[Stable Update] 2024-02-21 - Kernels, KDE, VirtualBox, Calamares, ROCm, Firefox, Thunderbird

[bluterminus]

I upgraded the system on Monday the 26th, the boot is very slow, there are “failed to start powerdevil” errors and then there are freezes that last a few seconds.

[fsw]

@limaunion

XFCE user here. My laptop should s2ram after some inactivity, but I’m seen these kind of messages since this update:
Feb 28 08:15:12 tpad1 polkitd[1691]: Operator of unix-session:2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.login1.suspend for system-bus-name::1.41 [xfce4-power->
Feb 27 19:01:01 tpad1 pkexec[380468]: superuser: Error executing command as another user: Not authorized [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/superuser] [COMMAND=/usr/bin/xfpm-power-backligh>

Likely related to the recent polkit update.

Looking at the error message, it’s seems indeed (also) related to the removal of the package manjaro-hotfixes last month.

I think that you can restore the part of the Polkit rule that was deleted in it simply by adding:

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.power-off" ||
        action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.reboot" ||
        action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate" ||
        action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.suspend") {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

in a file in the /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ directory. You can name it as the old one that was deleted (99-manjaro.rules) or anything else following the same syntax (I’m using 10-admin.rules on my other Linux systems for such changes) and after a reboot, it should be solved.

@bluterminus

I upgraded the system on Monday the 26th, the boot is very slow, there are “failed to start powerdevil” errors and then there are freezes that last a few seconds.

You might want to have a look on this page to see if it’s related:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=289979

[Kobold]

@GaaSantAna

After the last update, I noticed that my system it’s a little slower than before. Gnome UI, resizing the windows, changing the volume with a game opened… A little freezes or it delayed to finish the action. Even the Manjaro Settings it’s slow to open.
Are anyone else with this problem?

All pacnew files are merged? And scroll Top and look at Known issues and solutions. Try the newer LTS Kernel 6.6 might help.

[GaaSantAna]

I don’t know if all pacnew files are merged… Ih there a way to check that?

I change to 6.6 LTS. THings got a little better, but still buggy

[BG405]

This might help:

Check and manage pacnew files

First - systemd user units exist … and second - theres nothing saying you cant use sudo -U (remember sudo is not equivalent to “super user do” it is more equivalent to “do as” … and that can be any user) EDIT And heres some more food for thought. Sorry for the tome … it looks bigger than it is because of quotations. I should clarify again that pacdiff -s accomplishes this already quite well, which is why I eventually considered the fork unnecessary. While somewhat less than i…

[Kobold]

@GaaSantAna

I don’t know if all pacnew files are merged… Ih there a way to check that?

pacdiff -s

[beermad]

One strange problem since this update.

Firefox is started on my Plasma system through an autostart script. When another application (such as Thunderbird or Tickr) tries to open a web page I get a pop-up telling me that Firefox is already running and I need to shut it down before I can run it (previously the link would simply open). When I do shut it down and restart it, I get another pop-up telling me that it didn’t shut down cleanly. Though at least after that, other applications can pass links to it.

[Cheker]

Kvantum themes aren’t being respected. So Qt apps open with a theme other than the one I chose. I’m going to let it be for now, don’t feel like fighting with this now.

Ksnip core dumps with the new -qt5 dependencies. I already dealt with this in Artix and here I did the same thing - downgraded and locked everything involved in this (ksnip, kcolorpicker, kimageannotator and gwenview, a casualty that also depends on the newer -qt5 ones) for the foreseeable future.

[Yochanan]

@Cheker

Kvantum themes aren’t being respected.

Then you don’t have it configured correctly.

@Cheker

Ksnip core dumps with the new -qt5 dependencies.

What new dependencies? It seems you haven’t updated since at least November.

Please create a new Support topic for each issue.

[ChrisCanyon]

@Yochanan

Then you don’t have it configured correctly.

Yet, there are several of us having issue with Qt apps since the last update. My DE is XFCE.
Kvantum was correctly configured before this update and i did not change anything.

It seems the issue is reported here https://bugs.launchpad.net/kvantum/+bug/2054321

My issue is a little bit different with Qt apps though because i only have theming issues with Qt 5 apps (not with Qt 6), they do not “catch” the theme defined with kvantum.

[Teo]

Have you tried this

[Stable Update] 2024-02-21 - Kernels, KDE, VirtualBox, Calamares, ROCm, Firefox, Thunderbird

You don’t have to enter this in /etc/environment, even if it works, but you can use the ~/.bash_profile file without root. Simply move the entries from the old ~/.profile file to ~/.bash_profile and your QT applications will use the dark theme. E.g. the line: export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct

[nikgnomic]

@Cheker

Kvantum themes aren’t being respected. So Qt apps open with a theme other than the one I chose

@ChrisCanyon

having issue with Qt apps since the last update. My DE is XFCE.

i only have theming issues with Qt 5 apps (not with Qt 6)

bashrc-manjaro has recently been replaced by bash. New package does not apply configuration settings in ~/.profile, including: export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct"

After update, system is not applying configuration settings in ~/.profile including: export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct" for QT theme

If there is no response to this command

echo $QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME

Copy the configuration in ~/.profile to ~/.bash_profile

OR

Add this to ~/.bash_profile

[[ -f ~/.profile ]] && . ~/.profile

After 2024-02-21 stable update ~/.profile file is no longer sourced

[fsw]

@nikgnomic

Add this to ~/.bash_profile

[[ -f ~/.profile ]] && . ~/.profile

Thanks, that solved VLC not using the dark theme of my Cinnamon DE

[ChrisCanyon]

@nikgnomic

manjaro-bash has recently been replaced by bash. New package does not apply configuration settings in ~/.profile, including: export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct"

In my last message i said i do not have issues with Qt5 apps, but only with Qt6 (Polychromatic, Qbittorrent). In reality, i also have issue with Okular (which is Qt5), but no issues with VLC for instance.

Maybe some Qt apps also support GTK integration, i do not have the clue.
→ For those who are using zsh like me, i created a .zprofile file instead of .bash_profile.

Do you also have an issue Okular or Qbittorrent or Polychromatic (even though for the last two one i could use their custom internal theming) ? just to have an idea

[Teo]

Qbittorrent, Okular and vlc are fine (follow the theme) here on XFCE.

[Yochanan]

@nikgnomic

manjaro-bash has recently been replaced by bash. New package does not apply configuration settings in ~/.profile

My .profile is being read just fine. What does bash have to do with it? Nothing actually changed except for the two packages merging into one. Do you have any bash pacsaves left over?

[GaaSantAna]

@Kobold

All pacnew files are merged? And scroll Top and look at Known issues and solutions. Try the newer LTS Kernel 6.6 might help.

@BG405

This might help:

I tried following this guide, but I missed up something and kind of deleted my user. After a reboot, I can not login anymore. I had to restore a Timeshift backup.
Should I “Merge” or “Overwrite”?

@Kobold

pacdiff -s

Some time ago I used DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff -s . It is the same thing but using meld?

Sorry about my “noob” question. In 2 years, I almost don’t verified pacnew files

[MrLavender]

@GaaSantAna

Should I “Merge” or “Overwrite”?

Neither (merge doesn’t work as expected for some reason). Do this;

Continuing the discussion from [Question about passwd.pacnew]

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[Keruskerfuerst]

I have installed paccache with pacman -Syu pacman-contrib.