I will look at the mkinitcpio.conf file. Maybe …
So I see that old Nvidia cards won’t work. Which are good graphic cards for gaming that work with Manjaro?
You can’t go wrong with AMD. They don’t require any proprietary drivers, because the driver’s already in the kernel.
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got mpv updated today to 0.41.0-2 and that caused problems with reproducing (at least) h264 files (but not h265), artifacts on intra-frames or something like this. rolled mpv back to 0.40.0-7.
also I would like to report another problem that occurred in the 2025-12-08 update, I discovered it just recently.
mozo got broken by updates of python-gobject and glib2
so I had to downgrade them. however significantly older versions broke pamac-manager. so I had to compromise and find versions that worked with both mozo and pamac and these are:
downgraded python-gobject → 3.54.2-2
downgraded glib2 → 2.85.4-1
Thank you - I’ve tried everything I could - unable to boot my system. How can I set up my current system to boot from one of the snapshots before this update, please?
I will look for a PC without OS, a good AMD, etc … - me and my kids want to play games like Minecraft, Avorion, etc …. I had a good idea to buy a Lenovo ThinkPad T15 with intel graphics - no issues at all. This old Desktop PC with nvidia card - oh boy! 
It is time to replace it - that won’t be cheap …
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An easy fix is to open the computer and remove the Nvidia card.
It should then boot without problem with the iGPU.
I’m not surprised that in this particular instance sudo was required. 
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… and I didn’t (mentally) see the wording after “sudo pamac”.
… perhaps pacman should have been used for this one!
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Hello.
I have problem with pamac and pacman after stable updates 2026-01 / 2025-12 : “Error: switching to sandbox user ‘alpm’ failed!“
Unfortunately, at the moment I can only use kernel 5.4.xxx.
[test_user@manjarobox ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo pamac update --no-aur --force-refresh
[sudo] password for test_user:
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Error: restricting filesystem access failed because Landlock is not supported by the kernel!
Error: switching to sandbox user 'alpm' failed!
failed to retrieve some files
Error: restricting filesystem access failed because Landlock is not supported by the kernel!
Error: switching to sandbox user 'alpm' failed!
failed to retrieve some files
Failed to synchronize databases
Warning: libvlc: ignoring package upgrade (3.0.21-24 => 3.0.21-32)
Warning: vlc: ignoring package upgrade (3.0.21-24 => 3.0.21-32)
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.
[test_user@manjarobox ~]$ LC_ALL=C pacman -Ss pamac|grep installed
extra/libpamac 11.7.4-4 [installed]
extra/pamac-cli 11.7.4-2 [installed]
extra/pamac-gtk3 10.7.0-1 [installed]
[test_user@manjarobox ~]$ LC_ALL=C pacman -Q manjaro-release
manjaro-release 26.0.0-1
[test_user@manjarobox ~]$ LC_ALL=C uname -a
Linux manjarobox 5.4.302-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 4 08:13:06 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Also problem with pacman:
[test_user@manjarobox ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: restricting filesystem access failed because Landlock is not supported by the kernel!
error: switching to sandbox user 'alpm' failed!
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)
I disabled sandbox in /etc/pacman.conf (uncomment line “DisableSandboxFilesystem”). Without sandbox pacman is worked:
[test_user@manjarobox ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: libvlc: ignoring package upgrade (3.0.21-24 => 3.0.21-32)
warning: vlc: ignoring package upgrade (3.0.21-24 => 3.0.21-32)
there is nothing to do
How to fix pamac?
Ah yes - which graphic driver do I have to install and / or remove?
You don’t have to install anything, the driver is in the kernel. You can uninstall nvidia.
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Welcome to the Manjaro Community! 
This is very likely due to running pamac with sudo. One first check may be the output of ls -la ~/.config/pamac/. Who now owns it? If it’s root:root it needs to be fixed.
Aha thank you. But if I do this … I will be able to play games like Minecraft or Avorion? Maybe not …
Just did the update and also got the error mentioned above: “Incorrect permissions on /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1”
It appeared after entering pamac update -a
chown and chmods mentioned above did not solve this (Checked beforehand and seemed allready to be OK). –> But a reboot fixed it.
Just a feeling: my 4070 was stuck at an higher fanspeed/noise-level while just in firefox and on this page.
After a reboot it went quiet again –> I will keep an eye (or an ear) on this one.
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The performance will be lower.
But it’ll at least allow you to boot to your desktop environment and reinstall the correct driver without having to use the console.
You may also be able to change the main GPU setting in the “BIOS” (and switch the screen cable from the GPU to the iGPU connector) to boot without having to physically remove the GPU card. Once the correct driver is installed, you could then revert to the previous BIOS setting and cable connector.
No root:root -
[test_user@manjarobox ~]$ LC_ALL=C ls -la ~/.config/pamac/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 test_user test_user 4096 Jan 5 15:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 28 test_user test_user 4096 Aug 23 15:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 test_user test_user 64 Jan 5 15:13 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 test_user test_user 0 Mar 8 2021 refresh_timestamp
-rw-r--r-- 1 test_user test_user 0 Mar 8 2021 size
After the update, I was left without an operating system. It won’t start up and the screen is black.
I managed to get into journalctl-xb and realised that the problem was with the graphics card, which doesn’t work with the new version 590.
And now, from what I’ve read in the comments, how do I solve the problem, since it doesn’t even work in fallback mode?
Hi all,
This update sets off to a good start:
Detected GPUs:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 - (pci_id 0x1D01)
Detected system:
Manjaro Linux
Please copy and paste the following command to install the open kernel module flavour: Not supported
Any wise words?
Thanks
Melissa
So I removed the graphic card, removed nvidia drivers … rebooted … same issue, can’t even use the snapshots.
So I will reinstall the whole system ….
System - fresh installation: Manjaro KDE, nvidia card removed. Everything works - have to try games …
Here’s what I did (NVIDIA 1050 Ti GPU): Switched to TTY with Ctrl+Alt+F3, then ran sudo pacman -Rns linux-nvidia-meta linux617-nvidia, sudo pacman -Rdd nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils, and sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia. After that: sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-575xx, sudo mkinitcpio -P, reboot. Updated the system afterward, and everything’s working fine now. Correct me if I’m wrong anywhere.
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Nice and smooth on my AMD system, thanks team.
And reading all the Nvidia-related problems, hell am I glad I made the right decision on hardware when I had this computer built.
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Hello,
After updating today I got the following error :
polkit-agent-helper-1: needs to be setuid root
Error: Incorrect permissions on /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 (needs to be setuid root)
ls -l /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18456 28 déc. 13:12 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
To fix the issue:
sudo chmod 4755 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
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