[Stable Update] 2025-08-30 - Kernels, ROCm, Firefox, Steam, PHP

[Daniel-I]

@discobot

Libreoffice 25.8.0.4 crashes on opening files

In case you experience immediate crash of Libreoffice Writer ver 25.8.0.4 (or other office apps and versions too?) on opening every already saved .docx file (or other formats too?), the workaround may be to switch from the Microsoft Tabbed toolbar to the standard old look. View -> User interface... until the bug is fixed.

This might or might not be fixed in 25.8.1 since there are several similar bugs in the bugtracker, one is fixed and one not until ver. 26. I guess some input from test or unstable branch users will help here.

I was a confused by the version number until I remembered I was using libreoffice-still and not libreoffice-fresh.

In case folks want another option, I tested changing writer from libreoffice-still to use “tabbed”, saved a file as .docx, closed writer, and clicking the file to open writer didn’t crash the app.

So if there is no major feature difference you’d miss, switching to “still” will get “tabbed” working again for you.

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Some Thunderbird updates hit stable today (Sept 20), and it reminded me that I often get errors from one (always the same one) of the three Canadian mirrors mirror.xenyth.net

:: Retrieving packages...
 thunderbird-i18n-en-us-143.0-1-x86_64                                            593.2 KiB  2.37 MiB/s 00:00 [##################################################################] 100%
 thunderbird-i18n-en-gb-143.0-1-x86_64                                            244.2 KiB   418 KiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
 thunderbird-143.0-1-x86_64                                                        68.9 MiB  16.9 MiB/s 00:04 [##################################################################] 100%
 Total (3/3)                                                                       69.8 MiB  17.0 MiB/s 00:04 [##################################################################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'thunderbird-i18n-en-gb-143.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.xenyth.net : OpenSSL SSL_read: OpenSSL/3.5.2: error:0A000126:SSL routines::unexpected eof while reading, errno 0

and that’s after confirming it was sysnc’d…

pacman-mirrors --status
Local mirror status for stable branch
Mirror #1   OK  01:41   Canada  https://mirror.xenyth.net/manjaro/
Mirror #2   OK  06:01   Canada  https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/manjaro/
Mirror #3   OK  01:41   Canada  https://muug.ca/mirror/manjaro/

I think I’m just going to remove it from my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file as I find it unreliable, but thought I’d report the issue so the mirror can be looked at.

[Richardk2n]

My thunderbird segfaults now?
Only on my laptop though.
Works fine on my desktop.
Reverting is not a (good) option, because I would need to recreate my profile.

[beermad]

@Richardk2n

Reverting is not a (good) option, because I would need to recreate my profile.

You should be able to run a downgraded Thunderbird using:

thunderbird --allow-downgrade

to revert the profile. Just the same way you can do that with Firefox.

[Richardk2n]

Thunderbird is apparently fixed now:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=308421
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/143.0.1/releasenotes/

No idea how many people were affected, but might be worthwhile to fast-track this fix into stable.