Known issues and solutions
This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary.
Please, consider subscribing to the Stable Updates Announcements RSS feed
Please don’t post to say everything was great on my side or yes, I have the same error but leave the space for people having issues, or even better: for people having solutions!
Use 
instead to let us know you’re suffering from the same so we can respond to the highest impacted issues first! 
2022-10-05
Removing python2 from the repositories
2022-09-23 - Jelle van der Waa
Python 2 went end of life January 2020. Since then we have been actively cutting down the number of projects depending on python2 in our repositories, and we have finally been able to drop it from our distribution. If you still have python2 installed on your system consider removing it and any python2 package.
If you still require the python2 package you can keep it around, but please be aware that there will be no security updates. If you need a patched package please consult the AUR, or use an unofficial user repository.*
– Arch Linux - News: Removing python2 from the repositories
* Note: Unofficial user repositories are not supported
Nvidia 3060RTX cards may have issues with the 515.76 driver
ceph, ceph-libs and ceph-mgr dropped to the AUR
These packages will most likely be orphaned and can be removed. See:
Arch Linux - Todo: Removal of ceph
timeshift-gtk dumping core for some setups
ongoing discussion:
Timeshift-gtk dumps core
Openh264 2.3.1-1 update might prevent some applications from launching
With the latest openh264 update so-file name changed. Some applications however still expect so.6. As a workaround the following symlink can be used for now.
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libopenh264.so.2.3.1 /usr/lib/libopenh264.so.6
2022-09-12
Changes with Back In Time packages
backintime has been renamed to backintime-qtbackintime-cli has been renamed to backintime
After replacing backintime-cli with backintime, you will need to install backintime-qt manually if you want the Qt frontend installed again.
electron12, electron13, electron14 & electron16 have been dropped to the AUR
Unsupported Electron packages have been dropped from the official repos to the AUR. They no longer receive security updates and nothing in the repos depend on them.
If you have AUR packages depending on those versions, install the binary version from the AUR to replace them; i.e., electron16-bin.
See FS#75490 - electron12, electron13, electron14, electron16 are unsupported and vulnerable packages
End of Support for 15.x.y and 16.x.y
Electron 15.x.y and 16.x.y has reached end-of-support. As per Electron’s new 8-week cadence, we were supporting the latest four versions of Electron until May 2022. With this Electron 19 release, we’ll return to supporting the latest three major versions, as well as the alpha, beta, and nightly releases.
– Release electron v19.0.0 · electron/electron · GitHub
element-desktop dependency error
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing electron (20.0.0-1) breaks dependency 'electron19' required by element-desktop
The upstream package was already flagged out of date (it needs to be rekeyringbuilt against latest electron).
Workaround for now:
sudo pacman -Syy electron electron19 --asdeps
sudo pacman -Su
2022-08-16
suil 0.10.16-1 breaks LV2 plugin GUIs in Ardour
Arch removed gtk2 compatibility in suil which is required by Ardour. Best solution is to downgrade to suil-0.10.12-2.
sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/s/suil/suil-0.10.12-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
2022-08-13
element-desktop dependency error
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing electron (20.0.0-1) breaks dependency 'electron19' required by element-desktop
The upstream package was already flagged out of date (it needs to be rebuilt against latest electron).
Workaround for now:
sudo pacman -Syy electron electron19 --asdeps
sudo pacman -Su
2022-08-07
Glibc 2.36 update will break EasyAntiCheat within Proton (should be fixed with glibc 2.36-2)
The following should no longer be needed:
Temporary workaround for now is to use the flatpak version of steam:
sudo pacman -S flatpak --needed --noconfirm
sudo flatpak install com.valvesoftware.Steam -y
You can use flatseal (another flatpak app) to grant it access to your existing game library so you don’t have to re-download your games (add the game library install path under “Other files” under “Filesystem”).
sudo flatpak install com.github.tchx84.Flatseal -y
For advanced users (not recommended by us): patched glibc and lib32-glibc are available here. They remove the commit that broke EAC.
2022-07-29
KDE Wayland: Kickoff "KDE menu", notifications and tooltips show in the upper left corner
- This is due to an upstream packaging bug, which has since been reverted.
- In the meantime, you can (temporarily) disable the associated Wayland feature (thanks @ufo_driver):
sudo echo 'export QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_FIXED_POSITIONS=1' > /etc/profile.d/qt5-wayland-regression.sh
- It should now be fixed with qt5-wayland 5.15.5+kde+r38-3.
Missing dependency 'gcc8-libs=8.5.0-1' required by gcc8
- This happens even while gcc8-libs is already installed (8.5.0-1).
- Fixed by manually uninstalling gcc8 and gcc8-libs.
AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcement topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.
