[Stable Update] 2020-11-27 - Kernels, Browsers, Maui-Apps, Pamac 10.0-Beta, Gnome, Mesa, Qt

Hello community,

Another stable branch update with some usual updates for you!


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  • Most of our Kernels got renewed
  • Pamac has a new beta you may want to try out
  • Some more fixes to our Gnome packages
  • Qt got updated to 5.15.2
  • Lot of our Browsers got refreshed
  • Maui-Apps are now part of our regular upstream packages
  • Mesa is at 20.2.3

If you like following latest Plasma development you may also like to check out our current version of manjaro-kde-dev, which we build on a regular basis against kde-git master packages. Also check out our latest Manjaro Nibia 20.2 release candidate! KDE, XFCE and Gnome


Our current supported kernels

  • linux44 4.4.246
  • linux49 4.9.246
  • linux414 4.14.209
  • linux419 4.19.160
  • linux54 5.4.80
  • linux57 5.7.19 [EOL]
  • linux58 5.8.18 [EOL]
  • linux59 5.9.11
  • linux510 5.10-rc5
  • linux54-rt 5.4.78_rt44
  • linux59-rt 5.9.1_rt19

Packages Changes (Fri Nov 27 00:48:40 CET 2020)

  • stable community x86_64: 1185 new and 1149 removed package(s)
  • stable core x86_64: 24 new and 24 removed package(s)
  • stable extra x86_64: 363 new and 356 removed package(s)
  • stable multilib x86_64: 18 new and 18 removed package(s)

A detailed list of all changes can be found here.

  • No issue, everything went smoothly
  • Yes there was an issue. I was able to resolve it myself.(Please post your solution)
  • Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)

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Known issues and solutions

For TL3s and up: This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary.
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CUPS update need manual intervention

After you update your system, update your systemd services like this:

sudo systemctl disable --now org.cups.cupsd.socket
sudo systemctl disable --now org.cups.cupsd.service
sudo systemctl disable --now org.cups.cupsd.path
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.service
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.socket
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.path

[Edit according to @banjo’s advice.]

nvidia-450xx-utils and nvidia-440xx-utils are in conflict

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  • If you get the following error message:

    resolving dependencies...
    looking for conflicting packages...
    :: nvidia-450xx-utils and nvidia-440xx-utils are in conflict (nvidia-libgl). Remove nvidia-440xx-utils? [y/N] y
    error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
    :: unable to satisfy dependency 'nvidia-440xx-utils=440.100' required by linux54-nvidia-440xx
    :: removing nvidia-440xx-utils breaks dependency 'nvidia-440xx-utils=440.100' required by linux58-nvidia-440xx
    

Warning: do not reboot until this procedure tells you to starting from the next step!

  • Please note the exact nVidia driver you have running by executing:

    mhwd --listinstalled
    
  • Please note the kernel(s) you’ve got installed and remove anything 440-related, including CUDA by executing:

    pamac remove nvidia-440xx-utils linuxZZ-nvidia-440xx cuda nvtop
    

    where ZZ is/are the kernel version(s) you’re running.

  • Repeat for all the kernel versions you have

    How do I know which kernel versions I have?
    • execute ls /boot/linux*
    • any nulber after linux before the - (minus sign) are the kernel(s) you have installed
  • If you would have any other old nVidia drivers that you don’t need any more because your card is supported by the 450 series get rid of them as well.

  • now install the same family of 450 driver you had for the 440 driver, by executing:

    mhwd --install pci Your450Family
    

    where Your450Family is obviously one of video-hybrid-amd-nvidia-440xx-prime OR video-nvidia-440xx that you noted above

  • And finally:

    sudo reboot
    

If this would not have solved your issue, please open a new issue here and state that you followed this procedure already.


Warning: directory permissions differ on /var/lib/dhcpcd/

followed by:

filesystem: 700 package: 755

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  • The solution:

    sudo chmod 755 /var/lib/dhcpcd/
    
  • The explanation:
    The DHCP Daemon expects the security permissions to be 755 but your system is set to 700. This is just a warning (today) but to ensure you remain up-to-date with the latest and greatest security rules it’s advised to execute the above command.


virtualbox NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)

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  • The solution:
  1. You need to add your user back into the virtualbox user group

    sudo usermod --append --groups vboxusers $USER
    

    (Change $USER to the correct user name if not for yourself)

  2. Upgrade the VirtualBox extension pack to the latest version by executing:

    pamac build virtualbox-ext-oracle
    

PAM and PAMBASE got updated, which might prevent you from login

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Due to updates from pambase and pam you might take care about any .pacnew files in /etc/pam.d as for example pam_tally, pam_tally2 and pam_cracklib got deprecated. Read in the ArchWiki about managing those files.

Typical issue:

For recovery, it is enough to boot with kernel option “systemd.unit=rescue.target”, then proceed into /etc/pam.d and merge “system-auth” and “system-auth.pacnew”


Bad font rendering after freetype2 upgrade

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There were some changes in the freetype2 version 2.10.3 which enable subpixel rendering.
This might look ugly without enabling lcdfilter at the same time.

You can create a symlink in /etc/fonts/conf.d/ to enable “lcddefault” as filter.

sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/


Older Issues

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System takes a long time to boot

If you’ve got errors like Failed to start Network Manager Wait Online. you can try removing systemd from passwd and group in /etc/nsswitch.conf as described here
Update: If you can see the line
dbus-daemon[1453]: [system] Connection has not authenticated soon enough, closing it (auth_timeout=30000ms, elapsed: 45146ms)
in in your dbus log ( journalctl -b -u dbus ), the new/better workaround is to switch cups from service to socket as described here:
systemctl disable org.cups.cupsd.service
systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.socket

I think I’ve some font problems

With the update of fontconfig some major rules how fonts get applied changed. Make sure that your system has ttf-dejavu installed. A more in depth explanation can be found here.

Gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell is currently incompatible with wayland

… and causes the system to freeze when the first window is tiled and can render it unbootable. Solution is a hard reset and disabling either pop shell or wayland. If the system becomes unbootable, use a live USB to edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf to disable wayland and reboot.

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Update went fine on three computers:
1 * KDE Plasma (kernel 5.4 and 4.19)
2 * XFCE (1 * kernel 5.4/4.19 and 1 * kernel 4.19 and 4.14)

Thanks!
:star_struck:

Have I to do this before or after the update?

After the update. Before you have the old paths.

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Good, thank you very much!! :grinning:

Update in plasma , all OK.

The XFCE link is bad (does not exist)

Its still being uploaded

EDIT: Its Uploaded now

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Update on Gnome OK

I voted incorrectly and don’t know how to rescind it. Everything went smoothly. Thx. :wink:

I had a minor problem, pulseaudio-equalizer did not appear in Application menu. I resolved by installing pulseaudio-equalizer-LADSPA plugin. Thanks good job Phil!

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Issue with Cockpit 233.1-1
Docker containers error with a red “Ooops” in the top right corner of the browser.
It seems jquery.js is missing in /usr/share/cockpit/base1/
Copying the jquery.js file manually in that folder solves the issue.

Pulseaudio update fixed my problem. Headphone is automatically is muted when I plug it. Thank you.

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Problem with LibreOffice-fresh 7.0.3-2. I can’t launch LibreOffice-fresh 7.0.3-2 under Manjaro Gnome 20.2-rc3 with Wayland. Openjdk 8 installed.

Here are the errors I’ve got (LibreOffice launched in the terminal):

Fatal exception: Signal 11
Stack:
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3e424)[0x7f5114ed1424]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3e5ac)[0x7f5114ed15ac]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x3d6a0)[0x7f5114be86a0]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_cppu.so.3(+0x1486d)[0x7f51142f086d]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_cppu.so.3(+0x14b54)[0x7f51142f0b54]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libutllo.so(+0x6338b)[0x7f5111e9a38b]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libutllo.so(+0x63f26)[0x7f5111e9af26]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libutllo.so(_ZN3utl10ConfigItemC2ERKN3rtl8OUStringE14ConfigItemMode+0x81)[0x7f5111e91da1]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libutllo.so(+0xaeb84)[0x7f5111ee5b84]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libutllo.so(_ZN19SvtSysLocaleOptionsC1Ev+0x12e)[0x7f5111ee709e]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvcllo.so(_Z7InitVCLv+0x1bd)[0x7f5111a73f5d]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvcllo.so(_Z10ImplSVMainv+0x106)[0x7f5111a758c6]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libsofficeapp.so(soffice_main+0xa8)[0x7f5114e04798]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin(+0x102e)[0x55bb90bff02e]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf2)[0x7f5114bd3152]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin(+0x106e)[0x55bb90bff06e]

Note: Unoconv installed but after that I uninstalled it. I uninstalled libreoffice and java components, and install again but I have still the errors.

Thanks.

Xfce, kernel 4.14.
All fine as usual. This update also bringed qt5-base 5.15.2-1 which has solved this problem: Qt5-base package: QMovie: "Unable to read image data"

For the rest, now, I noticed that the haveged service, randomly on startups (doesn’t happen every time) print this warning in the journal log:

systemd[233]: haveged.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/sbin/haveged: No such file or directory

But such file exists indeed, and despite such warning, haveged starts and works as expected.

…is not sufficient : one also need to start them (or to restart computer as I did :wink: )

apart this point, everything was smooth, thanks for all this ! :clap:

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hi there,

it seems since the update I can’t reconnect my bluetooth device, eg: Headphones, Xbox Controller, etc. I says connected, but then keep reconnecting…

Anybody knows how to solve this?

The update was ok
But still experiencing No bluetooth on kernel 5.9
Also I can’t login after logout. It just hangs on splash screen and then blank screen
BTW, I use KDE