Sync Updates for Week 50, 2023

snowee

Replying to my own post, based on Harvey's advice on Matrix-chat.
first do a
sudo eopkg dc, followed by
sudo eopkg up -y

The sync went smoothly after that.

thank you Harvey.

penny-farthing

Axios

Sorry I didn't use the right channel to report this bug.
I'll make a note of your comment for next time, thanks.

Axios

penny-farthing That was not my intent with that comment.
(Sorry it came across that way) And my poor wording.

I was thinking at the time how that little issue (and others) came about and how as
a group we contributed to Solus With realizing it sometimes.

I never at the time thought about trying terminal
Some the stuff may not be ground breaking but I think in the long run pays off
I just think its all cool and important.

ReillyBrogan

We've done a sync in order to roll up changes for the next batch of RC ISOs. There haven't been too many changes since then so I won't do a new post:

adw-gtk3-theme 5.2
webkit-gtk 2.42.4, including CVE fixes for CVE-2023-42883
Flatpak fixed for duplicate tmpfiles (which was causing the "package corrupted" error message)
lsb-release updated to reflect Solus 4.5 Resilience
usysconf updated to fix a long-standing issue where GTK2 applications would take ₂₅ seconds to appear after launching them. I would like to point out that this issue has consumed a LOT of my time to figure out over the last 4 months and I'm super happy to have finally figured it out.
cpu-x 5.0.2
jq 1.7.1, which includes CVE fixes for CVE-2023-50246 and CVE-2023-50268
Fixed issue with unrar where it crashed on launch if the user did not have an AMD Zen 4 CPU.
A bunch of branding changes and fixes for the ISOs. Not really sure what changed exactly as it was mostly other team members working on them.

Axios

ReillyBrogan Congrats on you usysconf nitemare!
Yes that did make a big difference.
Thanks

Sebastian

ReillyBrogan Yeah. I can confirm that leafpad now starts without delay. Great job!!!

penny-farthing

ReillyBrogan

I confirm that the anomaly encountered on the flatpak package by launching sudo eopkg check has disappeared.

Also, lsb-release -a now displays Solus in version 4.5.

Solus has therefore changed its version number and the ISO image of this new version should come soon, taking into account, of course, the technical constraints to be managed by the team of Solus developers to produce it.

Be thanked. 👏

ReillyBrogan

Axios It wasn't actually an issue with usysconf. The issue is that we weren't creating a certain cache that glib/gtk apps use to avoid having to start a bunch of different modules, and starting all the modules was causing bugs. Usysconf is what is used to run triggers after package updates, so the update to it was just to add a new trigger to generate the cache that glib/gtk needs.

pillmuncher

I need to ask this question again:

Solus Budgie here. The problem I'm having is that all of a sudden Caja (I hate Nautilus with a vengeance), Budgie Control Center, and Software Center aren't displayed in dark mode anymore and I can, for the life of me, not figure out where to set it back to how it was. I checked both gnome-control-center and Budgie Desktop Settings and both were set to Dark Mode. Funnily, the latter was displayed in dark mode. What else could I try?

@brent seems to have the same problem.

Axios

It appears that brave uses gtk is that correct because it seems alot better since this update?

Harvey

Brave uses gtk3. The fix was related to gtk2 applications, so I doubt the aforementioned changes affect Brave at all.

4 days ago however Brave was updated to 1.61.104 so its possible other changes have made improvements.

Axios

Harvey It loads faster for me seems work better
But I am done with it keeps crashing my file system at times always when I am running brave
and I have to repair my file system. (been happening since I put it on this machine way back)
It just happened had go fix everything and when I clicked on brave it wanted to send crash report
to brave..

ReillyBrogan

The fix I did was essentially for Glib2 which is used by Gtk2/3/4 and almost all GNOME components. It's a library that is used by a huge number of applications and it's honestly very likely that fixing it will fix other issues in various places. I'd also expect a general performance improvement from the fix, particularly to startup times of Gtk2/3/4 applications. Previously glib2 had to start a bunch of modules every time an application needed to start any module, now it only has to start the singular one that it needs.

Axios

ReillyBrogan Thats what I am seeing general overall performance improvement
Some just pop now others are faster at opening.

pillmuncher

I need to ask this question yet again because it seems to be getting overlooked:

@brent seems to have the same problem.

Anyone? At least tell me if it's just my (and @brent's) system so I can go on investigating further.

pomon

pillmuncher

Have you set in dconf as here..
Budgie desktop settings
a) set the dark theme (1).
b) enable the dark theme (2).

Alternatively, install gnome-control-center (because I don't see this option in budgie-control-center) and enable the dark theme.

pillmuncher

pomon Thank You. In Budgie Desktop Settings I had the wrong Widgets setting, though I don't remember changing it. I also already had checked several times if it was the right setting, but seem to have overlooked that it was, in fact, not correct. Now all is well again.

Harvey

discord 0.0.39 cherry-picked.

Harvey

Another sync for CVEs and ISO improvements:

Firefox 121.0 several improvements and addressing CVEs
Thunderbird 115.6.0 addressing several CVEs
opera-stable 106.0.4998.16
slick-greeter Solves the issue where greeter text is hard to read when using bright backgrounds.
openssh CVE-2023-48795
solbuild various improvements

Harvey

vivaldi-stable 6.5.3206.42 cherry-picked for CVE-2023-7024

Solarmass

Harvey vivaldi-stable 6.5.3206.42 cherry-picked for CVE-2023-7024

🙇

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