On 8/10/20 10:10 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
After that many errors, why did you try rebooting without fixing things first? The obvious first step is to try rerunning all of those hooks using a modern pacman.
(Do not do a year's worth of updates in one go like that, it's not tested and might break. It is preferred instead to do incremental updates via https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive in e.g. monthly increments, but if you insist on doing the whole thing in one shot then at least use the latest version of pacman via my pacman-static binaries, or the install media + pacman --sysroot /mnt -Syu)
Thank you Eli, Well, to be honest, I knew pacman had been updated and I thought rebooting would fix it :) -- Oh well, maybe not.... pacman is fully updated now, right? So if I take that list and go back and try re-running the hooks -- that may be one way to fix it? Worse come to worse, I'll just wipe /root and reinstall... So for my edification -- what happened was after update, the new pacman was installed along with the new hooks, but since the pacman I ran the update from was too old, it croaked trying to run the new hooks from the updated pacman? Will we give it a go. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.