System update failed - how to resolve?

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Conflicts reported, cannot update. Ran terminal commands:

[steve@steve ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for steve: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace lib32-libva-mesa-driver with multilib/lib32-mesa? [Y/n] y
:: Replace lib32-mesa-vdpau with multilib/lib32-mesa? [Y/n] y
:: Replace libva-mesa-driver with extra/mesa? [Y/n] y
:: Replace linux610 with core/linux-meta? [Y/n] y
:: Replace linux610-virtualbox-host-modules with extra/linux-virtualbox-host-modules-meta? [Y/n] y
:: Replace mesa-vdpau with extra/mesa? [Y/n] y
:: Replace qcoro-qt6 with extra/qcoro? [Y/n] y
:: Replace tracker3 with extra/tinysparql? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: tlp-1.7.0-1 and power-profiles-daemon-0.23-2 are in conflict
[steve@steve ~]$ ^C
[steve@steve ~]$ sudo pacman-mirrors -f 5
sudo pacman -Syyu
::INFO Downloading mirrors from Manjaro
::INFO => Mirror pool: https://repo.manjaro.org/mirrors.json
::INFO => Mirror status: https://repo.manjaro.org/status.json
::INFO Using custom mirror file
::INFO Querying mirrors - This may take some time
  0.349 Canada         : https://mirror.xenyth.net/manjaro/
::INFO Writing mirror list
::Canada          : https://mirror.xenyth.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::INFO Mirror list generated and saved to: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                  138.9 KiB   671 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 extra                   8.1 MiB  7.03 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 community              29.0   B  1260   B/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 multilib              141.4 KiB  5.31 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace lib32-libva-mesa-driver with multilib/lib32-mesa? [Y/n] y
:: Replace lib32-mesa-vdpau with multilib/lib32-mesa? [Y/n] y
:: Replace libva-mesa-driver with extra/mesa? [Y/n] y
:: Replace linux610 with core/linux-meta? [Y/n] y
:: Replace linux610-virtualbox-host-modules with extra/linux-virtualbox-host-modules-meta? [Y/n] y
:: Replace mesa-vdpau with extra/mesa? [Y/n] y
:: Replace qcoro-qt6 with extra/qcoro? [Y/n] y
:: Replace tracker3 with extra/tinysparql? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: tlp-1.7.0-1 and power-profiles-daemon-0.23-2 are in conflict
[steve@steve ~]$
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What is not clear? Remove one of the conflicting packages. If you are on kde that would probably be tlp.

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Would you please offer a detailed instruction? I am not a programmer. I do not know what is using the conflicting programs, which ones to delete.

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Same as here Failing to update packages due to some cryptic package conflict - #5 by mehran

btw there are other 2 topics about the same issue in this same category just before yours

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to resolve the conflict
remove tlp

You can search for what these two are for - the important thing here though is:
you need to remove one or the other to resolve the conflict - and tlp definitely is not essential

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I wasn’t sure how to remove tlp (not a programmer). So I used the pamac, searched for tlp, found one and removed it. The system is now updating. But some failed to retrieve.

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… whatever that might mean …

probably a good idea to refresh your list of mirrors before you try to run the update again to fetch the rest

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It seems to have updated now. Thanks to all.

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Just for the future, note that you are using a custom mirror file which appears to contain only a single mirror. -f/--fasttrack 5 is trying to find the top 5 from your list of 1. You will probably have better luck adding a few more North American mirrors.

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I have a new problem, likely related. After an overnight cold boot, my system is usable but something is going on in the background. I tried to print, but my printer is no longer functioning. The HP app does not boot. I tried to re-install it but was told that another update is installing so I have to wait for it to finish. No disk activity now. The HP app apparently reinstalled but still is not working. I am not sure how to proceed.

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I have several packages treated as ignored by Pamac. How do I un-ignore them?

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→ preferences → advanced → ignored updates

you used the + sign to add to the list
you use the - sign beside each package that you added to remove it from that list

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Thank you. I was hoping that was the answer!

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… and you did not try and test whether it was?

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Too new at this. Trying to solve problems noted above and now my HP Device Manager program will not recognise my printer. It worked this morning. Everything happens at once!

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Just a reminder:
packages in the ignore list are a recipe for desaster (or at least for more problems down the line)
usually not a good idea to have any there

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Hitting the minus sign seems to just put them back in the ignore lists. I would like to empty the ignore list. There are too many there to do one at a time!

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That is not how the app behaves for me - can’t replicate.

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Is there a quick way to empty the list?

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yes - the list of packages to be ignored is added to: /etc/pacman.conf
on the line starting with:
IgnorePkg =

simply edit that file - comment out that line - put a # in front of that line
the default state (empty list) looks like this:

#IgnorePkg =