[Stable Update] 2020-12-30 - Kernels, KDE, Cinnamon, LibreOffice, Python 3.9, Mesa 20.3.1

[pheiduck]

I have not activated this because I am not affected by this problem:

cat /etc/default/grub | grep GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT                                                                                                                       
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="bootsplash.bootfile=bootsplash-themes/manjaro/bootsplash"

[pheiduck]

I will wait for upstream patches, I know 5.11 include also some sensor patches

[furtadopires]

I can’t update because Pipewire is in conflict with Pulseaudio

procurando pacotes conflitantes...
:: pipewire-pulse e pulseaudio estão em conflito. Remover pulseaudio? [s/N] S
:: pipewire-pulse e pulseaudio-bluetooth estão em conflito. Remover pulseaudio-bluetooth? [s/N] S
erro: falha ao preparar a transação (não foi possível satisfazer as dependências)
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio=14.0-1" necessária por pulseaudio-equalizer
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio=14.0-1" necessária por pulseaudio-jack
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio=14.0-1" necessária por pulseaudio-lirc
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio=14.0-1" necessária por pulseaudio-zeroconf

And if I try to remove pulseaudio first:

:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio" necessária por gnome-settings-daemon
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio" necessária por manjaro-pulse
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio" necessária por pulseaudio-alsa
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio=14.0-1" necessária por pulseaudio-bluetooth
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio" necessária por pulseaudio-ctl
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio=14.0-1" necessária por pulseaudio-equalizer
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio=14.0-1" necessária por pulseaudio-jack
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio=14.0-1" necessária por pulseaudio-lirc
:: a remoção de pulseaudio quebra a dependência "pulseaudio=14.0-1" necessária por pulseaudio-zeroconf

Is there a way I can safely replace pulseaudio with pipewire?

[SpiritOfTux]

Whether LTS kernel 5.4 or 5.10.2
after the change to Nvidia-455 was previously 450

Jan 02 17:46:59 xa1510cpb kernel: psmouse serio2: synaptics: Unable to query device: -5

Jan 02 17:46:59 xa1510cpb kernel: nvidia-gpu 0000:07:00.3: i2c timeout error e0000000
Jan 02 17:46:59 xa1510cpb kernel: ucsi_ccg 4-0008: i2c_transfer failed -110
Jan 02 17:46:59 xa1510cpb kernel: ucsi_ccg 4-0008: ucsi_ccg_init failed - -110
Jan 02 17:47:01 xa1510cpb kernel: proc: Bad value for ‘hidepid’
Jan 02 17:47:07 xa1510cpb NetworkManager[1320]: [1609606027.9277] session-monitor: failed to create systemd-logind monitor: -2
Jan 02 17:47:09 xa1510cpb kernel: proc: Bad value for ‘hidepid’
Jan 02 17:48:36 xa1510cpb systemd-coredump[2315]: Process 2018 (baloo_file) of user 1000 dumped core.

                                              Stack trace of thread 2312:
                                              #0  0x00007f3d69019396 n/a (liblmdb.so + 0x4396)
                                              #1  0x00007f3d6901befe n/a (liblmdb.so + 0x6efe)
                                              #2  0x00007f3d6901c644 n/a (liblmdb.so + 0x7644)
                                              #3  0x00007f3d6901cc50 mdb_get (liblmdb.so + 0x7c50)
                                              #4  0x00007f3d6a4f32a5 _ZN5Baloo12IdFilenameDB3getEy (libKF5BalooEngine.so.5 + 0x152a5)
                                              #5  0x00007f3d6a4ed2fc _ZNK5Baloo13DocumentUrlDB3getEy (libKF5BalooEngine.so.5 + 0xf2fc)
                                              #6  0x00007f3d6a4fe085 _ZNK5Baloo11Transaction11documentUrlEy (libKF5BalooEngine.so.5 + 0x20085)
                                              #7  0x000055c1cabb68e4 n/a (baloo_file + 0x1d8e4)

The CPU does not play a role,
Error whether XEON or AMD Ryzen 9

Addendum the
XEON with Nvida 1060
AMD Ryzen 9 Nvidia 2060

[gdh]

@GEC

etc. buttons, so when uninstalling this video-linux driver the GTK3 style does not suffer problems, but unfortunately when Like video-Linux using kernels 5.9 and 5.10, manjaro suffers from slowing down when opening videos (both in chromium and in firefox) or crashes when using applications for a while (mainly related to configuration or thunar). Fortunately, all this behavior is not observed when using kernel 5.4 (apparently this anomalous behavior may be due to the KWORKER / u processes)

having the same issue. system spontaniously freezes (nno reaction to anything), only hardware reset helps.

firefox is crashes while browsing on youtube.

did you find a solution?

[simewn]

When I boot it goes into a black screen after grub, but after a couple of minutes it goes to the desktop. Then the desktop freezes and the solution is to press ctrl+alt+F2 and then ctrl+alt+F1 to return to the desktop and from now on everything seems to run fine. I have an nvidia gtx970 and I installed the nvidia drivers with

sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300

Also, the compositor seems to crash kwin

OpenGL compositing (the default) has crashed KWin in the past.
This was most likely due to a driver bug.
If you think that you have meanwhile upgraded to a stable driver,
you can reset this protection but be aware that this might result in an immediate crash!
Alternatively, you might want to use the XRender backend instead.

I had problems in the past in the newer kernel when fullscreen video from firefox would saw black and turning on and off the compositor by shift+alt+F12 would do the trick. Then I found that an option on desktop effects could solve it, the fullscreen option. So, something was not working right with nvidia drivers and the newer kernels.

My system,
cpu: intel i7-3770K, gpu: nvidia GTX970

[XRaTiX]

Can confirm is happen to me as well,it has been reported,i think the new patch is coming January 9th.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430374

[Yochanan]

@furtadopires

pipewire-pulse e pulseaudio estão em conflito

Remove pipewire-pulse.

pipewire-alsa, pipewire-pulse, and pipewire-jack are normally not needed unless one wants to use PipeWire as a PulseAudio/JACK replacement.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PipeWire

[tabletops2020]

hi @philm I found a small bug in one of the recommended commands:

@philm

mhwd --install video-hybrid-XXX-nvidia-prime

(Where XXX is amd or intel if you have hybrid graphics or the whole thing is video-nvidia if you’re on an nVidia-only system)

right after --install has to be either pci or usb, in this case it should be pci. the command was giving an error but in the usage it stated (pci|usb) so I figured it out.

Thanks for you help, was able to fix my system.

[GEC]

@gdh

@GEC

etc. buttons, so when uninstalling this video-linux driver the GTK3 style does not suffer problems, but unfortunately when Like video-Linux using kernels 5.9 and 5.10, manjaro suffers from slowing down when opening videos (both in chromium and in firefox) or crashes when using applications for a while (mainly related to configuration or thunar). Fortunately, all this behavior is not observed when using kernel 5.4 (apparently this anomalous behavior may be due to the KWORKER / u processes)

having the same issue. system spontaniously freezes (nno reaction to anything), only hardware reset helps.

firefox is crashes while browsing on youtube.

did you find a solution?

the solutions are two:
1- use kernel 5.4 with free drivers
2- Thanks to the explanation that I quote below (using the option to do it by terminal, because using the AUR option in pamac it throws an error and does not finish installing it) I could install the proprietary driver 340 in kernel 5.4 and 5.10 and for now no longer I suffer from slowdowns or frozen.

With the Stable-Update on the 2020-12-30 we decided to Remove outdated Nvidia Drivers. This resulted in a massive negative feedback and broken systems.

Nvidia informed about their support timeframes a while ago. 390xx will be supported through the end of 2022. However they are slow in providing needed patches. The Linux community patched them so far. 340xx got dropped already. Officially they only support till Kernel 5.4 and Xorg-Server 1.20 series. In AUR you may find patches till 5.10 .

NVIDIA Developer Forums – 4 Mar 13

Current graphics driver releases

Current releases Current long-lived branch release: 450.80.02 (x86_64) Current official release: 455.45.01 (x86_64) Current beta release: 460.27.04 (x86_64) Legacy releases 390.138 (x86 / x86_64 / ARM) - GF1xx “Fermi” GPUs 340.108 (x86 /…

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Manjaro is known for its large range of Kernel support and is also known for multiple Nvidia drivers support. However it is harder to support those old drivers, due to GPL issues and other things. So we had to drop some modules of 390xx drivers until Nvidia will fix that.

So what can I do as user to still get those drivers still on Manjaro?

Get involved

You can compile the drivers on your own. Best would be to use DKMS, so when there is a kernel update, those drivers get updated also.

Prepare your system for building drivers

• you may want to install development tools: sudo pacman -S git base-devel
• then you may want to install your proper kernel headers: sudo pacman -S $(mhwd-kernel -li | grep '*' | cut -d ' ' -f5 | awk '{print $0,"-headers"}' | sed s'/ //'g)

340xx (dkms 5.4 - 5.10)

You need to get the sources first:

 git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/extra/nvidia-340xx-utils.git
 git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/multilib/lib32-nvidia-340xx-utils.git
 git clone https://github.com/philmmanjaro/nvidia-340xx-dkms.git

Then compile all packages with makepkg :

 cd nvidia-340xx-utils && makepkg -si
 cd ../lib32-nvidia-340xx-utils && makepkg -si
 cd ../nvidia-340xx-dkms && makepkg -si

With this you will have 340xx driver, even Manjaro officially dropped it.

340xx (dkms 4.4 - 4.19)

Since the dkms only works from 5.4 upwards, you may need to compile your kernel drivers manually. utils are still needed! Replace YY either with 44 , 49 , 414 or 419 :

git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/extra/linuxYY-extramodules/nvidia-340xx
cd nvidia-340xx && makepkg -sif

You may need to recompile this package as soon as we add a new kernel and also don’t forget to bump the PKGREL.

Other 4YYxx drivers (example for linux54)

Note: You need to replace 4YY with one of the followings: 418 , 430 , 435 , 440 , 450 . linux54 can be replaced as needed. If you don’t find the driver for your kernel, you can ping us.

You need to get the sources first

git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/extra/nvidia-4YYxx-utils.git
git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/multilib/lib32-nvidia-4YYxx-utils.git
git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/extra/linux54-extramodules/nvidia-4YYxx.git

Then compile all packages with makepkg :

[nerfolt]

I used Pamac to remove the nvidia drivers. Left mhwd alone. Installed 5.10. Rebooted, went into TTY to sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300.

Worked.

[mahlzahn]

Update went smooth, but after reboot the graphics are messed up (i3 community edition). After switching resolution to lower and then back to high resolution using xrandr/arandr it works again. My system’s graphics are:

Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Device-2: Chicony HP HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-6:3 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: intel unloaded: modesetting resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.1 direct render: Yes

But next reboot messes up again. Any idea, how this could be fixed without switching resolution?

[chaot]

Hallo @matt-hires,

I use gnome desktop and so I took the risk and it worked.

Thank you.

[deemon]

any reason why with this update the grub conflicts with grub-customizer ??

[bill_t]

See here:

Grub conflicts with grub-customizer

Someone added grub-customizer to conflics in grub package. Is there any reason to it?

[Armag67]

Well, it went pretty well, given my config it’s pretty normal (5.4 LTS kernel , Xfce, Intel processor and Intel graphic chipset). I still had to hack a little to get Ninja-IDE to work (AUR (en) - Accounts & Python 3.9 break ninja-ide · Issue #2112 · ninja-ide/ninja-ide · GitHub) and reinstall all my Python user modules. Only pyarrow (essential for the covidify module) is a problem for me (pyarrow wheel for python 3.9 · Issue #9081 · apache/arrow · GitHub). I have to wait for a wheel to be available for Python 3.9.

[Zaiakursed]

Hi, I saw the notification from the homepage, I seem to be affected. can I ask If I’ll have an issue after updating, I’m kinda Noob, still just learning. What must I do before updating?

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_MONETARY = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_SG.UTF-8",
        LC_TIME = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_GB.UTF-8").
System:    Host: Lair Kernel: 5.4.80-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.4 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: N/A serial: <superuser/root required> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0TYKPW v: A00 serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: Dell v: A17 date: 05/14/2019 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core Intel Core i5-5200U [MT MCP] speed: 1685 MHz min/max: 500/2700 MHz 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GK208BM [GeForce 920M] driver: N/A 
           Device-3: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: intel resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.3 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.20 TiB used: 688.13 GiB (56.0%) 
Info:      Processes: 191 Uptime: 1h 16m Memory: 7.69 GiB used: 3.09 GiB (40.1%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.1.08

[mikronimo]

It worked (i had no doubt); i installed the rebuild-checker, and performed the system update with the italian mirrors, that are, for some for me unknwon reasons, a lot faster than the -f 3 argument (2-3 mbits against 200-300 kbits); thanks a lot Wollie.

[valacar]

This particular update gave me issues with audio popping/clicking noise when any program started or stopped using my sound card (Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio)… quite annoying with headphones. The “solution” I found was to disable power saving for the snd_hda_intel module, but I’m not too happy about having to do that. It was working fine for almost 2 years, and I haven’t modified my audio settings in those 2 years, so I’m not sure what’s going on.