See here:
Install xsettingsd and check scaling after that. While my “debate” was against being installed by default, i’m not against installing it on those machines that require it.
This fixed it for me: Uninstall xsettingsd / reboot / Install xsettingsd / reboot and then text / icons / etc were OK again for GTK applications.
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I had the most serious update-related problem in my multi-year usage of Manjaro.
After the update, I couldn’t boot the GUI. TTYs 2 to 6 worked. Both on Linux 5.15 and 6.1.
I had to use live usb and restore a previous Timeshift snapshot.
I don’t know what’s causing this, but I will be staying on this un-updated system for some time.
I had the same issue. Re-installing pamac helped.
sudo pacman -Sy pamac
I’ve found out the most trouble-free method of updating is simply using
"pamac update”, as it installs any dependencies automatically if needed. I think perhaps that is the reason I haven’t had any issues after an update for years on number of computers!
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I tried (and restarted), but the problem still remains.
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Unfortunately your solution doesn’t work in my case either.
However, I was surprised to find out that when checking for updates on the AUR, only pamac-cli crashes, while pamac-gtk (GUI version of pamac) works fine.
I dont understand this half completted fake (linux) guides today…
Alot stuff not explained, why xinput command not working and what we have to install to do so.
The same goes to “and restart X” what is this X… which normal person on planet earth should understand this stuff? 
Edit Tutorial for non Computer Geeks:
Related to this half completted Tutorial:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mouse_acceleration#with_libinput
I created a empty file in dolphin and named it 50-mouse-acceleration.conf and open it with kate and copy the text into the file:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "My Mouse"
Driver "libinput"
MatchIsPointer "yes"
Option "AccelProfile" "flat"
Option "AccelSpeed" "0"
EndSection
and save it.
Then rightclick in the window where you created the file and choose “open terminal here” and the terminal shows up:
then you need to type (to copy the file with sudo, because of admin privileges):
sudo cp 50-mouse-acceleration.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
enter your sudo password
and restart Linux.
Fixed!
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Another clue, I also get the segmentation fault crash on pamac checkupdates --aur but I haven’t yet installed the Stable update 2023-04-11
Diagnostics
$ pamac checkupdates --aur
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ uname -a
Linux delphin 6.2.9-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 31 07:15:15 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ pamac search pamac -i
libpamac 11.5.2-1 extra
Library for Pamac package manager based on libalpm
pamac-gtk 10.5.0-1 extra
A Package Manager based on libalpm with AUR and Appstream support
pamac-cli 10.5.0-1 extra
A Package Manager based on libalpm with AUR and Appstream support
$ pamac list -m
audacity-extras 2.2.1-1 244.1 kB
debtap 3.5.1-1 AUR 322.1 kB
ebtables 2.0.10_4-8 AUR 423.0 kB
exo-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
firebase-tools 11.12.0-1 AUR 87.3 MB
galculator-gtk2 2.1.4-6 AUR 1.4 MB
garcon-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
gcolor2 0.4-9 AUR 49.2 kB
gksu-polkit 0.0.3-2 178.2 kB
gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-7 AUR 10.3 MB
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-6 AUR 2.0 MB
ipw2100-fw 1.3-10 618.7 kB
ipw2200-fw 3.1-8 576.4 kB
libgee06 0.6.8-1 AUR 683.0 kB
linux-wifi-hotspot 4.4.0-1 AUR 207.7 kB
manjaro-documentation-en 20181009-1 10.0 MB
orage 4.18.0-1 AUR 4.0 MB
protonvpn 1.0.0-3 AUR
protonvpn-cli 3.13.0-2 AUR 162.1 kB
protonvpn-gui 1.12.0-1 AUR 9.3 MB
python-proton-client 0.7.1-2 AUR 170.7 kB
python-protonvpn-nm-lib 3.14.0-1 AUR 943.1 kB
qpdfview 0.5.0-1 AUR 3.9 MB
slack-web-jak 2.1.0-3 634 bytes
thunar-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
thunar-shares-plugin-gtk3 0.3.0-1 662.5 kB
ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-12 AUR 5.7 MB
vkcube-git r136.fda1d04-1 AUR 54.4 kB
vscodium-bin 1.77.1.23095-1 AUR 289.3 MB
xdg-su 1.2.3-2 AUR 22.7 kB
xf86-input-keyboard 1.9.0-3 41.0 kB
xf86-input-mouse 1.9.3-1 120.8 kB
xfce4-appfinder-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
xfce4-notifyd-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
xfce4-panel-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
xfce4-power-manager-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
xfce4-session-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
xfce4-settings-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
xfconf-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
xfdesktop-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
xfwm4-gtk3 2019.08.15-1 4.1 kB
zoom 5.14.2-1 AUR 620.7 MB
$ journalctl -f
Apr 12 07:52:39 delphin systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@0-138823-0.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 12 07:52:39 delphin systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@0-138823-0.service: Consumed 3.812s CPU time.
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin audit[138881]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=2 pid=138881 comm="pamac" exe="/usr/bin/pamac" sig=11 res=1
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin kernel: pamac[138881]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fd48e35f17a sp 00007ffd69777648 error 4 in libc.so.6[7fd48e2da000+15a000] likely on CPU 3 (core 1, socket 0)
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin kernel: Code: f3 0f 1e fa 66 0f ef c0 66 0f ef c9 66 0f ef d2 66 0f ef db 48 89 f8 48 89 f9 48 81 e1 ff 0f 00 00 48 81 f9 cf 0f 00 00 77 66 <f3> 0f 6f 20 66 0f 74 e0 66 0f d7 d4 85 d2 74 04 0f bc c2 c3 48 83
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin kernel: audit: type=1701 audit(1681250160.210:2909): auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=2 pid=138881 comm="pamac" exe="/usr/bin/pamac" sig=11 res=1
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin audit: BPF prog-id=778 op=LOAD
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin audit: BPF prog-id=779 op=LOAD
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin audit: BPF prog-id=780 op=LOAD
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1681250160.224:2910): prog-id=778 op=LOAD
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1681250160.224:2911): prog-id=779 op=LOAD
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1681250160.224:2912): prog-id=780 op=LOAD
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 138892/UID 0).
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@1-138892-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Apr 12 07:56:00 delphin kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1681250160.250:2913): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@1-138892-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Apr 12 07:56:05 delphin systemd-coredump[138893]: [🡕] Process 138881 (pamac) of user 1000 dumped core.
Stack trace of thread 138881:
#0 0x00007fd48e35f17a n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa717a)
#1 0x000055d4549a35db n/a (pamac + 0x155db)
#2 0x000055d45499ef8a n/a (pamac + 0x10f8a)
#3 0x000055d4549940ed n/a (pamac + 0x60ed)
#4 0x00007fd48e2db790 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x23790)
#5 0x00007fd48e2db84a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2384a)
#6 0x000055d454994155 n/a (pamac + 0x6155)
Stack trace of thread 138883:
#0 0x00007fd48e3b80dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd)
#1 0x00007fd48e6087b5 g_cond_wait (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb07b5)
#2 0x00007fd48e57cfb4 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x24fb4)
#3 0x00007fd48e5e3f9e n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8bf9e)
#4 0x00007fd48e5df315 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x87315)
#5 0x00007fd48e33dbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5)
#6 0x00007fd48e3bfd90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90)
Stack trace of thread 138884:
#0 0x00007fd48e3b29df __poll (libc.so.6 + 0xfa9df)
#1 0x00007fd48e60f17f n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb717f)
#2 0x00007fd48e5b1c7f g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x59c7f)
#3 0x00007fd48e812d5c n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x10ed5c)
#4 0x00007fd48e5df315 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x87315)
#5 0x00007fd48e33dbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5)
#6 0x00007fd48e3bfd90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90)
Stack trace of thread 138882:
#0 0x00007fd48e3b29df __poll (libc.so.6 + 0xfa9df)
#1 0x00007fd48e60f17f n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb717f)
#2 0x00007fd48e5b11a2 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x591a2)
#3 0x00007fd48e5b11f2 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x591f2)
#4 0x00007fd48e5df315 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x87315)
#5 0x00007fd48e33dbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5)
#6 0x00007fd48e3bfd90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90)
Stack trace of thread 138890:
#0 0x00007fd48e3b80dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd)
#1 0x00007fd48e608d03 g_cond_wait_until (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb0d03)
#2 0x00007fd48e57cf83 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x24f83)
#3 0x00007fd48e57d127 g_async_queue_timeout_pop (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x25127)
#4 0x00007fd48e5e4846 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8c846)
#5 0x00007fd48e5df315 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x87315)
#6 0x00007fd48e33dbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5)
#7 0x00007fd48e3bfd90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90)
Stack trace of thread 138889:
#0 0x00007fd48e3b29df __poll (libc.so.6 + 0xfa9df)
#1 0x00007fd48e60f17f n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb717f)
#2 0x00007fd48e5b11a2 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x591a2)
#3 0x00007fd48ce20fde n/a (libdconfsettings.so + 0x5fde)
#4 0x00007fd48e5df315 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x87315)
#5 0x00007fd48e33dbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5)
#6 0x00007fd48e3bfd90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90)
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Apr 12 07:56:05 delphin kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1681250165.117:2914): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@1-138892-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Apr 12 07:56:05 delphin audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@1-138892-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Apr 12 07:56:05 delphin systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@1-138892-0.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 12 07:56:05 delphin audit: BPF prog-id=780 op=UNLOAD
Apr 12 07:56:05 delphin audit: BPF prog-id=779 op=UNLOAD
Apr 12 07:56:05 delphin audit: BPF prog-id=778 op=UNLOAD
Apr 12 07:56:05 delphin kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1681250165.800:2915): prog-id=780 op=UNLOAD
Apr 12 07:56:05 delphin kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1681250165.800:2916): prog-id=779 op=UNLOAD
Apr 12 07:56:05 delphin kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1681250165.800:2917): prog-id=778 op=UNLOAD
Apr 12 07:56:05 delphin systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@1-138892-0.service: Consumed 3.462s CPU time.
$ inxi -Fazy
System:
Kernel: 6.2.9-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-6.2-x86_64
root=UUID=39eec585-651b-4816-b7ca-63eb9cb6d56b rw rootflags=subvol=@
sysrq_always_enabled=1 resume=UUID=15a7083f-5841-49d7-96fa-88573ce7c2a4
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E5430 non-vPro v: 01
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 9 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0MYF02 v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
v: A21 date: 11/30/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 29.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 29.1/62.2 Wh (46.9%)
volts: 12.4 min: 11.1 model: LGC-LGC2.8 DELL HMYXT2C type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: full
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge
gen: core 3 level: v2 built: 2012-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6
model-id: 0x3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 0x21
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1510 high: 1570 min/max: 1200/3300 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1570 2: 1397 3: 1552
4: 1523 bogomips: 20740
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-7 process: Intel 22nm built: 2012-13 ports:
active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3, VGA-1
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Microdia Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 2-1.5:4 chip-ID: 0c45:648b class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915
display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: LG Display 0x033e built: 2012 res: 1366x768 hz: 60
dpi: 112 gamma: 1.2 size: 309x174mm (12.17x6.85") diag: 355mm (14")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.2.9-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.67 status: off tools: pw-cli
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active with: pulseaudio-jack
type: module tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Dell driver: wl v: kernel
modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 14e4:4359 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe vendor: Dell
driver: tg3 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A
bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:1681 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp8s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 236.14 GiB (79.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST320LT007-9ZV142
size: 298.09 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: DEM1 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 209.55 GiB size: 209.55 GiB (100.00%)
used: 194.77 GiB (92.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 460 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
ID-3: /home raw-size: 209.55 GiB size: 209.55 GiB (100.00%)
used: 194.77 GiB (92.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 12.3 GiB used: 1.29 GiB (10.5%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 72.0 C mobo: 46.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2578
Info:
Processes: 262 Uptime: 3d 16h 40m wakeups: 19 Memory: 7.67 GiB
used: 6.94 GiB (90.5%) Init: systemd v: 252 default: graphical
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7 Packages: pm: pacman
pkgs: 1657 libs: 452 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Shell: Bash
v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.26
This might help,
same on the testing (branch),
- before the latest
pamacupdate,pamac checkupdates --aurwas working fine (and it lists firefox, pamac and couple AUR packages to update). - After installing the update from yesterday/today it fails with
Segmentation fault (core dumped). I’ve removed all the AUR packages (that were listed for update, with# pacman -Rs ...) and then it works.
Long story short, as long as you have any AUR packages to update (mine was ghone-icon-theme and couple more) and with the latest pamac, it’s going to fail.
My Acer Swift1 laptop becoming unresponsive after the display manager sets the screen blank after timeout period is still occuring.
It occurs only with Kernel 6.1.23 and NOT with 5.15 or 5.10.
The screen goes blank, sometimes flickers first before going blank. Once any key is pressed to restore active display, results in a full screen of white with streaks & lines, sometimes flickering, followed by blank again.
I have to press the power button to shutdown and reboot to get a usable session.
I tried downgrading these packages, to no affect:
mesa-vdpau lib32-mesa-vdpau mesa lib32-mesa libva-mesa-driver lib32-libva-mesa-driver.
I will keep using Kernel 5.15 until a new 6.1 update release appears.
Hoping this can be investigated and fixed.
TQ.
My Acer Laptop inxi details:
System:
Kernel: 6.1.23-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Swift SF114-32 v: V1.03
Mobo: GLK model: Sapporo_GL v: V1.03 serial:
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Pentium Silver N5000 bits: 64 type: MCP
smt: arch: Goldmont Plus rev: 1 cache: L1: 224 KiB L2: 4 MiB
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel GeminiLake [UHD Graphics 605] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1
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This information, combined with the fact that @Nebel highlighted the GUI still works and shows what AUR packages have an update, resulted that
$ pamac checkupdates -a
Your system is up to date.
Lets see if it remains once an update is available 
One note for anyone who has Perl scripts which rely on the forks module for threading (as opposed to the built-in fork() function). You’ll need to rebuild perl-forks, otherwise your scripts won’t work.
Restarting the computer or reinstalling pamac did not help. What helped me was: In the “third party” tab of Preferences section of pamac-gtk (add/remove software), I enabled the options “enable AUR support” and “check for updates.” Then I checked for updates by clicking on “updates” in the main window of pamac-gtk. After updating my AUR packages (I had one) I ran: pamac checkupdates -a. No “segmentation fault (core dumped)” appears anymore.
This solution implies that my problem was not really related to this update.
After this update, I get a black screen after logging in to kde when an external monitor is connected by HDMI. Both the laptop screen and external screen are black except for the mouse cursor.
If I unplug the external monitor, I can get to a kde desktop on my laptop screen. As a workaround, if I reconnect the HDMI cable and run xrandr -q, it detects the display and I can control it again as expected.
Just in case you are using a Nvidia card with the proprietary drivers:
I experienced a similar issue with a friends computer who still had an unsupported kernel installed:
After running the update, the system prompted to restart but failed to boot to the GUI.
Obviously the update had not succeed entirely, so I had to coach my friend by phone to switch to TTY2 and
mhwd-kernel install linux62
and afterwards
pamac install linux62-nvidia-470xx mhwd-nvidia-470xx
followed by
mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300
It is not the first time I encounter such an issue with the proprietary nvidia drivers, but thanks to the forum and the wiki I have always managed to get the system up and running again.
In this case, the problem seems to originate from the fact that my friend (who has a nearly identical system than myself) had not removed the unsupported kernel until now, whereas I had moved to kernel 6.2 immediately and I always get rid of older kernels.
(I only keep the latest LTS kernel as falllback)
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Any idea, when this issue might be solved without the workaround? Currently I have postponed [Stable Update] 2023-04-11, as I’m facing another issue with my mouse anyway …
I have an issue with PipeWire (Plasma on Wayland). Every time I close a laptop lid and open it, it forgets about a sound card in my docking station. It just doesn’t show it in the Audio configuration. I have to log out and log in again to be able to play sound via the docking station. I didn’t have such an issue with the update from 2023-04-06.
Update: I see PipeWire 0.3.69 is out which “is a quick bugfix release”. Probably it could fix an issue. Could you please update it?