Thank you @RoestVrijStaal.
**Warning - this is mostly a time-suck of a post. I hope you find some value, but go quickly so I don’t waste your time otherwise!
I am not sure I “tried-out” something beyond the normal Stable. I do from time to time but that is usually when something is not working quite right… kinda what I did with the:
IgnorePkg = pamac-gtk pamac-common pamac-cli
…which didn’t fix anything, as I said, and represents a stupid “user” changing his system in a way that will not really fix itself when another stable (or pamac update) comes out.
That said, I feel “Stable” has been stable. (*Just perspective from my usage as a VERY ignorant user of Manjaro KDE.)
I have been through several challenges with this system. Usually, they are issues I have brought on myself, through ignorance. But I always have had a response and almost always a helpful person to get me back to “Stable”.
I offer this and suggest, with @MartinLockheed, that they downgrade Pamac until this is a “better version of Stable”… hehehehe.
I also suggest to @TriMoon, @omano, and @sawdoctor, that As a pretty stupid user* I have found STABLE Manjaro KDE, to be a correct use of the word for me, and I hope that even though that mark may be missed from time to time, you all, (who know more about this OS than I ever will,) remain vigilant to hold that line.
I love Manjaro. It freed me from Windows. And I am confident this is a “blip”, not a “bump” in the Stable path. Quite honestly, to me, my system is still trusted! The only thing even of concern is that I have changed some things hoping to fix it, and that I still get a failure when trying to update. That does NOT keep me from getting my work done while using the OS. So, I believe it speaks volumes about an OS that is a real rolling, but stable, release. **Does that mean @philm was wrong!? Hehehehe.
Please, Only take my responses as a perspective from an OS user!
We are known to create more problems than we solve!
Thanx for all of the help! I hope this glitch gets fixed soon, and I will monitor this thread to see how that looks.
PS. **The line in my /etc/pacman.conf is only one of the many little changes I have made over the last months on my system. It may be time to just go get a new HD while the lull of the season is here, and start the OS from scratch again… Fresh and Shiney! I depend upon it for work and spend less and less time tinkering and learning. Again, different perspective.
In reading through some other posts a comment said it was “fixed”.
I commented out the Ignore and ran sudo pacman -Syyu and ended with “there is nothing to do” without the errors.
I do not know what this means exactly, but it gives the appearance the issue is at least hidden from a Stable install. -Thanx.