Hi all,
I have a problem with pamac-manager (GUI one).
It won’t ask for root password and then fail to install AUR package. Normal repo packages or going to preferences will trigger sudo window and it works OK. But installing AUR will not ask for it and fail. When I open it from terminal via sudo pamac-manager, it will work fine. But without sudo, I can do things, certain operations will ask for sudo password and will get it, but installing or removing AUR package will not trigger it.
It worked fine last week but I just noticed that now it won’t.
Anyone experienced something like this?
How can I reset or reinstall pamac-manager, is it advisable?
I am using latest Manjaro with KDE, kernel 5.10, all fully updated.
When I run pamac-manager from terminal that’s what I see when attempted to install some random AUR “asap2”:
$ pamac-manager
(process:235411): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 17:05:37.397: /etc/xdg/kde-mimeapps.list contains a [Added Associations] group, but it is not permitted here. Only the non-desktop-specific mimeapps.list file may add or remove associations.
(pamac-manager:235411): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:05:37.408: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:2:33: Failed to import: Error opening file /home/pioruns/.config/gtk-3.0/window_decorations.css: No such file or directory
fatal: could not create work tree dir ‘asap2’: Permission denied
Where is that work tree of pamac located?
Edit:
I think this happened when I created separate Btrfs subvolume for /var. I copied all files from old /var to new /var and adjusted fstab. Somehow, certain folder permissions were lost or set incorrectly?
This folder /var/cache/pamac is blinking red and cannot be even entered:
$ cd /var/cache/private/
bash: cd: /var/cache/private/: Permission denied
$ cd /var/cache/pamac
bash: cd: /var/cache/pamac: Permission denied
Looks like root can still enter it and work there (hence sudo pamac-manager works), but if pamac-manager is run without sudo it fails on AUR packages, as it assumes access to folders.
