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[SOLVED] opentmp-setup : Failed to copy files to /etc/

How to fix as I've accidentally deleted most of under /etc dir. which gave:
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opentmp-setup : Failed to copy files to /etc
... (many files under /etc)
on booting

It's so hard to figure out the solution as even pacman -Syyu cannot do a  help

It's last  message on boot, kind of :

Error failed to start opentmp-setup 

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Reply #1 –
First, (re)install pacman and artix-mirrorlist to re-create pacman.conf and pacman.d/mirrorlist (also archlinux-mirrorlist, if you had the Arch repos enabled, and edit pacman.conf accordingly). Then, re-install all your packages: pacman will re-instate missing files/directories in /etc without touching existing/modified ones. You may need to re-initialize the keyrings first.
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# pacman -Sy `pacman -Qqn`

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Reply #2 –
some warnings ok ?

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Packages (3) archlinux-mirrorlist-20200920-1  artix-mirrorlist-20211027-1  pacman-6.0.1-2

Total Installed Size:  4.78 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(3/3) checking keys in keyring                                         [#######################################] 100%
(3/3) checking package integrity                                       [#######################################] 100%
(3/3) loading package files                                            [#######################################] 100%
(3/3) checking for file conflicts                                      [#######################################] 100%
(3/3) checking available disk space                                    [#######################################] 100%
warning: could not get file information for usr/include/alpm.h
warning: could not get file information for usr/include/alpm_list.h
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/bash-completion/
...

warning: could not get file information for usr/share/pacman/proto.install
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/pkgconfig/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/pkgconfig/libmakepkg.pc
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/zsh/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/zsh/site-functions/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_pacman
(1/3) reinstalling artix-mirrorlist                                    [#######################################] 100%
(2/3) reinstalling pacman                                              [#######################################] 100%
(3/3) reinstalling archlinux-mirrorlist                                [#######################################] 100%

OK, now solved booting into desktop