Who’s gonna cover our hospital bill? 
I’ve removed the microcode line from my .preset files, generated images, all good.
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So this lines can be removed safely?:
cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg | grep initrd | grep ucode
initrd /@/boot/intel-ucode.img /@/boot/amd-ucode.img
initrd /@/boot/intel-ucode.img /@/boot/amd-ucode.img
initrd /@/boot/intel-ucode.img /@/boot/amd-ucode.img
No, you should not edit grub.cfg manually.
You right I noticed changes will be reverted back after doing sudo update-grub
I restored from a snapshot.
So as I sad early it needs to be done by a package update of grub
yes can be removed although not from grub.cfg. to begin with make sure you have microcode hook in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf for early loading of the microcode.
to remove microcode initrd line, add following line in /etc/default/grub
GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_STOCK=""
rebuild grub.conf using;
$ sudo update-grub
BTW looks like plasma-6(6.0.1) has hit arch-stable. i’m anxious as some of us to nose dive this soon, though i dont intend to not update for long.
to keep other updates from coming excluding plasma 6 and KF-6 and kde-apps, do you think having following package groups ignored will be sufficient for the time being.
/etc/pacman.conf;
IgnoreGroup = kf6 plasma kde-applications
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Okay until now it’s not a option on Arch Linux grub package nor Manjaro.
So I will wait until there will be a updated grub package.
Added a Patch at Arch Linux:
Well I read that after sumiting a patch ^^ops:
List of space-separated early initrd images to be loaded from ‘/boot’. This is for loading things like CPU microcode, firmware, ACPI tables, crypto keys, and so on. These early images will be loaded in the order declared, and all will be loaded before the actual functional initrd image.
‘GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_STOCK’ is for your distribution to declare images that are provided by the distribution. It should not be modified without understanding the consequences. They will be loaded first.
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I would switch to the testing branch for now instead of putting yourself in an unsupported, partial upgrade state.
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I let plasma six update my unstable branch system, but reverted to testing after my custom shortcut keys didn’t work, the X11 desktop was slow with lots of video glitches, the desktop stopped responding sometimes, and I’m not ready to switch to Wayland (which was faster and perhaps less buggy, but missing features I depend upon, like the key state widget and window shading). Plasma six worked fine in a virtual machine, but it couldn’t keep up with the modifications I like that depend on plasma five.
I deleted .cache but the screen glitches continued. Resetting shortcuts is not a big deal, but I’ll wait 'til my favorite widgets are ported and window shading works in wayland…
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For you and for everyone else: You’ll probably have to ditch all those modifications and IMHO all the plasma configs and start fresh.
Unable to realize why I have to install the VLC media player with the current updates only. Prefer to get rid of this package, but I saw no option to reject it’s installation.
I interrupted the packages upgrade procedure.
Log excerpt:
:: Starting full system upgrade...
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Package (208) Old Version New Version Net Change Download Size
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extra/vlc 3.0.20-7 59.97 MiB 11.70 MiB
extra/xdg-desktop-portal-kde 5.27.10-1 6.0.1-1 0.31 MiB 0.37 MiB
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Full log
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace baloo5 with extra/baloo? [Y/n]
:: Replace breeze with extra/breeze5? [Y/n]
:: Replace ksysguard with extra/plasma-systemmonitor? [Y/n]
:: Replace kuserfeedback5 with extra/kuserfeedback? [Y/n]
:: Replace oxygen with extra/oxygen5? [Y/n]
:: Replace plasma-integration with extra/plasma5-integration? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: phonon-qt6-vlc will be installed before its phonon-qt6 dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: xdg-desktop-portal-kde will be installed before its plasma-workspace dependency
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Total Download Size: 566.86 MiB
Total Installed Size: 1486.02 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 418.44 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
Perhaps it’s a dependency mistake: to install independent unwanted player bloatware with no reason just in packages updates session.
Why not? 
❯ pacman -Sii vlc | grep 'Required By'
Required By : deepin-music deepin-voice-note elisa kaffeine kasts phonon-qt5-vlc phonon-qt6-vlc
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phonon-qt6-vlc is the only package that provides phonon-qt6-backend required by phonon-qt6, so there is no way around it at the moment. And it depends on vlc.
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It’s due to Arch maintainers laziness, instead of providing separated libvlc like other distros, they prefer to ship the whole vlc as dependency.
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khotkeys(5) was discontinued.
This wont be changing.
So you need to set your shortcuts again. Thats all there is to it.
I also experience visual glitches on moving windows, but thats all it appears to be.
Dont know about the rest. I’m pretty sure window shading is present on X11.
Oops, listed kglobalaccel instead of khotkeys before @Aragorn pointed it out.
one of them is gone 
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One advice after applying a major upgrade in Plasma, don’t forget to remove ~/.cache folder, and sometimes it’s better to create new user to get rid of some hard to reproduce bugs.
Yes, window shading is present on X11.
As planned, I created a timeshift backup with /home, moved to unstable and did the update with Plasma 6.
I also had to do this mkinitcpio shenanigans before the reboot. It seemed to work, as the system booted successfully.
- The first thing that greeted me was the humongous virtual keyboard… It turned out that the update didn’t update confs so SDDM was still pointing to old, non-existent theme, hence the fallback SDDM version. I was able to log in.
- latte-dock failed to launch, so I was greeted by an empty desktop. This wasn’t a surprise. I expected it to happen, but hopped that latte will perceive, since it was already compiled with some newer Plasma packages but not Plasma 6. I guess I will try to adjust the PKGBUILD and compile it again. In the meantime, I launched the default panel and default menu panel.
- Systray is not launching, as if it wasn’t updated… Tried to delete and add it anew, but it won’t add, because it’s not Plasma 6 compatible. Something is missing. Will investigate.
- I went through theming settings and set them anew.
It is working, but since my Plasma was heavy personalized, I expected some bumps in the road, and they definitely came, so it isn’t a smooth transition.
I was using Wayland before, so in this regard nothing changed, and it still works normally.
After playing with Plasma 6, I realized that the systray issue was because of my user files. I removed them, relogged the session and now it looks all right.
I had to delete a lot of my settings, because the old ones created a mess.
I expected Plasma 6 to have some kind of config script that would fix this automatically. It’s a let-down that it hasn’t. Old configs will create issues, so it’s good to delete .config and restore only those app configs that you know and let the rest default. Now I need to hunt for settings again and personalize my system, but there is no other way. Old configs had to die with Plasma 6.
Configs were not enough, some .local/share/ files were also influencing my experience, so I just went to local/share/plasma/plasmoids/ and delete most of what I had there.
This cleaned not only systray, but many other problems, that I wasn’t even aware off… like weird shadows here and there, etc.
P.S. This new overview is incredible! I had to change virtual desktops to 1 row and regular window presentation (not natural) and it works awesome with pad gestures on Wayland. Now I can finally try using virtual desktops. Previously it was too problematic. Now it’s easy to manage it with gestures on the overview screen just by swiping left/right/up/down, dragging/dropping, etc.
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Hey look, it’s GNOME! 
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Yeah, that was one thing that Gnome did better. Now I can’t think of anything else…
On topic of restoring configs to defaults, how to return to bash? I just discovered that konsole is set to zsh, which I don’t like. I have no history and searching for commands is more troublesome.