[Stable Update] 2021-10-16 - Haskell, Python, KDE Gear, KDE Framework, Thunderbird

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Known issues and solutions

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New issues:

Pamac can't handle file conflicts checking

As of now libpamac v11.1.2 has still the issue checking for file conflicts properly. Keep an eye on this ticket and use pacman for now as needed. As soon as a fix is available it will be pushed to all branches: Hangs on file conflicts checking (#1138) · Issues · Applications / pamac · GitLab

Solution: update to libpamac 11.1.3 sudo pacman -Sy libpamac

Shotcut Scrolling doesn't work any more

You now need to hold down the ⊞ (aka “the Windows key”) to make the mouse wheel scroll the timeline forwards & backwards.

Fullscreen loses focus

Symptoms:
Full-screen apps like YouTube and games:

• Load fine but after briefly showing the application you’re dumped back into your Desktop Environment (DE) whilst the application was still running fine in the background.
• Clicking on the running application briefly brings you back to it but you’re dumped again to the DE after a second or 2.

Solution:
disable the Desktop Icons (DING) extensions

Older Issues:

With 21.1.4 and initial 21.1.5 release it was not possible to install on non-BTRFS filesystems

Seems grub-btrfs preinstalled in version 4.10.1 introduced a regression to error out when no BTRFS filesystem was found on your system. This was part of 21.1.4 ISO and our initial 21.1.5 release. Please re-download 21.1.5, which is now fixed.

Fixed ISOs:
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58de4cd58b23fea2ef69c055dd0088726350294a  manjaro-gnome-21.1.5-211008-linux513.iso
a8af15b768479ea321c897aa83e573e26bd61784  manjaro-gnome-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux513.iso
aef8a60820666cddce79c980258693d0cf13da9a  manjaro-gnome-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux54.iso
564c64ddf342c9b7483c469a6d8dca2f94492719  manjaro-kde-21.1.5-211008-linux513.iso
3781a3c0d3a92496b1418dafb49cef247379aa93  manjaro-kde-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux513.iso
1f4c83be758275e3d0bb17a0b32138b7a0b313a8  manjaro-kde-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux54.iso
00737362c81c3c3d4ec7fba6f7a7ec72701a0450  manjaro-xfce-21.1.5-211008-linux513.iso
c2e2f5018d9a50a1112bbcc761a22c8e4dcb7275  manjaro-xfce-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux513.iso
a34e27a17ab5fcc6473f1ad503d2049a9c904608  manjaro-xfce-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux54.iso

Broken ISOs:
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91cf900bb978dfbb3d32fec083c27d4c428b03ca  manjaro-gnome-21.1.5-211008-linux513.iso
c9f07d7ab4f3bb3a75b1a3c84e909cbf3bd74309  manjaro-gnome-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux513.iso
7e0673c604e1ce267f59d0056ddf819cede21f38  manjaro-gnome-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux54.iso
1f56c7feaf7c5fea485b30a6d3c513fb3d0188bb  manjaro-kde-21.1.5-211008-linux513.iso
0922345bdec24b2eb5ed6f635c600b2a499a1ed9  manjaro-kde-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux513.iso
74fd38b172be9c996d6d59e40e4a730b93f9c88f  manjaro-kde-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux54.iso
3b9409492b791f4380f617489c63e327ae7f6d53  manjaro-xfce-21.1.5-211008-linux513.iso
10a8d165d9bd0a8edcae1a640e0c753b1ff1c54c  manjaro-xfce-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux513.iso
3d72ecdb9494f0e7876018286f875f1a0cef1191  manjaro-xfce-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux54.iso
3d72ecdb9494f0e7876018286f875f1a0cef1191  manjaro-xfce-21.1.5-minimal-211008-linux54.iso

Steam shows black screen

Opting in or out for Steam beta changes nothing.

Workaround:

• Open a terminal

• Execute:

  LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libharfbuzz.so steam
  

Buzzing sound while using headphones.

Workaround:

• Execute:

  sudo nano --backup /etc/tlp.conf
  

• set SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_AC=0

• Only if you have to, set SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_BAT=0 as well

No idea how much it affects battery life, though.

Vertex-Maia-Icons are messed up.

Workaround:

• Vertex-Maia-Icons will be dropped from the repository soon:
• Choose some new icon theme.

Unable to login in remotely using ssh using rsa keys

After this upgrade authentication might not work and might find the following error in the ssh log:

userauth_pubkey: key type ssh-rsa not in PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms [preauth]

Good solution:

• generate new keys using a more secure algorithm like ED25519

Lazy solution (acceptable for rsa keys with a length >= 3000bits):

1. Execute:

   sudo nano --backup /etc/ssh/sshd_config
   

2. copy-paste the following into the above file:

   PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa
   

3. To save, press Ctrl+X Enter Y

It works now, but you’re still using SHA1 which has been showing weaknesses for years now (although it’s not actually cracked, it’s not recommended any more and why ssh disabled it)

QTile minimizes windows

floating_layout rules in a dict was deprecated a while ago

KDE Window Decorations UI with Drag&Drop broken

When going to System-Settings → Window Decorations → Titlebar Buttons the UI interface doesn’t allow you to drag and drop buttons any more.

• Bug already raised and being tracked here

Firefox mixes languages

• Clear your profile cache : Help → More troubleshooting information → Clear startup cache
• If that does not work, create a new profile. See here how to do so while keeping your bookmarks, extensions and customization.

Brave segfaults / crashes

Solution:

• Clear cache / Data
• Re-install Brave afterwards

You might have issues to install this update by missing Maintainers keys

A possible solution might be:

sudo rm -r /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
sudo pacman-key --init
sudo pacman-key --populate manjaro
sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux
sudo pacman -Syvv manjaro-keyring  # just to test for key-problems, as this would fail

However, we recommend to remove the signatures of the failed packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ and get the replaced ones from the Build-Server:

sudo rm -v /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*.sig
sudo pacman -Syvv

nVidia 4xx PRIME on kernel >= 5.5 has no audio

If you are using an nVidia card with the proprietary prime driver and you get no audio through the HDMI port or the USB devices of the card don’t work it’s because they have been disable due to a power management bug in the kernel. This bug has been fixed in recent updates, so if you are running a kernel with version >= 5.5 and the 4xx version nVidia driver you can fix those problems by editing the file /etc/udev/rules.d/90-mhwd-prime-powermanagement.rules and commenting the following lines in this way.

• To go from this:

  # Remove NVIDIA USB xHCI Host Controller devices, if present
  ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{vendor}=="0x10de", ATTR{class}=="0x0c0330", ATTR{remove}="1"
  
  # Remove NVIDIA USB Type-C UCSI devices, if present
  ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{vendor}=="0x10de", ATTR{class}=="0x0c8000", ATTR{remove}="1"
  
  # Remove NVIDIA Audio devices, if present
  ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{vendor}=="0x10de", ATTR{class}=="0x040300", ATTR{remove}="1"
  

• to this:

  # Remove NVIDIA USB xHCI Host Controller devices, if present
  #ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{vendor}=="0x10de", ATTR{class}=="0x0c0330", ATTR{remove}="1"
  
  # Remove NVIDIA USB Type-C UCSI devices, if present
  #ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{vendor}=="0x10de", ATTR{class}=="0x0c8000", ATTR{remove}="1"
  
  # Remove NVIDIA Audio devices, if present
  #ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{vendor}=="0x10de", ATTR{class}=="0x040300", ATTR{remove}="1"
  

• execute this:

  sudo sed -Ei '/"0x040300"/s/^/#/' /etc/udev/rules.d/90-mhwd-prime-powermanagement.rules
  sudo sed -Ei '/"0x0c8000"/s/^/#/' /etc/udev/rules.d/90-mhwd-prime-powermanagement.rules
  sudo sed -Ei '/"0x0c0330"/s/^/#/' /etc/udev/rules.d/90-mhwd-prime-powermanagement.rules
  

Freetype2 update may break applications

• Freetype2 update may break applications such as Steam. For Steam the latest stable client update resolves the issue.

You might be blocked updating when using pacman due to some libcanberra packages.

Simply remove those packages: sudo pacman -Rdd lib32-libcanberra-pulse lib32-libcanberra-gstreamer libcanberra-pulse libcanberra-gstreamer. We recommend to use pamac anyway, which does this automatically: pamac update

Compiz packages got dropped from our repositories

• Compiz packages like compiz-easy-patch got dropped from our repositories. Due to protobuf update you may need to rebuild that package locally on your end. Compiz-easy-patch removed from repos

wget now always outputs “SSL_INIT” to stderr every time it is run.

Issue tracked here: GNU Wget - Bugs: bug #61125

vboxdrv error messages of systemd from log `journactl -b -p 3`

I got the error messages of systemd from log journactl -b -p 3 after this update:

 systemd-udevd[329]: vboxdrv: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:1 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrv".
 systemd-udevd[335]: vboxdrvu: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:2 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrvu".
 systemd-udevd[338]: vboxnetctl: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:3 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxnetctl".
 systemd-udevd[322]: vboxdrv: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:1 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrv".
 systemd-udevd[343]: vboxdrvu: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:2 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrvu"..

Solution:

Edit the file /lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules

#KERNEL=="vboxdrv", NAME="vboxdrv", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0600"
#KERNEL=="vboxdrvu", NAME="vboxdrvu", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0666"
#KERNEL=="vboxnetctl", NAME="vboxnetctl", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0600"

KERNEL=="vboxdrv", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0600"
KERNEL=="vboxdrvu", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="vboxnetctl", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0600"

SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh $major $minor $attr{bDeviceClass} vboxusers"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", RUN+="/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh $major $minor $attr{bDeviceClass} vboxusers"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", ACTION=="remove", RUN+="/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh --remove $major $minor"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="remove", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", RUN+="/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh --remove $major $minor"

or ignore these messages from the log.

Firefox VAAPI doesn't work

Can be fixed by removing the entire Firefox profile and settings
All Firefox settings will be reset to default!

~/.mozilla
~/.cache/mozilla
~/.pulse