[Stable Update] 2022-11-14 - Kernels, GNOME 43.1, Plasma 5.26.3, Systemd 251.8, Firefox 106.0.5, Thunderbird, LXQt

Thanks, nikgnomic.
Went back to audio settings in system settings and found a playback setting had been reversed.
Reselected and all good.
Best wishes

For those having issues with displays going black or other problems on NVIDIA graphics cards, I suspect something could be amiss with the driver in the repository. I found that installing the driver directly from Nvidia’s site resolves the issue (even though the version is the same.)

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Thanks, this looks too high-risk to try.
I’m hoping the next update will fix it.
I have two laptops with nvidia hybrid card, and none of them deals with extermal monitor at all anymore. This is a big problem and reason for me to start looking for alternatives from Manjaro (after 7 years of being a Manjaro fan).

I just bought a desktop to make sure I 1/ get a working machine and 2/ Don’t have to deal with nvidia hybrid shenanigans ever again. My productivity is too valuable to me.

Ok, just updated today. Installed openssl1.1 and moved back to kernel 5.9, due to AMD graphics.
And no issues so far.

That has been EOL for almost two years. You’re putting yourself at risk. Perhaps use 5.10 LTS which is supported until December 2026.

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just missspelled: 5.19

yeah, well 5.19 is EOL as well.
But will fit until 6.1 is released.

After this update KDE Plasma sometimes freezes, just stop responding.
Does anybody face with it?

Hello,

As others have mentioned, this update introduces problems with Bluetooth. In my case sometimes BT devices won’t connect and I’m unable to turn off/on the bluetooth controller. A reboot usually fixes it, but after a while BT devices stop responding.

I get this in dmesg:

[    5.297155] Bluetooth: hci0: Waiting for firmware download to complete
[    5.297492] Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware loaded in 1620173 usecs
[    5.297596] Bluetooth: hci0: Waiting for device to boot
[    5.312472] Bluetooth: hci0: Device booted in 14576 usecs
[    5.312699] Bluetooth: hci0: Found Intel DDC parameters: intel/ibt-20-1-3.ddc
[    5.312842] Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT vendor event: 0x02
[    5.318588] Bluetooth: hci0: Applying Intel DDC parameters completed
[    5.321589] Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware revision 0.3 build 106 week 39 2022
[    5.471943] Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.22
...
[   13.775578] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   13.775587] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   13.775591] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
...
[  595.122983] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x0406 tx timeout
[  613.469624] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x0c03 tx timeout
[  621.363267] Bluetooth: hci0: HCI reset during shutdown failed
[  623.709925] Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x c03 failed: -110
[  625.842935] Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to read MSFT supported features (-110)

ixni -b output is:

System:
  Host: SwiftX-SF14 Kernel: 6.0.8-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.26.3 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Swift SFX14-41G v: V1.04
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: CZ model: Orion_CA v: V1.04 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: Insyde v: 1.04 date: 08/06/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 49.1 Wh (92.5%) condition: 53.1/58.8 Wh (90.4%)
CPU:
  Info: 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 5800U with Radeon Graphics [MT MCP] speed (MHz):
    avg: 1542 min/max: 1600/4505
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-2: Quanta HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: modesetting dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.3 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (renoir LLVM
    14.0.6 DRM 3.48 6.0.8-1-MANJARO)
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 80.95 GiB (8.5%)
Info:
  Processes: 367 Uptime: 29m Memory: 14.98 GiB used: 4.89 GiB (32.7%)
  Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.23

I might try this, could you post exactly what you did that worked? Thanks in advance

Tried it but it’s not trivial as nvidia drivers are loaded already when you try to install them. I get:

ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file
         '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find 
         suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README  
         available on the Linux driver download page at             
         www.nvidia.com.

I guess the idea is to disable the module before trying the install. That means I would have to install from a TTY outside X. A bit convoluted, and high risk of bricking the system even more than it is now.

Can anyone corroborate that this solution works? I’m waiting for a new desktop and my 2 lappys are manjaro and bricked for external monitor because of this. Last update was terrible on my hybrid laptops :frowning:

I have reasons to believe latest linux-firmware is bad for AMD Vega owners. downgraded to previous version currently and observing situation.

Out of curiosity, what symptoms are you seeing that lead you to this conclusion?
I’ve been having random display lockups for a while now (actually from before this update) so if they might be related I may benefit from a downgrade as well.

amdgpu crashing xfce desktop with different browsers. System keeps running though, just all the desktop apps are kind of killed in the process and I have to log on again, like after boot.
And a bit guugling the errors led to old thread here: random system freezes with "amdgpu: [gfxhub0] retry page fault VM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS" (#1598) · Issues · drm / amd · GitLab
where someone tried different kernels, but ended up narrowing the problem down to linux-firmware and couple of people seemed to confirm this.

Summary

Firefox:

dets  02 20:20:22 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu: [gfxhub0] retry page fault (src_id:0 ring:0 vmid:5 pasid:32776, for process firefox pid 831590 thread firefox:cs0 pid 831655)
dets  02 20:20:22 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:   in page starting at address 0x0000800170c00000 from IH client 0x1b (UTCL2)
dets  02 20:20:22 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu: VM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00540C51
dets  02 20:20:22 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          Faulty UTCL2 client ID: CPG (0x6)
dets  02 20:20:22 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          MORE_FAULTS: 0x1
dets  02 20:20:22 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          WALKER_ERROR: 0x0
dets  02 20:20:22 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x5
dets  02 20:20:22 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0
dets  02 20:20:22 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          RW: 0x1
dets  02 20:20:23 Zen kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx timeout, signaled seq=504479675, emitted seq=504479677
dets  02 20:20:23 Zen kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process firefox pid 831590 thread firefox:cs0 pid 831655
dets  02 20:20:35 Zen lightdm[954229]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file

and Brave also:

dets  03 12:11:28 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu: [gfxhub0] retry page fault (src_id:0 ring:0 vmid:4 pasid:32776, for process brave pid 8050 thread brave:cs0 pid 8065)
dets  03 12:11:28 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:   in page starting at address 0x00008001146f1000 from IH client 0x1b (UTCL2)
dets  03 12:11:28 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu: VM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00441051
dets  03 12:11:28 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          Faulty UTCL2 client ID: TCP (0x8)
dets  03 12:11:28 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          MORE_FAULTS: 0x1
dets  03 12:11:28 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          WALKER_ERROR: 0x0
dets  03 12:11:28 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x5
dets  03 12:11:28 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0
dets  03 12:11:28 Zen kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu:          RW: 0x1
dets  03 12:11:29 Zen kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx timeout, signaled seq=34131050, emitted seq=34131052
dets  03 12:11:29 Zen kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process brave pid 8050 thread brave:cs0 pid 8065
dets  03 12:11:42 Zen lightdm[52487]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file

… anyway 2 days now without desktop process crash with older firmware… :crossed_fingers:t2:

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Thanks. Those are the same errors I see (though with my Plasma system I can never recover without a reboot). so I’ll give it a try.
How many firmware versions did you go back? I only have three in cache so may have to work at it to get an older one if I need it.

Just one back for me currently – 20220913. I have Vega64 (vega10 chip/firmware files), could be different for other chips.
If I could find “working or stable enough version” for my GPU, it might be possible to just keep back (backup and copy over) just the vega10*.bin files in /lib/firmware/amdgpu folder while using newest firmware package for everything else? maybe? afterall GPU is just one component in the computer and using newer firmware for other stuff might be important.

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After updating with pacman -Syyu on November 30th (and attempting several updates in the days since), I’ve had a persistent issue where all browser pages show the following security issue.

I’ve installed Firefox, Firefox (developer version), and Google Chrome, and all have the same issue when loading most webpages. Some pages load but display errors because they’re unable to fetch other resources. For some pages, I can tell Firefox to make an exception. But for many websites, as shown in that image, the button for making an exception is simply missing and my only option is “Go Back.”

I’ve set the system locale and time correctly, I’ve cleared browser certificates and regenerated them, I’ve changed preferences to try to force Firefox to allow these website, and I’ve installed openssl-1.1 and lib32-openssl-1.1 but none of these changes have fixed or narrowed down the problem.