Situatie
Sometimes, it can happen that Manjaro developers recommend, because of specific circumstances, to do a system upgrade “within a tty.” This guide aims to help you to apply the recommendation successfully and as easily as possible. There are pictures so you can see what it looks like before actually doing it yourself.
What does “within a tty” actually mean?
It means to do the system upgrade in a pure command line interface (CLI), outside of your graphical environment.
Solutie
Pasi de urmat
In a nutshell
- CTRL+ALT+F4
- Log in
sudo pacman -Syusystemctl reboot
In detail
The first thing to do is accessing a pure command line interface. The method to use is more or less the same on every Manjaro edition.
- General: Press CTRL + ALT + F2, F3, F4, F5 or F6.
- GNOME: Press CTRL + ALT + F3…F6.
(Note: On some laptops, you might have to press the Fn key too.)
If it is done correctly, you should end up in a black screen like this.
Enter your credentials (username + password) like if you were in your regular, graphical login screen in order to log in. Once it is done, you should have a prompt.
Now, you can use any commands that you want like if you were in a terminal emulator. You may do a system upgrade with the sudo pacman -Syu command (or equivalent, although check in the official announcement beforehand if there’s a particular recommendation from Manjaro developers in that regard).
You may try to return into your graphical session if you want (CTRL + ALT + F7 for most editions, CTRL + ALT + F2 for GNOME), but you might prefer to reboot your system immediately instead. To do so, use the following command: systemctl reboot.
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