[Testing Update] 2023-08-31 - Kernels, Firefox, Thunderbird, LLVM, Mauikit, Qemu 8.1.0

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Hello community,

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

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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:

  • Most Kernels got updated
  • Firefox is at 117.0 and Thunderbird at 115.2.0
  • Rebuilds for llvm 16.0.6
  • Mauikit 3.0.1 got released
  • Qemu is now at 8.1.0
  • 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 4.19.293
  • linux54 5.4.255
  • linux510 5.10.193
  • linux515 5.15.129
  • linux61 6.1.50
  • linux64 6.4.13
  • linux65 6.5.0
  • linux61-rt 6.1.46_rt13
  • linux64-rt 6.4.6_rt8

Package Changes (Thu Aug 31 08:41:25 CEST 2023)

  • testing core x86_64: 4 new and 4 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 646 new and 635 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 6 new and 6 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 12 new and 12 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 95 new and 193 removed package(s)
  • testing kde-unstable x86_64: 257 new and 257 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 11 new and 12 removed package(s)

A 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)
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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: 2023-08-31

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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4 posts were split to a new topic: Issues with mesa due to llvm update

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Not related to todays update, but to the Pamac GUI theming issue, I noticed in the past that it did not work with KDE Plasma as well, but I didnt bother since it was just a theming issue and I only had read about the issue with xfce.

But I just now installed pamac-gtk3 and now Pamac has the correct Plasma theme again! @philm maybe you could add that to the Known issues and solutions, right next to xfce.
Thanks!

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pamac never uses the actual Plasma theme, because Plasma and all KDE applications are Qt-based, while pamac is a GTK-based application. The closest one can ever get is to use a theme for which both a Qt version and a GTK version exist, such as Breeze.

pamac-gtk is using GTK4, for which currently only one theme exists in the repo — i.e. the default libadwaita — while pamac-gtk3 has a choice of many themes. By default, it’ll be using the Breeze theme that Plasma uses, or Breath, which is the Manjaro-specific version of Breeze.

GTK is the GNOME ToolKit and is thus designed by the same people who develop GNOME. It therefore follows the same rigid philosophy as GNOME itself. Qt on the other hand is a much more flexible widget toolkit.

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Everything smooth here, but the bug with google groupware akonadi resource is of course still there…

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All virtual machines (using qemu/libvirt/virt-manager) with 3D-acceleration cannot be started anymore. I get error messages like this one:

Fehler beim Starten der Domain: Interner Fehler: process exited while connecting to monitor: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi: libLLVM-15.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)

Maybe missing shared library due to llvm update (15.0.7-3 → 16.0.6-1) with testing update 2023-08-31?

Edit:
3d-accelerated games using wine (with and without lutris) also do not start up anymore.

Rolling back to system status before applying testing update 2023-08-31 using timeshift resolves all errors mentioned above!

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Manjaro has a package llvm15 and llvm15-libs, try installing those

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Tried this although i hate to install older libraries to maintain normal functionality of my system.

Using this workaround can start my virtual machines again, but the error on all 3d-accelerated games using wine is already present (could not initialize directx).

I will roll back again and wait for other solutions.

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yes i think thats it - thanks for the clarification!
I think i will wait some days and if nothing happens with mesa-nonfree i will have to drop this repo.

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Thanks, yes! What I was trying to say is that with pamac-gtk3 it looks like a Qt application and by that “matches the Plasma Theme”. While with the gtk4 version it looks like a Gnome application and by that “out of place”.
In any case now with the gtk3 package pamac looks nice again, thx for your corrections!

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GDM reported ’ something has gone wrong’ after update.

Logs indicate that there is an issue with hardware acceleration:

org.gnome-shell[927]: Running GNOME Shell (using mutter 44.4) as a Wayland display server
org.gnome.Shell.desktop[927]: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi: libLLVM-15.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
org.gnome.Shell.desktop[927]: MESA-LOADER: failed to open zink: libLLVM-15.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
org.gnome.Shell.desktop[927]: MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast: libLLVM-15.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
org.gnome.Shell.desktop[927]: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: libLLVM-15.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
org.gnome-shell[927]: Failed to open gpu '/dev/dri/card0': Failed to initialize render device for /dev/dri/card0: Failed to create gbm device: No such file or directory, EGLDevice currently only works with single GPU systems
org.gnome.Shell.desktop[927]: Failed to setup: No GPUs found
...
gnome-session[982]: gnome-session-is-accelerated: No hardware 3D support.
gnome-session[973]: gnome-session-check-accelerated: GL Helper exited with code 256
gnome-session[983]: libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
gnome-session[983]: libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: libLLVM-15.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
gnome-session-c[983]: eglInitialize() failed
gnome-session[973]: gnome-session-check-accelerated: GLES Helper exited with code 256
gnome-session[1048]: gnome-session-is-accelerated: No hardware 3D support.
gnome-session[984]: gnome-session-check-accelerated: GL Helper exited with code 256
gnome-session[1049]: libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: libLLVM-15.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
gnome-session-c[1049]: eglInitialize() failed
...

I was a user of the nonfree mesa repository, changing to default and syncing solved this for me.

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linux65 6.5.0 has been working fine on AMD with an integrated GPU; no more flickering display. It serves as an alternative to TLS linux61. Thanks!

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After today’s updates games are freezing up on my main comp, Roblox not launching on laptops.

The ONLY workaround on my main comp; 7800X3D, 7900XTX, was switching to Kernel 6.4 via Grub. You’ll see the last 2 lines of the output for both X11 and Wayland are the same (the 2 lines spammed repeatedly at [game] freeze time).

On both my kids’ Acer Spin 3 and 5, Roblox now refuses to launch. journalctl -f yields absolutely nothing on that front. Switching to 6.4 is to no avail. Another (Arch) Linux Roblox player, via Roblox in Linux 2023 Discord states similar experience today, FWIW, might be upstream.

X11 output

Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: OpenGL vendor string:                   AMD
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: OpenGL renderer string:                 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (gfx1100, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.54, 6.5.0-1-MANJARO)
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: OpenGL version string:                  4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.1.6-3
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: Driver:                                 Unknown
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: GPU class:                              Unknown
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: OpenGL version:                         4.6
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: GLSL version:                           4.60
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: Mesa version:                           23.1.6
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: X server version:                       1.21.1
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: Linux kernel version:                   6.5
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: Requires strict binding:                yes
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: GLSL shaders:                           yes
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: Texture NPOT support:                   yes
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: Virtual Machine:                        no
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: SheetConfig::instance called after the first use - ignoring
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: MouseMarkConfig::instance called after the first use - ignoring
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: BlurConfig::instance called after the first use - ignoring
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: ZoomConfig::instance called after the first use - ignoring
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: WindowViewConfig::instance called after the first use - ignoring
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: SlidingPopupsConfig::instance called after the first use - ignoring
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: OverviewConfig::instance called after the first use - ignoring
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: KscreenConfig::instance called after the first use - ignoring
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kwin_x11[758]: DesktopGridConfig::instance called after the first use - ignoring
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: failed to get a new IB (-512)
Sep 04 20:38:49 username kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: failed to clear page tables on GEM object close (-512)

Wayland out

Sep 04 20:24:38 username PackageKit[36106]: daemon quit
Sep 04 20:24:38 username systemd[1]: packagekit.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 04 20:25:39 username kwin_wayland[691]: This plugin does not support raise()
Sep 04 20:25:41 username kwin_wayland[691]: This plugin does not support raise()
Sep 04 20:25:42 username kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: failed to get a new IB (-512)
Sep 04 20:25:42 username kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: failed to clear page tables on GEM object close (-512)

EDIT: I downgraded llvm (I recall this being an issue a while ago), switched back to Linux 6.5 but got the same errors, I’m back to 6.4, in the middle of playing The Last of Us, the game was puked out with some Kernel spam;

Sep 05 15:23:00 username kernel: list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffff9608e4be5698, but was ffff960afc8c2338. (prev=ffff960afc8c2338)
Sep 05 15:23:00 username kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4208 at lib/list_debug.c:59 __list_del_entry_valid+0xb4/0xe0
Sep 05 15:23:00 username kernel: Modules linked in: rfcomm snd_seq_dummy snd_hrtimer snd_seq qrtr cmac algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg bnep mt7921e mt7921_common mt76_connac_lib mt76 btusb btrtl btbcm btintel btmtk mac80211 bluetoo>
Sep 05 15:23:00 username kernel:  ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc32c_generic crc16 mbcache jbd2 nvme nvme_core xhci_pci crc32c_intel xhci_pci_renesas nvme_common
Sep 05 15:23:00 username kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 4208 Comm: WSI swapchain q Tainted: G        W          6.4.13-1-MANJARO #1 (deleted hex value here)
Sep 05 15:23:00 username kernel: Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B650 AORUS ELITE AX/B650 AORUS ELITE AX, BIOS F8c 08/16/2023

Question, should I have tried downgrading glib as well?

EDIT: On that note, since my kids are driving me crazy about Roblox, I tried installing on my comp, same fail (journalctl -f);

Sep 05 23:58:55 username plasmashell[33710]: [Parent 33710, Main Thread] WARNING: Could not launch default application for URI: Desktop file didn’t specify Exec field: 'glib warning', file /build/firefox/src/firefox-117.0/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:167
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