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.

  • Lobo6780@lemm.ee
    111·
    10 months ago

    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 -_-

    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Arch updates breaks Arch without even my interaction

      “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, but yay has this functionality built in as an option now.

        • boomzilla@programming.dev
          11·
          10 months ago

          I just installed it but although informant check and informant read show me unread messages an update with pacman -Syu doesn’t show me the news. I also symlinked the hook via ln -s /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/00-informant.hook /etc/pacman.d/hooks/00-informant.hook (Wrong!). Do you have any idea?

          • corship@feddit.de
            1·
            10 months ago

            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:

            Hooks are read from files located in the system hook directory /usr/share/libalpm/hooks, and additional custom directories specified in pacman.conf(5) (the default is /etc/pacman.d/hooks).

            • boomzilla@programming.dev
              1·
              10 months ago

              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!

    • shadowintheday@beehaw.org
      2·
      10 months ago

      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”

    • evidences@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.