Have you tried… 
sudo pacman -Syu pacman-contrib
… as per the 2024.01.25 Testing Updates thread?
…?
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Thanks, its upgrading now without the error. I made sure to make a timeshift restore point in case something goes wrong.
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yay -Syu
there is nothing to do
not all mirrors have updated, understandable
I just had the same problem as Jim.B. After reading this thread, I followed Aragorn’s recommendation to open a terminal and run:
sudo pacman -Syu pacman-contrib
This solved the problem.
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found this in pacman.log
[ALPM] warning: directory permissions differ on /var/log/audit/
filesystem: 700 package: 755
[ALPM] warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750 package: 755
keep the filesystem value?
fixed…
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/unstable-update-january-2024-edition/154363/108
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could not satisfy dependencies:
- installing pacman (6.0.2-18) breaks dependency 'pacman-contrib' required by pacui
- if possible, remove pacui and retry
had to remove pacui and bmenu
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do new ISOs come with Pipewire as default?
also;
do i need to do something,or does Pamac takes care of the necessary?
pacman -Qi pacman-contrib ✔
Name : pacman
Version : 6.0.2-16
Description : A library-based package manager with dependency support
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : libalpm.so=13-64 pacman-contrib
Depends On : bash glibc libarchive curl gpgme gettext gawk coreutils gnupg grep fakeroot perl pacman-mirrors
Optional Deps : perl-locale-gettext: translation support in makepkg-template
diffutils: for pacdiff [installed]
findutils: for pacdiff --find [installed]
mlocate: for pacdiff --locate
sudo: privilege elevation for several scripts [installed]
vim: default merge program for pacdiff
haveged: for pacman-init.service [installed]
Required By : archlinux-keyring base base-devel libpamac manjaro-keyring mhwd packagekit
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : pacman-contrib
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 4.84 MiB
Packager : Mark Wagie <mark@manjaro.org>
Build Date : Thu 04 Jan 2024 17:12:23
Install Date : Sun 14 Jan 2024 17:01:21
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : Signature
Not sure about Pamac as I only use that for the AUR. However:
is the same as mine (prior to upgrade, waiting for my mirrors to sync). I guess this is the easiest way if not:
I got this error message when trying to upgrade - hmm, no idea why it complaines about some dependencies here - anyone any idea ?
> pamac update
...
Warnung: das Installieren von alsa-lib (1.2.11-1) verletzt Abhängigkeit 'alsa-lib=1.2.10' benötigt von lib32-alsa-lib
lib32-alsa-lib zum Entfernen hinzufügen
Warnung: das Installieren von expat (2.6.0-1) verletzt Abhängigkeit 'expat=2.5.0' benötigt von lib32-expat
lib32-expat zum Entfernen hinzufügen
Warnung: das Installieren von libjpeg-turbo (3.0.2-2) verletzt Abhängigkeit 'libjpeg-turbo=3.0.1' benötigt von lib32-libjpeg-turbo
lib32-libjpeg-turbo zum Entfernen hinzufügen
Warnung: das Installieren von zlib (1:1.3.1-1) verletzt Abhängigkeit 'zlib=1:1.3' benötigt von lib32-zlib
lib32-zlib zum Entfernen hinzufügen
Fehler: Vorgang konnte nicht erfolgreich vorbereitet werden:
Kann Abhängigkeiten nicht erfüllen:
- das Entfernen von lib32-alsa-lib verletzt Abhängigkeit 'lib32-alsa-lib' benötigt von lib32-alsa-plugins
- das Entfernen von lib32-alsa-lib verletzt Abhängigkeit 'libasound.so=2-32' benötigt von lib32-alsa-plugins
- das Entfernen von lib32-zlib verletzt Abhängigkeit 'lib32-zlib' benötigt von lib32-cairo
- das Entfernen von lib32-expat verletzt Abhängigkeit 'lib32-expat' benötigt von lib32-fontconfig
- das Entfernen von lib32-expat verletzt Abhängigkeit 'libexpat.so=1-32' benötigt von lib32-fontconfig
- das Entfernen von lib32-libjpeg-turbo verletzt Abhängigkeit 'lib32-libjpeg' benötigt von lib32-gdk-pixbuf2
- das Entfernen von lib32-libjpeg-turbo verletzt Abhängigkeit 'lib32-libjpeg-turbo' benötigt von lib32-libtiff
- das Entfernen von lib32-libjpeg-turbo verletzt Abhängigkeit 'libjpeg.so=8-32' benötigt von lib32-libtiff
...
Did ypo check if alsa in lib32 has same version?
Would you clarify for someone new to arch/manjaro/pacman? I stopped the download for update when I saw these postings. Should I use the pacman command listed above before I resume the download/update or is it something you do afterwards or when you get an error?
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If installation hasn’t started i.e. just part-way through downloading, I’d abort it then re-run with the command. If it’s already started installing the updates let it run; if it errors-out then re-try with that command. 
I got a conflict with this update:
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing pacman (6.0.2-18) breaks dependency 'pacman-contrib' required by supermin
As far as I know supermin is a dependency for libvirt, so I decided to install pacman-contrib.
Simply installing pacman-contrip via sudo pacman -Syu pacman-contrip fixed it.
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Thanks for repeating the third time what’s in the OP.
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Hello everyone,
after last update I get blank screen, what should I do?
Same here, just black screen
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Using Cinnamon - for QT apps I used Kvantum. After the update all the QT apps were the default white theme vs the one I had found to match my Gnome look. Read around and there might be some things needed with Kvantum packaging but for now I fixed that by installing qt5ct, adding QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct to /etc/environment, rebooting, and choosing a theme in qt5ct.
Hopefully Kvantum will work again at some point. I’m not sure if this is related but looking at recent issues I saw : Bug #2054321 “Add Qt6 support for Kvantum” : Bugs : kvantum
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I can not start the command paccache -rvk3 (to clean the pacman cache).
Is there any package, which I need to install to use the above command ?
sudo pacman -Fyx usr/bin/paccache
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