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waydroid >= 1.5.4-3 update may require manual intervention
2025-11-06 - George Hu
The waydroid package prior to version 1.5.4-2 (including aur/waydroid) creates Python byte-code files (.pyc) at runtime which were untracked by pacman. This issue has been fixed in 1.5.4-3, where byte-compiling these files is now done during the packaging process.
As a result, the upgrade may conflict with the unowned files created in previous versions. If you encounter errors like the following during the update:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
waydroid: /usr/lib/waydroid/tools/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-313.pyc exists in filesystem
waydroid: /usr/lib/waydroid/tools/actions/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-313.pyc exists in filesystem
waydroid: /usr/lib/waydroid/tools/actions/__pycache__/app_manager.cpython-313.pyc exists in filesystem
You can safely overwrite these files by running the following command:
Furthermore, the dovecot 2.4 branch no longer supports their replication feature, it was removed.
For users relying on the replication feature or who are unable to perform the 2.4 migration right now, we provide alternative packages available in [extra]:
Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
2025-06-20 - Tomaz Canabrava
On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.
With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn’t be ok to install plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11 for every one using Plasma.
tldr: Install plasma-x11-session if you are still using x11
AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcements topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.
For help with AUR packages, please create a new topic in Support > AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.
The English error is /usr/bin/mkinitcpio: line 791: _addedmodules[${modname//-/_}]: bad array subscript on linux618. Full code snippet is:
preload_builtin_modules() {
local modname field value
local -a path
# Prime the _addedmodules list with the builtins for this kernel. We prefer
# the modinfo file if it exists, but this requires a recent enough kernel
# and kmod>=27.
if [[ -r $_d_kmoduledir/modules.builtin.modinfo ]]; then
while IFS=.= read -rd '' modname field value; do
_addedmodules[${modname//-/_}]=2
case "$field" in
alias)
_addedmodules["${value//-/_}"]=2
;;
esac
done <"$_d_kmoduledir/modules.builtin.modinfo"
elif [[ -r "$_d_kmoduledir/modules.builtin" ]]; then
while IFS=/ read -ra path; do
modname="${path[-1]%.ko}"
_addedmodules["${modname//-/_}"]=2
done <"$_d_kmoduledir/modules.builtin"
fi
}
That requires systemd 258. Both will be updated at the same time sometime after mkinitcpio 40 graduates from Arch Testing. DO NOT report upstream issues unless you’re using Arch.
AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcements topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.
