And still am.
0.43.0 is also listed as a release version here:
https://cairographics.org/releases/
All of this could’ve been avoided if there was never a “0.43.0”. Never seen a version system like this before.
Well, that’s a bit off-topic here. Arch updated it because they did. If there is an issue with the release, that should be directed upstream.
Hopefully pixman maintainers make more sustainable choices with their versioning in the future. This has been brought up upstream already 
Mesa also does this. The first 0 version is a development version. Mostly you update with a point release.
With pixman, it seems more complicated than that. Debug portion of the code is enabled if both the remainder of the minor version is 1 when divided by 2, and the micro version has a remainder of 0 when divided by 2.
Looking back at Arch’s package history, it seems they have released development versions before, but not ones with debug code enabled.
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This was unrelated to dbus-broker for me. It’s caused by a bisected regression in amdgpu, where the GPU fails to initialise from a reboot. A shutdown, followed by power-on is fine:
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I actually just created this account to seek help. I can’t update even on a fresh install (Cinnamon).
I get the same error (only saying dbus-x11 instead of dbus) after selecting dbus-broker-units.
conflicting files:
dbus-broker-units: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service already exists in filesystem (owned by dbus-x11)
dbus-broker-units: /usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus.service already exists in filesystem (owned by dbus-x11)
Could anyone tell me what I could try to fix this? Thanks!
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This might not work because of dependencies.
A better approach would be:
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warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750 package: 755
Log excerpt
:: Starting full system upgrade...
...
Package (13) Old Version New Version Net Change Download Size
...
core/systemd 255.2-2 255.2-3 0.00 MiB 9.87 MiB
...
:: Processing package changes...
( 1/13) upgrading pam [####################################################################################################] 100%
( 2/13) upgrading systemd-libs [####################################################################################################] 100%
( 3/13) upgrading systemd [####################################################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750 package: 755
( 4/13) upgrading polkit [####################################################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750 package: 755
( 5/13) upgrading fwupd [####################################################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750 package: 755
( 6/13) upgrading geoclue [####################################################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750 package: 755
( 7/13) upgrading gtk-update-icon-cache [####################################################################################################] 100%
( 8/13) upgrading gtk3 [####################################################################################################] 100%
( 9/13) upgrading gtk4 [####################################################################################################] 100%
(10/13) upgrading intel-gmmlib [####################################################################################################] 100%
(11/13) upgrading iputils [####################################################################################################] 100%
(12/13) upgrading plymouth [####################################################################################################] 100%
(13/13) upgrading systemd-sysvcompat [####################################################################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
...
Yes, it’s changed with polkit 124-1.
Examples:
This will take care of it once and for all:
sudo chmod 0755 /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
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Since we are mentioning these things …
Got the same for /var/log/audit after most recent sync.
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Not I, said the fly. Standard folder permissions here with audit 4.0-1:
❯ ls -al /var/log/audit/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 21 2022 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jan 7 00:00 ..
Packages (8) audit-4.0-1 ddcutil-2.1.0-1 lib32-gnutls-3.8.3-1 lib32-pam-1.6.0-1 lib32-sqlite-3.45.0-1 openmpi-4.1.6-2 openpmix-4.2.8-1 shadow-4.14.3-1
Total Download Size: 7.62 MiB
Total Installed Size: 24.14 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.17 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
shadow-4.14.3-1-x86_64 1179.5 KiB 3.76 MiB/s 00:00 [##################################################################] 100%
lib32-pam-1.6.0-1-x86_64 166.2 KiB 359 KiB/s 00:00 [##################################################################] 100%
audit-4.0-1-x86_64 387.2 KiB 543 KiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
lib32-gnutls-3.8.3-1-x86_64 875.4 KiB 1128 KiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
openpmix-4.2.8-1-x86_64 854.6 KiB 1096 KiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
openmpi-4.1.6-2-x86_64 2.9 MiB 3.63 MiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
lib32-sqlite-3.45.0-1-x86_64 718.1 KiB 764 KiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
ddcutil-2.1.0-1-x86_64 662.6 KiB 688 KiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
Total (8/8) 7.6 MiB 7.73 MiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
(8/8) checking keys in keyring [##################################################################] 100%
(8/8) checking package integrity [##################################################################] 100%
(8/8) loading package files [##################################################################] 100%
(8/8) checking for file conflicts [##################################################################] 100%
(8/8) checking available disk space [##################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/8) upgrading audit [##################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /var/log/audit/
filesystem: 700 package: 755
And its not a new package … its been in the previous syncs and this is the first warning. 
(not like its a problem… but I suppose the inconsistency is a mystery)
Actually, I looked at the logs again 
… no, this is actually the first time the package has been upgraded since this new install.
So the discrepancy is from the installation.
Had to change polkit-1/rules.d/ permission according to above with this upgrade.
Also the same permission error with /var/log/audit/ .
In addition I also removed manjaro-hotfixes:
(19/22) upgrading manjaro-hotfixes [----------------------------------------] 100%
manjaro-hotfixes is obsolete, please remove:
pamac remove manjaro-hotfixes
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I was automatically notified by Journalctl about the KDE powerdevil crash after today’s update.
Log
Failed to start Powerdevil.
Process 2587 (org_kde_powerde) of user 1000 dumped core.
Stack trace of thread 2587:
#0 0x000073172a2ac83c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8e83c)
#1 0x000073172a25c668 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e668)
#2 0x000073172b84941c _ZN6KCrash19defaultCrashHandlerEi (libKF5Crash.so.5 + 0x741c)
#3 0x000073172a25c710 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x3e710)
#4 0x000073172a2ac83c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8e83c)
#5 0x000073172a25c668 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e668)
#6 0x000073172a2444b8 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x264b8)
#7 0x000073172a2443dc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x263dc)
#8 0x000073172a254d26 __assert_fail (libc.so.6 + 0x36d26)
#9 0x00007317241652b9 n/a (libddcutil.so.5 + 0x4c2b9)
#10 0x0000731724167f35 n/a (libddcutil.so.5 + 0x4ef35)
#11 0x00007317241681f5 n/a (libddcutil.so.5 + 0x4f1f5)
#12 0x000073172418c16b n/a (libddcutil.so.5 + 0x7316b)
#13 0x00007317241938a2 ddca_get_display_info_list2 (libddcutil.so.5 + 0x7a8a2)
#14 0x0000731724276d37 n/a (powerdevilupowerbackend.so + 0x11d37)
#15 0x000073172427862e _ZN23PowerDevilUPowerBackend18initWithBrightnessEb (powerdevilupowerbackend.so + 0x1362e)
#16 0x000073172aad0e27 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2d0e27)
#17 0x000073172426d634 _ZN23PowerDevilUPowerBackend24brightnessSupportQueriedEb (powerdevilupowerbackend.so + 0x8634)
#18 0x000073172aad0e27 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2d0e27)
#19 0x000073172b69956a _ZN4KJob6resultEPS_NS_14QPrivateSignalE (libKF5CoreAddons.so.5 + 0x5e56a)
#20 0x000073172b69f53c n/a (libKF5CoreAddons.so.5 + 0x6453c)
#21 0x000073172aad0e27 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2d0e27)
#22 0x00007317250007bd n/a (kauth_helper_plugin.so + 0xa7bd)
#23 0x00007317250010a1 n/a (kauth_helper_plugin.so + 0xb0a1)
#24 0x000073172b5db76e n/a (libQt5DBus.so.5 + 0x2176e)
#25 0x000073172aac3964 _ZN7QObject5eventEP6QEvent (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2c3964)
#26 0x000073172aa9bef8 _ZN16QCoreApplication15notifyInternal2EP7QObjectP6QEvent (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x29bef8)
#27 0x000073172aaa0e5b _ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate16sendPostedEventsEP7QObjectiP11QThreadData (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2a0e5b)
#28 0x000073172aae6ec8 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2e6ec8)
#29 0x000073172950df69 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x59f69)
#30 0x000073172956c367 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb8367)
#31 0x000073172950c162 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x58162)
#32 0x000073172aaead0c _ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2ead0c)
#33 0x000073172aa9ac04 _ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x29ac04)
#34 0x000073172aa9c0a3 _ZN16QCoreApplication4execEv (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x29c0a3)
#35 0x00005f9a3d84e55b n/a (org_kde_powerdevil + 0x655b)
#36 0x000073172a245cd0 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x27cd0)
#37 0x000073172a245d8a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27d8a)
#38 0x00005f9a3d84f045 n/a (org_kde_powerdevil + 0x7045)
After quickly restoring Btrfs root-snapshot, I checked every single updated package.
No doubt, ddcutil 2.1.0 breaks the backwards compatibility of KDE powerdevil 5.27.10.
I go back to the Btrfs root subvolume and downgrade ddcutil 2.1.0 to 2.0.0 to resolve the issue.
I found some bug reports on 2024-01-19
Bug reports
kde power management system keeps crashing / Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues / Arch Linux Forums
476375 – Powerdevil fails to start with ddcutil-2.0.0, spikes cpu usage to max every few seconds
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/19a9a87/arch_and_plasma_527_issues_after_kernel_update/
Another question:
Something wants to call networkmanager to connect to redirect.archlinux.org by detecting Portmaster. This is the first time for me since today’s update.
But the URL redirect.archlinux.org is not in networkmanager config. Where does this URL come from?
$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf
[connectivity]
uri=http://networkcheck.kde.org
uri=http://ping.manjaro.org/check_network_status.txt
uri=http://ping.archlinux.org/nm-check.txt
What does this URL do? 
Edit:
ddcutil 2.1.0-2 fixed this issue
ping.archlinux.org points to redirect.archlinux.org (they are the same)
$ doggo ping.archlinux.com
NAME TYPE CLASS TTL ADDRESS NAMESERVER
ping.archlinux.org. CNAME IN 1154s redirect.archlinux.org. 127.0.0.53:53
redirect.archlinux.org. A IN 2768s 95.216.195.133 127.0.0.53:53
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Previous time audit was updated for me was August 11th, 2023. No complaints about differing directory permissions back then.
Can’t seem to automount the drives on startup after some of the latest updates, it requires password now, does it have to do with this polkit changes?
If your user is in the wheel group, you can check if adding back this rule, which got removed by manjaro-hotfixes dummy package conversion was responsible for passwordless mounting.
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