Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. Since I’m preparing to move back to Europe from Asia, I might be less responsive on the forum. So lets test these packages throughly so we can do another stable branch snap.
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if you have no sound at all, you may want to check if you use pulseaudio. See known issues
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Python 3.13 info
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
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.
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We’d like to raise awareness about the rsync security release version 3.4.0-1 as described in our advisory ASA-202501-1.
An attacker only requires anonymous read access to a vulnerable rsync server, such as a public mirror, to execute arbitrary code on the machine the server is running on. Additionally, attackers can take control of an affected server and read/write arbitrary files of any connected client. Sensitive data can be extracted, such as OpenPGP and SSH keys, and malicious code can be executed by overwriting files such as ~/.bashrc or ~/.popt.
We highly advise anyone who runs an rsync daemon or client prior to version 3.4.0-1 to upgrade and reboot their systems immediately. As Arch Linux mirrors are mostly synchronized using rsync, we highly advise any mirror administrator to act immediately, even though the hosted package files themselves are cryptographically signed.
All infrastructure servers and mirrors maintained by Arch Linux have already been updated.
Update went well, only thing I notice is that when playing audio through mpv I see some message printed:
[W][01:59:37.979665] pw.conf | [ conf.c: 1204 pw_conf_load_conf_for_context()] setting config.name to client-rt.conf is deprecated, using client.conf
It happens when pipewire is used as audio output device (mpv --ao=pipewire on command line or in config).
But it still plays fine.
It also shows up in journalctl:
Mar 13 01:49:28 mpv[52039]: pw.conf: setting config.name to client-rt.conf is deprecated, using client.conf
Mar 13 01:49:28 xdg-desktop-por[14487]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory
Mar 13 01:50:57 mpv[52145]: pw.conf: setting config.name to client-rt.conf is deprecated, using client.conf
Mar 13 01:50:57 xdg-desktop-por[14487]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory
Mar 13 01:51:59 mpv[52205]: pw.conf: setting config.name to client-rt.conf is deprecated, using client.conf
Mar 13 01:51:59 xdg-desktop-por[14487]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory
Mar 13 01:52:56 mpv[52271]: pw.conf: setting config.name to client-rt.conf is deprecated, using client.conf
Mar 13 01:52:56 xdg-desktop-por[14487]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory
Mar 13 01:59:37 mpv[52488]: pw.conf: setting config.name to client-rt.conf is deprecated, using client.conf
Mar 13 01:59:37 xdg-desktop-por[14487]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory
I can’t find any pw.conf, so not really sure if this is a config issue or what.
Hi, I have a small problem, which I cannot really pinpoint to a package. It just occurred directly after the reboot after the update.
In gnome, some photos are displayed incorrectly. These photos are HDR ones in a heif image format. When I convert them to another format, the colors also are displayed the same way.
You can see it on the attached screenshot. The small preview/icon image here is displayed correctly. It was my previous desktop background. You might imagine my surprise about seeing the wrong colors
I also got a small issue after mpd upgrade to ver 0.24-1 :
using Plattenalbum mpd client , the ‘show’ option in context menu which is intended to open the selected song in the default file browser (thunar in my case) is resulting ‘grayed’, also, at first start, Plattenabum displayed an empty music collection and so I had to update it using the ‘update database’ option in menu. Note that neighter the db, nor the mpd.conf file have changed, and i didn’t notice any visible change in user persmissions. Very odd behaviour Hope someone using Plattenalbum as mpd client could check and confirm back this issue is not only mine.
Es gab ein kleines Problem. Community.db konnte nicht geöffnet werden. Habe Schlüssel und Mirrors aktualisiert. Danach lief die Aktualisierung problemlos durch.
Google Meet but also several video and audio streaming wesites stopped working for me. I don’t get any sound or my headset micro isn’t working.
I will try swiching to X11 and test.
Noticed the update to pipewire and checked the logs. The entry below has appeared in the logs for some time now, but installing pipewire-libcamera seems to have cleared it.
$ journalctl -r --grep=pipewire
Mar 18 14:42:40 XXXXXX wireplumber[1081]: s-monitors-libcamera: PipeWire's libcamera SPA plugin is missing or broken. Some camera types may not be supported.
Every time a linux-firmware update comes along (20250311.b69d4b74-1 → 20250311.b69d4b74-2), my wireless G305 mouse tends to stop responding after a reboot but thankfully it’s easily solved by simply re-plugging back in the wireless usb dongle. So happy this process is fairly seamless.
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.
2025-03-12
Hope someone using Plattenalbum as mpd client could check and confirm back this issue is not only mine.
