[Testing Update] 2023-01-07 - Kernels; KDE Gear 22.12.1, Haskell

Hello community,

Another testing branch update with some usual package updates for you. We hope that you had a good start into 2023 and some great days over the holidays …

Recent News:

Notable Package Updates:

  • Some Kernels got updated.
  • KDE Gear (Apps) 22.12.1 released
  • Beside the usual upstream updates like Firefox-Beta, python, haskell and others we added our KDE-git packages as usual

Additional Info

Info about AUR packages

:warning: AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcement topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.

Info about GNOME 43

GNOME 43 is here! :partying_face:

New in Manjaro GNOME:

Lonely leftover orphan packages that have been removed from the Arch / Manjaro repositories:

  • adwaita-maia
  • dynamic-wallpaper-editor
  • firefox-gnome-theme-maia
  • gtkhash-nautilus
    (Not compatible with Nautilus 43)
  • manjaro-dynamic-wallpaper
  • manjaro-gdm-tweak
  • nautilus-terminal
    (Not compatible with Nautilus 43 & EOL)

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


Our current supported kernels

  • linux419 4.19.269
  • linux54 5.4.228
  • linux510 5.10.162
  • linux515 5.15.86
  • linux60 6.0.17
  • linux61 6.1.3
  • linux515-rt 5.15.85_rt55
  • linux60-rt 6.0.5_rt14

Package changes (Sat Jan 7 06:06:04 CET 2023)

  • testing community x86_64: 1269 new and 1257 removed package(s)
  • testing core x86_64: 16 new and 16 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 526 new and 525 removed package(s)
  • testing kde-unstable x86_64: 298 new and 298 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 30 new and 30 removed package(s)

A list of all package changes can be found here.

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

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2023-01-04

Some games like Dota 2 are freezing

The issue is caused by update libx11 18.3-4
The solution: Upgrade to libx11 18.3-5

Some games like Dota 2 crash when using Gnome Wayland and switching workspace by pressing alt and tab

The issue is caused by libx11 18.3
The solution: Downgrade to libx11 18.2

See the report: [Linux] Dota 2 crashes on alt tab or workspace switching. · Issue #2231 · ValveSoftware/Dota-2 · GitHub

VLC crashes when playing a video file

It looks like there has been a regression introduced with the new version of libva (2.17.0), which is used by VLC media player. If you get the following error when executing vlc in a terminal:

libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)

you may try to change the Output option in Preferences > Video to VDPAU output instead of Automatic (or whatever value it had been set to before).

Downgrading the libva package from 2.17.0-1 to 2.16.0-1 may also work, but it is a more short-term workaround that should not be kept for too long, as sooner or later, the older package won’t be compatible with the other packages. Consider to do the solution above first.

2022-12-22

pacman-mirrors was temporarily renamed to manjaro-mirrors (the changes were reverted)

This was done to avoid confusion with an AUR / WSL package with the same name and avoid possible breakage. It should be a seamless transition.

Rename project (#183) · Issues · Applications / pacman-mirrors · GitLab

2022-12-19

KDE Wayland sometimes hangs with mesa 22.3.1 and AMD GPU

2022-12-16

dbus-x11 demoted to AUR

dbus-x11 was installed out of the box on some flavors of Manjaro as of a year ago, but is no longer needed. If you have it installed, please replace it with dbus using the following:

sudo pacman -Syu dbus
XFCE becomes unusable if libxfce4ui-nocsd is still installed

So far XFCE Classic project hasn’t updated yet to 4.18 series. We pushed 4.17.0 version of the package, but don’t know if that helps in that situation. It is recommended to install the regular libxfce4ui package to avoid issues and comment on this issue: libxfce4ui 4.18.0 released · Issue #15 · Xfce-Classic/libxfce4ui-nocsd · GitHub

2022-12-04

python-cairo 1.23.0-2 update requires manual intervention

The python-cairo package prior to version 1.23.0-2 was missing the compiled python module. This has been fixed in 1.23.0-2, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked pyc file that was created. If you receive this error

python-cairo: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cairo/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc exists in filesystem

when updating, use

pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cairo/__pycache__/\*

to perform the upgrade.

2022-11-08

Pop Shell issues with Xorg session with Mutter 43.1 (fixed with mutter 43.1-1.0)

Gnome 43 (X11) GTK4 windows failed to render · Issue #1541 · pop-os/shell · GitHub

Windows not updated after non-interactive resize on X11 (#6054) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-shell · GitLab

2022-10-28

signature from "Manjaro Build Server <build_at_manjaro_dot_org>" is unknown trust

Seems our signing key for our Build Server had the 2022-10-28 as expire date set when generated. This is now fixed for chroot builds and fresh as also current existing installs via manjaro-keyring 20221028-4 Simply update your system to get that package, which got pushed to all our branches.

2022-10-27

Kernel 6.1-rc# might break backlight control on old/weird laptops

2022-10-18

Firefox 106.0 may have issues with screen sharing on GNOME with Wayland

2022-09-23

Nvidia 3060RTX cards may have issues with the 515.76 driver (fixed with 520.56.06)
Removing python2 from the repositories

2022-09-23 - Jelle van der Waa

Python 2 went end of life January 2020. Since then we have been actively cutting down the number of projects depending on python2 in our repositories, and we have finally been able to drop it from our distribution. If you still have python2 installed on your system consider removing it and any python2 package.

If you still require the python2 package you can keep it around, but please be aware that there will be no security updates. If you need a patched package please consult the AUR, or use an unofficial user repository.*

Arch Linux - News: Removing python2 from the repositories

* Note: Unofficial user repositories are not supported

2022-08-27

Changes with Back In Time packages
  • backintime has been renamed to backintime-qt
  • backintime-cli has been renamed to backintime

After replacing backintime-cli with backintime, you will need to install backintime-qt manually if you want the Qt frontend installed again.

2022-08-23

electron12, electron13, electron14 & electron16 have been dropped to the AUR

Unsupported Electron packages have been dropped from the official repos to the AUR. They no longer receive security updates and nothing in the repos depend on them.

If you have AUR packages depending on those versions, install the binary version from the AUR to replace them; i.e., electron16-bin.

See FS#75490 - electron12, electron13, electron14, electron16 are unsupported and vulnerable packages

End of Support for 15.x.y and 16.x.y

Electron 15.x.y and 16.x.y has reached end-of-support. As per Electron’s new 8-week cadence, we were supporting the latest four versions of Electron until May 2022. With this Electron 19 release, we’ll return to supporting the latest three major versions, as well as the alpha, beta, and nightly releases.

– This is due to an AUR / WSL package to avoid confusion and possible breakage. It should be a seamless transition.Release electron v19.0.0 · electron/electron · GitHub

2022-08-12

element-desktop dependency error (fixed with 1.11.4)
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing electron (20.0.0-1) breaks dependency 'electron19' required by element-desktop
```[details=pacman-mirrors has been renamed to manjaro-mirrors]

This is due to an AUR / WSL package to avoid confusion and possible breakage. It should be a seamless transition.

https://gitlab.manjaro.org/applications/pacman-mirrors/-/issues/183

The upstream package was already flagged out of date (it needs to be rebuilt against latest electron).

Workaround for now:

sudo pacman -Syy electron electron19 --asdeps
sudo pacman -Su

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2022-08-04

Glibc 2.36 update will break EasyAntiCheat within Proton (should be fixed with glibc 2.36-2)

Temporary workaround for now is to use the flatpak version of steam:

sudo pacman -S flatpak --needed --noconfirm
sudo flatpak install com.valvesoftware.Steam -y

You can use flatseal (another flatpak app) to grant it access to your existing game library so you don’t have to re-download your games (add the game library install path under “Other files” under “Filesystem”).

sudo flatpak install com.github.tchx84.Flatseal -y

For advanced users (not recommended by us): patched glibc and lib32-glibc are available here. They remove the commit that broke EAC.

2022-07-27

Fixed: Pamac shows archlinux-keyring (20220713-2) and manjaro-keyring (20220514-2) as orphans
sudo pacman -D --asexplicit archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring

Resolved: w/ base 3-2 Revert changes:

sudo pacman -D --asdeps archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring

2022-07-16

wxWidgets 3.2 update may need manual intervention

Packages have been renamed from wxgtk- to wxwidgets-. The GTK2 frontend is no longer provided. If you have wxgtk2 installed, the upgrade will fail with:

In such case, uninstall wxgtk2 first and then proceed with the upgrade.

2022-07-13

Linux518: could not insert 'amd_pstate': No such device

With Kernel 5.18.11 there was added a regression to AMD P-State driver preventing it from loading.

2022-07-08

Wireplumber 0.4.11 may crash for GDM users

Currently there is an issue with 0.4.11 and GDM crashing on boot-up. More in the upstream bugtracker issue: wireplumber segfault: system boot and could see in my dmesg (#305) · Issues · PipeWire / wireplumber · GitLab

2022-06-07

Locale file changes

C.UTF8 locale is now included in glibc:

Credits @diabonas for this change. Systemd wants us to include C.UTF8 by default and it seems the locale may be in included by glibc upstream in the future. To fix building and avoid nasty fixing in devtools, we include the locale in the package. See systemd/systemd#23252 (comment) FS#74864 : [systemd] >= 251 breaks devtools' locale

There is a pacsave for /etc/locale.conf as it has been removed from the filesystem package.

UPDATE: With filesystem 2022.06.08-2, it will automatically restore /etc/locale.conf if it did not already exist.
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There is a pacnew for /etc/locale.gen. Please review it and regenerate your locale if necessary.

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A post was split to a new topic: Games like Dota 2 are freezing soon after launching

With this update my Firefox crash, and I had to downgrade SDL2 packages or all of my SDL2 applications will also crash.

Edit:
All of my custom build apps are also having segfault after this update. All of them are vulkan apps. Vulkaninfo and vkcube tools are also crash.

Edit2:
What i’ve done so far are installing libx11 18.3-5 and using different kernels, none of them works. So far all of my vulkan apps are broken, but opengl programs works. Firefox crash mostly when playing video, but sometime it also crash when using this forum. My best guess is probably something to do with the new nvidia driver. But I can’t just safely swicth or downgrade the driver because of cuda and all packages/programs that depends on it.

Edit3:
Oh, Wine (both from repo and custom builds) with DXVK are actually working! Now I’m confused. :laughing:

Edit4:
Reinstalling Firefox fix the crash, but I haven’t done the same with nvidia driver. Maybe it will fix the problem with vulkan too if I reinstall the driver. So, I guess my update was corrupted somehow. My bad. :relieved:

Edit5:
Switching to stable (nvidia 525.60.11) fix my vulkan apps problem. Vulkan tools and my custom build programs are working like before. So, I guess nvidia 525.78.01 driver is broken on my PC.

Well, Everything seems fine for me, except for my game : Chernobylite.
When I started game 1st time, I had a new Vulkan shaders treatment.
Then, I cannot play the game anymore, I’ve got directly this error :
“Out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering ressource. Make sure your video card has the minimum required memory, try lower resolution blah blah blah” And the game exit.

Changing Steam Compat settings from last Proton, to Experimental seems to correct this issue…

Strange, everything was fine before this last update.

Off topic (?); You might want to check out “Glorious Eggroll’s” video on Proton Game and Prefix Launcher troubleshooting. Changing versions to get a game to work via Proton, of course, is the norm (for Linux gaming). UE4 is known for shader stutter, perhaps deleting the shader cache might’ve helped as well.

A post was split to a new topic: Severe lag problems on kernel linux515

libx11 errors?

I seem to be getting these errors with Steam and they seem similar to others having issues after libx11 1.8.3-x update where programs are killed. journalctl -f yields the log file being bombarded by Xlib: sequence lost in reply type 0xc! messages and a steady flow of username plasmashell[2220]: Maximum number of clients reached until Steam is quit. Downgrading libx11 appears to have worked for other users, at time of this writing I’ve downgraded only lib32-libx11 to no avail. Going to try libx11 and update.

UPDATE: Downgraded libx11 to 1.8.2-2 to no avail.

UPDATE 2: Installed libx11 1.8.3-5 having same issues. I’m wondering if it’s a Steam/Proton only issue.

UPDATE 3: Looks like it’s a Steam issue. Thank you all for your help.

Try to upgrade to 18.3-5

Thank you. How would I go about installing that version if it’s not in the Testing Branch Repository?

Just download it from Arch repos: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libx11/download/
Click it to auto install or run sudo pacman -U ~/Download/libx11-1.8.3-5-x86_64.pkg

OR

  1. install downgrade
  2. $ sudo downgrade libx11
  3. Select the last version: libx11 1.8.3 5
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I’ve just pushed libx11 18.3-5 and lib32-libx11 1.8.3-1.0.