Hi @elia,
As per the update announcement you just posted in:
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Install KDE and downgrade powerdevil? Lol, no, sorry, no other ideas. I haven’t used Gnome since version 2.
I had no issues on my work laptop running KDE.
Back with this now:
The printer may not exist or is unavailable at this time- not mentioned in the above suggestions - does it mean I’m the only one?
Сześć! Maybe you don’t have all dependencies, like gstreamer?
I deleted pulseaudio a few days ago and switched to pipewire, all was ok! Now in my system only this packets: pulseaudio-ctl, pulseaudio-qt, pulseeffects, gst-plugin-pipewire, manjaro-pipewire (pipewire, pipewire-alsa, pipewire-jack, pipewire-pulse).
ALso check/reinstall manjaro-alsa too.
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Found this, I’d the same problem a while ago, and it worked for me:
CUPS update need manual intervention
After you update your system, update your systemd services like this:
sudo systemctl disable --now org.cups.cupsd.socket
sudo systemctl disable --now org.cups.cupsd.service
sudo systemctl disable --now org.cups.cupsd.path
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.service
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.socket
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.path
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This is a very interesting use case. I didnt know the VST plugins required wine, but looking at the documentation, I see thats the case.
I can run my updated wine to verify its working with
wine notepad.exe
My thought was that you would need to let wine run to update or install mono again as it seems to pull it in with new versions.
I saw this post that may be related to your problem: Installing LMMS - LMMS Wiki
I wonder if you could use Winetricks (in package manager) to “pin” the version of wine specifically for LMMS so it wouldnt update (wine can have many containers and each one can be a specific version). OR pin the wine version in your repository so it doesnt update. Last resort you could roll it back.
Actually, all I needed was:
sudo systemctl enable cups.service
Yet, I appreciate you reminding me I should dig more next time round wink
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No dualboot options anymore after update. Trying solution in first post doesn’t work due to having no access rights to modify etc/default/grub (yes, done with sudo).
And simply sudo nano /etc/default/grub ?
Thank you for your reply and help!
Yes, wine applications seem to run fine.
The problem is with Windows Dynamic Libraries, (dll) if the form of which a VST plugin is deployed. Maybe a missing library is the cause, but I don’t get any error messages at the command line.
I’ll check this post as soon as possible, and see.
Maybe some other people encounter the same problem. My hardware isn’t something special, so it is possible this be a common problem!
Somehow it didn’t work for me. So, I deleted all pulseaudio and pipewire-pulse, pipewire-alsa. Now I use only alsa and kmix and all is fine. As a temporary solution it is ok.
I hope pulseaudio will be fixed. Or downgraded.
Yes. That did work suprisingly. Tried after posting. Though sudo update-grub was needed to get the other entries back. Thanks.
From a “simple user” standpoint disabling such a feature (no matter for what reason) without informing the user before upgrading is an absolute nogo imho!
Erm…it was in the update announcement. If you didn’t read it, that’s on you. I learnt the hard way to read before I update.
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So I have to go manually to this forum to get informations?
I think such important changes (breaking/changing/removing stuff) should somehow get to the user in a different way. More user friendly. At least something like a changelog shown befor installation within the gui update manager. Just my opinion.
Look at this also. I use it as well, and it works well: [APP] - mntray - Manjaro announcements tray app
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A Linux-system is not a simple point-and-click adventure. If you really want to use your current Linux-installation and stay updated, then you HAVE TO read each and every announcement in this forum. I also strongly recommend to read each and every post to them even if it doesn’t seem to concern you at first. In case you run into a problem you at least know that you have read about it already and you know that you can search for it.
There is a steep learning curve and the majority of users keep learning about new stuff even years after their first installation.
I bet a million Bitcoins that if you don’t do that you will make your system non-bootable and non-repairable (at least not with “minimal effort”) at one point. There are some helper-tools here and there, so feel free to use them. BTW, timeshift is highly recommended.
I don’t want to push you away from Linux or anything, but there are some things that you surely have to adapt to. So this is more of a warning. 
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I understand. I don’t like the thought but maybe Manjaro is not the right OS for me then. But I really do not want to open a great discussion here as it is ot, too. Thanks for your replies. Oh and I have setup timeshift and home backup already. But that does not imply here as I think it’s no solution to revert back with timeshift after updates that “break” stuff and then to circumvate them ^^
Be sure and read the link I sent, that might help. They discuss specifically how to update wine when using the VST