Unable to update for last three times

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1

Hi,

After 3,5 years of relatively good updates the previous two and latest Stable updates 2023-12-01 are giving me problems.
Today I tried again I get the same behavior.

I use pamac GUI to update.
This update it asked to choose between gstreamer and ffmpeg, I chose ffmpeg.
All seems to go fine up until pamac notifies to reboot.
The first thing I notice is that the panel has become unresponsive to the mouse, alt-tab to the rescue.

I open terminal and see kded5 taking cpu 100% and memory consumption rising to the point where it becomes full.
System becomes slow but can reboot the normal way, via pamac notification.

After the reboot login appears, fill password and then hangs.
Fan ramps up.
Mouse works but becomes slow.
CtrlAltF4

htop shows startplasma-x11 100% cpu and memory fills up to the point that the screen briefly goes blank and then returns to the login screen.
Trying to login again gives the same result.

The above is true for the last three updates and I seem not to be able to solve this one.

Help appreciated,

Thx.

pinxi -Fxxxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.6.1-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.27.9 tk: Qt 5.15.11 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: MEDION product: P6645 MD61379 v: 5.13_VEB_1AUOK026
  serial: <filter>
  Mobo: MEDION model: M15WKN v: 0.2 serial: <filter>
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: 206 date: 10/30/2018
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 36.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 36.1/41.6 Wh (86.8%)
  volts: 12.5 min: 11.4 model: M153137 type: Unknown serial: <filter>
  status: Full cycles: 122
CPU:
  Info: 4-Core model: Intel Core i5-8265U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
  arch: Whiskey Lake rev: B cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
  flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  bogomips: 3601
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 400/1801 boost: enabled volts: 0.6 V
  ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
  8: 800
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] vendor: MEDION AG
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3ea0 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX150] vendor: Pegatron driver: nvidia
  v: 535.129.03 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d10 class-ID: 0302
  Display: server: X.Org 21.1.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
  loaded: modesetting resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz s-dpi: 96
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)
  v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.9-manjaro1.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Pegatron
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9dc8
  class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.6.1-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.84 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] driver: iwlwifi
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:9df0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB
  driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-10:4 chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: disabled
  rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 689.33 GiB used: 172 GiB (25.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB
  size: 465.76 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
  rev: 2B2QEXM7 temp: 26.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SU630 size: 223.57 GiB
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 9A0 temp: 13 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 457.09 GiB used: 42.64 GiB (9.3%) fs: ext4
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 304 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
  file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C pch: 38.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 235 Uptime: 48m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.51 GiB
  used: 2.86 GiB (18.4%) Init: systemd v: 254 Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1
  clang: 16.0.6 Packages: pacman: 1912 Shell: Bash (sudo) v: 5.2.15
  running-in: yakuake pinxi: 3.3.09-24
2

This isn’t current kernel, current is 6.6.3-1. You still need to update (and possibly refresh your mirrors) – in chroot if not possible otherwise.

3

Hi,

I thought pamac would take care of refreshing the mirrors when I click hamburger → Refresh mirrors.

But I will investigate your suggestion.

Also, I wonder if 6.6.3-1 was current the first time the update did not succeed, that was 2023-11-21.
Normally after update it asks me to update kernel, which I almost religiously do :), but update fails…

Thx.

4

Provide logs.

5

Just tried from terminal:
pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syu
Complete hang, mouse and keyboard gone, unable to copy.
I wonder how long timeshift can rescue me :slight_smile:

If I find time I will continue tomorrow, don`t want to stay behind too long.

Thx.

6

A guess might be unsupported packages.
Without any further information anyways.
(pacman -Qmq ?)

7

Maybe worth a shot?

Original source

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2131634

8 
ast-firmware
auto-cpufreq
brave-bin
breath2-wallpaper
cef-minimal-3770-bin
celt
conan
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr
extra-cmake-modules-git
gklib
gnome-icon-theme
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
gtk-theme-breath
inxi-perl-git
iscan
iscan-data
js78
kauth-git
kcodecs-git
kconfig-git
kcoreaddons-git
ki18n-git
libopenaptx
libsidplay
libstdc++5
libxcomp
manjaro-documentation-en
manjaro-firmware
metis
mkinitcpio-firmware
mullvad-browser-latest-bin
noto-fonts-compat
nxproxy
p7zip-gui
pepper-flash
plasma-wayland-protocols-git
polkit-qt6-git
progsreiserfs
python-injector
python-jarowinkler
python-kiss-headers
python-node-semver
python-patch-ng
python-pep517
python-pluginbase
python-progress
python-py3nvml
python-rapidfuzz-capi
python-single-version
qtav
rttr
stress-ng
systemd-fsck-silent
timeshift-autosnap
ttf-ms-fonts
upd72020x-fw
xxd-standalone
youtube-dl
yt-dlg

My flow is that I disable AUR support before update.
When finished, update kernel if asked then update AUR.

Will read,
Thx.

9

By this I guess you mean “install a new kernel”.

But none of that has an impact on you removing unsupported packages.

You have a number that are not in the repositories or the AUR:

And there are also a number that I might guess are replacing repository versions (and you shouldnt)

…Probably more, but that was just a quick handful

So the answer is likely … handle your unsupported packages.
(replace third party versions with their core equivalents where applicable, remove aliens, etc)

10

Dont´t use it this time.

Timeshift has unlimited rollbacks :wink:

  • test if you have free space on all drives
    sudo df

Maybe try:

  • in a console CTRL-ALT F3 (not terminal if that failed already)
  • update the mirrors
  • update package database
  • manual snapshot now !
  • start a update with pacman (no AUR ! )
  • if neccesary let the keys be updated
  • compare the output with what the anouncment-thread shows

paste the errors here, so we know what is the real problem

:footprints:

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11

Hopefully will come back to this tomorrow.

12

That didn’t work out.
Better chance tomorrow.

13

Going to abandon this. Not enough time at the moment.
If it takes too long to come back to this, I’ll consider reinstall.

Thanks so far.
:+1: