Hello, I am more a ‘simple’ user of manjaro (in mabox version) and have no deep knowledge in the core system. My hardware is AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics. After last update in december I urgently needed to run one now which provided a lot of challenges. Method of updating? I used the gr…

Updates: - I am now on Kernal 6.18, I discovered that I never choose 6.1. I was happy with 5.15, but since end of life I was put to 6.1 ‘automatic’. And this 6.1 Kernel has problems with picom AMD Ryzen and polkit, so not the best automatic choice. My Veracrypt ntfs3 error could be solved by one l…

Hello @DataXL and welcome to the Manjaro Community! :vulcan_salute: For system upgrades, I always recommend sudo pacman -Syu followed with your choice of AUR helper (in your case, yay) for the AUR packages. For the Kernel, you can install others alongside it and choose which one to boot with from …

Welcome to the forum! :vulcan_salute: [image] DataXL: I did read that it is no longer recommended to use pamac and do the update with command line, right? Do you recommend yay -Syu ? Absolutely not. yay is an AUR helper, and it is strongly advised to not use any AUR helpers for updating you…

Thanks for such a lot of input. The SUID bit did not change the polkit problem, this is also reported here in the forum. [image] Aragorn: chmod chmod 4755 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 [image] Polkit auth broken after update (Pidfd not supported on kernel 5.…

[image] DataXL: The SUID bit did not change the polkit problem, this is also reported here in the forum. Well, your best bet is still to upgrade to 6.18. Do however note that you won’t be able to remove the 6.1 kernel while you’re still booted up into it So you’ll have to install 6.18 firs…

[image] DataXL: I am more a ‘simple’ user of manjaro (in mabox version) The developer of mabox is doing a great job and is indeed using Manjaro as the foundation. mabox is providing a great UI for a keyboard oriented user. I do think that you should try asking in the mabox linux forum as I …

Super helpful thread, I feel like I’m kind of on the same mission as OP This step ladder approach can help me get back up to speed from my 25.0.7 version I’m currently on. clearly the monthly consolidated updates mentioned need to be accounted for a long the way. Pamac being the key to all of thi…

As part of this guide, I was also stand up my Manjaro back to 26.10 safely and am utilizing the 6.18 Kernel :+1: Now I just have to safely navigate re-adding & updating my AUR’s per guidance above

Need guidance about update and problems after. (picom, polkit, replace kernel?)

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Also, if you have not updated several months, it is vital that you read the second posts of the announcements topics. I have trimmed the latest to about february, so if you need older go to some of the previous ones. The march one goes to mid 2025