After a recent update, KDE is constantly redrawing? and glitching

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I just did confirmed that the current in the repos breaks my KDE:

 mvanorde@mvanorde-manjaro   ~   master ●  grep mesa /var/log/pacman.log|tail
[2020-10-06T15:08:18-0400] [ALPM] upgraded libva-mesa-driver (20.1.6-1 -> 20.1.8-1)
[2020-11-04T18:21:10-0500] [ALPM] upgraded mesa (20.1.8-1 -> 20.2.1-1)
[2020-11-04T18:21:42-0500] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-libva-mesa-driver (20.1.8-1 -> 20.2.1-1)
[2020-11-04T18:21:43-0500] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-mesa (20.1.8-1 -> 20.2.1-1)
[2020-11-04T18:21:47-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libva-mesa-driver (20.1.8-1 -> 20.2.1-1)
[2020-11-12T15:54:35-0500] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -U mesa-20.1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst'
[2020-11-12T15:54:42-0500] [ALPM] downgraded mesa (20.2.1-1 -> 20.1.8-1)
[2020-11-12T16:36:29-0500] [ALPM] upgraded mesa (20.1.8-1 -> 20.2.1-1)
[2020-11-12T16:38:36-0500] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -U mesa-20.1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst'
[2020-11-12T16:38:39-0500] [ALPM] downgraded mesa (20.2.1-1 -> 20.1.8-1)

The timestamp 2020-11-12T16:36:29-0500 was from running:

sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu

Immediately following, I restarted plasmashell and got the same symptoms:

kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell

Re-downgraded and restarted plasmashell once more, and everything is stable again.

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Remember you can always use the downgrade tool or, ex

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mesa-20.2.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

to downgrade/reinstall packages that are already in your cache.


PS … I prefer this for restarting plasma without logging out:

qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure; kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell > /dev/null 2>&1

(should make sure to apply config changes, and points the output at /dev/null to not fill the terminal)

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I’m also on VMware, and I tried with mesa-git and it’s working. Hopefully it reaches bugfix release for mesa. I really don’t like running git packages.

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I find that if reinstall manjaro kde and upgrade, although mesa version is 20.2.1-1, is still work well.
And I find the different is
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It’s looks like when use llvm can work, but I don’t know how change svga to llvm

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