this week’s Manjaro update kills the ethernet driver, it still displays in the list of Manjaro Settings/Network Configuration, but it doesn’t work, Advanced Network Settings does not recognize any device (the field to select a network card is greyed out).
I updated two times with different methods, but both times I had to use Timeshift to go get a functioning machine. I’m still unsure if the upgrade breaks just the eth driver or it breaks networkmanager as well, but I’d like to prevent this from happening (having an updated OS is a good thing, but updates that break workflow aren’t).
But you still didn’t read the link i provided, to know how is proper to provide your system info … Is quite important to see the kernel version, what driver is installed/used …
For that model, as many we have, check if you do not have blacklisted the r8169 driver inside /etc/modprobe.d/ … Make sure you have a LTS kernel or the latest supported one …
Remove it from MHWD and look inside /etc/modprobe.d/ and delete any occurrence of blacklist r8169 if they exist … The network is up, but is failing to properly work because of the r8168 driver.
uhm wait a minute: the “tech stuff” listed in the message before, is from the fully functioning timeshifted installation. The error manifests only if I upgrade, something I do not intend to do until I find a workaround that prevents any mess between eth driver and networkmanager or whatever the problem is.
I understand the apparent paradox, but this is a production workstation, I can’t exactly halt the work to tinker with it as I do with my “side machines” (out of the production cycle).
For now, I disabled networkmanager from updates , and will make a third attempt: should this fail too, I will disable all updates for 45 days.
I appreciate immensely the help received on this and other communities, but the primary goals is to keep operations going until there is a favorable scenario that allows to explore alternatives (at a certain point of the summer the company will close for some days, during those days I will have the opportunity to do all tests that I want).
Many thanks to all
I’m sorry to say but if you want rock-stable, you need Debian. Although it was designed as a server OS, that’s what I give my non-technical family and friends for their desktops and it just simply works and keeps on working. The disadvantage of Debian is that you don’t get the newest and shiniest versions of any application neither, but you get the most stable ones.
Manjaro (and Arch) are on the cutting edge of Linux development and I nor my technical-savvy nephew wouldn’t want anything else on our desktops, and we don’t mind filing bugs every now and then to help advance the success of the Linux story.
In the past I used Debian too, but I prefer Manjaro by a long shot and want to prove that it can be used in my field with 99.9% uptime
anyway, editing /etc/pacman.conf and preventing everything ‘networkmanager’ related to update, allowed for a smooth system update. The issue is solved, thanks everyone for all the help
Just as a comment: That it’s not a solution, it’s just a temporal workaround and at some point it’s going to cause some problems. Partial updates are best to avoid in general.