No settings manager after Testing update

ARM
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I’ not sure whether this is the right place for this but here goes.
I’ve just applied the update to my pi400 (the first since November I think)
Various compatibility issues associated with libcamera and libicu which resolved themselves on retrying but I now have no settings manager.
However : Onboard osk fails

(onboard:2269): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 09:15:50.673: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates: assertion ‘window->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0’ failed
/usr/include/c++/14.1.1/bits/stl_vector.h:1149: std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::const_reference std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::operator const [with _Tp = unsigned int; _Alloc = std::allocator; const_reference = const unsigned int&; size_type = long unsigned int]: Assertion ‘__n < this->size()’ failed.

Curiously though it works now for the first time on the login screen

So I thought to revert to Stable but

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/pacman-mirrors”, line 5, in
from pacman_mirrors.pacman_mirrors import start
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘pacman_mirrors’

Any help would be appreciated.

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This indicates a problem with the system python.

You should really switch to unstable - it is the only branch that receives regular maintenance.

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i’d be happy to switch branch. How do i do so safely without pacman-mirrors ?
It seems that it needs python 3.12 & this has been updated to 3.13

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Edit the configuration /etc/pacman-mirrors.conf

## Branch Pacman should use (stable, testing, unstable)
Branch = arm-unstable

Save the file and run a full system sync

sudo pacman -Syu
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Did that. all that happened was:

pacman -Syu

:: Synchronising package databases…
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade…
there is nothing to do

I get the same result if I try changing to stable

Where did AUR go and community appear from ?

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Run:

sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch unstable

Then run:

sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 && sudo pacman -Syyu
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The trouble is pacman-mirrors doesnt run. see above.

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Try doing a:

sudo pacman -Syyuu

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As before:

:: Synchronising package databases…
core 265.6 KiB 1186 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
extra 9.7 MiB 7.28 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
community 29.0 B 142 B/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade…
there is nothing to do

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Then your mirrors have not synced yet. I snapped unstable to testing about 3 hours ago.

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Thank you Darksky
I checked that my mirror was syncd and ran pacman again trying with either arm-stable or unstable in pacman-mirrors.conf. Both offered me the same list of 87 packages, none of which addresses the presumed pacman-mirrors/perl-3.13 incompatability problem.