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Mkinitcpio: --microcode has been deprecated and replaced by the new microcode hook for early loading microcode files.
mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode
2024-03-04 - Morten Linderud
With the release of mkinitcpio v38, several hooks previously provided by Arch packages have been moved to the mkinitcpio upstream project. The hooks are: systemd, udev, encrypt, sd-encrypt, lvm2 and mdadm_udev.
To ensure no breakage of usersâ setup occurs, temporary conflicts have been introduced into the respective packages to prevent installing packages that are no longer compatible.
The following packages needs to be upgraded together:
mkinitcpio 38-2
systemd 255.4-2
lvm2 2.03.23-3
mdadm 4.3-2
cryptsetup 2.7.0-3
Please note that the mkinitcpio flag --microcode, and the microcode option in the preset files, has been deprecated in favour of a new microcode hook. This also allows you to drop the microcode initrd lines from your boot configuration as they are now packed together with the main initramfs image.
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pacman-contrib is now split out from pacman. If you have anything installed that depends on pacman-contrib, update with:
sudo pacman -Syu pacman-contrib
2024-01-11
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.
switched yesterday night to testing, plasma6, ext4, x11
this morning veracrypt deed not open my old truecrypt volume
deed today update and is the same, in options there is not anymore for selection of truecrypt volume
Operation failed due to one or more of the following:
- Incorrect password.
- Incorrect Volume PIM number.
- Incorrect PRF (hash).
- Not a valid volume.
So, searching in the pacman log I see a zsh upgrade (done within the plasma6 one), then I tried to downgrade the zsh package, but the theme was the same.
So my suspects fallen to konsole, after downgraded it to version 23.08.5-1 the zsh theme is like it was before upgrading to plasma 6, like in the first screenshot.
Problems with auto-mount/VeraCrypt NTFS volumes using Kernel 6.8:
The kernel changed default ntfs driver from FUSE one to ntfs3.
These two are not fully compatible, mainly as far as mount options go. If you have custom mount options in the fstab (or any other application, such as VeraCrypt) they need to be changed.
Symptoms:
Mount fails with: Device or resource busy
DMesg reports: Can't open blockdev
Solution:
Migrate your mount options. For me the changes were:
ktorrent has problems since KDE Gear 24.02.1. It will not run. A re-install did not change that.
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "stateChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMState
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "connectivityChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMConnectivityState
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "deviceTypeChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMDeviceType
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "meteredChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QNetworkManagerInterface::NMMetered
kf.coreaddons: "Could not load plugin from /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/ktorrent_plugins/StatsPlugin.so: Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/ktorrent_plugins/StatsPlugin.so: (libKF6Plotting.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to kt::FileView "", which already has a layout
kf.coreaddons: "Could not load plugin from /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/ktorrent_plugins/StatsPlugin.so: Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/ktorrent_plugins/StatsPlugin.so: (libKF6Plotting.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) ktorrent
edit: installed the missing kplotting package. ktorrent still did not run. removed .config/ktorrentrc and now it does start. But only once!
Am I the only one having an error message when SDDM is being initialized?
The error message is: âConfiguration file ââ/var/lib/sddm/.config/sddm-greeter-qt6rcââ not writable. Please contact your system administrator.â
Not a very warm welcome. I didnât have this message at first when KDE6 was released a few days ago. Pretty curious that it comes up suddenly.
EDIT 2: OK so I dunno what the f- I did, but I had a custom theme for SDDM installed somehow, a Windows 9x style theme called Reactionary. I have no clue where it comes from, I guess I was drunk when I did it or whatever. I uninstalled it and I click on âApply Plasma settings on SDDMâ too and it fixed it. Hum whatever.
On stable itâs normally restricted as itâs only a temporary solution and needs DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA=1
Please see wiki: Downgrading packages - Manjaro
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