The third point release of Plasma 5.23 is out now!
We updated our Kernels. Note that 5.13 series is marked EOL and 5.12 got removed!
Pipewire got updated to 0.3.40, which brings better Jack compatibility
Gnome 41 is maybe the biggest addition to this update
After a long time there is a new Xorg-Server release. 21.1 brings new features and might break support on Nvidia drivers. So let us know if you see any issues, before we drop them.
Finally there is the first stable release of LxQt!
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New issues:
nvidia-390xx is not compatible to Xorg-Server 21.1.1 yet. For all those with that Xorg ABI error and having no /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Search for a file called /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-server_flags.conf. If it does not exist yet, create it. Amend the file and paste the well-known contents there:
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!
there is something wrong with kernel 5.15.2 , i lost keyboard and text video is stopped ( gui is not started )
i get this ( try with initrams also return same result )
it works on version 5.14 and 5.15.1
@philm
updated : youtube (1080p) is ok , steam with proton 6.7 (vulkan is ok) for kernel 5.14 and Nvidias
boot is also ok with kernel 5.15.1 and drivers nvidia 490 series ( from previous Testing )
by downgrade linux515 , linux515-nvidia ( and i should add linux515-virtualbox-host-modules)
==> something changed in drm-fb(-helper) between 5.15.1 and 5.15.2
I’m unable to mount my NTFS partitions with ntfs3 type in /etc/fstab It fails on boot. Shouldn’t we be able to mount using ntfs3 now with kernel 5.15.2?
//EDIT: NEVERMIND, my bad, I left some options that were not supported by ntfs3 precisely big_writes,windows_names. After I removed these options I can boot and disk mount with the new ntfs3 driver.
So … obviously something went wrong with NVidia driver with this release as it was told in the release post
I’m using 340xx driver because it’s an old computer and Nouveau is not working properlly on it
Does anyone know howto solve this problem?
Nvidia proprietary + Wayland + KDE is more broken than the last releases.
On login the screen alternates between solid black and a few coloured pixels three times and then returns to the login prompt. I pulled some logs from dmesg, let me know if more info is required.
So… before I succeded to downgrade xorg to the previous version. Now NVidia driver is loaded but… when I downgrade some packages were deleted. and now the system boot normally until I have to type my password and I can’t cause the keyboard/mouse aren’t working. I guess xf86-input-evdev and xf86-input-libinput are lacking.
My question now is: how can I boot in console mode? Just to make everything in commandline?
Dont login via display manager like you do normally. When booted to lock screen, press ctrl+alt+f1 or ctrl+alt+f2 or ctrl+alt+f3 or ctrl+alt+f4 and it will take you to cmd line. login there and fix
Edit: for some reason this forum would not show that i replied to some comment. Weird
Thank U
I knew that already
The problem is that whan X is loaded, the keybord and mouse aren’t working.
So I have to boot in a kind of rescue mode prevented X to start
Announcement for PipeWire users:
