[Testing Update] 2024-11-25 - Kernels, Qt5, ROCM, Deepin, Gnome

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

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Notable Package Updates

  • Kernels
    • Fixes to ASUS ALLY patches on 6.11 and 6.12 kernel series
  • More updates to Deepin and Gnome
  • Qt 5.15.16
  • Rocm 6.2.4

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 4.19.324
  • 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 (Mon Nov 25 13:42:52 CET 2024)

  • testing core x86_64: 1 new and 1 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 190 new and 187 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 1 new and 1 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 5 new and 5 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 51 new and 52 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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Note: Do not forget to review your .pacnew files:

:arrow_right: 2024-11-25

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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After updating, I got a black screen. Now I have uninstalled linux 6.12.1-4 (before it worked with 6.12.1-2). After reinstalling linux, it gave the same error, so I uninstalled it and I’m with 6.6.63-1.

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@bardo which graphical driver do you use? What does modprobe nvidia say?

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Display contoller - GP 107 GeForce GTX 1050 TI. Modepro didn’t report anything.
I had an update on the 24th: upgraded mhwd-nvidia-470xx (470.256.02-6 → 470.256.02-7)

Blockquote modprobe [-V]
modprobe: FATAL: Module [-V] not found in directory /lib/modules/6.6.63-1-MANJARO.

From the information I think I don’t have modprobe installed, although I find modprobe.d in the Lib folder.

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That cannot be true: modprobe comes with kmod package which is required by any kernel package.

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@bardo check ypur /var/log/pacman.log for packages which got updated.