Could something be using a lot of CPU? That would cause those symptoms. Have a look using htop.
CPU load is fine ā¦ mostly 0.2 - 0.5% us
%CPU(s): 0,5 us, 1,3 sy, 0,0 ni, 97,4 id, 0,3 wa, 0,3 hi, 0,2 si, 0,0 stlooks like a kwin or kde issue ā¦
also this inxi output comes delayed:
$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:
Kernel: 6.9.0-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.4 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_x11 with: cairo-dock
vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 7040 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0HD5W2 v: A00 serial: <superuser required> part-nu: 06B9
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI-[Legacy]: Dell v: 1.11.1 date: 10/10/2018
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-6700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1450 high: 3400 min/max: 800/3400 cores: 1: 3400 2: 800
3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 3400 bogomips: 54417
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
arch: Gen-9 ports: active: DP-2,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1,DP-3,HDMI-A-3
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1912 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: intel dri: i965 gpu: i915
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1848 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x488mm (40.00x19.21")
s-diag: 1127mm (44.37")
Monitor-1: DP-2 mapped: DP2 pos: top-center model: Samsung SyncMaster
serial: <filter> res: 1360x768 hz: 60 dpi: 84 size: 410x230mm (16.14x9.06")
diag: 470mm (18.5") modes: max: 1360x768 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI1 pos: bottom-r model: Acer K242HL
serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92
size: 530x300mm (20.87x11.81") diag: 609mm (24") modes: max: 1920x1080
min: 720x400
Monitor-3: HDMI-A-2 mapped: HDMI2 pos: primary,bottom-l model: Acer K242HL
serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92
size: 530x300mm (20.87x11.81") diag: 609mm (24") modes: max: 1920x1080
min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: gbm,wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.0.6-manjaro1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:1912
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0
type: integrated-gpu driver: mesa intel device-ID: 8086:1912
Audio:
Device-1: Focusrite-Novation Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 driver: snd-usb-audio
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 1235:8016
class-ID: fe01
Device-2: USB MIDI Interface driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-7:5 chip-ID: fc02:0101 class-ID: 0103
API: ALSA v: k6.9.0-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off
Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: active with: 1: a2jmidid status: active
2: nsmd status: off
Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: off with: wireplumber status: off
Server-4: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active with: 1: pulseaudio-alsa
type: plugin 2: pulseaudio-jack type: module
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b7 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wireguard1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.39 TiB used: 253.67 GiB (17.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDH3 500G size: 465.76 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 20RL scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC Solid State Disk
size: 953.87 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 916a
scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 57.37 GiB used: 26.8 GiB (46.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot size: 511 MiB used: 171.3 MiB (33.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: /home size: 152.74 GiB used: 62.32 GiB (40.8%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C pch: 50.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.11 GiB used: 2.92 GiB (9.4%)
Processes: 267 Power: uptime: 17m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1604 Compilers: clang: 17.0.6 gcc: 13.2.1
Shell: Bash v: 5.2.26 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.34
Okay, a few days later Iāve noticed one issue with bluetooth. Before the update, my bluetooth headsets paired and stayed connected without issue. Now they connect, and they seem to stay connected, but every few seconds I get an intermittent notification saying āConnected.ā
If Iām watching a youtube video, the audio sounds great and never seems to stutter. While watching, I opened the bluetooth-monitor GUI and though the audio seems to stay connected, the GUI clearly shows the device disconnecting and reconnecting. Iām glad that it seems to work, but I confess the repeated notification is a distraction.
Anyone else see this behavior? Iām using XFCE.
Does anyone know how these errors can be eliminated?
Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead.
plasma-polkit-agent.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV
Theme parsing error: <data>:2:27: The style property GtkButton:default-border is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
Theme parsing error: <data>:1:42: '-gtk-cursor-aspect-ratio' is not a valid property name
gtk_accessible_text_get_contents: assertion 'end >= start' failedAre they causing you problems? If not, I expect they can be ignored.
Yes, opening windows, copy & paste action ā¦ are delayed
Try a new profile first.
If that works, try a different theme.
Downgrading to kernel 6.6 seems to have fixed the nvidia issues. If I get a crash again, Iāll post there in the other link (see msgs above). For now, thanks for the help.
Hi all,
a few days after the latest major update pamac now shows error messages:
pamac update --no-aur
Vorbereitung...
Synchronisiere Paketdatenbanken...
cp: die Zeiten fĆ¼r '/var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync' werden beibehalten: Die Operation ist nicht erlaubt
chmod: Beim Setzen der Zugriffsrechte fĆ¼r '/var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync': Die Operation ist nicht erlaubt
Warnung: task: Ignoriere Paket-Aktualisierung (2.6.2-2 => 3.0.2-1)
Es gibt nichts zu tun.
Vorgang erfolgreich abgeschlossen.
I did not change something manually, and prior to the latest update of libpamac, libpamac-flatpak-plugin and libpamac-snap-plugin I didnāt see these error messages.
Any ideas?
Access rights for the directories mentioned are:
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 13. Mai 13:02 /
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 17. Mai 12:17 /var
drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 4096 17. Mai 17:45 /var/tmp
drwxrwxrwx 4 admin admin 4096 13. Mai 13:08 /var/tmp/pamac
drwxrwxrwx 3 admin admin 4096 17. Mai 17:45 /var/tmp/pamac/dbs
Files in /var/tmp/pamac/dbs are (user ājoergā is myself, of courseā¦):
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joerg joerg 29 10. Jul 2023 community.db
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joerg joerg 35524392 8. Jul 2023 community.files
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joerg joerg 142284 14. Mai 03:02 core.db
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joerg joerg 2344710 14. Mai 03:02 core.files
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joerg joerg 8740625 16. Mai 22:24 extra.db
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joerg joerg 43482418 16. Mai 22:24 extra.files
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joerg joerg 18086 24. Dez 2022 mhwd.db
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joerg joerg 149770 13. Mai 10:59 multilib.db
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joerg joerg 224050 13. Mai 10:59 multilib.files
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joerg joerg 10668731 17. Mai 15:24 packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joerg joerg 0 17. Mai 15:33 refresh_timestamp
Thx for any comment or suggestion.
Not sure about your problem, but on the first glance, that should be in /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync
Anyone know what could be causing this?
Happened after the update.
NOTE. If you are going to answer my question, please read my āAbout meā first.
Ups, thx for your hint - that was my fault when copying the text from xterm to the forum board:
the mentioned files are actually already in ā¦/dbs/sync/ (not ā¦/dbs/
and permissions for /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync/ are:
drwxrwxrwx 2 admin admin 4096 17. Mai 18:44 /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync/
Sorry - but the described problem still persistsā¦
Do you have a separate user named admin? On my system, those 3 directories are owned by my one (and only) user. I always wondered what would happen if multiple users ran pamac.
Indeed, in my case they are also owned by my only user and not by root.
If they are owned by āadminā, that can explain why the user ājoergā receives an error about permissions. That will of course mean that pamac is concepted as a single user thing which is kind of stupid on linux. In that case you will have to update from āadminā, or root, or just use pacman -Syu.
Not sure if sudo pamac is a good idea as alternative, the experienced users warn against it.
Good point, that is helpful!
In deed, I have multiple users on my system: āadminā is the first āuser accountā (id 1000), then ājoergā (= myself, ID 1001), and some others, too.
I usually log in to the system using the āadminā account (which has permission to use sudo) for system maintenance or config changes.
For normal āday2dayā work I usually use the ājoergā account (which can use pacman via sudoers, and is limited to some other programs otherwise).
I can not remember exactly, but rumor has it that I ran pamac update as user āadminā the last time before the latest big update.
And now Iām trying to run pamac as user ājoergā - which might explain the error messages now.
But: Iām sure that in the past I ran pamac with both accounts successfully (i.e. without error messages), and now I have themā¦
That makes me wonder what the concept of using pamac might look like: use it with a single user ID only, and never run it with another?
(and of course, I now that running pamac as root is a bad idea - I never did!)
To make a long story short: I changed the owner+group of directory /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync/ to be ājoergā insted of āadminā, and the error messages are gone!
Thank your for your help - what remains is open questions in my mind regarding the use cases for pamac (and why its behaviour was changed with the lastest update)?
I am glad we found it. It seems like some bug anyway, because in theory with those permissions it should not matter if you are the owner of the folders or notā¦but it seems in practice it does.
Because for this big update you need to update it on a special way, donāt use pamac GUI, i hope you have a timeshift snapshot before you updated to rollback your system and follow this steps:
1.Fresh start
2.Log out
3.crtl+alt+f3 to open TTY
4.sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack
5.sudo systemctl stop sddm
6.sudo pacman -Syu
and spammed Y to replace everything
7.reboot
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Updated today - no problem, everything is fine, but there is one problem. All audio devices are working correctly, but are not displayed in the volume control widget. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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luckily meanwhile there is a workaround, edit your ~/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf
and change StartUpWindowState=Hidden to StartUpWindowState=Normal