Known issues and solutions
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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
A bug report was opened on 468217 – xf86-input-libinput 1.3.0 DPI and mouse acceleration issue on KDE Plasma X11 and a temporary fis is also mentioned on Mouse acceleration - ArchWiki
Widgets on Plasma desktop are lost after update
2023-03-31
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.cfgfor entries likecryptomount -u 3722dfb2-3b32-414b-bd59-4329fa92b6a9and try to remove the dash separators. You have to redo that whenever you update a kernel or callupdate-grubon 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.cfgafterupdate-grubgot 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.
For more details:
- Can't boot LUKS encrypted install after 2023-03-31 stable update - #95 by philm
- [SOLVED] error: no such cryptodisk found / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums
- Can't boot LUKS encrypted install after 2023-03-31 stable update
- [Stable Update] 2023-03-31 - Kernels, Plasma 5.27 LTS, Pamac, Phosh, Mesa, LibreOffice - #159 by hifive
- [Unstable Update] 2023-02-17 - Plasma 5.27 LTS, GNOME, Python - #50 by Skunkie
- Can't boot LUKS encrypted install after 2023-03-31 stable update - #54 by philm
Info about recent NVIDIA packaging changes
[Testing Update] 2023-03-25 - Kernels, Firefox, Deepin, GNOME, NVIDIA, Wine - #42 by philm
Possible kernel fs block code regression in 6.2.3 umounting usb drives
With kernel 6.2.3 when you simply plug in a usb external drive, mount it and umount it, then the journal has a kernel Oops. A bug report, that includes the journal output was submitted at. 217174 – Plugging in usb external drive, mount and umount causes kernel Oops Discussion can be found here: Re: Possible kernel fs block code regression in 6.2.3 umounting usb drives — Linux Stable Kernel Updates
kernel 5.15.99+ Black/empty screen during boot with i915 Intel gfx. No ways to do anything
Seems there is a regression introduced with 5.15.99 kernel update: [i915]drm:add_taint_for_CI [i915]] CI tainted:0x9 by intel_gt_init+0xae/0x2d0 [i915] (#8284) · Issues · drm / i915 / kernel · GitLab. My thoughts here: [Testing Update] 2023-03-11 - Kernels, Mesa 22.3.7, Phosh, LibreOffice 7.4.6 - #31 by philm
NVIDIA 530.41.03-1 high refresh rate problems
2023-02-12
Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention
2023-02-12 - Robin Candau
On February 2nd, the
base-develpackage group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
If you installed thebase-develpackage group prior to this date, explicitly re-install it to get the newbase-develpackage installed on the system:
pacman -Syu base-devel
– Arch Linux - News: Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention
2023-02-03
vlc player crashes while playing videos
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.
phpandphp-legacycan be installed at the same time as the latter uses a-legacysuffix for its binaries and configuration files.In addition to this, the php7 packages have been removed as they reached end of life. The
imapextension will no longer be provided as it relies on thec-clientlibrary which has been abandoned for many years.
– Arch Linux - News: PHP 8.2 update and introduction of legacy branch