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Syy forces the package database to be updated even if no updates are available.
In my opinion, this makes no sense, especially after you have already run pacman -Syu before. Basically, you only generate additional, unnecessary traffic on the mirror you are using. Pacman -Syu is normally always sufficient.
The display of the systemd journal can be easily filtered. For example, with
journalctl -p err -b -1, all entries of the last boot process that are marked as error, critical, alarm or emergency are displayed.Not me. But other users do. Some of them also use a distribution other than Arch (or a distribution based on it). When I look at the problems, the current kernel is probably quite a minefield as far as problems are concerned.
As other users have already recommended, you could additionally install the LTS kernel. And if you use BTRFS as a file system, create snapshots before an update (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/snapper#Wrapping_pacman_transactions_in_snapshots).
And it should be obvious that important data should be backed up on a regular basis.
What if i run
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I guess that's a bit better than the original command in question. But from what I understand it's still unnecessary and there is simply no need to force the refresh. A regular
pacman -Syuis all you need and will refresh all databases that need it.Thanks! I willf then do that moving forwards :)