Pacman Updates Borked Two Systems

[freebird54]

There is always the option to return to the pervious state before updates. Here is one way to do that…

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This item is more of a script than a function, but it seems to me that it fits here better than in a wiki entry! Essentially, it automates the Arch “Wayback Machine” or, as I have called it ShiftTime What this ‘Machine’ does essentially, is take your system back to the date that you specify - by reverting, or downgrading all the packages that have been updated after that date. I decided I would try to make the script accessible, so here I will describe setting it up as a button in the We…

Just set up the script, it will shjow you a calendar for choosing the date to return to, and return all packages to the state of that day. Do not re-upgrade until you hear what happened, and that it is fixed!

Or - better yet, try to figure out from the list of ‘pending updates’ (try checkupdatesext in the terminal for a list) what it might have been, then add it to the pacman ignore list, and have the rest of the updates as normal.

Edit: - There is a post here that suggests it might be cinnamon-settings-daemon that causes the problem… perhaps you could try to downgrade just the one package if so. (terminal downgrade and package name)