Fresh Omarchy 3.1.1: running "omarchy-update" broke some main commands (app launcher, shutdown menu, etc.) #3563

nns2009 · 2025-10-22T03:49:18Z

nns2009
Oct 22, 2025

System details

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics, RTX 3080 laptop, Fresh Omarchy 3.1.1 on 256 Gb USB stick

What's wrong?

I just installed from scratch newly downloaded Omarchy 3.1.1 from ISO. After getting familiar with shorcuts for a while and connecting to the internet, I ran Omarchy update via the menu - it was the first change I did, system was completely fresh. It errored. I don't have original error messages, but after re-running "omarchy-update" from terminal, I get similar errors as seen on the left part of the image (sorry for a photo, but I couldn't launch a browser and the disk is encrypted, so no way to get out any info from the system).

Things that broke:

Filesystem got locked - this fixes itself with restart, but breaks again after trying "omarchy-update" again
At least App launcher (Super+Space, Super+Alt+Space) and Shutdown Menu (Super+Esc) don't work. Likewise, some apps (ChatGPT of Super+Shift+A, Music of Super+Shift+M) don't work anymore.

Most shortcuts (window navigation, movement, closure) still work and some apps (file manager, terminal) still open with their corresponding shortcuts.

Some people mentioned to kill process "walker", but it seems to be restarting on its own given its auto-changing ids (right part of attached photo).

I don't have any data to save, so I may do a full re-install. I may run any diagnostics, which might help to troubleshoot the issue.

ddVital · 2025-10-22T13:08:49Z

ddVital
Oct 22, 2025

I ran into the same issue. Installing walker and refreshing it fixed the problem:

yay -S walker
omarchy-refresh-walker

After that, the App Launcher and Omarchy menu appeared correctly.

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nns2009 · 2025-10-22T13:53:43Z

nns2009
Oct 22, 2025
Author

Thanks for the suggestion! I previously tried omarchy-refresh-walker and omarchy-restart-walker with no results. I ran yay -S walker (which completed successfully) and then tried omarchy-refresh-walker again, but its output is the same as before and nothing seemed to change about Omarchy (at least App Launcher and Omarchy menu still don't work).

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nadienuncanada · 2025-10-24T23:43:48Z

nadienuncanada
Oct 24, 2025

I ran into the same issue. Installing walker and refreshing it fixed the problem:

yay -S walker
omarchy-refresh-walker
After that, the App Launcher and Omarchy menu appeared correctly.

It works for me!! Thx

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ryanrhughes · 2025-10-25T19:26:52Z

ryanrhughes
Oct 25, 2025
Maintainer

The errors indicate you're in a read-only state. Did you happen to boot a snapshot instead of the actual OS entry?

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nns2009 · 2025-10-25T21:58:43Z

nns2009
Oct 25, 2025
Author

The errors indicate you're in a read-only state. Did you happen to boot a snapshot instead of the actual OS entry?

@ryanrhughes, when I boot Omarchy, the filesystem starts in normal state: I can create folders and files, but after executing omarchy-update the filesystem becomes read-only as seen by error messages, but also I'm not able to create folders/files anymore (receiving the same "read only" error). After reboot, the filesystem becomes normal/writeable once again (until another attempt to invoke omarchy-update).

I used balenaEtcher with 8Gb USB stick and Omarchy 3.1.1 ISO to create boot-installer. I then installed it onto another (new and fully verified with Seagate Seatools) 256Gb USB stick.

Pressing F12 to invoke laptop boot menu, there seems to be several boot options added by Omarchy. I'm choosing the only one with "omarchy" in it's name.

I didn't create snapshot or do anything custom, no configs were changed.

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nenas1ya · 2025-12-16T13:27:34Z

nenas1ya
Dec 16, 2025

If it helps anyone:
My walker broke after I had some issues with Limine and the bootloader, although I'm not sure why. As a result, I can’t access the menu or app list using Win+Space or Win+Alt+Space. Everything else, including other apps and shortcuts, works fine. I tried running omarchy-update and omarchy-reinstall, but that didn’t help. I also attempted to use yay -S walker, but I encountered an error.

~ ❯ yay -S walker
Sync Explicit (1): walker-2.12.2-1
[sudo] password for nst:
warning: walker-2.12.2-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)     Old Version  New Version  Net Change

omarchy/walker  2.12.2-1     2.12.2-1       3.68 MiB

Total Installed Size:  3.68 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                         [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                       [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                            [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                      [----------------------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/config.toml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/item.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/item_archlinuxpkgs.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/item_calc.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/item_clipboard.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/item_dmenu.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/item_files.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/item_providerlist.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/item_symbols.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/item_symbols_grid.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/item_todo.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/item_unicode.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/keybind.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/layout.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/preview.xml exists in filesystem
walker: /etc/xdg/walker/themes/default/style.css exists in filesystem
walker: /usr/bin/walker exists in filesystem
walker: /usr/share/licenses/walker/LICENSE exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
 -> error installing repo packages

so my next steps:

~ ❯ sudo rm -rf /etc/xdg/walker/*

~ ❯ yay -S walker
Sync Explicit (1): walker-2.12.2-1
warning: walker-2.12.2-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)     Old Version  New Version  Net Change

omarchy/walker  2.12.2-1     2.12.2-1       3.68 MiB

Total Installed Size:  3.68 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                         [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                       [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                            [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                      [----------------------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
walker: /usr/bin/walker exists in filesystem
walker: /usr/share/licenses/walker/LICENSE exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
 -> error installing repo packages

~ ✗ yay -R walker
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing walker breaks dependency 'walker' required by omarchy-walker
 -> exit status 1

~ ✗ yay -R omarchy-walker
checking dependencies...

Package (1)     Old Version  Net Change

omarchy-walker  1.0.0-2        0.00 MiB


:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] y
:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Wait for limine-snapper-sync to finish...
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) removing omarchy-walker

~ ❯ yay -R walker
checking dependencies...

Package (1)  Old Version  Net Change

walker       2.12.2-1       0.00 MiB


:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] y
:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Wait for limine-snapper-sync to finish...
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) removing walker

~ ❯ yay -S omarchy-walker
Sync Explicit (1): omarchy-walker-1.0.0-2
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (2)             New Version  Net Change

omarchy/walker          2.12.2-1       3.68 MiB
omarchy/omarchy-walker  1.0.0-2        0.00 MiB

Total Installed Size:  3.68 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(2/2) checking keys in keyring                                         [----------------------------------------] 100%
(2/2) checking package integrity                                       [----------------------------------------] 100%
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/omarchy-walker-1.0.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (checksum)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] y
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (checksum))
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
 -> error installing repo packages

~ ✗ yay -S omarchy-walker
Sync Explicit (1): omarchy-walker-1.0.0-2
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (2)             New Version  Net Change  Download Size

omarchy/walker          2.12.2-1       3.68 MiB
omarchy/omarchy-walker  1.0.0-2        0.00 MiB       0.01 MiB

Total Download Size:   0.01 MiB
Total Installed Size:  3.68 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
 omarchy-walker-1.0.0-2-x86_64               6.9 KiB  17.7 KiB/s 00:00 [----------------------------------------] 100%
(2/2) checking keys in keyring                                         [----------------------------------------] 100%
(2/2) checking package integrity                                       [----------------------------------------] 100%
(2/2) loading package files                                            [----------------------------------------] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts                                      [----------------------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
walker: /usr/bin/walker exists in filesystem
walker: /usr/share/licenses/walker/LICENSE exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
 -> error installing repo packages
 
 ~ ✗ sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/walker
 ~ ✗ sudo rm -rf /usr/share/licenses/walker/*
 
 ~ ✗ yay -S walker
Sync Explicit (1): walker-2.12.2-1
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)     New Version  Net Change

omarchy/walker  2.12.2-1       3.68 MiB

Total Installed Size:  3.68 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                         [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                       [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                            [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                      [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                                    [----------------------------------------] 100%
:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Wait for limine-snapper-sync to finish...
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing walker                                                [----------------------------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

~ ❯ yay -S omarchy-walker
Sync Explicit (1): omarchy-walker-1.0.0-2
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)             New Version  Net Change

omarchy/omarchy-walker  1.0.0-2        0.00 MiB


:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                         [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                       [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                            [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                      [----------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                                    [----------------------------------------] 100%
:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Wait for limine-snapper-sync to finish...
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing omarchy-walker                                        [----------------------------------------] 100%

~ ❯ omarchy-refresh-walker

and now my walker is wor, and themed

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Fresh Omarchy 3.1.1: running "omarchy-update" broke some main commands (app launcher, shutdown menu, etc.) #3563

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nns2009 Oct 22, 2025

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