Known issues and solutions
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2025-09-02
- pacman-mirrors version 5.1
Deprecation of--geoipin favor of-tz/--timezone.
This internal change make mirror-list generation use your system’s configured timezone - when applicable - without using an IP location provider.
More privacy…
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
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