[Stable Update] 2021-02-19 - Kernels, AMDVLK, Palemoon, Firefox-dev, Firefox, Haskell, Python

[RoestVrijStaal]

I upgraded my KDE x64 desktop.

It still boots and all, but upon I want to play a DVD, VLC crashes when I pick anything else than “Open File…” and “Save Playlist” within the Media menu:

LANG=C vlc
VLC media player 3.0.12 Vetinari (revision 3.0.12-1-0-gd147bb5e7e)
[000055a81b8d8640] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use ‘cvlc’ to use vlc without interface.
[000055a81b96ca00] main playlist: playlist is empty
ASSERT failure in QList::operator[]: “index out of range”, file /usr/include/qt/QtCore/qlist.h, line 579
Afgebroken (geheugendump gemaakt)

However, I tried out the unofficial AppImage of VLC and the breaking options in the Media menu did not crash.

So I contined tinkering around with other applications, and HandBrake within the community repo does not even draw its screen. A "screenshot’ of a application (or desktop) behind Handbreak fills Handbreak’s window.

I don’t know If both issues existed before the 2021-02-19 update, but it’s annoying.

[djg_s39c]

After this update, nautilus does not work. When attempting to open Nautilus, the process hangs indefinitely, then times out. When running from the terminal: Failed to register: Time-out was reached. This is a rather problematic bug as nautilus is rather important, obviously. Any help here would be great. I’ll post what logs I can.

Edit: So, I exited my Megasync client and all the nautilus boxes popped up. Seems like the nautilus application is waiting for something from the Megasync client it never gets. So, now, I cannot run nautilus and the Megasync client at the same time.

[CyberOto]

The update went smooth on all my GNOME machines.

Keep up the good work!

[Powerpave]

Everything working fine on Manjaro KDE with AMD Ryzen, great job!

[Fabby]

• File a bug with VLC upstream
• try creating an additional user (E.G. RoestVrijStaal2) and see if it happens there too.

[BlueWizard]

Any concern about this news related to the new format of initramfs images (from gzip to zstd) ?
https://archlinux.org/news/moving-to-zstandard-images-by-default-on-mkinitcpio/

[Fabby]

We’ve been posting about that for a very long time and stopped posting about it in the meantime. Last time we posted was in 2020-10-10:

[Stable Update] 2020-10-01 - Kernels, Mesa, KDE-Framework, Deepin, Systemd, Pamac, Xorg-Server, Qt

Hello community, Another stable branch update with some interesting updates for you! [image] Get again 15% discount on all of our Merch! #stayhome, #staysafe, #stayhealthy We updated some of our KDE-git packages plus most of our Kernels Pamac 9.5.10 got released Gamemode is at 1.6 Qt5 got updated to 5.15.1 which might break some KDE Frameworks are updated to 5.74.0 AMDVLK got renewed to 2020.Q3.5 Some browsers got updated Coding-language Gambas is now at 3.15.2 Mhwd got a fix for…

More specifically:

@zbe

Upstream notice

Arch updated their default compression to zstd . We adopted to the same standard. More and more packages will have the zst extension from now on. If you get for what ever reason an error with ZSTD not supported as archive format you can do this:

sudo pacman -Syy
sudo pacman -S pacman-static
sudo pacman-static -Syyu

[salome]

Hi,
with this update, this bug is still present:

Can't open external links in gtk applications

Hi, I can’t open the links in the browser when there is a link in gtk applications. Step to treproduce: open a gtk3 or gtk2 application ( for example pamac, liferea and lxtask in my case) open a link (for example the source of a feed or the official site’s application or the lxde site in the help–about menu of lxtasks) in the external browser by clicking on it. it will be opened a new, blank browser instance instead the link The problem doesn’t occurs with qt applications (in my case , vlc …

can someone tell me if there is a package that I can downgrade for fix the issue? It’s annoying

[Hanzel]

@BlueWizard

Any concern about this news related to the new format of initramfs images (from gzip to zstd) ?
Arch Linux - News: Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

@Fabby

More specifically:

Upstream notice

Arch updated their default compression to zstd . We adopted to the same standard. More and more packages will have the zst extension from now on. If you get for what ever reason an error with ZSTD not supported as archive format you can do this:

sudo pacman -Syy
sudo pacman -S pacman-static
sudo pacman-static -Syyu

This is about the default mkinitcpio uses when building and that is a different kind of heads up if I understand it correctly, eg if you don’t actively do anything you might end up in a situation where the booting of a kernel prior then 5.9 will result in a non bootable system. So when you have kernel 5.9 or earlier running you have to edit configuration option in mkinitcpio.conf to prevent a broken boot.

[DK3]

Update on 10 Systems without Problems.

DK3

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @salome,

I use KDE, but I’ve just installed lxtask to test this and mine works flawlessly.

• Are you sure you default browser is set correctly?
• Or it might be a MIME type association.

Unfortunately, I don’t know where else to check or/and test.

Hope this helps.

Edit:

Accoring to this page:

Alternate way is to add the following line export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox to your ~/.bashrc

So, assuming you use ZSH, the command to make that permanent would be:

$ echo "export BROWSER=<directory_to_browser_executable>" >> ~/.zshrc

If you use bash the command would be:

$ echo "export BROWSER=<directory_to_browser_executable>" >> ~/.bashrc

For example, in my case the directory is

/usr/bin/firefox

So the command would be

$ echo "export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox" >> ~/.zshrc

That should, in theory at least, set it.

Hope this helps!

[DeadlySalami]

Thanks for that info. Switched to lz4 cause I’m planning to stay on 5.4 LTS for a long time. My old iMac 13,2 (27" late 2012) cannot change display brightness with newer kernels…

[Glock24]

Everything good on two computers running KDE and one with XFCE.

[Yochanan]

@BlueWizard

Any concern about this news related to the new format of initramfs images (from gzip to zstd) ?
https://archlinux.org/news/moving-to-zstandard-images-by-default-on-mkinitcpio/

Since we support older LTS kernels this change won’t be made on our end.

@Hanzel

This is about the default mkinitcpio uses

No, it’s about the Arch default. We have our own kernels and mkinitcpio package.

[plarkin]

Update broke HDMI over USB-C on pinebook pro. Solution:
sudo pacman -Syyu linux-pinebookpro linux-pinebookpro-headers

[sawdoctor]

@djg_s39c

After this update, nautilus does not work. When attempting to open Nautilus, the process hangs indefinitely, then times out. When running from the terminal: Failed to register: Time-out was reached. This is a rather problematic bug as nautilus is rather important, obviously. Any help here would be great. I’ll post what logs I can.

I had the same issue with megasync on nemo (check my thread on it) it transpired the culprit was glib2. I updated glib2 to 2.66.7-1 from the unstable branch and it fixed megasync plus Dropbox issues as well. Like I said this was on nemo not nautilus but nemo is a fork of nautilus

[noel]

Updated with tty Intel i7 lts kernel 2 monitors
A quick check of apps all good
Big Thank You to all the team and especially those in testing for sharing your time.
Noel.