Heya folks! It's Friday, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup!

GNOME has been updated to 47.4 this week. This is mainly a bugfix release. See the list of changes here.

Our kernel packages have been updated. linux-current is now 6.12.12, and linux-lts is now 6.6.75. In addition, the BORE patch has been updated for the "current" kernel branch. As a reminder, the LTS kernel will be updated to 6.12 in the not-too-distant future! If you use the LTS kernel, please consider testing the "current" kernel to make sure it works with your system! The faster issues can be found, the faster they can be addressed.

The NVIDIA Beta driver has been updated to 570.86.16. These are the highlighted changes:

  • Initial support for the GeForce RTX 50 Series
  • Updated GPU overclocking control to be available by default in nvidia-settings
  • Updated the nvidia-settings control panel to use NVML rather than NV-CONTROL to control GPU clocks and fan speed. This allows related functionality to work when using Wayland, where the NV-CONTROL X extension is not available. Note that as a result, some operations which were previously available to unprivileged users, due to the privileges of the X server, may now require elevated privileges.
  • Added support for VRR on systems with multiple displays
  • Added support for querying Dynamic Boost status via the 'power' file in /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/*
  • Added support for the systemd suspend-then-hibernate method of system sleep
  • Enabled the nvidia-drm fbdev=1 option by default
  • Fixes/support for newer kernel versions

Check out the full release notes here.

Our Qt stack has been updated to 6.8.2. This release contains over 450 bug fixes. As it is a bugfix release, there are no new features. The full list of changes can be read here.

General updates

The full list of updated packages can be found here.

For the list of currently known issues, see the dedicated thread for it. If you begin experiencing a bug, please look for an issue on our issue tracker, and open a new one if one does not exist.

That’s all for this week, folks! We'll be here same time, same place next week for another roundup of the news!

How did the sync go for you?

This poll has ended.

  • Bbrent

    • Post #3
    • Edited

    I know this means nothing but just in case, 2 file conflicts during upgrade:

    InstallinInstalling 17 / 31
    libsecret-0.21.6-27-1-x86_64.eopkg [cached]
    Installing libsecret, version 0.21.6, release 27
    File conflicts:
    /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/secret-tool from bash-completion gets replaced by libsecret packageg 17 / 31
    libsecret-0.21.6-27-1-x86_64.eopkg [cached]
    Installing libsecret, version 0.21.6, release 27
    File conflicts:
    /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/secret-tool from bash-completion gets replaced by libsecret package

    and

    Installing 22 / 31
    bash-completion-2.16.0-24-1-x86_64.eopkg [cached]
    Installing bash-completion, version 2.16.0, release 24
    Upgrading to new distribution release
    Extracting the files of bash-completion
    Not removing conflicted file : /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/secret-tool
    Upgraded bash-completion

    rebooting now

    edit: 👍️

      brent

      Just confirming this is normal.

      /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/secret-tool used to be part of bash-completion package but now libsecret provides its own bash completions so it was removed. A fully updated system has no conflicts.

        Laptops and VMs. Zero drama.

        No issues Budgie

        No issues Plasma.

        No problem here with Budgie on laptop ASUS TUF Dash F15

        Hello,
        The update went through fine on Solus KDE, but.
        I have to boot on the previous kernel 6.12.9-312.current, otherwise when the Vesktop application opens, it doesn't appear on the desktop, but is active.
        On the other hand, my virtual machines via virt-manager are slow.

        ❯ fastfetch   
            -```````````                   julien@konqi
          `-+/------------.`               ------------
       .---:mNo---------------.            OS: Solus 4.7 Endurance x86_64
     .-----yMMMy:---------------.          Kernel: Linux 6.12.9-312.current
   `------oMMMMMm/----------------`        Uptime: 15 mins
  .------/MMMMMMMN+----------------.       Packages: 1324 (eopkg), 136 (flatpak-user)
 .------/NMMMMMMMMm-+/--------------.      Shell: zsh 5.9
`------/NMMMMMMMMMN-:mh/-------------`     Display (GSM5C57): 3840x2160 @ 144 Hz in 27" [External, HDR]
.-----/NMMMMMMMMMMM:-+MMd//oso/:-----.     DE: KDE Plasma 6.2.5
-----/NMMMMMMMMMMMM+--mMMMh::smMmyo:--     WM: KWin (Wayland)
----+NMMMMMMMMMMMMMo--yMMMMNo-:yMMMMd/.    WM Theme: Breeze
.--oMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMy--yMMMMMMh:-yMMMy-`    Theme: Breeze (SolusDark) [Qt], Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3/4]
`-sMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMh--dMMMMMMMd:/Ny+y.     Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
`-/+osyhhdmmNNMMMMMm-/MMMMMMMmh+/ohm+      Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
  .------------:://+-/++++++oshddys:       Cursor: breeze (30px)
   -hhhhyyyyyyyyyyyhhhhddddhysssso-        Terminal: yakuake 24.12.1
    `:ossssssyysssssssssssssssso:`         CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (32) @ 5.88 GHz
      `:+ssssssssssssssssssss+-            GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX [Discrete]
         `-/+ssssssssssso+/-`              GPU 2: AMD Raphael [Integrated]
              `.-----..`                   Memory: 5.71 GiB / 61.95 GiB (9%)
                                           Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)
                                           Disk (/): 973.04 GiB / 1.82 TiB (52%) - btrfs
                                           Disk (/media/julien/10To): 2.00 TiB / 9.02 TiB (22%) - ext4
                                           Disk (/media/julien/1To): 640.20 GiB / 915.82 GiB (70%) - ext4
                                           Disk (/media/julien/2To_Samsung): 1.01 TiB / 1.79 TiB (56%) - ext4
                                           Disk (/media/julien/Crucial): 180.94 GiB / 468.38 GiB (39%) - ext4
                                           Disk (/media/julien/WD2T): 1017.36 GiB / 1.79 TiB (56%) - ext4
                                           Local IP (eno2): 192.168.1.22/24
                                           Locale: fr_FR.utf8

        No problems here on Budgie 👍️

        For me system stopped booting, but boot rescue and reverting the upgrade fixed it. No clue what was the issue

        • johano

          • Post #13

          The bash update this sync overwrites /usr/share/defaults/etc/profile. This removes the code that facilitates the use of ~/.bashrc.d/—added by Ermo I think—for easier management of ~/.bashrc. So the files here are not sourced on opening a terminal. Easy to fix by re-adding:

          # User specific aliases and functions
if [ -d ~/.bashrc.d ]; then
    for rc in ~/.bashrc.d/*; do
        if [ -f "$rc" ]; then
            . "$rc"
        fi
    done
    unset rc
fi

          to /etc/profile, but probably an unintended outcome of the update.

          Apart from that glitch another smooth update on both PC and laptop, thanks.

          • Phiqu

            • Post #14

            Had no problem with the update but ...

            If I switch from the current lts kernel to the 6.12 my system stuck at the bootscreen.

            The error messages I get from the boot screen are:

            Error preparing initrd: Device error
            start_image () returned Device Error

            next is a blackscreen:

            Reboot and Select a proper Boot Device
            or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key

            Have then switch back to the lts kernel and the system is booting again.

            • minh replied to this.

              I did the update again from terminal and looked normal, but on reboot it was still broken. This time I was able to get to text mode to revert it, so it's probably something to do with Nvidia drivers.

              Fine ! Gnome

              XFCE-Beta version, X11 = Problem with multimonitor setup. ( laptop + external monitor ).

              Cannot set the monitor to the correct order. Only the "right side" option works, which forces me to place the laptop on the right side of the external monitor.
              It does not respond to manual order setting and finally has a problem with the "main screen".

              • Mminh

                • Post #18

                Phiqu Error preparing initrd: Device error
                start_image () returned Device Error

                Reboot to kernel 6.12.12 give me this same error message. Lucky me, I still have previous kernel 6.12.9 from boot menu and it works. Thought i maybe a problem with Nvidia, but nvidia-beta-driver-current make not different. I will stay with previous kernel 6.12.9 for now.

                  Yes, I too have problems with kernel 6.12.12, switching back to 6.6.9 no problems.

                  Can someone experiencing the kernel bug please report it on our issue tracker? Thanks.