I moved about a month ago and haven’t touched my pc a whole lot from before packing it away and finally getting around to unpacking it.
I’m running CachyOS and finally got around to unburying it, and after trying to run a system update I’m met with this:
sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
cachyos-v4 is up to date
cachyos-core-v4 is up to date
cachyos-extra-v4 is up to date
cachyos is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
multilib is up to date
DEB_Arch_Extra 10.1 KiB 12.5 KiB/s 00:01 [---------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: gtk2: local (2.24.33-5.1) is newer than cachyos (2.24.33-5)
:: Replace lib32-vulkan-mesa-device-select with cachyos/lib32-vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers? [Y/n] y
warning: libpng12: local (1.2.59-2.1) is newer than cachyos (1.2.59-2)
:: Replace vi with extra/ex-vi-compat? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers-1:25.3.5-2 and vulkan-mesa-device-select-1:25.2.7-2 are in conflict
I’m not super technologically inclined, not completely illiterate but no expert for sure. Usually I’d update my system regularly but with the move and otherwise being extremely busy lately I’m only getting around to it now. I tried looking it up first but I’m not sure if I just used the wrong search queries or what, but I couldn’t get a good answer anywhere, so I thought I’d try here.
Thanks in advance for any help. I really do appreciate it.


That’s a totally separate error… It can happen that the keyring itself is so out of date that it blocks the update, and with it the upgrade to a newer keyring. For this reason it’s often safer after a long time to do pacman -Syu cachyos-keyring (pretending I guesse right and that’s the name of the package) first to avoid the whole update getting blocked by signature with an out-of-date-key. Yet that should not apply here.
But Ignoring the warnings you get for now… This looks like
vulkan-mesa-implicit-layersdid not replacevulkan-mesa-device-selectbut now the 32bit library versionlib32-vulkan-mesa-deviceis supposed to be replaced bycachyos/lib32-vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers, which would in turn needvulkan-mesa-implicit-layersas a dependency.What happens when you answer ‘no’ to that first question? Alternatively, is there anything keeping you from installing
vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers(thus replacingvulkan-mesa-device-select)?Answering “n” gives me the same error still. Same with if I say no for both questions. In fact, any combination will always result in the same error.
Probably a dumb question but how would I go about installing
vulcan-mesa-implicit-layers?