[Stable Update] 2023-07-10 - Kernels, Plasma, Gnome, LibreOffice, Pipewire, Mozilla, Wine

[Mirdarthos]

@Kobold

With that point you misunderstand me, i mean cure related to rollback and then merge the files.

Nope. That’s how I understood it, and my point remains the same.

@Kobold

Do you know a detailed guide/tutorial, how to merge this files with meld and how to install meld and config it in a detailed way?

Sadly, I have none. At the moment I still wing it when it’s time for a merge. Sometimes I find it easier than others. If someone can give me advice here that’s be awesome!

But there is this pacman hook that lets you know if there are .pacnew files to merge:

/etc/pacman.d/hooks/pacnew-notifier.hook:

[Trigger]
Operation = Install
Operation = Upgrade
Operation = Remove
Type = Package
Target = *

[Action]
Description = Checking for .pacnew and .pacsave files...
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /usr/bin/bash -c 'pacfiles=$(pacdiff -o); if [[ -n "$pacfiles" ]]; then echo -e "\e[1m.pac* files found:\e[0m\n$pacfiles\n\e[1mPlease check and merge\e[0m"; fi'

This let’s you know, in the terminal where you run the update, that there are .pacnew and/or .pacsave files that need handling.

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[Roger1]

@cscs

You can always use pamac-gtk3

But how do I do this most cleverly?

I use Manjaro KDE/Plasma (Just checked … GTK design: Breeze).
For fonts, I have anti-aliasing disabled system-wide (with hinting enabled), and use Verdana as the system font.

So far I have only updated in the VM.

Before update, the Pamac GUI looked like this on my system:

After the update it looks like this:

Only very badly readable (in the original and in original size you can see the differences even better)!

Currently installed is pamac-gtk 10.5.1-2.
This will/would be updated to pamac-gtk 11.0-1-2.

After that I would “downgrade” again to pamac-gtk3 10.5.3-4.

I did so in the VM, but after that the libpamac-snap-plugin previously installed in Pamac was gone.
An installation attempt of libpamac-snap-plugin aborted with an error message that not all packages could be loaded.
The exact error message is (unfortunately) in German:

   ~  pamac install pamac-gtk3                                                                                        ✔ 
Vorbereitung...

Wähle die optionalen Abhängigkeiten für pamac-gtk3:
1:  pamac-gnome-integration: for integration into GNOME
2:  libpamac-snap-plugin: for Snap support

Auswahl eingeben (Standard=keine): 2

Abhängigkeiten werden aufgelöst...
Interne Konflikte werden überprüft...

Wird installiert (6):
  pamac-gtk3            10.5.3-4                                        extra  197,4 KB
  apparmor              3.1.6-1   (Benötigt von: libpamac-snap-plugin)  extra  1,2 MB
  squashfs-tools        4.6.1-1   (Benötigt von: libpamac-snap-plugin)  extra  223,5 KB
  snapd                 2.60.1-1  (Benötigt von: libpamac-snap-plugin)  extra  26,5 MB
  snapd-glib            1.63-3    (Benötigt von: libpamac-snap-plugin)  extra  1,0 MB
  libpamac-snap-plugin  11.5.6-1                                        extra  30,8 KB
Wird entfernt (1):
  pamac-gtk             11.0.1-2  (Konflikt mit: pamac-gtk3)            extra

Download-Größe gesamt: 29,3 MB
Gesamtgröße installiert: 78,6 MB
Gesamtgröße entfernt: 585,6 KB

Transaktion anwenden ? [j/N] j
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.manjaro.pamac.commit ====
Eine Authentifizierung ist erforderlich, um Pakete zu installieren, aktualisieren oder zu entfernen
Authenticating as: john
Password: 
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====
Herunterladen von apparmor (3.1.6-1) gestartet                                                                                 
Herunterladen von squashfs-tools (4.6.1-1) gestartet                                                                           
Herunterladen von squashfs-tools (4.6.1-1) beendet                                                                             
Herunterladen von snapd (2.60.1-1) gestartet                                                                                   
Herunterladen von apparmor (3.1.6-1) beendet                                                                                   
Herunterladen von pamac-gtk3 (10.5.3-4) gestartet                                                                              
Herunterladen von pamac-gtk3 (10.5.3-4) beendet                                                                                
Herunterladen von snapd-glib (1.63-3) gestartet                                                                                
Herunterladen von snapd-glib (1.63-3) beendet                                                                                  
5,7 MB/29,3 MB                                                                                                                 
https://mirror.alpix.eu/manjaro/stable/extra/x86_64/libpamac-snap-plugin-11.5.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Fehler 404
6,6 MB/29,3 MB                                                                                                                 
https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/manjaro/stable/extra/x86_64/libpamac-snap-plugin-11.5.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Fehler 404
8,7 MB/29,3 MB                                                                                                                 
https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/extra/x86_64/libpamac-snap-plugin-11.5.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Fehler 404
Herunterladen von snapd (2.60.1-1) beendet                                                                                     
29,2 MB/29,3 MB                                                                                                                
https://mirror.alpix.eu/manjaro/stable/extra/x86_64/libpamac-snap-plugin-11.5.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Fehler 404
https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/manjaro/stable/extra/x86_64/libpamac-snap-plugin-11.5.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Fehler 404
https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/extra/x86_64/libpamac-snap-plugin-11.5.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Fehler 404
Fehler: Vorgang konnte nicht abgeschlossen werden: konnte ein paar Dateien nicht empfangen

After a
sudo pacman-mirrors --geoip
it worked after all. (I don’t know if this command could have helped to solve the problem at all, maybe it was just a coincidence that it suddenly worked after all).

After that, the Pamac GUI looks the same as before!

Is this the way? Do I really have to do it this way?
Or is it somehow more elegant to replace pamac-gtk with pamac-gtk3 before the update?

And: Depending on how I install pamac-gtk3 (e.g. if I do it via pamac from the console) I am asked if I want to install two optional dependencies:

1: pamac-gnome-integration: for integration into GNOME
2: libpamac-snap-plugin: for Snap support

2. is clear, I want to install, but fails at first, as described above.
   But what’s up with 1), should I install this, what can this be good for?

And for future reinstallations, do I then always have to uninstall pamac-gtk and install pamac-gtk3 (if I want to have a clear readable font)?

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Sorry, this is partially translated with deepl.com!

[Teroh]

It seems to be an issue on Turing GPU’s when they switch power states. NVidia already knows about it and is working on a fix.

For now it seems that manually setting your GPU to “Prefere Max Performance” via the NVidia Settings Manager “fixes” the flickering.

This will also almost double your power draw when in idle ( from 20W to 40W for me ) and may make your fans run by default.

But its better then having this black flicker stuff every 30s.

[hesi]

:: installing zfs-utils (2.1.12-1) breaks dependency 'zfs-utils=2.1.11' required by linux62-zfs

Have exactly the same problem. ZFS on root. Any solution?

[cscs]

6.2 is EOL … you must remove it before continuing.
(make sure to boot into another kernel first)
https://kernel.org/

[LinKostik]

Hello guys,
while migrating pacman.conf using pacdiff -s on one of my computers, I made a mistake by accidentally pressing wrong keys. Is there any way to restore an original and working version of pacman.conf or is it enough to just delete the incorrect lines? What is the best way to proceed?

#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir      = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
#HookDir     = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
HoldPkg      = pacman glibc manjaro-system
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst    = manjaro-system archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta    = 0.7
Architecture = auto

#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =

#NoUpgrade   =
#NoExtract   =

# Misc options
#UseSyslog
#Color
#NoProgressBar
# We cannot check disk space from within a chroot environment
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
#ParallelDownloads = 5

# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required

# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Manjaro Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro`.

#
# REPOSITORIES
#   - can be defined here or included from another file
#   - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
#   - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#   - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
#     have identical names, regardless of version number
#   - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
#   - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.

[core]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

<<<<<<< /etc/pacman.conf
[community]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

||||||| /tmp/pacdiff-merge-pacman.conf.LWM/pacman.conf.base.pcO
[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

=======
>>>>>>> /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew
# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.

[multilib]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository.  See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

[cscs]

@LinKostik

<<<<<<< /etc/pacman.conf
[community]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

||||||| /tmp/pacdiff-merge-pacman.conf.LWM/pacman.conf.base.pcO
[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

=======
>>>>>>> /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew

These look like the offending bits.
You can just remove those parts as they are either incompatible (=======) or part of the community repo that should be removed.

[Magicrafter13]

After update, system now completely locks up (with fans at max speed) whenever Plasma goes to turn the screen off after being away from the machine long enough (at least I think).

All I really know is that since updating, every time I walk away from my computer long enough I inevitably hear the fans going at max speed after a while, come back and see my screens are blank, and the keyboard and mouse are unresponsive (can’t turn on caps lock for example, and it doesn’t bring the displays back). I end up having to hard power off.

Haven’t yet had it freeze while I’m using it.

I did also update to the latest kernel (6.4), but I’m still running the LTS 6.1 which I’ve had installed since it was released to us so the kernel shouldn’t be the issue.

Edit: I just came back to my computer with the screens off, but no issue. So at the very least if it is related to that, it’s not a consistent thing.

Edit 2: It happened again and only after a much longer time away from my laptop. So perhaps it is something that comes after the screen dim? But I don’t have Plasma set to suspend (sleep) the machine under any cirumstances…

[philm]

You can try to boot one of these ISOs which include this update: Release 202307100755 · manjaro/release-review · GitHub

[GaaSantAna]

@cscs

If they have never edited it … and they are just going to accept the new file … without inspection … then they can do the blind merge just as easily … or easier with pacdiff.
ex:

$ pacdiff -s
==> pacnew file found for /etc/makepkg.conf
:: (V)iew, (M)erge, (S)kip, (R)emove pacnew, (O)verwrite with pacnew, (Q)uit: [v/m/s/r/o/q] o

(or you know … they can use that same interface to view, then overwrite, manually merge, etc)

IF users have not previously set DIFFPROG and/or cannot use vim -d then they may wish to temporarily set it to something, like:

DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff -s

So, I need to choose “Merge”, right?
I never had to do that, so I don’t know what to do…

[weingeist]

overwrite if you have never changed anything in the conf

[cscs]

Usually people would (v)iew it …
Looking at the comparisons and make changes as required.

If you have not configured that file previously and believe the new version can be accepted as-is then you may choose (o)verwrite.

Note that this is not always the case - such as the sudoers file and others - but should be safe in this instance (an untouched /etc/pacman.conf).

[GaaSantAna]

I believe that I never touched that file before. I will test on my laptop first, and if everything went ok, I will try on desktop.
Thanks!

[rob215x]

I did not have issues with Steam as others have reported BUT I am seeing CRASHES now, where I have to do a force restart. I run 2 monitors and I’m also seeing my right hand monitor go black for like 3 seconds, then come back. This seems to only happen when Steam is running, and it happens whether I have any game running or not.

Are there any specific logs I can check to see what could be causing these crashes?

I live stream 3 days a week, 4-5 hours each time and my system HARDLY EVER crashed with Steam, Elden Ring (or another game), OBS, and several browser tabs open. Now it doesn’t seem stable at all.

My system:

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.120-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.1.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx rw quiet intel_iommu=on
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: 1: GDM v: 44.1 note: stopped 2: LightDM v: 1.32.0
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI) v: Rev 1.xx
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0602
    date: 10/19/2018
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming
    Mouse serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i9-9900KF bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
    gen: core 9 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xC (12) microcode: 0xF2
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 8x256 KiB L3: 16 MiB
    desc: 1x16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1197 high: 4443 min/max: 800/5000 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 4443 4: 801
    5: 800 6: 800 7: 2951 8: 800 9: 800 10: 1358 11: 800 12: 800 13: 800
    14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 bogomips: 115232
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional,
    RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070 Lite Hash Rate] vendor: eVga.com.
    driver: nvidia v: 535.54.03 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 535.xx+
    status: current (as of 2023-07) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:2488 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Logitech C920 PRO HD Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 5-2.2:3
    chip-ID: 046d:08e5 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.2
    compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia
    display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5120x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1355x381mm (53.35x15.00")
    s-diag: 1408mm (55.42")
  Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: primary,left res: 2560x1440 dpi: 109
    size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23") diag: 685mm (26.97") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: DP-4 pos: right res: 2560x1440 dpi: 109
    size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23") diag: 685mm (26.97") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com.
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Logitech Yeti X driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-7:3
    chip-ID: 046d:0aaf class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-4: Logitech C920 PRO HD Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 5-2.2:3
    chip-ID: 046d:08e5 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  API: ALSA v: k5.15.120-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.73 status: off with: pipewire-media-session
    status: active tools: pw-cli
  Server-4: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active with: 1: pulseaudio-alsa
    type: plugin 2: pulseaudio-jack type: module tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15bc class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) driver: btusb v: 0.8
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:6
    chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 4020
    bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:2822 rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 9.1 TiB used: 3.14 TiB (34.5%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 1B2QEXM7 temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD40EFZX-68AWUN0
    size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0B81 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 1TB
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
  ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD40EFRX-68N32N0 size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 0A82 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.53 GiB (98.32%)
    used: 624.2 GiB (68.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 284 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 30.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 44 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
  Processes: 355 Uptime: 16m wakeups: 2 Memory: total: 64 GiB note: est.
  available: 62.71 GiB used: 2.52 GiB (4.0%) Init: systemd v: 253
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.1.1 alt: 12
  clang: 15.0.7 Packages: 1808 pm: pacman pkgs: 1804 libs: 519 tools: pamac
  pm: flatpak pkgs: 4 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.28

[rob215x]

UPDATE - I just tried using OBS to stream and OBS DOES start, but if I try to open settings, it crashes! I even rebuilt OBS and same issue. When it crashes, I get this:

error: Failed to get properties for encoder '' (ffmpeg_aac)
error: Could not enumerate fallback encoder bitrates
error: Could not enumerate any audio encoder bitrates
error: Could not enumerate any AAC encoder bitrates
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what():  basic_string: construction from null is not valid
Aborted (core dumped)

[cscs]

For troubleshooting your issue you may want to open a new thread.

[Kzer-Za]

Though I voted for “Everything went smoothly”, that’s true only technically. I do understand that the problems that arose have nothing to do with the Manjaro team, but I’m just gonna share the information.

First, Pamac-gui stopped respecting the dark GUI theme. Also it lost its server-side decorations (I use gtk3-classic to get them back) due to the fact that it moved to GTK4. I solved this by switching to pamac-gtk3.

Second, Goldendict stopped working because one of its dependencies got updated. I tried building a newer version of Goldendict, but it throws an error in the build process and currently I don’t have the time to try to figure out what’s the problem. And since Goldendict is one of the programs without which I don’t see much point in using a computer at all, I rolled back the update using the Timeshift.

[Roger1]

So, regarding Pamac (GUI) update remains to be said:

• The font display is creepy and hardly readable (I had posted screenshots in an earlier post above):
  [Stable Update] 2023-07-10 - Kernels, Plasma, Gnome, LibreOffice, Pipewire, Mozilla, Wine - #271 by Roger1
  Also, the individual fields in which the programs are located have become unfavorably and unnecessarily larger.
  I don’t understand why they accept such a deterioration for the desktop operating system, just so that it looks better on the smartphone? It’s also not clear to me why such a tattered typeface should look better on the smartphone, but maybe it will be displayed differently there.

• The auto-completion in the search bar no longer works.
  Here is an example of how it looked BEFORE:
  

  
  
  When you typed something, the term was already completed with search suggestions as you typed it, without having to submit the search first.

• The libpamac-snap-plugin in the current version 11.5.7-1 doesn’t find anything anymore. So even very simple things like “Firefox” or “Libreoffice”, which definitely exist as snap, are not found and thus cannot be installed via Pamac. Whether at least the already installed programs are still found and displayed, I don’t know yet, because I haven’t updated my main system yet.
  Also after switching from pamac-gtk 11.0-1-2 to pamac-gtk3 10.5.3-4 the libpamac-snap-plugin unfortunately doesn’t work either. But at least the autocompletion in the search bar works again with pamac-gtk3.
  The last working version of libpamac-snap-plugin on my main PC is version 11.5.4-1.

Since Pamac (GUI) was something like the heart of the OS for me so far, the new only limited functionality and the worse appearance (especially font rendering) is already a bitter blow for me!

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Partially translated with deepl.com!

[Xephon]

You could use flatpak version of GoldenDict. It doesn’t depend on system libraries. Works fine after the update.