[Testing Update] 2025-03-28 - Kernels, LibreOffice, Firefox

Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. Since I’m still recovering from my move back to Europe from Asia, I might be less responsive on the forum. So lets test these packages thoroughly so we can do another stable branch snap.

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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.

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Our current supported kernels

  • linux54 5.4.290
  • linux510 5.10.234
  • linux515 5.15.178
  • linux61 6.1.130
  • linux66 6.6.84
  • linux612 6.12.20
  • linux613 6.13.8
  • linux614 6.14.0
  • linux61-rt 6.1.128_rt49-1
  • linux66-rt 6.6.84_rt52
  • linux612-rt 6.12.16_rt9
  • linux613-rt 6.13_rt5

Package Changes (Thu Mar 27 19:45:57 CET 2025)

  • testing core x86_64: 4 new and 4 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 356 new and 462 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 4 new and 4 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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Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!

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

:arrow_right: 2025-03-28

2025-03-20

System may hang during splash screen when Nvidia 570 drivers are used

A lot of users with older Nvidia cards report system hanging on Plymouth splash screen after installing Nvidia 570 drivers. In the past we had issues with plymouth in general combined with Nvidia drivers. Therefore we didn’t update plymouth in our stable and testing branch.

As a workaround splash could be removed from /etc/default/grub file followed by a update-grub cmd to remove plymouth from starting. Another alternative is to test the newer plymouth and give feedback if that solves the issue:

sudo pacman -U https://mirrors.manjaro.org/repo/pool/overlay/plymouth-24.004.60-12-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

2025-03-05

[community] repo removed from servers

Similar to Arch we removed our [community] repos from our mirrors and servers. You may want to check your pacnew files or manually remove [community] and [kde-unstable] when used in your /etc/pacman.conf file.

2025-02-16

Update only regular repository packages first, no AUR

Follow the best practice of first updating only regular repository packages, followed separately by AUR packages.

  1. Update regular repository packages first with
    • pamac update --no-aur
      or
    • sudo pacman -Syu
  2. Then, if needed, update AUR packages.

Failure to follow this practice may result in the installation of packages that you may not need, and may cause problems. For further details, see:

Keyboard layout issues / Update issues with fcitx5

If a system had sdl2 installed and AUR updates enabled, fcitx5 might be installed as a make dependency

It is recommended to remove fcitx5 and any other orphan packages following the update

pamac remove --orphans

Update issues with fcitx5

Previous testing threads:

grub is now stuck at second 0 for ~2 Seconds.

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I dont get it. The old patch doesn’t even have that counting feature at all. I might need to review the whole patch set to see why.

I double-checked the patch-set of grub based on the stuff we had from Ubuntu. Functional-wise it should be equal to what we used in grub-2.13-3. So those with issues should recheck and remove added lines to their grub config regarding countdowns or check if they really have the latest grub installed in their MBR/EFI.

I might skip that grub update from stable snap, even it has needed security fixes unless it is thruly tested.