[Stable Update] 2021-01-19 - Kernels, XFCE, Plasma, PulseAudio, Pipewire, Mesa, Firefox, Thunderbird, KDE Apps

What is your panel row size? Mine is on 22 pixels and just one row. This is how it looks like:

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36x36 px edit: I meant just 36 px - and 1 row :smiley: , but doesnā€™t matter: also If I reduce its size, such icon remains big.
This is a bug, because on Xfce 4.14 such behaviour didnā€™t occurred.

EDIT :

What I meant to say:
All icons in the panel are properly and consistently sized, except for the power manager icon that display the huge/big battery icon:

4.16-panel

I repeat it ad amara finem : playing with the settings of panel and with the settings of Status Tray Plugin", for me has no effects:
I had already reported these attempts some message above; some other users suggested to play with such settings, which have no affects for me as I reported

Also other users, in this discussion, in this forum and also on Reddit, have reported the same issue. Is clearly a bug/regression which occurs in some circumstances.

Linux 54, Nvidia card and KDE: update went without problems: thanks to Manjaro Teams :clap: :clap:

My PCM2902 USB soundcard isnā€™t detected correctly in pulseaudio.
It used to have an analog and digital ā€œendpointā€ for both the input and output. Now, only the analog output is available.

oh, no, sorry, forgot to mention that. I have an AMD, but thanks for asking! :slight_smile:

After the upgrade kmail does not start anymore. The MariaDB service starts normally after I deleted these two files:

sudo rm /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile0
sudo rm /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile1

The crash dump does not say much:

2021-01-21T15:57:30 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server...
2021-01-21T15:57:35 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: database server stopped unexpectedly
2021-01-21T15:57:35 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database process exited unexpectedly during initial c2021-01-21T15:57:35 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadiserver' exited normally...
:57:35 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/username/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/username/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket", "--pid-file=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.pid")
2021-01-21T15:57:35 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: ""
2021-01-21T15:57:35 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stderr: "2021-01-21 15:57:30 0 [Note] /usr/bin/mysqld (mysqld 10.5.8-MariaDB) starting as process 204104 ...\n"
2021-01-21T15:57:35 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 6
2021-01-21T15:57:35 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Process crashed"
2021-01-21T15:57:35 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer...

Hopefully someone has an idea how to solve this.

No issues, all weht fine on two machines. Both with XFCE.

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qt4 was dropped from the repos, itā€™s deprecated. You probably donā€™t need it. You can check what needs it (if anything) with:

pacman -Qi qt4 | grep "Required By"
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Iā€™m using Hack 10 font in my gnome terminal and before update it was displaying all bold text, but now only display regular variant, anyway to fix it?

EDIT:
Just switched to Alacritty, all good nowā€¦

The command has only worked for me by removing Required By, and this is what I get back:

[fran@fran ~]$ pacman -Qi qt4 | grep ""
Nombre                    : qt4
VersiĆ³n                   : 4.8.7-29.1
DescripciĆ³n               : A cross-platform application and UI framework
Arquitectura              : x86_64
URL                       : https://www.qt.io
Licencias                 : GPL3  LGPL  FDL  custom
Grupos                    : Nada
Provee                    : Nada
Depende de                : sqlite  ca-certificates  fontconfig  libgl  libxrandr  libxv  libxi  alsa-lib  xdg-utils  hicolor-icon-theme  desktop-file-utils  libmng  dbus
Dependencias opcionales   : postgresql-libs: PostgreSQL driver
                            mariadb-libs: MariaDB driver
                            unixodbc: ODBC driver
                            libfbclient: Firebird/iBase driver [instalado]
                            libxinerama: Xinerama support [instalado]
                            libxcursor: Xcursor support [instalado]
                            libxfixes: Xfixes support [instalado]
                            icu: Unicode support [instalado]
                            sni-qt: StatusNotifierItem (AppIndicators) support [instalado]
Exigido por               : libdbusmenu-qt4
Opcional para             : Nada
En conflicto con          : qt
Remplaza a                : qt<=4.8.4
TamaƱo de la instalaciĆ³n  : 86,08 MiB
Encargado                 : Bernhard Landauer <oberon@manjaro.org>
Fecha de creaciĆ³n         : dom 05 may 2019 13:38:36
Fecha de instalaciĆ³n      : sĆ”b 18 may 2019 14:20:04
Motivo de la instalaciĆ³n  : Instalado como dependencia de otro paquete
Guion de instalaciĆ³n      : SĆ­
Validado por              : Firma

It seems to be required by libdbusmenu-qt4, which if I run the same command, it says it is required by sni-qt.

[fran@fran ~]$ pacman -Qi libdbusmenu-qt4 | grep ""
Nombre                    : libdbusmenu-qt4
VersiĆ³n                   : 0.9.3+16.04.20160218-2
DescripciĆ³n               : A library that provides a Qt4 implementation of the DBusMenu spec
Arquitectura              : x86_64
URL                       : https://launchpad.net/libdbusmenu-qt
Licencias                 : GPL
Grupos                    : Nada
Provee                    : libdbusmenu-qt
Depende de                : qt4
Dependencias opcionales   : Nada
Exigido por               : sni-qt
Opcional para             : Nada
En conflicto con          : libdbusmenu-qt
Remplaza a                : libdbusmenu-qt
TamaƱo de la instalaciĆ³n  : 646,00 KiB
Encargado                 : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Fecha de creaciĆ³n         : sĆ”b 10 nov 2018 01:10:32
Fecha de instalaciĆ³n      : lun 31 dic 2018 10:57:51
Motivo de la instalaciĆ³n  : Instalado como dependencia de otro paquete
Guion de instalaciĆ³n      : No
Validado por              : Firma

Finally, what sni returns

[fran@fran ~]$ pacman -Qi sni-qt | grep ""
Nombre                    : sni-qt
VersiĆ³n                   : 0.2.7+17.04.20170112-1
DescripciĆ³n               : Qt4 plugin which turns all QSystemTrayIcon into StatusNotifierItems (appindicators)
Arquitectura              : x86_64
URL                       : https://launchpad.net/sni-qt
Licencias                 : LGPL3
Grupos                    : Nada
Provee                    : Nada
Depende de                : libdbusmenu-qt4
Dependencias opcionales   : Nada
Exigido por               : Nada
Opcional para             : qt4
En conflicto con          : Nada
Remplaza a                : Nada
TamaƱo de la instalaciĆ³n  : 147,00 KiB
Encargado                 : Unknown Packager
Fecha de creaciĆ³n         : miĆ© 11 sep 2019 13:30:00
Fecha de instalaciĆ³n      : miĆ© 11 sep 2019 13:30:19
Motivo de la instalaciĆ³n  : Instalado explĆ­citamente
Guion de instalaciĆ³n      : No
Validado por              : Nada

What would be the next step, what should I uninstall?

Well, since your language is Spanish, looks like the command would be:

pacman -Qi qt4 | grep "Exigido por"

It appears sni-qt is the culprit and is an orphan, so you can remove it and itā€™s dependencies recursively:

sudo pacman -Rs sni-qt

Tip: When pasting terminal output, highlight the text first, then use the Preformatted text </> button. Iā€™ve done it for you this time. :wink:

Thank you, I just did what you said. The problem seems to be solved. Sorry about the text, next time Iā€™ll get it right! :sweat_smile: :+1:

Iā€™ve updated a few days ago and now I get this error:

$ sudo pacman -Syyu
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                                       167,6 KiB  1397 KiB/s 00:00 [##############################################################] 100%
 core.sig                                                                  1057,0   B  0,00   B/s 00:00 [##############################################################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update core (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
 extra                                                                     1986,9 KiB  7,46 MiB/s 00:00 [##############################################################] 100%
 extra.sig                                                                 1057,0   B  0,00   B/s 00:00 [##############################################################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update extra (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
 community                                                                    6,4 MiB  8,86 MiB/s 00:01 [##############################################################] 100%
 community.sig                                                             1057,0   B  0,00   B/s 00:00 [##############################################################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update community (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
 multilib                                                                   181,8 KiB  0,00   B/s 00:00 [##############################################################] 100%
 multilib.sig                                                              1057,0   B  0,00   B/s 00:00 [##############################################################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update multilib (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: failed to synchronize all databases

The same with $ sudo pacman -Syyuu

Nvm, Iā€™ve edited the mirrorlist with $ sudo pacman-mirrors -c all and all is good.

Phil, can you take a look to vte?

Terminal Emulator - "Select All" not working correctly after latest update - #2 by D.Dave

(sorry: I should have reply/ask here)

Shouldnā€™t this always work?
LANG=C pacman -Qi qt4 | grep "Required By"

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Thanks, I removed it and restarted and everything work fine :wink:

Yes, indeed. However, I didnā€™t know the user had a different default system language until after the fact.

My update on my Intel Nuc 10i7FNH was not so well. After reboot my Gnome terminal was not working anymore and the local language was gone, so I had partly english and partly dutch and all looked strange. Wine-staging didnt run also because of that. So in Manjaro settings I could add the dutch language (no language was visible there at all) and after installing that and a few reboots somehow all the language translation is Dutch again thank God. Terminal works now and Wine also. So strange things happen in updatesā€¦ BTW, I first tried using the XFCE terminal to at least do something, but that didnt fix the problem. I really had to install completely a new language in the Manjaro settings before everything worked.

I have screen tearing on the desktop since the updateā€¦ (nvidia driver 460, kernel 5.4, KDE) Any idea? :frowning:

Even with the last update of Pulseaudio the problem of Pulseaudio still persists, forcing me to use Pavucontrol to select the sound output every time I turn on the PC