Hello, after the update SDDM throws a segfault and I need to switch to a tty and use startplasma-wayland to start plasma.
sddm-greeter-qt[748]: segfault at 1d0 ip 00007f4d7a234582 sp 00007ffef7c8ba48 error 6 in libgallium-25.1.5-arch1.1.so[c34582,7f4d79618000+1865000]
The exact same issue is already described here in more detail, but since I cant post links:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306739
*edited to include clickable link
Shutdown equals a reboot issue is still a problem with this update:
In a situation like this itās worth taking a look in /var/log/pacman.log - that should tell you whatās actually happened.
@cbra by any chance Nvidia and Zink related? Making sure you're not a bot!
Adding the following to /etc/environment gets sddm back to work, so I guess it is nvidia and zink related:
MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink
is there a way to determine which of those replacement small packages are actually used and which are safe to remove?
linux-firmware-amdgpu-20250708-1
linux-firmware-atheros-20250708-1
linux-firmware-broadcom-20250708-1
linux-firmware-cirrus-20250708-1
linux-firmware-intel-20250708-1
linux-firmware-mediatek-20250708-1
linux-firmware-nvidia-20250708-1
linux-firmware-other-20250708-1
linux-firmware-radeon-20250708-1
linux-firmware-realtek-20250708-1
in which package are amd CPUās? Like Zen 3?
Does this intel package contain all intel stuff? So when I have intel bluetooth, I need it?
Can amd motherboard have some crucial pieces from mediatek or cirrus or likely not?
went ahead and removedā¦
linux-firmware-meta
linux-firmware-atheros
linux-firmware-broadcom
linux-firmware-cirrus
linux-firmware-mediatek
linux-firmware-nvidia
linux-firmware-radeon
ā¦without any side-effects so far.
and the rest had to mark as explicitly installed, so they donāt get removed by orphan removal.
Are there any config files/plugins that can be renamed/removed? should be somewhere in
~/.config/audacity/
I do not use audacity but can install and run it without problems on plasma stable in a VM
There are 3 .cfg files in that folder as follows:
audacity.cfg
pluginregistry.cfg
pluginsettings.cfg
After renaming all of them, and then launching Audacity, it recreates the audacity.cfg and then hangsā¦ ā¦and then eventually the same error in the image posted previously appears again.
read this topic: [Solved] Do I really need all those firmwares? / Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues / Arch Linux Forums
Regression: no text on login screen and KDE Launcher (Alt+Space)
this did work with the last two or three updates.
Thinkpad T60, T5500, Intel 945GM/i915, x11, Mesa,
KDE Plasma 6.3.6, QT 6.9.1
Log:
kinfocenter : Failed to build graphics pipeline state
kinfocenter: Failed to link shader program: error: Exceeded max ALU instructions (152/64)
thinkpad_acpi: acpi_evalf(BCTG, dd, ā¦) failed: AE_NOT_FOUND
if it is urgent maybe try the flatpak version of audacity (Install Audacity on Linux | Flathub) ?
needed to modify the script there from .zst to .xz because for some reason I have .xz firmware filesā¦ whereas arch users have .zst?
IIRC that is caused by Manjaros support for older kernels without ability to load/decompress zstd compressed firmware.
edit: apparently this came with 5.19:
On Plasma, the network manager asks for the wireless password every time I boot or resume from standby. Downgrading the kernel to 6.12 fixes the problem.
Running on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430s.
Does resetting the settings as described here: Resetting Audacity | Audacity Support solve this issue?
I only had a problem with vlc, but installing vlc-plugins-all everything works fine now
Donāt know whatās going on here. Did the update. All went OK no error. Upon rebooting it now takes a bit longer. The taskbar shows up then disappears. Iām left with a system with no taskbar , has a mouse but does not work well & conky has lost its background.
Not sure if this was an issues before the update but the terminal screenfetch under resolution says I have no x server & no WM. Iāve used timeshift to get back in. Where to from here? I switched kernels but no change. I have a nvidia card.
EDIT - Seems I got it working. I hope anyway. Came across a similar issue & the solution was sudo pacman -Syu linux615-nvidia-open nvidia-settings
Did the same thing. When I rebooted the system says it is āupdatedā. The only thing I had to do was reset the wallpaper. Time will tell. 
After updating, has anyone had trouble accessing GNOME after logging in? I had to rollback with a Timeshift snapshot because sometimes after entering my password, it would get stuck and not load the desktop environment.
From time to time the pamac gui even stops responding right after starting it, without any update happening.
It most definitely has issues unrelated to the update process itself.
It is probably the most unstable software I have on my computer.
