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

[Hanzel]

Something funky with locale indeed, I have en_US.UTF-8 & nl_NL.UTF-8 installed.

For some reason after glibc update this happens:

Upgrading glibc (2.32-5 -> 2.33-3)...
Generating locales...
  de_DE.UTF-8... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
Upgrading gcc-libs (10.2.0-4 -> 10.2.0-6)...

Then further down:

  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
/etc/locale.conf: line 2: warning: setlocale: LC_NUMERIC: cannot change locale (nl_NL.UTF-8)
/etc/locale.conf: line 3: warning: setlocale: LC_TIME: cannot change locale (nl_NL.UTF-8)
  -> Running build hook: [plymouth]

$ cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_NUMERIC=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF-8

changing de_DE.UTF-8 to #de_DE.UTF-8 and #nl_NL.UTF-8 to nl_NL.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen & running $ sudo locale-gen solves this issue.

This seems wrong tho:

$ cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.utf8

[Hanzel]

@Void

Hello. After the update on KDE, QEMU/KVM while it does load, any virtual machine will start and then I get a black screen on the whole computer which I can not recover from. Have to reboot. Any ideas?? Thanks.

Have any pacnew files for virtmanager? I saw some go past in this update and actively processing them now.

Edit: skipped all pacnewfiles and have working QEMU/KVM virtuals
For reference, these are the ones I have as pacnew
==> pacnew file found for /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp-server.xml
==> pacnew file found for /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp.xml
==> pacnew file found for /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml

Made a note to look up what to do with them this weekend.

[nam1962]

Hi, thank you for all this.
Globally smooth but as I use PulseEffects, I discovered a partial implementation of PipeWire.
I didn’t want to go to pulseeffects-legacy, thus had to:

[2021-02-09T20:18:59+0100] [ALPM] installed gnome-settings-daemon (3.38.1-1)
[2021-02-09T20:16:54+0100] [ALPM] installed sof-firmware (1.6.1-1)
[2021-02-09T20:16:27+0100] [ALPM] installed libgweather (3.36.1-1)
[2021-02-09T20:15:26+0100] [ALPM] installed lib32-fluidsynth (2.1.7-1)
[2021-02-09T20:15:26+0100] [ALPM] installed lib32-sdl2 (2.0.14-1)
[2021-02-09T20:15:26+0100] [ALPM] installed lib32-libpulse (14.2-2)
[2021-02-09T20:15:26+0100] [ALPM] installed lib32-libasyncns (0.8+3+g68cd5af-2)
[2021-02-09T20:15:26+0100] [ALPM] installed lib32-libinstpatch (1.1.6-1)
[2021-02-09T20:12:38+0100] [ALPM] installed lib32-portaudio (1:19.6.0-4)
[2021-02-09T19:56:37+0100] [ALPM] installed gst-plugin-pipewire (1:0.3.21-1)
[2021-02-09T19:56:37+0100] [ALPM] installed manjaro-pipewire (20210109-1)
[2021-02-09T19:56:37+0100] [ALPM] installed pipewire-jack (1:0.3.21-1)
[2021-02-09T19:56:37+0100] [ALPM] installed pipewire-alsa (1:0.3.21-1)
[2021-02-09T19:56:37+0100] [ALPM] installed wireplumber (0.3.0-1)
[2021-02-09T19:56:37+0100] [ALPM] installed libpipewire02 (0.2.7-1)
[2021-02-09T19:56:37+0100] [ALPM] installed pipewire-pulse (1:0.3.21-1)
[2021-02-09T19:54:57+0100] [ALPM] removed pulseaudio (14.2-2)
[2021-02-09T19:54:57+0100] [ALPM] removed pulseaudio-alsa (1:1.2.2-2)
[2021-02-09T19:54:57+0100] [ALPM] removed libgweather (3.36.1-1)
[2021-02-09T19:54:56+0100] [ALPM] removed gnome-settings-daemon (3.38.1-1)
[2021-02-09T19:54:53+0100] [ALPM] removed eolie (0.9.101-1)
[2021-02-09T19:54:52+0100] [ALPM] removed pulseaudio-bluetooth (14.2-2)
[2021-02-09T19:54:52+0100] [ALPM] removed xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin (0.4.3-1.1)
[2021-02-09T19:54:51+0100] [ALPM] removed pulseaudio-ctl (1.67-1)
[2021-02-09T19:54:51+0100] [ALPM] removed pulseaudio-zeroconf (14.2-2)
[2021-02-09T19:54:51+0100] [ALPM] removed sof-firmware (1.6.1-1)
[2021-02-09T19:54:51+0100] [ALPM] removed pavucontrol (1:4.0-2)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed pulseaudio-lirc (14.2-2)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed lib32-libinstpatch (1.1.6-1)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed lib32-libasyncns (0.8+3+g68cd5af-2)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed lib32-libpulse (14.2-2)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed lib32-libcanberra-pulse (0.30+2+gc0620e4-3)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed pulseaudio-equalizer (14.2-2)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed pulseaudio-jack (14.2-2)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed lib32-sdl2 (2.0.14-1)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed lib32-portaudio (1:19.6.0-4)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed lib32-fluidsynth (2.1.7-1)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed pulseaudio-rtp (14.2-2)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed manjaro-pulse (20210109-1)
[2021-02-09T19:54:50+0100] [ALPM] removed xfce4-volumed-pulse (0.2.3-1)

As you can see is was sloppy.

Would have been better if informed or scripted !

[verminator]

Does the talk about pulseaudio mean that it’s become outdated generally and we should replace it with something else? Or is this just about pulseeffects?

I mean I have pulseaudio installed, but not pulseeffects and not pipewire.

[Olli_GT]

Is there a reason for downgrading VIVALDI ?
Yesterday we got V3.6.2165.36-1. (SAFETY )
And now .34.
Testing and unstable are still at .36.
Vivaldi Homepage too.
Edit: stable-staging is still at .34. Maybe copy old over new version?
stable-staging feels often a little bit forgotten …

[jqv]

This update made OpenShot from the official repo work much better, thanks!

Openshot crashing

Hi, I installed openshot 2.5.1 version. After opening video it crashes. Does anybody have this opneshot working? how to find out, where is problem? if in my hardware or drivers, or openshot?

No issues found running Cinnamon and the 5.10 kernel

[poke]

Gnome, Update:
All German language files are gone - everything is now English again (bevor was german). In the settings, no languages are displayed at all anymore.
Telegram also starts in English again and the chat background is default again.
After the installation of Gnome, about three weeks ago, the system constantly hung or froze. After deleting a few extensions, it suddenly worked.
I thought I’d look for another distro - but stayed after the crashes stopped. Now this…

[Hanzel]

Thanks for the update and the work!

[Void]

Got it working. Removed Scale Display setting. Changed Video driver to virtio and 3d. Also made a few modifications on Display Spice… Type: Spice Server, Listen Type: None, and OpenGL to Auto. Hope this helps someone.

[Hanzel]

Your german locale ended up on my machine

• Go to Manjaro Settings,
• Add your language back in the regional settings,
• Log off / log in

should solve it

[El_Brujo]

All good on my end, except for the well-known issue “Gnome Terminal won’t load after update”.
FIXED: Sometimes the updates overwrite the locale settings and need to be regenerated.

Once again, thanks Manjaro team for another great rollout!

[anon55802073]

@poke

All German language files are gone

Danke, Du hast mich eben davor bewahrt, GNOME zu installieren …

Thanks, you just saved me from installing GNOME …

[Yochanan]

@Olli_GT

Is there a reason for downgrading VIVALDI ?
Yesterday we got V3.6.2165.36-1. (SAFETY )
And now .34.

Somehow the stable snap kicked out .36 that I had pushed.
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

I just pushed it to stable again.
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

[Olli]

no complains so far. thanks for the work manjaro-team

[nanoone]

My bluetooth mouse has beome TOO sluggish but the mousepad on the laptop is OK
Also the sound is always set to 0(mute) on the startup and screen brightness to 100%

[ParadingLunatic]

May depend on what DE you’re running. I’m running cinnamon. I was able to replace pulseaudio very easily just by selecting manjaro-pipewire to install, which did give me warnings about dependencies regarding pulseaudio. It installed all necessary components (pipewire-alsa, pipewire-jack, pipewire-pulse…etc) and removed all of pulseaudio components. Rebooted, so far so good. Double checked and pulseaudio is no longer installed.

Scratch that. I do notice some issues with Pipewire and firefox. Can’t get any videos to play. May have to revert if I can’t figure out why.

Edit 2: Looks like the issue I had was with bluetooth. Tested out my headphones and it worked. After disconnect though I had numerous issues with sound and Pipewire really hitting the CPU hard.

[exo]

I think It’s a GNOME problem more than Manjaro problem as a whole. Or maybe a Manjaro GNOME problem. Because I run XFCE on my notebook and I’ve never ever had any problems while updating (XFCE + AMD graphics).

On my desktop I have Nvidia + GNOME and it’s a nightmare even on the stable channel. Before every update I run Timeshift and pray.

Something really needs to be done to address the never ending issues with GNOME and Nvidia …

[VictorSproot]

the update was long, but in the end there were no problems
thank you for your work

[Olli]

PulseEffects does not work anymore.