[Stable Update] 2022-11-02 - Kernel, Plasma 5.26.2, Plasma Mobile Gear 22.09, LibreOffice, Virtualbox 7.0.2, Systemd, Mesa

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Hello community,

Another stable branch update with some usual package updates for you.

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  • We updated most of our Kernels
  • KDE Plasma 5.26.2
  • Plasma Mobile Gear :gear: 22.09
  • LibreOffice Release Notes
  • VirtualBox 7.0.2
  • Mesa 22.2.1
  • Some KDE-git, Haskell and Python updates as usual

Additional Info

Info about AUR packages

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:information_source: You may need to rebuild any AUR packages that install files to site-packages …

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

Our current supported kernels

  • linux419 4.19.262
  • linux54 5.4.221
  • linux510 5.10.151
  • linux515 5.15.76
  • linux519 5.19.17 [EOL]
  • linux60 6.0.6
  • linux61 6.1.0rc2
  • linux515-rt 5.15.73_rt52
  • linux519-rt 5.19.0_rt10

Package changes (Sun Oct 30 09:15:00 CET 2022)

  • stable community x86_64: 2330 new and 2189 removed package(s)
  • stable core x86_64: 59 new and 59 removed package(s)
  • stable extra x86_64: 1060 new and 1215 removed package(s)
  • stable kde-unstable x86_64: 415 new and 415 removed package(s)
  • stable multilib x86_64: 43 new and 46 removed package(s)

A list of all package changes can be found here .

  • No issue, everything went smoothly
  • Yes there was an issue. I was able to resolve it myself.(Please post your solution)
  • Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)

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Known issues and solutions

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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 :beer: :coffee: :heart: instead to let us know you’re suffering from the same so we can respond to the highest impacted issues first! :unicorn: :rainbow: :question:

:arrow_right: 2022-11-02

Kernel 6.1-rc# might break backlight control on old/weird laptops, please test

https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/26427.html

2022-10-28

signature from "Manjaro Build Server <build_at_manjaro_dot_org>" is unknown trust

Seems our signing key for our Build Server had the 2022-10-28 as expire date set when generated. This is now fixed for chroot builds and fresh as also current existing installs via manjaro-keyring 20221028-4 Simply update your system to get that package, which got pushed to all our branches.

NVIDIA 520.56.06 Color banding and animation issues

Current (not so good) Workaround:

  • Open nvidia-settings
  • Select the problematic monitor under the GPU Tab (e.g. DP-0 - (LG ...))
  • Under Controls, change Depth to 6 bpc (or play with the Dithering Controls)

NVIDIA already replied to the Bug-Report, so there is a good chance that this issue will be fixed with the next NVIDIA driver release.

2022-10-10

Various Linux Kernel WLAN security issues (RCE/DOS) found

New Kernel versions are out that fix the RCO and DOS vulnerabilities in the WiFi stack published on Wednesday. They can be exploited over the air, so better update to 6.0.2, 5.19.16, 5.15.74, 5.10.148, or 5.4.218 soon!

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

Fixed: timeshift-gtk dumping core for some setups

ongoing discussion:
Timeshift-gtk dumps core

Update to timeshift 22.06.5-3

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-qt
  • backintime-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

Fixed: 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.

Update to suil 0.10.16-3

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I’m getting these file conflicts:
virtualbox: /usr/bin/VBoxAutostart exists in filesystem
virtualbox: /usr/bin/VBoxBugReport exists in filesystem
virtualbox: /usr/bin/VirtualBoxVM exists in filesystem
virtualbox: /usr/bin/vbox-img exists in filesystem
virtualbox: /usr/bin/vboxbugreport exists in filesystem
virtualbox: /usr/bin/virtualboxvm exists in filesystem

I’m getting told that no package owns these files. Should I just delete them?

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you can either remove them or use --overwrite “*” flag

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the update quite changed the “view all desktops” thing but it’s still lagging since plasma got 5.25 version, but seems like a bit less lagging or it’s just cuz i just turned on my pc. other than that no new problems appeared yet

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I have exactly a 50% chance to boot into my OS. After an unsuccessful boot I can boot into my OS and after an successful boot I can’t boot into my OS.

I seems that Manjaro do something and then restart immediately. Here is the screenshot with the error message during an unsuccessful boot.

EDIT: Fixed it by removing and reinstalling my current kernel.

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The shutdown messages Failed to unmount /oldroot/... are “normal” when using nvidia drivers (Failed to umount oldroot due to nvidia kernel modules · Issue #289 · NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules · GitHub).
I am also used to the Failed to finalize file systems, ... (are we both using lvm volume groups maybe?).

So the boot problem might or might not be connected to nvidia.

(Your successful journalctl log is not available yet (“pending moderation”))
The question is: what could trigger a reboot? Are you sure it is not some hardware protection (temp.?) doing that?

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Both these packages are now working on kernel 6.0.6-1, no longer need the somewhat hacky workaround.

  • broadcom-wl-dkms v 6.30.223.271-35
  • linux60-broadcom-wl v 6.30.223.271-7
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I’ve got a problem with Virtualbox since the update:

I have a few virtual machines (running just fine, yesterday).
Today (after the update), I can’t get it up and running, anymore.

What I expected:
Usually, there’s a popup (popup comes from Virtualbox), that asks me for the encryption-key (encrypted filesystem for the VM). After that, the system usually boots.

What’s happening, now:
I try to start the VM, but there’s no popup. Inside the VM, I see a cursor blinking, at first … but that stops blinking, soon after. Then, nothing happens, anymore.
When I wanted to reboot it, I noticed, that the VM is “Paused”.
So, I un-paused it.
Cursor starts blinking again … but it doesn’t boot.

Found this in the output of sudo dmesg on the host-machine (up to date Manjaro):

[ 596.600473] vboxdrv: 000000009d4c5a5f VMMR0.r0
[ 596.715860] vboxdrv: 0000000033c81c3c VBoxDDR0.r0
[ 638.463780] vboxdrv: 000000002bfae542 VMMR0.r0
[ 638.567132] vboxdrv: 000000008cc99c2e VBoxDDR0.r0

My host-system:

  • CPU: i7-i6700k (32GB RAM)
  • GPU: Nvidia 1060 (6GB RAM)

Is there something, I can do to fix this, or is this a bug?

EDIT / UPDATE:
I have uninstalled virtualbox and virtualbox-host-dkms.
Reinstalled both.
Installed the Virtualbox-Extensions from the whoracle (i had to make that joke … sorry).
Now all works fine, again.

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I have got a problem with my extended screen. It doesn’t work since this upgrade.
I have only my built-in screen of my laptop (hp zbook) is working right now.
I use the nvidia driver.

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It might be disabled. Open System Settings> Display and Monitor and check if it is enabled.

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Im having the same issue, but with a desktop with 2 displays connected to my 2070 Super. When I try to enable the main monitor (check “activated”, apply), it starts activating but then the settings page refreshes and the monitor is deactivated again. If I disconnect my 2nd monitor, I can activate the main monitor. I can’t enable both of them at the same time though.

I had the exact same problem when I was using testing branch like a week ago. I tried fiddling with settings, kscreen etc to no avail. Everything started working as normal when I rolled back to stable branch.

Any suggestions how to solve this? My workflow is very dependant on having 2 displays.

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The same issue with 3 monitors.

After the update only the primary one is enabled. When I try to enable auxiliary ones I get a black screen on the primary monitor and auxiliary monitors keep showing “No Signal” message.

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No poll this time?

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Probably by accident but in that case the update status page should show an error or something like “not enough votes for useful feedback” or so.

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Update somehow killed mouse support. Tried both wired and wireless mouses but neither work. On shutdown the splash screen also complains of RAS and Bluetooth daemon problems

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Everything is fine, except for the still uncorrected freeze when closing the laptop lid, at 5.24 everything is fine, at 5.25, 5.26, when the power management is set to “turn off when the lid is closed”, puts the computer into a stupor, everything freezes and does not turn off. Then it turns off only with the button. Please fix this. Booted the system from scratch, without Nvidia drivers and programs, the same problem, that is, the problem is in the shell.

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI (rev 09)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: bdw_uncore

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 51
	Memory at f5000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 52
	Memory at f7214000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 201f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
	Memory at f7200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
	Kernel modules: xhci_pci

00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP MEI Controller #1 (rev 03)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 47
	Memory at f721d000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: mei_me
	Kernel modules: mei_me

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 50
	Memory at f7210000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev e3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: [disabled] [16-bit]
	Memory behind bridge: [disabled] [32-bit]
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] [64-bit]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev e3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: [disabled] [16-bit]
	Memory behind bridge: f7100000-f71fffff [size=1M] [32-bit]
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] [64-bit]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev e3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: e000-efff [size=4K] [16-bit]
	Memory behind bridge: f6000000-f70fffff [size=17M] [32-bit]
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-f1ffffff [size=288M] [32-bit]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB EHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 201f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
	Memory at f721b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 03)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich
	Kernel modules: lpc_ich

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
	I/O ports at f0b0 [size=8]
	I/O ports at f0a0 [size=4]
	I/O ports at f090 [size=8]
	I/O ports at f080 [size=4]
	I/O ports at f060 [size=32]
	Memory at f721a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SMBus Controller (rev 03)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
	Memory at f7219000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	I/O ports at f040 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c_i801

00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP Thermal Management Controller (rev 03)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 194d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
	Memory at f7218000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: intel_pch_thermal
	Kernel modules: intel_pch_thermal

02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev cb)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 53
	Memory at f7100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
	Kernel modules: iwlwifi

03:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GeForce 820M
	!!! Unknown header type 7f
	Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at f7000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

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No poll? The update is fine for me.

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Smth wrong with task switcher on KDE:

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@philm You missed to paste to Poll vote.