Other regular upstream updates including python and haskell
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Packages Changes (Wed Feb 24 11:47:21 CET 2021)
testing community x86_64: 1410 new and 1388 removed package(s)
testing core x86_64: 50 new and 49 removed package(s)
testing extra x86_64: 574 new and 611 removed package(s)
testing kde-unstable x86_64: 281 new and 253 removed package(s)
testing multilib x86_64: 27 new and 27 removed package(s)
A detailed list of all package changes can be found here.
No issue, everything went smoothly
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Recent Arch Linux news:
PHP 8.0 and PHP 7 legacy packages are available
PHP 8.0 and PHP 7 legacy packages are available
2021-01-28 - Pierre Schmitz
The php package has been updated to version 8.0. Please refer to the upstream migration guide. As some applications are not compatible with PHP 8 yet we provide a php7 package which can be installed alongside version 8. Packages that depend on PHP reflect this update and will require php7 if needed. You might need to update your configuration accordingly. PHP 7 binaries and configuration have the “7” suffix:
Note that support for php7 will be limited and likely be dropped in about a year depending on how soon the majority of applications will be compatible with version 8.
Google has announced that they are going to block everything but Chrome from accessing certain Google features (like Chrome sync) starting on March 15. This decision by Google is going to affect Arch’s chromium package a bit earlier, on March 2, when Chromium 89 gets released.
We know for sure that data syncing will stop working (passwords, bookmarks, etc.). Other features such as geolocation or enhanced spell check might continue to function for a bit longer. Extensions integrating with Google Drive might misbehave and LibreOffice will lose access to documents stored there.
Other distros such as openSUSE and Fedora have already removed the soon-to-be-limited API keys from their Chromium 88 packages. Fedora’s advisory provides a great deal of perspective on this and I also found this Hackaday post to be quite informative.
We recommend to switch over to Nouveau drivers if your card is mentioned here and the feature you need is not in red TO DOhere for your particular card.
If you however still need proprietary drivers, you may want to execute the following to ensure all parts of the nVidia drivers get installed properly:
sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300
If proprietary drivers don't fix everything, please click the ► at the beginning of this line to view more info
For AMD GPU users having a black screen with kernel 5.10
Please click the ► at the beginning of this line to view more info
Due to a bug in the AMD drivers, please try the following first:
For GRUB:
Open a terminal or a TTY
Open /etc/default/grub in your favourite CLI editor (nano vi, emacs`)
Find the line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="
Add amdgpu.dc=0
Save
Execute sudo update-grub and reboot
For systemd-boot:
Open a terminal or a TTY
Open /boot/loader/entries/manjarolinux5.10.conf in your favourite CLI editor (nano vi, emacs`)
Add amdgpu.dc=0 to the end of the line options
Save & reboot
For rEFInd:
Open a terminal or a TTY
Open /boot/refind_linux.conf in your favourite CLI editor (nano vi, emacs`)
Find the line: "Boot using default options" "root=
Add amdgpu.dc=0
Save & reboot
Possible 2 Min delay on shutdown with Gnome
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If you got the problem with shutdown delay (about 2min) on Gnome, here is a workaround:
Edit /usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-session-restart-dbus.service in your favourite editor as root and add Slice=-.slice as a line all by itself like this:
You get [PKGNAME] warning: directory permissions differ on [Directory name]
followed by:
Filesystem: NNN package MMM
Please click the ► at the beginning of this line to view this solution
The solution:
sudo chmod MMM DirectoryName
Where obviously MMM is the second number you see (the correct one)
The explanation:
Your package expects the security permissions to be MMM but your system is set to NNN. This is just a warning (today) but to ensure you remain up-to-date with the latest and greatest security rules it’s advised to execute the above command.
Systemd error message: .slice: Failed to migrate controller cgroups
If you have a similar error message like this:
systemd[1004]: -.slice: Failed to migrate controller cgroups from /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service, ignoring: Permission denied
… you may need to add this Grub parameter to your /etc/default/grub file in line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT: systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=true. To update your grub menu, call: sudo update-grub. For more information on that issue, see also Arch Forum.
Python 3.9 Requires Rebuilds
Instructions for quickly and easily rebuilding affected AUR packages:
# Install yay
sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm yay
# Rebuild AUR python packages
yay -S --noconfirm $(pacman -Qqo "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages")
The libtraceevent package prior to version 5.9-1 was missing a soname link. This has been fixed in 5.9-1, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any of these errors
libtraceevent: /usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1 exists in filesystem
PAM and PAMBASE got updated, which might prevent you from login
Due to updates from pambase and pam you might take care about any .pacnew files in /etc/pam.d as for example pam_tally, pam_tally2 and pam_cracklib got deprecated. Read in the ArchWiki about managing those files.
Typical issue:
For recovery, it is enough to boot with kernel option “systemd.unit=rescue.target”, then proceed into /etc/pam.d and merge “system-auth” and “system-auth.pacnew”
System takes a long time to boot
If you’ve got errors like Failed to start Network Manager Wait Online. you can try removing systemd from passwd and group in /etc/nsswitch.conf as described here Update: If you can see the line dbus-daemon[1453]: [system] Connection has not authenticated soon enough, closing it (auth_timeout=30000ms, elapsed: 45146ms)
in in your dbus log ( journalctl -b -u dbus ), the new/better workaround is to switch cups from service to socket as described here: systemctl disable cups.service systemctl enable cups.socket
I think I’ve some font problems
With the update of fontconfig some major rules how fonts get applied changed. Make sure that your system has ttf-dejavu installed. A more in depth explanation can be found here.
Gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell is currently incompatible with wayland
… and causes the system to freeze when the first window is tiled and can render it unbootable. Solution is a hard reset and disabling either pop shell or wayland. If the system becomes unbootable, use a live USB to edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf to disable wayland and reboot.
No issues (KDE), except for one widget (memory) that has vanished from the panel and a text change from upstream in another one (“Usage” instead of “CPU core #” something).
Installed the new plasma-system-monitor and plasma-firewall, cool additions.
On a side note, the new KDE application menu is garbage to me. Why did they do that?!! Very unhappy for that. If there is a way of having the old one back… I would be pleased.
If you prefer the old Kickoff app launcher however, it is only few clicks away in KDE’s software store.
//EDIT2: installed ocs-url, and then clicked install on the KDE Store page for Legacy Kickofff application menu, and I could switch to the old application menu. Perfect.
Kernel 5.11.1-1 does not report temperature, fanspeed, clocks etc. for my 6800XT GPU. Rc 7 and current 5.10.18-1 do. Switched Kernel so all is well for now.
New Powerdevil 5.21.1 seems to be blocking shutdowns/restarts for me since the process cannot be stopped. Switching back to 5.20.5 resolved that problem.
Otherwise all is well.
Installation all went well. Only thing that I noticed was that the Icon-Only icons became large again after this update. I believe that in the 5.20 update they were made smaller and had padding around them which looked quite clean but that seems to have disappeared for me now.
