[ARM Stable Update] 2022-09-11 - Plasma 5.25.5, KDE Gear 22.08, Thunderbird 102, Firefox 104 and Kernels

ARM Stable Updates
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Hello ARM community.

First update after our 22.08 release. Packed with lots of goodies all around!

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Some highlights:

  • Most of our kernels got updated
  • Thunderbird updated to 102.2.0
  • Plasma updated to 5.25.5
  • KDE Gear applications 22.08.1
  • Firefox updated to 104.0.2
  • LibreOffice updated to 7.4.0
  • Plasma Frameworks updated to 5.97.0
  • Lots of updated packages for our Mobile offerings
  • The regular Python updates
  • And regular updates from upstream
How to get Waydroid working

If you follow these steps, you should have Waydroid working fine.

Remember, Waydroid only works on wayland!

  • Install waydroid-image and all it’s dependencies.
  • Run pkexec setup-waydroid.
  • You should now be able to launch Waydroid. The first launch takes a while.
How to use Kodi RPI on Manjaro ARM

If anyone wants to test kodi on the rpi, install these packages:

sudo pacman -S kodi-rpi kodi-rpi-dev kodi-rpi-eventclients kodi-rpi-tools-texturepacker libcec-rpi linux-rpi4 xf86-video-fbdev

Have it set up is to boot straight in to kodi

This means the kodi.service file need to replace whatever login manager you have installed. In my case I would:

sudo systemctl disable lightdm.service
sudo systemctl enable kodi.service

They recommend removing custom configs in config.txt. We ran into an issue if a value was set with gpu_mem=.

My config.txt with a bit of overclocking:

over_voltage=5
arm_freq=2000
#gpu_mem=64     #disable this
initramfs initramfs-linux.img followkernel
kernel=kernel8.img
arm_64bit=1
disable_overscan=1

#enable sound
dtparam=audio=on
hdmi_drive=2

#enable vc4
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,cma-512
#max_framebuffers=2    #disable cause kodi uses more
disable_fw_kms_setup=1

Some notes:

The default user will be kodi
kodi home directory will be /var/lib/kodi
So put test video in /var/lib/kodi/Videos so you can get to it
after setting up the video directory in kodi.

Upstream Notifications:

Older notifications

If you used the Manjaro ARM Installer or is using PinePhone or PineTab, you need to redo your passwords, because of an update to libxcrypt:
Arch Linux - News: Sorting out old password hashes

Chromium will loose sync support in early March:
Arch Linux - News: Chromium losing Sync support in early March

ghostpcl>=9.53.2-2 and ghostxps>=9.53.2-2 updates require manual intervention:
Arch Linux - News: ghostpcl>=9.53.2-2 and ghostxps>=9.53.2-2 updates require manual intervention

The nss and zn_poly packages requires manual intervention:
Arch Linux - News: nss>=3.51.1-1 and lib32-nss>=3.51.1-1 updates require manual intervention
Arch Linux - News: zn_poly 0.9.2-2 update requires manual intervention

The packages hplip and firewalld requires manual intervention:
Arch Linux - News: hplip 3.20.3-2 update requires manual intervention
Arch Linux - News: firewalld>=0.8.1-2 update requires manual intervention

Package changes:

(Sun Sep 11 21:39:07 CEST 2022)

  • arm-stable community aarch64: 1330 new and 1219 removed package(s)
  • arm-stable core aarch64: 75 new and 84 removed package(s)
  • arm-stable extra aarch64: 1166 new and 1169 removed package(s)
  • arm-stable kde-unstable aarch64: 422 new and 422 removed package(s)

See the full package list here

Testers needed on arm-testing branch

We are in need of testers for our arm-testing and arm-unstable branches.
So if you are adventurous and want newer software quicker, we would love for you to help us test out the new packages in arm-testing branch.

All you have to do to switch to this branch is:

  • Run this command to switch branch: sudo pacman-mirrors -aS testing && sudo pacman -Syyu. This will generate a new mirrorlist for you, sync your databases with the new mirror and update your system using the arm-testing branch.

We would then love for you to give feedback in our update posts in #manjaro-arm:arm-testing-updates. That way we can better find and fix bugs, before they hit arm-stable branch. Thank you!

Donation

Please consider supporting Manjaro ARM directly via Patreon, Ko-Fi or Open Collective.
You can also donate to our upstream, which is Arch Linux ARM.

Poll

  • 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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Check if your mirror has already synced:

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Known Issues and Solutions

This is a wiki post, please edit it when you find a solution to an issue you encountered

Before 2022-08-23

Phosh crashes when closing apps

An upstream issue results in the Phosh shell to crash when you close the app in the app switcher, with animations turned off.
Fix: Enable animations in Tweaks application

Before 2022-07-22

Mouse cursor is slow on Raspberry Pi

Due to a change in the Raspberry Pi kernels upstream, they no longer support FKMS. This can result in slow performance when using the FKMS drivers with the newer Raspberry Pi kernels.
Solution: Open /boot/config.txt, change fkms to kms in the dtoverlay line. Save the file and reboot.

Waydroid container cannot access internet

Cause: new default waydroid configuration issue, tracked here.

Short-term Solution:

  1. create /etc/nftables.d/waydroid.nft with the following contents:
#!/usr/sbin/nft -f
table inet filter {
    chain input {
        iifname "waydroid0" accept comment "Allow incoming network traffic from WayDroid"
    }
    chain forward {
        iifname "waydroid0" accept comment "Allow outgoing network traffic from WayDroid"
        ct state {established, related} counter accept comment "accept established connections"
    }
}
  1. any time you launch waydroid, run the following after it has started:
echo "ip route add default via 192.168.250.1" |sudo waydroid shell
Old Issues
Plasma Dialer cannot answer calls

Sadly Plasma Dialer 22.02 has a serious regression with no known workaround. It’s not possible to accept incoming calls. Very sorry about this. Follow the upstream bug report. We will patch the package as soon as a solution is found.

Plasma Mobile - Black screen after update

We are seeing some reports about Plasma Mobile on the PinePhone only showing a black screen after entering the PIN after this update.
Workaround: Downgrade qt5-es2-wayland to 5.15.2+kde+r41 which is now back in Stable and Testing branch repositories.

New Breath theme not applying correctly

With the update to the new Breath theme, a migration package tries to apply the new theme correctly.
However this is not getting done for Plasma’s Lockscreen and the SDDM theme.
So please go through your settings after updating to make sure the themes are correctly applied.
Fix: manjaro-system should take care of this for you.

Plasma Mobile switch to ModemManager

With the PlaMo Gear 21.12 release, Plasma Mobile is now using ModemManager as the telephony stack. So in order to use SIM capabilities, you need to switch from using oFono to ModemManager.
Fix: Run sudo systemctl disable --now ofono ofonoctl && sudo systemctl enable --now ModemManager. You might have to reboot your phone for Plasma Mobile to pick up this change.

Plasma Mobile has does not launch after update
This was caused by an error in kwin 5.23.2 which only affects installs based on openGLES (qt5-es2).
Fix: Update to kwin 5.23.2-1.2 or above.

No ethernet on rk3399 boards
A recent kernel regression has resulted in built in ethernet on rk3399 based boards, such as RockPro64 and Rock Pi 4’s, no longer works on kernel 5.14. This is an upstream issue that has not been fixed yet.
Fix: Update to linux-5.14.1-2 or newer.

Vivaldi no longer working
The issue is present in all chrome based browser (except Chromium that got a patch for it).
It’s an issue with systemd-resolved and has been reported in the Arch Linux Bug Tracker.
Needs to be fixed by Vivaldi updates in the future.
Fix: Vivaldi 4.1.2369.21 fixed this issue.

Modemmanager-pp dependency issue
modemmanager-pp 1.16.10 depends on libqmi-pp and libmbim-pp, but they are no longer found in the repo.
Fixed by updated to modemmanager-pp 1.18rc1+2+ga20f2c05-2.

systemd-hook unsuccesful after pacman 6 update
After the pacman 6 update, updates will create this message in the post-transation hooks part:

Running the command manually works and there has been no issues reported as the result of this. This will either get fixed at some point in Pacman or SystemD.
Should be fixed with pacman-6.0.0-4

Keyring issues
If you have some gpg keyring issues, you can run sudo systemctl start pacman-init.service which will regenerate your keyring. Will take a few minutes to complete.
Should be fixed with manjaro-system-20210716-1

Plasma Mobile no longer boots
The current update to qt5-es2-base results in Plasma Mobile no longer booting, showing a screen that says to run a loginctl command to login.
Fixed by updating to qt5-es2-base-5.15.2+kde+r199-3.1 and qt5-es2-declarative-5.15.2+kde+r28-3.1.

Kwin crashes on startup on Pinebook Pro
This seems to be related to Mesa 20.3 and the Pinebook Pro support in kernel 5.10, as this does not seem to happen on other devices.
It does not impact 3d performance as far as I can tell. Just the OpenGL compositing in Kwin.
Fixed with mesa 20.3.2-2.

My VPN no longer connects
OpenVPN 2.5.0 changed how VPN routes work.
Workaround is to downgrade to previous version (2.4.9):

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/openvpn-2.4.9*

DP Alt Mode no longer works on Pinebook Pro
This is a known issue, the hacky patch we had to enable this has broken in recent kernels.
@tsys and Ayufan are looking into it.
As a workaround you can install linux-pinebookpro again.
FIXED with linux-5.9.12-4 and linux-rc-5.10-rc7-2 and above.

brcm-patchram-plus and pi-blueooth are in conflict
See this post for workaround:
[ARM Testing Update] 2020-11-16 - Bitwarden, Mesa-Git, Pacman and kernels - #10 by Darksky

Plasma Mobile Keyboard
The plasma mobile onscreen keyboard does not work with QT 5.15.0.
This is fixed by updating to kwin 5.19.3-1.1.

PinePhone uboot
This update to the PinePhone Uboot package (2020.04-2), changed how the DTS is loaded from the kernel, since the Kernel DTS for the Pinephone also changed. When doing this update on the PinePhone images from Alpha5 and back, please make this change to the /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf before rebooting:

  • sun50i-a64-pinephone.dtb to sun50i-a64-pinephone-1.2.dtb
  • root=LABEL=ROOT to root=LABEL=ROOT_MNJRO

Manual interventions:
The nss and zn_poly packages prior to version 3.51.1-1 and version 0.9.2-2 respectively, were missing a soname link each. This has been fixed in 3.51.1-1 and 0.9.2-2 of these packages, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any of these errors

nss: /usr/lib/p11-kit-trust.so exists in filesystem
zn_poly: /usr/lib/libzn_poly-0.9.so  exists in filesystem

when updating, use

pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib/p11-kit-trust.so --overwrite /usr/lib/libzn_poly-0.9.so

to perform the upgrade.

Device stopped booting after Uboot update
The uboot update included a change to the extlinux.conf file. This change will be incompatible with the old 1 partition layout of some devices.
So if you are updating installs made with images 20.02.1 or older, you need to apply this fix before rebooting!
To fix this please edit your /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file and add 2 periods in front of each first slash, like so:

KERNEL ../Image
FDT ../dtbs/ #etc.
APPEND initrd=../initramfs-linux.img #etc.

Save the file and reboot.

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@Strit,

Thanks. GT King Pro (Gnome Edition) upgraded to Arm-Stable-2022-09-11.

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Encountered “Warnings”: Is it necessary to rectify this?

( 99/154) upgrading graphviz                                    [##################################] 100%
Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gdk.so.6" - It was found, so perhaps one of its dependents was not.  Try ldd.
Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gtk.so.6" - It was found, so perhaps one of its dependents was not.  Try ldd.
Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gdk.so.6" - It was found, so perhaps one of its dependents was not.  Try ldd.
Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gtk.so.6" - It was found, so perhaps one of its dependents was not.  Try ldd.
(100/154) upgrading grilo
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Updated without issue (Ugoos AM6 plus, KDE plasma, kernel 5.19.8-1-MANJARO-ARM).

Edit: It is also worth mentioning that Manjaro’s KDE plasma is the best out there (by a margin, and I have tried a few).

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Many thanks!

Raspberry 4B-Sway

When editing a connection through nm-connection-editor, multiple instances of nautilus keep opening up.

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Manjaro-Arm-KDE Edition (unstable branch) run very well on GT King Pro and seems to be more responsive than the other linux distro KDE Plasma that I have tested.

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Upgrade was blocked by a dependency for MKVToolNix.

could not satisfy dependencies:

  • unable to satisfy dependency ‘libfmt.so=8-64’ required by mkvtoolnix-cli

I removed it, but I can’t install it anymore after the upgrade (same error).

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What’s the output of pacman -Qi mkvtoolnix-cli ?

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Weird, it says not found.
error: package ‘mkvtoolnix-cli’ was not found

But I can find it with Pamac.

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Okay, and your system is completely up to date now?
In that case, try re-installing it with sudo pacman -Syu mkvtoolnex-cli if you really need that package.
And post the entire output.

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Yes, everything else is up to date.

$ sudo pacman -Syu mkvtoolnix-cli
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libfmt.so=8-64", a dependency of "mkvtoolnix-cli"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      mkvtoolnix-cli

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libfmt.so=8-64' required by mkvtoolnix-cli

I can live without it, as I also have a StarLite Linux laptop, but I always try to use my Pinebook Pro as my main computer.

Moderator edit: In the future, please use proper formatting: [HowTo] Post command output and file content as formatted text

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That very weird. We get that package and it’s dependencies directly from Arch Linux ARM and there it seems to require the correct dependency.

What’s your output of sudo pacman -Si mkvtoolnox-cli?

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$ sudo pacman -Si mkvtoolnix-cli
Repository      : extra
Name            : mkvtoolnix-cli
Version         : 70.0.0-1
Description     : Set of tools to create, edit and inspect Matroska files
Architecture    : aarch64
URL             : https://mkvtoolnix.download/
Licenses        : GPL2
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gcc-libs  glibc  libebml.so=5-64  libfmt.so=8-64  libmatroska.so=7-64  pugixml  qt6-base  libdvdread  libFLAC.so=8-64
                  libogg.so=0-64  libvorbis.so=0-64  zlib
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 4.33 MiB
Installed Size  : 25.62 MiB
Packager        : Arch Linux ARM Build System <builder+seattle@archlinuxarm.org>
Build Date      : Wed Aug 17 18:38:34 2022
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

Moderator edit: In the future, please use proper formatting: [HowTo] Post command output and file content as formatted text

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It doesn’t make sense.
Your’s have a build date of August 17th, while the one in the Arch Linux ARM repo with the exact same version and package number, is built on September 1st. Seems to be an issue with the Arch Linux ARM repo.

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Thanks to KWin 5.25.5, the IMHO most annoying bug on the PinePhone with Plasma Mobile (452967 – kwin_wayland: touch input does not reach GTK or Chromium popup menus (subsurfaces)) is fixed with this update. :+1:

In particular, this also means I can now manage my passwords in (GNOME) Secrets (formerly known as Password Safe). (There was one mandatory popup in the workflow, the choice between “New Entry” and “New Group”, that previously made this unusable under Plasma Mobile.) As long as we do not have a mobile-friendly KWalletManager, Secrets is really the best option for that as far as I can tell.

And, also thanks to this fix, Geary (still the only mobile-friendly e-mail client out there) is now fully functional under Plasma Mobile, e.g., the address autocompletion suggestions can finally be selected, so I no longer have to type the whole e-mail address every time. And I can reply to a mid-thread mail, and lots of other small optional features that require popups.

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The update screwed up my bluetooth; my mouse doesn’t work anymore and, when I click (tap) the enable bluetooth button in the settings, nothing happens. It’s saying “no adaptors available”. I’m on a Pinebook Pro.

Edit: systemctl status bluetooth returned something that said bluetoothd in /usr/lib/bluetooth had a different permissions (755 vs 555) than what was in the configuration file. I was about to look up how to change that, but after restarting the computer, bluetooth worked again. Pretty weird because that was the fourth time I restarted it, trying to see if just doing that would get it working again.

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For me, mkvtoolnix-cli kept the update from happening due to dependency issue. I removed it and the update completed. When I try to install it, (well, actually mkvtoolnix-gui, which depends on mkvtoolnix.cli, I get:

sudo pacman -S mkvtoolnix-gui
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libfmt.so=8-64", a dependency of "mkvtoolnix-cli"
warning: cannot resolve "mkvtoolnix-cli", a dependency of "mkvtoolnix-gui"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      mkvtoolnix-gui

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] y
looking for conflicting packages...
 there is nothing to do

and

sudo pacman -S mkvtoolnix-gui
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libfmt.so=8-64", a dependency of "mkvtoolnix-cli"
warning: cannot resolve "mkvtoolnix-cli", a dependency of "mkvtoolnix-gui"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      mkvtoolnix-gui

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] y
looking for conflicting packages...
 there is nothing to do


[calinb@PBPRO Videos]$ pacman -Si mkvtoolnix-cli
Repository      : extra
Name            : mkvtoolnix-cli
Version         : 70.0.0-1
Description     : Set of tools to create, edit and inspect Matroska files
Architecture    : aarch64
URL             : https://mkvtoolnix.download/
Licenses        : GPL2
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gcc-libs  glibc  libebml.so=5-64  libfmt.so=8-64  libmatroska.so=7-64  pugixml  qt6-base  libdvdread  libFLAC.so=8-64  libogg.so=0-64
                  libvorbis.so=0-64  zlib
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 4.33 MiB
Installed Size  : 25.62 MiB
Packager        : Arch Linux ARM Build System <builder+seattle@archlinuxarm.org>
Build Date      : Wed 17 Aug 2022 09:38:34 AM PDT
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature
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So it look like fmt-9.1.0.1 is installed in this update but mkvtoolnix-cli requires an older version (which doesn’t seem to be in /var/cache/pacman/cache either but I hate how package names and package files names can be different!

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sudo pacman -S libfmt.so
warning: fmt-9.1.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) fmt-9.1.0-1

Total Installed Size:  1.79 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n

ls -tla /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*fmt*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 437028 Sep  1 21:45 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fmt-9.1.0-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    566 Sep  1 21:45 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fmt-9.1.0-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz.sig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 431772 Mar  7  2022 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fmt-8.1.1-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    566 Mar  7  2022 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fmt-8.1.1-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz.sig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 430616 Jan 10  2022 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fmt-8.1.1-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    566 Jan 10  2022 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fmt-8.1.1-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz.sig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 421576 Nov  7  2021 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fmt-8.0.1-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    566 Nov  7  2021 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fmt-8.0.1-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz.sig
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This information from the thread Manjaro ARM Beta27 with Phosh (PinePhone / PinePhonePro) :

may be worth mentioning here.

In other words: Owners of the PinePhone Pro (i.e., not the original PinePhone, which uses the original megapixels package) will probably want to sudo pacman -S megapixels-ppp, in order to get Megapixels to recognize their camera. (This applies independently of the edition, since Megapixels is used on all GUI environments.)

The package was added by this update, as shown in the list below:

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