[Stable Update] 2023-08-29 - Kernels, Mesa, Deepin, Firefox, KDE Gear & Frameworks, Nvidia, Budgie

[fhins]

Are you using the 6.1.49-1 LTS kernel? If not give it a try.

[Kaiwasaki]

I was having problems when using Kernel 6.5. System freezes up and/or poor performance in games. I couldn’t exactly figure out why. Went back to 6.4 and everything is fine again.
Also, I use amd_pstate=active maybe that’s related.

[bena]

Tailscale’s MagicDNS stopped working after this update. Something had recreated /etc/resolv.conf, turning it from a symlink back to a regular file.

$ tailscale status
[...]

# Health check:
#     - dns-manager: systemd-resolved and NetworkManager are wired together incorrectly; MagicDNS will probably not work. For more info, see https://tailscale.com/s/resolved-nm
#     - dns-os: setLinkDNS: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
#     - dns: setLinkDNS: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.

The instructions at https://tailscale.com/s/resolved-nm did resolve the issue until a reboot - see this comment to persist the fix.

[1efaf7d71a8637c6800a]

The IO-wait issue is gone on kernel 6.1.49

[AddiejeWoah]

Short: Steam crashes after launch

I have/had the same problem after the latest stable update. Steam wouldn’t be able to show its main window, but I do see the login window which auto-fills in my credentials and disappears. The background/watchdog process also runs since its icon shows up on the taskbar. I see the Steam client main window borders popping up, freezing the screen for 2 or 3 seconds (apparently the new window locks the screen buffer since it’s fullscreen) after which the window immediately gets killed. A few seconds later it retries and the same behavior happens where it freezes the screen ans kills the window again; it keeps looping like this until I right-click the taskbar process and select ‘Exit Steam’.

In the pamac Package Manager GUI I clicked the ‘Steam (native) (steam-native-runtime)’ package and there clicked ‘Launch’. This starts the application without any problems and all the games run fine; I stumbled upon this by accident. The “Allow background processing of Vulkan shaders” setting is still enabled in my case.

But I still cannot start Steam from the Start Menu or via a pinned taskbar shortcut. The only way I can start Steam, since this 2023-08-29-stable-update, is via the pamac gui, clicking 'Launch".

Anybody has an idea what’s the difference of invocation between launching from pamac GUI and launching Steam from the start menu?

[Cytomax]

The most recent update worked flawlessly on my other 2 computers as expected but sadly my Laptop crashed during the update

Now i cant upgrade past kernel 6.3
Im pretty sure i was running 6.4 without issues but i cant 100% confirm

Whenever i install something with

pamac install

i get

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpmix.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_sm.so.40 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_ompio.so.41 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libReviewboardHelpers.so.5.109.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libKF5PurposeWidgets.so.5.109.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi.so.40.30.5 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libompitrace.so.40 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_usempi_ignore_tkr.so.40.30.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_mpifh.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_ompio.so.41.29.4 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_monitoring.so.50 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libompitrace.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkaccounts.so.23.08.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libompitrace.so.40.30.1 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5.15 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libharfbuzz-icu.so.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngineCore.so is truncated

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libKF5PurposeWidgets.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libharfbuzz-icu.so.0.60811.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5.15 is truncated

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_mpifh.so.40 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libgwenviewlib.so.5 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libKF5Purpose.so.5.109.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpmix.so.2 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_usempi_ignore_tkr.so.40 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libPhabricatorHelpers.so.5 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libgtk-4.so.1 is truncated

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi.so.40 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libopen-pal.so.40.30.3 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_usempif08.so.40.30.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_usempi_ignore_tkr.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_cuda.so.40.30.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5.15.14 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libKF5PurposeWidgets.so.5 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libgtkmm-3.0.so.1.1.0 is truncated

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkaccounts.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_mpifh.so.40.30.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_sm.so.40.30.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_cxx.so.40.30.1 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libKF5Purpose.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libopen-rte.so.40.30.3 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libharfbuzz-icu.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libgtk-4.so.1.1200.1 is truncated

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_cuda.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5 is truncated

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_monitoring.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libKF5Purpose.so.5 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libReviewboardHelpers.so.5 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpmix.so.2.9.1 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_cxx.so.40 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5.15.14 is truncated

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_sm.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libgtkmm-3.0.so.1 is truncated

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libPhabricatorHelpers.so.5.109.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_cxx.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libopen-rte.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkaccounts.so.2 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libopen-rte.so.40 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_cuda.so.40 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libgwenviewlib.so.4.97.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_usempif08.so.40 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_monitoring.so.50.20.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libgtk-4.so is truncated

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libopen-pal.so.40 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libgtkmm-3.0.so is truncated

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libopen-pal.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmca_common_ompio.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libmpi_usempif08.so is empty, not checked.

but the package still installs

I cant boot kernel 6.4 or 6.5

I tried to

boot off usb
connect to internet
manjaro-chroot
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux64 linux65
but it still didnt fix the problem

I dont want to lose my 3 year old install but it is what it is, let me know
Thanks in advance

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[Aragorn]

Two people reporting crashes in thunderbird 115.2.0 when accessing remote calendars.

The calendar freezes when subscribing to a network calendar via CALDAV

Since last big Update of Thunderbird the calendars are freezing when subscribing to a network calendar via CALDAV, sometimes just by incident, sometimes if I want to add a new date the calendar/thunderbird freezes. I am using networt calendars with CALDAV. It is interesting that quite no other Linux distribution except Manjaro has integrated the big (unmature) update of Thunderbird.

Thunderbird freezes

I just installed the latest updates and the new Thunderbird (115.2.0) now hangs all the time. First it only hang when adding a calendar event and now it always hangs 30 seconds after launching. The only thing I can do is kill the process. Is this a known issue? I am on Manjaro XFCE but I am using i3 as the window manager. Running it from a terminal doesn’t show anything interesting: $ thunderbird ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default v…

It appears to be the same issue.

[varikonniemi]

remove the kernel parameter. 6.5 introduced new thermal handling, and although your kernel parameter should not be causing the issue, it is unnecessary.

@cytomax

run sudo ldconfig, it should return nothing. If not, post the output.

[Yochanan]

@varikonniemi

Cytomax

Tip: Linking a users profile does nothing. However, tagging them does: @varikonniemi

[bena]

This worked until a reboot, but it seems that NetworkManager overwrites /etc/resolv.conf on every boot since this update. Can anyone suggest a more idiomatic fix than chattr +i?

[lsteeger]

Add file /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/99-rc-manager-unmanaged:

[main]
rc-manager=unmanaged

Please see man NetworkManager.conf for details.

You should probably reboot after this.

[fluffy_bunny]

works fine if stick with kernel 6.4.12

but it goes “black screen” if switch to 6.5.0 (after entering password on login screen), it can be solved by reverting back to 6.4.12

[lallulli]

After this update, my PC apparently became sluggish, even after rebooting twice. I was still running kernel 5.15. I updated to Linux 6.1, and now the system feels fluid and reactive again.

[bena]

Thanks - this solved the issue of resolv.conf being overwritten, but after my laptop had been on for half an hour or so, it stopped being able to see any WiFi networks. I think I’ll just stop using MagicDNS for now, and let NetworkManager do what it wants to resolv.conf.

Final update, fingers crossed: I’ve enabled and started systemd-resolved. Tailscale still prints the “wired together incorrectly” message, but MagicDNS works again, and my connectivity hasn’t disappeared yet.