Plasma Wayland on NVIDIA has broken for me in this update. Just a black screen with blinking cursor. Installed gnome-shell just to test, and wayland works fine on that.
[ 168.525835] [drm:nv_drm_gem_alloc_nvkms_memory_ioctl [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000600] Failed to allocate NVKMS memory for GEM object
Probably due to my dual NVIDIA GPU setup. I’ll update the post if single GPU fixes it.
Since the last update I have a strange dark stripe on Brave-Browser on the left in my favorite newspaper website. I’m not sure if the error is related to Plasma or Brave. Can not say exactly, but those color probably matches the color of global theming.
Hi! Unable to update. This is the last lines of the update via pamac:
Controllo portachiavi…
Verifico l’integrità dei pacchetti…
Caricamento dei file dei pacchetti…
Controllo conflitti tra file…
Inizializzazione del trasferimento non riuscita.:
file in conflitto:
dunst: /usr/bin/dunstify already exists in filesystem (owned by dunstify)
I’ve previously had issues with my AX200 bluetooth (Anyone else experiencing Intel AX200 Bluetooth being disabled in kernel515?), and found after this update that it continues to work… No errors in journal, and my bluetooth devices are still listed in the bluetooth plasmoid. Some thoughts that may be helpful…
I am using kde plasma manjaro, and although blueman is listed in pamac, I do not have it installed. Not sure if it’s a requirement for your distro, but perhaps blueman is where the problem lies?
I am also still on kernel 5.15 (5.15.25) and have not tried 5.16 kernels yet.
I’m not sure what’s responsible for it, but this update appears to have returned some of the great memory management I was typically experiencing. Over the previous 1-2 updates, I was noticing occasions where Firefox and Steam were using multiple gigs of RAM. Typical “abusers” that are now behaving well are:
Firefox… still under 600K after opening/using a few tabs, not 2-3G
plasmashell… 300K instead of 600K+
Steam… ~400K (if I also add up all the steamwebhelper's) instead of ~1G+
I’ll continue to watch memory usage as the days go by, but even after a fresh reboot my PC was using 3.78 GiB (of 32G) with all apps loaded, whereas previous to this update this was 1.5-2G higher! Awesome improvement
I recall reading something about this in the testing threads… thinking I’d like to install this too (as a preventative measure, since i read it could also impact some steam games) I think I found a newer version in the Core repo, so why not install that instead? 4.4.26-1 vs 4.4.28-2
While updating I did see several warnings. I am not sure what they mean, but they where:
WARNING: Possible missing firmware for module qla1280
WARNING: Possible missing firmware for module qla2xxx
WARNING: Possible missing firmware for module bfa
WARNING: Possible missing firmware for module qed
I am not sure if I need to do anything here. It does not seem to be affecting the upgrade.
Launching Dolphin produces a blank window that visually mirrors what was behind it when it launched. Eventually Plasma tells me that it’s not responding and I can kill it. When I run dolphin from the terminal, I get no errors.
Thank you ishaanbhimwal, I am glad you said that. What would I need to do if those packages affected my system? I was going to do a search on what those files do.
Thanks for your reply.
" New warnings when building the fallback initcpio - Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa, qed, qla1280, qla2xxx
That’s due to the recent changes to the linux-firmware package. Note these are warnings, not errors. You only need those firmwares if you have Mellanox Spectrum switches, Marvell devices, Qualcomm SoCs, Cavium LiquidIO server adapters, QLogic devices and Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb ethernet adapters. if you have that hardware you can install linux-firmware-qlogic to get rid of those warnings. If you do not have that hardware you can safely ignore those warnings.
