[Testing Update] 2023-07-25 - Kernels (zenbleed), Firmware, Pipewire, KDE-git, Python

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Hello community,

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

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Notable Package Updates:

  • Kernels got updated to include the ZenBleed fixes
    • therefore we also update linux-firmware packages
  • pipewire got some dependency and build fixes
  • Usual KDE-git and Python updates

Additional Info

Python 3.11 info

:information_source: You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.10.so. :information_source:

Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.10/ :

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.10/

Rebuild them all at once:*

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.10)

* Note that if any fail to build, you’ll have to rebuild what’s remaining one or a few at a time.

Use rebuild-detector to see if anything else needs to be rebuilt:

checkrebuild
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.

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 4.19.289
  • linux54 5.4.250
  • linux510 5.10.187
  • linux515 5.15.122
  • linux61 6.1.41
  • linux63 6.3.13 [EOL]
  • linux64 6.4.6
  • linux65 6.5.0-rc3
  • linux61-rt 6.1.38_rt12
  • linux63-rt 6.3.3_rt15
  • linux64-rt 6.4.0_rt6

Package Changes (Tue Jul 25 03:45:17 CEST 2023)

  • testing core x86_64: 23 new and 23 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 152 new and 153 removed package(s)
  • testing kde-unstable x86_64: 10 new and 10 removed package(s)
:: Different overlay package(s) in repository core x86_64

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                             PACKAGE           2023-07-24           2023-07-25
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                           amd-ucode  20230625.ee91452d-2  20230724.59fbffa9-1
                      linux-firmware  20230625.ee91452d-2  20230724.59fbffa9-1
                linux-firmware-bnx2x  20230625.ee91452d-2  20230724.59fbffa9-1
             linux-firmware-liquidio  20230625.ee91452d-2  20230724.59fbffa9-1
              linux-firmware-marvell  20230625.ee91452d-2  20230724.59fbffa9-1
             linux-firmware-mellanox  20230625.ee91452d-2  20230724.59fbffa9-1
                  linux-firmware-nfp  20230625.ee91452d-2  20230724.59fbffa9-1
                 linux-firmware-qcom  20230625.ee91452d-2  20230724.59fbffa9-1
               linux-firmware-qlogic  20230625.ee91452d-2  20230724.59fbffa9-1
               linux-firmware-whence  20230625.ee91452d-2  20230724.59fbffa9-1
                            linux419           4.19.288-2           4.19.289-1
                    linux419-headers           4.19.288-2           4.19.289-1
                            linux510           5.10.186-2           5.10.187-1
                    linux510-headers           5.10.186-2           5.10.187-1
                            linux515           5.15.121-1           5.15.122-1
                    linux515-headers           5.15.121-1           5.15.122-1
                             linux54            5.4.249-2            5.4.250-1
                     linux54-headers            5.4.249-2            5.4.250-1
                             linux61             6.1.40-1             6.1.41-1
                     linux61-headers             6.1.40-1             6.1.41-1
                             linux64              6.4.5-1              6.4.6-1
                     linux64-headers              6.4.5-1              6.4.6-1
                              pacman             6.0.2-12             6.0.2-13


:: Different overlay package(s) in repository extra x86_64

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                             PACKAGE           2023-07-24           2023-07-25
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                  linux419-acpi_call             1.2.2-86             1.2.2-87
                   linux419-bbswitch              0.8-299              0.8-300
                linux419-broadcom-wl     6.30.223.271-299     6.30.223.271-300
               linux419-nvidia-390xx           390.157-31           390.157-32
               linux419-nvidia-470xx         470.199.02-3         470.199.02-4
                     linux419-nvidia          535.86.05-1          535.86.05-2
                   linux419-nvidiabl             0.88-298             0.88-299
                      linux419-r8168          8.050.03-46          8.050.03-47
                  linux419-rtl8723bu          20220818-41          20220818-42
                   linux419-tp_smapi             0.43-248             0.43-249
                linux419-vhba-module          20211218-82          20211218-83
    linux419-virtualbox-host-modules             7.0.10-1             7.0.10-2
                        linux419-zfs             2.1.12-6             2.1.12-7
                  linux510-acpi_call            1.2.2-117            1.2.2-118
                   linux510-bbswitch              0.8-218              0.8-219
                linux510-broadcom-wl     6.30.223.271-220     6.30.223.271-221
               linux510-nvidia-390xx           390.157-41           390.157-42
               linux510-nvidia-470xx         470.199.02-3         470.199.02-4
                     linux510-nvidia          535.86.05-1          535.86.05-2
                      linux510-r8168          8.050.03-66          8.050.03-67
                  linux510-rtl8723bu          20220818-56          20220818-57
                   linux510-tp_smapi             0.43-218             0.43-219
                linux510-vhba-module         20211218-113         20211218-114
    linux510-virtualbox-host-modules             7.0.10-1             7.0.10-2
                        linux510-zfs             2.1.12-6             2.1.12-7
                  linux515-acpi_call            1.2.2-130            1.2.2-131
                   linux515-bbswitch              0.8-145              0.8-146
                linux515-broadcom-wl     6.30.223.271-145     6.30.223.271-146
               linux515-nvidia-390xx           390.157-51           390.157-52
               linux515-nvidia-470xx         470.199.02-5         470.199.02-6
                     linux515-nvidia          535.86.05-2          535.86.05-3
                      linux515-r8168          8.050.03-77          8.050.03-78
                  linux515-rtl8723bu          20220818-67          20220818-68
                   linux515-tp_smapi             0.43-146             0.43-147
                linux515-vhba-module         20211218-127         20211218-128
    linux515-virtualbox-host-modules             7.0.10-2             7.0.10-3
                        linux515-zfs             2.1.12-8             2.1.12-9
                   linux54-acpi_call            1.2.2-100            1.2.2-101
                    linux54-bbswitch              0.8-274              0.8-275
                 linux54-broadcom-wl     6.30.223.271-275     6.30.223.271-276
                linux54-nvidia-390xx           390.157-32           390.157-33
                linux54-nvidia-470xx         470.199.02-3         470.199.02-4
                      linux54-nvidia          535.86.05-1          535.86.05-2
                    linux54-nvidiabl             0.88-274             0.88-275
                       linux54-r8168          8.050.03-54          8.050.03-55
                   linux54-rtl8723bu          20220818-48          20220818-49
                    linux54-tp_smapi             0.43-274             0.43-275
                 linux54-vhba-module          20211218-96          20211218-97
     linux54-virtualbox-host-modules             7.0.10-1             7.0.10-2
                         linux54-zfs             2.1.12-6             2.1.12-7
                   linux61-acpi_call             1.2.2-48             1.2.2-49
                    linux61-bbswitch               0.8-48               0.8-49
                 linux61-broadcom-wl      6.30.223.271-48      6.30.223.271-49
                linux61-nvidia-390xx           390.157-48           390.157-49
                linux61-nvidia-470xx         470.199.02-7         470.199.02-8
                      linux61-nvidia          535.86.05-3          535.86.05-4
                       linux61-r8168          8.050.03-48          8.050.03-49
                   linux61-rtl8723bu          20220818-48          20220818-49
                    linux61-tp_smapi              0.43-48              0.43-49
                 linux61-vhba-module          20211218-48          20211218-49
     linux61-virtualbox-host-modules             7.0.10-3             7.0.10-4
                         linux61-zfs            2.1.12-10            2.1.12-11
                   linux64-acpi_call             1.2.2-27             1.2.2-28
                    linux64-bbswitch               0.8-27               0.8-28
                 linux64-broadcom-wl      6.30.223.271-27      6.30.223.271-28
                linux64-nvidia-390xx           390.157-18           390.157-19
                linux64-nvidia-470xx        470.199.02-16        470.199.02-17
                      linux64-nvidia          535.86.05-3          535.86.05-4
                       linux64-r8168          8.050.03-27          8.050.03-28
                   linux64-rtl8723bu          20220818-27          20220818-28
                    linux64-tp_smapi              0.43-16              0.43-17
                 linux64-vhba-module          20211218-27          20211218-28
     linux64-virtualbox-host-modules             7.0.10-3             7.0.10-4
                         linux64-zfs            2.1.12-22            2.1.12-23
              manjaro-tools-base-git      r3009.18b93d6-1      r3016.263d640-1
               manjaro-tools-iso-git      r3009.18b93d6-1      r3016.263d640-1
               manjaro-tools-pkg-git      r3009.18b93d6-1      r3016.263d640-1
              manjaro-tools-yaml-git      r3009.18b93d6-1      r3016.263d640-1
    nano-syntax-highlighting 2020.10.10+10+g1aa64a8-1 2020.10.10+10+g1aa64a8-2
                                 nvm             0.39.3-1             0.39.4-1
                    telegram-desktop              4.8.7-2                    -


:: Different sync package(s) in repository extra x86_64

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                             PACKAGE           2023-07-24           2023-07-25
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                  alsa-card-profiles           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                           apptainer              1.2.0-1              1.2.1-1
                               bacon             2.11.1-1             2.12.1-1
                          cargo-pgrx              0.9.7-1              0.9.8-1
                         cloudflared           2023.7.1-1           2023.7.2-1
                           dart-sass             1.63.4-1             1.64.1-1
                              elinks           0.16.1.1-1           0.16.1.1-2
                           exploitdb           20221122-1           20230722-1
        firefox-extension-mailvelope              5.0.1-1              5.1.0-1
                          github-cli             2.32.0-1             2.32.1-1
                 gst-plugin-pipewire           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                              helvum              0.3.4-1              0.4.0-1
                           highlight                4.6-1                4.7-1
                       highlight-gui                4.6-1                4.7-1
                             highway              1.0.4-1              1.0.5-1
                               kafka              3.5.0-1              3.5.1-1
                               kitty             0.28.1-2             0.29.1-1
             kitty-shell-integration             0.28.1-2             0.29.1-1
                      kitty-terminfo             0.28.1-2             0.29.1-1
                       kiwix-desktop              2.3.1-3              2.3.1-4
                             lazygit             0.39.2-1             0.39.4-1
                                lego             4.12.3-1             4.13.2-1
                         libpipewire           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                              luajit2.1.0.beta3.r481.g51fb2f2c-12.1.0.beta3.r493.g8635cbab-1
                                 mpv           1:0.35.1-8           1:0.36.0-1
               netfilter-fullconenat      r73.0cf3b48-306      r73.0cf3b48-307
                                nyxt              3.4.0-1              3.5.0-1
                            parallel           20230622-1           20230722-1
                       parallel-docs           20230622-1           20230722-1
                            pipewire           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                       pipewire-alsa           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                      pipewire-audio           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                       pipewire-docs           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                      pipewire-ffado           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                       pipewire-jack           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                      pipewire-pulse           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                        pipewire-roc           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                       pipewire-v4l2           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                   pipewire-x11-bell           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                   pipewire-zeroconf           1:0.3.75-1           1:0.3.75-2
                                  pv             1.6.20-2              1.7.0-1
                        pyqt-builder             1.15.1-1             1.15.2-1
            python-jupyterlab_server             2.23.0-1                    -
                          python-mpv              1.0.3-4              1.0.4-1
                       python-pipenv          2023.7.11-1          2023.7.23-1
                    python-pyqt5-sip            12.12.1-2            12.12.2-1
                        python-pyqt6              6.5.1-1              6.5.2-1
                    python-pyqt6-sip             13.5.1-2             13.5.2-1
                   python-tpm2-pytss              2.1.0-1              2.1.0-2
                                 qbs              2.0.2-1              2.1.0-1
                             qca-qt5              2.3.6-2              2.3.7-1
                             qca-qt6              2.3.6-2              2.3.7-1
                             repgrep             0.14.1-1             0.14.2-1
                           repro-env              0.3.0-1              0.3.1-1
                       rust-analyzer           20230717-1           20230724-1
             sequoia-chameleon-gnupg              0.3.1-1              0.3.1-2
             shattered-pixel-dungeon              2.1.3-1              2.1.4-1
                               shfmt              3.6.0-1              3.7.0-1
                                 sip              6.7.9-2             6.7.10-1
                      soundconverter              4.0.3-7              4.0.4-1
                                sqlc             1.19.0-1             1.19.1-1
                           syslog-ng              4.1.1-1              4.2.0-1
                    telegram-desktop              4.8.7-1              4.8.7-2
                                tere              1.4.0-1              1.5.0-1
                             urlscan              1.0.0-1              1.0.1-1
                            wallabag              2.6.1-1              2.6.2-1
                            wasmtime             11.0.0-1             11.0.1-1
                               whois             5.5.17-1             5.5.18-1
                        zabbix-agent              6.4.2-1              6.4.4-1
                       zabbix-agent2              6.4.2-1              6.4.4-1
                 zabbix-frontend-php              6.4.2-1              6.4.4-1
                        zabbix-proxy              6.4.2-1              6.4.4-1
                       zabbix-server              6.4.2-1              6.4.4-1
            python-jupyterlab-server                    -             2.24.0-1


:: Different overlay package(s) in repository kde-unstable x86_64

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                             PACKAGE           2023-07-24           2023-07-25
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                               elisa23.04.3.r3352.g1349f2ae-123.04.3.r3353.g50fb1d90-1
                 extra-cmake-modules5.108.0.r3605.g072f57db-15.108.0.r3606.gff820f0b-1
                            keysmith23.04.2.r478.g15cc93e-123.04.2.r479.g2532188-1
                     kirigami-addons1:0.10.0.r0.g4b0ad58-11:0.10.0.r1.g9c0848d-1
                      knotifications5.108.0.r864.g35a33f3-15.108.0.r871.ge5f9e04-1
                             neochat23.04.2.r3352.gb486cb90-123.04.2.r3353.g00b7f68a-1
                      plasma-desktop5.27.6.r10693.g35c6a8835-15.27.6.r10694.g048ec7177-1
                          plasmatube23.04.2.r385.gf25118d-123.04.2.r392.g447ad2c-1
                       pulseaudio-qt 1.3.0.r32.gb80fad1-1 1.3.0.r33.gbf29bf8-1
                             tokodon23.04.2.r1230.g90145e3-123.04.2.r1243.ga47a23a-1
  • 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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Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!

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2023-07-24

One core of CPU has high IO-wait operation at 100%

[Unstable Update] 2023-05-21 - Repository changes - #199 by Zesko

Kernel 6.4.4, 6.4.5 and 6.1.39 LTS are affected:
The known issue and report:

2023-07-15

Steam cashes on startup with lib32-libgudev installed

The latest lib32-libgudev update does not cooperate with the version of the same package provided by steam, and steam seems to attempt making calls to both leading to the crash.

Details: bug report, arch task, arch forum thread.

  • Workaround #1 (causes steam to avoid making any calls to lib32-libgudev by using a different library altogether)

    • sudo pacman -S lib32-libnm

  • Workaround #2 (forces steam and any other application to always use the new lib32-libgudev)

    • sudo pacman -S lib32-libudev0-shim

  • Workaround #3 (use steam-native-runtime, which doesn’t have the issue)

    • sudo pacman -S steam-native-runtime

2023-06-27

possible kernel bug for amdgpu users

[Testing Update] 2023-06-27 - Kernels, Linux-Firmware, Mesa, Wine, Nvidia, KDE-git - #4 by xvin

2023-06-24

Pamac GUI theme does not match theme for Xfce

pamac-gtk 11.0.1 uses Gtk 4 that is not supported by Xfce
user can replace pamac-gtk with pamac-gtk3

pamac install pamac-gtk3
TeX Live package reorganization

2023-06-18 - Antonio Rojas

Starting from version 2023.66594-9, TeX Live packages have been reorganized to mirror upstream collections. Even though the new texlive-basic replaces the old texlive-core, many of the texlive-core contents (including language specific files) are now split between different packages. To find out which Arch package contains a specific CTAN package, you can use the tlmgr utility, eg.

$ tlmgr info euler | grep collection
collection:  collection-latexrecommended

which means the euler CTAN package is contained in texlive-latexrecommended. You may also use pacman -F to query for specific files.

A new metapackage texlive-meta is available to install all subpackages (except for language specific ones), and the new texlive-doc package provides the full documentation for offline use.

– Arch Linux - News: TeX Live package reorganization

2023-06-15

The "community" repository has been merged into "extra" and is now empty

The [community] repository has been merged into [extra] and is now empty. It may take a bit of time for mirrors to catch up.

:point_right: Update your system and merge the pacman pacnew /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew file.

sudo pacman -Syu "pacman>=6.0.2-11"
OpenBLAS >= 0.3.23-2 update requires manual intervention

2023-06-14 - Felix Yan

The openblas package prior to version 0.3.23-2 doesn’t ship optimized LAPACK routine and CBLAS/LAPACKE interfaces for compatibility. This decision has been reverted now, and the ability to choose a different default system BLAS/LAPACK implementation while keeping openblas installed is now provided to allow future co-installation of BLIS, ATLAS, etc.

The default BLAS implementation will be used for most packages like NumPy or R. Please install blas-openblas and blas64-openblas to make OpenBLAS the default BLAS implementation, just like the old behavior.

Unfortunately you will get errors on updating if you currently have OpenBLAS installed as the default BLAS implementation:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing openblas (0.3.23-2) breaks dependency 'blas' required by cblas
:: installing openblas (0.3.23-2) breaks dependency 'blas' required by lapack

Please append your preferred default BLAS implementation to the regular -Syu command line to get around it. For example:

sudo pacman -Syu blas-openblas

or

sudo pacman -Syu blas

– Arch Linux - News: OpenBLAS >= 0.3.23-2 update requires manual intervention

2023-05-11

Python 3.11 upgrade tip

Python packages built against python 3.10 can be rebuilt with the following:

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.10)
Pip package upgrade guide

If you have a lot of pip/AUR packages to upgrade to Python 3.11, read this.

If you installed python311 from the AUR, you need to uninstall it before running this update.

Many applications (firefox, thunderbird, etc) slow to start on desktops other than Gnome

There is a bug with xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (more details here).

Workaround for gtk-based desktops (including Xfce) 
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
Workaround for KDE 
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-kde
Workaround for Lxqt 
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt
Workaround for desktops using hyprland 
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
Workaround for desktops using wlroots 
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
GDM slow to start after at-spi2-core 2.48.1-1 upgrade
  • Fixed with at-spi2-core 2.48.2-1 (no action required)

2023-03-28

Info about recent GRUB changes

[Unstable Update] 2023-02-17 - Plasma 5.27 LTS, GNOME, Python - #51 by philm

Info about recent NVIDIA packaging changes

[Testing Update] 2023-03-25 - Kernels, Firefox, Deepin, GNOME, NVIDIA, Wine - #42 by philm

2023-03-11

Possible kernel fs block code regression in 6.2.3 umounting usb drives

With kernel 6.2.3 when you simply plug in a usb external drive, mount it and umount it, then the journal has a kernel Oops. A bug report, that includes the journal output was submitted at. 217174 – Plugging in usb external drive, mount and umount causes kernel Oops Discussion can be found here: Re: Possible kernel fs block code regression in 6.2.3 umounting usb drives — Linux Stable Kernel Updates

kernel 5.15.99+ Black/empty screen during boot with i915 Intel gfx. No ways to do anything

Seems there is a regression introduced with 5.15.99 kernel update: [i915]drm:add_taint_for_CI [i915]] CI tainted:0x9 by intel_gt_init+0xae/0x2d0 [i915] (#8284) · Issues · drm / i915 / kernel · GitLab. My thoughts here: [Testing Update] 2023-03-11 - Kernels, Mesa 22.3.7, Phosh, LibreOffice 7.4.6 - #31 by philm

2023-02-10

Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

2023-02-12 - Robin Candau

On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
If you installed the base-devel package group prior to this date, explicitly re-install it to get the new base-devel package installed on the system:

pacman -Syu base-devel

– Arch Linux - News: Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

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.

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

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

XFCE Classic project became obsolete with the 4.18 series and is no longer required. If you still have it installed, please replace it with the normal package:

sudo pacman -S libxfce4ui

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

Window actors call update_stage_views() without allocation 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

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Just a note:

PostgreSQL won’t work as a drop-in replacement for MariaDB. If you try to use it as a drop-in replacement, you’re going to have a bad, not to mention frustrating time.

MariaDB is a fork of, and can thus be replaced by MySQL.

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Again, I’m not writing the wiki-page content of the second post …

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I know. Just leaving it there for anyone else.

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On an AMD CPU, slow boot time has been fixed with amd-ucode and firmware v20230724 :piñata:.

The flickering video issue in AMD embedded GPU is still happening in kernel v6.4.6. The linux kernel v6.1.41 is working fine.

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4 posts were split to a new topic: Vulkan stopped working after recent update

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