Sync Updates for Week 11, 2024

Please note that ISOs for backers will not be sent out for this sync. We have some technical issues to work out first with Calamares. Thanks for your patience.

updated b & x, good. seems xfce core packages all got updated--I must do the reading.
I salute you for still supporting Mate users.
I have a package named garcon. . Cool.

keep on rocking, goodnight and thanks.

Works fine here on Budgie. Though I have to try Plasma 6 when it hits stable

Good Morning.
After the Update, Ardour is not starting anymore (ardour was updated to 8.4-42 (@Harvey))

When starting via Terminal the following errors are coming up:

(ardour-8.4.0:3277): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 09:02:13.862: cannot register existing type 'GtkObject'
(ardour-8.4.0:3277): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 09:02:13.862: g_type_register_static: assertion 'parent_type > 0' failed
(ardour-8.4.0:3277): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 09:02:13.862: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
(ardour-8.4.0:3277): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 09:02:13.862: cannot register existing type 'GtkBuildable'
(ardour-8.4.0:3277): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 09:02:13.862: g_type_interface_add_prerequisite: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INTERFACE (interface_type)' failed
(ardour-8.4.0:3277): GLib-CRITICAL **: 09:02:13.862: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed
(ardour-8.4.0:3277): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 09:02:13.862: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
(ardour-8.4.0:3277): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 09:02:13.862: g_type_register_static: assertion 'parent_type > 0' failed

What can I do to correct this?

Thanks in advance!

I have an issue with my Plasma laptop. I woke it from hibernation, did a backup (to the NAS upstairs), then updated it. When I was finished, I logged on, started Terminology, and issued a mount -a command as usual, but got an error telling me that my NAS couldn't be found.

This had happened twice before this update, but it had fixed itself the first time. By the time I checked with Dolphin, the shares were mounted. The second time, I did a power down instead of a reboot after the update, and the NAS shares were mounted with no further drama. This time, it failed following the post-update reboot, and three subsequent power-downs did not resolve the problem.

As with the previous occasions, all the installed and updated applications seem to work fine, such as Vivaldi, on which I'm now typing this, and it appears not to have affected other DEs. My identical Xfce laptop updated normally, and had no problem mounting my NAS shares, so it appears to be a Plasma issue. I'm going to change the Plasma laptop to Unstable, and see whether that changes anything.

If that doesn't help, no worries. I can simply not depend on accessing the NAS from my usual laptop for a while. After all, I can use Xfce instead of Plasma - both laptops are configured identically. The Xfce machine doesn't have working Bluetooth (unless something's changed that I haven't noticed yet), but I can use wireless peripherals with dongles with it.

As before, my VirtualBox VMs are unaffected - even the Plasma VM. I have no trouble doing a backup on that VM, then an update, and afterwards rebooting and connecting with my NAS. I suspect the difference is in the kernel they're using, compared with the host machine.

This is already a long message, so I'm going to post it for now and try some of the possible remedies I've mentioned. As I've already said, no worries. I have multiple ways to work around this problem, so I'm going to explore some of them now. Cheers for now ...

hdansin
Yeah I got a deadline on April 15th and a lot to do until then. Hopefully it can be resolved quickly. But good to know, that the flatpack is a backup strategy. Thanks for the hint!

WetGeek I have an issue with my Plasma laptop.

At the risk of making this another long message, I won't detail everything I've tried for the last hour, but just report my current status. Trying an X11 session was no help. Changing to the Unstable repo didn't help, either. An update afterwards upgraded 200 packages, but all I've noticed so far is that it changed my background to a silly graphic and I wasn't able to start Latte. I attributed that to a work in progress. But after changing the repo back to Shannon, those changes remained. Just something more to wonder about.

Interestingly enough, I have no problems updating my wife's Latitude, which is the identical model to my two, and also running Plasma. That's encouraging, although I still don't like this sort of mystery. And likewise with my little ACER Travelmate laptop, which also uses Plasma. Update was normal, and no issues with it at all.

At the very beginning of all this earlier this morning, I did an update on this Plasma laptop that only installed 18 upgraded packages. I wrote that off as to be expected, since Plasma 6 is still to come. But all of the other updates I've done since then have installed 180-200 upgraded packages. It was just possible - but not likely - that I'd not updated those machines the last time, which might explain why their updates were so big this time. But I'm pretty sure that didn't happen. So, the 18 package update on my main laptop this morning must be a clue of some kind.

I can probably reinstall the OS on this machine and cure whatever problem is has, but then I'll need to recreate the 200 or so email filters I just got done creating after the last installation, and reconfiguring Thunderbird and Vivaldi are not trivial tasks. So I'm going to try everything else I can think of before I do that. Like I said earlier, no worries - I have plenty of other options to access my NAS in the meantime.

WetGeek At the risk of making this another long message ...

Having had no issues updating two other Plasma laptops, and an Xfce laptop, I thought it would be safe to do the same to my desktop workstation upstairs. It was on Unstable, but I left it there, since there might be more to do there before Plasma 6 is finally released. And again, there was no drama.

After an update that upgraded 219 packages, I used a mount -a command to mount my NAS shares, and that worked just fine. No problem accessing the NAS from that workstation.

So, except for my main laptop, everything else I've updated this morning has worked without a problem. So I'm gonna answer the survey based on that. I've swapped my Xfce laptop for my Plasma laptop on its stand, and am going to wait for the public release of Solus Plasma 6 before I reinstall the OS on my main laptop. I can use Xfce just fine until then, and I'm hoping that I might not need to go to that extreem.

EbonJaeger , fix for Budgie Workspace Switcher is appreciated!

everything works again, thanks! ️

WetGeek reconfiguring Thunderbird and Vivaldi are not trivial tasks

I'd suggest backing up your setting in both applications for easy restoration so you don't have to configure everything by hand again.

For Thunderbird, you can make a copy of your profile folder to store all its settings.

Right click your email account and click Settings. This should bring you to the account settings.
Under the account click on Server Settings.
There will be a "Local Directory". This shows your profile and the mail account under it.
The directory to back up is something like this.

/home/your_username/.thunderbird/x7ezosf6.default

You could also just back up the entire .thunderbird directory to be safe.

For Vivaldi, check out this help article or this Vivaldi forum post. (I found these with a web search. I have my Vivaldi browser logged into a profile that stores things for me).

Hello all. Latest updates on Plasma went off without a hitch for me. Looking forward to Plasma 6. Thanks!

nushell was updated to 0.91.0-3 (@Oliver)

Huzzah!