[Stable Update] 2021-02-28 - Kernels, Plasma 5.21.1, Frameworks 5.79, Firefox, Thunderbird, Python

Update without problem: many thanks Manjaro team :clap: :clap:

After this update, my laptop is much warmer, and the battery life went from 7h to 3h, so there seems to be somethig wrong with power management.
Internal temperature is about 65 degrees celsius, where it was at 38 before.
How can this be fixed ?

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The Pipewire-Media Core Dumb error is back!

I knew that link already, but its not explain, who can deactivate it and who not, why should i deactivate it when i possible need it.

Looks like there is no real solution at the moment or?

Bug:

systemd-coredump[11675]: Process 11671 (pipewire-media-) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                      
Stack trace of thread 11671:
#0  0x0000556d6467f03b n/a (pipewire-media-session + 0x2003b)
#1  0x0000556d6467da6b n/a (pipewire-media-session + 0x1ea6b)
#2  0x00007fd1bb162df4 n/a (libpipewire-module-protocol-native.so + 0x>
#3  0x00007fd1bb15caa2 n/a (libpipewire-module-protocol-native.so + 0x>
#4  0x00007fd1bb15cff8 n/a (libpipewire-module-protocol-native.so + 0x>
#5  0x00007fd1bc248d9b n/a (libspa-support.so + 0x6d9b)
#6  0x00007fd1bc1c15ab pw_main_loop_run (libpipewire-0.3.so.0 + 0x425a>
#7  0x0000556d6466b7dc n/a (pipewire-media-session + 0xc7dc)
#8  0x00007fd1bbe84b25 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27b25)
#9  0x0000556d6466bc5e n/a (pipewire-media-session + 0xcc5e)
                                                      
Stack trace of thread 11673:
#0  0x00007fd1bbf5c39e epoll_wait (libc.so.6 + 0xff39e)
#1  0x00007fd1bc2521f1 n/a (libspa-support.so + 0x101f1)
#2  0x00007fd1bc248d04 n/a (libspa-support.so + 0x6d04)
#3  0x00007fd1bc1a7f50 n/a (libpipewire-0.3.so.0 + 0x28f50)
#4  0x00007fd1bc033299 start_thread (libpthread.so.0 + 0x9299)
#5  0x00007fd1bbf5c053 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0xff053)
░░ Subject: Process 11671 (pipewire-media-) dumped core
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░ Documentation: man:core(5)
░░ 
░░ Process 11671 (pipewire-media-) crashed and dumped core.
░░ 
░░ This usually indicates a programming error in the crashing program and
░░ should be reported to its vendor as a bug.

gotcha. good you’re paying attention.

a minute really? have you tried systemd-analyze blame? i like a quick boot and a quick shutdown. bugs me if over 30 seconds with modern equipment. I have an intel i5 7600 with 8gb ddr4 ram and 500 gb ssd - so not the most advanced set up in the computing world. Even my old (built in 2005) macintosh G5 boots in 30 seconds or so.

I have removed snapd and the pamac plugin, I will see if that helps. :slight_smile:

For me, the upgrade itself was smooth, however, I noticed a few problems after the upgrade:

  1. Syslog was being spammed with: data: <hex characters>
  2. Fan speeds for my GPU were no longer available, causing my fans to ramp higher than they should.

These two issues were fixed by downgrading powerdevil to 5.20.5-1.

More importantly, this update absolutely ruined my gaming performance. Cyberpunk went from ~90 FPS @1440p on ultra settings to ~20 FPS on any settings. Death Stranding went from ~100 FPS @1440p on highest settings to ~30 FPS.

Frametime and GPU usage were all over the place in both cases.

Checking pacman.log, I had community/mesa-git installed before the update, but it got removed in favor of extra/mesa. I tried reinstalling community/mesa-git, but was unable to due to a dependency on an older LLVM.

The problem was resolved by installing aur/mesa-git and aur/lib32-mesa-git, but now there are some significant stability problems. It seems if you have an AMD GPU, you’re out of luck for Linux gaming until there is an official release of Mesa 21.

Edit: At least if you have an RDNA 2 GPU you’re out of luck until Mesa 21, or until such time as community/mesa-git can be reinstalled.

System:    Kernel: 5.11.1-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7C37 v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
           Mobo: Micro-Star model: MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI (MS-7C37) v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC.
           v: 1.D0 date: 01/25/2021
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MX Ergo Multi-Device Trackball charge: 100% (should be ignored)
           status: Discharging
           Device-2: ps-controller-battery-a0:ab:51:c1:59:07 model: N/A charge: N/A status: Full
CPU:       Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 L2 cache: 4 MiB
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 121660
           Speed: 4389 MHz min/max: 2200/5726 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4389 2: 3799 3: 4273 4: 4436 5: 4150
           6: 3918 7: 3979 8: 3957 9: 4726 10: 3769 11: 4190 12: 4434 13: 4305 14: 3802 15: 3899 16: 3940
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu
           v: kernel bus ID: 2f:00.0
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting,radeon resolution:
           1: 2560x1440~144Hz 2: 1080x1920~60Hz 3: 1080x1920~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD SIENNA_CICHLID (DRM 3.40.0 5.11.1-1-MANJARO LLVM 11.1.0)
           v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.0-devel (git-efd7711e0e) direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 2f:00.1
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
           v: kernel bus ID: 31:00.4
           Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 1-2:2
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.1-1-MANJARO
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI X570-A PRO driver: r8169
           v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 27:00.0
           IF: enp39s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 29:00.0
           IF: wlp41s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           IF-ID-1: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
           IF-ID-2: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
           Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus ID: 1-4:3
           Message: Required tool hciconfig not installed. Check --recommends
RAID:      Device-1: zpmanjaro type: zfs status: ONLINE level: no-raid size: 1.86 TiB free: 1.3 TiB
           Components: Online: 1: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Drives:    Local Storage: total: raw: 2.32 TiB usable: 4.18 TiB used: 466.92 GiB (10.9%)
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: A-Data model: SX8200PNP size: 1.86 TiB temp: 40.9 C
           ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDBRPG5000ANC-WRSN size: 465.76 GiB temp: 47.9 C
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.26 TiB used: 18.68 GiB (1.5%) fs: zfs raid: zpmanjaro/ROOT/manjaro/root
           ID-2: /boot size: 511 MiB used: 135.9 MiB (26.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
           ID-3: /home size: 1.67 TiB used: 445.98 GiB (26.0%) fs: zfs raid: zpmanjaro/data/home
Swap:      Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 42.6 C mobo: 37.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 57.0 C
           Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 1324 fan-2: 0 fan-3: 796 fan-4: 504 fan-5: 0 fan-6: 0 fan-7: 0 gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:      Processes: 531 Uptime: 25m Memory: 31.34 GiB used: 19.36 GiB (61.8%) Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0

clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1792 Shell: fish v: 3.1.2 inxi: 3.3.01`

I’m having a small problem with Plasma 5.21: I can no longer “send” windows to different activities:

  1. Start an application
  2. Right-click on the application button in Task Manager
  3. Choose Show in activities > (a different activity): nothing happens.

Can anyone using multiple activities in Plasma confirm this bug? Thanks!

Hi,
I experienced it once but it gone after a reboot.

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Unfortunately, it is not my case: apparently it is a persistent problem. Thank you for sharing.

It works fine for me on Testing branch with Plasma 5.21.2.

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You could have a look in powertop and then you can see what’s consuming so much energy.

Have you tried downgrading powerdevil to 5.20.5?

I set the compose key to be on my right win key, though now it no longer disables it’s function as a windows key apparently. Now it still functions as a compose key, but it also open the application launcher on my secondary screen, but only on the secondary screen (it doesn’t matter which windows key i press though). The application launcher on my primary screen doesn’t have a shortcut set and doesn’t open on pressing any windows key, and the keyboard shortcut on the secondary is ALT + F1.(it reacts to both windows keys and ALT + F1, after i removed any shortcut it also stopped responding.)

Thank you Manjaro team! Awesome update. Here with KDE and no problems! I love the new menu. In my opinion one can find programs faster.

I’ve run into problems with pipewire but uncommenting the new config format fixed it.

Yeah I noticed that. I like it better too. Is it a modification of the “stock” menu or a new one altogether I wonder. It seems to have replaced it as far as I can see. I do like it more though - quick access to all the common things :slight_smile:

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It’s a new one. IMHO it’s better. But you can still get the kickoff menu back if you wish.

Can you explain what you did exactly?

Thanks

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