[Stable Update] 2024-05-13 - Kernels, Plasma 6, Gnome 46, LxQT 2.0, Nvidia, Pacman

[soundofthunder]

@MajorMayer

Easy to resolve, but still annoying and shouldn’t happen.

Was this repetitive?
One user complained that this happened ‘every time’.

[beermad]

The mouse section in Plasma’s systemsettings is empty after this update. I’ve created a support thread here with some diagnostic information.

[Marsa]

See Apps not showing up in menus / Applications & Desktop Environments / Arch Linux Forums
Make sure you create a snapshot first.

[Adramyttium]

XFCE user here: No significant update issues, but my system theme matcha-dark-aliz was not being applied to certain apps like VLC and Nextcloud Desktop. Installing the package kvantum-qt5 cleared up all my theme related issues.

HT to @Teo for the fix.

[MajorMayer]

No, not every time, but 2 times in the last 2 days, which is more often then on Plasma 5.

Edit: Got it again right now, but this time it said loginctl unlock-session 24 …?

[jaramo]

Updated my HTPC today. This time doing things properly. Or at least better than on my laptop.

Ran into a startup bug in qBittorrent 4.6.4. Luckily the fix is already done and will ship with 4.6.5

[Randomname123]

@Aragorn

View and merge. Look at what is new in the .pacnew file and merge it in with your existing configuration file, if applicable. Never blindly copy the .pacnew over the existing file.

Thanks for the advice! i’ll try this to the best of my ability (and common sense) and i’ll let you know if anything spontaneously explodes or not… wish me luck…

@beermad

Simple trick for you. After you’ve installed the package, look at the “files” tab in its entry in pamac-manager. The executable’s name will be shown in /usr/bin (or possibly just /bin). It’s amazing how often I’ve needed this after installing something.

Oh that’s a very useful tip! Thanks! Next time someone asks me to download and run a new program I can look all smart now knowing exactly what executable to use…

[Marsa]

@bogota

no change after the command and/or reboot…

See [Stable Update] 2024-05-13 - Kernels, Plasma 6, Gnome 46, LxQT 2.0, Nvidia, Pacman - #402

About the “error message quote”, see the moderator edit message at the bottom of your post.

[soundofthunder]

@ejikVT

Ok, i’ve found the solution. Logout → mv ~/.cache ~/.cache_old → Login

You missed a few important steps…

1. Logout
2. Use Ctrl+Alt+F3 (or substitute F3 for F4/F5/F6/F7) to login to a TTY shell
3. Delete (or rename) the ~/.cache directory:
   rm -rf ~/.cache (to delete it)
   mv ~/.cache ~/.cache_old (to rename it)
   This must not be done while logged in to the Plasma shell.
4. Logout from the TTY using: exit
5. Switch back to SDDM (login screen) Ctrl+Alt+F2
6. Reboot.
   The cache will be regenerated (like a timelord) at next login.
7. Login to Manjaro.

I hope this helps. Cheers.

[Marsa]

I’m wondering if others have had the same experience with this Plasma 6 update:

• All icons on the desktop (folder mode) lost their position
• The taskbar got completely wrong with duplicate widgets everywhere including the task manager
• The widgets on the desktop got removed
• The wallpaper got reset
• The mouse icons got reset
• The font got set to forced PPP
• The app launcher menu button isn’t Manjaro themed anymore
  etc.
  I also had problems with icons due to the icon theme I used.

I guess the KDE developers didn’t care to implement settings migration.

[soundofthunder]

@Marsa

I guess the KDE developers didn’t care to implement settings migration.

I guess you didn’t follow the recommended update procedures mentioned near the beginning of this very thread:

@philm

If you use KDE you better logout of your session and do the update via Pacman or Pamac in TTY

[Marsa]

That just confirms what I’ve said: we have to reset everything to default before the update, because the KDE developers didn’t implement settings migration.

But thanks for the link, I didn’t notice this got added.

[soundofthunder]

@Marsa

But thanks for the link, I didn’t notice this got added.

Welcome.

You might have some semblence of recovery from this by following directions in my post above (scroll up a little, or click the following link):

• Logout and delete cache

I hope this help. Cheers.

[beermad]

@Marsa

That just confirms what I’ve said: we have to reset everything to default before the update, because the KDE developers didn’t implement settings migration.

Migration either happened or wasn’t needed for my system. The only problem was downloaded widgets that didn’t support Plasma-6, but that’s down to the widget developers rather than KDE.

[Randomname123]

@Aragorn

View and merge. Look at what is new in the .pacnew file and merge it in with your existing configuration file, if applicable. Never blindly copy the .pacnew over the existing file.

Ok so the good news is I did the whole pacnew-checker thingy until there where no more pacnews left to check! and lo and behold my computer hath not yet exploded! So that’s a relief… (my common sense also told me to back up all the relevant config and .pacnew files in question juuust in case I mess something up)

The not so great news is that my TTY situation is still as bleak as the deepest depths of outer space… so I created a new topic here in case anyone can help: Switching to TTY from GUI yields a black screen without any text or login prompt

Thank you to everyone who replied and tried to help me. You guys are all great.

[beermad]

Another (painful) problem with Plasma 6. Window rules are no longer put into effect, so windows are being placed all over the screen rather than where I want them.

A particular pain for me as I rely on precise window locations for automated keypresses in my photo editing workflow. Looks like I’m going to have to implement something using wmctrl as a workaround

[Edit 2]: OK, my first “fix” wasn’t after all correct. The answer seems to be that you have to add a rule “ignore requested geometry” and set it to “Force”. So far this seems to be working.

[Keruskerfuerst]

I have tested LibreOffice 24.2.3 on XFCE and there, copy and paste works well.

[ipolit]

I create a post here: Gnome 46 update brings display problems

[Rmano]

Almost everything good, but:

on Gnome 46, okular segfaults when the mouse is hovering on the three buttons (minimize-maximize-close) on the window top bar. This is mysterious: it happens by just hovering on the buttons, okular shouldn’t even notice that, no?

May 15 20:58:41 ramoth kernel: okular[37659]: segfault at 6 ip 0000000000000006 sp 00007ffe38cd4258 error 14 in okular[558c7940b00>
May 15 20:58:41 ramoth kernel: Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffdc.
May 15 20:58:41 ramoth systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 37754/UID 0).
May 15 20:58:41 ramoth systemd-coredump[37755]: [🡕] Process 37659 (okular) of user 1153 dumped core.
                                                
                                                Stack trace of thread 37659:
                                                #0  0x0000000000000006 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                                                #1  0x6b73bcc13efd8900 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                                                ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
May 15 20:58:41 ramoth systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@2-37754-0.service: Deactivated successfully.

inxi basic information:

CPU: 8-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics (-MT MCP-)
speed/min/max: 552/400/4680 MHz Kernel: 6.6.30-2-MANJARO x86_64 Up: 1h 51m
Mem: 7.77/30.78 GiB (25.2%) Storage: 3.64 TiB (38.4% used) Procs: 484
Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.34

[wowo]

Applied the upgrade on 3 computers now.

first one is laptop with not much installed and the upgrade went smoothly, did not even need to revert the floating taskbar.

second is everyday laptop filled to the brim with many softwares and custom AUR things. upgrade would not apply, had a few of the dependencies blocks with java and plasma theme, which I fixed by removing the stuff that was asking for those dependencies. Could not reboot after upgrade, has to force power off the computer with the power button.
on first boot sddm theme was a default filled with errors, and upon login I changed this theme to another default one. Had to redo the plasma desktop to fit my usage, not why so many arguably useless changes to the gui, kde being kde I suppose.
after this step it was good to go

now the third computer is a desktop and here the upgrade failed to a long list of “file already exists error”, which strangely belonged to an AUR package I never installed polkit-qt6-git, removing it would break a dependencies to another AUR package I had never installed: kauth-git
after checking that the repo version (non AUR) were part of the system, I removed them and now the upgrade applied. again impossible to reboot after the uprade or close the session. Had force power off.
but now on next reboot I cannot log in to desktop, I am served with a number of errors.

Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.home1' failed: The systemd unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' could not be found.
sddm-helper[713]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
systemd[719]: plasma-ksmserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[719]: Failed to start KDE Session Management Server.
systemd[719]: Dependency failed for KDE Plasma Workspace Core.
systemd[719]: Dependency failed for KDE Plasma Workspace.
systemd[719]: Dependency failed for plasma-workspace-x11.target.
systemd[719]: plasma-kwin_x11.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'
systemd[719]: Failed to start KDE Window Manager.
systemd[719]: plasma-xdg-desktop-portal-kde.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[719]: Failed to start Xdg Desktop Portal For KDE.
plasmashell[842]: /usr/bin/plasmashell: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libKF6KIOWidgets.so.6: undefined symbol: _ZN18KDesktopFileActionaSEOS_
polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[843]: /usr/lib/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1: undefined symbol: _ZN13KWindowSystem13setMainWindowEP7QWindowRK7QString
systemd[719]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[719]: Failed to start KDE Plasma Workspace.
systemd[719]: plasma-polkit-agent.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[719]: Failed to start KDE PolicyKit Authentication Agent

and the errors continue to pile up like that, not sure what went wrong and this time I have no clue what I should do to fix this.

And I will not apply this update to the other computer until it is fixed.