[ARM Unstable Update] 2024-09-15 - Kernels, Mesa, Plasma, LxQt, LibreOffice

ARM Unstable Updates
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Hi ARM Community,

after a long period of time ALARM managed to sync to a more current toolchain with Arch x86 again. Additionally this sync includes also Python 3.12 updates, Plasma 6.1, KDE Frameworks 6.5, KDE Gear 24.08, Gnome 46.1, LxQT 2.0, Systemd 255.6 to name a few.

A full list of updates can be found here. Based on this nature of this update we expect BROKEN INSTALLs and partly NON-BOOTING. If you need a working system and you are on arm-unstable, switch to arm-testing instead or help us to report issues and missing parts on our end, if you’re brave enough. Especially Plasma Mobile might not work, since we didn’t track development of that for months.

Additional Info

Python 3.12 info

:information_source: You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.11.so. :information_source:

Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.11/ :

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11/

Rebuild them all at once:*

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11)

* Note that if any fail to build, you’ll have to rebuild what’s remaining one or a few at a time.

Use rebuild-detector to see if anything else needs to be rebuilt:

checkrebuild
Info about AUR packages

:warning: AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcements topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.

For help with AUR packages, please create a new topic in AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.

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Hi,

Nice to see an unstable update, thanks to the dev’s, keep the good work :-)

Odroid c2 && Odroid c4 && Odroid m1 && Odroid n2 tested on unstable branch, the devices are working well on wayland && x11

hola

I built an unstable image for the Odroid c4

  1. sudo getarmprofiles -f
  2. sudo buildarmimg -d oc4 -e kde-plasma -v 2024.09.15 -b unstable n
  3. I flashed the image (on emmec module) with an old balenaetcher software => balenaEtcher-1.18.11-x64.AppImage, the newer balenaetcher software don’t flash the images, error during the flash proces…
  4. The Odroid c4 boot, no issue during the setting and install process

Only issue, the keyboard I setted during the install process is not present after the install

Odroid c4 details :

[nls@c4 ~]$ fastfetch
██████████████████  ████████    nls@c4
██████████████████  ████████    ------
██████████████████  ████████    OS: Manjaro ARM Linux aarch64
██████████████████  ████████    Host: Hardkernel ODROID-C4
████████            ████████    Kernel: Linux 6.9.3-3-MANJARO-ARM
████████  ████████  ████████    Uptime: 1 min
████████  ████████  ████████    Packages: 796 (pacman)[arm-unstable]
████████  ████████  ████████    Shell: bash 5.2.32
████████  ████████  ████████    Display (RTK FHD): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 24″ [External]
████████  ████████  ████████    DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.5
████████  ████████  ████████    WM: KWin (X11)
████████  ████████  ████████    WM Theme: plastik
████████  ████████  ████████    Theme: Breeze (Light) [Qt], Breeze [GTK2/3/4]
████████  ████████  ████████    Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK2/3/4]
                                Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
                                Cursor: Breeze_Light (24px)
                                Terminal: konsole 24.8.0
                                CPU: Cortex-A55*4 (4) @ 1.91 GHz
                                GPU: Mali-G31 (Panfrost)
                                Memory: 790.93 MiB / 3.58 GiB (22%)
                                Swap: 0 B / 5.37 GiB (0%)
                                Disk (/): 4.90 GiB / 56.79 GiB (9%) - ext4
                                Local IP (eth0): 192.168.1.16/24
                                Locale: en_GB.UTF-8

[nls@c4 ~]$ date -u
dim. 15 sept. 2024 08:48:42 UTC
[nls@c4 ~]$ uname -a
Linux c4 6.9.3-3-MANJARO-ARM #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun  9 20:36:00 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
[nls@c4 ~]$

Right now I test the Odroid c2 ! Report as soon as possible !

I built an unstable image for the Odroid c2

  1. sudo buildarmimg -d oc2 -e kde-plasma -v 2024.09.15 -b unstable n
  2. I flashed the image (on emmec module) with the Raspberry Pi Imager
  3. The Odroid c2 boot, no issue during the setting and install process

Only issue, the keyboard I setted during the install process is not present after the install

Odroid c2 details :

[nls@c2 ~]$ fastfetch
██████████████████  ████████    nls@c2
██████████████████  ████████    ------
██████████████████  ████████    OS: Manjaro ARM Linux aarch64
██████████████████  ████████    Host: Hardkernel ODROID-C2
████████            ████████    Kernel: Linux 6.4.3-1-MANJARO-ARM-ODROID
████████  ████████  ████████    Uptime: 48 seconds
████████  ████████  ████████    Packages: 796 (pacman)[arm-unstable]
████████  ████████  ████████    Shell: bash 5.2.32
████████  ████████  ████████    Display (RTK FHD): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 24″ [External]
████████  ████████  ████████    DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.5
████████  ████████  ████████    WM: KWin (X11)
████████  ████████  ████████    WM Theme: plastik
████████  ████████  ████████    Theme: Breeze (Light) [Qt], Breeze [GTK2/3/4]
████████  ████████  ████████    Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK2/3/4]
                                Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
                                Cursor: Breeze_Light (24px)
                                Terminal: konsole 24.8.0
                                CPU: Cortex-A53*4 (4)
                                GPU: Mali450
                                Memory: 764.09 MiB / 1.88 GiB (40%)
                                Swap: 0 B / 2.81 GiB (0%)
                                Disk (/): 4.76 GiB / 56.78 GiB (8%) - ext4
                                Local IP (end0): 192.168.1.40/24
                                Locale: en_GB.UTF-8

[nls@c2 ~]$ date -u
dim. 15 sept. 2024 09:20:27 UTC
[nls@c2 ~]$ uname -a
Linux c2 6.4.3-1-MANJARO-ARM-ODROID #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 30 20:04:07 UTC 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux

[nls@c2 ~]$

I built an unstable image for the Odroid m1

  1. sudo buildarmimg -d om1 -e kde-plasma -v 2024.09.15 -b unstable n
  2. I flashed the image (on emmc module && ssd disc && nvme disc) with the Raspberry Pi Imager
  3. The Odroid m1 boot, no issue during the setting and install process

Only issue, the keyboard I setted during the install process is not present after the install

Odroid m1 details :

[nls@m1s ~]$ fastfetch
██████████████████  ████████    nls@m1s
██████████████████  ████████    -------
██████████████████  ████████    OS: Manjaro ARM Linux aarch64
██████████████████  ████████    Host: Hardkernel ODROID-M1
████████            ████████    Kernel: Linux 6.9.3-3-MANJARO-ARM
████████  ████████  ████████    Uptime: 5 mins
████████  ████████  ████████    Packages: 947 (pacman)[arm-unstable]
████████  ████████  ████████    Shell: bash 5.2.32
████████  ████████  ████████    Display (RTK FHD): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 24″ [External]
████████  ████████  ████████    DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.5
████████  ████████  ████████    WM: KWin (Wayland)
████████  ████████  ████████    WM Theme: plastik
████████  ████████  ████████    Theme: Breeze (Classic) [Qt], Breeze [GTK2/3/4]
████████  ████████  ████████    Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK2/3/4]
                                Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
                                Cursor: Breeze_Light (24px)
                                Terminal: konsole 24.8.0
                                CPU: Cortex-A55*4 (4) @ 1.99 GHz
                                GPU: Mali-G52 r1 (Panfrost)
                                Memory: 1.16 GiB / 7.27 GiB (16%)
                                Swap: 0 B / 10.91 GiB (0%)
                                Disk (/): 7.11 GiB / 457.91 GiB (2%) - ext4
                                Local IP (end0): 192.168.1.7/24
                                Locale: en_GB.UTF-8
[nls@m1s ~]$ uname -a
Linux m1s 6.9.3-3-MANJARO-ARM #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun  9 20:36:00 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
[nls@m1s ~]$ date -u
dim. 15 sept. 2024 13:08:22 UTC
[nls@m1s ~]$

I built an image for the Odroid n2, test report as soon as possible !

I built an unstable image for the Odroid n2

  1. sudo buildarmimg -d on2 -e kde-plasma -v 2024.09.17 -b unstable n
  2. I flashed the image (on emmc module) with the Raspberry Pi Imager
  3. The Odroid n2 boot, no issue during the setting and install process

issue :

  • The keyboard I setted during the install process is not present after the install
  • I set the device with auto login at boot, but no auto login after the first boot, have to set it in the system settings.

Odroid n2 details :

[nls@n2 ~]$ date -u
mer. 18 sept. 2024 08:02:58 UTC
[nls@n2 ~]$ fastfetch
██████████████████  ████████    nls@n2
██████████████████  ████████    ------
██████████████████  ████████    OS: Manjaro ARM Linux aarch64
██████████████████  ████████    Host: Hardkernel ODROID-N2
████████            ████████    Kernel: Linux 6.9.3-3-MANJARO-ARM
████████  ████████  ████████    Uptime: 54 seconds
████████  ████████  ████████    Packages: 924 (pacman)[arm-unstable]
████████  ████████  ████████    Shell: bash 5.2.32
████████  ████████  ████████    Display (RTK FHD): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 24″ [External]
████████  ████████  ████████    DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.5
████████  ████████  ████████    WM: KWin (X11)
████████  ████████  ████████    WM Theme: plastik
████████  ████████  ████████    Theme: Breeze (Classic) [Qt], Breeze [GTK2/3/4]
████████  ████████  ████████    Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK2/3/4]
                                Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
                                Cursor: Breeze_Light (24px)
                                Terminal: konsole 24.8.0
                                CPU: Cortex-A53*2 + Cortex-A73*4 (6) @ 1.99 GHz
                                GPU: Mali-G52 (Panfrost)
                                Memory: 771.18 MiB / 3.58 GiB (21%)
                                Swap: 0 B / 5.37 GiB (0%)
                                Disk (/): 6.93 GiB / 56.77 GiB (12%) - ext4
                                Local IP (eth0): 192.168.1.50/24
                                Locale: en_GB.UTF-8

[nls@n2 ~]$ uname -a
Linux n2 6.9.3-3-MANJARO-ARM #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun  9 20:36:00 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
[nls@n2 ~]$
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GT King Pro - KDE-Plasma Unstable Branch, upgraded to KDE Plasma 6.1.5-1 and other packages successfully yesterday.

Orange-pi5-plus-KDE-Plasma upgraded successfully.

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The update on a Pinebook Pro seems to work fine.

The only issue is the ongoing issue about wpa_supplicant. That still needs to be downgraded from currently version 2.11 to 2.10.

To do so:

  • download from Manjaro mirror
  • sudo pacman -U wpa_supplicant-2_2.10-8-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz

However this issue is not related to this update, so all seems to be fine :slight_smile:

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GT King Pro-Gnome-Edition-Gnome-46. Was facing some minor visual artifacts on Nautlilus-46.2 on Gnome-Wayland earlier and now found a solution/workaround. It could be related to the new GTK4 which at first I thought was due to mesa.

Solution or workaround for the Nautilus visual artifacts:

Insert GSK_RENDERER=gl into /etc/environment and reboot.

Found a reference reference to new GTK development.

https://blog.gtk.org/2024/01/28/new-renderers-for-gtk/

If you are using GTK on very old hardware, you may be better off with the old GL renderer, since it makes fewer demands on the GPU. You can override the renderer selection using the GSK_RENDERER environment variable:

GSK_RENDERER=gl

Edit: Orange Pi 5 Plus (RK3588) Gnome-46 or Gnome-47 Wayland has NO issue with the new GTK renderer.

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