Gnome broken after pamac update Oct 3

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Last update broke Gnome.

I ran ‘pamac update’ on Oct 3; I didn’t realize this installed ‘testing’ updates, but it seems that’s what I got since Firefox 131 is now installed. After the update, gnome-shell itself runs fine, but starting any application crashes gnome-shell with the fullscreen ‘Something has gone wrong’. Happens with any app I’ve tried, even xterm.

As far as I’m aware, this is completely vanilla (Manjaro) Gnome; I’ve never installed or enabled any extensions.

Any suggestions appreciated. I installed Openbox, so at least I have a working system, but I’d really like to get my Gnome back.

I don’t see anyone else mentioning a similar problem; hopefully future updates will resolve this.

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This is the testing branch thread, if unsure what branch you are on run:

pacman-mirrors

It will output version, mirrorstatus and branch. If you are on testing branch and this was not the intention and if testing feels uncomfortable, switching to stable is an option by running
sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch stable --interactive to choose stable mirrors.
If this for some reason not result in valid mirrors, reset the mirrors with
sudo pacman-mirrors -c all and run the above command again.

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pacman-mirrors shows stable branch. Does it matter that I used ‘pamac’ to do the update? The versions listed in the pacman log, and in ‘pamac info’, don’t seem to match what’s shown in the annouce threads for either stable or testing.

At any rate, should I repost under the ‘stable’ thread?

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I’ve moved your posts into their own thread.

What does a sync look like?

sudo pacman -Syu

General system info may be helpful.

inxi -Farz
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$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for xxx: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra                   7.9 MiB  8.79 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

#################

$ inxi -Farz
System:
  Kernel: 6.10.11-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.10-x86_64
    root=UUID=7ffdbc94-0b65-4d43-b09e-651ee23f0006 rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor resume=UUID=5d0488cf-ab8c-4fba-9ffe-411c93ba981e
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Openbox v: 3.6.1 vt: 2 dm: GDM v: 46.2 Distro: Manjaro
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 330 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0KP561 serial: <superuser required>
    uuid: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A03 date: 02/19/2008
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Pentium Dual E2160 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core2 Merom
    level: v1 built: 2006-09 process: Intel 65nm family: 6 model-id: 0xF (15)
    stepping: 0xD (13) microcode: 0xA4
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache:
    L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 1x1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1496 high: 1796 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 1197 2: 1796
    bogomips: 7184
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
  Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode;
    SMT disabled
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; STIBP: disabled; RSB filling;
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-4 process: Intel 65n built: 2006-07 ports:
    active: VGA-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:29c2
    class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2 driver: X:
    loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: i915
    gpu: i915 display-ID: :1 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: VGA-1 mapped: VGA1 model: Acer P235H serial: <filter>
    built: 2009 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2
    size: 520x290mm (20.47x11.42") diag: 598mm (23.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo is missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:27d8
    class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.10.11-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.3 status: off with: pipewire-media-session
    status: active tools: pw-cli
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active with: 1: pulseaudio-alsa
    type: plugin 2: pulseaudio-jack type: module tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetLink BCM5787 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express vendor: Dell
    driver: tg3 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A
    bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:169b class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 149.14 GiB (16.0%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 1A02 scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 923.22 GiB size: 907.65 GiB (98.31%)
    used: 148.7 GiB (16.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
    compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.29 GiB used: 457 MiB (5.4%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1517 libs: 460 tools: gnome-software,pamac,yay
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    1: https://cofractal-ewr.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    2: https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    3: https://mirrors.cicku.me/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    4: https://volico.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    5: https://irltoolkit.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    6: https://mirror.zetup.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    7: https://mirror.init7.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    8: http://mirror.is.co.za/mirrors/manjaro.org/stable/$repo/$arch
Info:
  Memory: total: 4 GiB available: 3.75 GiB used: 1.89 GiB (50.3%)
  Processes: 172 Power: uptime: 2d 20h 38m states: freeze,standby,mem,disk
    suspend: deep avail: s2idle,shallow wakeups: 5 hibernate: platform
    avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 1.49 GiB
    services: power-profiles-daemon,upowerd Init: systemd v: 256
    default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.32
    running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.36

Can’t run it under Gnome to get that desktop info.

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PS: Thanks for your help!

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The community repo is no longer active. solution

From the announcement thread:
Note: Do not forget to review your .pacnew files:

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Thanks so much for having a look. I moved the pacman.conf.pacnew to pacman.conf, and pamac -Syu no longer lists ‘community’, so that’s a step up.

More importantly, applying today’s stable updates fixed the issue. Yay! Openbox is nice, and I’ll keep it as an alternative, but overall, I’m happy with Gnome.

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Nor have you performed any required maintenance, it seems.

I see @Hanzel has done his best to introduce you to .pacnew files, however, I’m not certain you fully understood:

While the community repo is now gone, and you had success in this instance, .pacnew files should not always be moved to replace the file in your system – sometimes they need to be carefully merged instead.

This is especially true when a file already has settings you wish to keep, for example. There are likely many more .pacnew files apart from the one you attended to.

If I haven’t misjudged the situation, I recommend you research the topic to a greater depth; your system stability might depend on it.

Cheers.

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Ok. Thanks for the reminder.

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