[Unstable Update] 2023-04-07 - Kernels, Systemd, Phosh, PipeWire, Plasma, Arch Spring Cleanup

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Another unstable branch update with some usual package updates for you.

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Finding information easier about Manjaro

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Notable Package Updates:

  • Most of our Kernels got updated
  • KDE Plasma 5.27.4
  • Phosh got updated to 0.26.0
  • PipeWire 0.3.68
  • Systemd got renewed to 253.3
  • Usual KDE-git, Python and Haskell updates
  • Arch did their Spring-Cleaning. Hence some packages moved to the AUR

Additional Info

Info about AUR packages

:warning: AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcement topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.

Info about GNOME 43

GNOME 43 is here! :partying_face:

New in Manjaro GNOME:

Lonely leftover orphan packages that have been removed from the Arch / Manjaro repositories:

  • adwaita-maia
  • dynamic-wallpaper-editor
  • firefox-gnome-theme-maia
  • gtkhash-nautilus
    (Not compatible with Nautilus 43)
  • manjaro-dynamic-wallpaper
  • manjaro-gdm-tweak
  • nautilus-terminal
    (Not compatible with Nautilus 43 & EOL)

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.


Our current supported kernels

  • linux419 4.19.280
  • linux54 5.4.240
  • linux510 5.10.177
  • linux515 5.15.106
  • linux61 6.1.23
  • linux62 6.2.10
  • linux63 6.3-rc5
  • linux515-rt 5.15.94_rt59
  • linux60-rt 6.0.5_rt14

Package Changes (Fri Apr 7 04:22:31 CEST 2023)

A detailed list of all package changes can be found here

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Known issues and solutions

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Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!

:arrow_right: 2023-04-07

2023-03-31

GRUB: some backwards hardware compatibility has been restored

A modification has been reverted in order to restore support to old motherboards: [Unstable Update] 2023-02-17 - Plasma 5.27 LTS, GNOME, Python - #51 by philm

GRUB, LUKS and full disk encryption: 'no such cryptodisk found'

Following grub’s update, new configuration may be needed to be manually applied:

  • Check for modifications to /etc/default/grub
    Most notably, if you use LUKS with full disk encryption, you may need to:
    • check that GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y is not commented out
  • Don’t use tools like grub-customizer as it may create issues with the grub.cfg file.
  • Check if the UUID of your encrypted drive matches in your config files.
  • Based on the manual, unlike filesystem UUIDs, UUIDs for encrypted devices must be specified without dash separators. So check /boot/grub/grub.cfg for entries like cryptomount -u 3722dfb2-3b32-414b-bd59-4329fa92b6a9 and try to remove the dash separators.
  • If you modified the above configuration, you then need to update the grub menu with sudo update-grub.
  • A message “no such cryptodisk found” may appear on the following reboot, but should not prevent you from continuing by typing any key.

You may still want to have a liveUSB ready, in the rare case your bootloader does break, in which case you will need to reinstall grub.

For more details:

Info about recent NVIDIA packaging changes

[Testing Update] 2023-03-25 - Kernels, Firefox, Deepin, GNOME, NVIDIA, Wine - #42 by philm

Possible kernel fs block code regression in 6.2.3 umounting usb drives

With kernel 6.2.3 when you simply plug in a usb external drive, mount it and umount it, then the journal has a kernel Oops. A bug report, that includes the journal output was submitted at. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217174 Discussion can be found here: Re: Possible kernel fs block code regression in 6.2.3 umounting usb drives — Linux Stable Kernel Updates

kernel 5.15.99+ Black/empty screen during boot with i915 Intel gfx. No ways to do anything

Seems there is a regression introduced with 5.15.99 kernel update: [i915]drm:add_taint_for_CI [i915]] CI tainted:0x9 by intel_gt_init+0xae/0x2d0 [i915] (#8284) ¡ Issues ¡ drm / intel ¡ GitLab. My thoughts here: [Testing Update] 2023-03-11 - Kernels, Mesa 22.3.7, Phosh, LibreOffice 7.4.6 - #31 by philm

NVIDIA 530.41.03-1 high refresh rate problems

FS#77975 - [nvidia] 530.41.03-1 high refresh rate problems

2023-02-12

Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

2023-02-12 - Robin Candau

On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
If you installed the base-devel package group prior to this date, explicitly re-install it to get the new base-devel package installed on the system:

pacman -Syu base-devel

– Arch Linux - News: Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

2023-02-03

vlc player crashes while playing videos

A solution, regarding to rob215x, is:
VLC would crash immediately when trying to play any video. I opened VLC directly, and changed Preferences > Video > Output from “Automatic” to “VDPAU” and it works now. I found that solution on another thread but I still don’t understand the problem and why VDPAU works.

2023-01-24

PHP 8.2 update and introduction of legacy branch

2023-01-13 - Pierre Schmitz

The php packages have been updated to the latest version 8.2. In addition to this, a new set of php-legacy packages have been introduced. These will follow the oldest but still actively supported PHP branch. This enables users to install the latest version but also introduces the option to use third party applications that might rely on an older version. Both branches will be kept up to date following our rolling release model. php and php-legacy can be installed at the same time as the latter uses a -legacy suffix for its binaries and configuration files.

In addition to this, the php7 packages have been removed as they reached end of life. The imap extension will no longer be provided as it relies on the c-client library which has been abandoned for many years.

– Arch Linux - News: PHP 8.2 update and introduction of legacy branch

2022-12-20

pacman-mirrors was temporarily renamed to manjaro-mirrors (changed has been reverted)

This was done to avoid confusion with an AUR / WSL package with the same name and avoid possible breakage. It should be a seamless transition.

Rename project (#183) ¡ Issues ¡ Applications / pacman-mirrors ¡ GitLab

dbus-x11 demoted to AUR

dbus-x11 was installed out of the box on some flavors of Manjaro as of a year ago, but is no longer needed. If you have it installed, please replace it with dbus using the following:

sudo pacman -Syu dbus
XFCE becomes unusable if libxfce4ui-nocsd is still installed

So far XFCE Classic project hasn’t updated yet to 4.18 series. We pushed 4.17.0 version of the package, but don’t know if that helps in that situation. It is recommended to install the regular libxfce4ui package to avoid issues and comment on this issue: libxfce4ui 4.18.0 released · Issue #15 · Xfce-Classic/libxfce4ui-nocsd · GitHub

Is it fixed in systemd-253.3-1 ?

Did you read the comments in the bug report? Also see

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I didn’t see any “setfont: KDFONTOP: Function not implemented” in the journald.
I have “sd-vconsole” in the mkinitcpio hooks.
In “vconsole” I have keymap and font set.

Is this right? is it ok?

You will see any errors if you run “sudo mkinitcpio -P” if you have specified fonts and keyboard in “/etc/vconsole.conf”

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during recent update got the

Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gdk.so.6" - It was found, so perhaps one of its dependents was not.  Try ldd.
full fragment
...
:: Processing package changes...
(1/9) installing libmms                                                                                                        [############################################################################] 100%
(2/9) installing libzen                                                                                                        [############################################################################] 100%
(3/9) installing tinyxml2                                                                                                      [############################################################################] 100%
(4/9) installing netpbm                                                                                                        [############################################################################] 100%
(5/9) installing gts                                                                                                           [############################################################################] 100%
(6/9) installing gsfonts                                                                                                       [############################################################################] 100%
(7/9) installing graphviz                                                                                                      [############################################################################] 100%
Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gdk.so.6" - It was found, so perhaps one of its dependents was not.  Try ldd.
Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gtk.so.6" - It was found, so perhaps one of its dependents was not.  Try ldd.
Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gdk.so.6" - It was found, so perhaps one of its dependents was not.  Try ldd.
Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gtk.so.6" - It was found, so perhaps one of its dependents was not.  Try ldd.
Optional dependencies for graphviz
    mono: sharp bindings
    guile: guile bindings [installed]
    lua: lua bindings [installed]
    ocaml: ocaml bindings
    perl: perl bindings [installed]
    python: python bindings [installed]
    r: r bindings
    tcl: tcl bindings [installed]
    qt5-base: gvedit [installed]
    gtk2: gtk output plugin
    xterm: vimdot
(8/9) installing libmediainfo                                                                                                  [############################################################################] 100%
(9/9) installing mediainfo                                                                                                     [############################################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
...
'stat' and 'file' on the file
$ stat /usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gdk.so.6
  File: /usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gdk.so.6 -> libgvplugin_gdk.so.6.0.0
  Size: 24              Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   symbolic link
Device: 0,25    Inode: 12338332    Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2023-04-10 00:44:13.787107237 +0300
Modify: 2023-03-30 18:13:10.000000000 +0300
Change: 2023-04-10 00:44:13.740440570 +0300
 Birth: 2023-04-10 00:44:13.740440570 +0300

$ file /usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gdk.so.6
/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gdk.so.6: symbolic link to libgvplugin_gdk.so.6.0.0
$
pacman -Qi lld
$ pacman -Qi lld
error: package 'lld' was not found

lld? ldd

PS: lld sounds like a next systemd tool like “systemd-lold” :laughing:

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systemd-fsck-silent has been removed from the repo’s.
If we use systemd in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf hooks is it still needed?

...also for a few hours can't make an ISO cause of it's partial removal from Manjaro ecosystem
$ buildiso -f -p kde -b unstable -a x86_64 -v -t ~/Desktop -k linux63
 --> Profile: [kde]
==> Start building [kde]
==> Cleaning up ...
  -> Deleting chroot [rootfs] (x86_64) ...
/usr/bin/btrfs
Delete subvolume (no-commit): '/var/lib/manjaro-tools/buildiso/kde/x86_64/rootfs'
  -> Deleting isoroot [iso] ...
 --> Loading Packages: [Packages-Root] ...
==> Prepare [Base installation] (rootfs)
Create subvolume '/var/lib/manjaro-tools/buildiso/kde/x86_64/rootfs'
 --> mirror: https://mirror.alpix.eu/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
==> Creating install root at /var/lib/manjaro-tools/buildiso/kde/x86_64/rootfs
  -> Installing packages to /var/lib/manjaro-tools/buildiso/kde/x86_64/rootfs
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core downloading...
 extra downloading...
 community downloading...
 multilib downloading...
error: target not found: systemd-fsck-silent
==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root
==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages
$

from the looks of it, no. systemd package already contains ‘systemd-fsck-root’ service and all this time the ‘systemd-fsck-silent-root’ service has been redundant and inactive on mine where it is dependent on systemd to do fsck

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You can now, it’s been removed from the profiles.

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