[Testing Update] 2025-01-10 - Kernels, Firefox, Gnome, Systemd, Mesa, KDE Gear

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Additional Info

Python 3.13 info

:information_source: You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.12.so.

Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.12/ :

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.12/

Rebuild them all at once:*

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.12)

Use rebuild-detector to see if anything else needs to be rebuilt:

 checkrebuild

* It’s recommended to clean your build cache first with pamac clean --build-files

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

  • linux54 5.4.289
  • linux510 5.10.233
  • linux515 5.15.176
  • linux61 6.1.124
  • linux66 6.6.70
  • linux612 6.12.9
  • linux613 6.13-rc6
  • linux61-rt 6.1.120_rt47
  • linux66-rt 6.6.65_rt47

Package Changes (Fri Jan 10 08:31:16 CET 2025)

  • testing core x86_64: 10 new and 10 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 2011 new and 2000 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 21 new and 21 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 19 new and 19 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 1 new and 1 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 110 new and 215 removed package(s)

A list of all 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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Known issues and solutions

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Note: Do not forget to review your .pacnew files:

:arrow_right: 2025-01-10

2024-12-11

Kernel 6.11 and 4.19 has been marked End Of Life (EOL) on kernel.org

2024-11-27

Partial Cinnamon 6.4 updates

Linux Mint is currently preparing Cinnamon 6.4. The Arch Maintainers went ahead and released some Cinnamon packages which got already tagged 6.4. However, it seems this will break your installation of your Cinnamon desktop. We will monitor the situation and might downgrade to 6.2 packages if needed, before we do a stable branch update. Your feedback regarding Cinnamon overall is highly appreciated.

Known issues so far:

What you can do:

  • Ignore all cinnamon updates when updating.
  • You can try the newly added cinnamon-git package to see if it improves the situation.
  • Update: The issues are resolved with cinnamon >= 6.4.0-1. If you manually installed cinnamon-git, you may now install cinnamon again.

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

Previous testing threads:

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MANJARO KDE in Testing branch

No problem. good.

MANJARO Cinnamon.

Switched to stable to testing branch

Catastrophic. I restored it immediately with a snapshot.

Cinnamon DE did not start properly.

I won’t go into the details. No support needed.

TTY was available, so reboot and restore.

Back to normal. I’ll continue working.

backup / snapshot

My main point is that it is important to be able to restore from a backup or snapshot immediately.

2nd try, swicth stable to unstable

done. good.
I decided to wait a while on the UNSTABLE branch to see if it would stabilize. It seems that there are no problems in about an hour.

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Currently can’t boot at all after the update. Gets to grub, I select Manjaro, then it hangs at my motherboard logo. I have left it for 10 minutes without success.
Strangely I can still change caps lock and numpad which means the computer is still responsive. It just never gets any further.

Running in rw 3 without quiet I get stuck at:
Running hook [plymouth]

With splash off it gets to: starting manage, install and generate color profiles…

Which I assume is some graphics problem. I’m using Nvidia proprietary drivers.

Strangely I can remote into the computer fine with working graphics…

Edit: So I managed to fix it, by force reinstalling all Nvidia drivers.
I had to remove Linux-nvidia-meta
then ran sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia
then ran sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300
then reinstalled Linux-nvidia-meta
then reboot and it worked.

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