[Stable Update] 2023-09-18 - Kernels, Mesa, Pipewire, Systemd, LibreOffice, KDE, Thunderbird

Oh wow. This update finally fixed my Ethernet connection icon in xfce (previously was wireless icon for some reason)! :face_holding_back_tears:

Ran pacman -Syyu. The result

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(254/254) checking keys in keyring                              [----------------------------------] 100%
(254/254) checking package integrity                            [----------------------------------] 100%
(254/254) loading package files                                 [----------------------------------] 100%
(254/254) checking for file conflicts                           [----------------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
systemd: /usr/share/factory/etc/vconsole.conf exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Sure, the file exists:

# pacman -F /usr/share/factory/etc/vconsole.conf
usr/share/factory/etc/vconsole.conf is owned by core/filesystem 2023.03.21-1

I am a bit afraid to experiment with removing core packages. What should I do?

Everything smooth so far.
There was no bashrc pacnew file for me apparently although I did put some alias in there (.bashrc) . I overwrite the shells one, ty for the notice. Is a reboot recommended after pacdiff -s btw? Irebooted after updaten, THEN did pacdiff -sā€¦
On my laptop Iā€™m running the r8168 driver above. Is it fixed in the repo already or would I still have to remove it manually? (Problem with 6.5 kernel and r8168 module - #5 by mithrial)

Brute-force fix ā€” use at your own perilā€¦ :arrow_down:

sudo pacman -Syu --overwrite='/usr/share/factory/etc/vconsole.conf'

If you have other update issues beside that, open a new thread.


~/.bashrc is a file in your $HOME, and an update will never touch that. The only changes are outside of your $HOME ā€” in this case, in /etc.

If your machine is less than 5 years old, then itā€™s better to remove r8168 and use the in-kernel r8169 driver.

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Same problem, had to remove r8168 module in order to get wired ethernet back up. My ethernet is RTL8125 according to lspci. (Asus TUF B550m-wifi motherboard)

My VPN service also stopped working with wireguard protocol, DNS seems broken when I use it so Iā€™ve switched back to OpenVPN protocol for the time being, not sure if thatā€™s related or not, just thought Iā€™d mention.

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Thank you. Itā€™s indeed a 2012 machine and the update went fine while Iā€™m now running this older version still.

4 posts were split to a new topic: Login password no longer works in main account - does work in new account

External audio card started crackling on starting and stopping audio play after update. Occasionally after suspend and resume plasmashellā€™s toolbar will not work, and any attempt to click on it will cause a kernel panic. Internal speakers crackle and immediately black screen upon trying to play any audio, and only a hard reset works. Also getting some cannot release mutex type errors. My laptop is an XPS 9700 re-outfitted with a 9710 core, so it may just be some kind of hardware issue.

Anyone has issue booting after upgrade. I have btrfs systemdboot manjaro setup with luksencryption. I cant replicate what caused the issue but after update its failing. Timeshift backup restore got my system up but it took 3 backups before upgrade and first backup restore worked so not sure which package update is causing issue. dmesg and journalctl doesnt list much. Anyway to troubleshoot just package update end issue

If my theory holds true for your issue, itā€™s not the update itself but a bonked up btrfs filesystem.
I had this: Repaired btrfs system m2 disk, but there is something wrong with the subvolumes or the system itself
If you have nothing to backup from them, delete the latest snapshots back to the one that was working. Then redo the update and try to repairā€¦? I did repair my btrfs. However you might want to consult #btrfs on https://web.libera.chat/ then iff yours is broken, or just to find out if.

What was causing this for me maybe was I had hourly snapshots on and then 1 or more bugged it.

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Can this be repaired on boot fail and when I am in tty screen? btrfs command to be used to repair it?

Iā€™d use a live system from USB that youā€™ll boot.
There are several commands that fix different btrfs issues. Please contact the live chat I linked to.

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Intel AX210 on Intel 11th gen Framework 13 seems to be good and truly borked with linux65 (seemingly continuous driver faults in the output during boot) with nm-applet seeing no wireless devices in plasma.

Linux64 is just dandy oth.

Unfortunately have no time to debug this rn

The Mirror-Check service shows:

Manjaro Repository

Is it true that it was last updated at 2023-09-19 11:05, several days ago??

Ctrl+F5 :wink:

I need to disable power saving on my AX210 card, but thatā€™s all. After that, it works good to the max.

sadly 6.5 kernel is not working well after the update with my 5700 radeon. Sometimes if monitor is turned off and system goes to sleep, it appears frozen on resume with primary monitor not turning on, and secondary monitor is frozen. After switching to VT nothing seems to happen at first, but repeated trying eventually gets it to unfreeze. DMESG is full with logs like this:

kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu: SMU: Iā€™m not done with your previous command: SMN_C2PMSG_66:0x0000001C SMN_C2PMSG_82:0x00020064

kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu: Failed to retrieve enabled ppfeatures!

KDE Plasma issue: dimming by sunrise/sunset is 1 hour late
I donā€™t know if this has been since the recent update (Sep 18 2023) or been there earlier, but I would have noticed so Iā€™m pretty sure this is very recent.
When I set Night Colorā€™s switching time to: Sunset and sunrise at current location
the 45 min changing filter begins dimming one hour late (and accordingly finishes one hour late too of course).
I can set it Sunset and sunrise at manual location (pretty accurately by mouse) and it sets it fine on time.
I get this both on laptop and desktop (Stable) so my conclusion is, it must be a bug that daylight saving time i. e. summer time <> winter time is not taken into account anymore with the at current location setting.
I remember it was fine until recently seeing the sun set and the displays dim simultaneously.
Oh and I use a blue dim for day and night (around 5000K/around 2200K).
Iā€™ve made a separate thread too (No more summer time in Night Color?) but Iā€™m very sure this has not been an issue before the update.

Thereā€™s currently quite a long standing issue with amdgpu. While Iā€™ve never seen the second log, the first one is familiar to me. My current workaround is to set the performance profile to low, at least this fixes the instability issue. High might be more appropriate for a desktop, if youā€™re fine with the power draw. The basic issue from what I can conclude is the dynamic power management that sometimes fail to switch state automatically.

Unsure if this started after this or the previous update, but after having the system running for more than a week starting any program with a GUI fails:

Plasma Desktop workspace
Launching Add/Remove Software (failed)
Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying

2023-09-29 07:31:17 Loading updated app package /home/<username>/.config/obsidian/obsidian-1.4.13.asar                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ī‚² āœ” ī‚³ ļ€“ 
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

[902708:0929/093117.265033:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(240)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[902708:0929/093117.265086:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to initialize.  Exiting.
The futex facility returned an unexpected error code.

[1]  + IOT instruction (core dumped)  obsidian

Doesnā€™t matter what I try to start, itā€™ll fail. But any program already running works fine. A reboot solves the issue for a while.

System is AMD Ryzen 7 2700, with AMD Navi 23 running Kernel: 6.1.53-1-MANJARO using amdgpu driver running KDE Plasma with X11.

[EDIT] The screen locker gives a message itā€™s broken, though using loginctl to unlock it I can again use any running programs. Rebooting needs to be done from a running terminal, since the restart window fails when trying to run restart, shutdown or logout from the menu. [/EDIT]


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