[Testing Update] 2021-04-26 - Kernels, Mesa, Wine, Ruby, JDK, KDE-Dev

Hello community,

Another testing branch update with some usual updates for you.


Find out more about our new Community Editions here.

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, Gnome, XFCE. You get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.


Our current supported kernels

  • linux44 4.4.267
  • linux49 4.9.267
  • linux414 4.14.231
  • linux419 4.19.188
  • linux54 5.4.114
  • linux59 5.9.16 [EOL]
  • linux510 5.10.32
  • linux511 5.11.16
  • linux512 5.12.0
  • linux54-rt 5.4.106_rt54
  • linux59-rt 5.9.1_rt19

Packages Changes (Mon Apr 26 18:36:40 CEST 2021)

  • testing community x86_64: 966 new and 976 removed package(s)
  • testing core x86_64: 6 new and 6 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 120 new and 186 removed package(s)
  • testing kde-unstable x86_64: 50 new and 50 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 3 new and 3 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)

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Known issues and solutions

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New issues:

  • In the last Testing Update we got reports of broken Nvidia drivers
    Therefore the Nvidia driver got downgraded to 460.73.01 [production branch release] as requested here. People who had already updated to 465 series need to do a sudo pacman -Syyuu to get the proper drivers, as some of our Kernels got updated again with this update pack.

  • OS prober does not run and add other operating systems

    Please click the â–ș at the beginning of this line to view this solution

    To restore, please execute: echo GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false|sudo tee -a /etc/default/grub && sudo update-grub

    For more information, see opening post in [Stable Update] 2021-03-08.

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:

  • /usr/bin/php → /usr/bin/php7
  • /etc/php → /etc/php7
  • /usr/bin/php-fpm → /usr/bin/php-fpm7
  • /usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm7.service
  • /run/php-fpm → /run/php-fpm7

We also provide third party modules compiled for PHP 7:

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.

https://archlinux.org/news/php-80-and-php-7-legacy-packages-are-available/

Chromium losing Sync support in early March

Chromium losing Sync support in early March

2021-02-03 - Evangelos Foutras

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.

https://archlinux.org/news/chromium-losing-sync-support-in-early-march/


Older Issues

Nvidia card owners

  • We simplified nVidia driver installation. This means we dropped legacy drivers.
    • We recommend to switch over to Nouveau drivers if your card is mentioned here and the feature you need is not in red TO DO here 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–ș at the beginning of this line to view more info
      1. try installing kernel 5.4 LTS (Long Term Support)
      2. If that doesn’t fix it, take a full system backup, go to a console using Ctrl+Alt+F2 and:
      • Backup /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf if you ever edited that manually

      • remove all nVidia related drivers and applications:

        pacman --remove nvidia*
        
      • Note which applications are being removed and keep them handy in a list

      • Install the driver first:

        mhwd --install video-hybrid-XXX-nvidia-prime
        

        (Where XXX is amd or intel if you have hybrid graphics or the whole thing is video-nvidia if you’re on an nVidia-only system)

      • reboot and see if you at least get a screen.

      • Install all the other applications from your handy list that you still need one by one.

      • Restore /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf if you ever edited that manually

      • If that wouldn’t solve the issue open a new issue here referring to this update and posting at a minimum the full output of:

        inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
        

      If you however still have issues with your Nvidia card, you may open a new thread in our forum: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support/Graphic-Cards/33 or look at our tutorial on compiling old Nvidia drivers.

For AMD GPU users having a black screen with kernel 5.10

Please click the â–ș 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:

  1. Open a terminal or a TTY
  2. Open /etc/default/grub in your favourite CLI editor (nano vi, emacs`)
  3. Find the line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="
  4. Add amdgpu.dc=0
  5. Save
  6. Execute sudo update-grub and reboot

For systemd-boot:

  1. Open a terminal or a TTY
  2. Open /boot/loader/entries/manjarolinux5.10.conf in your favourite CLI editor (nano vi, emacs`)
  3. Add amdgpu.dc=0 to the end of the line options
  4. Save & reboot

For rEFInd:

  1. Open a terminal or a TTY
  2. Open /boot/refind_linux.conf in your favourite CLI editor (nano vi, emacs`)
  3. Find the line: "Boot using default options" "root=
  4. Add amdgpu.dc=0
  5. Save & reboot

Possible 2 Min delay on shutdown with Gnome

Please click the â–ș at the beginning of this line to view more info
  • 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:

      [Service]
      Type=notify
      Slice=-.slice
      ExecStart=/usr/lib/gnome-session-ctl --restart-dbus
      
    • Click this link For more information

Touchpad on a ThinkPad stops working

  • Restart again, please.

You get [PKGNAME] warning: directory permissions differ on [Directory name]

followed by:

Filesystem: NNN package MMM

Please click the â–ș 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")

libtraceevent>=5.9-1 update requires manual intervention

2020-10-23 - SĂ©bastien Luttringer

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

when updating, use

pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1

to perform the upgrade.

https://www.archlinux.org/news/libtraceevent59-1-update-requires-manual-intervention/

OpenVPN connection times out.

Workaround: donwgrade openvpn (2.5.0-1 => 2.4.9-2).
For a proper solution follow this bug report on Arch Linux: FS#68480 : [openvpn] running unprivileged with iproute no longer working

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.

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No issues to report so far. Update went flawlessly. Thanks devs.

There seems to be a problem with the kernel 5.12 and X.org.
When I try to login to i3 with this kernel I get thrown back to tty1.
The last messages read

xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
LX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.y/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.(EE) (II) AIGnextcloud: Fatal IO error 11 (Resursen tillfÀlligt otillgÀnglig) on X server :0.
clipit: Fatal IO error 11 (Resursen tillfÀlligt otillgÀnglig) on X server :0.
i3: Cannot open display
xinit: connection to X server lost

When I boot with kernel 5.11 or 5.10, no such problem occurs.
And I can start wayland (in my case sway) without any problem after booting kernel 5.12. In fact I’m writing this in such a session.

EDIT: Sorry, forgot about the swedish in the error-message. It means Resources not available right now.

No problem here. KDE version.

Had problems that I could solve easily.
sudo pamac update
Following error messages:
Warnung: das Installieren von libjpeg-turbo (2.1.0-1) verletzt AbhĂ€ngigkeit von ‘libjpeg-turbo=2.0.6’ benötigt von lib32-libjpeg-turbo
FĂŒge lib32-libjpeg-turbo hinzu, um zu entfernen
Fehler: Vorgang konnte nicht erfolgreich vorbereitet werden:
Kann AbhĂ€ngigkeiten nicht erfĂŒllen:

  • das Entfernen von lib32-libjpeg-turbo verletzt AbhĂ€ngigkeit von ‘lib32-libjpeg’ benötigt von lib32-gdk-pixbuf2,
  • wenn möglich, entferne lib32-gdk-pixbuf2 und versuche es erneut
  • das Entfernen von lib32-libjpeg-turbo verletzt AbhĂ€ngigkeit von ‘lib32-libjpeg’ benötigt von lib32-libtiff,
  • wenn möglich, entferne lib32-libtiff und versuche es erneut
  • das Entfernen von lib32-libjpeg-turbo verletzt AbhĂ€ngigkeit von ‘libjpeg.so=8-32’ benötigt von lib32-libtiff,
  • wenn möglich, entferne lib32-libtiff und versuche es erneut
    AbhĂ€ngigkeiten werden aufgelöst

    Interne Konflikte werden ĂŒberprĂŒft

    Fehler: Vorgang konnte nicht erfolgreich vorbereitet werden:
    Kann AbhĂ€ngigkeiten nicht erfĂŒllen:
  • das Entfernen von lib32-libjpeg-turbo verletzt AbhĂ€ngigkeit von ‘lib32-libjpeg’ benötigt von lib32-gdk-pixbuf2,
  • wenn möglich, entferne lib32-gdk-pixbuf2 und versuche es erneut
  • das Entfernen von lib32-libjpeg-turbo verletzt AbhĂ€ngigkeit von ‘lib32-libjpeg’ benötigt von lib32-libtiff,
  • wenn möglich, entferne lib32-libtiff und versuche es erneut
  • das Entfernen von lib32-libjpeg-turbo verletzt AbhĂ€ngigkeit von ‘libjpeg.so=8-32’ benötigt von lib32-libtiff,
  • wenn möglich, entferne lib32-libtiff und versuche es erneut
    sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 && sudo pacman -Syyu
    No problems Update ran through.

Having issues with the aur since the update. I have aur support enabled and software mode ISN’T enabled but no aur packages are being found in pamac gui

edit

using pamac from the CLI throws this error

pamac:2901): WARNING **: 20:44:17.247: aur.vala:60: :1:1: Parse error: unexpected character `<’, expected value
Failed to query https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=vmware-workstation from AUR

** (pamac:2901): WARNING **: 20:44:17.309: aur.vala:60: :1:1: Parse error: unexpected character `<’, expected value

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AUR server had some problems apparently.

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Pamac will not be able to use the AUR for now:

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Yay is still working so no real issues :+1: :+1:

I think if you add LANG=C before your command, it will use english so people can read your message on the forum.

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Will remember that.

Kernel 5.12 is not a day old and already in Manjaro :heart_eyes: Take that :fist_right: Arch :crazy_face: (=still on 5.11.16).

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This update with nvidia 465 is working great on my PC. Btw, kernel 5.12 on day one. You guys awesome! :grinning:

any specifics on the Mesa fix? my 6700XT only runs on mesa-git

Should I downgrade these?

warning: lib32-libva-mesa-driver: local (21.0.3-1.1) is newer than multilib (21.0.3-1)
warning: lib32-mesa: local (21.0.3-1.1) is newer than multilib (21.0.3-1)

Edit: Nevermind, I see that -2 is already in the repos. I’ll wait for that to sync to my mirrors.

More packages from stable-staging

:: Different sync package(s) in repository community x86_64

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             PACKAGE              testing       stable-staging
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  at              3.2.1-3              3.2.2-1
                                 bpf               5.11-1               5.12-1
                              ccache                4.2-1              4.2.1-1
               cgroup_event_listener               5.11-1               5.12-1
                            cpupower               5.11-1               5.12-1
                         debootstrap            1.0.123-1            1.0.124-1
                               gajim              1.3.1-1              1.3.2-1
                               gitui             0.13.0-1             0.14.0-1
                              gradle              6.8.3-1                7.0-1
                          gradle-doc              6.8.3-1                7.0-1
                          gradle-src              6.8.3-1                7.0-1
                             haproxy              2.3.9-1             2.3.10-1
                            hedgedoc              1.7.2-2              1.7.2-3
                              hyperv               5.11-1               5.12-1
                             lazygit             0.26.1-1             0.28.1-1
                    linux-tools-meta               5.11-1               5.12-1
                               maven              3.6.3-1              3.8.1-1
                                 nim              1.4.4-1              1.4.6-1
                              nimble           1:0.12.0-1           1:0.13.1-1
                   npm-check-updates             11.5.1-1             11.5.2-1
                                perf               5.11-1               5.12-1
                python-cssbeautifier            1.13.10-1            1.13.11-1
                 python-jsbeautifier            1.13.10-1            1.13.11-1
                          python-pbr              5.5.1-3              5.6.0-1
                         python2-pbr              5.5.1-3              5.6.0-1
                      quassel-client             0.13.1-6             0.13.1-7
                   quassel-client-qt             0.13.1-6             0.13.1-7
                        quassel-core             0.13.1-6             0.13.1-7
                  quassel-monolithic             0.13.1-6             0.13.1-7
               quassel-monolithic-qt             0.13.1-6             0.13.1-7
                       rust-analyzer           20210419-1           20210426-1
                              sqlmap              1.5.2-1              1.5.4-1
                          terragrunt             0.28.8-1             0.29.0-1
                                tmon               5.11-1               5.12-1
                             trojita                0.7-4                0.7-5
                   ttf-sarasa-gothic             0.30.2-1             0.31.0-1
                           turbostat               5.11-1               5.12-1
                               usbip               5.11-1               5.12-1
              x86_energy_perf_policy               5.11-1               5.12-1
            haskell-persistent-mysql                    -           2.12.0.0-1
                      quassel-common                    -             0.13.1-7


:: Different sync package(s) in repository extra x86_64

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             PACKAGE              testing       stable-staging
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                gvim           8.2.2803-1           8.2.2814-1
                                 vim           8.2.2803-1           8.2.2814-1
                         vim-runtime           8.2.2803-1           8.2.2814-1
                      wireguard-dkms       1.0.20210219-1       1.0.20210424-1
                     wireguard-tools       1.0.20210315-1       1.0.20210424-1
                        xscreensaver               6.00-1               6.00-2


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I just installed linux512, and this is the first time I’ve gotten wifi on my laptop without a DKMS driver for my RTL8821CE wireless adapter.

@folky, which GPU and graphics driver do you use? I’m using an Intel GPU with modesetting. I have no problem with Linux 5.12 and Xorg.

Got this problem too :frowning:

Installed paru as a workaround: AUR (en) - paru-bin

Here the output of inxi -G

Graphics: Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Acer ThinkPad Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) v: 4.2 Mesa 21.0.3

And todays update didn’t solve it.