Known issues and solutions
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2025-06-05
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
Change the ownership of the folder /usr/lib/avahi including files
sudo chown root:avahi /usr/lib/avahi -R
Change permissions to allow avahi group to write into the folder including the existing db file
sudo chmod g+w /usr/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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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.
2025-05-02
community has been re-created as an empty repository so that systems where package manager configuration /etc/pacman.conf has not been updated can still be used to update packages from other repositories
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.
- Update regular repository packages first with
pamac update --no-aur
orsudo pacman -Syu
- 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
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