Only found this “issue”:
cantarell-fonts (0.303-1) throws errors during the plymouth-encrypt build hook while using the official manjaro plymouth theme (plymouth-theme-manjaro):
%› sudo mkinitcpio -P
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux514.preset: 'default'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-5.14-x86_64 -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-5.14-x86_64.img
==> Starting build: 5.14.7-2-MANJARO
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [plymouth]
-> Running build hook: [autodetect]
-> Running build hook: [keymap]
-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [block]
-> Running build hook: [plymouth-encrypt]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qat_4xxx
==> ERROR: file not found: `/usr/share/fonts/cantarell/Cantarell-Thin.otf'
==> ERROR: file not found: `/usr/share/fonts/cantarell/Cantarell-Regular.otf'
The Gnome team only provides the variable font by default on this newer version and do not provide the static fonts:
gitlab.gnome. org/GNOME/cantarell-fonts/-/commit/63e8cfa5b78d06cc42d9544b43c14cbd2469a315
For now I reverted cantarell-fonts back to 0.301-1 and put it into IgnorePkg.