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

I pushed another set of zfs packages. Please test and give feedback:

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                             PACKAGE           2023-11-07           2023-11-08
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                        linux419-zfs              2.2.0-1              2.2.0-2
                        linux510-zfs              2.2.0-1              2.2.0-2
                        linux515-zfs              2.2.0-1              2.2.0-2
                         linux54-zfs              2.2.0-1              2.2.0-2
                         linux61-zfs              2.2.0-1            2.2.0-1.0
                         linux65-zfs              2.2.0-1            2.2.0-1.0
                         linux66-zfs              2.2.0-1            2.2.0-1.0
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Thanks for your advice. Damn this release and those who did it! Iā€™ve been in hell for days now! Nothing works. The computer freezes, the picture freezes at the most unexpected moments. To get to the desktop manages to 15-17 times. All this time like a fool sitting and restarting the computer. Coolers are constantly cranked to 100, LA system 2.4-2.9.
@philm What the ā– ā– ā– ā–  is going on?

@zo0M and @xaGe: to figure out what happend you may need to provide more info about your installation. Like which Desktop Environment and Kernel are used. Also the content of /var/log/pacman.log with the info of your last updates might help to understand which packages got actually installed/upgraded. [HowTo] Find system information

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I downloaded an image of the latest version of Manjaro GNOME, reinstalled the operating system and NOTHING has changed - if Iā€™m lucky and the monitor doesnā€™t freeze when the OS boots, I get to the login screen 5-7 times, and thatā€™s usually where everything freezes - I see only the background and the cursor looks like X symbol. No user selection for login is displayed, nothing else is displayed at all! All the coolers of my laptop start spinning at full power, and I canā€™t even switch to the 2nd console! The computer goes into a coma and is frantically spinning the fans trying to take off, apparently.

Did you bother to check this downloaded image for consistency?

Please provide necessary logs and other requested information. May I suggest, a new thread might also be appropriate.

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Hey man, thank you, philm. I havenā€™t had the time to look into this fully until this morning and have fixed it after looking over the pacman.log as you suggested. I found this from that Monday upgrade.

[2023-11-06T14:56:58-0500] [ALPM] error: problem occurred while upgrading plasma-workspace
[2023-11-06T14:56:58-0500] [ALPM] upgraded plasma-workspace (5.27.8-2 -> 5.27.9.1-1)

Despite declaring an error, says it updated the package. Not sure why it failed, but that could definitely be the issue looking suspicious I just reinstalled that package, rebooted, logged right in and everything was working as it should.

As a 10+ year Manjaro user, I appreciate your continued efforts! :metal:t4:

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Imagine, I did.
As you might realize if you read carefully, my system is literally comatose. how do I get the logs out of it in this state?

I had to install an older version of the system (once again). at least it works!

Live usb session?

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Maybe, but it doesnā€™t make sense anymore. As I said, I needed to work, not ā– ā– ā– ā–  around with a broken operating system, so I just rolled back to the previous version.

I just completedā€¦

sudo pacman -R kpeoplevcard kdeconnect libkipi kpmcore3 partitionmanager3

pamac update

Saw references to updated Kernels and ZFS packages:

linux510                               5.10.199-1                (5.10.197-1)                        core      79.3 MB
linux510-headers                       5.10.199-1                (5.10.197-1)                        core      30.8 MB
linux510-nvidia                        535.129.03-2              (535.129.03-1)                      extra     53.2 MB
linux510-virtualbox-host-modules       7.0.12-2                  (7.0.10-15)                         extra     175.5 kB
zfs-utils                              2.2.0-2                   (2.1.13-1)                          extra     32.0 MB
linux510-zfs                           2.2.0-2                   (2.1.13-1)                          extra     1.4 MB
linux515                               5.15.137-1                (5.15.133-1)                        core      104.9 MB
linux515-headers                       5.15.137-1                (5.15.133-1)                        core      33.4 MB
linux515-nvidia                        535.129.03-2              (535.129.03-1)                      extra     55.2 MB
linux515-virtualbox-host-modules       7.0.12-3                  (7.0.10-15)                         extra     265.7 kB
linux515-zfs                           2.2.0-2                   (2.1.13-1)                          extra     1.6 MB
linux61                                6.1.60-1                  (6.1.55-1)                          core      145.5 MB
linux61-headers                        6.1.60-1                  (6.1.55-1)                          core      35.5 MB
linux61-nvidia                         535.129.03-2              (535.129.03-1)                      extra     55.6 MB
linux61-virtualbox-host-modules        7.0.12-3                  (7.0.10-20)                         extra     298.1 kB
linux61-zfs                            2.2.0-1.0                 (2.1.13-1)                          extra     1.8 MB

pamac completed updates, no issue. Rebooted. No Issues.

$ uname -a
Linux dldsk01 6.1.60-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Oct 25 13:06:34 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ zfs --version
zfs-2.2.0-1
zfs-kmod-2.2.0-1

Thank you for the support!

Iā€™m a Manjaro ZFS on Root user using Refind and ZFSBootMenu. Highly suggest ZFS users to run away from GRUB based ZFS usage. ZBM provides a working boot environment to create snapshots, clone/promote snapshots, and should you need it a chroot environment. If you donā€™t need that, it just loads up Manjaro. Be sure to enable pacman hook to take ZFS snapshot.

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Just finished two installs and can confirm that linux61-zfs and linux66-zfs are working.

sudo pacman -S --noconfirm linux61-headers linux61-zfs

sudo pacman -S --noconfirm linux66-headers linux66-zfs

created pool and datasets so thanks for uploading linuxxxx-zfs packages.

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Would just like to add, in my own experience, ZFS is working well on linux 6.6.0, much appreciated.
Just to confirm, ZFS is still classed as deprecated despite the laudable efforts by @philm within this thread?

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Show Apps icon (gnome) in dock no longer functions for me.
edit: ā€¦ I found the solution here: Dash to Dock "Show Apps" icon not working when clicked

Manjaro green is now blue in gnome-shell.
Was able to open gnome-tweaks from term & change appearance > shell back to custom-accent-colours. Luckily I had a terminal icon in the dock!

Screenshot from 2023-11-08 16-38-38

thx. this was the solution fĆ¼r me! very easyā€¦

Looks good here. Update went smooth, after each reboot in my two kernels, everything can be loaded. Iā€™m on Manjaro cinnamon. My DE of choice. So glad oberon does such a good job here. :slight_smile:

After this update, with the new Plasma 5.27.9, I get this weird monitor brightness dimming issue. I have my PC running Manjaro connected to my monitor and a Windows laptop also connected though one of the inputs on that monitor. I can switch which input gets displayed using the monitorā€™s built-in KVM.

Screen dimming was set to happen after 5 minutes of inactivity in KDE. This morning, I switch to my Windows laptop and noticed that the monitor would dim after 5 minutes (while displaying the Wondows UI on my monitor). I realized it was related to the Plasma brightness dimming because as soon as I moved my desktop PCā€™s mouse (which restores the default brightness), then on Windows the brightness was also restored.

Workaround: I disabled brightness dimming in the Plasma energy saving settings.

kde gwenview fails to load since it is linked to (removed) libKF5Kipi.so.32.0.0. The .so was previously provided by kipi-plugins which is an AUR package. kipi-plugins will get uninstalled during the update since is has pkg dependency kio which is now gets changed to kio5. You cannot reinstall kipi-plugins after the update since even if you change the pkg dependency to kio5 you end up dependency hell. kipi-plugins was made defunct some time ago which is why it is in aur. Not clear why the executable is linked to the .so and whether it is a Manjaro, Arch or KDE issue, or possibly something I messed up on.

If you did not remove all gnome extensions, as suggested (it happened to me because I just deactivated them) and you are using X11, you can end with a desktop that crashes on login, probably due to the shell bug on restart.

Just enter in console mode in your user, and remove everything under $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions (or rename the directory to some other name) and the next login will work.

HTH

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The gdm theme is still blue after the update.

set-gdm-theme list says, the only availble theme is default. I already reinstalled manjaro-gdm-branding.

Others said, that this reverted to green after a few reboots, but so far not for me. Any tips or suggestions?

Possibly, it was always meant to do this, but only now works as it should. :man_shrugging: