[Testing Update] 2020-12-07 - BREAKAGE EXPECTED - Kernels, Mesa 20.3, Python 3.9, Pamac 10

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I hesitated with the update and waited till today, because I have hybrid graphics with optimus-manager.

I did the update today, then recompiled optimus-manager-git, rebooted and everything seems to be OK.
It’s possible I will find some breakages later, but so far, the system boots correctly, everything loads, Steam works, I can switch between GPU modes, Steam is showing correct drivers (intel, noveau or Nvidia - depending on the GPU mode).

So far so good.

I had some info about the lack of the folder:

grep: /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf: No such file or directory

but that’s expected on a proper optimus-manager install. This didn’t create any problems so seems like it worked well anyway.

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I had same or similar issue on unstable (xfce) posted journal there. It was light-locker related. No fix was found by me. Wound up removing light-locker and installed xfce-4 screensaver and enabled lock screen with that. No issues with screensaver. This was on a notebook with external monitor as Primary (lid in down position, HDMI connection)

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68905

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What I reported initially.

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Poedit works again with todays update

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something seems to be wrong with wofi_

Process 8196 (wofi) of user 60458 dumped core.

                                              Stack trace of thread 8201:
                                              #0  0x00007f026fb9da85 __strlen_avx2 (libc.so.6 + 0x162a85)
                                              #1  0x00007f026facab43 __strdup (libc.so.6 + 0x8fb43)
                                              #2  0x0000560274efb655 wofi_read_cache (wofi + 0xe655)
                                              #3  0x0000560274efe06d wofi_drun_init (wofi + 0x1106d)
                                              #4  0x0000560274efacf4 n/a (wofi + 0xdcf4)
                                              #5  0x0000560274efaee0 n/a (wofi + 0xdee0)
                                              #6  0x00007f026fc0d3e9 start_thread (libpthread.so.0 + 0x93e9)
                                              #7  0x00007f026fb3b293 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0x100293)
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@philm

I can rollback to pre “BREAKAGE EXPECTED” state if you provide a new update for Nvidia to test the update process. Currently main issue is that the driver is not replaced properly only the lib32 driver is replaced.

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After updating and reboot, the display-manager failed to start.

Solution: Removing all nvidia related packages and reinstalling with mhwd with the new config: video-nvidia.

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I can rollback to pre “BREAKAGE EXPECTED” state if you provide a new update for Nvidia to test the update process.

You can just use an old ISO in a VM.

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There will be a totally new testing update in 7 minutes

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New testing update here