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

[hound]

hm…some freeze was added after update.
and all system seems to work slower…

[Estebanium]

Fixing issues with pipewire:

Execute:

pamac install manjaro-pipewire
pamac install gst-plugin-pipewire

OR

pamac install pulseeffects-legacy

pulseeffects-legacy does not depend on Pipewire and does not require removal of PulseAudio packages

This made no sense to me, because I already had manjaro-pipewire and gst-plugin-pipewire installed. I recently replaced pulseaudio with pipewire. So the update was a challenge…

Thanks to Lyrix the following helped:
systemctl --user enable pipewire.socket pipewire-pulse.socket
systemctl --user enable pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-media-session
systemctl --user start pipewire.socket pipewire-pulse.socket
systemctl --user start pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-media-session

Before issuing the commands I renamed ~/.config/pipewire to pipewire_old

BTW PulseEffects works fine.

[cbDejaVu]

Thank you to the Manjaro team for all the work they put into every release.

Gnome, 5.11 kernel, nvidia 460 series
Smooth update without any issues.

I also switch over to pipewire from pulseaudio since that seems to be the direction for the future of audio in linux at this time using the excellent directions provided by @kagetora13 in this post and everything is running perfectly.

What is the correct way to install package “manjaro-pipewire”?

@realmain Hi, I was reading through the thread in the process of removing pulseaudio and changing to Pipewire. If I read everything correctly can you confirm these steps are correct: Installing Pipewire on Arch Linux (1) Uninstall pulseaudio: sudo pacman -R pipewire-pulse sudo pacman -R manjaro-pulse sudo pacman -R pulseaudio If the previous not works then: sudo pacman -Rdd pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth pulseaudio-ctl pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc …

[phnixir]

The update went smoothly apart from 2 issues, one which easily got fixed and it was that GRUB wouldn’t show AT ALL while booting, no kernel choosing, nothing. Easily fixed it by activating os-prober using the command in the common issues post, I’m not sure why grub would stop showing altogether just because it can’t find windows but eh it got fixed.

The other issue which i didn’t bother to research because it’s midnight is that the manjaro kernel manager just shows an install button in front of all the kernels, even the one i’m running

Which you can see here :

I’m not sure what causes this but i think it is relevant info that while installing i chose to not write to MBR and write the boot record to the disk manjaro itself is on, however before this update the tool worked fine. Also GRUB can find installed kernels, the manjaro tool can’t.

[CatBabylon]

Use GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu to force the menu to appear. os-prober was disabled by default for security reasons.

[nrw2000]

The computer freezes while building projects using gcc. Rolled back to the previous version using timeshift - everything became normal.
Update: switched to the 5.4 LTS kernel - the problems disappeared.

[zephyroths]

I can’t update my system because error happened at checking for file conflicts

(354/354) checking for file conflicts [##############################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
python-markdown: /usr/bin/markdown_py exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

please help me

[Mufflon]

No issues at all on two machines, thanks to the team.

[bill_t]

To solve your issue, see this thread:

Update or package installation returns “Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files); FILENAME exists in filesystem”

I can’t install or update a package because I get (something like) this: error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) libname: /insert/file/name/here exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Why is this happening? The package manager, pacman, has detected an unexpected file already exists on disk. By design it will not overwrite files that already exist. This is a design feature, not a flaw - package managers are des…

[philm]

I opened an issue for you: @linux-aarhus

[pamac-mirrors] socket.timeout: The read operation timed out (#157) · Issues...

[zephyroths]

It works. thank you so much

[ratatosk]

Hi,

after restarting the PC the desktop doesn´t show up. Via F2+alt I can search and start programs, and I do see manjaros mouse and welcoming screen, but there is neither a wallpaper, symbols or a task bar.

Would be happy to get some clues.

[linux-aarhus]

I couldn’t replicate the issue - Nonetheless I took the extra time to verify all code related to http requests and refactored all to use the Python requests lib - before it was a mix.

v4.20.0-2 has been pushed to unstable.

[mgl]

@linux-aarhus @philm Installed v4.20.0-2 from unstable. works fine for me. Big Thx!

btw: Version still prints:
sudo pacman-mirrors -v
Version 4.19.5

[jeancf]

See Known issues and solutions post at the top here:

wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/k/kio/kio-5.79.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo pacman -U kio-5.79.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo echo "IgnorePkg = kio" >> /etc/pacman.conf

[anon553421]

Update made my bluetooth headphones choppy. I posted information here:

Bluetooth Audio Headphones stops randomly (no sound, still connected)

For me the sound crackles and has dropouts via bluetooth after the last update. After installing Manjaro I always set it up like this in the past: # install pulseaudio-modules-bt and libldac to gain lossless transfer modi for bluetooth headset - sudo pacman -S pulseaudio-modules-bt libldac - systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.socket - systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.service - systemctl --user start pulseaudio.socket - systemctl --user start pulseaudio.service Output for aud…

[DK3]

Update on 12 Systems without Problems.

DK3

[Yochanan]

Reminder:

@philm

Please,, please, please don’t comment “Everything is fine with my upgrade” but use the voting buttons instead and leave the replies for actual solutions.

[OlDave]

Thanks. You saved my biscuits today. All works after following your solution.