Hi,
I got through the big update last night relatively unharmed. I have a computer again, only took a couple of hours. That’s another story, but in case it is relevant, the only command that would allow me to reinstall the nvidia packages was the following that I got from another user in the stable update post:
sudo pacman -Rdd nvidia-455xx-utils
After that I reinstalled the nvidia drivers with the command found at the manjaro graphics card wiki:
sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300
My system seems fine now, and I have nvidia stuff working again. However, I have had two minor “manjaro-system” package updates come through today. Both times, I got an error message like what is in the title. Here is the contents of the latest one. (I hope I am doing the quote stuff right, not real sure):
Preparing…
Synchronizing package databases…
Resolving dependencies…
Checking inter-conflicts…
Resolving dependencies…
Checking inter-conflicts…
Download of manjaro-system (20201231-7) started
Download of manjaro-system (20201231-7) finished
Checking keyring…
Checking integrity…
Loading packages files…
Checking file conflicts…
Checking available disk space…
Upgrading manjaro-system (20201231-5 -> 20201231-7)…
==> Checking if Nvidia drivers need an update …
==> Maintaining video driver nvidia-455xx
Warning: config ‘/var/lib/mhwd/local/pci/video-nvidia-455xx/MHWDCONFIG’ is invalid!
Error: config ‘video-nvidia-455xx’ is not installed!
Error while configuring manjaro-system
==> Installing Nvidia drivers for you …
Warning: config ‘/var/lib/mhwd/local/pci/video-nvidia-455xx/MHWDCONFIG’ is invalid!
Warning: a version of config ‘video-nvidia’ is already installed!
Use -f/–force to force installation…
Transaction successfully finished.
(This was done with the gui, so that is why the beginning is not present). Anyway, do I have something to worry about here? I was also getting this error message last night when I was unable to get the nvidia packages deleted / reinstalled so that I could have the system back up and running (was using a TTY).
I realize that there have been a lot of problems surrounding this topic. I did try and search this, but they all seem to be a little different, so perhaps I missed it. I am sure it is exhausting, so I appreciate any help given!
EDIT: About an hour after deleting ‘/var/lib/mhwd/local/pci/video-nvidia-455xx/MHWDCONFIG’, there was another small manjaro-system update. There were no more error messages, but it did update the nvidia drivers in the process. I am sorry, I wasn’t thinking and did not save the printout. But, restart and all is well. Thanks again, everyone!