[Stable Update] 2021-02-09 - Kernels, Gnome 40-Alpha, KDE Apps 20.12.2, Systemd, Mesa, LibreOffice

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You can grab one of our Nightlies if you want …

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My locale settings disappeared and my gnome terminal did not open. I had to regenerate my locales to fix it.

Plasma compositor is still down with the 'rona it seems. It occasionally gives up and takes a breather (e. g. after resuming from hibernate). Even though I am using OSS drivers and intel gpu only.

And in case you are wondering, the “Enable compositor on startup” is definitely checked.

I’m feeling very frustrated by fact, that PipeWire, which is not fully functional (at least on KDE) is deployed to stable branch. It’s not only my experience, but also it’s pretty frequent on internet’s forums. So, I’m experiencing problems with sound freezing, also freezing programs concerned to multimedia (even k3b freezes), glitches in DE, pipewire is using about 20 % cpu for nothing etc. I’ve managed to install back Pulseaudio and stop to using PipeWire (what solved my problems), but is it possible uninstall PipeWire at all? Also why is these changes are made, when PipeWire is not stable? Thx.

Welcome to the forum. You should be more specific and provide better information if you expect people to help you.
Kind regards

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-provide-good-information/

Edit: Link added.

As I wrote, pipewire and pulseaudio freezes. Also pipewire using about 20 % cpu for no reason. I’ve tried to unistall it, but it cant be done.

What kind of issues with gnome and nvidia? I’m running gnome and nvidia and have had yet another flawless update. The only “issue” but not really an issue as it was fully documented and discussed was when several of the legacy nvidia drivers were dropped, even though I was on the latest version prior to the update (I believe 2 updates ago) but all that had to happen was install the latest nvidia drivers again with their new package name after the update. I was fortunate that the free drivers worked with my nvidia card so aside from looking funny and performance being slow while I installed the new nvidia driver everything worked fine. I do know that some of the nvidia cards don’t work with the free drivers they were forced back onto so they had a bit more problem since they didn’t get their desktop environment back after the update but once again it was fully documented as to what you had to do to get back up and running.

As for running Timeshift before any update that is just a good standard practice everyone should be doing regardless of the DE environment or they video card/processor they use.

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Same problem here. Looks out of play with my green adwaita theme.

I had the same problem but with Italian language. Thank you for the fix!

On Xfce network manager crashes with SIGSEGV when trying to edit a connection with default VPN or when trying to create a new connection with VPN.

Steps:
$ nm-connection-editor
Click + to add new ethernet connection
On general tab check “automatically connect to VPN”

“nm-connection-editor” terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

Same error when opening existing connection with VPN set to auto connect.

It is possible to uninstall Pipewire, but you may also need to remove Pulseeffects (that requires Pipewire) and replace it with pulseffects-legacy to work with PulseAudio

If you are still having problems with reverting Pipewire to PulseAudio start a new topic and post responses to

systemctl --user -l --no-pager status pipewire*

systemctl --user -l --no-pager status pulseaudio*

Updated with TTY on desktop computer Intel i7 LTS kernel KDE Plasma, all apps n system OK , again great OS , Thank You

for me, pipewire didn’t installed with pulseeffects update automatically but pulseeffect 5.0 crashed, as expected. I could easily uninstall it and installed legacy version. Then, I wanted to try pipewire. I installed manjaro-pipewire, also uninstalled pulseaudio-related packages except plasma-pa, libcanbera-pulse and pavucontrol. After a restart pipewire and pulseeffects work flawlessly. Pipewire needs fewer ram than pulseaudio for me.
also I needed to reset the pulseeffects configuration.

Hi, I’ve repaired my PC with Timeshift and then I’ve upgraded PC again, but with cautious for PipeWire. Now it’s OK. It seems that PipeWire is mandatory part of the system, but when is not used for sound, it not generates problems.

Manjaro Gnome.
Fine Update, no issues at all :ok_hand:

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I would said that is not mandatory part of the system, since with this Update I didn’t seen PipeWire installed at all; if you look at some messages from other users, you’ll see that PipeWire is a dependency for the new PulseEffects (which now rely on PipeWire instead of PulseAudio).
To have PulseEffects without PipeWire (so for avoiding PipeWire), there is pulseeffects-legacy-git. In facts is that what I’ve done before of this update.
But PipeWire is also a dependency for xdg-desktop-portal, which, eg, is needed by gcolor3 (Color Picker); this is another reason why I uninstalled gcolor3 and switched to Picket.

Just for the record, there is pulseeffects-legacy package in community repo, packaged by Philip which works fine :slightly_smiling_face:

pulseeffects-legacy                                                                                   4.8.4-3  community 
    Audio Effects for Pulseaudio Applications

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I didn’t noticed, since when I installed it, was available only in AUR; good news!
Thanks @philm !

It was packaged a few hours (or something) after stable update, I guess M-team noticed that soon will be issues, so there it is. Same as manjaro-pulse meta package.