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texlive-basic : /usr/share/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb is already present in the filesystem (owned by texlive-tlpdb)
Errors happened, no packet updated

Any idea ?

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There is a message for Arch:
https://archlinux.org/news/tex-live-package-reorganization/

Don’t know what you can do with it though…

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That’s the point ! I don’t know what I can do with it too.

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The package texlive-tlpdb looks like it used to be in the AUR but has since been removed. It appears that the contents have now been included in texlive-basic, and texlive-tlpdb may be safely removed.

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Yup.

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4 posts were split to a new topic: Smplayer stutters when skipping through videos

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Meld is like that too. I used it for more than 10 years, then maybe about a year ago it went strange like that. Some of it’s functions may have gone missing too – couldn’t figure out how to set sync points last time I tried.

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I get the little double-jump on seeking too.
Quadro card and Nouveau driver.
Doesn’t bother me as I use mpv on its own, which is working fine.

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Philm did not post information about Xfce not supporting Gtk4 in Known issues and solutions

When Stable Update 2023-07-10 was first posted it did not include this information. I re-posted information from Testing update 2023-06-24 on the day after release announcement, when I noticed it had not been copied across

Changes to pamac-gtk were notified better on testing branch than stable so it was not a major problem for me, except for being ‘blinded by the light’ for a 2nd time

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Automount drive no longer automounts.

Hello,

A HDD that automounted without issues no longer does. I checked the UUID; it hasn’t changed. I have made no modifications to the .mount and .automount files.

The drive’s UUID is: 01D5A3BB92BBCA10
For reference here are the file contents:

[Unit]
Description=Mount Webdev disk (/automounts/webdev)

[Mount]
What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/01D5A3BB92BBCA10
Where=/automounts/webdev
Type=ntfs
Options=defaults,user,rw,noatime,group,uid=1000,exec

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Unit]
Description=Automount webdev partition

[Automount]
Where=/automounts/webdev
TimeoutIdleSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Thanks.

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I had an error with Pacman, so i was able to update Sudo pacman -Syu

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So I can confirm it’s not an issue with the GTK4 version; my pamac GUI crashes at 95% “checking for updates” when opened from the red shield icon in the system tray, but is fine if I open it from the Application Launcher and then switch to the Updates tab. Where would I find a suitable log file for this?

Video of the behaviour: https://i.imgur.com/SyeEDe3.mp4

Update with more info:

On this occasion, the new updates are Chromium from Official Repositories (extra) and LibreOffice from Flatpak (flathub).

less +G /var/log/pacman.log doesn’t have anything dated today (2023-07-21) and the last entry tagged [PAMAC] is from over 24 hours ago and just says “synchronizing package lists”

I installed the 2023-07-10 updates via the pamac GUI by double-clicking the red shield without issue on 2023-07-16 and then the following day when I saw a new round of updates but wasn’t planning to actually use my computer I installed them via pacman -Syu on tty2 rather than logging in to a graphical session.

Since then, double-clicking the red shield will open the pamac GUI on the Updates tab and crash upon reaching 95% of the “checking for updates” process. This was first experienced in the new GTK4 version of the GUI, but has persisted after I replaced it with the GTK3 version.

After once opening “Add/Remove Software” from the application launcher, which opens on the Browse tab, and clicking onto the Updates tab, if I close the window and double-click the red shield again it will display the updates without crashing.

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5 posts were split to a new topic: Desktop icons stop responding to double clicks

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KDE Frameworks 5.108 introduced this nasty bug:
copy/move symbolic link moves link destination instead
It’s fixed in 5.109, so let’s hope that can come through quickly.

It affects running scripts as well: in Dolphin I dropped a symlink on a Python script’s desktop file, and the script saw only the real path and did things in the actual file’s directory instead of the symlink’s directory. Before this update it was doing stuff in the symlink’s directory, as intended.

Later I accidentally deleted a few files by creating symlinks in another folder, then moving the symlinks to yet another folder. They did not seem to move at first (they had actually moved the target files). When I tried to move them again and chose to overwrite, the real files got overwritten by the symlinks. Result: no real files, only dead symlinks.

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I also had a few random crashes with pamac GUI, when i clicked on differend tabs, it crashed sooner or later but i could fix it with the advise from Philm:

    open a terminal
    delete /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync as root
    create /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync as normal user
    run pacman -Syy as root
    run pamac update as normal user

but for me that wasnt enough, so it was finally 100% stable now after i also openend the pamac GUI and clicked on the dropdown menue at the top right “Refresh Databases”.

Both pamac GUI’s on my PC and Laptop could be fixed with that steps for me.

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Thanks for the info! I have just run those commands, so I guess I’ll see if it stops crashing over the next few days :+1:

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After installing this version, my Manjaro laptop can no longer detect an external monitor (USB-C or HDMI). Here is the CPU and GPU information of my system (ThinkPad Z16 Gen1).

DE: GNOME 44.3
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H with Radeon Graphics (16) @ 3.300GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 6400/6500 XT/6500M
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon 680M

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After the update when I unplug the external monitor wayland crashes and reload the desktop, I think is due to this segfault maybe:

lug 26 14:09:56 thinkpad kwin_wayland[25532]: kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at ""
lug 26 14:09:57 thinkpad kwin_wayland[25532]: kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at ""
lug 26 14:09:57 thinkpad kwin_wayland[25532]: kwin_wayland_drm: Failed to find a working setup for new outputs!
lug 26 14:09:57 thinkpad kwin_wayland[25532]: kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at ""
lug 26 14:09:58 thinkpad kernel: kwin_wayland[25532]: segfault at 0 ip 00007ff59c618954 sp 00007ffc687a3358 error 4 in libQt5Gui.so.5.15.10[7ff59c2f8000+471000] likely on CPU 2 (core 2, socket 0)
lug 26 14:09:58 thinkpad systemd-coredump[27183]: Process 25532 (kwin_wayland) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                  #7  0x000055eb55bd29c5 n/a (kwin_wayland + 0x929c5)
                                                  #24 0x000055eb55c74502 n/a (kwin_wayland + 0x134502)
                                                  #27 0x000055eb55b902fb n/a (kwin_wayland + 0x502fb)
                                                  #30 0x000055eb55b91ed5 n/a (kwin_wayland + 0x51ed5)
lug 26 14:09:58 thinkpad kwin_wayland_wrapper[25570]: (EE) failed to read Wayland events: Broken pipe
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: kf.globalaccel.kglobalacceld: No desktop file found for service  "arduino-ide.desktop"
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: kf.globalaccel.kglobalacceld: No desktop file found for service  "Zoom.desktop"
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: kf.globalaccel.kglobalacceld: No desktop file found for service  "xdvi.desktop"
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: kf.globalaccel.kglobalacceld: No desktop file found for service  "arduino ide.desktop"
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: kf.globalaccel.kglobalacceld: No desktop file found for service  "org.chromium.Chromium.flextop.chrome-fjgipfoghjhonkbcmeihnglkkfgademh-Default.desktop"
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: kf.globalaccel.kglobalacceld: No desktop file found for service  "FFPWA-01GTZ7XHZ3P5WJZGKQCYHS3Q9V.desktop"
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: kf.globalaccel.kglobalacceld: No desktop file found for service  "alacritty.desktop"
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: OpenGL vendor string:                   Intel
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: OpenGL renderer string:                 Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: OpenGL version string:                  4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 23.0.4
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: Driver:                                 Intel
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: GPU class:                              Whiskey Lake
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: OpenGL version:                         4.6
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: GLSL version:                           4.60
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: Mesa version:                           23.0.4
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: Linux kernel version:                   6.1.38
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: Requires strict binding:                no
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: GLSL shaders:                           yes
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: Texture NPOT support:                   yes
lug 26 14:09:59 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: Virtual Machine:                        no
lug 26 14:10:00 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: kwin_wayland_drm: Failed to find a working setup for new outputs!
lug 26 14:10:00 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: inet:323:58: unrecognized keysym "XF86EmojiPicker"
lug 26 14:10:00 thinkpad kwin_wayland[27189]: kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: inet:324:58: unrecognized keysym "XF86Dictate"
lug 26 14:10:00 thinkpad kwin_wayland_wrapper[27271]: (WW) Option "-listen" for file descriptors is deprecated
lug 26 14:10:00 thinkpad kwin_wayland_wrapper[27271]: Please use "-listenfd" instead.
lug 26 14:10:00 thinkpad kwin_wayland_wrapper[27271]: (WW) Option "-listen" for file descriptors is deprecated
lug 26 14:10:00 thinkpad kwin_wayland_wrapper[27271]: Please use "-listenfd" instead.
lug 26 14:10:01 thinkpad kwin_wayland_wrapper[27338]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
lug 26 14:10:01 thinkpad kwin_wayland_wrapper[27338]: > Warning:          Unsupported maximum keycode 708, clipping.
lug 26 14:10:01 thinkpad kwin_wayland_wrapper[27338]: >                   X11 cannot support keycodes above 255.
lug 26 14:10:01 thinkpad kwin_wayland_wrapper[27338]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
lug 26 14:10:08 thinkpad dbus-daemon[2511]: [session uid=1000 pid=2511] Activating via systemd: service name='org.kde.krunner' unit='plasma-krunner.service' requested by ':1.423' (uid=1000 pid=27189 comm="/usr/bin/kwin_wayland --way
land-fd 7 --socket wayl")
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I don’t think that is the reason in my case. That is because I use GNOME and the problem happens in both Wayland and X11 sessions.

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