Fresh install, not saving settings between restart + odd errors

yaruda · 4 April 2021 20:59

Hi folks, just discovered Garuda and was pretty interested and excited to find what I perceived as a more highly optimized and well tuned Manjaro-Arch variant. Unfortunately I've been hitting various walls after just starting.

I installed the KDE Dragonized edition and installed quite a few packages that were offered as options after installation.

Unfortunately after all of this and updates and a reboot, I found that my icon changes among other settings tweaks seemed to have not saved between sessions.

I also tried to set my network connection settings on the KDE System Settings -> Connections panel, but I get an error:

Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kcm_networkmanagement.so: (libqcaa-qt5.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

I also noticed in the Add/Remove Software app that the "Browse" tab is showing "No package found".

It just seems like a lot of things are broken and this has been a supremely frustrating experience thus far.

What should I do from this point to try to restore sanity and begin tracking down issues?

tbg · 2 April 2021 07:33

You did make timeshift snapshots, right?

Can you not rollback?

petsam · 2 April 2021 09:06

Make sure you don't login with the guest user account.

yaruda · 2 April 2021 14:25

So this Timeshift functionality is new for me, so I did not make them myself manually. It appears that there were automated snapshots generated but after rolling back to the first one it still didn't resolve the issue. I guess a default snapshot must not have been generated upon fresh install, which is really disappointing...

SGS · 2 April 2021 14:31

yaruda · 2 April 2021 14:49

Hmm, apparently there were not enough then to cover the initial installation? Rolling back to the oldest simply didn't do it and retained the same errors. I'm going to do a reinstall (which I would rather not do since it just creates more wear on my device) and see where that lands me with regards to both snapshots and then generating a new snapshot by hand at install.

Do manually invoked snapshots remain indefinitely (until manually deleted) - or perhaps I should just ask: how does the snapshot retention work for Garuda?

yaruda · 2 April 2021 16:15

Crazy, so I did a fresh install yet again and ran into the same issue immediately upon install:

Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kcm_networkmanagement.so: (libqcaa-qt5.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

Likewise settings such as trackpad options (natural/inverted scroll) and window locations, icon preferences, etc. are not saved between sessions/reboots.

SGS · 2 April 2021 16:26

Please can you post which apps you add in pacman/pamac
or if no changes, which settings you want to change in KDE Settings?

Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kcm_networkmanagement.so: (libqcaa-qt5.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

For me, it's work OOTB.

yaruda · 2 April 2021 16:42

So yeah, nothing changed. I only ran the default update - no other packages installed.

Specifically these things I've noticed this time around (we'll keep it simple here for the moment):

I set the installer to auto-login. That failed and doesn't work.
I wanted to change my TCP/IP v4 settings to be a static IP vs the DHCP. That is the aforenoted error in KDE System Settings.
Trackpad setting changes do not save between sessions, also as noted.

jonathon · 2 April 2021 17:44

This is caused by a partial upgrade, and that happens after installation because of something the user does (e.g. install software without updating, or updating only some packages).

Make sure you are fully up-to-date, e.g. run the upd shortcut to refresh your mirror list and update the system.

yaruda · 2 April 2021 18:08

I see no upd shortcut, symlink or anything of that name. There are no icons / shortcuts as such on the Desktop either. I did, however, do a pacman -Syu and that did not resolve this issue.

jonathon · 2 April 2021 18:08

Interesting, upd was added recently and was mentioned on the forum.

pacman -Syu is a good idea, but you missed the step of first refreshing your mirror list.

SGS · 2 April 2021 18:22

alias | grep upd
alias upd 'sudo reflector --latest 5 --age 2 --fastest 5 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && sudo pacman -Syu'

yaruda · 2 April 2021 18:26

Interesting indeed... @SGS alias | grep upd returns nil. Not set.

SGS · 2 April 2021 18:27

Which shell you use? bash?

jonathon · 2 April 2021 18:29

We're going off-topic here. Let's get back to fixing the system.

yaruda · 2 April 2021 19:00

@SGS default: /bin/zsh

After manually running the update I received the following output:

~> sudo reflector --latest 5 --age 2 --fastest 5 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for USERNAME:             
################################################################################
################# Arch Linux mirrorlist generated by Reflector #################
################################################################################

# With:       reflector --latest 5 --age 2 --fastest 5 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# When:       2021-04-02 18:54:40 UTC
# From:       https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/
# Retrieved:  2021-04-02 18:54:25 UTC
# Last Check: 2021-04-02 18:15:56 UTC

Server = https://mirror.sergal.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.pseudoform.org/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://archlinux.uk.mirror.allworldit.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.selfnet.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.ubrco.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra                                1621.1 KiB  2.52 MiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------------] 100%
community                               5.5 MiB  8.02 MiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------------] 100%
multilib is up to date
chaotic-aur is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: garuda-common-settings: local (1.1.3-2) is newer than chaotic-aur (1.1.3-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) qt5-svg-5.15.2-2

Total Download Size:   0.14 MiB
Total Installed Size:  0.48 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
qt5-svg-5.15.2-2-x86_64               146.6 KiB   654 KiB/s 00:00 [------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                     [------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                   [------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                        [------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                  [------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                                [------------------------------------] 100%
:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Creating Timeshift snapshot before upgrade...
Using system disk as snapshot device for creating snapshots in BTRFS mode

/dev/sda2 is mounted at: /run/timeshift/backup, options: rw,relatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,autodefrag,subvolid=5,subvol=/

Creating new backup...(BTRFS)
Saving to device: /dev/sda2, mounted at path: /run/timeshift/backup
Created directory: /run/timeshift/backup/timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-04-02_14-54-50
Created subvolume snapshot: /run/timeshift/backup/timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-04-02_14-54-50/@
Created subvolume snapshot: /run/timeshift/backup/timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-04-02_14-54-50/@home
Created control file: /run/timeshift/backup/timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-04-02_14-54-50/info.json
BTRFS Snapshot saved successfully (0s)
Tagged snapshot '2021-04-02_14-54-50': ondemand
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /usr/share/grub/themes/garuda/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-linux-zen.img
Found fallback initrd image(s) in /boot: initramfs-linux-zen-fallback.img
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1.  Check your device.map.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1.  Check your device.map.
Detecting snapshots ...
Info: Separate boot partition not detected
Found snapshot: 2021-04-02 14:54:50 | timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-04-02_14-54-50/@
Found snapshot: 2021-04-02 14:08:14 | timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-04-02_14-08-14/@
Found snapshot: 2021-04-02 14:00:01 | timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-04-02_14-00-01/@
Found snapshot: 2021-04-02 12:08:12 | timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-04-02_12-08-12/@
Found snapshot: 2021-04-02 12:02:19 | timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-04-02_12-02-19/@
Found 5 snapshot(s)
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin
done
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) upgrading qt5-svg                                            [------------------------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/8) Syncing all file systems...
(2/8) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(3/8) Foreign/AUR package notification
python2-bcrypt 3.1.7-4
syncthing-gtk 1:0.9.4.4-2
(4/8) Orphaned package notification...
=> No orphans found.
(5/8) Checking for .pacnew and .pacsave files...
.pac* files found:
/etc/systemd/system.conf.pacnew
Please check and merge
(6/8) Updating pkgfile database...
(7/8) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt
(8/8) Syncing all file systems...

Unfortunately no problems were resolved by this.

c00ter · 2 April 2021 19:37

Check your error message?

yaruda · 2 April 2021 19:42

I don't see this as being part of the issue since sdb is just the USB installation flash drive that's still plugged in.

jonathon · 2 April 2021 19:48

OK, so something has broken between the installation and now. Everything appears to be up-to-date, which can only mean that something installed has broken the setup when you

Two choices at this point would seem to be the easiest way to identify the issue:

Restore a working snapshot and update,
Reinstall and update,

then step through the changes you made one at a time until you find the one that breaks things.