Sync Updates for Week 17, 2024

EbonJaeger

Known issues

GNOME: Cursor may be blurry when mousing over GTK4 based applications when display scaling is enabled.
GNOME: Snapshot camera preview can be laggy on some webcams.
GNOME: The new GTK4 renderer may not work well with very old GPUs. You can set GSK_RENDERER=gl in the environment to use the old renderer.

brent

EbonJaeger 151 packages, long reboot, some apps sluggish out of the gate, but now cooking along fine.
I couldn't find any info at BoB about the budgie upgrades I just installed; could you point me in the right direction? thank you.

Sebastian

Congrats to the introduction of the MIME types file. Already tested it. If you now install caja or decibels or whatever, guess what, nautilus remains default file browser now. Yay!

Phiqu

Systemfehler. Programmausführung abgebrochen.
(-30973, 'BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- BDB0061 PANIC: Das Argument ist ung\xc3\xbcltig')
Bitte geben Sie 'eopkg help' für die allgemeine Hilfe ein
Verwenden Sie --debug, um einen traceback zu sehen.
Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
func(targs, **kargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/init.py", line 75, in _cleanup
filesdb.close()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/db/filesdb.py", line 94, in close
self.filesdb.close()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shelve.py", line 146, in close
self.sync()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shelve.py", line 173, in sync
self.dict.sync()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/bsddb/init.py", line 347, in sync
return DeadlockWrap(self.db.sync)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/bsddb/dbutils.py", line 68, in DeadlockWrap
return function(args, **_kwargs)
DBRunRecoveryError: (-30973, 'BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- BDB0060 PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery')
Error in sys.exitfunc:
No handlers could be found for logger "pisi"
Systemfehler. Programmausführung abgebrochen.
(-30973, 'BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- BDB0060 PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery')

fixed with:
sudo eopkg rdb

EbonJaeger

brent Any Budgie updates would only be rebuilds for updates in other programs. For example, Budgie Control Center was rebuilt against the new Samba update.

decembre-dhiver

Updates went nicely. I'm really enjoying the new Gnom, and glad to see that they've made the top panel and some icons smaller. I like it more that way. Big thanks to the Solus team 🙂

JTCPingas

Updates went without a hitch. GNOME 46 is working good so far with no problems to report.

Axios

EbonJaeger Handbrake and FFMPEG now work with Intel QuickSync on Tiger Lake and later GPUs! There is a slight catch, though. vpl-gpu-rt needs to be manually installed

Not in any big need yet but will this be automatic in the future still use windows for this as my machines use quicksync. Havent crossed the thresh hold as of yet.

Nice to see it in Linux.

ReillyBrogan

Axios maybe, I haven't decided yet. The packages involved are not very big and don't do anything unless you have compatible hardware and use a quicksync-compatible application. They could easily be installed by default when someone installs one of those applications. BTW, I'm not very familiar with applications can use Intel quicksync. If someone thinks a particular application is compatible but it doesn't work on Solus please open a github issue for it.

Axios

ReillyBrogan Ok
I use shotcut it can use Quicksync will check some others out and like stated handbrake can use it.

Lucien_Lachance

all good except conky, was it compiled without lua this time? it wont show hands on my analogue clock

conky: llua_do_call: function conky_draw_clock execution failed: /PATH/TO/scripts/clockadaptagreen.lua:18: attempt to call a nil value (global 'cairo_xlib_surface_create')
note: path edited to remove my username, the path is correct

Staudey

Lucien_Lachance Sounds like it might be caused by this change that is part of the newest conky release:

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/pull/1844

edit: Maybe related to this issue?: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/1607

eryvile

All went well except for Evolution that doesn't want to start anymore 🙁

Any ideas how to fix that? Thanks!

elusian

Staudey

Just to be clear, since nobody mentioned it in this thread, the solution is to add require 'cairo_xlib' on top of the lua file (together with require 'cairo')

synth-ruiner

I'm seeing some weird kerning on some typefaces on some websites in Firefox today, after updating yesterday. Example:

"No ti fica tions" is especially bad... I guess "fi" and "ti" form ligatures but it doesn't explain some of the other stuff.

carlberger

I experience the same font problems as @synth-ruiner , not only on firefox, but brave as well. First time I have a complaint since I installed solus in 2016 ! keep up the good work.

UncleSlacky

carlberger I've noticed similar problems on Firefox and Signal Desktop (so far).

VTMarik

Sync went great, i must again say how happy I am that i found this distro.

alfisya

@synth-ruiner @carlberger There is already issue on gihub tracking similiar problem https://github.com/getsolus/packages/issues/2406. fontconfig has been tweaked a lot this round of sync, maybe that's where the problem come from.

elfprince

170 packages updated on Budgie. All uneventful = great work by the Solus team. 🙏

ReillyBrogan

I had the font kerning issues too during testing, but they went away after a few reboots.

carlberger

ReillyBrogan second reboot did not solve the problem here, sadly. The old "have you tried to turn it off and on again" does not seem to work here 🙂