[Testing Update] 2024-09-07 – Plasma 6.1.4, KDE Gear 24.08, Mauikit 4.0, Mesa 24.2.2 – Testing Updates
Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. This also marks the preview cycle of 24.1 release also to been known as Xahea. Preview ISOs will get released as we see fit.
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Notable Package Updates
Additional Info
Nvidia driver downgrade
Nvidia drivers got downgraded to 550.100, therefore update with sudo pacman -Syuu
. If you want to stay on the 555 driver series you may either switch to unstable or install nvidia-dkms via: sudo pacman -U https://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/pool/overlay/nvidia-dkms-555.58.02-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
. More info about Nvidia drivers here:
555 release feedback & discussion – Linux – NVIDIA Developer Forums
550.78 release feedback & discussion thread – Linux – NVIDIA Developer Forums
Python 3.12 info
You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.11.so
.
Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.11/
:
pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11/
Rebuild them all at once:*
pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11)
* Note that if any fail to build, you’ll have to rebuild what’s remaining one or a few at a time.
Use rebuild-detector
to see if anything else needs to be rebuilt:
checkrebuild
Info about AUR packages
AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcements topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.
For help with AUR packages, please create a new topic in AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.
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Our current supported kernels
- linux419 4.19.320
- linux54 5.4.282
- linux510 5.10.224
- linux515 5.15.165
- linux61 6.1.106
- linux66 6.6.47
- linux69 6.9.12 [EOL]
- linux610 6.10.6
- linux611 6.11.0 rc4
- linux61-rt 6.1.105_rt38
- linux66-rt 6.6.44_rt39
- linux69-rt 6.9_rt5
- linux610-rt 6.10.2_rt14
Package Changes (Sat Sep 7 21:06:25 CEST 2024)
- testing core x86_64: 38 new and 38 removed package(s)
- testing extra x86_64: 3138 new and 3126 removed package(s)
- testing multilib x86_64: 133 new and 134 removed package(s)
Overlay Changes
- testing core x86_64: 2 new and 2 removed package(s)
- testing extra x86_64: 36 new and 237 removed package(s)
- testing multilib x86_64: 1 new and 1 removed package(s)
A list of all package changes can be found here and here
- No issue, everything went smoothly
- Yes there was an issue. I was able to resolve it myself.(Please post your solution)
- Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)
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Known issues and solutions
This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary.
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Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!
Note: Do not forget to review your .pacnew
files:
2024-09-07
2024-08-04
pulseaudio-ctl requires pulseaudio and is not compatible with pipewire
If one is using PipeWire, one will need to remove pulseaudio-ctl
if prompted during the update as it’s only compatible with pulseaudio
2024-06-03
Linux 6.9 is EOL
Linux 6.9 is EOL and will – at some point – be removed from the repo.
Suggestion is to install latest LTS to be sure
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux66
2024-07-14
Nvidia driver downgrade
Nvidia drivers got downgraded to 550.100, therefore update with sudo pacman -Syuu
. If you want to stay on the 555 driver series you may either switch to unstable or install nvidia-dkms via: sudo pacman -U https://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/pool/overlay/nvidia-dkms-555.58.02-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
. More info about Nvidia drivers here:
555 release feedback & discussion – Linux – NVIDIA Developer Forums
550.78 release feedback & discussion thread – Linux – NVIDIA Developer Forums
2024-07-01
The sshd service needs to be restarted after upgrading to openssh-9.8p1
2024-07-01 – Robin Candau
After upgrading to
openssh-9.8p1
, the existing SSH daemon will be unable to accept new connections (see Can’t login after openssh 9.8p1-1 upgrade, MUST restart sshd (#5) · Issues · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / openssh · GitLab).
When upgrading remote hosts, please make sure to restart the sshd service usingsystemctl try-restart sshd
right after upgrading.We are evaluating the possibility to automatically apply a restart of the sshd service on upgrade in a future release of the openssh-9.8p1 package.
– Arch Linux – News: The sshd service needs to be restarted after upgrading to openssh-9.8p1
Previous testing threads:
Don’t upgrade new version kernels? 6.10.8 and RC?
Hi,
Linux 6.10.9 is available on unstable branch
https://manjaristas.org/branch_compare?q=linux610
Linux 6.11.0rc6 is available on unstable branch
https://manjaristas.org/branch_compare?q=linux611
very cool to see plasma 6.1.4
has moved into testing from unstable… will be watching this thread more to see how folks experience this update.
When it comes to the testing branch participation, is it at all useful to test it within a VM? or is it always best to test on real hardware?
On a real hardware. You can still rollback update with a timeshift backup. I’ve been using testing branch for years, and it proved to be quite stable for me. I occasionally jump to unstable for quicker Plasma updates.
However, I cannot recommend unstable branch for a long run. I had in the past few problems with it when I used it for a longer time. There were sometimes Arch regressions and updates that broke the system, and it couldn’t boot. They fixed it quickly, within hours, but I still had a bad luck of installing it before it. Arch base is always risky. Testing branch mitigates those critical bugs. The rest of bugs that can happen is manageable and not so serious.
There were also times where I had very little time, so I wished my system to work and not bothered be with updates and potential issues, so I was switching to stable branch. However, 90% of time since few years I am using testing branch and it’s quite OK. Also it’s better for AUR packages since testing is not that far away from Arch.
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No it’s not. It depends on your specific hardware, the DE, customization and packages you are using and your experience in managing your OS and updates. I also run for years a system on Arch and never had any nameable issues.
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