[Testing Update] 2023-11-10 – Kernels, KDE Gear, NVIDIA, LibreOffice, LXQt, PipeWire, Phosh – Testing Updates

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Another testing branch update with some usual package updates for you.

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Notable Package Updates:

• All Kernels got a refresh
• October Linux Firmware updates
• Pre-compiled extramodules based on zfs-dkms 2.2.0-2 got readded for 4.19 up to 6.6 regular Manjaro-Kernels
  • please report any issues with those if you have some.
  • as an alternative we recommend to use zfs-dkms directly, which now supports kernels up to 6.6 series
• KDE Gear 23.08.3 got released
• changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages
  • see Known Issues below for more info
• NVIDIA 545.29.02
• LibreOffice 7.5.8
• last Qt5 based LXQt release got added 1.4.0
• Pipewire 0.3.84
• Phosh 0.33.0
• Firefox 119.0.1 and Thunderbird 115.4.2
• Usual KDE-git, Haskell and Python updates

Additional Info

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

Our current supported kernels

• linux419 4.19.297
• linux54 5.4.259
• linux510 5.10.199
• linux515 5.15.137
• linux61 6.1.60
• linux65 6.5.9
• linux66 6.6.0
• linux61-rt 6.1.59_rt16
• linux64-rt 6.4.6_rt8
• linux65-rt 6.5.2_rt8

Package Changes (Mon Oct 30 14:50:11 CET 2023)

• testing core x86_64: 21 new and 21 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 114 new and 112 removed package(s)
• testing kde-unstable x86_64: 60 new and 58 removed package(s)
• testing multilib x86_64: 6 new and 6 removed package(s)

A list of all differences you may find here

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Known issues and solutions

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2023-11-10

2023-10-21

sudo pacman -R linux61-zfs && sudo pacman -Syu zfs-dkms

2023-10-05

 sudo pacman -Syu glibc-locales --overwrite /usr/lib/locale/*/*

2023-09-27

2023-09-06

2023-08-25

2023-08-04

mkdir -p ~/.config/mpv && printf 'ndemuxer-max-bytes=50MiBndemuxer-max-back-bytes=25MiBn' | tee -a ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

pacman -Rdd mutter43
pacman -Syu

I had installed jdk-openjdk, jdk-openjdk and jdk-openjdk-headless. pacman -Syu jdk-openjdk didn’t work for me. I had to use pacman -Sy jdk-openjdk to update the jdk and remove both jres. Afterwards I was able to proceed with the update.

had the same issue, but did the answer did not appear to me, before I resolved the issue also myself, but used pacman -S instead (which is more unsecure than your solution…). After that, everything went throguh.

Btw, the new kernel release of linux66 solved an issue I had with my realtek wifi (rtw_8852be). It was a linux (mainline kernel) issue, so no issue with manjaro patches or so.

Same for me. Solved with # pacman -Sy jdk-openjdk then # pacman -Syu

You got it backwards: -S is perfectly fine, -Sy can lead to partial upgrades.

Nvidia 545.29.02 + linux61 or linux66 : no backlight !

$ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM206M [GeForce GTX 965M] driver: nvidia v: 545.29.02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.9 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 545.29.02
    renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M/PCIe/SSE2

Bootlog:

nov. 10 14:00:49 Tuxedo kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  545.29.02  Thu Oct 26 21:21:38 UTC 2023
…
nov. 10 14:00:50 Tuxedo systemd-backlight[448]: nvidia_0: Failed to write system 'brightness' attribute: Invalid argument
…
nov. 10 14:00:50 Tuxedo systemd[1]: Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:nvidia_0.
nov. 10 14:00:51 Tuxedo systemd-backlight[595]: nvidia_0: Failed to write system 'brightness' attribute: Invalid argument

$ systemctl status systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service 
× systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service - Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of bac>
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-backlight@.service; static)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2023-11-10 14:09:09 EAT; 1min 0s ago
       Docs: man:systemd-backlight@.service(8)
    Process: 2384 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-backlight load backlight:nvidia_0 (code=>
   Main PID: 2384 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 22ms

nov. 10 14:09:09 Tuxedo systemd[1]: Starting Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlig>
nov. 10 14:09:09 Tuxedo systemd-backlight[2384]: nvidia_0: Failed to write system 'brightness>
nov. 10 14:09:09 Tuxedo systemd[1]: systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service: Main proces>
nov. 10 14:09:09 Tuxedo systemd[1]: systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service: Failed with>
nov. 10 14:09:09 Tuxedo systemd[1]: Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of >
nov. 10 14:09:09 Tuxedo systemd[1]: systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service: Start reque>
nov. 10 14:09:09 Tuxedo systemd[1]: systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service: Failed with>
nov. 10 14:09:09 Tuxedo systemd[1]: Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of >
lines 1-16/16 (END)

$ LANG=C journalctl -xeu systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░ 
░░ The unit systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 10 14:14:46 Tuxedo systemd[1]: Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:nvidia_0.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service has finished with a failure.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 3137 and the job result is failed.
Nov 10 14:14:46 Tuxedo systemd[1]: systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 10 14:14:46 Tuxedo systemd[1]: systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_0.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support

trouble on suspend screen / lock screen ,
screen stays black , i have to restart lighdm.service in TTY to get login Xfce

pamac update failed due to changes in JDK/JRE packages

Error: Failed to prepare transaction:
conflicting dependencies:
- jdk-openjdk and jre-openjdk are in conflict

Resolved by installing jdk-openjdk before updating:

pamac install jdk-openjdk --no-upgrade; pamac update --no-aur

Upgrading from bleachbit (4.4.2-4) to bleachbit (4.6.0-1) resulted in following errors:

Exception while running operation 'system': 'No closing quotation'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/Worker.py", line 345, in run_operations
    for _dummy in self.clean_operation(operation):
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/Worker.py", line 159, in clean_operation
    for cmd in backends[operation].get_commands(option_id):
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/Cleaner.py", line 385, in get_commands
    if filename.endswith('.desktop') and Unix.is_broken_xdg_desktop(filename):
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/Unix.py", line 497, in is_broken_xdg_desktop
    if __is_broken_xdg_desktop_application(config, pathname):
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/Unix.py", line 425, in __is_broken_xdg_desktop_application
    execs = shlex.split(config.get('Desktop Entry', 'Exec'))
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shlex.py", line 315, in split
    return list(lex)
           ^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shlex.py", line 300, in __next__
    token = self.get_token()
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shlex.py", line 109, in get_token
    raw = self.read_token()
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shlex.py", line 191, in read_token
    raise ValueError("No closing quotation")
ValueError: No closing quotation

Resolved by reverting to previous bleachbit (4.4.2-4) version.

Moderator edit: In the future, please use proper formatting: [HowTo] Post command output and file content as formatted text

Yes. Intervention was required. But it was an easy fix.

The same for me. Had to uninstall, and than update took place via Konsole.

Same backlight problem here with an RTX3070.
And I couldn’t modify the laptop backlight power.