[Testing Update] 2024-11-24 - Kernels, Calamares, Thunderbird, GNOME, Deepin

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Notable Package Updates

  • Kernels
    • 6.10 Kernel series got removed
  • Calamares 3.3.12
  • Updates to Deepin
  • Updates to Gnome
  • Thunderbird 128.4.4
  • Wine 9.22

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
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Our current supported kernels

  • linux419 4.19.324
  • linux54 5.4.286
  • linux510 5.10.230
  • linux515 5.15.173
  • linux61 6.1.119
  • linux66 6.6.63
  • linux611 6.11.10
  • linux612 6.12.1
  • linux61-rt 6.1.112_rt43
  • linux66-rt 6.6.53_rt44
  • linux610-rt 6.10.2_rt14

Package Changes (Sun Nov 24 01:20:41 CET 2024)

  • testing core x86_64: 3 new and 3 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 1573 new and 1577 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 3 new and 3 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 12 new and 16 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 96 new and 122 removed package(s)

A list of all package changes can be found here

  • No issue, everything went smoothly
  • Yes there was an issue. I was able to resolve it myself.(Please post your solution)
  • Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)
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wiki post

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As I already mentioned there is a problem with those asus supend patches in the manjaro kernel affecting other hardware.
I have an Dell xps 13 9350 (Lunar Lake). This notebook has a smart bar instead of physical buttons. The Problem with those patches are that after suspend the smart bar stays off, it’s not possible to reactivate it and it`s then not possible to use the Laptop without it. Keyboard backlight is also not functional anymore, but that’s a minor problem.
In sum, those asus patches makes suspend unusable on my notebook.

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Guess I’ll need to repost since nobody confirmed whether my “fix” was a fluke or an actually missing package and dead power profiles aren’t a missing font, so…

I’m running KDE on Wayland with 6.12 kernel.

I’ve noticed that that power profiles were not running correctly, my CPU was in energy saving mode while the Profile was clearly set to Performance, checked also in terminal and the result was the same. Googled a bit, and found a solution that worked for me - installing the tuned-ppd package and rebooting to be be sure that changes were applied.

Source: [SOLVED]KDE6.2: Power Profile not available / Applications & Desktop Environments / Arch Linux Forums

And Tuned seemed to be already there, so my guess this is an actual missing package.

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tuned-ppd replaces power-profiles-daemon, so I won’t call it a missing package. There is probably not much feedback as not everyone has power-profiles-daemon installed.

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For me this issue seems to be fixed.

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It doesn’t come OOTB with KDE Edition or could it be a remainder from previous KDE versions in my installation?

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All my problems with dkms packages letting garbage while upgrading kernels has been solved. All obsolete kernel packages have being successfully removed this time. Therefore, no manual intervention was needed with this upgrade, thanks for this.

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My issue posted here in the last testing update is also resolved :partying_face:

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After removing 6.10 i got problems with standby mode.

This error isn’t resolve atm.

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Thank you for the tip.

I’m not qualified to comment on whether packages are missing or dead or ought or ought not to be added to the base distribution, but based on your posts in the other thread, installation of tuned-ppd is the first time I’ve ever had the expected things happen in power management.

I’ve often referred to my PCs as small heaters that occasionally cause pixels to shift on my display–which is also a small heater that occassionally displays useful information. Fortunately, my landlord supplies sufficient steam to fill in the newly created gap.

This is on a pair of fairly contemporary AMDs (one desktop, one laptop) and a very tired old Intel laptop, all currently running Plasma on Linux 6.12.

For the record, no issues noted in this update, including no issue with resuming from suspend with BT enabled, but see my above configs and YMMV.

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@Mistral24 I’ve checked with the patch authors and we agreed that those patches are not needed anymore. A new kernel build will be available shortly for further testing.