LibreOffice pushed out another minor-release: 7.0.5
Other regular upstream updates including python and haskell
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Our current supported kernels
linux44 4.4.261
linux49 4.9.261
linux414 4.14.225
linux419 4.19.180
linux54 5.4.105
linux59 5.9.16 [EOL]
linux510 5.10.23
linux511 5.11.6
linux512 5.12-rc2
linux54-rt 5.4.102_rt53
linux59-rt 5.9.1_rt19
Packages Changes (Sat Mar 13 16:23:05 CET 2021)
testing community x86_64: 951 new and 945 removed package(s)
testing core x86_64: 20 new and 20 removed package(s)
testing extra x86_64: 368 new and 368 removed package(s)
testing kde-unstable x86_64: 99 new and 99 removed package(s)
testing multilib x86_64: 10 new and 10 removed package(s)
A detailed list of all package changes can be found here.
No issue, everything went smoothly
Yes there was an issue. I was able to resolve it myself.(Please post your solution)
Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)
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 â–ş at the beginning of this line to view more info
For AMD GPU users having a black screen with kernel 5.10
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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
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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.
Cannot update cdemu-daemon because of missing dependency:
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "VHBA-MODULE", a dependency of "cdemu-daemon"
warning: cannot resolve "VHBA-MODULE", a dependency of "cdemu-daemon"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
cdemu-daemon
:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] ^C
Checking journalctl -b-0 -x | grep -i systemd-fsck in the next boot after the update gave a notice of an invalid label. No harm seems to have come from it, but it’s new.
maalis 14 01:31:51 jp-gentoo systemd-fsck[591]: fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
maalis 14 01:31:51 jp-gentoo systemd-fsck[591]: Volume label '' stored in root directory is not valid.
maalis 14 01:31:51 jp-gentoo systemd-fsck[591]: Auto-removing label.
maalis 14 01:31:51 jp-gentoo systemd-fsck[591]: *** Filesystem was changed ***
maalis 14 01:31:51 jp-gentoo systemd-fsck[591]: Writing changes.
maalis 14 01:31:51 jp-gentoo systemd-fsck[591]: /dev/sda1: 6 files, 74/130812 clusters
It’s because the new version of cdemu-daemon depends on VHBA-MODULE, while Manjaro’s linux*-vhba-module packages provide vhba-module. It is case-sensitive.
Was actually going to do that, and this install seems to be bit weird, deezer rely on electron6 and Bitwarden on electron (version 11) but no app is using electron9. So I have no idea why that was included in my update. Will uninstall that one.
A program that you use previously depended on electron9 and got updated to use a newer version of electron. That doesn’t remove electron9 automatically.
Sure, thank you but which program was it? I’m pretty sure I never built electron before and removing the package with -Rcssu didn’t remove anything else.
However, everything is fine.
