Known issues and solutions
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2026-01-09
2025-12-29
NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and Maxwell support
With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) or Maxwell (GTX 9xx) GPUs
Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal or Maxwell cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.
Intervention required: Switch to a legacy driver to maintain support:
Install the official linuxXXX-nvidia-575xx, linuxXXX-nvidia-570xx, or related DKMS packages. You can use nvidia-driver-assistant to figure out which driver would support your hardware best.
- pacman-mirrors version 5.3
Release Notes: v5.3 · Applications / pacman-mirrors · GitLab
2025-12-09
.NET packages may require manual intervention
2025-12-11 - George Rawlinson
The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0:
- aspnet-runtime
- aspnet-targeting-pack
- dotnet-runtime
- dotnet-sdk
- dotnet-source-built-artifacts
- dotnet-targeting-pack
pacman may display the following error
failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)for the affected packages.If you are affected by this and require the 9.0 packages, the following commands will update e.g. aspnet-runtime to aspnet-runtime-9.0:
pacman -Syu aspnet-runtime-9.0
pacman -Rs aspnet-runtime
– Arch Linux - News: .NET packages may require manual intervention
2025-11-10
mkinitcpio v40 disabled fallback image creation for new installs
mkinitcpio v40, packaging changes and kernel-install - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org
This is only affects new installs as we can’t change the hook files on existing installs.
To disable fallback image creation on older installed systems
- Change
PRESETS=('default' 'fallback')line toPRESETS=('default')in the respective .preset files in/etc/mkinitcpio.d/. - Regenerate initramfs -
sudo mkinitcpio -P - Update boot loader -
sudo update-grub
Warning
Disabling all fallback initramfs generation will deprive you of another option to boot into the system in case a default initramfs fails. Before proceeding, make sure you have a bootable installation medium for rescue purposes on hand.
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