[Testing Update] 2023-02-09 - Kernels, toolchain, OpenSSL, NVIDIA, Mesa, Thunderbird

Announcements Testing Updates
,
1

Hello community,

Another testing branch update with some usual package updates for you.

Recent News:

Finding information easier about Manjaro always has been a topic that needed to be solved. With our new search we have put all Manjaro data accessible in one place and divided by sections so it makes it easier to digest: New Manjaro search engine is available | Blog

image

Previous News

Notable Package Updates:

  • All our supported Kernels got either updated or rebuild against the new toolchain
  • OpenSSL got a security fix update
  • NVIDIA 525.89.02 fixes a bug that could cause banding or flickering of color gradients on DisplayPort monitors.
  • Mesa got updated to 22.3.5 and Xorg-Server to 21.1.7
  • Chromium 110.0.5481.77
  • Thunderbird is now at 102.7.2
  • Beside the usual upstream updates like Firefox Developer Edition, Python, Haskell and others we added our KDE Unstable 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 4.19.272
  • linux54 5.4.231
  • linux510 5.10.167
  • linux515 5.15.92
  • linux60 6.0.19 [EOL]
  • linux61 6.1.10
  • linux62 6.2.0rc7
  • linux515-rt 5.15.86_rt56
  • linux60-rt 6.0.5_rt14

Package changes (Thu Feb 9 09:20:29 CET 2023)

  • testing community x86_64: 1075 new and 1075 removed package(s)
  • testing core x86_64: 38 new and 38 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 220 new and 218 removed package(s)
  • testing kde-unstable x86_64: 17 new and 17 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 14 new and 12 removed package(s)

A detailed list of all 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)

0 voters

Check if your mirror has already synced:

3 Likes
2

Known issues and solutions

This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary.
Please, consider subscribing to the Testing Updates Announcements RSS feed

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

:arrow_right: 2023-02-09

2023-01-17

Very slow shutdown when using KDE Plasma Wayland

The issue is sddm that can not be finished until the default timeout 90 sec.
The solution: Install sddm-git

The known bug reports:

PHP 8.2 update and introduction of legacy branch

2023-01-13 - Pierre Schmitz

The php packages have been updated to the latest version 8.2. In addition to this, a new set of php-legacy packages have been introduced. These will follow the oldest but still actively supported PHP branch. This enables users to install the latest version but also introduces the option to use third party applications that might rely on an older version. Both branches will be kept up to date following our rolling release model. php and php-legacy can be installed at the same time as the latter uses a -legacy suffix for its binaries and configuration files.

In addition to this, the php7 packages have been removed as they reached end of life. The imap extension will no longer be provided as it relies on the c-client library which has been abandoned for many years.

– Arch Linux - News: PHP 8.2 update and introduction of legacy branch

2023-01-04

Some games like Dota 2 are freezing

The issue is caused by update libx11 1.8.3-4
The solution: Upgrade to libx11 1.8.3-5

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.

Release electron v19.0.0 · electron/electron · GitHub

3

Hello folks,
I am having

: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                  164.9 KiB   589 KiB/s 00:00 [-----------------------------------------------] 100%
 extra                                                1854.9 KiB  8.63 MiB/s 00:00 [-----------------------------------------------] 100%
 community                                               7.5 MiB  11.8 MiB/s 00:01 [-----------------------------------------------] 100%
 multilib                                              169.4 KiB  3.85 MiB/s 00:00 [-----------------------------------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'nvidia-utils=525.85.05' required by linux62-nvidia
 -> error installing repo packages

Thanks for taking care!

1 Like
4

It is the downside of using the experimental kernel, modules are not rebuild all the time, I think that’s the problem with linux62-nvidia it is on version 525.85 not the new 525.89

https://packages.manjaro.org/?query=linux62-nvidia

https://packages.manjaro.org/?query=nvidia-util

3 Likes
5

Hi,

I suggest You to uninstall the linux62 kernel with the Manjaro tool and install linux61 kernel.

Stable is able!

Wish You well

1 Like
6

Did that and the upgrade went smooth!

1 Like
7

linux62-nvidia 525.89.02-0.1 is on it’s way.

2 Likes
8

Looks like glibc 2.37 breakes xorg with nvidia 390 drivers. Fix by Piezo from aur comments:

I may have found a fix: adding /usr/lib/tls to the dynamic linker search path (echo “/usr/lib/tls” > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nvidia.conf ; ldconfig), or replacing /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so* with /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so*.

1 Like
9

Don’t get it. What? if I check the package we have the following files:

nvidia-390xx-utils usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so
nvidia-390xx-utils usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.390.157
nvidia-390xx-utils usr/lib/tls/
nvidia-390xx-utils usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so
nvidia-390xx-utils usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.390.157

In the PKGBUILD we have:

    # nvidia-tls library
    install -Dm755 "libnvidia-tls.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.${pkgver}"
    install -Dm755 "tls/libnvidia-tls.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.${pkgver}"

on the lastest nvidia-utils we only have this:

# nvidia-tls library
install -Dm755 "libnvidia-tls.so.${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.${pkgver}"

So the suggestiion is to install the tls/lib.so-file to just lib instead of lib/tls as the tls is not found: (resolved) DKMS: nvidia 390.157 rebuild causing xorg to crash (Page 2) / AUR Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests / Arch Linux Forums

10