(SOLVED) Suddenly, most of my packages are marked as dependency | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

sturdy spade Aug 28, 2023, 4:54 PM

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(Abandoned) Package DB glitched

elfin bluff Aug 28, 2023, 5:24 PM

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this has nothing to do with the kernel for sure

sturdy spade Aug 28, 2023, 5:42 PM

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(Please Reinvestigate) Major Package DB glitch with pacman -Qtdq

elfin bluff Aug 28, 2023, 5:43 PM

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this is not a glitch but a misconfiguration

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i don't know

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then reinstall them

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error?

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if reinstalling the package doesn't fix the missing file then idk what's going on

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no

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these are not affected by package installations

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no package will have ownership of anything in your home directory

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that's also unrelated

sour rivet Aug 28, 2023, 7:58 PM

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What the fuck even happened for that to occur

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Did you "unselect" all packages on your system ?

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Can't possibly happen unless you ran some fucked up command

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/var/log/pacman.log would help figuring out where things went south

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Almost sure the pacman log doesn't clear itself

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Okay so you messed up with trying to get a musl system didn't you ?

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harold1

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Oh yeah no I misread that my bad

unreal monolith Aug 28, 2023, 8:51 PM

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try sudo reflector --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && sudo pacman -Syyuu

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maybe try sudo pacman -S linux linux-headers base base-devel or pacstrap them in with archiso

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not sure how you got in this mess tbh

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mount /mnt and /boot like you normally would to chroot in but don't chroot

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pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware linux-headers

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make sure you got internet on archiso first,

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ping google.com

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kk

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do you use ethernet or wifi?

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so you'll have to manually network on archiso

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why

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I don't think it's an issue with that

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wait you're on linux zen

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sec

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maybe try mkinitcpio -P linux-zen

unreal monolith Aug 29, 2023, 3:46 AM

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I think you have some packages mixed up between linux kernel and linux-zen kernel

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probably has something to do with nvidia hook

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did you install linux-zen-headers?

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just a wild guess, could be wrong

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[Trigger]
Operation=Install
Operation=Upgrade
Operation=Remove
Type=Package
Target=nvidia
Target=linux
# Change the linux part above if a different kernel is used

[Action]
Description=Update NVIDIA module in initcpio
Depends=mkinitcpio
When=PostTransaction
NeedsTargets
Exec=/bin/sh -c 'while read -r trg; do case $trg in linux*) exit 0; esac; done; /usr/bin/mkinitcpio -P'

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notice the change the linux part if a different kernel is used

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if you updated kernel and nvidia at the same time, this can cause issues

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if you used linux there instead of linux-zen

unreal monolith Aug 29, 2023, 6:59 AM

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Do sudo pacman -Syyuu && sudo pacman -S linux-zen and confirm reinstall

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Then try rebooting

cursive flare Aug 29, 2023, 8:44 AM

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did you wait for 10 min or longer?

nimble saffron Aug 29, 2023, 8:47 AM

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okay

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show me output of pacman -Qdq and pacman -Qeq

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don't worry, you don't have to show me everything

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okay, thre's no fast wayto fix this other than manually picking packages from the output of the first command and pacman -D --asexplicit package-name said package

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change the package's tag to "installed explicitly"

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the opposite would be pacman -D --asdeps

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tag the package as "installed as dependencies"

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yes

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you messed the explicit/deps tag of most of your packages

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now most of them are tagged as deps

what were you doing anyways

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pacman -D doesn't list packages

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if you have refreshed the remote database and the package on the remote is a newer version, yes

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no it wouldn't

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explicit/deps tags are saved locally

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not remotely

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that would make everything be installed as explicit

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so, 0 packages are deps

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do you have a backup of your package list?

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that would help

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anyways, dunno what happened, but something you ran, ran pacman -D --asdeps on many of your packages

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what were you doing?

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that wouldn't affect local package db, so it's not that

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also yeah, -Syu is the one you'd normally run, not -Syyu

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-Syyu could wreak havoc on your system if you changed your mirrors

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it's usually for debugging purposes

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this is one of em

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why were you running this?

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not throwing shade, just wanna know context

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yes it does

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also a better title is

Suddenly, most of my packages are marked as dependency

sturdy spade Aug 29, 2023, 9:07 AM

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Suddenly, most of my packages are marked as dependency

nimble saffron Aug 29, 2023, 9:07 AM

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okay, backtrace, what were you doing before this

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screw it, give me your pacman logs

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i honestly doubt it's a bug/glitch and more user error

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well, you sent a file right?

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also yeah, mine has logs all the wayback to february

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das weird

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you're readin /var/log/pacman.log right?

river rapids Aug 29, 2023, 3:23 PM

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just find some meta packages and do -Syu --overwrite

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whenever I bork a system beyond my capability to know what exactly went wrong, ive always ended up reinstalling, theres been times where I thought I fixed it, but end up dealing with odd issues until my patience runs out. Snap shots are nice, but they dont really help you recover from a fundamental mistake made during initial install. I prefer to make scripts to get a fresh install back to my baseline quickly

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starting over has the advantage of ensuring there isnt some weird config you edited and forgot and is silently doing wrong stuff

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I put all my user-dirs in $HOME/UserDirs/ to make wiping gooned up ~/.config easier without losing my normal files

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probably my biggest gripe with KDE, too many fuckin configs

#(SOLVED) Suddenly, most of my packages are marked as dependency