Not booting after running downgrade

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Hello, I was trying to install qbittorrent-stable-git from the AUR (pretty much a newbie), apparently it would always install the most recent version so I was looking for a way install that specific version. I ended up running

sudo pamac install downgrade

Since then my terminal would not recognize a lot of commands, it would say that the command was not found, tried running it with

sudo pamac install qbitorrent
sudo pamac downgrade qbitorrent

Then I noticed that it was a script for using the cached installations, my bash didn’t work and tried resetting to get stuck at the BIOS logo. Im on a fresh installation of 20.1.2.

I’m not sure if this is the appropriate forum, I do it here since it happened afher trying to mess with that installation. I got the recommended command from another thread here, it said to install it then run it.

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Hello @cerebrain :wink:

The application is qbittorrent with 2x “t”:

pamac search qbittorrent
qbittorrent-stable-git                      4.2.5.r0.g2c65b7964-1     AUR 
    An advanced BitTorrent client
    programmed in C++, based on Qt toolkit
    and libtorrent-rasterbar. Built from
    source.
qbittorrent-nox-git                         4.2.5.r666.gbfef40341-1   AUR 
    A bittorrent client programmed in C++
    / Qt that uses libtorrent-rasterbar
    (w/o GUI)
qbittorrent-nox                             4.3.0-1                   community 
    An advanced BitTorrent client
    programmed in C++, based on Qt toolkit
    and libtorrent-rasterbar, w/o gui
qbittorrent-git                             4.1.5.r568.gfb6bb932d-1   AUR 
    A bittorrent client powered by C++,
    Qt5 and the good libtorrent library
    (development version)
qbittorrent-enhanced-nox-git                4.3.1.10.r0.ga23b62b4b-1  AUR 
    A bittorrent client powered by C++,
    Qt5 and the good libtorrent library
    (Enhanced Edition)
qbittorrent-enhanced-git                    4.3.1.10.r0.ga23b62b4b-1  AUR 
    A bittorrent client powered by C++,
    Qt5 and the good libtorrent library
    (Enhanced Edition)
qbittorrent-dark-git                        4.2.0.r20.gf9422a293-1    AUR 
    A dark version of bittorrent client
    powered by C++, Qt5 and the good
    libtorrent library (development
    version)
qbittorrent-cli-bin                         1.5.19350.1-3             AUR 
    Command line interface for remote
    qBittorrent instances
qbittorrent                                 4.3.0-1                   community 
    An advanced BitTorrent client
    programmed in C++, based on Qt toolkit
    and libtorrent-rasterbar.
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That’s a typo here, I’m sure I run qbittorrent with 2 t’s, I could install the package, couldn’t downgrade it (because the script only works with the cache), but still broke my boot. :sweat_smile:

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Btw…

pamac downgrade

is not a valid option. Use:

sudo downgrade --ala-only qbittorrent
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Thank you, will try that once I’m able to boot on my laptop. I have no insight about it whatsoever

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I reinstalled the OS, sadly there was no solution of data about downgrade breaking stuff.

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@cerebrain Sorry, to hear that, but with AUR package you are really on your own. You need to know what you are doing and without knowing what you have done, it is really hard to say, how this could be fixed.

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I actually never got to connect to the AUR, thank you still.

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