[Testing Update] 2021-12-26 - Kernels, Mesa, Cutefish, Systemd 250, Firefox, Thunderbird, Wine 7.0rc1

Hello community,

Another testing branch update with some usual updates for you.

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We wish you all happy festivals and a great 2022!

  • Most of our Kernels got updated
  • We fixed some issues with packagekit which includes bugfixes to alpm and offline updates
  • Cutefish is now at v0.5. You may get an ISO for testing from here.
  • Systemd got its last major release of 2021: v250
  • We added more fixes to Xorg-Server, including reboot/standby of Nvidia drivers got fixed
  • Firefox is now at 95.0.2 and Thunderbird got renewed to 91.4.1
  • Mesa got renewed to 21.3.2
  • Wine got it’s first release candidate: 7.0rc1
  • The usual upstream updates

:information_source: You may need to rebuild any AUR packages that install files to site-packages, if you missed to do so with our last update 
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You may need to rebuild any Python packages you’ve installed from the AUR. To get a list of them, you can run:

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.9

And to rebuild them all at once with an AUR helper such as yay, you can do:

yay -S $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.9) --answerclean All

But if any of the packages don’t work with Python 3.10 yet, this might fail halfway through and you’ll have to do rebuild the remaining ones one or a few at a time.

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 4.4.296
  • linux49 4.9.294
  • linux414 4.14.259
  • linux419 4.19.222
  • linux54 5.4.168
  • linux510 5.10.88
  • linux514 5.14.21 [EOL]
  • linux515 5.15.11
  • linux516 5.16-rc6
  • linux510-rt 5.10.83_rt58
  • linux515-rt 5.15.7_rt23

Package Updates (Sun Dec 26 09:57:26 CET 2021)

  • testing community x86_64: 1451 new and 1420 removed package(s)
  • testing core x86_64: 35 new and 34 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 449 new and 608 removed package(s)
  • testing kde-unstable x86_64: 276 new and 272 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 30 new and 26 removed package(s)

A detailed list of 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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:warning: :bangbang:

Do BEFORE the update:

If you have installed Python packages via Pip: Do `pip freeze` BEFORE the update

If you have installed something via Pip, get this info before the python upgrade, as there’s no easy way to get it afterwards.

pip freeze --user > pip_list_user.txt
/path/to/<venv_name>/python -m pip freeze -l > pip_list_<venv_name>.txt

NEVER use sudo with Pip,
Look for packages you could install from AUR instead, and if you still want some pip installs, do: pip install --user

Also, the list from ‘pip freeze’ includes version numbers,
so you might want to manually install afresh to get current versions.

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.9 is quite different.
If you use it before the update, it will list many packages
that pacman will soon re-install for python 3.10,
so use it after the update, when it will get only AUR packages.
To use it with pikaur:
pikaur -S $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.9) --rebuild


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.

compiz packages like compiz-easy-patch got dropped from our repositories.

compiz packages like compiz-easy-patch got dropped from our repositories. Due to protobuf update you may need to rebuild that package locally on your end. Compiz-easy-patch removed from repos

Announcement for PipeWire users

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.

systemctl --user enable pipewire-media-session

See the PipeWire Release Notes for more info


Older Issues

OS prober does not run and add other operating systems*

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.

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: Graphics & Display - Manjaro Linux Forum or look at our tutorial on compiling old Nvidia drivers.

For AMD GPU users having a black screen with kernel 5.10

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
  • 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.

$PKGNAME warning: directory permissions differ on $Directoryname

followed by:

Filesystem: NNN package MMM

  • 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.

Arch Linux - News: libtraceevent>=5.9-1 update requires manual intervention

OpenVPN connection times out

Workaround: downgrade 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.

Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!

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Not that this will apply to many

warning: /etc/default/grub installed as /etc/default/grub.pacnew
:: Grub does no longer support side-loading modules when secure boot is
   enabled. Thus booting will fail, unless you have an efi executable
   'grubx64.efi' with bundled modules.

but just noting it here.

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I don’t know IF I’ve installed something over pip, but I know, that packages such as youtube-dl, which I installed over pamac are also in pip freeze.
Shall this be like that? Shall I do those extra steps?

Kernel 5.15.11 and system start, however i have “failed to start load kernel modules”. Any advice?

> tomek@tomek-pc ~> sudo systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service
[sudo] hasƂo uĆŒytkownika tomek: 
× systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2021-12-26 16:18:09 CET; 1min 11s ago
       Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
             man:modules-load.d(5)
    Process: 544 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 544 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 3ms
gru 26 16:18:09 tomek-pc systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules...
gru 26 16:18:09 tomek-pc systemd-modules-load[544]: Failed to insert module 'acpi_call': Exec format error
gru 26 16:18:09 tomek-pc systemd-modules-load[544]: Failed to insert module 'acpi_call': Exec format error
gru 26 16:18:09 tomek-pc systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
gru 26 16:18:09 tomek-pc systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
gru 26 16:18:09 tomek-pc systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.

@elektronicznypank Can you please post the output of:
pacman -Q | grep linux5

During the update these messages where seen:

Compiling GSettings XML schema files...                                                                                              [24/32]
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock.gschema.override: Key file contains line “app-hotkey-1@as []” which is not a key-value pair, group, or comment.  Ignoring this file.

Since I do not use dash to dock I will ignore this message. I checked on VM and I get the same message on stable btw.

Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal/3fe029ab50234931ac241264662f7e49', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal/remote', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring

Not sure what to do with these 3 lines above. Below the ls -Al of the directories referenced above.

drwxr-sr-x+ 4 root systemd-journal        4096  4 dec  2020 journal
drwxr-sr-x+ 2 root systemd-journal        4096 26 dec 17:09 3fe029ab50234931ac241264662f7e49
drwxr-sr-x  2 root systemd-journal-remote 4096  3 dec  2020 remote

Edit: /var/ is on a ext4 partition, so nothing to worry about after reading the post linked by @bluewhale99.

Hi, I found the following message during update:

( 7/27) Creating temporary files...
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal/****', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal/remote', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.

edit: Systemd 250-1: Cannot set file attributes for /var/log/journal/remote

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I got this error

(2/2) Compiling GSettings XML schema files...
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock.gschema.override: Key file contains line “app-hotkey-1@as []” which is not a key-value pair, group, or comment.  Ignoring this file.

these instructions did solve it:

sudo pacman -Rdd gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock
sudo rm /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock.gschema.override
sudo pacman -Syu gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock
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Oops. Fixed with manjaro-gnome-extension-settings 20211226-2.

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Of course:

tomek@tomek-pc ~ [3]> pacman -Q | grep linux5
linux515 5.15.11-1
linux515-acpi_call 1.2.2-2
linux515-headers 5.15.11-1
linux515-r8168 8.049.02-18
linux515-vhba-module 20211023-18
linux516 5.16rc6.211220.ga7904a5-1
linux516-acpi_call 1.2.2-0.2
linux516-headers 5.16rc6.211220.ga7904a5-1
linux516-r8168 8.049.02-0.5

I tried reinstalling 5.15 kernel and modules but still have that error.

Remove the acpi_call and install this Arch Linux - acpi_call-dkms 1.2.2-1 (any)

The Kernel modules will load correctly then


But later if the Manjaro Developer Team have a solution for this revert back to the extramodules provided by Manjaro.:

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A post was split to a new topic: Problem when upgrading opencl-amd package

Thank you very much, it works now! Kudos for you. I also installed dkms version of vhba-module and r8168. So it is generally better to install dkms versions of kernel modules?

Where do I see what version of python I am using?

type python in your console

Or without starting a Python shell, just python --version. :wink:

    ~/Documents  python --version                                                                                                                                  î‚Č INT ✘ 
Python 3.10.1

~/Documents /usr/lib/python3.10/python -m pip freeze -l > pip_list_3.10.txt                                                                                        
zsh: no such file or directory: /usr/lib/python3.10/python

Thoughts?

There is no such file (let alone an executable) in the python package. The executable lives in /usr/bin.

Thanks @freggel.doe, that did it!