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On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.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.
Dolphin
we have a bug with this last version 23.04.1-1 : dolphin does not remember open tabs
fixed with 23.04.1-2 in unstable
[TIPS] With this new systemd 253 :
A new LogFilterPatterns= option has been added for units. It may be used to specify accept/deny regular expressions for log messages generated by the unit, that shall be enforced by systemd-journald.
Rejected messages are neither stored in the journal nor forwarded. This option may be used to suppress noisy or uninteresting messages from units.
If the first character of the pattern is “~”, log entries matching the pattern should be discarded. This option takes a single pattern as an argument but can be used multiple times to create a list of allowed and denied patterns.
For example:
# /etc/systemd/system/user@.service.d/30-journalfilter.conf
[Service]
# no save messages with :
LogFilterPatterns=~QML
LogFilterPatterns=~org\.kde\.plasma
LogFilterPatterns=~QObject:
LogFilterPatterns=~QFont::
Update went smoothly. I had some Python 3.10 packages that needed rebuilding. A couple of notes:
rebuild-detector was not installed: I have a many years old install, so I installed it
the python-pep517 package that was installed was not found anymore, so I uninstalled it as it had no dependencies… I’ll see if anything breaks
Problems
Starting Firefox and LibreWolf suddenly takes a very long time. Like 30 seconds to 1 minute. Used to be a couple of seconds. Chromium starts pretty much instantly as before.
Edit: Okay, so I probably really needed the coffee. The workaround mentioned above under the known issues and solutions (replacing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome with xdg-desktop-portal-gtk) worked for my Cinnamon gtk-based desktop. Thanks @philmfor reminding me to read the troubleshooting post.
Previous detailed problem report
Once started Firefox and LibreWolf work normally, no slowdowns. Also, when already running, new windows/tabs are normal speed. It’s just starting the application when it is not yet running that is very slow after the update.
Update: confirmed with a second updated Manjaro install (laptop) that launching Firefox is now very slow.
Firefox gives no output when starting from the terminal, LibreWolf says:
Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: glxtest: VA-API test failed: no supported VAAPI profile found. (t=25.3851) [GFX1-]: glxtest: VA-API test failed: no supported VAAPI profile found.
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
[ERROR glean_core] Error setting metrics feature config: Json(Error("EOF while parsing a value", line: 1, column: 0))
[Child 27338, Main Thread] WARNING: JSWindowActorChild::SendRawMessage (Conduits, ConduitClosed) not sent: !CanSend() || !mManager || !mManager->CanSend(): file /root/.local/share/bsys6/work/librewolf-113.0.2-1/dom/ipc/jsactor/JSWindowActorChild.cpp:57
Thanks @philm , but where is that new release 23.0 Ultima Thule? It doesn’t appear in download section?
and by the way the news in telegram channel is very poor!
Thanks again
I changed the text a little to hopefully make it clear that the guide is for 3rd party packages like from the AUR. With the system update regular packages provided by use have been updated against python 3.11 already.
@philm Any chance that dolphin 23.04.1-2 will be brought in soon?
@papajoke Thanks for the warning.
I keep about 24 Dolphin windows open, across 6 desktops,
with about 10 tabs in each, and they re-open automatically when I log on.
It’s how I easily find the various things I’m working on,
coz I couldn’t figure out how to use KDE tools that say they do this kind of thing.
That is why we have the testing branch and rely on community feedback. Some issues only get detected in the stable branch as more people use it. The dolphin issue should been fixed with dolphin-23.04.1-1.1. Regarding ZSH we are still working on a proper fix.
I am experiencing problems with tuxedo-control-center especially its dkms kernel modules with gcc version 13:
DKMS make.log for tuxedo-keyboard-3.2.3 for kernel 5.15.114-1-MANJARO (x86_64)
So 04 Jun 2023 10:13:29 CEST
make -C /lib/modules/5.15.114-1-MANJARO/build M=/var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.3/build modules
warning: the compiler differs from the one used to build the kernel
The kernel was built by: gcc (GCC) 12.2.1 20230201
You are using: gcc (GCC) 13.1.1 20230429
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.3/build/./src/clevo_wmi.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.3/build/./src/tuxedo_keyboard.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.3/build/./src/clevo_acpi.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.3/build/./src/tuxedo_io/tuxedo_io.o
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.3/build/./src/uniwill_wmi.o
cc1: error: cannot load plugin ./scripts/gcc-plugins/structleak_plugin.so: ./scripts/gcc-plugins/structleak_plugin.so: undefined symbol: tree_code_type
cc1: error: cannot load plugin ./scripts/gcc-plugins/structleak_plugin.so: ./scripts/gcc-plugins/structleak_plugin.so: undefined symbol: tree_code_type
cc1: error: cannot load plugin ./scripts/gcc-plugins/structleak_plugin.so: ./scripts/gcc-plugins/structleak_plugin.so: undefined symbol: tree_code_type