[Stable Update] 2022-05-13 - Kernels, Mesa, Nvidia, Gnome 42, PipeWire, LIbreOffice, KDE Gear & Frameworks, Virtualbox, Qemu 7.0

@raguse Thank you, it has been quite annoying!! I’ve changed it and will see how it goes

is anyone having same issue? I use GNOME with wayland, after the update I can’t type anything in certain text fields, e.g. authentication window and manjaro launch and switch applications text fields, but the most annoying is lock screen, I can’t type in password there (login screen is fine, so at least I can login :slight_smile:)

I have a similar error message with XFCE and can confirm it.
Edit: Same with Cinnamon and Mediathekview

AUR update doesn’t work from a Russian IP (sh!t hosting?):

pamac update --aur
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
https://aur.manjaro.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz: Could not connect: Network is unreachable
Failed to synchronize AUR database
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.

Works with the US VPN:

pamac update --aur
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.

Try installing or re-installing

jre-openjdk

When you enter

java -version

in terminal it should show

openjdk version "18.0.1.1" 2022-04-22
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 18.0.1.1+2)

Mediathekview runs fine for me in KDE Plasma

The solution for me was to set the default system java version to version 18:

sudo archlinux-java set java-18-openjdk

This works for me, thanks (previous default was java-8-openjdk)!

Hi,
I’m having same trouble after this upgrade on two different laptops both running Manjaro KDE with intel video driver. Tried different kernels, no change with either 5.15, or 5.16 or 5.17.

Plasma starts with several minutes at 100% CPU load (plasmashell process) and panel, taskbar (actually the whole plasma) hangs/freezes periodically. And after a while I have a huge more Gbyte file created until it fills up totally my home folder. The file is:
~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/database-wal

Tried to look for solution but nothing has come up so far.
Is it safe to delete this file? How can I limit the size of this file? How can I reload the kactivitymanagerd?
Restarting plasma ( killall plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell ) doesn’t help.
Logging out and in deleted the file but as disk was full, some settings are gone as well.
Any other solution suggestions?

Please let me know if you need any more info.

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you could try deleting your caches:
rm -rf ~/.cache/*
sudo pacman -Sc
reboot and see

I always feel uncomfortable to see rm -rf command, especially in combination with wildcards. For testing to see if it works, I recommend to just rename the folder instead. Also maybe deleting (or renaming) the relevant cache folder for KDE Plasma stuff would be enough.

A post was split to a new topic: Is synology-drive-client still being maintained?

evince refresh function is broken since this update.

Yes. On KDE I received 447 updates and a total of 3.3GB

I updated yesterday. As a user of “Back in Time”, I have similar issues with rsync. I’m not using Timeshift.

In Incompatibility with rsync 3.2.4 · Issue #1247 · bit-team/backintime · GitHub they mention the use of --old-args as possible workaround. With this option I was able to do the backup, but I’m unsure if it’s okay.

I’m wondering about rsync package problems, but in the changelog of this update this package is not mentioned. I’m mirroring my local pacman cache as well, and since January I never received any new version of it.

Therefore, what else could be the cause?

Update: There was an update (upgraded rsync (3.2.3-4 → 3.2.4-1)) yesterday. But why is this not mentioned in the changelog in #1 post?

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Back In Time is incompatible with rsync 3.2.4. Workaround is to add --old-args in Expert Options/Paste additional options to rsync.

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I have the same problem and after resetting with dconf I get the following error when going to Settings → Keyboard → under “Keyboard Shortcuts” → “View and Customize Shortcuts” and the window is blocked

In my case, it was because I had a different gnome-control-center installed.

Do

$ pacman -Qs gnome-control-center

then see the output, if your gnome-control-center is

local/gnome-control-center 42.1-3.1 (gnome)

If it isn’t, then

$ sudo pacman -Sy gnome-control-center

to install it, while answering y to remove the conflicting gnome-control-center.

This should go under the Policy section and then it does work.

Thanks for the tip.

FWIW: Crocus driver performance is acceptable if I turn off compositing (Picom), which I often do anyway. But now it is particularly slow to redraw: moving windows is a flickery affair. Without it, everything is as snappy as i915 was.

I’m using Openbox (on Mabox, which is Manjaro with a custom Openbox WM setup), and am fine with this so far. Have not tried any graphics-intensive tricks yet though. I would prefer to stay with a maintained driver if it can do all I need it to.

I agree, and noticed this happening sometime last Fall. I posted about it, but never have found out the reason why this happens.

For me it is an annoyance, but I switch kernels from time to time anyway. so it is no more than that. Eventually I will have nothing better to do but figure out what is going on with kernel updates, grub configs, UEFI settings, and/or ???. If so, I’ll shout it from the rooftops. So to speak. :slight_smile: