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[Testing Update] 2024-11-01 – Kernels, LibreOffice, Pamac, Pipewire, Mesa – Testing Updates

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[Testing Update] 2024-11-01 – Kernels, LibreOffice, Pamac, Pipewire, Mesa – Testing Updates


Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.

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Notable Package Updates

  • Kernels
  • Mesa 24.2.6
  • Firefox 132.0
  • Thunderbird 128.4.0
  • libpamac 11.7.0, pamac-cli 11.7.0, pamac 11.7.2, pamac-gtk3 10.7.0
  • LibreOffice 24.2.7
  • Pipewire 1.2.6

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

:information_source: You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.11.so. :information_source:

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

:warning: 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 4.19.322
  • linux54 5.4.284
  • linux510 5.10.228
  • linux515 5.15.170
  • linux61 6.1.115
  • linux66 6.6.59
  • linux610 6.10.14 [EOL]
  • linux611 6.11.6
  • linux612 6.12.0-rc5
  • linux61-rt 6.1.112_rt43
  • linux66-rt 6.6.53_rt44
  • linux610-rt 6.10.2_rt14

Package Changes (Fri Nov 1 11:50:58 CET 2024)

  • testing core x86_64: 9 new and 9 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 1036 new and 1013 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 25 new and 25 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 12 new and 12 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 97 new and 266 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)

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Known issues and solutions

This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary.
Please, consider subscribing to the Testing Updates Announcements RSS feed

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:

:arrow_right: 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 to maldives works around the issue

2024-09-13

:warning: 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 with pam_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, and systemd-suspend-then-hibernate.service with the following drop-in:

[Service]
Environment="SYSTEMD_SLEEP_FREEZE_USER_SESSIONS=false"

– Power management/Suspend and hibernate – ArchWiki

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

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

Previous testing threads:

It shouldn’t have taken 3 days to get patched Xorg packages to the testing branch.



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MPV crashes on a Meteorlake system when trying to use hardware acceleration.

[vd] Looking at hwdec h264-vaapi...
[vo/gpu] Loading hwdec drivers for format: 'vaapi'
[vo/gpu] Loading hwdec driver 'vaapi'
[vo/gpu/vaapi] Using EGL dmabuf interop via GL_EXT_EGL_image_storage
[vo/gpu/vaapi] Trying to open a x11 VA display...
[vo/gpu/vaapi] Trying to open a wayland VA display...
[vo/gpu/vaapi/vaapi] libva: VA-API version 1.22.0
[vo/gpu/vaapi/vaapi] libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
[vo/gpu/vaapi/vaapi] libva: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
[vo/gpu/vaapi/vaapi] libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
[vo/gpu/vaapi/vaapi] Initialized VAAPI: version 1.22
[vo/gpu/vaapi] Going to probe surface formats (may log bogus errors)...
[statusline] AV: 00:00:11 / 02:07:46 (0%) A-V:  0.000zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  mpv -v RO.mkv

dmesg

   74.383331] vo[4364]: segfault at 779352204000 ip 0000779371790907 sp 000077934a9feab8 error 7 in libc.so.6[16c907,779371648000+171000] likely on CPU 3 (core 12, socket 0)
[   74.383341] Code: 3e 19 08 00 01 74 9c 83 f9 c0 0f 87 7e fe ff ff c5 fe 6f 4e 20 48 29 fe 48 83 c7 3f 49 8d 0c 10 48 83 e7 c0 48 01 fe 48 29 f9 <f3> a4 c4 c1 7e 7f 00 c4 c1 7e 7f 48 20 c5 f8 77 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00

problem solved with testing update 13.11.24

Sorry about the delay. We had planned to have this testing update sooner.



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wow, I thought last testing update was looking good at 95% smooth/self-fixed; but 100% smooth with 35 voters this time!? kinda feels like stable will be getting an update soon :slight_smile:



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Hi,

The next kde / Plasma update is plane 5th November, I think the next stable update will come after this date.

https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_6



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The issue I was having with konsole was fixed by downgrading to the stable branch.

Recently, manjaro has been very stable. I’m happy.

zfs (dkms) is of course good. bcachefs is also good for some reason.

If there is one problem in my environment,

When using konsole + zsh, cursor movement and editing are strange.

I tried downgrading to the July version, but it seems to be due to something else.

If I revert to the September snapshot, there is no problem.

alacritty + zsh = ok
wezterm +zsh = ok
konsole +zsh = ng

…

Anyway, only konsole is strange.

I don’t really care. I wonder if it will be fixed soon.

cinnamon edition.



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Perhaps, but I think the scope is wider than just plasma considering there are 3 core Manjaro DE versions. At any rate, encouraging signs in testing.



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Well, there is: Manjaro 24.2 Yonada (#10) · Issues · Release plan / Releases · GitLab



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Hi, I have an issue with sway (1.10) / wayland. There seem to be several issues reported on the swaywm repo Issues · swaywm/sway · GitHub. I downgraded to sway 1.9 and it works again.

The issue is that in a dual monitor setup one monitor is duplicated after one monitor is turned of and on again.



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