[Testing Update] 2023-10-21 – Kernels, GNOME 45, VirtualBox, KDE, Thunderbird – Testing Updates

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

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Notable Package Updates:

• Most Kernels got updated
  • we dropped ZFS support.
    There is still some dkms support but we are considering to drop it completely
• GNOME 45
• PipeWire is now at 1.0-rc3
• KDE Gear got renewed to 23.08.2 and KDE Frameworks is at 5.111.0
• We updated Gnome to 45.0
  • remember to check your extensions for compability
• Thunderbird got updated to 115.3.3
• Virtualbox got renewed to 7.0.12
• Usual 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 4.19.296
• linux54 5.4.258
• linux510 5.10.198
• linux515 5.15.136
• linux61 6.1.59
• linux64 6.4.16 [EOL]
• linux65 6.5.8
• linux66 6.6.0rc6
• linux61-rt 6.1.59_rt16
• linux64-rt 6.4.6_rt8
• linux65-rt 6.5.2_rt8

Package Changes (Sat Oct 21 07:16:24 CEST 2023)

• testing core x86_64: 37 new and 40 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 1971 new and 1971 removed package(s)
• testing kde-unstable x86_64: 283 new and 275 removed package(s)
• testing multilib x86_64: 24 new and 27 removed package(s)

All changes can be found here.

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Known issues and solutions

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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

2023-07-28

sudo pacman -Rdd grub-update
sudo pacman -Suu grub

2023-07-24

2023-07-15

Previous testing threads:

Update to gnome 45 went well, I do miss the green accent at login.
No installed extension issues so far.

Investigating why my Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 network card downshifts to 100Mbps when this used to work with 1000Mbps

[    8.673578] r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: renamed from eth0
[    9.893749] r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: Link is Down
[   26.359744] r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full (downshifted) - flow control rx/tx

This might have something to do with the unit my isp supplies me with.

sadly linuxxx-zfs is dropped in testing also

I’m getting the following error:

:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace kirigami-addons with extra/kirigami-addons5? [Y/n] Y
warning: kpeoplevcard: local (0.1+r38.32d50a9-1) is newer than extra (0.1-2)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing kpeople5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kpeople' required by kpeoplevcard
:: installing kcontacts5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kcontacts' required by kpeoplevcard
 -> error installing repo packages

@gothicVI you may want to update without kpeoplevcard and reinstall it if needed:

sudo pacman -Rdd kpeoplevcard
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S kpeoplevcard

i get these errors

oct. 21 14:06:32 gvfsd-trash[1269]: GFileInfo created without standard::name
oct. 21 14:06:32 gvfsd-trash[1269]: file ../glib/gio/gfileinfo.c: line 1699 (g_file_info_get_name): should not be reached
oct. 21 14:06:32 gvfsd-trash[1269]: GFileInfo created without standard::name
oct. 21 14:06:32 gvfsd-trash[1269]: file ../glib/gio/gfileinfo.c: line 1699 (g_file_info_get_name): should not be reached
oct. 21 14:06:32 gvfsd-trash[1269]: GFileInfo created without standard::name
oct. 21 14:06:32 gvfsd-trash[1269]: file ../glib/gio/gfileinfo.c: line 1699 (g_file_info_get_name): should not be reached
oct. 21 14:06:32 gvfsd-trash[1269]: GFileInfo created without standard::name
oct. 21 14:06:32 gvfsd-trash[1269]: file ../glib/gio/gfileinfo.c: line 1699 (g_file_info_get_name): should not be reached

just for 4 files in trash → empty

new microcode AMD Zen coming

Had the same thing happen on unstable.
kpeoplevcard 0.1+r38.32d50a9-1 was built by Manjaro’s @oberon and the newer 0.1-2 coming from arch doesn’t have a higher version number (due to disadvantageous revision naming on the older Manjaro package).
Simply allow to downgrade to update:

$ sudo pacman -Syuu

[Unstable Update] Gnome 45

ZFS extramodules; i.e., linuxXX-zfs, have been dropped from the repos. There have been recent difficulties building them and no one on the Manjaro Team uses ZFS.

Please install zfs-dkms instead. You will to need to manually remove the old 2.1.13 extramodule package(s) first to install the new 2.2.0 packages; i.e., with linux61:

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

packages.manjaro.org – zfs

Have you tried using r8168 driver instead of r8169 driver ?

Yes, thanks for the reminder, there where some post regarding that particular chip a few announcements back.

System:
  Kernel: 6.5.8-1-MANJARO
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: f000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASRock driver: r8168 v: 8.052.01-NAPI modules: r8169 pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

When testing and finding nothing, also tried lts kernel just to check & no change.
After reboot to 6.5:

Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: f000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

[    9.026649] r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: renamed from eth0
[   10.156803] r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: Link is Down
[   22.623627] r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx

It’s a kind of magic, won’t dwell on it, was planning to reset the ISP box next…

I had to allow downgrade of package in order to apply the update.

Correct, thank you.
This git package was pushed to extra instead of kde-unstable by accident. Please just ‘downgrade’ to the stable version.

pacman -S manjaro-settings-manager okular pamac-tray-icon-plasma  sddm-breath-theme
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "kitemmodels", a dependency of "manjaro-settings-manager"
warning: cannot resolve "kauth", a dependency of "manjaro-settings-manager"
warning: cannot resolve "kcoreaddons", a dependency of "manjaro-settings-manager"
warning: cannot resolve "kpty", a dependency of "okular"
warning: cannot resolve "kactivities", a dependency of "okular"
warning: cannot resolve "threadweaver", a dependency of "okular"
warning: cannot resolve "kparts", a dependency of "okular"
warning: cannot resolve "knotifications", a dependency of "pamac-tray-icon-plasma"
:: The following packages cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      manjaro-settings-manager  okular  pamac-tray-icon-plasma

:: Do you want to skip the above packages for this upgrade? [y/N]
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'kitemmodels' required by manjaro-settings-manager
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'kauth' required by manjaro-settings-manager
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'kcoreaddons' required by manjaro-settings-manager
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'kpty' required by okular
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'kactivities' required by okular
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'threadweaver' required by okular
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'kparts' required by okular
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'knotifications' required by pamac-tray-icon-plasma

A post was merged into an existing topic: [ARM Testing Update] 2023-10-21 – Kernels, PipeWire, KDE Gear & Frameworks, Thunderbird

Can you maybe put the proper package back in Testing repo then?

@ivanich Maybe properly update your system before trying to do what you’re trying to do (what are you doing!?).

@omano pacman -Suy is what I initially did, but the above packages conflicted so I removed them and then did usual upgrade with Suy, so it’s not a user error if you meant that.

@ivanich thx for reporting. seems KDE Framework 5.111.0 on Arch removed the provides lines, hence all our overlay packages need to be adjusted for the new renaming of those.

You probably should have posted that then instead of removing packages. Weird that nobody had issues with these packages but you. Also, since couple update at least we have knotifications5, kactivities5, and so on. Packages got renamed before, didn’t you get these renamed packages? Or did you refuse to replace these packages in previous updates?