Solus Updates for Week 10, 2025

PSA for the panicy:
New LibreOffice update made Writer default to Black writing background. Was white.
FIX:
Tools then Options then Appearance then observe 'system' is default, now change to White. Press Apply. Then press OK. Close doc. Reopen. Mine is white again.

Please file this PSA as "smaller than small potatoes; negligible actally."

Just did the sync rn and got this in return. Never had a error like this befor:

[✓] Syncing filesystems success
[✓] Updating dynamic library cache success
[✗] Updating clr-boot-manager failed

A copy of the command output follows:

[FATAL] cbm (../src/bootman/kernel.c:L732): Failed to install initrd /boot/EFI/com.solus-project/initrd-com.solus-project.current.6.12.17-314: No space left on device
[FATAL] cbm (../src/bootman/update.c:L250): Failed to install default-current kernel: ///usr/lib/kernel/com.solus-project.current.6.12.17-314

Do I have to do somehting?

Animpacz I have something similar, my master boot record is missing, at boot the screen reads 'Please insert bootable media and press any key to continue'. Using a 'Live CD' installation disk, i can see my OS files and access them from the file manager. Using the terminal in the live-cd, I've tried to get the MBR repaired, but to no avail thus far. I do not know as i am NOT a person who writes hours of Code, maybe/perhaps an unknown bug exists??? I have 'Mounted' the OS file system and run the file-synch command and it returns this:
[ERROR] cbm (../src/lib/files.c:L181): Invalid block device: /
[ERROR] cbm (../src/lib/system_stub.c:L31): Invalid block device: 0:30
[ERROR] cbm (../src/lib/probe.c:L213): No device for path: /
(../src/lib/probe.c:cbm_probe_path()) Out of memory
[ERROR] cbm (../src/lib/files.c:L181): Invalid block device: /
[FATAL] cbm (../src/bootman/sysconfig.c:L277): sysconfig insane: Missing root device
[ERROR] cbm (../src/bootman/update.c:L218): Failed to repair running kernel
[FATAL] cbm (../src/bootman/sysconfig.c:L277): sysconfig insane: Missing root device
[FATAL] cbm (../src/bootman/update.c:L250): Failed to install default-current kernel: ///usr/lib/kernel/com.solus-project.current.6.10.13-304

If you can fix this let me know @Animpacz

Another nice Solus update today (30 packages, 1.01 GiB).

About LibreOffice, I noticed that there were a significant number of add-ons (58), I don't remember there were being so many before.

What I was able to identify, in no particular order: (English translation by Google Translate)

• German spell checker
• spell checkers, grammar checkers and dictionary of co...(3.3.0 VERO)
• Aragonese, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Korean, Spanish, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Lao, Occitan, Sinhala, Vietnamese spelling dictionaries,
• African, Croatian, Estonian, Serbian spelling and hyphenation dictionary...
• Greek, Telugu spelling dictionary, synonyms and hyphenation rules
• Spelling dictionary, hyphenation rules and thesaurus...
• Swedish dictionary
• Turkish spelling dictionary
• spelling and hyphenation dictionary for Mongolian
• Arabic, Nepali spelling and synonym dictionaries,...
• spelling, synonyms, spelling verification dictionaries...
• Portuguese (Portugal) spelling, hyphenation dictionary words
• Lilak, Persian spelling dictionary
• Classical Tibetan orthography for Hunspell
• Zulu hyphenation rules
• Nonlinear programming solver
• Scottish Gaelic spell checker
• Wiki Publisher

Just amazing...

catfishsushi
For me it seems to have no impact. I did a restart and the system came up just fine. Sorry, hope some one else here can help you or bring light on it.

Update got hung up the first time, rebooting fixed it and it went through fine. It’s a lot faster now too!

Animpacz No space left on device

Check the space on your boot partition.

sudo clr-boot-manager mount-boot
df -h | grep boot

catfishsushi

catfishsushi Sounds like your problem is unrelated, both to the other person's problem and the sync itself (seeing as you already have a 3 day old thread about it)

Sync Update went smooth as always
Changed from KDE plasma to Gnome last week (always something new so that it doesn't get boring )
Did the update with gnome SC. No problems...

brent

Did not happen for me. (Gnome DE)

all fine as usual, both kde and gnome

Update no problem.
ASUS TUF DASH F15
DE Budgie

Animpacz IMO. Not looking good. For a long time, 1G has been the recommended size for EFI.
If you already have the /boot partition mounted, show the output of:

sudo clr-boot-manager list-kernels
sudo du -d1 -h /boot
ls /boot/EFI/com.solus-project/

All’s well that ends well.

Samsung Galaxy Book 12 (i5-7200U)—no problem

Lenovo Legion 5 Slim 14” OLED (7840HS+RTX 4060}—like last week, a ₂ minute black screen on restart after the update before it stated that systemd would reboot. Then it hung on a black screen, I forced shutdown with power button, and it booted up normally. All seems well and I definitely notice improvement with the new Nvidia driver.

Thank you!

AlphaElwedritsch brent

Did not happen for me. (Gnome DE)

was just a psa--I've never seen update results affect everyone that got them; only a handful . likely had to do with theming

brent was just a psa

What's a psa/PSA ?