Timeshift and timeshift-autosnapd not allowing updates

[pebcak]

@33Nicolas

: Running pre-transaction hooks…
(1/2) Creating Timeshift snapshot before upgrade…
E: ts: Failed to get partition list.
E: Snapshots cannot be created in Live CD mode
Unable to run timeshift-autosnap! Please close Timeshift and try again. Script will now exit…
error: command failed to execute correctly
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to run transaction hooks)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
→ error installing repo packages

This reminds me of an issue with Timeshift from quite some time ago:

Help - Timeshift in Live USB Mode as device UUID not found

After updating today, I’ve just started getting an error in timeshift where it says it’s in “Live USB Mode (Restore Only)”. All previous snapshots are missing & an error message is listed which states "Device not found: UUID=’[my-hexadecimal-device-id]’. This is now also interfering with pacman updates as I now get the following error. :: Running pre-transaction hooks... (1/1) Creating Timeshift snapshot before upgrade... E: ts: Failed to get partition list. E: System disk not found! Unable to …