going over the regular (non .pacnew) file and checking that everything makes sense I remove the .pacnew file (and kept it in a backup directory). It’s just that the difference betw…

/etc/passwd defines each user on the system - it’s UID and GID and home directory and login shell, if any no actual passwords - these are in /etc/shadow (but not in plain text) The default passwd.pacnew cannot contain any information specific to your system. It may have added a new system user ac…

[image] michael-novak: Does it make sense that /etc/passwd has 46 different lines, while /etc/passwd.pacnew has only one line? The passwd.pacnew file only contains one change, namely the path of the root user’s shell is now /usr/bin/bash instead of /bin/bash. Change this in the real /etc/pas…

On topic: to me it seems the problem will be solved with the signature lines in the pacman.conf pacnew. Semi offtopic [image] [HowTo] handle some Pacnew files best Tutorials Many users struggle with handling .pacnew files. Mishandling them can have far-reachi…

Thank you for the explanation about the passwd file, at first I just left the file as it is, so you probably saved me there when you told me to edit that line. But I’m a bit confused now what to do in every file, because at the beginning I thought that if the non .pacnew file has more lines (as it u…

Thank you very much for the guide you sent, I’ll look into it. And as I said at the beginning, I don’t have a pacman.conf.pacnew Should I just replace the second line ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback in the /etc/hosts file with the second line from /etc/hosts.pacnew - ::1 …

With the /etc/hosts file, the same thing applies. The .pacnew is just a generic default. What you have is working and customized for your machine. Leave it alone. Sometimes, new options or new syntax of some configuration files is introduced. Sometimes options are obsolete and no longer necessa…

Getting errors when trying to update with pacman from the terminal but not when using Gnome GUI

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On topic: to me it seems the problem will be solved with the signature lines in the pacman.conf pacnew.

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