[Stable Update] 2021-03-18 - Kernels, Plasma, Frameworks, LibreOffice, Firefox, Systemd

  1. Kernel 5.11 is an experimental kernel: upgrade to 5.4 LTS or 1.10 LTS (Long Time Support) and try that first.

  2. If that doesn’t help, remove the file and try again.

    sudo rm /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/typing_extensions.py
    

:man_shrugging:

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:slightly_smiling_face: All good now thanks Phil

I just tried and it works good here.
Did you try to reset configuration of pulseeffects? It has a button for that.

Contrary to:

after the update grub-install -V gives “grub-install (GRUB) 2.04~22~manjaro”

Is the 2.06-rc1 a leftover copy-paste from testing?

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Thank you for caring.
Even if I already uninstalled & deleted config files, I tried this reset right now.
Pulseeffects is still almost ko (filters do about nothing, equalizer is ko)

…and Pulseeffect when running uses 13% of CPU (prior to update, was around 2%)

Bitwarden now uses Electron 11 (electron) so electron9 was dropped from the repos as nothing else requires it. If you need Electron 9 for anything else, install electron9-bin from the AUR. Building electron9 will take hours to build even on a fast computer.

See man pacman | less -p "--overwrite":

sudo pacman -Syu --overwrite \* python-typing_extensions
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Update went fine on my Manjaro GNOME using pamac-cli. Thanks for the amazing distro!

Hi all! Got an issue with Pulseeffects after this update, it stop working. I’m on pipewire, log show lines like:

pipewire-media-session[10607]: error id:62 seq:2653 res:-17 (File exists): link-factory: can’t link ports 54 and 59: File exists
pipewire-media-session[10607]: can’t link 62:66 → 51:63: link-factory: can’t link ports 66 and 63: File exists

After manual deleting ~/.config/pipewire and systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-media-session got it back to work! :slight_smile:

PS: Unfortunately it’s still issue, after restarting or logoff Pulseeffets stop working, does not proceed sound, need to open GUI → uncheck/check all needed fx’s to start work it back. Resetting to defaults does not help.

systemctl --user status pipewire

9 19:45:36 mjrkde pipewire[25626]: alsa-pcm front:0: snd_pcm_status error: Broken pipe
мар 19 19:46:31 mjrkde pipewire[25626]: 7 events suppressed
мар 19 19:46:31 mjrkde pipewire[25626]: (pulseeffects_soe-74) client too slow! rate:256/48000 pos:19429120 status:triggered
мар 19 19:46:31 mjrkde pipewire[25626]: (pulseeffects_soe-58) client too slow! rate:256/48000 pos:19429120 status:triggered
мар 19 19:46:31 mjrkde pipewire[25626]: alsa-pcm front:0: snd_pcm_status error: Broken pipe
мар 19 19:47:16 mjrkde pipewire[25626]: 2 events suppressed
мар 19 19:47:38 mjrkde pipewire[25626]: alsa-pcm front:0: snd_pcm_status error: Broken pipe

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How can we see easily what uses electron9? I speak after the build finally completed, but I want to see what possibly I have installed that is using eletron9 currently.

Thanks!

I think pacman -Qi electron9 should do it.

output below:

pacman -Qi electron9                                                                                                                                             ✔ 
Name            : electron9
Version         : 9.4.4-2
Description     : Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://electronjs.org/
Licenses        : MIT  custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : c-ares  ffmpeg  gtk3  http-parser  libevent  libxslt  libxss  minizip  nss  re2  snappy
Optional Deps   : kde-cli-tools: file deletion support (kioclient5)
                  libappindicator-gtk3: StatusNotifierItem support [installed]
                  trash-cli: file deletion support (trash-put)
                  xdg-utils: open URLs with desktop's default (xdg-email, xdg-open) [installed]
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 154.67 MiB
Packager        : Unknown Packager
Build Date      : Thu 18 Mar 2021 01:57:37 PM CDT
Install Date    : Fri 19 Mar 2021 05:47:07 AM CDT
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : None

@Yochanan - Do I just remove electron9 and install electron (Electron-11)? Seems like I have a few dependent apps according to the output.

Thanks!

It’s required by nothing you have installed.

Hi! I have same issue, chewing more of CPU after update. Was 1% now 3% in total on i7-2600k.

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KDE Plasma, kernel 5.11.Boot without problems. Before upgrade VHBA works. Gcdemu still works thanks good update VHBA module.

By the way, I have issues with pulseeffects (or pipewire) now. It could do its job well sometimes, but after a reboot it just stop routing the sound to the proper sink.

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That’s not a bug, it just does what you configured it to do.

In your /etc/default/grub you probably have

GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden

Make it something else like

GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu

And then run update-grub.

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As @NGr pointed out, electron9 is an orphan and you can remove it. If another application needs electron, it will pull it in as a dependency.

The update itself went smoothly here on four machines, all of them Cinnamon-flavored.

As usual: many thanks for that! I adore Manjaro!

But: unfortunately Bluetooth is gone! Also on all four machines (two notebooks, two NUC5, all fuelled by Intel, one ancient Core2 Duo, three Core i3…i7).

Yet I have to confess, I’m not sure if it actually happened with this update or a previous one, since I use BT only occasionally with a pair of Sony WH-1000 NC headphones. These will no longer connect on said Manjaro machines, are not even removable from the device list there anymore.

Also, new BT devices won’t show up in the BT manager.

However, the headphones work flawlessly on other devices or when said machines are booted with PartedMagic for instance, so I can’t blame the hardware.

Any useful hint or tip on how to proceed will be greatly appreciated!

THX in advance!

indeed that was the case. interesting, why did the previous behaviour got overwritten? none of the previous updates did that.

sudo pacman-mirrors -f
::INFO Downloading mirrors from repo.manjaro.org
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pacman-mirrors", line 28, in <module>
    pm.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pacman_mirrors/pacman_mirrors.py", line 101, in run
    httpFn.download_mirror_pool(config=self.config, tty=self.tty, quiet=self.quiet)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pacman_mirrors/functions/httpFn.py", line 195, in download_mirror_pool
    result = download_mirrors(config)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pacman_mirrors/functions/httpFn.py", line 60, in download_mirrors
    mirrorlist = json.loads(response.read().decode("utf8"), object_pairs_hook=collections.OrderedDict)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 471, in read
    s = self._safe_read(self.length)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 612, in _safe_read
    data = self.fp.read(amt)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/socket.py", line 704, in readinto
    return self._sock.recv_into(b)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/ssl.py", line 1241, in recv_into
    return self.read(nbytes, buffer)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/ssl.py", line 1099, in read
    return self._sslobj.read(len, buffer)
socket.timeout: The read operation timed out

@philm: Same problem here, pacman-mirrors 4.19.5-2 installed , but doesn’t work. Any hint?
If i downgrade to pacman-mirrors-4.19.2-1 all works fine.