[Stable Update] 2026-05-02 - Kernels, Plasma, GNOME, Mesa, Systemd, VirtualBox, LibreOffice

linux70-nvidia-575xx can be replaced with linux70-nvidia-580xx

sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia-575xx
sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-580xx

I don’t, and have never used BTRFS on either my computer, nor my partner’s, both are EXT4. I’m wonder how or why it was installed.

But good to know what the cause is. I can get rid of it.

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If you have problem with flickering i suggest disable xfce-s default compositor, and using picom-pijulius-next-git. Give a try. If you have problem.
(If you want i can give you optimized configs,(for picom-pijulius-next-git.) and bash script which detect your system and choose wisely to you..

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grub-btrfs is part of the default installation because btrfs is default filesystem…

Upon generating the grub config - the message is printed if the root filesystem is not btrfs as expected for grub-btrfs.

Removing the package is perfectly fine for systems not using btrfs.

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Well that sucks, because I set the partitions manually for ext4, so there should have been no BTRFS junk installed,.. and ext4 is an option in the Auto install.

@philm any insight into the driver version differences?
See my comment above

The size difference of the update is 1133,27 MB!
What the heck is using so much more space or are there so many new depenencies?

That is ok - just know this: the choice has no influence on the packages which are distributed with the ISO.

The size of the update depends on the number of packages installed with your system.

If you have several kernels with accompanying Nvidia drivers or you are using ROCM for AI you can easily get a download size of 3-4G with a net installation size of 8-12G.

So the advise is to do some housekeeping before you sync your system - clean up excess kernels, drivers and applications.

[INFO] Stable branch - BIG update BEST practice

On my test laptop I have net download 856MB → expands to 7642MB installed.

I’m glad to hear that.

Then you will be happy to hear that you can create your own installation ISO just to your liking - leaving out stuff you don’t need - add other stuff you like better.

You can even modify the Calamares modules to prioritise ext4 instead of btrfs.

[root tip] [How To] Mini guide to build Manjaro ISO

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After the update, users of the graphical Manjaro Settings Manager for driver changes will have an issue upgrading to the Nvidia 580 driver.

Before the update, the 580 driver was not listed, making installing it graphicallly impossible, while after the update 575 and 570 are no longer listed, making uninstalling them graphicallly impossible.

Attempting to install 580 without uninstalling the 575/570 first results in an error.

Using some trial and error with the (to me) unfamiliar mhwd CLI tooling, I was eventually able to uninstall the 575 driver using:

sudo mhwd -r pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-575xx-prime

Then, I was able to install 580 graphicallly without issue.

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Hello all for this update yet again im amazed how linux community responded to an exploit. After update, I have strange behavior but im not sure if its because of an AUR package or system itself, i just update system restarted my pc. when i use pamac pacman update after “aur database update” it shows endless loop of this message;

Error: extra database inconsistent: version mismatch in haskell-data-functor-logistic package
Error: database “extra” could not be read (Damaged tar archive (bad header checksum))
Warning: haskell-data-functor-logistic: unknown key ‘haskell-data-bword’ in sync database
Warning: haskell-data-functor-logistic: unknown key ‘%MAKD+ECPJZS/LmYze8WGrllMGp3pZP3aap9ymXiVHvT4PFSbpdL6QtPZEG7UelFRRvNKWNZJIIit4AXiJQIH7aIjXPM5pElO8c/3Z FqiSwWesSy3ih9a8Zsw1mY/Ag5cBtuE3Yd5ITdD0169jgQLWBa/9BPM9oCdiHnwPj08bXg0NCsuvnACseLJ20zZfnMXPftKCduuBpvHs nzzcmJ3ruMjI0M3j0MRyNketgroOTouJ8t+nyVfmlyty9EXWsXuGk89qv2vQGGvhyeyiGz76Z2NqgXRwUV987OUixQqE8eh6fBYq7ai4f NlDK8oUGDhb24cxmmBQJ/2pxI2atGfdEi9iufKa915WM+vgbU72gqYEttps://github.com/spell-musifumieval/or-logistic’ in sync database

i did remove “extra.db” and redownloaded it with “pacman -Syy” and still same error message shown regardless of terminal or gui.


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I’m not able to update my system due to the following error.

:: geocode-glib-3.26.4-6 e geocode-glib-common-3.26.4-5 estão em conflito. Remover geocode-glib-common? [s/N] s
erro: falhou ao preparar a transação (não foi possível cumprir as dependências)
:: A instalação de libvpx (1.16.0-3) quebra a dependência ‘libvpx.so=11-64’ exigida por ffmpeg7.1

The first two files are in conflict and it doesn’t allow geocode-glib-common to be removed.
Also intalling libvpx breaks the dependency required by ffmpeg7.1

How to solve this?
Thank you Phil.

Typing s will replace geocode-glib-common with geocode-glib. geocode-glib-common is not in Manjaro’s repos or the AUR.

It is the next transaction that is preventing your update:

ffmpeg7.1 is an AUR package, so you should remove it before updating:

sudo pacman -R ffmpeg7.1

If you need ffmpeg7.1, you can rebuild it after the update:

pamac build ffmpeg7.1
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Hi Scotty65,

The second issue is solved but the first one remains even by answering “N” to the prompt.

:: geocode-glib-3.26.4-6 e geocode-glib-common-3.26.4-5 estão em conflito. Remover geocode-glib-common? [s/N]
erro: detetado conflito entre pacotes sem solução
erro: falhou ao preparar a transação (dependências em conflito)

It states the two packages are in conflict and when I answer “N” it says “unresolvable conflict between packages detected”

What to do now?
Thanks.

My previous instructions were for you to type “s” (yes), not “N” (no).

You have to agree to remove geocode-glib-common as it is not a Manjaro package and is blocking the installation of geocode-glib.

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All went fine so far with the update. I heard that there was a new feature for Plasma 6.6 where virtual desktops would only change on main monitor. I wonder where that is toggleable? Or maybe i got it wrong somehow?

I get a warning from pacman: warning: perl: ignoring package upgrade (5.42.0-1 => 5.42.2-1). What does this mean?

Nvidia 570 hybrid driver is not affected in my case with LTS-Kernel 6.18. 575 and 580 drivers do not work for me at this point.