[Testing Update] 2024-07-23 - Kernels, KDE Frameworks

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Notable Package Updates

Additional Info

Nvidia driver downgrade

Nvidia drivers got downgraded to 550.100, therefore update with sudo pacman -Syuu. If you want to stay on the 555 driver series you may either switch to unstable or install nvidia-dkms via: sudo pacman -U https://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/pool/overlay/nvidia-dkms-555.58.02-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst. More info about Nvidia drivers here:

555 release feedback & discussion - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums
550.78 release feedback & discussion thread - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums

Python 3.12 info

:information_source: You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.11.so. :information_source:

Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.11/ :

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11/

Rebuild them all at once:*

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11)

* 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

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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 4.19.318
  • linux54 5.4.280
  • linux510 5.10.222
  • linux515 5.15.163
  • linux61 6.1.100
  • linux66 6.6.41
  • linux69 6.9.10
  • linux610 6.10.0
  • linux61-rt 6.1.83_rt28
  • linux66-rt 6.6.35_rt34
  • linux67-rt 6.7_rt6

Package Changes (Tue Jul 23 07:26:49 CEST 2024)

  • testing core x86_64: 21 new and 21 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 1343 new and 1332 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 9 new and 9 removed package(s)

Overlay Package Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 14 new and 14 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 108 new and 107 removed package(s)

A list of all package changes can be found here

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  • 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.
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Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!

Note: Do not forget to review your .pacnew files:

:arrow_right: 2024-07-23

2024-07-14

Nvidia driver downgrade

Nvidia drivers got downgraded to 550.100, therefore update with sudo pacman -Syuu. If you want to stay on the 555 driver series you may either switch to unstable or install nvidia-dkms via: sudo pacman -U https://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/pool/overlay/nvidia-dkms-555.58.02-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst. More info about Nvidia drivers here:

555 release feedback & discussion - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums
550.78 release feedback & discussion thread - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums

2024-07-01

The sshd service needs to be restarted after upgrading to openssh-9.8p1

2024-07-01 - Robin Candau

After upgrading to openssh-9.8p1, the existing SSH daemon will be unable to accept new connections (see Can't login after openssh 9.8p1-1 upgrade, MUST restart sshd (#5) · Issues · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / openssh · GitLab).
When upgrading remote hosts, please make sure to restart the sshd service using systemctl try-restart sshd right after upgrading.

We are evaluating the possibility to automatically apply a restart of the sshd service on upgrade in a future release of the openssh-9.8p1 package.

– Arch Linux - News: The sshd service needs to be restarted after upgrading to openssh-9.8p1

2024-06-03

:warning: Linux 6.8 is EOL

Linux 6.8 is EOL and will - at some point - be removed from the repo.

Suggestion is to install latest LTS to be sure

sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux66

2024-05-18

Shutdown Issues on some AMD systems (fixed in latest kernels)
  • Problem: Kernel updates 6.1.91-1 and 6.6.31-1 break shutdown and suspend/resume on the Framework 16 (Ryzen 7 7840HS, no GPU).
  • Solution: kernels were patched - please update to 6.1.92 / 6.6.32 / 6.8.11 / 6.9.2
  • Issue tracking: framework forums

2024-05-14

No plasma interface with kernel 6.9 + Nvidia gpu + Wayland

If you encouter a black screen with no inteface after login in, it’s probably a problem with simpledrm loading.

To solve it add nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 to /etc/default/grub
in the line begining with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" .
Verify that you also have nvidia_drm.modeset=1 in the same line.
Then exec sudo update-grub

Also, verify that you have nvidia_drm in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf in the MODULES= or HOOKS= line.
Exemple :

MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)

If it was not present, then run sudo mkinitcpio -P after adding it.

2024-05-08

Qemu: MacOS is not bootable with 9.0

Due to a bug MacOS is not bootable with 9.0: [9.0.0] qemu breaks mac os vm (#2334) · Issues · QEMU / QEMU · GitLab
Workaround: remove virtio-serial and org.qemu.guest_agent.0 from libvirt XML until bug will be fixed.

2024-05-02

The default KDE Plasma session has been changed to X11

As of Plasma 6, KDE decided to make Wayland the default. However, since issues were discovered, we have reverted the default to X11. Users are free to choose whichever works best for them.

Previous testing threads:

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Got something like this:


(203/248) updating smbnetfs                                  [####################################] 100%
-- You should set user_allow_other option in /etc/fuse.conf to use rc-script
--   * set user_allow_other option in /etc/fuse.conf

I’m not sure what does it mean and is there anything to do. In the given conf, I have only:
user_allow_other

No idea what rc-script is.

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do you have some old /etc/rc.local leftover?

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No /etc/rc.local file.

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:point_right: I just updated NVIDIA drivers to 550.107.02:

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I noticed in the July unstable thread that Back In Time 1.5 has arrived, and checking Branch compare for Manjaro indicates it is in both the unstable and testing branches.

I’ve not seen any comments (good or bad) about BiT within the unstable/testing threads, so I just thought I’d ask if anyone has any experiences to share? Hopefully “no news is good news” and it’s a good candidate for stable in the near future.

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