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

[Arrababiski]

@JohnML

Are we the only ones with this severe issue? But i hope i missed something?!

Solution as allways: i am the idiot. only update the one line at the beginning of passwd !!!

No, there are more people with the same issue:

Question about passwd.pacnew

Hello everyone, I am currently looking at the .pacnew files after the update. A passwd.pacnew was created in which there is only one line: root:x:0:0::/root:/usr/bin/bash In my file it says at the beginning: root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash Just to be sure, I want to ask if I should change the line root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash to root:x:0:0::/root:/usr/bin/bash There is also a lot more text (40 lines in total) in my previous passwd file. I’d better leave them all, right? Bes…

Continuing the discussion from [Question about passwd.pacnew]

Continuing the discussion from Question about passwd.pacnew: Well /user/bin/bash is not fine for me. It removes me as user, as I can’t log into gui, tty and takes sudo away from me. I get the often-mentioned black screen on autologin. /user/bin/bash is listed in my /etc/shells/ . Next to /usr/passwd I have also /usr/passwd- Unsure what I do now. I fixed it temporarily gettig these 2 files back into my system via the Timeshift snapshot folder. I had overwritten the old file /etc/passwd with…

I recommend using meld before overwiriting any pacnew file. Try:

sudo meld pacman.conf pacman.conf.pacnew

And you will see all the differences between both files. Marked in blue the lines with differences from one file to another and marked in green all lines in a file and not in the other.

[anon51566685]

I can use RDP normally. (no RD gateways or anything)

[gefri]

Seems to occur only in specific server side settings.
See remmina gitlab tickets

Issues · Remmina / Remmina · GitLab

Also with my use cases - RDP connections to some RDP server are ok, others fail with ‘authentication protocol’ error.

[anon51566685]

I guess you can try remmina-git from AUR.

[JohnML]

Yes, i use meld but i hit in terminal without long thinking “o” ande now i restored my Manjaro from my daily backup with backintime.

[gefri]

Just downgraded back to v1.4.33.
That’s the safe option

[Kobold]

@philm

pacman-contrib is now split out from pacman

Is there a reason why pacman-contrib is split out from pacman?

Because everyone needs pacdiff for .pacnew file merging.

[anon51566685]

The question is why they were merged together. Both packages come separately in Arch.

@Kobold

Because everyone needs pacdiff for .pacnew file merging.

Everyone is free to install whatever they need.

[Kobold]

@anon51566685

Everyone is free to install whatever they need.

Hmm did i miss something, is there another good solution to find pacnew files?

Anyways free to install sounds great, but everyone is indirectly forced to reinstall it now.

@anon51566685

The question is why they were merged together.

This question is also interesting

[anon51566685]

@Kobold

is there another good solution to find pacnew files?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave#Managing_.pac*_files

[Yochanan]

@Kobold

is there another good solution to find pacnew files?

Also manjaro-pacnew-checker:

Check and manage pacnew files

Hello, I noticed that many people don’t know about pacnew files or at least don’t pay attention to their creation during the upgrade phase. To help even those who don’t pay attention, I created a bash script with yad GUI that simulates pacdiff actions. [Schermata del 2023-08-24 16-57-10] [Schermata del 2023-08-24 16-58-50] [Schermata del 2023-08-24 16-59-15] The program runs in the background and opens when new pacdiff files are found. Maybe it won’t be the best approach but if anyone ha…

[nikgnomic]

@JohnML

i hope i missed something?!

Wheel user password "reset itself", now twice

To fix it there is usually a backup /etc/passwd~. Verify your username is at the end of the file and - if it is - use cp to replace the existing file. sudo cp /etc/passwd~ /etc/passwd No - passwords are never reset by an update. Confused by the presense of a file named passwd.pacnew? It would happen if you - without giving thought to the process - replace a configuration with a .pacnew file Never automate .pacnew files - it may wreck your system completely. Ubuntu doesn’t have .pacnew …

[1efaf7d71a8637c6800a]

@notageek

@1efaf7d71a8637c6800a

^ I got the same warnings while upgrading. How should I go about it? Change the permissions or ignore the warnings?

for polkit, you have to change as Yochanan stated
for audit is not clear to me, if I change or not the result of

ls -al /var/log/audit/

is same…

Can confirm. Right after the update the directory permission are already 755 !

stat -c '%a - %n' /var/log/audit                            
755 - /var/log/audit

Pacman should never change these permissions. Or does it wrongly report during the update? For some weird reason? (The directory is empty anyway.)

From /var/log/pacman.log:

[ALPM] warning: directory permissions differ on /var/log/audit/
filesystem: 700  package: 755

[Jaspon]

With the most recent update, all my interface fonts appear to have broken. I tried switching away from the default Noto sans, but all appear to have various rendering issues with only a handful of letters appearing for each file in my file browser. All the UI icons in “Files” are also missing (min, max, close, filter options)

Any help would be appreciated.

[carpet]

After this update, when I try to take snapshots with ksnip, the app just shuts down.

[ChrisCanyon]

@Armag67

And everything works correctly in the dark theme (except for baobab which mysteriously remains in the light theme).

Edit: there is no mystery, baobab requires gtk4 which is not supported by Xfce…

It does, you have to have to copy gtk.css and gtk-dark.css files of your theme into the following folder : /home/<user>/.config/gtk-4.0/

[phelgm]

Updated just fine.
However the “Notes” widget icon in the system tray for the XFCE DE, changed to this yellow notepad look a like, before it was sold white.
Style: Matcha dark sea
Icon: Papirus-dark-maia
Not sure how to fix or change it back

[Jazz]

@carpet

After this update, when I try to take snapshots with ksnip, the app just shuts down.

Can’t reproduce this on my KDE after the recent update, ksnip works fine. Make a separate support request thread with more input on your issue.

[Rick]

Hi Guys.

After this update I had some issues, so I would like to share the solutions for two problems that some of you might face. Feel free to correct me if you know a better way to solve those issues.

I am running XFCE in a Dell 7472 laptop (details bellow).

My machine:

System:
  Kernel: 6.7.4-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 7472 v: N/A
  Mobo: Dell model: 082HPJ v: A03 UCPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-8550U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    smt: enabled arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB
   Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-2
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Realtek Integrated Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-5:4 chip-ID: 0bda:5689 class-ID: 0e02
    serial: 0x0001
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver:
    X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
    display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x285mm (40.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 1055mm (41.54")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 pos: right model: Dell E2211H
    serial: N8F3M22H04RM res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102
    size: 477x268mm (18.78x10.55") diag: 547mm (21.5") modes: max: 1920x1080
    min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: primary,left model: AU Optronics 0x433d
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 158 size: 309x173mm (12.17x6.81")
    diag: 354mm (13.9") modes: 1920x1080
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo is missing.
EFI: Dell
    v: 1.11.0 date: 03/18/2022

1. the file .profile was not being sourced anymore.
The solutions shared here probably helped the majority of people, but in my case I could not include the lines from .profile in a .bash_profile, for instance, because I needed them to be loaded just once per session. Doing as recommended it would cause problems.

The solution: rename ~/.profile to ~/.xprofile, as it only loads once per session.
Source: xprofile - ArchWiki

2. My keyboard became unresponsive after resuming from suspend.
In internet you can find people discussing the same problem for years now, but few people can explain the real causes and the solutions. It is funny that my problem just started after this update. Anyway… to solve it:

The solution: include atkbd.reset in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line from the grub config file (/etc/default/grub). Note: leave the other options in that line as before. Example: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash atkbd.reset"

Just include the atkbd.reset part. After that run sudo update-grub to tell grub about the new options.
Sources:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/975260/my-keyboard-does-not-work-after-ubuntu-17-10-resumes-from-suspend
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=297332

Get the beautiful ubuntu natty running on your Vaio CS laptops

I have tried other variations (as recommended by some forums) in the grub line like i8042.dumbkbd=1, and i8042.noaux, but they caused different problems, like making the caps lock light to stop working.

I hope it can help others.
Cheers

P.S.: Edit to include a grub config example.
P.P.S: Edit again for better wording.

[1efaf7d71a8637c6800a]

@1efaf7d71a8637c6800a

Pacman should never change these permissions. Or does it wrongly report during the update? For some weird reason? (The directory is empty anyway.)

Or was it changed when I changed @Yochanan 's chmod command to change the polkit folder’s permissions, like its being a polkit rule or something?