Sync Updates for Week 52, 2023

EbonJaeger

Heya folks! We hope that everyone is enjoying the holidays! It's also time for the last weekly update post of the year.

This week brings more security updates. First up is libde265, which fixes three vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-49465, CVE-2023-49467, and CVE-2023-49468. Next up is cjson, fixing CVE-2023-50471 and CVE-2023-50472. Lastly is a fix for nginx to resolve CVE-2023-44487. As always, make sure you're applying updates!

Our main focus is still on final testing for Solus 4.5. With all the new parts, we want to do our best to make sure there are no nasty, hidden issues. We are hopeful to have everything wrapped up very soon!

Other updates this week include:

That’s all for this week, folks! It's been one heck of a year, and we're all excited for what's going to come in 2024. See you all next week for the first sync news of the new year!

Solarmass

Thanks, hope Alacritty will be cherrypicked 😃

Phiqu

This update broke something with my gpu (nVidia 1070). Got 0 fps (very long loading times, stop motion) in all my games (Steam & Epic). Had to kill the games process cause the games didn't react on input. Would say it's the new nVidia Driver? Gamemode was not used. After the update I reinstalled them but had still the problem. Did now a rollback and now it's fine again.

ReillyBrogan

Phiqu Probably the Nvidia driver update. Can you fully update your system again and then try running this?

sudo eopkg it https://cdn.getsol.us/repo/shannon/n/nvidia-glx-driver/nvidia-glx-driver-535.129.03-493-1-x86_64.eopkg https://cdn.getsol.us/repo/shannon/n/nvidia-glx-driver/nvidia-glx-driver-common-535.54.03-467-1-x86_64.eopkg https://cdn.getsol.us/repo/shannon/n/nvidia-glx-driver/nvidia-glx-driver-32bit-535.54.03-467-1-x86_64.eopkg

Phiqu

ReillyBrogan
Boot loop after reboot (after update, reboot, your commandline, reboot). So something went wrong. Backup was done before. Will check this next year. 🙂

EDIT
ctrl+alt+f2 with history command fixed everything again. I love Solus :3

ReillyBrogan

Phiqu does the previous version of Mesa work? sudo eopkg it https://cdn.getsol.us/repo/unstable/m/mesalib/mesalib-23.3.1-212-1-x86_64.eopkg

penny-farthing

I processed 18 updates (371.10 MiB) for Solus on 29/12 at 21h40 (Paris time) and nothing to report since.

I'd like to take this opportunity to write the following:

First of all, I'd like to salute the hard work of the Solus development team for producing 2 versions of this Linux distribution (4.4 and 4.5) in the space of almost 3 quarters, when it was declared moribund by some commentators during the major technical incident of Q1 2023. The sense of organization, team spirit, resilience and ambitions clearly displayed in the medium-long term are the ingredients that will make Solus, a Linux distribution that matters, exciting its community of users more and more every day.
In conclusion, I'd like to wish this team all the best for 2024, both on a personal level and for the great achievements to come for this wonderful distribution that is Solus.

Happy New Year 2024 and long live to Solus! 😄
Cheers.

Phiqu

ReillyBrogan
Did the update, reboot, run the Mesa line and tested some games, no change. So still 0 fps, nothing playable.
Reboot, the same. Then I run the nVidia line. At the end Solus shows me:

nvidia-glx-driver-common release >= 493 dependency of package nvidia-glx-driver is not satisfied [✓] Syncing filesystems success [✓] Updating dynamic library cache success [✓] Updating graphical driver configuration success [✓] Updating system users success [✓] Updating systemd tmpfiles success [✓] Reloading systemd configuration success [✓] Updating desktop database success [✓] Reloading udev rules success [✓] Applying udev rules success Program terminated. nvidia-glx-driver package cannot be installed unless the dependencies are satisfied

Last time I reboot after this, it creates the boot loop, so I was not able to boot Solus anymore.
So instead of rebooting, I run this time sudo eopkg up and let Solus update again.
Then I reboot and ... Solus was smiling at me and my games running great again.
So everything is updated. I'm a little bit confused but ... hey must be magic. 🙂

ps: happy new year