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

[mkb]

I’m reading a lot about PulseAudio/Pipewire problems in the discussion. That’s why I haven’t updated yet. I checked inxi -Ax which confirms I seem to be running PulseAudio but Pipewire is installed as well.

Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.1
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0a:00.4
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.80-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: off
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active

Will I run into the same described problems?

I’ve never meddled with the sound system myself. It’s all stock like how it came since installing Manjaro in '23 and doing all the ‘Stable updates’ over time.

Is installing manjaro-pipewire the recommend solution (as @jezek writes in his/her post) for cases with running PulseAudio but existing Pipewire installation? Should this be done prior to the stable update?

Is Pipewire the go-to solution now or do you recommend staying with PulseAudio?

EDIT: I have to add that I’m not an audio guru or run any sound editing software. The fanciest audio thing I’ve done is playing some mp3’s with MPV.

[nikgnomic]

@philm

if you have no sound at all, you may want to check if you use pulseaudio

Updated partner’s Xfce system on stable branch earlier today. No audio problems with pulseaudio (17.0-43-g3e2bb)

[robotnik]

@sno99

Pipewire maxes out a single CPU thread with this update on an ASUS laptop. I’ve solved it by installing manjaro-pulse and running

sudo systemctl disable --global pipewire  

Not a difficult fix. But I must say I’m sick to death of pipewire. I run into something different with it on every single system I use, whether its XFCE, KDE or Gnome, whatever the hardware.

if you are using kernel 6.1 an upgrade might help

Pipewire process using 100% of CPU

I don’t believe I have changed anything to do with Pipewire the only recent change it installing the recent upgrades. The pipewire process keeps taking 100% of one CPU. The fan inside the machine is going continuously. The fan usually only goes when I am doing something processor intensive such as video rendering. Linux um350 6.1.131-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Mar 13 15:02:58 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have not made any changes to pipewire configuration, ever, that I know of. I am…

[wongs]

Upgraded my 2015 and 2016 installs (xfce, budgie) that are still on pulseaudio. No issues with sound.

Like you, I mainly use sound only for music and video files, and in Firefox browsing of YouTube and other websites where video is streamed.

[m4jq]

the same. don’t know what happened. after last update everything was ok…

[2025-03-06T20:14:11+0100] [ALPM] upgraded os-prober (1.81-1 -> 1.83-1)

mar 06 20:14:40 manjaro root[19170]: 05efi: debug: /dev/nvme1n1p1 is a FAT partition (mounted by GRUB)
mar 06 20:14:40 manjaro root[19170]: 05efi: debug: /dev/nvme1n1p1 partition scheme is gpt
mar 06 20:14:40 manjaro root[19170]: 05efi: debug: /dev/nvme1n1p1 partition type is c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
mar 06 20:14:40 manjaro root[19170]: 05efi: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/efi/10elilo
mar 06 20:14:40 manjaro root[19170]: 05efi: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/efi/20microsoft
mar 06 20:14:40 manjaro root[19170]: 20microsoft: result: Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows
mar 06 20:14:40 manjaro root[19170]: 05efi: debug: bootloader Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows found by subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/efi/20microsoft
mar 06 20:14:40 manjaro root[19170]: 05efi: result: /dev/nvme1n1p1@/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows:efi

now there is no windows efi found. for now i added menu entry manually.

[beermad]

@m4jq

[2025-03-06T20:14:11+0100] [ALPM] upgraded os-prober (1.81-1 -> 1.83-1)

Possibly a silly suggestion, but perhaps that upgrade over-wrote /etc/default/grub where it should say:
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

[Riquez]

Ive lost audio & video playback.
pulseaudio[2026]: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended.
I can use seek in the video (youtube, vlc) but cant play & no sound for anything.

[mirto]

After the update I’m no more able to create a DVD copy with “dd”

I’m using KDE/Plasma.

Before the update the command

LANG=C dd if=/dev/sr0 of=test.iso

produced tha iso image of the disk for DVDs and Blu-rays

Now it gives an I/O error for DVD

    ~/APPOGGIO  LANG=C dd if=/dev/sr0 of=test1.iso                                                                                                                             ✔ 
dd: error reading '/dev/sr0': Input/output error
2584+0 records in
2584+0 records out
1323008 bytes (1,3 MB, 1,3 MiB) copied, 0,626711 s, 2,1 MB/s
    ~/APPOGGIO  ls -lh test1.iso                                                                                                                                             1 ✘ 
-rw-r--r-- 1 mirto mirto 1,3M 20 mar 10.48 test1.iso
    ~/APPOGGIO  

Instead for a Blu-Ray it works normally

    ~/APPOGGIO  LANG=C dd if=/dev/sr0 of=test.iso                                                                                                                            1 ✘ 
80879872+0 records in
80879872+0 records out
41410494464 bytes (41 GB, 39 GiB) copied, 1690,26 s, 24,5 MB/s
    ~/APPOGGIO  ls -lh test.iso                                                                                                                                    ✔  28m 10s  
-rw-r--r-- 1 mirto mirto 39G 20 mar 10.43 test.iso
    ~/APPOGGIO   

I have the “sg” module installed

    ~  cat /etc/modules-load.d/sg.conf                                                                                                                                         ✔ 
sg
    ~  

To gather detail about the DVD/Blu-ray drive I used Makemkv which says

Informazioni unità
Nome dispositivo SO: /dev/sr0
Produttore: HL-DT-ST
Prodotto: BD-RE BH16NS55
Revisione: 1.05
Numero seriale: KLFL1BJ2441
Data firmware: 2120-06-18 13:42
Flag criptazione bus: 17
Versione più recente AACS: 68

(there is another metod to gather these informations?)

What can I do to copy DVD?

[nikgnomic]

@Riquez

pulseaudio[2026]: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended

try this to de-suspend sinks:

pactl suspend-sink 0

If that does not work open a new topic in Sound and post more information:

pactl list sinks

pacmd dump

[Riquez]

This solution worked, I had exact same symptoms.

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

Neither Youtube nor other video hosting sites play any videos after this update. Offline AVI files do play but there is no sound. Sound settings manager doesn’t play the test sounds. However, when I log in after restart, the initial greeting sound effect plays but after that there is no sound. Edit: I discovered that when I mute the sound on Youtube videos, they start to play, but as soon as I enable sound a loading indicator appears on the video. Also, I noticed that all sounds work properly …

[Aragorn]

@beermad

Possibly a silly suggestion, but perhaps that upgrade over-wrote /etc/default/gru

That would normally never happen. Instead, if there is an update to grub, there will be an /etc/default/grub.pacnew file.

---

• Pacnew and Pacsave (Arch Wiki)

[cluster]

After yesterday’s upgrade, everything worked fine until today… after a standby & screen lock, I couldn’t log in, the password was correct, something seems to be hanging … I use 2 screens.

20.03.25 11:44	sddm	Auth: sddm-helper exited with 64
20.03.25 11:44	sddm	Socket server stopping...
20.03.25 11:44	sddm	Socket server stopped.
20.03.25 11:44	sddm	Removing display SDDM::Display(0x5ca0ffa61e60) ...
20.03.25 11:44	sddm	Jumping to VT 2
20.03.25 11:44	sddm	VT mode didn't need to be fixed

[ChemoProphet]

I have resolved an issue I had with this update. pipewire was pinning one of my CPU threads at 100%, and my machine could not play audio. YouTube videos could also not play unless muted.

First, I removed pulseaudio-bluetooth and pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa, which allowed me to replace pulseaudio with pipewire completely (the audio issues were presumably due to these two conflicting). However, this did not fix the high CPU usage issue. For that, I had to upgrade my kernel from 6.1 to 6.6. All issues are now resolved.

Thought I’d post this here just in case anyone else has issues

[doctorx]

trying using zfsbootmenu… i did this conversion and it works really well. /boot can be in the root zpool then. just remember that /boot/efi still needs to be external.

[Mountain.Man]

Smooth for me, too, just like always.

[Gkirmathal]

Just heads up for anyone noticing a similar issue.
On linux613 6.13.6 I’m still experiencing the same ‘high p-state idle’ regression issue on an AMD R7 5700X, with with the driver: amd-pstate set to amd_pstate=passive. Where it constantly idles around 1300>1700Mhz.

6.12.19 has no issues and the CPU idles into the lowest p-states.

For the rest another great Stable update!

[mkb]

I’ve upgraded now in a virtual terminal after logging out of GNOME and while mpv would play MP3s without problems after a reboot, Firefox and Chromium wouldn’t play any videos but just start buffering and not starting the video. I don’t have one CPU core running on 100% though. inxi -Axx says:

Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 08:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0a:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.83-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active with: wireplumber
    status: active
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active
    with: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin

It seems like Pipewire and PulseAudio are both ‘active’ now which (I’m guessing) might be causing the problem with video playback in the browser. What solution would the forum recommend? sudo pacman -S manjaro-pipewire? Or do I have to uninstall Pulseaudio first as someone recommended in the discussion? Or uninstall Pipewire because it’s not stable yet?

EDIT: Just noticed the journal listing an error message from wireplumber:

spa.alsa: can't open control for card hw:1: No such file or directory.

EDIT2: Running firefox in the GNOME terminal repeatedly posts:

Failed to create /home for shader cache (Permission denied)---disabling.

[scotty65]

@mkb

What solution would the forum recommend? sudo pacman -S manjaro-pipewire? Or do I have to uninstall Pulseaudio first as someone recommended in the discussion? Or uninstall Pipewire because it’s not stable yet?

Pipewire is quite stable, and you should install it:

sudo pacman -Syu manjaro-pipewire

You will be prompted to remove conflicting pulseaudio packages:

pamac info manjaro-pipewire
Name                  : manjaro-pipewire
Version               : 20231009-1
Description           : Manjaro meta package for complete PipeWire support.
URL                   : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire
Licenses              : GPL
Repository            : extra
Installed Size        : 1.6 kB
Groups                : --
Depends On            : gst-plugin-pipewire pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse
Optional Dependencies : easyeffects: advanced equalizer and effects
                        pipewire-jack: Jack support
                        pipewire-v4l2: V4L2 interceptor
                        pipewire-x11-bell: X11 bell
                        pipewire-zeroconf: Zeroconf support
                        realtime-privileges: Realtime privileges for users
Required By           : --
Optional For          : --
Provides              : --
Replaces              : --
Conflicts With        : manjaro-pulse pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc pulseaudio-rtp pulseaudio-zeroconf
Packager              : Mark Wagie <mark@manjaro.org>
Build Date            : Tue 10 Oct 2023 11:27:33
Install Date          : Fri 17 Nov 2023 16:49:01
Install Reason        : Explicitly installed
Validated By          : Signature
Backup files          : --

[kwacorn]

A minor problem still present in this update, that began in the previous update, is that when I use KDE NeworkManager to try to connect to WiFi in my local cafe (Starbucks) a tab opens in the Brave browser with the URL https://ping.manjaro.org/check_network_status.txt, resulting in a 404 not found error.

Before the last update the URL was http://networkcheck.kde.org/ and if I use that the cafe accept terms and conditions and login web page appears and all is fine.

A minor problem for me but I thought I had better make aware the issue.