Seems plymouth update wasn’t ready as we thought. We had adopted to Arch changes which leaded to some issues with some of your installs. I’ve created now a new branch to track changes more slowly. Plymouth became installed by default with 23.0 install medias. Before most of you had plymouth only installed manually. Gnome edition might have adopted plymouth earlier. So let the migration be done properly.
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you may want to use sudo pacman -Syuu to downgrade again if you had issues
Similar to Arch we use now dbus-broker by default.
For the foreseeable future we will still support the use of dbus-daemon, the previous implementation. You will be asked by your package manager whether to install dbus-broker-units or dbus-daemon-units. We recommend picking the default.
Firefox got updated to 121.0.1 and Thunderbird to 115.6.1
Usual KDE-git, Haskell and Python updates
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2024-01-10
Making dbus-broker our default D-Bus daemon
2024-01-09 - Jan Alexander Steffens
We are making dbus-broker our default implementation of D-Bus, for improved performance, reliability and integration with systemd.
For the foreseeable future we will still support the use of dbus-daemon, the previous implementation. Pacman will ask you whether to install dbus-broker-units or dbus-daemon-units. We recommend picking the default.
For a more detailed rationale, please see our RFC 25.
Due to various issues including non working backlights on some machines, the NVIDIA 545 series feature branch drivers have been downgraded to the 535 series production branch drivers.
If you are having no issues with the 545 series, there is nothing to do. If you are, you can downgrade to the 535 series with pamac update --enable-downgrade or sudo pacman -Syuu.
So far we know about these issues the Nvidia 545 driver series has:
Backlight control might not work on certain laptop configurations. Reported also here
If you experience similar or new issues please run sudo usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh and post either in an already given post or create a new one, including your generated nvidia-bug-report.log.gz for Nvidia to fix the issue: Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums
Changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages may require manual intervention
2023-11-02 - Frederik Schwan
We are introducing a change in JDK/JRE packages of our distro. This is triggered from the way a JRE is build in modern versions of Java (>9). We are introducing this change in Java 21.
To sum it up instead of having JDK and JRE packages coexist in the same system we will be making them conflict. The JDK variant package includes the runtime environment to execute Java applications so if one needs compilation and runtime of Java they need only the JDK package in the future. If, on the other hand, they need just runtime of Java then JRE (or jre-headless) will work.
This will (potentially) require a manual user action during upgrade:
If you have both JDK and JRE installed you can manually install the JDK with pacman -Sy jdk-openjdk && pacman -Su and this removes the JRE related packages.
If you have both JRE and JRE-headless you will need to choose one of them and install it manually since they would conflict each other now.
If you only have one of the JDK/JRE/JRE-headless pacman should resolve dependencies normally and no action is needed.
At the moment this is only valid for the upcoming JDK 21 release.
Mechanical HDDs may not spin-down properly on shutdown
There might be a regression introduced with 6.6.0-rc4 which got also backported to 6.1.59 and 6.5.8 Kernels. There is a discussion with the author of the offending patch ongoing here.
ZFS package changes
ZFS extramodules; i.e., linuxXX-zfs, have been dropped from the repos. There have been recent difficulties building them and no one on the Manjaro Team uses ZFS.
Please install zfs-dkms instead. You will to need to manually remove the old 2.1.13 extramodule package(s) first to install the new 2.2.0 packages; i.e., with linux61:
GNOME Extensions that target older GNOME versions will not work in GNOME 45
It is recommended to remove all third-party extensions before updating, then install the compatible versions after updating and rebooting. All Most extensions in the Manjaro repos are already updated.
2023-10-05
glibc-locales update requires manual intervention
If you had the old glibc-locales package from the extra repo installed, the update to the new core package will need manual intervention:
Smooth. Reboot and cold boot back to being smooth.
“You will be asked by your package manager whether to install dbus-broker-units or dbus-daemon-units.” This pop-up was empty (no options, all 3 computers I installed this update on), I just clicked Enter, that apparently installed dbus-broker-units which I’ll assume is the default.
At first, I thought everything went smoothly. But I now realized, that at Kernel 6.7.0 (not 6.6.x) I am not able to suspend on Manjaro Gnome with my Ideapad (Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro 14ARH7 (AMD)). The screen turns black and the computer is unresponsive, only a forced shutdown via the power button works then. Is that something I should report to kernel.org?
@philm thanks for the fast reply! I did not use plymouth-encrypt before, so I shouldn’t be affected by the issue afaik. Or do I mix things up? However, I can test the package, but the build hook failed on gitlab - just to let you know:)
The previous best practice was to explicitly purge plymouth, even if installed on a whim, so why is plymouth being auto-installed at all all of a sudden?
Update of mkinitcpio (37.1-2 → 37.2-1) failed to find nvidia extramodules for kernel 6.1.71-1 and 6.6.10-1 when building images for ‘default’ and ‘fallback’:
ERROR: file not found: '/lib/modules/6.6.10-1-MANJARO/extramodules/nvidia-uvm.ko.xz'
ERROR: file not found: '/lib/modules/6.6.10-1-MANJARO/extramodules/nvidia-modeset.ko.xz'
ERROR: file not found: '/lib/modules/6.6.10-1-MANJARO/extramodules/nvidia.ko.xz'
ERROR: file not found: '/lib/modules/6.6.10-1-MANJARO/extramodules/nvidia-drm.ko.xz'
xz: /tmp/mkinitcpio.VQ1GfP/root//lib/modules/6.6.10-1-MANJARO/extramodules/nvidia-uvm.ko.xz: No such file or directory
xz: /tmp/mkinitcpio.VQ1GfP/root//lib/modules/6.6.10-1-MANJARO/extramodules/nvidia-modeset.ko.xz: No such file or directory
xz: /tmp/mkinitcpio.VQ1GfP/root//lib/modules/6.6.10-1-MANJARO/extramodules/nvidia.ko.xz: No such file or directory
xz: /tmp/mkinitcpio.VQ1GfP/root//lib/modules/6.6.10-1-MANJARO/extramodules/nvidia-drm.ko.xz: No such file or directory
Generating module dependencies
Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: '/boot/initramfs-6.6-x86_64-fallback.img'
WARNING: errors were encountered during the build. The image may not be complete.
and system was unable to boot - nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize
Installing nvidia-470xx-dkms to replace linux-nvidia470xx was able to run mkinitcpio without errors and get system boot working
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2024-01-10
Due to various issues including non working backlights on some machines, the NVIDIA 545 series feature branch drivers have been downgraded to the 535 series production branch drivers.
