[Testing Update] 2020-10-14 - Plasma, KDE Apps, Browsers, Gnome 3.38. LibreOffice, Mesa

You need to use some GTK themes, not the default breeze one.

KDE; Kernel 5.8; R7 2700x; RX 5700xt; GIGABYTE x570 AORUS ELITE; 1 Monitor connected via HDMI; No Full-encryption; (There was a command that created a detailed list of everything, but I forgot it)

I switched to the stable branch before this update with less issues than on stable.

Now I have a few problems since I updated yesterday:

  • I can’t hibernate my PC anymore [swap exists and is configured to allow hibernation]
  • Folder shortcuts in Taskbar are broken (message: “XYZ.desktop” is invalid, but clicking “Open with Dolphin” works) [same issues in a VM]
  • No sound device on boot (I have to go to audio settings and correct it) [does not happen in a VM, might be a Realtek issue]

Problems I had before I switched to testing branch:

  • Green, vertical stripes when powering off (since the update from yesterday I get green dots)

Problems I had since using Manjaro (I started using Manjaro since March):

  • Headphones, plugged in via the front panel ports not detected on login (fixed by pulling them out and plugging them back in) [Realtek at fault here?]

I switched the branch back to stable, hoping that the next update fixes my issues, or at least most of them.

I’m also running 5.9, but the issue also exists on 5.8. I didn’t think to check for a git version, trying that now…

…nope. Same problem.

The Plasma Wayland session for 5.20 does not work on my two laptops – ASUS ROG Strix GL-702VM and Microsoft Surface Pro 4. I just get the (default) laptop splash screen when I try to log in to a Wayland session.

Edit: This is the error I get when trying to start a Plasma Wayland session:

No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution

A post was split to a new topic: Why was the pacredir overlay removed?

Since the update, my Asus Xonar sound card is not working, there is no sound from the output. But it is not dead, the mic input on the card works.

pacmd list-sources | grep muted
        muted: no
        muted: no
        muted: no
        muted: no
        muted: no

The outputs are not muted, I checked it. I also tried to erase the pulse config, but had no effect. I can’t run pulseaudio-ctl command:

pulseaudio-ctl full-status
(standard_in) 1: syntax error
(standard_in) 1: syntax error
(standard_in) 1: syntax error
Cannot determine which version of pactl is installed. Aborting.

Meanwhile, I can use my onboard sound card, but sometimes the audio is getting muted and un-muted repeatedly. Or the output device switches back and fort? I do not know.

This whole situation may be related to this bugreport: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/no-sound-after-upgrade/9823/29
In short, pulseaudio should be updated soon, it has some bugs in the current release.

*edit: it is the same with both 5.8 and 5.9 kernel.

not quite.

On one system windows VMs work, on another system they crash instantly.
Here is the kernel log:
[ 7342.819704] VMSVGA FIFO[3424]: segfault at f8 ip 00007f150096a279 sp 00007f148c681ac0 error 4 in libX11.so.6.3.0[7f1500968000+8a000]

I had some problems with Gnome’s setting, in particular the touchpad configuration seemed to have messed up (tap to click and natural scrolling were disabled, and some extensions did not work), but I just needed to re-apply the settings and since then everything has worked fine.

I am experiencing an issue with kmail and encrypted message filters.
When I open an encrypted multi-part message (HTML for instance), everything goes well as long as I keep the message stored encrypted.
In the moment I use a filter with a “Decrypt” action, then the decrypted message is visualised as message source (with some headers), and not rendered as HTML anymore. In case of messages coded in base64, I get the whole base64 source…

That filter has worked for years, it got broken with the latest update.
@philm: do you know of any changes in the KDE libs dealing with GPG?

When I wake up my laptop my mic and speaker volumes unmute and it sets the speaker to 46% and the mic to 16%. No matter what I do it always does this. I don’t think it resets if I reboot instead of sleep and wake.

I got this after failed tor start:

Oct 16 01:26:15 maxa-pc sshd[1417151]: Failed password for root from 161.35.148.75 port 44240 ssh2
Oct 16 01:26:15 maxa-pc sshd[1417151]: Received disconnect from 161.35.148.75 port 44240:11: Bye Bye [preauth]
Oct 16 01:26:15 maxa-pc sshd[1417151]: Disconnected from authenticating user root 161.35.148.75 port 44240 [preauth]
Oct 16 01:26:16 maxa-pc sshd[1417178]: rexec line 110: Deprecated option UsePrivilegeSeparation
Oct 16 01:26:16 maxa-pc sshd[1417178]: Invalid user httpd from 45.55.41.113 port 53564
Oct 16 01:26:16 maxa-pc sshd[1417178]: pam_faillock(sshd:auth): User unknown
Oct 16 01:26:16 maxa-pc sshd[1417178]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): check pass; user unknown
Oct 16 01:26:16 maxa-pc sshd[1417178]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=45.55.41.113
Oct 16 01:26:16 maxa-pc dbus-daemon[849]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' requested by ':1.15508' (uid=0 pid=1417178 comm="sshd: unk>
Oct 16 01:26:16 maxa-pc dbus-daemon[849]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Oct 16 01:26:16 maxa-pc sshd[1417178]: pam_systemd_home(sshd:auth): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Oct 16 01:26:16 maxa-pc sshd[1417178]: pam_faillock(sshd:auth): User unknown
Oct 16 01:26:16 maxa-pc audit[1417178]: USER_AUTH pid=1417178 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=PAM:authentication grantors=? acct="httpd" exe="/usr/bin/sshd" hostname=45.55.41.113 addr=45.55.41.113 te>
Oct 16 01:26:16 maxa-pc kernel: audit: type=1100 audit(1602804376.710:10757): pid=1417178 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=PAM:authentication grantors=? acct="httpd" exe="/usr/bin/sshd" hostname=45.55>
Oct 16 01:26:18 maxa-pc kernel: usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
Oct 16 01:26:19 maxa-pc sshd[1417178]: Failed password for invalid user httpd from 45.55.41.113 port 53564 ssh2
Oct 16 01:26:20 maxa-pc sshd[1417178]: Received disconnect from 45.55.41.113 port 53564:11: Bye Bye [preauth]
Oct 16 01:26:20 maxa-pc sshd[1417178]: Disconnected from invalid user httpd 45.55.41.113 port 53564 [preauth]
Oct 16 01:26:21 maxa-pc sshd[1417316]: rexec line 110: Deprecated option UsePrivilegeSeparation

Never mind seems someone wants to brute force password for my sshd :wink:

Another thing I noticed when playing games on kernel 5.9 (or gnome 3.8) GPU does not boost,
so either I have to set max freq manually or alt tab out and back. rx580 AMDGPU

Problem with tor is solved by using torrc.pacnew

Having a regression with the handling of WWAN connection in gnome-shell again.

It seems its not recognised as WWAN again - rather as a LAN. But it can be enabled both through gnome settings and modemmanager (+cli) it’s just not displayed in gnomes drop down menu.

dropdown

As one can see the WWAN is active (can be turned on in the settings page) but does not show in the drop down, and in the status bar its show with a LAN icon though no other connection is active on the system.

it’s only me or Network Speed Monitor got resized in length?

stable
Screenshot_20201016_102744

unstable and testing
Screenshot_20201016_104552

KDE + Linux 5.4 working great! :smile:

14 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Testing Update] 2020-10-16 - Kernels, KDE-git, Mesa, Python, Haskell