Known issues and solutions
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2025-07-26
2025-07-24
grub update - watch out
Before you reboot - ensure to run install-grub script to sync the efi-stubs and recreate the grub config.
[Testing Update] 2025-07-19 - Kernels, Mesa, Thunderbird, Grub, Perl, Vulkan - #19 by linux-aarhus
2025-07-10
Warning: ksystemstats: local (6.4.0-1) is newer than extra
If you get this warning, run the following command… 
sudo pacman -Syuu
VLC does not play (certain) videos
For this update, the VLC packages were split up, and not all codecs may be installed on your system. You can install the additional codecs individually, or install the vlc-plugins-all meta-package, which will pull in all available plugins.
sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-all
2025-06-19
Possible breaking changes to pacman-mirrors
With pacman-mirrors 5.0-1, the global mirrors.json data file has been moved from /usr/share/pacman-mirrors to /var/lib/pacman-mirrors.
This move introduce a possible breaking change if you have custom scripts relying on the mirrors data file.
The moving of the file is the only change and has been made to make it possible for users to have their /usr-tree on a separate read-only partition or btrfs subvolume.
2025-06-14
xkeyboard-config 2.45 issue with symlinks
You may fail to upgrade from 2.44 to 2.45 due to some changes to symlinks. A discussion about it can be found here: Cannot update xkeyboard-config to 2.45 / Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues / Arch Linux Forums
The solution is to update the AUR packages depending on xkeyboard-config or move the files to the new folder /usr/share/xkeyboard-config-2.
More information about it here: xkeyboard-config 2.45 issue with symlinks (#1) · Issues · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / xkeyboard-config · GitLab
2025-06-01
2025-06-01 - avahi-discover python script
avahi-discover fails when attempting to write the discovered services to a sqlite database in /usr/lib/avahi due to lack of permissions.
The issue can be reproduced using a pristine Arch LInux system - it appears from the issues at GitHub - avahi/avahi: Avahi - Service Discovery for Linux using mDNS/DNS-SD -- compatible with Bonjour the issue is known - but not fixed.
→ Use of dbm causes problems with Python 3.13 · Issue #670 · avahi/avahi · GitHub
→ Fix issue with dbm.sqlite3 on readonly directories by mickael9 · Pull Request #698 · avahi/avahi · GitHub
Even though the issue has been known to upstream since december 2024, the behaviour on unstable branch has changed fairly recently - perhaps 4 weeks.
Temporary workaround
The workaround it is not optimal - but if you rely on avahi discover service - it will work
Move /usr/lib/avahi to /var/lib and symlink it back to /usr
sudo mv /usr/lib/avahi /var/lib/ && sudo ln -s /var/lib/avahi /usr/lib/
Change the ownership of the folder /var/lib/avahi including files
sudo chown root:avahi /var/lib/avahi -R
Change permissions to allow avahi group to write into the folder including the existing db file
sudo chmod g+w /var/lib/avahi -R
Finally add yourself to the avahi group
sudo gpasswd -a $USER avahi
Logoff and login to activate the new group.
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