Latest update has cascading problems

General
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After doing the latest update (paru -Syu) i have gotten a multitude of problems.

If i try to update again i get this error
Unable to synchronize databases

In steam i have disk write errors now for anything trying to download

For firefox i am unable to open it and it says its already running and to close the process.

Im posting this here in an attempt to find a root cause vs try to tackle each individual one because it only started happening after the update so im assuming its a singular issue causing a cascade of errors. Posting on mobile because cant access web browsers on desktop.

If i run with debug i get

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Please try the fix keyring button in cachyos-hello.

3

Is there a way to run cachyos hello from the cli. If i click it it hangs and then never opens.

4

I found it and this was the output

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The root system is read-only. Are you on a USB disk or a SSD ? If there is an error on the media it can be mounted read-only to protect the data. You should boot on another USB or disk and fsck your disk. It may be corrupted or damaged.

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I’m on an nvme drive. Ill boot to a live usb and try that.

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I’m booted into a live media environment. I am using btrfs filesystem so fsck informed me it wouldn’t work on btrfs. I looked into btrfs check. This is the result of looking into the filesystem:

[liveuser@CachyOS ~]$ sudo btrfs check /dev/nvme1n1p2
Opening filesystem to check…
Checking filesystem on /dev/nvme1n1p2
UUID: 0403301c-7b55-4199-b959-31b8087b8962
[1/8] checking log skipped (none written)
[2/8] checking root items
Error: could not find btree root extent for root 259
ERROR: failed to repair root items: No such file or directory
[3/8] checking extents
ref mismatch on [400932864 16384] extent item 68719476737, found 1
tree extent[400949248, 16384] root 257 has no backref item in extent tree
tree extent[400949248, 16384] root 259 has no tree block found
incorrect global backref count on 400949248 found 2 wanted 1
backpointer mismatch on [400949248 16384]
ERROR: errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation
[4/8] checking free space tree
[5/8] checking fs roots
[6/8] checking only csums items (without verifying data)
[7/8] checking root refs
[8/8] checking quota groups skipped (not enabled on this FS)
found 546067451904 bytes used, error(s) found
total csum bytes: 531877636
total tree bytes: 1321648128
total fs tree bytes: 612974592
total extent tree bytes: 123289600
btree space waste bytes: 162498087
file data blocks allocated: 549739134976
referenced 573272805376

i was also able to find this error:

Error: could not find btree root extent for root 259
ERROR: failed to repair root items: No such file or directory

Not sure entirely what this means besides it looks like files are not present that should be.