Sync Updates for Week 49, 2023

ermo

knuckle was hoping this update would undo the bugs introduced in the last one but alas,no joy.Files still crashes Firefox still freezing system not nearly as snappy and quick as it was -- will give it another week or two of updates before rolling back or doing a fresh install

What are you system specs? From your post, it would appear that you are using gnome (cf. "Files")? Which session type (Wayland)? Which GPU (NVIDIA)?

On GNOME, you can go into "Settings -> About" and copy the settings and paste them in a reply here? We're not mind-readers you know. 🙂

ReillyBrogan

Cherry-picked a fix for Mesa that should fix issues with Flatpaks and Snaps not loading (or loading but throwing a graphics-related error). Please restart your system after applying this fix and things should work again on your next boot.

WetGeek

ReillyBrogan Cherry-picked a fix for Mesa that should fix issues with Flatpaks and Snaps not loading (or loading but throwing a graphics-related error). Please restart your system after applying this fix and things should work again on your next boot.

Apparently this fix destroyed Vivaldi. I wonder if any other Chromium-based browsers were affected. After quite a bit of fuss, I got LastPass installed and working on Firefox, so I was able to log on to the forum aagain.

I can live with Firefox for a while, but it would be great to know how to undo this last fix. In all my years here, I've never needed to know how to undo one of these.

WetGeek

WetGeek it would be great to know how to undo this last fix

I found out about the eopkg history -t command from the help center, and was able to get rid of this version of mesalib. I'm not sure I could have lasted too much longer using Firefox as a substitute for Vivaldi. If it helps with the debugging, I've tried both Wayland (my default) and also X11, and Vivaldi was unusable on both.

I hope this can soon be actually fixed in the repository, so it will be safe to apply the next update. Actually, I'm glad I finally needed to learn how to restore a previous version using eopkg. It's a very useful thing to know, and very easy to do.

tflovik

WetGeek I think you neet to run:
find ~/.cache -name GPUCache -exec rm -rv {} +
find ~/.config -name GPUCache -exec rm -rv {} +

It fixed my Heroic launcher, i think the mesa fix brought back the need to fix chromium based apps.

joluveba

WetGeek I wonder if any other Chromium-based browsers were affected

In my case, after today's update Brave has been behaving strangely, with some images not loading.

ReillyBrogan If you have rendering issues with Chromium apps after the Mesa update please run the commands in our troubleshooting article.

And this solved it. Thank you very much.

brent

WetGeek . I wonder if any other Chromium-based browsers were affected.

my flatpak ungoogled chromium is fine--so a mesa/vivaldi exclusive perhaps.
be curious if the troublshooting article will help you. I know Vivaldi is your daily browser. good luck WG.

edit: brain fart; wrong browser cited for WG. THanks @elfprince !

totalmongobaer

WetGeek

Hi,
you are right with this Bug, Because i have it too on a absolutly normal laptop (Intel i5 onboard GPU) and the stable Vivaldi from the Solus repo!

Axios

Are you using it in a flatpak
Running Brave here no issues but its repo
When you say destroyed?

elfprince

Same here on Solus Brave. Thanks for the fix!

Axios

I never had Vivaldi installed on this machine
Installed both flatpak and repo they both seem to be fine.
(Just info)

ReillyBrogan

If you have rendering issues with Chromium apps after the Mesa update please run the commands in our troubleshooting article.

rothom

joluveba

Same problem here, but thanks to @ReillyBrogan and the troubleshooting article everything is working again.

elfprince

brent know Brave is your daily browser

That's Vivaldi. 😄

brent

elfprince fixed, thank you!

Axios

That little birdie was whispering in my ear telling me why?

Why did I not have any issues with the recent gl update.
Well I figured out why (Bleachbit) I have been running everytime I shut off computer because I was testing
Software. and alot of times after I unistalled something (I know to much..lol)
After looking through what bleachbit was going to delete it was filled with the mesa caches and even the brave
ones and that was the (ah ha moment).
I am sure this is alot how I got bleachbit set up but it was interesting so I posted.
Note: guess I need pay more attention on what its doing.

brent

Axios ed with the mesa caches and even the brave
ones and that was the (ah ha moment).

brave tends to get fat for some reason but this one always irritates me:

Do I need 7,700 mesa shader files?

Axios

brent Ya even thoo I got brave to delete on close
If I bring up bleachbit there is always about 50meg their.
so you are right it appears it does not clean those.
Firefox is always nill to nothing.
(I have always been big cleaning caches to keep the uglies out.)

Harvey

Discord 0.0.38 cherry-picked.

Harvey

Cache exists for a reason, we are only telling you to delete specific parts as a work around for a Chromium bug. Deleting it for no real reason just slows down the application that uses that cache as it will be generated fresh again when needed.

Axios

Harvey Good point to make for people.

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