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Somehow ā only the universe knows why ā my Plasma desktop was once again completely screwed up after updating. The symptoms were the same as the last time.
I had to restore a full system backup ā and a separate (and even earlier) copy of my $HOME, because the copy in the last backup was corrupt again as well ā and then run the update process all over again. And then it all worked out fine again. 
After reading this update announcement as I always do the update went fine
(I did sudo pacman -Syu glibc-locales --overwrite /usr/lib/locale/\*/\* and said Yes to replace some packages), the only thing I noticed is that pamac in now full white (it had a dark theme like the rest of my system) but not bothering me at all since everything is working as it should.
Manjaro XFCE for more than 3 years here.
The update with pamac GUI went fine on my PC but my AMD Laptop (with a little newer Manjaro install) showed a popup message that a few locale files are backed up under the restart button, after i try to select this infoās about the files with ctrl+a and try to copy them with ctrl+c the OS froze instantly.
I had to press the powerswitch to shutdown my AMD Laptop, the OS normaly booted after this again (after a orphan message spamm, while booting 
)ā¦ is there anything i should do about this backup files? I donāt see any errors in journal btw.
The strange thing, in testing branch Topic, i saw people had a refuse install from itā¦ thats why i though i just blindly install this updateā¦ didnt expect a system freeze because of it and also wondering why i have this files on a newer install, while also having even less package installed on my Laptop.
Edit:
pacman -Qi glibc-locales
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Looks save to uninstall on my Laptop, no idea why it was installed at all.
Easy fix: replace pamac-gtk by pamac-gtk3. 
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For some reason I doubt thisā¦
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Hello,
After pamac upgrade and reboot I canāt login into system via gdm or ssh. Always ābad passwordā messageā¦
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You can just hit enter for the KDE packages, youāll see when you have to stop doing that because the packages are listed in alphabetical order.
One GTK package was also renamed, here you have to confirm the removal of amtk (itās renamed and reinstalled as libgedit-amtk) by y+ENTER, it is the last of the packages to show up.
I can not confirm any of the KDE issues above, the favorites list in Appl. Launcher is untouched. But then my install is from June this year, and Iām not using Kvantum and stayed with Breeze/Breath.
I have 2 smaller, tiny issues, one already after the last update, one forever, Web Browser widget and 2 apps that donāt save the screen theyāre being started on (flatpak Duolingo, portmaster-stub) that Iāll open topics for shortly.
Thank you for this update!
Due to renaming of KDE Frameworks the packages might get removed and installed fresh. during this process some local settings may restored to default ones, if anything was changed ā¦
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Ah, that might explain it.
Hi everyone,
I got the glibc-locales error. I ran the suggested fix:
sudo pacman -Syu glibc-locales --overwrite /usr/lib/locale/\*/\*
But the error persists ā I am still geting the message (the end of a long list):
glibc-locales: /usr/lib/locale/zu_ZA.utf8/LC_TIME exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
What are other options to fix this?
Did you reboot before you tried the update again?
After a reboot, can you try with
sudo pacman -Syyu
?
Before the last 2 updates, I had had stuck sddm screens (on Plasma) for up to a minute or so randomly at times after the password input and ENTER.
This seems to have gone with the SDDM or shells pacnew 
.
There seems to be an issue with grub/btrfs in the latest update.
I just tried fresh install and after the first update without installing anything else
@ boot i get this error:
error: file ā/@/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/bli.modā was not found.
System boots fine after a few seconds.
I tried install on both encrypted drive and nonencrypted using btrfs. Same issue on both.
After boot running grub-install as root solves the issue.
Thank you for this. It explains why in recent months Iāve had to rebuild my pacman keys so often. Iāve been screwing things up by running pamac via sudo. A lesson learned.
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Even after reboot, I am still getting the locales error.
Good point. Luckily I havenāt caused myself problems yet. Thanks.
Why not try it like this @tokr :
sudo pacman -Syu glibc-locales --overwrite /usr/lib/locale/zu_ZA.utf8/LC_TIME
Else you can simply remove that file before updating.
Hmm, that one is weird. Well there are couple of years between the releases of grub. Mostly a grub-install might fix it.
Thank you for the suggestion.
But, for clarity, itās not just one file, but a long list of files (a few hundred I guess), probably left from the default installation (I donāt remember installing locales manually).
But, I finally figured it out ā seems like the issue was my using nushell. In bash, the fix works.