I am just updating everyone with my firewall adventure.
I got a bit curious and I decided to make a fresh manjaro install. I have two tries:
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Manjaro Mate Edition from Manjaro - Downloads - This, I tried as a first experiment. After updatess and such I installed ufw. Checked out the status with ufw status verbose. All fine, so mate is working normal.
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Manjaro XFCE Edition: The reason I try this is because of XFCE is my favorite de. Odd things happened here:
- First of all, it is not possible to install Manjaro XFCE 21.04 version from the official site. The website is directing us to 20.12, which is old.
- I ended up using the posting at Manjaro ARM 21.04 released! to find out XFCE 21.04. It was there. I installed updated and installed ufw again. After issuing a
ufw status verbose
I obtain
WARN: uid is 0 but ‘/usr’ is owned by 1001
which brings me to square one. I remember installing the Manjaro Sway Edition from the same posting at Manjaro ARM 21.04 released! so I suspect the images uploaded there are problematic.
Lessons learned:
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Please upload the Manjaro XFCE image at the official website and check out the images available at the 21.04 website. They seem to be badly produced or unmaintained.
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For those of us who downloaded Manjaro images from the 21.04 posting; please be alert and make sure that your filesystem is setup appropriately.
I was going to abandon Manjaro completely; however, I changed my mind. I will switch to Manjaro Mate Edition. It is not my favorite de and buggy. Nevertheless armbian has its own bugs too.
Wanted to warn people who use Manjaro particularly from the 21.04 forum.