Blender don't start after upgrade

I was using blender 3.6.2 without any problems, today I updated my system and the application has been updated to the 3.6.4 ver. When I try to open the application it says:

blender                                                                                 ✔  8s  
Read prefs: "/home/denielton/.config/blender/3.6/config/userpref.blend"
Writing: /tmp/blender.crash.txt
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  blender

Inside /tmp/blender.crash.txt:

# Python backtrace

I thought the problem could be related to my userpref.blend file, but after deleting the file the problem persist.

blender                                                                                   SEGV ✘ 
Writing: /tmp/blender.crash.txt
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  blender

I tried to downgrade back to 3.6.2, but now when I try to open the application it says:

blender                                                                                    127 ✘ 
blender: error while loading shared libraries: libIex-3_1.so.30: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

My specs:

inxi -Fxz                                                                                  127 ✘ 
System:
  Kernel: 6.3.13-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.1.1
    Desktop: GNOME v: 44.4 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450M-GAMING/BR v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2006
    date: 11/13/2019
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ rev: 2
    cache: L1: 576 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1906 high: 2800 min/max: 1550/3400 boost: enabled cores:
    1: 2800 2: 1550 3: 2787 4: 1550 5: 1376 6: 1550 7: 2672 8: 1269 9: 2796
    10: 1550 11: 1424 12: 1550 bogomips: 81467
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4 bus-ID: 08:00.0
    temp: 51.0 C
  Device-2: A4Tech REDRAGON Live Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    bus-ID: 3-4:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.0 driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
    resolution: 1920x1080~74Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.6-3 renderer: AMD Radeon RX 570 Series
    (polaris10 LLVM 16.0.6 DRM 3.52 6.3.13-2-MANJARO) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
    vendor: XFX Pine driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.1
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 0a:00.3
  Device-3: FIFINE Microphones K670 Microphone
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB bus-ID: 1-1:2
  Device-4: A4Tech REDRAGON Live Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    bus-ID: 3-4:3
  API: ALSA v: k6.3.13-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.79 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000
    bus-ID: 07:00.0
  IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 1-4:4
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
    lmp-v: 10
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 314.13 GiB (70.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 438.75 GiB used: 314.13 GiB (71.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 16.29 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile1
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 51.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1108
Info:
  Processes: 360 Uptime: 13m Memory: total: 24 GiB available: 23.4 GiB
  used: 4.2 GiB (18.0%) Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
  Packages: 1427 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 inxi: 3.3.29

Thank you for your attention!

You’re on AMD graphics, so in order to use blender you need mesa-nonfree, which you can find here.

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I’ll try this, mate! It’s kinda strange for me because 3.6.2 was working just fine before update.

Yeah, there was a recent change in blender which now requires this on AMD graphics.

I’m on Intel graphics and here blender starts normally without mesa-nonfree. And I suppose the Nvidia users with proprietary drivers won’t need it either.

Working perfectly now! Thank you so much.

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