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Copied root filesystem, now user/root logins not working

The inability to login, even after you've updated the passwords, would seem to indicate something fundamental is wrong. I suggest going back to the live USB and chroot, and then trying su (both as ...
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Installing nonfree packages on Parabola

Arch and parabola are independent rolling release distros. And they are arch, so dependency version enforcement isn't happening. You must not just mix and match repos; they get rebuilt from ...
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Show description on packages when using `pacman` on `Arch Linux`

I wouldn't know whether this is true for (all of) its derivative distributions, but packages on Arch Linux only have that short description; which is mentioned in the Arch Wiki page on PKGBUILD files (...
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Copied root filesystem, now user/root logins not working

I think I figured out the problem. I checked /var/log/pacman.log for the details of the system update I had performed. There was a warning in there that the file /etc/pam.d/system-login had been saved ...
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Can't start polkit-mate-authentication-agent

I have resolved this issue, thanks to some advice from one of the elogind devs and I want to close this out, in case anyone else experiences similar issues: The issue was incorrect PAM configuration ...
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