[Testing Update] 2024-11-13 – Kernels, Calamares, MHWD, KDE Gear, Firefox, Thunderbird – Testing Updates
Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.
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Notable Package Updates
- Kernels
- Calamares updates
- we fixed the BTRFS issue we had with a workaround
- Manjaro Hardware Detection update
- we removed legacy framebuffer code
- hardware database is now tagged with YYMMDD version
- KDE Gear 24.08.3
- Firefox 132.0.2
- Thunderbird 128.4.2
- Opensearch 2.18.0
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.
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 4.19.323
- linux54 5.4.285
- linux510 5.10.229
- linux515 5.15.171
- linux61 6.1.116
- linux66 6.6.60
- linux610 6.10.14 [EOL]
- linux611 6.11.7
- linux612 6.12.0-rc7
- linux61-rt 6.1.112_rt43
- linux66-rt 6.6.53_rt44
- linux610-rt 6.10.2_rt14
Package Changes (Wed Nov 13 07:57:24 CET 2024)
- testing core x86_64: 9 new and 9 removed package(s)
- testing extra x86_64: 1531 new and 1514 removed package(s)
- testing multilib x86_64: 10 new and 10 removed package(s)
Overlay Changes
- testing core x86_64: 28 new and 31 removed package(s)
- testing extra x86_64: 110 new and 117 removed package(s)
A list of all package changes can be found 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)
Check if your mirror has already synced:
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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:
2024-11-13
v86d has been dropped from Manjaro repositories and is no longer required for mhwd
Re: Unstable Update MHWD disussion
If pamac GUI options Enable AUR support and Check for updates are enabled, users should check the package list before agreeing to update and un-check AUR packages
2024-11-01
KVM default behavior change on module loading in kernel 6.12
In kernel 6.12, KVM initializes virtualization on module loading by default. This prevents VirtualBox VMs from starting. In order to avoid this, either add kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0
parameter into kernel command line or unload the corresponding kvm_XXX module. Initial support for 6.12 kernel series was added with Virtualbox 7.1.4.
More info about that in the Linux mailing list
2024-10-20
Kernel 6.10 has been marked [EOL] on kernel.org
sddm login problems with multiple monitors
- bug report
- login only works on secondary monitor
- switching
sddm
theme tomaldives
works around the issue
2024-09-13
Linux 6.9 is EOL
Linux 6.9 is EOL and has been removed from the repos.
Suggestion is to install latest LTS; i.e.,
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux66
System freeze on suspend
A feature in systemd 256 freezing a user session when suspending may freeze the system.
The issue is most prominent with Nvidia systems but reports exist that it may affect other systems as well.
System freezes for 60 seconds and then wakes back up or hangs after waking up
Since systemd v256, systemd freezes
user.slice
before sleeping. This process can fail due to kernel bugs, particularly when KVM is in use.[13][14]Messages in the logs will contain
Failed to freeze unit 'user.slice'
before sleep. When such an issue occurs, trying to login (start another session) would fail withpam_systemd(process:session): Failed to create session: Job 9876 for unit 'session-6.scope' failed with 'frozen'
.To temporarily revert back to the old behavior, edit
systemd-suspend.service
,systemd-hibernate.service
,systemd-hybrid-sleep.service
, andsystemd-suspend-then-hibernate.service
with the following drop-in:[Service] Environment="SYSTEMD_SLEEP_FREEZE_USER_SESSIONS=false"
KDE Plasma hangs on Shutdown, Restart and Logout
With KDE Plasma 6.1, the session saving feature can make Plasma hang.
A workaround is to disable it in System settings > Session > Desktop Session, by choosing “Start with an empty session”.
KDE Session auto login can’t be re-enabled for X11
Once session auto login for X11 gets disabled, it can’t be re-enabled in settings.
A workaround is to edit the /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf
file and replace Session=Plasma (X11)
by Session=plasma
Previous testing threads:
If you use QEMU with EFI emulation (e.g. for Windows guests), Arch has changed UEFI images for virtual servers to 4M version and changed its filename.
Package: edk2-ovmf
See: Remove 2MB images (75700bae) · Commits · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / edk2 · GitLab
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There is a post-upgrade message:
I get this error
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing expat (2.6.4-1) breaks dependency ‘expat=2.6.3’ required by lib32-expat
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Users should be advised to update with pacman and then remove v86d.
Updating with pamac will update v86d from the AUR, but it is no longer needed.
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How do you know it’s not needed anymore ?
It was previously required by mhwd, but they removed the dependency and dropped v86d from the Manjaro repos.
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When it is listed orphan.
v86d
has been dropped from Manjaro repositories and is no longer required for mhwd
Re: Unstable Update MHWD disussion
If pamac GUI options Enable AUR support and Check for updates are enabled, users should check the package list before agreeing to update and un-check AUR packages
If Check for updates option is not enabled, pamac GUI would only update repository packages
After this update mhwd
was not working but no issues with mhwd-kernel
or mhwd-gpu
$ mhwd -l
Error: Following directories do not exist:
> /var/lib/mhwd/db/usb
> /var/lib/mhwd/local/usb
Solved by creating directories /var/lib/mhwd/db/usb and /var/lib/mhwd/local/usb
3 posts were split to a new topic: Can’t update due to expat dependency
Would it be possible to make systemd-256.8.1 available (currently in unstable)?
This potentially fixes system resume issues: 2321268 – systemctl freeze hangs when a user-session VM is running, never thaws the user session on system resume
There is no such version. I assume you meant 256.8-1
?
You can always switch branches until that arrives in testing
if resume is that important for your workflow.
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I receive the following errors:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/hybrid-amd-nvidia-470xx-prime/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/hybrid-amd-nvidia-prime/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/nvidia-390xx/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/nvidia-470xx/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/nvidia/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/video-linux/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/video-modesetting/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/video-virtualmachine/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/xf86-video-rendition/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/xf86-video-s3/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/xf86-video-sisusb/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/xf86-video-vesa/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/xf86-video-voodoo/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/network_drivers/broadcom-wl/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/network_drivers/r8168/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/network_drivers/rt3562sta/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem
mhwd-db: /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/network_drivers/slmodem/MHWDCONFIG exists in filesystem