# Slick-greeter crashes on boot

**URL:** <https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/slick-greeter-crashes-on-boot/52304>\
**Category:** Newbie\
**Created:** [March 10, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/slick-greeter-crashes-on-boot/52304 "2024-03-10T21:33:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mic](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/mic/32/57721_2.png) [@Mic](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Mic)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/slick-greeter-crashes-on-boot/52304/36 "2024-03-19T08:23:40Z")

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_Ok, I realise, I need to do some reading here._🫤

> [@anthony93](#):
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> The `community` repo is deprecated and no longer available.

You mean in general?

> [@anthony93](#):
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> they are so old that they still provide the community repo

That seems to be the case! 🙄

```auto
$ ls -l /var/lib/pacman/sync
total 49348
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 20. May 2023 community.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 20. May 2023 community.files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133747 18. Mar 15:15 core.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1038167 12. Jul 2023 core.files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21528 18. Mar 17:23 endeavouros.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152432 13. Jul 2023 endeavouros.files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8761017 19. Mar 00:41 extra.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40035949 13. Jul 2023 extra.files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143564 18. Mar 00:23 multilib.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 217131 12. Jul 2023 multilib.files

```

_This seems to be a start:_  
[A Complete Idiot’s Guide To Endeavour OS Maintenance / Update / Upgrade](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/a-complete-idiots-guide-to-endeavour-os-maintenance-update-upgrade/25184)

So that means my updates/upgrades have been potentially incomplete and this system was sitting on a time-bomb which went off 8 days ago?  
This seems to be the explanation why all our efforts to downgrade/re-install packages didn’t help.

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