KDE Connect keeps disconnecting from my phone

[Mirdarthos]

@Hydraknight

I just did, by using pacdiff and overwriting the pacnews.

Don’t neglect them. As you can see here, it makes a big difference.

[Hydraknight]

@Mirdarthos

Don’t neglect them. As you can see here, it makes a big difference.

Lesson learnt, thanks homie

[Hydraknight]

Oh goodness i goofed up, apparently there is some kind of password reset after handling .pacnews and now I can’t log back in to my desktop. What do I do? I have a windows partition on my desktop if that is of any help at all

[Mirdarthos]

Best would be to boot into a live environment, from there enter a chroot environment, and reset the password from there.

How to chroot

1. Ensure you’ve got a relatively new ISO or at least one with a still supported LTS kernel.

2. Write/copy/dd the ISO to a USB thumb drive.

3. When done, boot with the above mentioned USB thumb drive into the live environment.

4. Once booted, open a terminal and enter the following command to enter the chroot encironment:

manjaro-chroot -a

5. If you have more than one Linux installation, select the correct one to use from the list provided.

When done, you should now be in the chroot environment.

But, be careful, as you’re now in an actual root environment on your computer, so any changes you make will persist after a restart.

This all assumes you don’t use either encryption, nor btrfs, both of which are cases I won’t be able to help you with.

From the chroot environment, you can reset your user’s password with:

passwd <userName>

Where, you guessed it, <userName> is the username whose password you wish to reset.

When done, exit the chroot environment, and reboot.

Make sure your computer doesn’t reboot back into the live environment!

AFAIK you should now be able to log in again. I*f not, please open a new topic, as I might not be here anymore…

[Hydraknight]

I did ctrl+alt+f3 and logged in into root, is that fine?

I’m following this currently:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=237239

I’m trying to change password using the passwd command on root, and it doesn’t look like it works

FINALLY FIXED IT!: It’s probably the dirtiest way ever but I just userdel-d and useradd-ed my username.

Please let me know if there will be any repercussions for this

[Mirdarthos]

@Hydraknight

I did ctrl+alt+f3 and logged in into root, is that fine?

AFAIK yes.

@Hydraknight

I’m trying to change password using the passwd command on root, and it doesn’t look like it works

I don’t know why it wouldn’t, but please, rather start a new thread as this is a completely different problem than the title.

[Hydraknight]

@Mirdarthos

completely different problem than the title.

Would you believe it! The problem is back

I suspect it has something to do with my user

[Mirdarthos]

@Hydraknight

Please let me know if there will be any repercussions for this

One might be that your $HOME directory, including contents were deleted. But that can be overridden, so it depends on how you did it. Probably.

@Hydraknight

Would you believe it! The problem is back

You might have to re-pair it with KDE connect,
But I repeat, please open another thread. The original problem was solved, it might be caused by something different now as it’s essentially new, completely different user.

[Hydraknight]

I think ive got it, it was probably a corrupted config file, which went away temporarily because my home user went away after handling the pacnew files. Since the config didnt go away on uninstall, no amount of reinstalling seemed to help. Now ive deleted the config file and installed kde connect again and it hasnt disconnected yet. Only time will tell if that was the issue.

@Mirdarthos

please open another thread.

Really sorry, i just felt this need to be said.

Id suggest marking this as the solution if others are convinced.

Final edit: So this issue seems to persist after a reboot, but was easily fixed by just using an old copy of the kdeconnect config. This also seems to be an issue specific to my android device.