Follow-up from “Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?”.
Here’s mine - the laptop from which I’m typing right now has a broken touchpad that keeps jumping and clicking randomly, and does not work. Well, I can’t afford to fix it, but at the moment, I was so pissed off I punched the touchpad really hard, and the machine panicked with all the lights blinking. A few more revival abuses, and the machine was back to life, but since I was running a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
in the background, I blew off my boot partition. I think I just broke the unbreakable distro.
I installed Arch on my main PC for the first time and I use it for about 1,5 years now. Arch updates breaks Arch without even my interaction so I never broke it my Linux broke itself -_-
“without my interaction” may be the issue.
Some Arch updates require manual interaction. This is then mentioned in https://archlinux.org/news/.
When I ran Arch, I wrote an alias that pulls the latest Arch news via rss into the terminal before the update. I think I used
newsbeuter
, butyay
has this functionality built in as an option now.Informant
I just installed it but although
informant check
andinformant read
show me unread messages an update withpacman -Syu
doesn’t show me the news. I also symlinked the hook via(Wrong!). Do you have any idea?ln -s /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/00-informant.hook /etc/pacman.d/hooks/00-informant.hook
What.
So no I do not have an idea since I know nothing about your system/setup.
BUT
I’d strongly recommend reading the documentation libalpm in regards to the nonsense symlink you created:
Ok. Thanks for the nod to the wiki. I never used pacman hooks. Seems I misread informants github page. So the alpm conform way would be to copy (and not symlink)
/usr/share/libalpm/00-informant.hook
to/etc/pacman.d/hooks
only if I would want to override it and other hooks are by default read from the /usr dir.The root of my problem was, that the hook is fired only after Pacman asks “Proceed with installation [Y/N]” and the user presses “Y”. Which I hadn’t tried. DOH!
Been using arch for a long time, it never really break itself. Even changes that require manual intervention are usually minor “we have changed how java pkgs are listed please reinstall according to your needs”
I have a Debian distro on my 7 year old low end laptop that I don’t use often and last time I used it I found out that now it no long wakes from sleep oray e locks up when going to sleep I’m not sure which. Pretty sure it started after updates but who knows what happened.