Now remove any customisation and custom scripts from AUR - remove those packages, reboot and rerun the sync from command line using a up-to-date mirror and pacman.
Pay attention to any messages and challenges to replace packages …
Just tried this, but it seems to have the exact same issues, unfortunatly. I used the default Manjaro Breath theme, and haven’t customized much besides that
removed all kde customizations (a few kwin scripts and that was it), no AUR packages installed and resynced the mirrors, but still having the exact same issue
Around the end of November 2023, Kdenlive stopped working and Kate too on Gnome kernel 6.1.
Today, I updated, hoping an update will fix the Kdenlive issue.
The system was broken. Terminal opened slowly. I can’t make my wifi USB driver anymore, it freezes up. Timeshift to the rescue.
The Manjaro (and Kdenlive) communities have not been helpful. On reddit my extensive post got banned because I was slightly salty. I think it was “arch keyring is b*tching” that some soyboy could not handle.
A month of troubleshooting and support posting and reading, still no video editor.
I’ll head over to my dual boot Windows now, so I can continue my much needed video editing, and install another distro in the near future in all likelihood.
I just hope this unreliability isn’t the standard in Linux.
Here’s the output of checkupdates.
Note, KDE apps (Kdenlive & Kate) are already broken.
Besides that, the system runs fine.
Once I run the update, it’s game over.
Are you still using the .appImage version of Kdenlive?; the one you were informed (in your previous thread) was broken in all arch-based distributions?
Indeed, informing you of the Kdenlive .appImage compatibility should be considered very helpful. It has been your choice to continue using it despite the information given, and your responsibility; please, don’t put the blame on the Manjaro community, or others, for your own apparent ignorance.
It was not an attack on you; moreover, a defense of the Manjaro community. Perhaps you would be best served remaining with Windows for your video editing needs.
Aside;- I’m not sure that the video card; especially with the older unsupported drivers, is ideal for your needs. I presume you have better capability on the multiboot system; which again, may be better suited.
On the topic of ‘updates breaking stuff’, well, things do seem to break sometimes, but experience has shown it’s rarely an update that does it. Rather a consequence of the update and how it affects a pre-existing condition; usually user-induced.
If there is a choice between installing any package from the official repo’s, or somewhere else… the ‘somewhere else’ is seldom more reliable.
Incidentally, the last few updates (at least for me) haven’t resulted in any perceived breakages. Yes, I use video editing packages, and much more; the main differences are that I use KDE (on Wayland), AMD graphics (amdgpu), and am cautious about the packages I introduce to the environment. Some might argue I’m too cautious, at times; and yet, I have a stable system with a great record of uptime.
I did a fresh install with a Manjaro Gnome 6.5 kernel iso, tried Kdenlive appimage, and it worked.
Then I did an update without touching the GPU stuff, and I was back in the same predicament. That cuts out a lot of user-induced problems.
I can’t remember if I tried the package manager and AUR route at the time. I assume I did not, which I find unfortunate now.
The installation process didn’t go smooth as described in this comment I made today.
Regardless, remember, Kdenlive worked after plowing through the installation. Only after updating, it stopped working.
I’ve done all I can do to give clues to what could be going on. I certainly don’t know.
This is an old laptop but it works fine. 2.7 GHz quad core does the job without me having to wait all day. Sure, a newer laptop would be nice, but that’s for later.
@wongs No, it means I did not open Manjaro Settings and execute an Auto-install proprietary drivers.
@wtechgo you can get today’s build of stable branch ISO and just install kdelive in the live-session to check if everything works with the latest package updates. This way you don’t change your internal installation at all: Release 202312100136 · manjaro/release-review · GitHub
That user is also this user, with an alternate account.
You hadn’t mentioned it was a laptop; I imagine that only compounds the complication. Is this laptop also the Windows multiboot system you mentioned? I took it to mean you had a separate multiboot system.
It’s a laptop with Intel-Nvidia hybrid, meaning an Intel GPU and a dedicated Nvidia GPU, hence Bumblebee390.
It’s a multiboot install on an SSD of 512GB with two partitions, one for Windows (first) and one for Linux, as recommended and executed by Manjaro iso install process, a long time ago.