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New issues:
freetype2 update might result in font characters becoming squares. Don’t worry, a relogin to your UI should fix it. We recommend to do the update in a TTY. Affected UIs so far: Gnome, Phosh, Cinnamon.
Re-enable any per-user enabled `pipewire-media-session.service` manually
You should re-enable any per-user pipewire-media-session.service manually to establish a new service alias for pipewire-session-manager.service added with 0.3.38.
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
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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.
Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!
Just an observation and not sure if its deliberate. Running laptop with nvidia hybrid graphics, got switched to the latest 495 hybrid drivers which work fine. I can switch to the 470 drivers but there’s no 470 hybrid drivers available
Think it’s just because it’s a new release though I can’t say it’s not just issues I’ve caused with my system from before updating, except I update from an almost fresh install. (new to Linux).
Running 5.15 with Nvidia 495 drivers with Wayland in Gnome runs great with a 3070TI. Honestly the best Linux experience I’ve had so far.
Except for one large issue. Going into suspend breaks certain features of the GUI; the screen is black except for a white square to enter the password, logging in the UI is black except for outlines of menus as you hover over them. I’ve just disabled suspend as a bandaid. Might be related to the UEFI splash screen showing up for a second after logging in from a shutdown state for the first time.
A small issue is that full-screen steam games, not Minecraft are capped at half the screens refresh rate (72 in my case). Once out of full screen it works fine, guess it’s got something to do with vsync.
When I start libreoffice with CLI I get: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libtklo.so: undefined symbol: _ZNKsvcl6Window19HasActiveChildFrameEv
Kernel 5.15 seems to have broken rtl88xxau-aircrack-dkms-git from the AUR.
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.15.1-1-MANJARO (x86_64)
Warning, `dkms install --no-depmod -m rtl88xxau -v r1164.b8167e6 -k 5.15.1-1-MANJARO’ returned 10
Not a big deal since other kernels work fine. Guess we’ll have to wait for the developer to fix it.
@alven: I only want to say that a new release of Kde plasma 5.23 is planned for tomorrow. For now, Kde plasma 5.23 is not available in the stable branch. So, I guess that Manjaro Team is waiting the 5.23.3 version for provide it in the stable branch (and in the testing branch before). I remember that was the case for previous versions.
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