Solus Updates for Week 40, 2024
Laptop and four VMs installed with no drama, as usual. Good job!
All good on my Plasma VM but Physical machine Plasmashell crashed twice on startup (sent reports) but seems to have settled now. Think it was while loading the desktop Weather widget will check kdeplasma-addons for missing dependencies and monitor.
Updated no worries.
Cant add Weather Report widget to Plasma without crashing the shell, sent reports once weather is loaded it settles down and stops crashing. No dependencies missing.
all good
probably did the usr merge, there was something on the screen during boot but it was so quick i didnt see what it was
EbonJaeger When running eopkg check, linux-current and linux-lts show as broken. These are false positives, and can be disregarded.
I ran sudo eopkg check
in my three computers, and all packages are ok, linux-current included. This issue, at least in my computers, has been solved.
Gnome box updated with no problems
Lucien_Lachance maybe like this for me?
but after that everything went well....
sHAKaJaada
Yeah that screen will appear when the usr-merge is in progress. However on some systems it may be possible to complete the process very quickly. Some of my systems did it in 2s but as the message suggests it could take much longer.
sHAKaJaada I also just got this message during boot and was a bit surprised.
In my view such message should provide a bit more context about what's going on, e.g. which tool/driver caused the "system maintenance".
sHAKaJaada i guess i was lucky
systemd-analyze blame | grep usr-merge
848ms usr-merge.service
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Lucien_Lachance by me a bit more: 21.526s usr-merge.service
but everything went fine... no worries at all...
sHAKaJaada Mine took a couple of minutes, had an error near the start, something about the AppArmor service failing, but everything seemed to go off OK afterwards.
33 packages (167.22 MiB) have been updated today in Solus.
As mentioned above, following the deployment of usr-merge, there are no longer any broken packages, and the last remaining one (linux-current
) is now OK:
administrateur@solus-pc ~ $ systemd-analyze blame | grep usr-merge
18ms usr-merge.service
administrateur@solus-pc ~ $ sudo eopkg check linux-current
[sudo] password for administrateur:
Vérification de l'intégrité de linux-current OK
administrateur@solus-pc ~ $
Even if it has already been said, thank you to the entire team of developers for their hard and quality work. Solus users are grateful to them... and good luck for the future!
All that remains for me is to watch for the next updates of the kernel and the NVIDIA driver to see if they will fix my hibernation problems. But I can use my computer without hibernating so far, so there is no rush.
palto42 I would argue that it is hard to put some comprehensible info on such a screen. "For more info consult Solus Forum." would have been nice perhaps though for those folks that do not follow Solus development via blogposts, Forum and Matrix channels.
But overall I am grateful for that everyrthing seems to played out well and for the course we are heading.
ps: on my plus 10 years old test laptop with hdd it took 12 sec
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I always make it a point to read the weekly updates before doing the updates.
Just gives info what I might expect.
And in the course of them being posted I probably skipped a couple and in the course saved myself some trouble
in the long run. (Because people started posting )
Just way I do it.
I updated my laptop last night It appeared to be snappier But just did my other laptop and
it also exhibits this so I say this was a great update with no issues.
Snappier=programs opening running.
Keep up the good work!