[Stable Update] 2026-03-23 - Kernels, Mesa, COSMIC, GNOME, Systemd, Plasma

oe36 · 24 March 2026 15:06

Thank you Manjaro team for all your fantastic work. I have updated 2 of my 3 machines with zero issues. Will do the final one after work this evening.

One of my 3 machines has AMD CPU & AMD GPU and has been hard freezing for awhile now about once a day. Other AMD/AMD users have experienced this too and the culprit was believed to be the latter 25.x series mesa drivers and 26.x mesa was supposed to fix this. I had the machine running another distro (I know shame on me) for a couple days that had the 26.x mesa running on it and no lock ups so I am back on Manjaro on this machine with the included 26.x mesa and we will see how it goes. I’m very optimistic. Thank you for including this!

Thanks to the entire team for putting together such an aesthetically pleasing, wonderful, powerful operating system. You guys are awesome!

mAritz · 24 March 2026 15:47

While upating a pacnew file was created.

When checking for it, an error occurred:

(30/36) Looking for Pacnew/Pacsave created.
sudo: unknown user /usr/bin/touch
sudo: error initializing audit plugin sudoers_audit
error: command failed to execute correctly

And the pacnew diff gui tool did not start for me either.

(I fixed the pacnew situation manually, this is just a report of this happening)

Fomin90 · 24 March 2026 15:52

Thanks for the update, everything went smoothly.
I used this command to remove the NVIDIA driver for my GTX 1060:

sudo pacman -R nvidia-570xx-utils nvidia-570xx-settings linux618-nvidia-570xx linux612-nvidia-570xx

And I used this one to install the new and latest driver:

sudo pacman -S nvidia-580xx-utils nvidia-580xx-settings linux618-nvidia-580xx linux612-nvidia-580xx

karamba · 24 March 2026 17:23

Is this issue expected?

dmesg | grep r8168
[Tue Mar 24 19:08:39 2026] r8168 0000:c3:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtl_nic/rtl8168ep-3.fw failed with error -2
[Tue Mar 24 19:08:39 2026] r8168 0000:c3:00.0: Unable to load firmware rtl_nic/rtl8168ep-3.fw (-2)

Please ignore. I managed to fix it myself. The r8168 module was in the MODULES line of the mkinitcpio.conf file. I simply deleted it and rebuilt the initramfs.

Pille · 24 March 2026 17:38

Installed recently on a system i have reinstalled last week. (KDE)
After install switched to KDE Login Manager - then rebooted

Works without any issues so far.

jofi · 24 March 2026 17:44

This should be plasma-keyboard: virtual keyboard.

luzpaz · 24 March 2026 18:54

No problem except I noticed that the Add/Remove Software dialog quit and after the install i wasn’t prompted to reboot. I rebooted nonetheless and everything seems to be working, except I still can’t open Add/Remove Software dialog. It crashes everytime i do.

Fomin90 · 24 March 2026 19:00

P.S. I rolled back to the 570 driver because the Legacy Launcher for Minecraft isn’t working (the window hangs). My question is: what should I do if KDE stops supporting X11 soon? Especially since Minecraft only seems to work on the 570 driver and only on X11?
Delete KDE and install Xfce, for example?

retic1959 · 24 March 2026 19:19

Running KDE , Nvidia 590 , kernel 6.18 , i14900kf . Ran the update on tty . No issues whatsoever . Manjaro runs like a scalded cat on this rig . Thanks for all the work involved getting this update out .

luzpaz · 24 March 2026 19:33

Not sure why, but eventually dialog was able to launch. So nevermind.

mmdanggg2 · 24 March 2026 20:45

I seem to be getting the same as @luzpaz trying to open Add/Remove Software I get this error popup but it does open after several minutes.

angel2035 · 24 March 2026 20:48

Same thing with me,

** Message: 23:30:30.691: flatpak_plugin.vala:393: refreshing flathub appstream data

Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

I launched sudo pacman -Syu and the system is now updated.

tracyanne · 24 March 2026 20:52

I’ve just updated 3 computers, 2 desktops and 1 server. No issues. I think you will find your fears are unfounded.

In any case the issues, had no affect on the delivery of updates. The exercise was to ensure there would never be any interruptions, in a worst case scenario.

mmdanggg2 · 24 March 2026 20:52

Ok, looks like it’s the Flatpak support that’s causing the hang. Running pamac-manager shows this:

** Message: 20:47:12.918: flatpak_plugin.vala:393: refreshing flathub appstream data

** (process:9744): WARNING **: 20:50:13.221: flatpak_plugin.vala:398: While pulling appstream2/x86_64 from remote flathub: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/delta-indexes/yX/AaiYWjQiqWfaUrH+RZuyqrw5t+BEVyUYehqT2G6R0.index: [28] Timeout was reached

And if I disable Flatpak support in the preferences once it opened fixed the slow opening.

angel2035 · 24 March 2026 20:55

How can I disable it if it doesn’t start? I updated the system, rebooted, and it still doesn’t start
It freezes if I run this in the terminal.

pamac-manager                                                                                                           ✔ 
** Message: 23:54:03.862: flatpak_plugin.vala:393: refreshing flathub appstream data

** (process:2818): WARNING **: 23:57:05.436: flatpak_plugin.vala:398: While pulling appstream2/x86_64 from remote flathub: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/delta-indexes/yX/AaiYWjQiqWfaUrH+RZuyqrw5t+BEVyUYehqT2G6R0.index: [28] Timeout was reached

Teo · 24 March 2026 20:57

Poor guy pamac seems even more buggy. Didn’t want to start, didn’t want to refresh databases from the first time, trying to install new optional dependencies for yt-dlp failed without any understandable message… at least for starting the solution is to disable the flatpak support. One can also do it from the /etc/pamac.conf file, just put # at the end before EnableFlatpak

Golfy · 24 March 2026 21:52

Not sure it’s a problem, but it’s impressive (around 88 lines):

sudo pamac update
Synchronisation des bases de données des paquets...
Avertissement : qt5-webengine : mise à niveau du paquet ignorée (5.15.19-2 => 5.15.19-4)
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-y6TICx': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-QcdwVK': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-YrnaNX': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-AFlHWO': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-kPdSjl': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-7M1fPK': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-213JpU': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-CoA7gy': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-4yhkDv': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-YKLEh4': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-pzhCXn': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-RQNDHG': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-6uimYP': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-XapUeB': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-oos8UJ': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-T9eaLO': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-Ldy8cA': Permission non accordée
...
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-1aHjgc': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-4ibcWL': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-2ziE77': Permission non accordée
cp: impossible d'accéder à '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-7oO69m': Permission non accordée
Rien à faire.
Transaction terminée avec succès.

Solved with sudo pacman -Scc and sudo rm -rf /var/lib/pacman/sync/*

scotty65 · 24 March 2026 22:03

Do not use sudo with pamac, as it will cause permission issues.

pamac uses polkit for authentication, and will prompt you for your password when required.

jolic · 24 March 2026 22:06

hi, since updating to Manjaro 26.0.4, Dolphin no longer works with WebDAV.
Is this old problem happening again? See also: Manjaro Forum

This issue already appeared after a previous update and behaves very similarly: WebDAV used to work, but after the update it suddenly fails in Dolphin with errors like “Folder does not exist.”

Workaround: WebDAV still works fine using the GNOME file manager

mr_glitch · 24 March 2026 22:06

Pamac use polkit for authentication, don’t use sudo with Pamac.

Using sudo with pamac can have undesirable effects, especially when building packages. It also can lead to Permission issues with the database. Pamac will ask for escalated rights only if needed.