[Update] 2015-11-30

Manjaro 15.09 update-pack 8:

Included in this update:
breeze-icons-5.16.0-2
ffmpeg-1:2.8.3-1
hplip-3.15.11-1
plasma-framework-5.16.0-2 (security update)
plasma-workspace-5.4.3-1.1 (fix for the system tray settings bug)
steam-manjaro-1.0.0.50-21 (removes steam-native)
thunderbird-kde-38.4.0-1

Current supported kernels:
Linux310 3.10.93
Linux312 3.12.51
Linux313 3.13.11.30
Linux314 3.14.57
Linux316 3.16.7.20
Linux318 3.18.24
Linux319 3.19.8.10
Linux41 4.1.13
Linux42 4.2.6
Linux43 4.3.0
Linux44 4.4-rc2

This update also includes the usual Archlinux upstream fixes as of Sat Nov. 28, 2015.

Note: steam-native is still available for those that used it as it’s own separate package.

You can use Muon Update, Octopi, or the CLI (command line) to perform this update:

sudo pacman -Syu

Official Manjaro announcement: https://manjaro.github.io/Update-2015-11-30_(stable)/
Official Manjaro forum thread: https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=28737.0

This update wasn’t so good. Afterwards my boot and login are REALLY slow. Login takes 10 minutes! Also, my sound isn’t there now.

Thanks,
Clyde

Unlike Clyde, the update went smooth and averything is working fine :slight_smile:
PS : I’m coming from Manjaro ^^ And it’s awesome , good job team !

@ Clyde,
Do me a favor, just to be sure nothing was missed, could you run a command line update like this and post the outcome:

sudo pacman -Syyu

Here are the results:

:: Synchronizing package databases…

core 135.7 KiB 297K/s 00:00 [#####################################################] 100%
extra 1945.4 KiB 1153K/s 00:02 [#####################################################] 100%
community 3.4 MiB 2.51M/s 00:01 [#####################################################] 100%
multilib 173.5 KiB 3.20M/s 00:00 [#####################################################] 100%
blueshell 7.9 KiB 0.00B/s 00:00 [#####################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade…

warning: burgerspace: local (1.9.2-1) is newer than blueshell (1.9.1-1)
there is nothing to do

I used Octopi for the upgrade yesterday, but this was done at the CL. It looks like blueshell yesterday was newer than today. I don’t know what blueshell is but that may be the problem. If it is I don’t know how to back up a step.

Thanks,
Clyde

Umm, clyde. Are you still runnning an install from 2014?
blueshell is the old repository for Netrunner rolling 2014.xx.
If so, are you still running KDE SC 4 or did you migrate to Plasma 5?
I’m just trying to get a bearing on where to look for the cause of your issue.

I migrated to Plasma 5. It’s been working fine for a couple of months.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks,
Clyde

I could try walking you through changing repositories, but this would require a lot of manual copying, deleting and editing of files.
The way the ISO’s and distribution is now being built is very different, I have adopted the Manjaro way of building ISO’s using their tools. This means it’s closer to building a distribution from scratch and closer to upstream then the old way of modifying and existing upstream ISO. It would be much faster and easier to just do a backup and re-install with the latest ISO.

That’s what I was thinking. I’m off work tomorrow and a clean install would be the proper thing to do. All my data and most of my programs are all online now so a reinstall isn’t that big of deal. I’ll just list the local apps and start over.

Thanks for your help,
Clyde

Make sure to backup your personal data, and please, what ever you do, don’t keep your home partition.

Yep the migrating from 4 to 5 is a stop gap measure and never designed to be permanent.
Had some of the same issues and AJSlye tackled me,twisted my arm behind my back and made me clean install the 09-2015 iso :s
This update which was much smaller and no issues I can detect. So all good.

Update: Seems there is a quirk. After desktop sits awhile. Does not got to lockscreen or blank out or logout.
Just sits there ready. But now occasionally my Logitech usb M510 becomes unresponsive and doesn’t move the cursor.
Happened once yesterday and just now today. Turning mouse off and back on doesn’t resolve and green light on mouse stays on like it’s trying to communicate but failing to handshake. No mouse hardware issues as no problems on the Windows 10 side.

Seems to happen after the system is just sitting there awhile untouched unused. When I come back to it after a half-hour or hour. Then it may be locked up?

Hmm, sounds like a power management issue. As far as I know the move to TLP had fixed the usb sleeping with a mouse attached issue. You might want to look at your settings for TLP, I’m not sure if anything there has changed upstream. However, I have not noticed this issue with any of my mouse and laptop combinations so far. It could also be a driver issue with your mouse, or a mouse setting that has changed. It could be quite a few things actually.

" Does not got to lockscreen or blank out or logout. "

Very badly worded. Meaning I don’t use any of those. A always awake desktop at the moment.

as mine isn’t working today.

Yep will research and look further into the issue. As never was an issue before.

Right, I did get that. However, the USB port the mouse is on might be going to sleep, there is more to power management that just the screen.

Yep again brain not working. It’s not the mouse the whole desktop freezes up.
Can’t Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or Alt Tab apps superkey,etc… No keyboard input either.

Will see if I can isolate a particular action that is causing this.

Thanks. I’ll zap the partition, like I normally do. Just curious though… I’ve been using EXT4 for a long time. Do you or anyone recommend Btrfs, Reiser4, or any other filesystem for the root partition? It’s on a single SSD drive - nothing fancy.

Thanks,
Clyde

Hi there,

the latest upgrade failed with the following error message:

libcurl-gnutls: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.3 exists in filesystem

Cheers,

Gyges

Update: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.3 is provided by the libcurl-compat package, which is required by spotify.

Spotify is an AUR installed application, these are not officially supported.

However, this is already being discussed in the Manjaro forums:
Note: There may be even more threads on this issue as well.
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=28737.msg239437#msg239437
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=28773.0
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=27024.0
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=28642.15

The issue is steam-manjaro requires libcurl-gnutls, the AUR entries for spotify and spotify-beta require libcurl-compat.
The libcurl-compat package is in error for not having a provides variable for libcurl-gnutls:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libcurl-compat/

The spotify AUR entry is also marked as out of date.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=spotify

There are three versions of spotify in the AUR, only spotify and spotify-beta have this issue, spotify-stable does not:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify-beta/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify-stable/

I’d recommend removing spotify and installing spotify-stable instead to avoid this issue in the future.

Thanks for clarification! The above approach did the job!