Sync Updates for Weeks 12 and 13, 2024

brent

SmileyBMM run usysconf run -f then reboot.

**abridged from @[deleted] 's reply above

penny-farthing

Thanks for your feedback.
You are absolutely right, this locking mechanism must be sustainable for any system update.
It was just a suggestion, given the importance of this update, while waiting for the Solus developers to find a solution for the future.

brent

I did screenshot this during update but nothing is broken and all works fine. just an FYI more than anything.

Harvey

brent did screenshot this during update but nothing is broken and all works fine.

Its fine, just a warning that there is a file conflict. But as it notes it resolves itself once all updates are applied

python-object gets replaced by python2-gobject

Simply the package that owns those files being changed.

zmaint

Ideapad 3 all AMD. Installed updates. Restart. No errors other than the python and icon warnings. Screen just flashed repeatedly and did nothing. After several minutes of this I hard powered off. Turned back on, booted up to MASSIVE full screen keyboard that completely blocked out the login screen. Just minimized it and logged in without issue. Ran an eopkg check, everything green. Restarted again. Still getting the massive on screen keyboard. Changed the login theme from breeze noir dark to just breeze and that fixed it.

Will update the gaming rig later in the week. I plan on gaming all day tomorrow, not going to risk that to update now lol.

Harvey

If you are using something other than the default theme for Plasma or sddm it will need to have been updated to support Plasma 6/Qt6 otherwise you can have major breakages. The same is true for third party plasmoids/extensions/widgets

flanier

ReillyBrogan

I installed Polonium for window tiling on Plasma 6, when I updated EndeavourOS on my laptop to Plasma 6 a little while back. It is compatible with Wayland. IMHO it isn't as polished as Bismuth was, nor does it have all the features that Bismuth did. If anyone knows of another window tiling plug-in/program for Plasma 6, I'd certainly be willing to try it, and see how well it works.

Polonium - KDE Store

Polonium - Github

TraceyC

flanier
With Plasma 5, I was using the Mudeer plugin to do tiling on my ultrawide monitors. They are working on Plasma6 compatibility, but it isn't ready yet.

Solarmass

alfisya thanks, warpinator is a great tool 👍️

nolan

I got an issue with secure boot.
For some reason it can't boot wit secure boot enabled. It was enabled before the update and had no issues, It's like the shim is not valid or cant be found, something like that nature.
I ran sudo usysconf run -f but no change, with sudo clr-boot-manager update is the same result.
Some idea about it?

ReillyBrogan

If someone made a package request for polonium it would probably get approved

TraceyC

ReillyBrogan

Polonium is already in the KDE Store, and available through Kwin Scripts - Get New

Harvey

TraceyC
I am sure we can trust contributors to the KDE Store to not rely on bad scripting practices like rm -rf ${var}/* where $var is not set. Oh wait...

ReillyBrogan

TraceyC sure, but we had bismuth in the repos so I don't see why we couldn't have the spiritual successor

Justin

Harvey Like Steam and Bumblebee.

kaktuspalme

Went fine, with some small exceptions. Autologin didn't work anymore after the update, probably due to me having it set to Wayland session. I also had to set screen configuration again (scaling, primary screen). That's about it. Thanks devs!

SethStorm666

Went smooth on my Budgie 🙂. Thanks.

GeorgeLG

Today 30 March 2024 i updated my system, I use Plasma DE, and it was a disaster, after reboot nothing works properly, almost all of the widgets are not working, the App launcher has no apps and when i search for an app it is not there p.e. i type " system settings" and as a result i get "get system settings, get system, get settings, etc. The system is unusable thanks god i have a multi boot system and i do not rely on one OS. I am downloading the iso to reinstall it, i hope it'll work.

alfisya

GeorgeLG sometimes it need multiple reboot for all configurations to work properly. Hope you haven't reinstall, just reboot. Use terminal, or with hard reset(power button).

Quoting @ReillyBrogan on matrix :

My leading theory is that the config migrations are running out of order which is requiring multiple logins for the configs to be fully migrated

Lucien_Lachance

are the isos 'infected' by the bad xz package?

alfisya

Lucien_Lachance Not likely. Looking at git history, ISO is older https://github.com/getsolus/packages/commits/main/packages/x/xz

ermo

Lucien_Lachance are the isos 'infected' by the bad xz package?

It looks like the ISOs ship with xz 5.6.0.

However, the Solus ISOs all disable the openssh-server sshd service out of the box, so your system installed from the ISOs with xz 5.6.0 would by default not be vulnerable to the specific attack that relies on sshd being started, unless you decide to start it yourself.

As long as you update your newly installed system without starting up sshd, you should be good.

Harvey

Lucien_Lachance are the isos 'infected' by the bad xz package?

ermo It looks like the ISOs ship with xz 5.6.0.

To be clear some of the ISOs provided to OC contributors may contain it. The Solus 4.5 ISO's shipped with xz 5.4.5 which is not affected.

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