Known issues and solutions
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2024-08-26
2024-08-04
pulseaudio-ctl requires pulseaudio and is not compatible with pipewire
If one is using PipeWire, one will need to remove pulseaudio-ctl if prompted during the update as it’s only compatible with pulseaudio
2024-06-03
Linux 6.9 is EOL
Linux 6.9 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
2024-07-14
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 usingsystemctl try-restart sshdright 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
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