Hello - I am an inexperienced user of Manjaro ( my computer-expert brother marches me through using Linux). I am running Plasma version 6.0.4, KDE Frameworks version 6.1.0, Qt verions 6.7.0, Kernel version 6.1.90-1-MANJARO (64-bit), with the Wayland graphics platform. My updates manager recently notified me that I had over 560 updates to make. I installed all of them. Upon restarting the computer my taskbar/system tray was populated with numerous different duplicate icons. It also gives me duplicate panels that appear on one end of the taskbar/system tray when I active any application. This is all quite a mess. Entering edit mode does not give me the option to remove all the extra icons or the many panels that notify me of what I have newly invoked. If someone could help, I would greatly appreciate it.
Hi Jim,
- Always post inxi if you looking for help, it helps everyone with a good overview.
inxi --admin --verbosity=5 --filter --no-host --width
- If you see a big download package its worth to wait 1-2days and wait for the input from the community in this area:
https://forum.manjaro.org/c/announcements/stable-updates/12
Under know issue the second post, there will you see Tips how to deal with the update… “if its needed at all”.
Edit:
A Big update like this only happen around every ~3year’s.
And this was the reason why you don’t had to update for 2 month, because Manjaro decided to delay package for additional hotfixes.
I recommend to use Timeshift on a external HDD/SSD to secure your system. So you can rollback your system with the Timeshift GUI, when you created a Snapshot before you pressed the update button in pamac.
We Linux user’s saying, with great power comes great responsibility 
Hi @JimK,
You should not have updates without reading the Announcements for the update. This update bought a big change - we went from Qt 5 to Qt6. Also Plasma 6.
Try removing your cache directory and rebooting:
rm -rf ~/.cache && reboot
Midarthos - my inexperience with this website resulted in my not seeing your response. Next time I will look for and read the announcements. How do I find them? They don’t seem to be with the list of updates themselves. I managed to restore my taskbar piece by piece. But I very much appreciate your advice.
Cheers, Jim
Click on Announcements, or on Stable Updates. Subscribe to notifications for those categories — choose “Watching” — and then you will be notified whenever a new thread is posted there.
The first post of every Stable Updates thread contains the changes, and the second post contains the expected problems and how to work around them.