[Stable Update] 2023-11-06 - Kernels, Gnome 45.1, Plasma 5.27.9, Firefox, Thunderbird, Pipewire

[renkforce]

After recent updates there are the following issues:

Harddisk spin down on shutdown no longer works

Previously I enabled spinning down external USB disks on shutdown via the following udev rule: ACTION=="add|change", DRIVERS=="usb-storage|uas", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_disk", ATTR{manage_start_stop}="1" (thanks to this thread) This enabled automatic spin down for all usb drives on shutdown (by default it only powers off internal drives, no idea why though). It has been working fine but only after latest stable updates (2023-11-06) the attribute manage_start_stop stopped being applied to the drive: …

Powerdevil fails, Energy settings unavailable

After performing the latest stable updates (2023-11-06) the Powerdevil service fails to start. This results in power settings being unavailable and screen timeout not working. Also the energy applet is consequently disabled. Before the update it was working fine. This issue is also being discussed in the KDE bugtracker (not allowed to post links). Please see the journal below. Anything I could do on my end to fix this and re-enable power saving? Log: Tue 2023-11-07 17:03:42 CET systemd[955]:…