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

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No Problems with this huge update (1,9GB). All works fine :grinning:

Thanks to the manjaro-team

regards
caho

Running into trouble with Minecraft. Launcher works fine then when I hit play I get a popup with this

GLFW error 65543: GLX: Failed to create context: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation).

Please make sure you have up-to-date drivers (see aka.ms/mcdriver for instructions).

Restarted my system and everything works fine.

EDIT: No longer works fine again. Downgraded to an earlier release.

Updated without problems, KDE and Kernel 5.4.

Thanks Manjaro Team

I have removed nvidia 440 and used nvidia 390, and all works.
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I have written a comment on Gitlab.
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Iā€™m on Manjaro Xfce since almost a year. Iā€™m amazed at how polished stable-updates are. Congratulations and thanks for the whole team!

Just an off-topic commentā€¦ Xfwm4 is growing on RAM consumption with every new release. On my setup (3 extended monitors) it tooks 100MiB from 4.12 to 4.14 and now itā€™s taking almost 80MiB on 4.16 :unamused:

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On my laptop Iā€™m unable to get a WiFi connection with this version of NetworkManager. It says it is connected, but the yellow exclamation mark remains and I canā€™t access the web. Downgrading NM restores functionality. On my Desktop I didnā€™t have any problem. Iā€™ll open a new topic.

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On a Thinkpad T60 64-bit, Intel 945 GM Graphics:

Update went OK with pacman -Syu in Konsole and local Mirror in Austria, with one hickup:
ā€œunspecified errorā€ on commit.
Restarting pacman, it downloaded 3 additional packages, an off we go.

But!
After shutdown and reboot,
KDE system is considerably slower than before, mouse is jumpy, login screen does only appear with 5 seconds delay and is very laggy. This was faster and more responsive in the previous release.
Seems to be kind of a regression.
Firefox seems also to be running perceptibly slower, e.g. with Twitch.

/LoPhi

For the Records:

uname -a
Linux T60pi 5.4.89-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 12 23:39:44 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.4.89-1-MANJARO
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 2 Ɨ IntelĀ® Coreā„¢2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz
Memory: 1,9 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI IntelĀ® 945GM

every update I logout of my gnome sessions, goto a TTY terminal
refresh my mirrors with the closest mirrors:

sudo pacman-mirrors --geoip

Then use

sudo pacman -Syyu

That has given me clean no problem updates for over a year now (of course I reboot after the update as well).

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Whatā€™s wrong with using sudo pacman -Syu?

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Nothing is wrong with it per say, the second ā€œyā€ ā€œforces a full refresh of the package databaseā€ vs the one y just refreshes the database. I donā€™t notice any perceptible time difference between the two so I have just always forced the full refresh vs. just ā€œrefreshing the database.ā€ I know in the past Iā€™ve seen where for whatever reason -Syu fails and a -Syyu is required to make it work correctly so Iā€™ve just always done the -Syyu as a habit since it doesnā€™t take any longer.

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Hi, so update went though and now have issues with you tube videos playing and video playback in dragon player, VLC will playback video but audio is missing

Mesa updated but I still get the error Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:amdgpu_bl0 :frowning:
Why canā€™t this problem be solved eventually ?

First of all: Thank you for Manjaro!
Updated on XFCE via pamac.
Nextcloud version 3.1.1git does not respect the setting ā€œUse Monochrome Iconsā€ anymore, this results in a green indicator in status tray.

Edit: Xfce Terminal and Thunar File Manager got removed from Whisker Menu favorites, the other 15 entries remained untouched.

I see, thanks for the tip! :slightly_smiling_face:

Linux 5.10 kernel is not booting properly anymore. Just when LightDM is supposed to start the login screen, the signal to the monitor is dropped and the monitor goes blank. Booting into kernel 5.4 still works.

I looked at the journal, but I donā€™t see any obvious problems. Any ideas where to start looking?

Okay, never mind. After 5 unsuccesful boots with kernel 5.10 and then succesfully booting with 5.4, now kernel 5.10 actually boots fine again. ĀÆ\_(惄)_/ĀÆ

After the update the power manager icon in XFCE is gone, also all Favorites in the Whisker Menu are gone.

Apart from that I get a black screen after grub and the screen comes back only after loading X. If I switch to another TTY I get a black screen too.

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.7-3-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=9a23ae58-ba75-4735-aa9e-9e1606778098 rw quiet apparmor=0 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 audit=0 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: G31M-S. serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: P2.10 date: 05/16/2012 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 6300 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom 
  family: 6 model-id: F (15) stepping: 6 microcode: D0 L2 cache: 2 MiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 9325 
  Speed: 2188 MHz min/max: 1603/1870 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2188 2: 2159 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: EPT disabled 
  Type: mds 
  status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 
  mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics vendor: ASRock 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:29c2 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: intel 
  unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x1024 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 338x270mm (13.3x10.6") 
  s-diag: 433mm (17") 
  Monitor-1: VGA1 res: 1280x1024 dpi: 90 size: 360x290mm (14.2x11.4") 
  diag: 462mm (18.2") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel G33 v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.3 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: ASRock 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:27d8 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.7-3-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: ASRock 
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e800 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8136 
  IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 11.74 GiB (1.3%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B 
  speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> rev: ACM2 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 491.47 GiB size: 482.76 GiB (98.23%) 
  used: 11.74 GiB (2.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 159 Uptime: 50m wakeups: 0 Memory: 3.83 GiB 
  used: 1.89 GiB (49.3%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 
  Packages: 1209 pacman: 1205 lib: 406 flatpak: 4 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 
  running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.2.02

I had issues and was yet not able to solve them but to revert my system to a working state.

The update was working well on my laptop (Lenovo). After that I updated my PC and after rebooting I got a ā€œFAILURE Cannot load Kernel Moduleā€ three times in a row. After that a black screen. Iā€™m on linux-lts (kernel 5.4). I switched to ā€œ5.4 failure modeā€ (?) in grub with no change. Thereā€™s also a 4.19 installed in case the 5.4 wonā€™t work so I tried this one. Same. I was no longer able to boot my machine.

I did a chroot for my first time and managed to get an older timeshift backup running although all the devices are LUKSed. Iā€™m pretty proud of myself of getting this up and running again with this older snapshot, thatā€™s for sure.

However, the problem remains for me since the update is still waiting and Iā€™m pretty sure it will cause problems again. So, currently, I just donā€™t know how to proceed to not blow up my machine again.

No issues at all also power regression on AMD GPUs fixed \O/

And fixes that I made together with @Chrysostomus on manjaro-zsh-config \O/ :beers:

Only thing I have done is downgrading xfce4-power-manager because of the missing icon.