Known issues and solutions
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New issues:
Python packages from PIP and AUR - how to upgrade them - detailed instructions
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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
New warnings when building the fallback initcpio - Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa, qed, qla1280, qla2xxx
That’s due to the recent changes to the linux-firmware package. Note these are warnings, not errors. You only need those firmwares if you have Mellanox Spectrum switches, Marvell devices, Qualcomm SoCs, Cavium LiquidIO server adapters, QLogic devices and Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb ethernet adapters. if you have that hardware you can install linux-firmware-qlogic to get rid of those warnings. If you do not have that hardware you can safely ignore those warnings.
pamac install linux-firmware-qlogic
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.
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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.
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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
- try installing kernel 5.4 LTS (Long Term Support)
- If that doesn’t fix it, take a full system backup, go to a console using Ctrl+Alt+F2 and:
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:
- 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
- If you got the problem with shutdown delay (about 2min) on Gnome, here is a workaround:
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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
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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
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The solution:
sudo chmod MMM DirectoryName
Where obviously MMM is the second number you see (the correct one)
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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 - Sébastien 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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