Here's what i get after trying to authenticate:


I tried changing the password as root, seems like that wasn't the issue. The only thing that comes to mind at this point is a broken sudo.


UPDATE: Everything went back to normal after logging out and back in again but i'm still curious what could be causing issues like this and how can this be prevented for the future.

Sudo uses the password of the current user account (in your example, "usr"), not the root user's password.

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Of course.
What i'm saying here is i tried to do a pacman update and it telling me i got the wrong password. Then i logged in as root and changed the password for "usr" just to make sure and i still get the same issue. That's why i brought up broken sudo because that's the first obvious thing that comes to mind.

Since you are using pacman, I'm guessing you are using Arch.

The creepy sudo fetish is primarily a *buntu thing. Have you checked to see whether Arch enables sudo out-of-the-box?

Few distros outside the *buntu-verse do, though recent observations lead me to fear that this plague of pointlessness is spreading.

Perhaps sudo was not configured for usr. One possible scenario: sudo might be configured for a certain group only. You add usr to that group, but to make the new group effective, usr has to log in again. I am sure there are other possible scenarios.

You shouldn't be using -Syy. Use -Syu. There's a good reason for this, it is documented somewhere on Arch wiki.
Or maybe Manjaro is different in that respect, who knows.

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Yes, i know. That was a just a random command to prove the point.

This description and the level of detail you've now added to the first post should have been what you posted to start with (along with whether sudo/pacman have worked before or if this is the first time on that system) - then you avoid time being wasted with obvious answers.

Agreed. But also excuse me for being very new to LQ in general and i would appreciate you sharing some useful docs or site resources to help me.

The Welcome to LQ paragraph in the site's FAQs.

Eric Raymond's classic on how to ask questions. Perhaps a bit long, but thorough.

Something similar but shorter from the LQ site founder.

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See the links berndbausch provided.

Also, a useful technique is to write your question, then read it as if someone else is asking you that question - how would you respond, what questions would you ask, etc?

Go back and update/re-write the question to take those things into account, and repeat the process a couple of times.

Often this can be enough to solve issues in itself (and generally helps train your analytical skills), but even when that doesn't happen, it should still tend towards a question that is more likely to receive helpful replies sooner.

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