[Testing Update] 2025-04-27 - Kernels, LXQt 2.2, Thunderbird 137.0.2, COSMIC Alpha 7

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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Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

2025-04-17 - Andrew Crerar

Valkey, a high-performance key/value datastore, will be replacing redis in the [extra] repository. This change is due to Redis modifying its license from BSD-3-Clause to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 on March 20th, 2024.

Arch Linux Package Maintainers intend to support the availability of the redis package for roughly 14 days from the day of this post, to enable a smooth transition to valkey. After the 14 day transition period has ended, the redis package will be moved to the AUR. Also, from this point forward, the redis package will not receive any additional updates and should be considered deprecated until it is removed.

Users are recommended to begin transitioning their use of Redis to Valkey as soon as possible to avoid possible complications after the 14 day transition window closes.

Arch Linux - News: Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

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Notable Package Updates

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

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  • linux510 5.10.236
  • linux515 5.15.180
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Package Changes (Sun Apr 27 09:11:49 CEST 2025)

  • testing core x86_64: 14 new and 14 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 694 new and 747 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 13 new and 13 removed package(s)

A list of all package changes can be found here.

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  • 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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:arrow_right: 2025-04-27

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:

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Another boring update.

Go back to your bacon :wink:

:bacon::bacon::bacon::bacon::bacon:

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HI,

Nice to see a testing update, future stable update, for sure :-)

LXQt update is present, nice, but no more Manjaro LXQt iso are available && no more capability to build your own Manjaro LXQt iso :-/

Sorry for this message, the lack of dev is a reason of the Manjaro LXQt status.

A couple of community members have released Manjaro spins with LXQt, though. :wink:

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Thanks for your answer, where is available this LXQt released ?

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This is the most recent SbK release (announced 2 weeks ago):

You can also browse available Manjaro spins here: Latest Contributions/Spins topics - Manjaro Linux Forum

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I have issue with kernel upgrades and gpu passthrough (vfio).
Using manjaro as a host with qemu to have different vms running gpu passthrough.

It seems that the gpu (I’m testing a 6900xt) is not reset properly with these kernels:
5.15.180
6.13.12 (EOL)

I cannot reboot any of my vms (windows, mac os and linux) nor shutdown the vm and switch to another, without restarting or shutting down the host system.
First boot is ok, however on first boot ovmf (upgraded to latest stable, but same behaviour with older versions) bios screen is not displayed on screen with the gpu passed through, it starts displaying the os screens.
Next boots are not ok.

Reverting back to 5.15.179 solves the issue.
Kernel 6.14.4 doesn’t have this issue, so it’s ok.

No relevant logs in dmesg…

If you are using kernel 5.15 (like me) and you use vms with gpu passwthrough I recommend to not upgrade to 5.15.180.

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stay on it, qemu v.10 is upcoming. qemu v.10 has a lot of new improvements and i expect this will already cause a lot of adjustments on your/ours existing vm’s. there’s no need for speed at the actual moment.
there is a bug with the latest virtio-modules, i suggest that they are designed for the upcoming qemu v.10 and are not fully functional with the actual qemu.

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I think this was already tracked, we will see:

From: Alex Williamson alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 5:18 AM

This reverts commit 479380efe1625e251008d24b2810283db60d6fcd.

The reset_method attribute on a PCI device is only intended to manage
the availability of function scoped resets for a device. It was never
intended to restrict resets targeting the bus or slot.

In introducing a restriction that each device must support function
level reset by testing pci_reset_supported(), we essentially create a
catch-22, that a device must have a function scope reset in order to
support bus/slot reset, when we use bus/slot reset to effect a reset
of a device that does not support a function scoped reset, especially
multi-function devices.

This breaks the majority of uses cases where vfio-pci uses bus/slot
resets to manage multifunction devices that do not support function
scoped resets.

Fixes: 479380efe162 (“PCI: Avoid reset when disabled via sysfs”)
Reported-by: Cal Peake cp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: Making sure you're not a bot!
5b275e73677b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx

Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx


Moderator edit: Corrected formatting

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There’s an lxqt package group. :wink:

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Hi, I just encountered an error with drawio-desktop on both of my computers. The program does not start; shows an error with two arguments given instead of one.
With manjaro-downgrade I upgraded to the unstable-recent version 26.2.15-2, which works flawless (26.1.1 had graphical glitches, so I used this approach).

Probably got mentioned somewhere, but a few updates ago I had the problem that Dolphin wouldnt remember which Tabs I had opened, I think since this update or the one before that it works again!
Thanks for your work!

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