I’ve done some mistakes that I do not know how to fix that cause my DE to never start automatically and I have to CTRL+ALT+F2 to switch to a terminal and run “startplasma-wayland” manually.
This itself has gotten annoying and not to mention the unstability I have caused myself.
I wish to reinstall manjaro and with a diffrent DE or WM and I want i3 . but i dont want to wipe all my data with a USB install.
I wish I could find a way to install on top of my already existing install and apply to necessary changes. such as changing config files etc.
this seems possible. yet I lack the knowledge to do such thing. I’ve asked in arch discord servers but I got bullied . I hope this community is better
Don’t do it. It will be a mess. Better start a new.
My distro is already a mess man. i installed like 11 kernels and 3 desktop environments that I had no idea how to configure
'cause of this…don’t do it…
move the data you want to keep somewhere and make a new install.
will saving you much trouble and nerves…
Edit:
ok
Where Using an Existing Linux Partition Table
nevertheless…backup the data, you want to keep.
may you post the output of
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
use the option of preformatted text and paste it inside
I hope that’s going to be useful
System:
Kernel: 6.7.0-0-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.7-x86_64
root=UUID=e376cade-1015-4977-829d-acf46108cf9d rw quiet splash
resume=UUID=a063a8c1-534d-44e0-aaf7-64feea89ca7b udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.10 tk: Qt v: 5.15.12 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 2
dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude 5480 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0RH40R v: A01 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
v: 1.17.1 date: 01/07/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 26.6 Wh (94.0%) condition: 28.3/33.3 Wh (84.9%) volts: 8.1
min: 7.4 model: SMP DELL GD1JP65 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: not charging
Memory:
System RAM: total: 8 GiB available: 7.64 GiB used: 3.09 GiB (40.5%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-6300U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake
gen: core 6 level: v3 note: check built: 2015 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x4E (78) stepping: 3 microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2345 high: 2400 min/max: 400/2400 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 2400 2: 2400 3: 2399
4: 2182 bogomips: 20004
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush
clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu
fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs intel_pt
invpcid lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr
nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln
pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap
smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2
tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic
xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Vulnerable: No microcode
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional,
RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-9 process: Intel 14n built: 2015-16 ports: active: eDP-1
empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1916
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 0c45:6717
class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.10 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1366x768 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11:
drv: iris inactive: gbm
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.3.3-manjaro1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:1916 memory: 7.46 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.274 layers: 5 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel
HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 23.3.3-manjaro1.1
device-ID: 8086:1916 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_soc_avs bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:9d70 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.7.0-0-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: off with: pipewire-media-session
status: active tools: pw-cli
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15d7 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 195.17 GiB (81.8%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Toshiba model: N/A
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s
lanes: 2 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: ADHA0102 temp: 43.9 C
scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 229.37 GiB size: 224.71 GiB (97.97%)
used: 195.16 GiB (86.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
label: N/A uuid: e376cade-1015-4977-829d-acf46108cf9d
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A
uuid: 6F5C-459C
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 14 MiB (0.2%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 label: swap
uuid: a063a8c1-534d-44e0-aaf7-64feea89ca7b
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-2:2 info: USB OPTICAL MOUSE type: mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.0 power: 100mA chip-ID: 0000:3825 class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 1-5:3 info: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: video
driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1
mode: 2.0 power: 500mA chip-ID: 0c45:6717 class-ID: 0e02
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C pch: 43.0 C mobo: 38.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 214 Uptime: 7m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 alt: 12 clang: 16.0.6 Packages: 2663
pm: pacman pkgs: 2649 libs: 403 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak pkgs: 14
Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.2.21 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.31
I guess you’re right. I thought there would be an easy way to switch distros while keeping the important data. after all, it’s all linux
see my edit above…
After the reinstallation, i would recomment creating a new clean user and move your data into it.
Hey that partition thing seems like it was what I was expecting to find here. that seems like the way to go. Thanks man I’ll dive in deeper into that stuff.
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That drive is full, better clean up or move your data to other storage before you install anything else.
yes and that’s one of the reasons i wanted to switch from KDE in the first place and due to my lack of knowledge I wrecked many stuff in the process
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