[Stable Update] 2023-07-17 - Kernels, Pipewire, KDE Frameworks, Systemd, Firefox, Wine

[moonlight_p]

Hi, guys. I have one problem. I update the system (Manjaro KDE Plasma, 6.1 LTS [manjaro-kde-22.1.3-230529-linux61]) and after restarting, my laptop just boots up to the login screen and freezes tightly. I can’t take the logs, I have already reinstalled the system back. Is it broken updates or what? (Sorry, i am new on the forum) Please, help :_)
Specifications:
Processor - Intel Pentium 7505 Gold
GPU - Intel UHD Graphics
RAM - 8 GB
SSD - 128 GB

[aki42]

I have troubled with my audio interface’s inputs.
I have used MOTU M4 and pipewire, wireplumber, pipewire-jack and so on.
After the stable update, a stereo line-in inputs haven’t send output to a pair of monitor speakers.
Or sometimes the other inputs of a mic and guitar have send signals to only one speaker.
But the other software inputs of mpd, youtube and so on can make stereo sound.
I’ve already checked qpwgraph’s connections and pavucontrol or alsamixer.
I’ve tried replacing wireplumber with pipewire-media-session but no good.
I’ve tested several kernels but no good.
I think the pipewire update could be the problem.

[Ros]

Pamac broke on the 10th and it’s still not working.

[mithrial]

No, it was fixed the next day.
Use pacman -Syyu to update pamac.

[Ros]

I’ve already updated it, it still asks for a password on startup for some reason, slow and shows false updates.

[EgoLex]

@philm

Well you can try this:

• open a terminal
• delete /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync as root
• create /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync as normal user
• run pacman -Syy as root
• run pamac update as normal user

That’s what helped me

[angel2035]

[Stable Update] 2023-07-10 - Kernels, Plasma, Gnome, LibreOffice, Pipewire, Mozilla, Wine - #351 by angel2035 If there are mistakes, do so, and everything will pass))

[Aragorn]

SDDM and Plasma are still running on tty2 instead of tty1. Other than that, no issues at my end so far.

[Psychoticsixx]

@mithrial

pacman -Syyu

I’m not getting the update when I use “pacman -Syyu”.

[Teo]

Not all mirrors are synced yet.

[Masalababa]

I installed both updates (2023-07-10 and 07-17) today without any issue.
Everything went smooth, just a little correction for the icon path in Firetools (/usr/share/app-info/icons/archlinux-arch-extra/).
That whole issue (pacman.conf/pacnew) didn’t came up at all, nothing to merge or override and the theme for the Pamac GUI was fixed in the meanwhile as well.
Surprisingly Flowblade is working now after a whole year, but the sounds turns into a ‘brrrrrrr’ when the video preview is stopped!
I haven’t check every single corner, but so far everything works well.
Thank’s to the team
Long live Manjaro

[cscs]

Please do not use -Syyu unless it is required.
99% of the time -Syu is sufficient.
(doing the double y is more taxing on the mirrors - if everyone does it the servers get hammered)

[direc85]

I have a Lenoxo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Intel integrated graphics) and I’m getting black screen after bootloader with 6.4.3, but 6.3.13 worked. This is what journald reveals:

systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@32-1943-0.service: Deactivated successfully.
kernel: activeDisplay[1949]: segfault at 1f4f0 ip 000000000001f4f0 sp 00000000ffe7242c error 14 in activeDisplay[8048000+d5000] likely on CPU 6 (core 2, socket 0)
kernel: Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x1f4c6.
systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 1951/UID 0).
systemd-coredump[1954]: [🡕] Process 1949 (activeDisplay) of user 0 dumped core.
             
             Stack trace of thread 1949:
             #0  0x000000000001f4f0 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
             ELF object binary architecture: Intel 80386

…some hundred times, I might add

Edit: Apparently all it took was a cold reboot - now it seems to work Just Fine™

[narimiran]

I have skipped the previous update due to many reported problems. Is there something special I need to do for this update or is my regular sudo pacman -Syyuuw (and afterwards sudo pacman -Su) enough?

[bearman]

@BTO

i was not able to finish last weeks update yet because i did not understand what to do:
in terminal the command:

pacdiff -s

opens 2 local files with settings for GRUB !??? :

It’s probably best to follow @Mirdarthos ’ link to the arch wiki, to get a proper understanding of the fundamental process. However, vimdiff can be very unwieldy to the unexperienced. You might try a different merge tool:

sudo pacman -S meld
DIFFPROG=meld MERGEPROG=meld pacdiff -s

[1efaf7d71a8637c6800a]

Hm was the pamac-gtk theme fixed for Plasma as well?
Did the last 3 updates in one go, afterwards pacdiff -s.
I had removed Thermal Monitor Fix - KDE Store which I thought had too much effect on CPU consumption.
All but pamac-gtk seem to be nice (I did sudo pacman -S pamac-gtk3 because the theme was not the system’s), thank you very much, also for the Nemo update.

[KA6T5Q]

[grau]

Are you on Wayland or X11? I’ve been on Wayland for a while and IIRC, this has been the case for quite some time and is not a recent regression.
Btw, SDDM runs on tty1 on my machine, kwin_wayland uses tty2.

[grau]

@philm

The community repository has been merged into extra and is now empty

The Arch git migration is now complete .

The [community] repository has been merged into [extra] and is now empty.
It may take a bit of time for mirrors to catch up (more details here ).

Update your system and handle the pacman

sudo pacman -Syu "pacman>=6.0.2-11"

In order to remove the defunct [community] repo changes must be made to /etc/pacman.conf.
Changes will be provided in a file with the extension .pacnew .
Pacman provides the utility pacdiff to manage these files and will use vim -d for comparison if the environment variable DIFFPROG is not set.

When I read this, I understand I need to make changes to /etc/pacman.conf. The update process, however, has not created a /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew file. Can anyone tell me what needs to be changed in /etc/pacman.conf to remove the “community” repository? I only see references to [core], [extra] and [multilib] in my pacman.conf, so I am at a loss what I need to change.