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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:
You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.11.so.
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
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.
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.
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:
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to 
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.
2024-11-24