[Testing Update] 2024-11-16 - Kernels, Mesa, Systemd, LxQt 2.1, Libreoffice

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Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.

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Notable Package Updates

  • Kernels
  • Mesa 24.2.7
    • mesa-vdpau is now part of mesa again
  • Systemd 256.8
  • LibreOffice 24.8.3
  • LxQt 2.1.0
  • Thunderbird 128.4.3

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

:warning: AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcements topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.

For help with AUR packages, please create a new topic in AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.

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 4.19.323
  • linux54 5.4.285
  • linux510 5.10.229
  • linux515 5.15.172
  • linux61 6.1.117
  • linux66 6.6.61
  • linux610 6.10.14 [EOL]
  • linux611 6.11.8
  • linux612 6.12.0-rc7
  • linux61-rt 6.1.112_rt43
  • linux66-rt 6.6.53_rt44
  • linux610-rt 6.10.2_rt14

Package Changes (Sat Nov 16 09:01:56 CET 2024)

  • testing core x86_64: 2 new and 2 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 563 new and 553 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 10 new and 12 removed package(s

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 15 new and 15 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 66 new and 130 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 1 new and 1 removed package(s)

A list of all package changes can be found here

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Known issues and solutions

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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: 2024-11-16

2024-11-13

v86d has been dropped from Manjaro repositories and is no longer required for mhwd

Re: Unstable Update MHWD disussion

If pamac GUI options Enable AUR support and Check for updates are enabled, users should check the package list before agreeing to update and un-check AUR packages

2024-11-01

KVM default behavior change on module loading in kernel 6.12

In kernel 6.12, KVM initializes virtualization on module loading by default. This prevents VirtualBox VMs from starting. In order to avoid this, either add kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0 parameter into kernel command line or unload the corresponding kvm_XXX module. Initial support for 6.12 kernel series was added with Virtualbox 7.1.4.

More info about that in the Linux mailing list

2024-10-20

Kernel 6.10 has been marked [EOL] on kernel.org

sddm login problems with multiple monitors
  • bug report
  • login only works on secondary monitor
  • switching sddm theme to maldives works around the issue

2024-09-13

:warning: Linux 6.9 is EOL

Linux 6.9 is EOL and has been removed from the repos.

Suggestion is to install latest LTS; i.e.,

sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux66
System freeze on suspend

A feature in systemd 256 freezing a user session when suspending may freeze the system.

The issue is most prominent with Nvidia systems but reports exist that it may affect other systems as well.

System freezes for 60 seconds and then wakes back up or hangs after waking up

Since systemd v256, systemd freezes user.slice before sleeping. This process can fail due to kernel bugs, particularly when KVM is in use.[13][14]

Messages in the logs will contain Failed to freeze unit 'user.slice' before sleep. When such an issue occurs, trying to login (start another session) would fail with pam_systemd(process:session): Failed to create session: Job 9876 for unit 'session-6.scope' failed with 'frozen'.

To temporarily revert back to the old behavior, edit systemd-suspend.service, systemd-hibernate.service, systemd-hybrid-sleep.service, and systemd-suspend-then-hibernate.service with the following drop-in:

[Service]
Environment="SYSTEMD_SLEEP_FREEZE_USER_SESSIONS=false"

– Power management/Suspend and hibernate - ArchWiki

KDE Plasma hangs on Shutdown, Restart and Logout

With KDE Plasma 6.1, the session saving feature can make Plasma hang.
A workaround is to disable it in System settings > Session > Desktop Session, by choosing “Start with an empty session”.

KDE Session auto login can't be re-enabled for X11

Once session auto login for X11 gets disabled, it can’t be re-enabled in settings.
A workaround is to edit the /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf file and replace Session=Plasma (X11) by Session=plasma

Previous testing threads:

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Hi,

Nice to see LXQt 2.1

Not possible to build a LXQt 2.1 image with Manjaro build iso…

[nls@lap ~]$ date -u
sam. 16 nov. 2024 10:57:13 UTC

[nls@lap ~]$ pamac install manjaro-tools-iso git
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Refreshing AUR...                                                                                                             
Failed to synchronize AUR database                                                                                            
Warning: git-2.46.1-1 is up to date -- skipping
Warning: manjaro-tools-iso-git-r3038.3ecba91-1 is up to date -- skipping
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.

[nls@lap ~]$ sudo git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/profiles-and-settings/iso-profiles.git ~/iso-profiles
Cloning into '/home/nls/iso-profiles'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 22929, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1242/1242), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (445/445), done.
remote: Total 22929 (delta 877), reused 1064 (delta 750), pack-reused 21687
Receiving objects: 100% (22929/22929), 20.73 MiB | 50.18 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (14563/14563), done.

[nls@lap ~]$ sudo buildiso -f -p lxqt -b testing -k linux66 2024.11.16
==> ERROR: lxqt is not a valid profile or build list!
==> ERROR: Profile [/home/nls/iso-profiles//lxqt] sanity check failed!
[nls@lap ~]$