[Unstable Update] 2023-02-17 - Plasma 5.27 LTS, GNOME, Python

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After the last pamac update, I’m getting some strange behaviour between pamac and polkit1 in KDE. Even with a wrong password, pamac can install/remove/update packages when executed via the terminal. GUI doesn’t allow it without a valid password being entered. All is well with it in /etc/passwd

polkitd:x:102:102:PolicyKit daemon:/:/sbin/nologin
rtkit:x:133:133:RealtimeKit:/proc:/sbin/nologin

pamac update
Preparing...
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.manjaro.pamac.commit ====
Authentication is required to install, update, or remove packages
Authenticating as: George (george)
Password: 
polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ====
Error: Authentication failed
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.
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I just tried pamac upgrade used the wrong password and got the same message as you.I tried it again with the right password and it showed I needed updates.

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My wired Ethernet isn’t working under 6.2.6-1.

I checked the output with lshw -C network and got an *-network UNCLAIMED for RTL8111/8168/8411.

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driver / module was not loaded (probably r8169), you can try manually (# modprobe r8169 and watch journalctl) but the question remains why it didn’t on startup.
Same controller / kernel here, all is fine.

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Found the issue! I missed an error on pamac stating “bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.2.6-1-MANJARO”. So I rebuild r8168-dkms and everything is back on track. Thanks, @dragan, for checking, it saved me some debugging.

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I’m having trouble with linux510 5.10.175-1. It hangs and won’t continue booting. 5.10.174-1 works fine.

Looks like it’s the same as here: [Testing Update] 2023-03-18 - Kernels, Thunderbird, Cinnamon, KDE-git, Python, Haskell - #3 by Oldhabbits

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When update mkinitcpio:
“WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ‘csiostor’”

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I attempted a fix with mkinitcpio 35.1-3.

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Not helping;
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=284485

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mkinitcpio 35.1-4 should do the trick.

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YES - it works -Thank You

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After upgrading from Kernel version 6.2.7-2 to 6.2.8-1, I get the error message:

$ journalctl --no-pager -p 3 -b --output=cat
spl: version magic '6.2.7-2-MANJARO SMP preempt mod_unload ' should be '6.2.8-1-MANJARO SMP preempt mod_unload '
spl: version magic '6.2.7-2-MANJARO SMP preempt mod_unload ' should be '6.2.8-1-MANJARO SMP preempt mod_unload '

It looks like version magic of spl doesn’t match kernel version.

$ modinfo spl
filename:       /lib/modules/6.2.8-1-MANJARO/extramodules/spl.ko.xz
version:        2.1.9-1
license:        GPL
author:         OpenZFS
description:    Solaris Porting Layer
srcversion:     0248BCBBFA4DFB290E4D2F0
depends:        
retpoline:      Y
name:           spl
vermagic:       6.2.7-2-MANJARO SMP preempt mod_unload

Solution:

  1. Uninstall linux62-zfs
  2. Install zfs-dkms. The error messages are gone. (But the ZFS module is not loaded.)

Edit:

OpenZFS 2.1.9 is not compatible with Kernel 6.2.8, because building the zfs module failed, but it has no issue with Kernel 6.2.7.

Solution:

Switch back to Kernel 6.1 LTS, no error message in journalctl :+1:

The known issue:

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:information_source: NVIDIA 530.41.03 drivers will be available shortly.

Note that there is now compatibility for Linux kernels with Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT). The ibt=off kernel parameter is no longer required.

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VirtualBox still needs this kernel parameter when using Intel 11th CPU.

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Why? More info, please?

Either way, that has nothing to do with the NVIDIA driver.

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I tested VirutalBox on Intel11th CPU. If I removed this kernel parameter, then I still get the same issue as before:

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Thanks for the info. I’ll mention that in the next update post (probably Testing Updates). No need for a new Unstable Updates post probably until GNOME 44 is available.

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6 posts were split to a new topic: Substring instead of substituted value after mkinitcpio update

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Best solution for me:

I created a new KVM/QEMU to setup a small NAS with separate Kernel 6.1 LTS and ZFS that directly access my external physical disks as pass-through disks via PCI without virtual.

  • Host: Kernel 6.2 is now running on my PC without ZFS.
  • Guest: Kernel 6.1 LTS is running on my KVM with ZFS on the same PC.

Both communicate via a local NFS share (Speed ~31Gb/s). NFS preserves all file permissions :+1:, Samba does not.

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They plan to have a proper fix for this in the 2.1.10 release, see this comment on that issue.

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