Another stable branch update with some usual package updates we collected thru the month of March for you. You can also published Stable Install Medias including this update.
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Notable Package Updates:
Most of our Kernels got updated
Note: 6.0 kernel series got removed. Consider to either update to 6.1 LTS or 6.2 series.
Grub got updated to a newer git-master snapshot
this may create issues if you have your disk encrypted with luks and may lead to an error: no such cryptodisk found issue. See Known issues and solutions section and follow the discussion about it. Also you may want to read my personal take on that matter …
Note that there is now compatibility for Linux kernels with Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT). The ibt=off kernel parameter is no longer required. However, it may still be necessary for some systems using VirtualBox. See this post for more info
The NVIDIA X Server Settings has been split out of nvidia-utils into it’s own nvidia-settings package now built from source. It is now an optional dependency of nvidia-utils and will need to be installed manually if desired after the update.
Mesa23.0.1 with many Changes for Open-Source Radeon & Intel Graphics Drivers
Usual KDE-git, Python and Haskell updates
Additional Info
Info about AUR packages
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We now have Gradience in the Manjaro community repo (also available as a Flatpak) for your theme customization pleasure. There are community presets (currently unavailable) available or you can create your own.
Our in-house Layouts Switcher application by @Chrysostomus has some new features as well as various improvements and fixes:
Check if the UUID of your encrypted drive matches in your config files.
Based on the manual, unlike filesystem UUIDs, UUIDs for encrypted devices must be specified without dash separators. So check /boot/grub/grub.cfg for entries like cryptomount -u 3722dfb2-3b32-414b-bd59-4329fa92b6a9 and try to remove the dash separators.
If you modified the above configuration, you then need to update the grub menu with sudo update-grub.
A message “no such cryptodisk found” may appear on the following reboot, but should not prevent you from continuing by typing any key.
You may still want to have a liveUSB ready, in the rare case your bootloader does break, in which case you will need to reinstall grub.
Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention
2023-02-12 - Robin Candau
On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
If you installed the base-devel package group prior to this date, explicitly re-install it to get the new base-devel package installed on the system:
A solution, regarding to rob215x, is:
VLC would crash immediately when trying to play any video. I opened VLC directly, and changed Preferences > Video > Output from “Automatic” to “VDPAU” and it works now. I found that solution on another thread but I still don’t understand the problem and why VDPAU works.
2023-01-24
PHP 8.2 update and introduction of legacy branch
2023-01-13 - Pierre Schmitz
The php packages have been updated to the latest version 8.2. In addition to this, a new set of php-legacy packages have been introduced. These will follow the oldest but still actively supported PHP branch. This enables users to install the latest version but also introduces the option to use third party applications that might rely on an older version. Both branches will be kept up to date following our rolling release model. php and php-legacy can be installed at the same time as the latter uses a -legacy suffix for its binaries and configuration files.
In addition to this, the php7 packages have been removed as they reached end of life. The imap extension will no longer be provided as it relies on the c-client library which has been abandoned for many years.
dbus-x11 was installed out of the box on some flavors of Manjaro as of a year ago, but is no longer needed. If you have it installed, please replace it with dbus using the following:
sudo pacman -Syu dbus
XFCE becomes unusable if libxfce4ui-nocsd is still installed
So far XFCE Classic project hasn’t updated yet to 4.18 series. We pushed 4.17.0 version of the package, but don’t know if that helps in that situation. It is recommended to install the regular libxfce4ui package to avoid issues and comment on this issue: libxfce4ui 4.18.0 released · Issue #15 · Xfce-Classic/libxfce4ui-nocsd · GitHub
Just ran into one issue with Plasma. Upon reboot a blank panel containing only a separator and a task manager (no start button or icons) got placed over top of my panel, only on my primary display. Secondary display panel was fine.
If anyone else sees this the solution is to go into panel edit mode and delete the almost blank panel, your panel is safe just underneath.
Not sure if this is Plasma 5.27 or Manjaro’s customization of Plasma that got overzealous and tried to re-create a default panel when one already existed.
That being said, thanks for all the hard work on this big update Manjaro team!
P.S. Looks like I’m also starting to see some occasional black flickering with the latest Nvidia drivers. Will need to wait on the wiki post and search around to see if this has already been noted by others when I have more time.
You can always help to test our install medias. Currently I’m working on creating 22.1.0-rc1 Talos and may share the download links to those who are interested …
Plasma is known that migration scripts not always work when your system is customized. I’m sure you will find a solution to your problem here in our forums!
Resolving dependencies...
Choose a provider for libXNVCtrl.so=0-64:
1: libxnvctrl 525.89.02-1 extra
2: libxnvctrl-390xx 390.157-1 extra
Enter a number (default=1): 1
Checking inter-conflicts...
Warning: removing 'libxnvctrl' from target list because it conflicts with 'libxnvctrl-470xx'
Error: Failed to prepare transaction:
could not satisfy dependencies:
- unable to satisfy dependency 'libXNVCtrl.so=0-64' required by conky
Since option (1) is default and I’m on 470xxxNvidia I didn’t want to chose 2 but it looks like I’ll either have to or remove conky. What’s the save way forward?
There were a lot of changes made to multi monitor support with Plasma 5.27 LTS. Maybe you did customization and settings upstream didn’t expect. Migration scripts not always catch user changes and either reset or remove things to be able to have a functional desktop.
Well, it depends which kernel you are running. 6.0 for example got dropped. You may want to first install a newer kernel. Those nvidia-utils warnings might indicate that.
Minor issues - 2nd monitor panel was incorrect so recreated it. Also a shortcut for Darktable on the Task Manager was not found so recreated it. Everything else perfect so far - slight delay on first boot but to be expected.
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2023-03-31
after said update. No problems or anything.