[Testing Update] 2023-08.25 - Kernels, NVIDIA, Budgie, LibreOffice 7.6, QEMU, GNOME 44.4

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Hello community,

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

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Recent News:

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Previous News
Finding information easier about Manjaro

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

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Notable Package Updates:

  • Some Kernels got updated
  • NVIDIA driver got renewed to 535.104.05
  • mesa-780m package got additional fixes for APU-780m graphics
  • Budgie is now at 10.8
  • KDE Frameworks got updated to 5.109.0
  • LibreOffice is now at 7.6.0 and their still-version got moved to 7.5.5
  • QEMU moved to 8.0.4
  • GNOME 44.4 got released
  • Usual KDE-git, Haskell, Perl 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 4.19.292
  • linux54 5.4.254
  • linux510 5.10.191
  • linux515 5.15.127
  • linux61 6.1.47
  • linux64 6.4.12
  • linux65 6.5.0-rc7
  • linux61-rt 6.1.46_rt13
  • linux64-rt 6.4.6_rt8

Package Changes (Sat Aug 19 06:50:45 CEST 2023)

  • testing core x86_64: 23 new and 23 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 1277 new and 1262 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 6 new and 6 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 14 new and 14 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 104 new and 103 removed package(s)
  • testing kde-unstable x86_64: 188 new and 188 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 11 new and 10 removed package(s)

A full list of all package changes can be found here.

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  • Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)
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Known issues and solutions

This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary.
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Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!

:arrow_right: 2023-08-25

ansible-core >= 2.15.3-1 update may require manual intervention

2023-08-19 - Robin Candau

As of ansible-core 2.15.3, upstream moved documentation and examples to a separate dedicated repository (see the related changelogs).
This means that, starting from version 2.15.3 the ansible-core package will stop shipping documentation and a default configuration example under /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg.

Regarding the documentation, it is available online: https://docs.ansible.com/
As for the configuration file, as explained in the wiki, a base config can be generated with the following command:

ansible-config init --disabled > ansible.cfg

After updating from ansible-core <= 2.15.2-1 to >= 2.15.3-1, everyone using a custom global Ansible configuration file stored under /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg will have their configuration saved as a pacsave file.
To restore it, run the following command:

mv /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg.pacsave /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

– Arch Linux - News: ansible-core >= 2.15.3-1 update may require manual intervention

2023-08-04

Possible glibc 2.38 posix_memalign regression

There seems a performance regression of posix_memalign in Glibc-2.38. More info here: 30723 – Poor posix_memalign performance with long free lists

Workarounds:

You can try another malloc like mimalloc or jemalloc as workaround. Install mimalloc and start mpv with:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libmimalloc.so mpv

or

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libjemalloc.so mpv

For folks that dont want to change things too much … an apparent workaround is to set a lowish cache size:

mkdir -p ~/.config/mpv && printf '\ndemuxer-max-bytes=50MiB\ndemuxer-max-back-bytes=25MiB\n' | tee -a ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
budgie-desktop >= 10.7.2-6 update requires manual intervention

When upgrading from budgie-desktop 10.7.2-5 to 10.7.2-6, the package mutter43 must be replaced with magpie-wm, which currently depends on mutter. As mutter43 conflicts with mutter, manual intervention is required to complete the upgrade.

First remove mutter43, then immediately perform the upgrade. Do not relog or reboot between these steps.

pacman -Rdd mutter43
pacman -Syu

2023-07-28

Grub conflicting files

Error: Failed to commit transaction:
conflicting files:
grub: /usr/bin/update-grub already exists in filesystem (owned by grub-update)

sudo pacman -Rdd grub-update
sudo pacman -Suu grub

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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 crashes 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)

Previous testing threads:

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Added some more packages to this:

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

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                             PACKAGE           2023-08-25           2023-08-26
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                              json-c               0.16-1               0.17-1


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

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                             PACKAGE           2023-08-25           2023-08-26
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                        alertmanager             0.25.0-1             0.26.0-1
                  alsa-card-profiles           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                       cardinal-jack              23.02-2                    -
                      cargo-llvm-cov             0.5.30-1             0.5.31-1
                         cloudflared           2023.7.3-1           2023.8.0-1
                          difftastic             0.50.0-1             0.51.1-3
                                dolt             1.13.2-1             1.13.4-1
                              eslint             8.47.0-1             8.48.0-1
                            felix-rs              2.7.0-1              2.8.1-1
                              fluidd             1.25.1-1             1.25.2-1
                             forgejo           1.20.2.0-1           1.20.3.0-2
                           gamescope             3.12.0-1             3.12.3-1
                              geeqie                2.1-1                2.1-2
                          gnome-maps               44.3-1               44.4-1
                 gst-plugin-pipewire           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
               gtk-update-icon-cache           1:4.12.0-2           1:4.12.1-1
                                gtk4           1:4.12.0-2           1:4.12.1-1
                          gtk4-demos           1:4.12.0-2           1:4.12.1-1
                           gtk4-docs           1:4.12.0-2           1:4.12.1-1
                      home-assistant         1:2023.8.2-1         1:2023.8.4-1
                       klipperscreen              0.3.4-1              0.3.5-1
                            libinput             1.23.0-1             1.24.0-1
                         libpipewire           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                          libsynctex        2023.66984-15        2023.66984-16
                            lua-zlib              1:1.2-3              1:1.2-4
                          lua51-zlib              1:1.2-3              1:1.2-4
                          lua52-zlib              1:1.2-3              1:1.2-4
                          lua53-zlib              1:1.2-3              1:1.2-4
                      magic-wormhole             0.12.0-9             0.13.0-1
                      mkvtoolnix-cli               78.0-2               79.0-1
                      mkvtoolnix-gui               78.0-2               79.0-1
                           mosquitto             2.0.15-2             2.0.16-1
               netfilter-fullconenat      r73.0cf3b48-316      r73.0cf3b48-317
           pantheon-default-settings              7.0.2-1              7.1.0-1
                      pantheon-files              6.4.1-1              6.5.0-1
              pantheon-notifications              7.0.0-1              7.0.1-1
                            parallel           20230722-1           20230822-1
                       parallel-docs           20230722-1           20230822-1
                            pipewire           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                       pipewire-alsa           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                      pipewire-audio           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                       pipewire-docs           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                      pipewire-ffado           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                       pipewire-jack           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                      pipewire-pulse           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                        pipewire-roc           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                       pipewire-v4l2           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                   pipewire-x11-bell           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                   pipewire-zeroconf           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                    python-dbus-fast             1.91.2-1             1.94.0-1
                       python-pipenv          2023.8.23-1          2023.8.25-1
                         python-ruff            0.0.285-1            0.0.286-1
                       python-shodan             1.29.1-1             1.30.0-1
                       python-sphinx              7.2.2-1              7.2.3-1
python-sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml              1.1.8-1              1.1.9-1
                                ruff            0.0.285-1            0.0.286-1
                                sdcc              4.2.0-4              4.3.0-1
                              skopeo             1.13.2-1             1.13.3-1
                                sqlc             1.19.1-1             1.20.0-1
           switchboard-plug-keyboard              3.2.0-1              3.2.1-1
                     taskwarrior-tui             0.25.1-1             0.25.2-1
                                tere              1.5.0-1              1.5.1-1
                         texlive-bin        2023.66984-15        2023.66984-16
                            tomcat10            10.1.12-1            10.1.13-1
                             tomcat8             8.5.92-1             8.5.93-1
                             tomcat9             9.0.79-1             9.0.80-1
                               ugrep              4.0.3-1              4.0.4-1
         v2ray-domain-list-community     20230821154916-1     20230825070118-1
                            wallabag              2.6.2-1              2.6.4-1
                 xf86-input-libinput              1.3.0-1              1.4.0-1
                           xournalpp              1.2.0-1              1.2.1-1
                                yuzu               1523-1               1536-1


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

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                             PACKAGE           2023-08-25           2023-08-26
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                        lib32-json-c               0.16-1               0.17-1
                   lib32-libpipewire           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                      lib32-pipewire           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                 lib32-pipewire-jack           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
                 lib32-pipewire-v4l2           1:0.3.77-2           1:0.3.78-1
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Small bug here:

After restart, scrolling on my touchpad was inverted contrary to my actual settings.

Changes in System Settings (I’m on KDE) seemed to have no effect, the controls stayed inverted whether the box for this option was ticked or not.

In the end, I added the option

Option "NaturalScrolling" "off"

in the configuration file (I use the X-Server)

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf

to get the non-inverted controls back.

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