Multiple issue after doing auto-update. Please help

Hello, I’m running into some weird issues after updating the system 2 days ago after a very long time without using that computer, over a year.

Here are the issues I’m running into:

  1. The Backlight of the keyboard suddenly became really low no matter the setting, it stay the same, don’t get brighter, just turn off at 0, become low at minimum, stay the same until highest setting. I couldn’t find anything on that issue with gnome nor apple & the kde seems unrelated when I look in the terminal.
  2. My Speaker randomly stop working, quick work around I found out was to go into setting>sound, switch between the Built-in Audio & Digital Output to get back to the Built-in Audio then it work again, sometimes the Built-in Audio disappear, in those case I have to run “sudo pulseaudio -vvv” from terminal then reboot for it to come back but it randomly stop working & I have to go back to switching between Built-in & Digital to get sound again…
  3. Wifi suddenly stop working & won’t come back without restarting the computer. I have no clue what to do about it, drivers seems up to date, is it an apple issue? This issue unlike the first two isn’t new, it happened already before the last update.
  4. This one is really weird, not new either, happened before aswell, I looked into shortcut hoping it was it but it didn’t work. When I put my phone next to the touchpad, under the keyboard (below fn, ctrl, alt, cmd) or even just sometime with the palm on my hand going to the space on the keyboard, the computer just suddenly lock itself, would anyone have a clue what could be leading to this? :confused:

Issue 1 & 2 are new, since the update 2 days ago, issue 3 & 4 happened already before.

I’ve read that pipewire & pulse didn’t work well together but I didn’t install either of them, it came with the install, did one got added by the update? In any case I can’t remove either of them because of dependencies it says, so I don’t know…

I’ve been thinking of going with a fresh install of manjaro but honestly, it’s a triple boot, Mac > Windows > Linux, so Linux is always the autoboot, it runs with the Mac boot, if I re-install it’ll break Mac, which lead to a break of Windows & reinstalling Mac then Windows is a real hassle on this… (yes I’ve already gone throught it :confused:)

Here’s the inxi, what else would be needed to help me resolve that issue? I’m looking into the wiki & in topic in the forum but maybe I’m dumb because I can’t find a way to resolve those issue, the workaround I use can only work for so long… Thanks in advance…

inxi -zv8                                                        ✔ 
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.131-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
    root=UUID=83f788f2-2b6f-40d3-9257-93c2398082aa rw quiet splash apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: GNOME v: 47.5 tk: GTK v: 3.24.49 wm: gnome-shell
    tools: gsd-screensaver-proxy dm: GDM v: 47.0 Distro: Manjaro
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro9,2 v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Mac-6F01561E16C75D06
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Apple model: Mac-6F01561E16C75D06 v: MacBookPro9,2
    serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: Apple
    v: 421.0.0.0.0 date: 12/17/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 10.4 Wh (33.0%) condition: 31.5/62.9 Wh (50.2%)
    volts: 11.8 min: 10.9 model: DP bq20z451 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: charging cycles: 3348
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.53 GiB used: 2.53 GiB (16.3%)
  Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
  Array-1: capacity: 16 GiB note: est. slots: 2 modules: 2 EC: None
    max-module-size: 8 GiB note: est.
  Device-1: DIMM0 type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 8 GiB
    speed: 1600 MT/s volts: N/A width: N/A manufacturer: 0x0198
    part-no: 0x393930353432382D3435322E4130304C4620 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: DIMM0 type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 8 GiB
    speed: 1600 MT/s volts: N/A width: N/A manufacturer: 0x0198
    part-no: 0x393930353432382D3133382E4130304C4620 serial: <filter>
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-3210M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge
    gen: core 3 level: v2 built: 2012-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 0x21
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 2 cores: 2 threads: 4 tpc: 2
    smt: enabled cache: L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB
    desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2894 min/max: 1200/3100 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
    governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2894 2: 2894 3: 2894 4: 2894 bogomips: 19961
  Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov
    constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept
    erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida
    lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae
    pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts
    rdrand rdtscp rep_good sep smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
    stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid
    x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  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 mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW;
    STIBP: conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not
    affected
  Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Apple driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-7 process: Intel 22nm built: 2012-13 ports:
    active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3,
    VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Apple FaceTime HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-1.1:3 chip-ID: 05ac:8509
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: Apple 0x9cc5 built: 2009 res: 1280x800 dpi: 114
    gamma: 1.2 chroma: red: x: 0 y: 0 green: x: 0 y: 0 blue: x: 0 y: 0 white:
    x: 0.314 y: 0.329 size: 286x179mm (11.26x7.05") diag: 337mm (13.3")
    ratio: 16:10 modes: 1280x800
  EDID-Warnings: 1: parse_edid: unknown flag 1
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel crocus platforms: device: 0 drv: crocus
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: crocus surfaceless: drv: crocus wayland:
    drv: crocus x11: drv: crocus
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.2 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.1-arch1.2
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB
    GT2) device-ID: 8086:0166 memory: 1.46 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :0.0
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xprop,xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20
    class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.131-1-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: 1.4.1 status: active with: wireplumber
    status: active tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active
    with: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 14e4:16b4 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp1s0f0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme
    driver: wl v: kernel modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4331 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Info: services: mld, NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 22.53 GiB (5.0%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G
    size: 447.13 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: K1B3 scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 50.1 GiB size: 49.01 GiB (97.83%) used: 22.52 GiB (45.9%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A
    uuid: 83f788f2-2b6f-40d3-9257-93c2398082aa
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 477 MiB size: 476.7 MiB (99.94%)
    used: 8.4 MiB (1.8%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: EFI
    uuid: F3BF-1729
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 44.7 GiB fs: apfs label: N/A
    uuid: f1b93964-bad1-45e5-8e4f-fe991d6e2b6f
  ID-2: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 150.9 GiB fs: ntfs label: BOOTCAMP
    uuid: 34F5EE1202469FF7
  ID-3: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 200.96 GiB fs: exfat label: Data
    uuid: 64D4-8FAC
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:0024
    class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1.1:3 info: Apple FaceTime HD Camera type: video
    driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 500mA chip-ID: 05ac:8509 class-ID: 0e02
    serial: <filter>
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:0024
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 2-1.8:3 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) 2.0 Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 2mA
    chip-ID: 0424:2513 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-1.8.2:4 info: Apple Built-in IR Receiver type: HID
    driver: appleir,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.0 power: 100mA chip-ID: 05ac:8242 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: 2-1.8.3:5 info: Apple Internal Keyboard/Trackpad (ISO)
    type: keyboard,HID,mouse driver: apple,bcm5974,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 40mA
    chip-ID: 05ac:0253 class-ID: 0301
  Hub-6: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Yubicom Yubikey 4/5 OTP+U2F+CCID
    type: keyboard,HID,smart card driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 30mA
    chip-ID: 1050:0407 class-ID: 0b00
  Hub-7: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0
    speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 88.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1350 libs: 381 tools: gnome-software,pamac
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    1: https://mirrors.manjaro.org/repo/stable/$repo/$arch
    2: https://mirror.vinehost.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    3: https://mirror.zetup.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    4: https://coresite.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    5: https://mirror.xenyth.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    6: https://muug.ca/mirror/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    7: https://mirror.ufam.edu.br/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    8: https://gsl-syd.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 231
  1: cpu: 99.5% command: pipewire pid: 1912 mem: 10.7 MiB (0.0%)
  2: cpu: 27.0% command: localsearch-extractor-3 pid: 3330
    mem: 31.1 MiB (0.1%)
  3: cpu: 5.1% command: firefox pid: 2198 mem: 433.6 MiB (2.7%)
  4: cpu: 3.4% command: firefox pid: 2420 mem: 296.3 MiB (1.8%)
  5: cpu: 3.2% command: gnome-shell pid: 1422 mem: 297.0 MiB (1.8%)
  Memory top: 5 of 231
  1: mem: 433.6 MiB (2.7%) command: firefox pid: 2198 cpu: 5.1%
  2: mem: 297.0 MiB (1.8%) command: gnome-shell pid: 1422 cpu: 3.2%
  3: mem: 296.3 MiB (1.8%) command: firefox pid: 2420 cpu: 3.4%
  4: mem: 249.4 MiB (1.5%) command: firefox pid: 2441 cpu: 0.3%
  5: mem: 208.1 MiB (1.3%) command: firefox pid: 2424 cpu: 0.2%
Info:
  Processes: 231 Power: uptime: 28m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 6.2 GiB services: gsd-power,
    power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
    tool: systemctl
  Compilers: clang: 19.1.7 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
    running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.37
aplay -L                                                     INT ✘ 
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
lavrate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Libav/FFmpeg Library
samplerate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Samplerate Library
speexrate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler
jack
    JACK Audio Connection Kit
oss
    Open Sound System
pipewire
    PipeWire Sound Server
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
speex
    Plugin using Speex DSP (resample, agc, denoise, echo, dereverb)
upmix
    Plugin for channel upmix (4,6,8)
vdownmix
    Plugin for channel downmix (stereo) with a simple spacialization
default
    Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH, CS4206 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CS4206 Analog
    Front output / input
surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CS4206 Analog
    2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CS4206 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CS4206 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CS4206 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CS4206 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CS4206 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, CS4206 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=1
    HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 1
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=2
    HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 2
    HDMI Audio Output
usbstream:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH
    USB Stream Output
mhwd-kernel -li                                                  ✔ 
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