Another stable branch update with some usual package updates for you.
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Arch did their Spring-Cleaning. Hence some packages moved to the AUR
Usual KDE-git, Python and Haskell updates
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Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!
2023-05-07
All initramfs builds fail with ERROR: Hook ‘zfs’ cannot be found
There was an issue with zfs-utils 2.1.11-1 package having the initcipio files wrongly installed. Please update to zfs-utils 2.1.11-1.1 and re-run mkinitcpio -P. If you have an already unbootable system, you may recover by using an install media and chroot into it to complete the update.
2023-04-11
xf86-input-libinput 1.3.0 DPI and mouse acceleration issue on KDE Plasma X11
GRUB, LUKS and full disk encryption: 'no such cryptodisk found'
Following grub’s update, new configuration may be needed to be manually applied:
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. You have to redo that whenever you update a kernel or call update-grub on your own. You can read more about it here
A message “no such cryptodisk found” may appear on the following reboot, but should not prevent you from continuing by typing any key. This happens if you forgot to remove the dashes in /boot/grub/grub.cfg after update-grub got called.
We may add a alpm-hook to grub package to do that monkey job for you automatically. As an alternative you may reinstall grub, as the newer version can handle both cases, including the dashes.
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On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.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.
after the upgrade, i am experiencing (kernel?) crashes (both on 6.2 and 6.3), without any specific error in journalctl, it just resets the whole system (like having pressed the reset power button), reverting to before (thanks to snapper) fixes the issue for now
the last journalctl of the run where it resets look like:
May 07 13:40:47 Meicoo-Manjaro rtkit-daemon[1501]: Supervising 11 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.
May 07 13:40:47 Meicoo-Manjaro rtkit-daemon[1501]: Supervising 11 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.
May 07 13:41:30 Meicoo-Manjaro rtkit-daemon[1501]: Supervising 11 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.
May 07 13:41:30 Meicoo-Manjaro rtkit-daemon[1501]: Supervising 11 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.
May 07 13:42:14 Meicoo-Manjaro rtkit-daemon[1501]: Supervising 11 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.
May 07 13:42:14 Meicoo-Manjaro rtkit-daemon[1501]: Supervising 11 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.
May 07 13:43:59 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
May 07 13:43:59 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
May 07 13:44:04 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: ata1.00: qc timeout after 5000 msecs (cmd 0xa0)
May 07 13:44:04 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: ata1.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=0x4)
May 07 13:44:14 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed)
May 07 13:44:14 Meicoo-Manjaro rtkit-daemon[1501]: Supervising 11 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.
May 07 13:44:14 Meicoo-Manjaro rtkit-daemon[1501]: Supervising 11 threads of 6 processes of 1 users.
May 07 13:44:15 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
May 07 13:44:15 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
without a notice of a reboot / reset or kernel panic
pacman.log from the upgrade (for package changes reference)
also i dont know if it matters, but after such a reset happens, it prints the following on the next boot (both on screen for a short time and in the journal log) but does not print this when rebooting normally (like via poweroff --reboot or via shutdown and pressing power button):
May 07 13:45:30 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 2: Machine Check: 0 Bank 5: bea0000001000108
May 07 13:45:30 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: microcode: CPU13: patch_level=0x0a20120a
May 07 13:45:30 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: fbcon: Taking over console
May 07 13:45:30 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 ADDR ffffff8bd8b6d6 MISC d012000100000000 SYND 4d000000 IPID 500b000000000
May 07 13:45:30 Meicoo-Manjaro kernel: mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 2:a20f12 TIME 1683459924 SOCKET 0 APIC 4 microcode a20120a
maybe something related to the amd-ucode package update?
kde system info (when running before the upgrade):
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.2.12-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX Vega
Manufacturer: ASUS
PS: in total the resets happened 2 times since the upgrade (within ~2 hours after the upgrade)
removed 6.3 and still getting this messages with 6.1 and 6.2
reinstalled linux61-zfs and linux62-zfs - no effect.
tested zfs-dkms - it generates modules, but ‘mkinicpio -P’ still generate the error.
I fear to reboot
like i said earlier, it happens regardless of kernel (tested new 6.3 new 6.2 and before-upgrade)
also check cables for error on sata1.
it works without problems before the update (like i am running now), also ata1 (like mentioned in the journalctl) is my disk drive (bluray to be specific), with nothing in it
I’m running into one new issue caused with this update, KDE Plasma (Wayland) with Dolphin: Whenever I move a file to another directory by shift-dragging, the view doesn’t refresh to show the old file having been moved, I have to press F5 to do a manual refresh after which the moved file is no longer displayed in its old location. Anyone else getting this one?
did you mean before or after the amd-ucode update?
you can block amd-ucode update and do a try , if errors still occurs ( that will indicate that there is error from microcode )
i am currently running the update, without amd-ucode updated and linux63 installed, and it seems to work fine (also not yet bios updated like suggested in another comment)
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.
2023-05-07