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qny

Member

Registered: 2021-04-28

Posts: 1

Lost configurations after update

Hi,

Sometimes after an update (-Syu) some packages lost their configurations or were removed from my laptop.
At first in a few cases I thought I forgot to install packages or something, but not this case.
Today after update vscode lost it's configs and there were not installed plugins in it.

I don't know when and under what circumstances it happens but it's annoying in the long run.

Have you got any idea about this?

thanks...

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Lost configurations after update

Generally speaking pacman doesn't touch anything in your $HOME so no configs there will have been touched. Config files (that are marked as such via a backup array in the PKGBUILD) get overwritten if you never changed them personally, otherwise they remain and pacman creates a pacnew file.

There's no information here other than "something happened maybe". What exact tool gives you what exact problem? Post your last problematic pacman transaction from the pacman.log. Try running the tools in question in the terminal and post their outputs. You mention vscode, which vscode implementation are you using?

Last edited by V1del (2023-10-24 13:34:58)