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2023-09-06
filesystem and bashrc-manjaro pacnews
With the filesystem
2023.09.03-1 and bashrc-manjaro
5.1.016-3 updates there may be pacnews for the following files if you have local modifications:
/etc/shells
/etc/bash.bashrc
This would be a good time to test @Ste74’s new manjaro-pacnew-checker
program. See Check and manage pacnew files for more info.
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 version2.15.3
theansible-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 apacsave
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
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 oldtexlive-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 thetlmgr
utility, eg.$ tlmgr info euler | grep collection collection: collection-latexrecommended
which means the euler CTAN package is contained in
texlive-latexrecommended
. You may also usepacman -F
to query for specific files.A new metapackage
texlive-meta
is available to install all subpackages (except for language specific ones), and the newtexlive-doc
package provides the full documentation for offline use.
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.
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
andblas64-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
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