Hello, apologies for my extremely novice language, I hope I make sense. One day I booted into my endeavouros (I use xfce), it loaded up my session but all the windows had the top panel missing and the bottom panel with the menu was missing too. After a while I felt it would never load the rest in …

In chroot, try the following to see if the keys will get reset: mv /etc/pacman.d/gnupg /etc/pacman.d/gnupg.old pacman-key --init pacman-key --populate archlinux endeavouros pacman -Syy archlinux-keyring endeavouros-keyring pacman -Su

/dev/nvme0n1p1 is ext4 and named endeavouros what shows it will be your installed system partition… not sure about what is /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc1 (fat32) could you show output of sudo fdisk -l please? I do not see any ESP so could be sdc1 is the esp… could be /dev/sdb is the Data Partition you m…

@centuriesofdamn [image] joekamprad: could you show output of sudo fdisk -l please?

Here it is, I hope it is of help [Screenshot_2023-04-04_17-27-47]

It’s installed in dos mode or (Bios) not UEFI. EndeavourOS is installed on the nvme drive /dev/nvme0n1p1

so to chroot: sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt sudo arch-chroot /mnt

Thank you so much, I was able to chroot, but now I am having problems with reinstalling lightdm or updating anything for that matter as first it finish the download, asks me to import a pgp key, and if I say yes it says error: key "0F65C7D881506130" could not be imported error: required key missing …

you are using yay ? or pacman?? for yay you would need to su username before using it if inside chroot… because in the chroot you are root by default… If it was pacman you may need to reinstall keyring before the update… if you where not updating the system for a long time… but it could be also …

I’m using pacman. It shows the directory with my name when I do ls /home, so I think everything’s right in that regard. I also see root@endeavouros to the left of my commands. [image] joekamprad: if you where not updating the system for a long time I haven’t used this laptop in around a mont…

try … pacman -Scc and give y for yes … pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring or: pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring*.pkg.tar.zst

or: wget https://mirror.theash.xyz/arch/core/os/x86_64/archlinux-keyring-20230320-1-any.pkg.tar.zst && pacman -U archlinux-keyring-20230320-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

LightDM broke, can't reinstall it as I can't connect to internet. Can't chroot either

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pebcak April 4, 2023, 10:42pm 31

Please read through the following post. It contains all the steps necessary for solving “…exists in filesystem” issue:

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