[ARM Unstable Update] 2023-10-24: Phosh, Phoc, Gnome 45.1, Kodi, KDE-git

philm · 24 October 2023 08:18

Hi ARM Community,

we updated some of our packages and synced again with ALARM.

Here some highlights:

Phosh and Phoc overlays are now dropped and we adapt ALARM packages
More updates to Gnome 45.1
Some fixes to RasberryPi 4 and 5 kernels
Kodi-RPI should work again
more Python2 packages got dropped
regular KDE-git package updates

Report any issues you may have with this. Thx.

Darksky · 24 October 2023 13:29

For some reason okular is not getting pulled in with the upstream sync’s in unstable. It has been in ARCH-ARM’s repo since October 12th at v23.08.2-1. We seem to be stuck at v23.04.3-1. This upgraded package is now needed in our unstable and testing branches because of the recent KDE5 renaming.

http://nj.us.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/aarch64/extra/

[ray@jellyfin ~]$ sudo pacman -S okular
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "kpty", a dependency of "okular"
warning: cannot resolve "kactivities", a dependency of "okular"
warning: cannot resolve "threadweaver", a dependency of "okular"
warning: cannot resolve "kparts", a dependency of "okular"

Alone the same lines with the KDE5 renaming our pamac-tray-icon-plasma package needs a rebuild to be compatible. This is now needed in our unstable and testing branches.

Also our sddm-breath-theme package in our unstable and testing branches will not upgrade because of the KDE5 renaming. There was some discussion a while back with kvantum being discontinued a while back with x86 and some packages at that time was upgraded on the ARM side so there could be some upgrades but this package was left out. If kvantum is discontinued almost all of our ARM images will have to be redone.

philm · 24 October 2023 13:33

@Darksky you can always perform a sync to get latest packages from ALARM into our mirrors …

Darksky · 24 October 2023 15:37

With more investigating the reason okular was not upgrading is we were building our own package apparently for mobile compatibility. I have built and pushed our okular package to the unstable and testing branches when the mirrors sync.

okular 23.08.2-2

Rip2 · 24 October 2023 19:53

some package won’t update anymore, should remove.
e.g. hyprland & xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, gcc-12 issue.

philm · 25 October 2023 06:37

Be more specific @Rip2

Rip2 · 25 October 2023 07:41

build gcc-13 only, had try clang but failed.

philm · 25 October 2023 08:21

Still don’t get what you want to achieve here …

JFL · 26 October 2023 15:28

GT King Pro Manjaro-Arm-Gnome-linux-aml-6.1.58-1. Upgraded successfully to Arm-Unstable-2023-10-24.

BRX7 · 3 November 2023 09:03

I need to raise an issue, the latest unstable update for the rpi4 firmware broken my realvnc server

the files from opt/vc/lib are gone

please see this issue

github.com/azalinux/realvnc-server-aarch64-manjaro

rpi firmware 20231102 breakage

opened 09:58PM - 02 Nov 23 UTC

br6

I just upgraded to the firmware from 2023-11-02 and I think its broken my realvn…c install xfce Manjaro on unstable branch rpi4. this is an output of the following ldd /usr/bin/vncserver-x11-core linux-vdso.so.1 (0x0000ffffa0104000) libbcm_host.so.0 => not found libvcos.so.0 => not found libvchiq_arm.so.0 => not found libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0000ffff9fa50000) librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1 (0x0000ffff9fa30000) libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x0000ffff9fa10000) libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x0000ffff9f960000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0000ffff9f930000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x0000ffff9f770000) /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 => /usr/lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 (0x0000ffffa00cb000) I think its only after the update to the rpi4 firmware?, I did mess around with mesa and installing from aur, the desktop loads up fine. glxinfo is fine

any plans to fix it on unstable ? or will things move away from the old raspberrypi-utils

Darksky · 3 November 2023 09:28

RPi was using their own API and recently discontinued using it in favor of the regular libs under /usr/lib/. Try rebuilding the realvnc server package from AUR and see if it will build using the regular system libs. Otherwise there may have to be some coding changes in their coding. Since it is an AUR package there is not much that can be done as far as manjaro or arch upstream packaging.

https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland/blob/master/README.md

Added:

Looking at the PKGBUILD they are repackaging .deb’s. You may have to wait for realvnc to update unless you built the package your self from source.

Kevin_Kofler · 3 November 2023 10:24

Well, the /opt thing is a hack done in the third-party package you linked to:

github.com

azalinux/realvnc-server-aarch64-manjaro/blob/main/realvnc-vnc-server.install#L3


      
          post_install() {
              
              ln -s /opt/vc/lib/libvcos.so /usr/lib/libvcos.so.0
              ln -s /opt/vc/lib/libvchiq_arm.so /usr/lib/libvchiq_arm.so.0
              ln -s /opt/vc/lib/libbcm_host.so /usr/lib/libbcm_host.so.0
              
              vncinitconfig --install-defaults
              echo 'To use VNC Connect, visit https://www.realvnc.com/en/products/vnc/#licensing for a subscription.'
               
          }
          
          post_remove() {
              rm -fv /usr/bin/vncserver

(a really ugly hack at that, because it overwrites system libraries!). So removing that part (or switching to the realvnc-vnc-server package from AUR that does not have this snippet) might fix it, though you may have to reinstall the packages providing the libraries that were overwritten.

Or you could try using a VNC server that is actually Free Software. There are a few of those. RealVNC is proprietary, binary-only software which is being repackaged from .deb packages intended for Debian and/or Ubuntu, so if the underlying system libraries change, there is very little that can be done to fix RealVNC to work with the new ones.