[Stable Update] 2025-03-18 - Kernel, Systemd, Plasma 6.3.3, KDE Gear 24.12.3

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Thank you. Installing manjaro-pulse didn’t help, though. I also noticed like others said that Youtube didn’t play videos, just frozen/paused.
Installed manjaro-pipewire again, but there was an conflict that couldn’t get resolved. So I manually uninstalled manjaro-pulse and proceed to install manjaro-pipewire again. This resolved all issues with sound and video. Thanks to you and @jezek

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Don’t know what happened, but my laptop booted again!
Does anybody have any idea how to find out what happened?

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My 2 laptops and 1 desktop all updated flawlessly. Thank you Manjaro team!

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Thanks for the clarification. I have to mount my ESP at /boot because I use ZFS on root + systemd-boot, which can’t read the kernel image in the ZFS partition.

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Since this update, I have a bit of an unsettling issue:

My webcam’s LED is permanently on after reboot.

v4l2-ctl --list-devices
Microsoft® LifeCam Studio(TM): (usb-0000:02:00.0-5):
	/dev/video0
	/dev/video1
	/dev/media0

Checking lsof shows none of these are actually being used, so there is nothing nefarious going on.
But still, very unsettling.

The only way I found to turn off the cam’s LED is to un- and re-plug it.
That will make the LED flash shortly while it’s being “recognized” but then turn off. Which is what used to happen upon startup, but since the recent update the LED will no longer turn off on its own after it turns on during startup.

I did not install anything recently that would be audio/video/webcam related, so I can only guess one of the packages updated with the update is responsible.

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Hi. This update caused bsdtar error for initcpio image generation for all my kernels:

[2025-03-18T23:02:51+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] bsdtar: Error reading archive -: Damaged tar archive (bad header checksum)
[2025-03-18T23:02:51+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
[2025-03-18T23:02:51+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> ERROR: Initcpio image generation FAILED: 'bsdtar (step 2)' reported an error

Downgrading libarchive from 3.7.7-2 to 3.7.7-1 solved the issue.

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pamac crashed and left me with a missing .img and a kernel panic. libpamac was up-to-date.
pacman saved the day after a timeshift restore.

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a reboot is not the same as shutdown + start

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Experiencing a massive improvement in terms of Pipewire latency / DSP usage in pro audio apps (1.2.x → 1.4.x update). Not sure why, but this is amazing.

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after the upgrade os-prober does not find the windows installation. previously grub-update added the relevant entries automatically.

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What happens if you use the older version of os-prober? sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/o/os-prober/os-prober-1.81-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

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Had this issue today but had to remove manjaro-pulse first and then install manjaro-pipewire . It worked, no restart needed.

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like many here, I have been having issues with pipewire breaking my audio and pinning one of my CPU threads at 100%.

As others have suggested, I have tried to install manjaro pipewire manually, however:

sudo pacman -S manjaro-pipewire                                                                                                    ✔  base 
[sudo] password for ChemoProphet:
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: manjaro-pipewire-20231009-1 and manjaro-pulse-20240817-1 are in conflict. Remove manjaro-pulse? [y/N] y
:: manjaro-pipewire-20231009-1 and pulseaudio-zeroconf-17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1 are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-zeroconf? [y/N] y
:: pipewire-pulse-1:1.4.1-0 and pulseaudio-17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1 are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1' required by pulseaudio-bluetooth
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio' required by pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa

How should I solve this dependency conflict?

Would the output of inxi -Fazy be appriciated?

I frequently use pulseaudio equaliser, so if I do have to remove it, any recommendations for an alternative? I also use mixxx frequently, as well as tenacity, and occasionally ardour and surgeXT.

In the meantime, I have rolled back with timeshift, and will attempt the update again one I am confident on how to manage these packages.

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Exactly the same error

  -> Early uncompressed CPIO image generation successful
bsdtar: Error reading archive -: Damaged tar archive (bad header checksum)
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
==> ERROR: Initcpio image generation FAILED: 'bsdtar (step 2)' reported an error

during build of -fallback image(s) primary image is fine … To note I have enough
space on all volumes: /boot EFI /tmp

The question is how/why manjaro-pulse and/or manjaro-pipewire can affect initramfs-6.12-x86_64-fallback.img image creattion …

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This was my exact issue. I’m also on an ASUS laptop. Thank you for the solution!

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Same problem and this worked for me.
Why did it happen though?
Isn’t manjaro-pulse package is the main audio controller? it shouldn’t be affected with pipewire

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All seemed to go smoothly, but I’m finding that audio keeps making crunching & banging noises whenever my system is doing pretty much anything but idling. Even something as simple as opening pamac-manager or opening a new page in Firefox makes it crunch. And when Darktable’s processing a photo it’s almost constant.
I don’t seem to be running Pulseaudio, as that package isn’t installed, so I think I can eliminate problems due to that.

[Edit]: definitely something to do with the various Pipewire package updates as downgrading them all fixes it. When time permits I’ll experiment to see if I can identify which one is causing the problem.

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Remove pulseaudio-bluetooth and pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa first, then install manjaro-pipewire:

sudo pacman -Rdd pulseaudio-bluetooth pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa
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No problems on my Asus laptop. I had problems with Pipewire last year and was able to resolve them by switching from Pipewire-Media-Session to Wireplumber.

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After the previous update, 2025-03-05, and before this update I changed a configuration for libreoffice in

/etc/profile.d/libreoffice-fresh.sh
by uncommenting: #export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk4

Libreoffice 25.2 still worked well thereafter using the now gtk4 look’n feel.
However, after this update, 2025-03-18, if I want to edit a file, libreoffice enters a loop of wanting to ‘reconstruct the broken file’ as if it crashed whilst editing the file. Running from a terminal, this is the output (an example):

[Bertie@Rip ~]$ libreoffice -o MyManjaro.odt
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true
-Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel
free(): invalid pointer
Gtk-Message: 15:50:55.680: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.

I think that the free():invalid pointer is the actual problem but tracing and correcting that could be difficult.
A solution that worked was to re-comment export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk4. This reverted to the gtk3 look’n feel (which seems to be the default in any case).

Because before this update libreoffice worked with gtk4, I do not think the problem lies with libreofice (which was not updated) but rather with something else in the update??
(linux6.12.19, enlightenment, X11)

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