[Stable Update] 2024-07-16 - Kernels, Firefox, Thunderbird, Nvidia, Systemd, LibreOffice

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Do NOT use Discover for updates. It uses packagekit which is a security problem. You can browse with it and install plasma widgets, for everything else should not be used.
Pamac, pacman, octopi use the native alpm library

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For me enabling wifi interface fixed it. Could even re-disable it afterwards without the spam returning.

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Kernel 6.10.1 contains a patch for the thermal zone bug.

commit 0129910096573d08ecb139b20e2940682f248186
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed Jul 24 15:54:07 2024 +0200

    Linux 6.10.1
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240723122838.406690588@linuxfoundation.org
    Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
    Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
    Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
    Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
    Tested-by: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@heitbaum.com>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

commit 5e052818fafacefe6fc9c5561a9385ffaef0aa5b
Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 17 21:45:02 2024 +0200

    thermal: core: Allow thermal zones to tell the core to ignore them
    
    commit e528be3c87be953b73e7826a2d7e4b837cbad39d upstream.

The iwlwifi wireless driver registers a thermal zone that is only needed
    when the network interface handled by it is up and it wants that thermal
    zone to be effectively ignored by the core otherwise...........
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A post was split to a new topic: After I start qBittorrent, the whole system halts

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I have been experiencing some kind of issue with the filesystem since the update. I had a partition set up (ext4) for a Timeshift backup, and since the update, the filesystem in that partition is not responsive. I have removed Timeshift, deleted the partition, recreated the partition, and none of those things seem to have solved the issue, every time I mount it I get a Plasma Desktop Workspace Error saying “Filesystem is Not Responding - Filesystem mounted at ‘/run/media/username/Timeshift_backup’ is not responding.” As soon as that partition gets mounted in any capacity, it seems to brick the filesystem inside it and any programs attempting to interact with it.

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Faced more problems with kernel 6.10.0 in dmesg – spam of 2 types of lines:

amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu: MES failed to respond to msg=MISC (WAIT_REG_MEM)

and

 [drm:amdgpu_mes_reg_write_reg_wait [amdgpu]] *ERROR* failed to reg_write_reg_wait

which apparently is already reported

hopefully patched soon.

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Since the update there are problems with Kdenlive and Shotcut (from the official repos): Mono (= 1-channel) audio is only played back in the left channel. The problem seems to be caused by the update of ffmpeg and especially by the installation of mbedtls2.

However, it is probably mainly a Kdenlive problem, because with the Flatpak versions the problem only occurs later than Kdenlive 24.02.2. Since an update from 2024-06-08 the problem is there again.

But: No problems with all AppImages of Kdenlive!

The problem with Kdenlive arises as soon as I make one of the following updates:
chromaprint
ffmpeg
ffmpeg4.4
libplacebo
mlt
mpv
x265

Und: das update von mpv verlangt die Installation von mbedtls2.

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