[ARM Stable Update] 2020-10-27 - KDE Plasma, Firefox, Uboots and Kernels

I’m experiencing graphics artifacting on my Pinebook Pro when I reboot the device. There aren’t any issues when I shutdown normally or hard shutdown, and then startup using the power button. I’m not sure if this happens in other versions since I only just got the device. I flashed the eMMC using manjaro-arm-installer just a few hours ago. The only modification I’ve made is switching Firefox for Chromium.

Here’s a video showcasing the behavior:

System information:

Operating System: Manjaro-ARM
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.76.0
Qt Version: 5.15.1
Kernel Version: 5.9.1-3-MANJARO-ARM
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 6 × 
Memory: 3.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mali T860
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I don’t think it’s the update… Might be the manjaro-arm-installer. I’m having the same problem with my pinebook pro which arrived last week. I flashed manjaro i3 to emmc via manjaro-arm-installer and since then every 2 boots out of 10 is like this… Just submitted a ticket about it and been told that I should disable the emmc and flash android to an sdcard and see if it boots from it. If it doesn’t boot it’s a faulty emmc, if it boots it’s a software issue…

I don’t think it’s a faulty eMMC, since the boot works sometimes.
But i don’t know. I have never experienced this issue on my dev unit.

Hi,

Odroid n2 kde up to date, it works.

[nln2@n2 ~]$ date -u
mer. 28 oct. 2020 13:33:06 UTC
[nln2@n2 ~]$ screenfetch
                             nln2@n2.20.06
                             OS: Manjaro-ARM 20.10
                             Kernel: aarch64 Linux 5.9.0-1-MANJARO-ARM
         #####               Uptime: 3m
        #######              Packages: Unknown
        ##O#O##              Shell: bash 5.0.18
        #######              Resolution: 1920x1080
      ###########            DE: KDE 5.75.0 / Plasma 5.20.1
     #############           WM: KWin
    ###############          GTK Theme: Breeze [GTK2/3]
    ################         Icon Theme: oxygen
   #################         Disk:
 #####################       CPU: Unknown @ 6x 1.992GHz
 #####################       GPU: 
   #################         RAM: 652MiB / 3628MiB
                            
                            
                            
[nln2@n2 ~]$ uname -a
Linux n2.20.06 5.9.0-1-MANJARO-ARM #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 19 08:34:37 +03 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux
[nln2@n2 ~]$ 

I’ve also noticed that the latest version of rkward doesn’t seem able to open files from dolphin. The following output is produced in journalctl:

Oct 28 16:32:21 Scatha systemd[1052]: Started RKWard - GUI for R.
Oct 28 16:32:22 Scatha rkward[52846]: QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "h"
Oct 28 16:32:22 Scatha rkward[52846]: QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "help-all"
Oct 28 16:32:22 Scatha rkward[52846]: QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "v"
Oct 28 16:32:22 Scatha kwin_x11[1113]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 33051, resource id: 106954763, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
Oct 28 16:32:22 Scatha systemd[1052]: app-org.kde.rkward-7b3e087e0ec949f78445b28172c0d2f6.scope: Succeeded.
Oct 28 16:32:22 Scatha kwin_x11[1113]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 33061, resource id: 83886195, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0

Files can still be opened from within rkward.

Updated my Pinebook Pro to Kernel 5.9.1-3-MANJARO-ARM.
Experiencing issues with sleep when “SuspendState=mem”. Pinebook simply does not wake up from sleep, have to hard reset it.

Changing conf to “SuspendState=freeze” solves the issue but I have experienced battery drain with this so it is not an ideal option.

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I’ll second this (Algismo), failed to wake
downgraded to 5.8.14, OK, enters/leaves suspend 3

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For what it’s worth, that reboot issue shows up regardless of whether I boot from the microSD card or eMMC. That being said, I did flash both using manjaro-arm-installer. I flashed the card from my PC so I could flash the eMMC from the Pinebook.

I have never had a failed cold boot from a shutdown, but without fail rebooting causes the artifacting. Maybe I should try an actual image.

Let me know how it goes with an image mate. I’ll write back if I have something new.

The same thing happens on reboot even when I image the card using Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-pbpro-20.10.img, the latest download available. So I don’t think it has to do with the image installer or this version.

I think I found a relevant thread here: Problem with the LCD screen when rebooting Pinebook Pro

For me, starting dolphin freezes entire system. Hard way.

No matter mesa or mesa-git.

I found that firefox with wayland and webrender enabled leads to massive kernel memory leaks. I wonder if it’s the same issue.

I can confirm this. PBP deep sleep will not wake up after update.

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Weirdly, this works again now. Not sure what was wrong before.

EDIT: No, it is still there. Only becomes present after opening and closing rkward.

youtube-dl doesn’t work anymore.

youtube-dl --verbose "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLZgm5k4ak"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLZgm5k4ak']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
[debug] Python version 3.8.6 (CPython) - Linux-5.9.1-3-MANJARO-ARM-aarch64-with-glibc2.17
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.1, ffprobe 4.3.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] BtLZgm5k4ak: Downloading webpage
[youtube] BtLZgm5k4ak: Downloading embed webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract JS player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 532, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 2100, in _real_extract
jsplayer_url_json = self._search_regex(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1010, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract JS player URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

youtube-dl has problem with RIAA, who blew up the bug tracker. How to contact the developer?

I never use youtube-dl from the repo as updates are slow coming around. Mostly my purpose is because things change with youtube that prevent downloading and I get a quick fix.

Uninstall youtube-dl
sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

About once a week I check for an update with:

sudo youtube-dl -U

ADDED:

I just tried and getting the same error and tried to do an update and get something weird so guess the youtube people are working on it.

[ray@ray-pc Desktop]$ sudo youtube-dl -U
ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later.

Not good:

Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/

About: youtube-dl -U: RIAA blew up the original repo!

youtube-dl works on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGVY8ZoW44

It bug on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLZgm5k4ak

It depends on the url…

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I have been getting a lot of that in the past few weeks. I guess they have stopped youtube-dl from circumventing.

Actually kernels 5.9 - 5.9.4 are unusable. The same goes to 5.10-rc1.
With 5.10-rc2 I cannot boot the machine.

Maybe switching off webrender would cure the situation but what is the point of going back.

EDIT: Just compiled 5.9.5 - it has panfrost patch and does not leak !!!