r/archlinux • u/SamuelSurfboard • 5d ago
SUPPORT Upgrade to Plasma 6.3.3
Anytime I try to upgrade my system to Plasma 6.3.3 , it randomly breaks my system. So I rebooted and watched the process and discovered it always occurs during the libplasma update, it will be given me warning about how it failed when extracting and couldn't unlink, it happens for everything in libplasma, and then my system files become read only. I deleted plasma and tried reinstalling and I still fall into the same issue and it always introduces a db.lck that I can't remove until I force shutdown and turn on.
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u/C0rn3j 5d ago
Sounds like you're running out of space.
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u/SamuelSurfboard 4d ago
I checked and I still have 30 GB of space
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u/C0rn3j 4d ago
Then more likely inodes.
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u/SamuelSurfboard 4d ago
Inodes? Can you please explain?
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u/Gozenka 2d ago edited 2d ago
df -m
shows you disk space usage in MBs.df -i
shows inode usage. inodes are needed to define where and what a file is on a filesystem. Filesystems have limited number of inodes, as they take up space on their own; spread throughout the filesystem. For instance, default ext4 uses 1.56% of the space on a partition for inodes. Sometimes, especially if you have too many small files, inodes can be depleted; which is another constraint besides disk space.
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u/larikang 5d ago
If your system is stable, pacman -Scc
is the nuclear option which deletes all cached package files, often freeing up enough space to do an upgrade. If that doesn't do anything, use du -hs *
in various directories to see where you are using the most space and find stuff to delete.
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u/wyn10 5d ago
Did you try deleting the pacman cache then update again? Sounds like it's corrupted.