I am experiencing errors with pamac causing core dumps. It appears to be related to when going to search for updates. When running on timer (every 4 hrs), it gives one short beep and dumps the core. If actually in the app, when updates is selected it begins the update process but crashes before completion. I have tried reinstalling all pamac apps but same result. I am asking for help in finding the cause and correcting. I am not a programmer so please give explicit instructions. I am running xfce and 5.8.11 kernel.
Welcome at the forum, @rod-in
Before someone more experienced in fixing Pamac issues (I don’t use it) enters this thread you can upate your system with the following commands:
sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -SyyuThanks Wollie for your quick reply. I have already done that to make sure it wasn’t an update problem. Pacman seems to be working fine but pamac is the problem. I did your suggestion just to make sure but the pamac problem still exists.
I discovered how to fix my problem with pamac core dumps and crashing. It was my overzealous cleaning and unobserved program removal. I did a cross check of the original Manjaro XFCE file list against my system file list. I found that 2 key files were missing: manjaro-base-skel and manjaro-xfce-settings. I installed both of these and their dependencies and pamac now retrieves all updates without causing any errors or crashes. Sorry about my error but thanks for any support given.
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