[Testing Update] 2024-03-23 - Pacman 6.1, KDE Gear, Nvidia, Gstreamer, AMD ROCm

[nikgnomic]

For more information about install-grub see:
Install-grub: a new way to keep your EFI/MBR in-sync with grub package
and
[root tip] [How To] Primer on handling a grub package update

[pheiduck]

See:

[Unstable Update] March 2024 Edition

@Jaypee please check: Konsole: Open Settings → Edit Current Profile → Appearance, click Select Font and select MesloLGS NF Regular.

Wiki post:

@philm

Konsole font rendering issue

if you use manjaro-zsh-config on Plasma 6,
please check your Font settings in Konsole:

Konsole: Open Settings → Edit Current Profile → Appearance,
click Select Font and select MesloLGS NF Regular.

[raguse]

@notageek Veracrypt version 1.26.7 removed the option to run truecrypt mode.
Please see official changelog: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/689937121/README.TXT

• Remove TrueCrypt Mode support. Version 1.25.9 can be used to mount or convert TrueCrypt volumes.

[Teo]

@philm i still do not get one thing about the mkinit hook

1. We add the hook to mkinitcpio.conf
2. do we actively delete/comment out the line ALL_microcode=(/boot/*-ucode.img) in the presets?
3. do we do smth else? Like in grub?

[notageek]

@raguse

Veracrypt version 1.26.7 removed the option to run truecrypt mode.
Please see official changelog: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/689937121/README.TXT

Thanks I’ve reverted back to stable and deed the operation, now I will go back to testing…

[Mysak0CZ]

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:

• allow_other → umask=000
• default_permissions → [drop]
• user_id=1000 → uid=1000
• group_id=1000 → gid=1000

[Takakage]

@Teo

do we do smth else? Like in grub?

[Unstable Update] March 2024 Edition

yes can be removed although not from grub.cfg. to begin with make sure you have microcode hook in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf for early loading of the microcode. to remove microcode initrd line, add following line in /etc/default/grub GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_STOCK="" rebuild grub.conf using; $ sudo update-grub BTW looks like plasma-6(6.0.1) has hit arch-stable. i’m anxious as some of us to nose dive this soon, though i dont intend to not update for long. to keep other updates from coming exclud…

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2154769#p2154769

The advice appears to be: add to /etc/default/grub

GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_STOCK=""

[hans]

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!

[Frog]

Am I the only one having an error message when SDDM is being initialized?
The error message is: “Configuration file ‘’/var/lib/sddm/.config/sddm-greeter-qt6rc’’ not writable. Please contact your system administrator.”

Not a very warm welcome. I didn’t have this message at first when KDE6 was released a few days ago. Pretty curious that it comes up suddenly.

EDIT: Found this old thread. It doesn’t explain the difference between now vs last update, but at least it will most likely fix the issue, as indeed, somehow .config directory is owned by root and not sddm for some reasons. Configuration file "/var/lib/sddm/.config/sddm-greeterrc" not writable - #4 by cscs

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 “Apply Plasma settings on SDDM” too and it fixed it. Hum whatever.

[raguse]

@notageek No need to go back to stable next time. Do use downgrade or manjaro-downgrade.

pamac install manjaro-downgrade
manjaro-downgrade veracrypt

or

pamac install downgrade
sudo downgrade veracrypt

On stable it’s normally restricted as it’s only a temporary solution and needs DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA=1
Please see wiki: Downgrading packages - Manjaro

[zar0nick]

I explain that in this video/post: [Testing Update] 2024-03-16 - Kernel, Calamares, Mesa, Plasma 6, KF 6, KDE Gear 24.04, LibreOffice - #87 by zar0nick

[Teo]

That is only the first step as we now know there are 3 steps (hooks, presets, grub)

[zar0nick]

hey thanks for the answer! Can you please elaborate further? I cannot follow you.

[Teo]

[Testing Update] 2024-03-23 - Pacman 6.1, KDE Gear, Nvidia, Gstreamer, AMD ROCm

@philm i still do not get one thing about the mkinit hook We add the hook to mkinitcpio.conf do we actively delete/comment out the line ALL_microcode=(/boot/*-ucode.img) in the presets? do we do smth else? Like in grub?

and

[Testing Update] 2024-03-23 - Pacman 6.1, KDE Gear, Nvidia, Gstreamer, AMD ROCm

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2154769#p2154769 The advice appears to be: add to /etc/default/grub GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_STOCK=""

literally 5 posts above

[edoantonioco]

This update borked my system. Im downloading plasma edition to reinstall it. Good thing I have a w10 partition too.

I had little space in /, not sure if that was related. But while updating the screen went black and that was it, then it didnt start

[cscs]

If you run out of space during upgrade then it will be interrupted.

If upgrade is interrupted for any reason then any number of problems could occur.

Lack of space in critical partitions can also cause problems, including causing software to fail.

CheckSpace in pacman.conf should mitigate the specific occurrence of ‘running out of space during upgrade’, though it cannot perform its check from within a chroot environment.

Well, for pacman anyways.
I do not know (or believe) pamac is affected by that option or has its equivalent.
pamac-gtk has this option in the GUI.

[Teo]

Pamac has this option too. And i think it is turned on by default.
And although this is a personal problem and does not belong here, here are the relevant links

[HowTo] Recovering from an interrupted update/upgrade

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ So you couldn’t wait until the update process had completed and you went for the reset/power button, didn’t you? And now you’re getting the message that you don’t have a kernel installed. Well, you’re not the only one — we’re seeing it happen all the time. So, here’s how to fix it, you impatient n00b. If you don’t happen to have a recent Manjaro installer USB/DVD/CD handy, direct your browser to this wonderful page, download t…

[root tip] [How To] Move my home (content) to another partition

With all due respect, @linux-aarhus, what you are describing in this HowTo is not how to move your $HOME but rather how to move the data directories in your $HOME. Ergo, the thread title should reflect this. Moving your $HOME ─ or rather, the entire /home directory ─ to a different partition is another thing, which I’ve still fairly recently elaborated on at the now sadly no longer functional previous version of the Manjaro forum. The beginning of the hands-on advice starts here, but i…

There was a guide for moving /usr but i cannot find it.

[cscs]

@Teo

Pamac has this option too

Its not documented anywhere, not in man or the conf file.
Eventually after installing one of the gtk versions I found it does have this option in GUI.
So theres that then.

[edoantonioco]

I suspect it was more related to kde plasma being updated but I already reinstalled so its good now

Btw how do I change the kernel now? I dont see the program to do so anymore