My opinion is that is the workarounds mentioned in:
didn’t work, it could be a different issue, but I don’t know what that might be.
That might be an option as a last resort. At least then you might be able to make different update choices; for example:
- Use
sudo pacman -Syuto perform the update. - Follow recommendations in problems with polkit and others, as needed.
- Reboot.
- And finally, update any AUR applications as needed using
pamac update --aur.
Most problems seem to stem from using pamac-manager (Add/Remove Software) pamac on the command-line. Perhaps avoiding that and using pacman from the onset will help avoid the issues.
At this point starting from a restored snapshot is at least worth trying; again, as a last resort.
Regards.
Whether this is useful at this time remains to be seen, so consider this for future reference:
@Yochanan recently mentioned topgrade for performing updates.
It’s basically a script that performs the required tasks by calling the tools needed and issuing commands “the right way” – if you have yay installed, it will use it in preference to pamac.
sudo pacman -S yay topgrade
topgraderequires only one command:topgradesudois not required.