Solus Updates for Week 15, 2025

brent

downloaded and rebooted and all is fine. thank you.
PS--Showtime looks really really cool.
edit--Showtime will not launch, here is the output:

$ showtime
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/showtime/main.py", line 330, in do_activate
    win = ShowtimeWindow(
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/showtime/window.py", line 180, in __init__
    self.paintable, self.play, self.pipeline = gst_play_setup(self.picture)
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/showtime/play.py", line 37, in gst_play_setup
    paintable = sink.props.paintable  # type: ignore
                ^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'props'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/showtime/main.py", line 330, in do_activate
    win = ShowtimeWindow(
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/showtime/window.py", line 180, in __init__
    self.paintable, self.play, self.pipeline = gst_play_setup(self.picture)
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/showtime/play.py", line 37, in gst_play_setup
    paintable = sink.props.paintable  # type: ignore
                ^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'props'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/showtime/main.py", line 330, in do_activate
    win = ShowtimeWindow(
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/showtime/window.py", line 180, in __init__
    self.paintable, self.play, self.pipeline = gst_play_setup(self.picture)
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/showtime/play.py", line 37, in gst_play_setup
    paintable = sink.props.paintable  # type: ignore
                ^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'props'

I am rebooted etc.
PS --I don't care I have other media players, just passing on.

EbonJaeger

brent Just fixed in Unstable. It was missing a runtime dependency on non-GNOME systems. We're probably going to sync again soonish for an AppStream data fix, so it should hit Stable/Shannon sooner rather than later.

brent

EbonJaeger Harvey

sorry it took a while to get back to you.
my personal thanks for the inclusion of this and to whoever maintains it.

borderless video player is badass. never had one before

Harvey

2nd sync has been performed. showtime will now work on non-gnome systems.

Axios

I got side tracked did not file report but open snitch still doesnt launch for me.
See it was updated

uni-dos

Axios Hm, did you reboot after the sync? What DE are you using?

Axios

That got things happening but when starting up I get these 2 warnings on screen

Budgie
Opensnitch Seems sluggish and slow not computer
But it is starting now and gui works

Rebooted couple more times seems responsive now and working except for those warnings
Its late here will give it a run through later.
Appreciate all your hard work,

brent

Axios https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/should-i-be-worried-ebpf-error-on-boot/63563

also I saw both errors common around github it's a known known to devs and always seems to get patched and always seems to affect X amt of users, and, the kicker, for an infinite amt of reasons for ebpf errors from no symlink to missing stuff in folders etc etc

but you have already done all that reading. hope it works out

uni-dos

Axios Glad that worked. At the moment I haven’t packaged the ebpf modules so these warnings are expected. As for the sluggishness, I can’t explain that.

Axios

brent Nope didnt know about that
Thanks for info

betelgeza

I can't update "Package failed to install: Could not update: Component.localName: 'ar' language of tag 'LocalName' is empty." I use discover

betelgeza

betelgeza I fixed it by using the Solus software center instead of discover. Does anyone know why discover has this issue?

Harvey

Software center uses the old eopkg. Discover uses a newish package kit backend for eopkg python 3 version. When you switch between old and new it has to recreate everything thus fixing what broke. Alternatively you could have just done:

sudo eopkg ur --force and kept using discover.

We do not know the root cause of the issue.

AlphaElwedritsch

no issues so far on my Gnome...

Lucien_Lachance

wow darkly is beautiful, to my suprise works with light themes as well (i guess the name made me thing is was for dark themes only)
everything else seems good as well!

edit: big thanks to whoever added darkly. feels like my plasma has gone from 2010 to 2025!

banger

All good on my Plasma machines. 🙂

Axios

uni-dos I updated opensnitch on my other laptop everything went fine and working fine
all except the 2 warnings. (As you explained)
I think I got some gremlins in the other laptop that I my have to attend to
This machine runs budgie also.
Again thanks for you hard work.
Never in a million years did I expect to see this little program on LInux or solus.

penny-farthing

I used Discover to update my system (Budgie desktop).
There were 57 packages to update (including 47 system updates) and everything was OK. Discover seems to be smoother than Gnome Software (subjective impression?).

2 comments, however:

Discover doesn't display alerts, unlike Solus Software, which can be annoying if one day, there's an urgent security update to be done.
Also, last week, there was a kernel update (version 6.12.21-316). As a result, the boot screen displayed the new kernel and the previous kernel; so far, this is normal.
After processing the new update today, there was no kernel update. After rebooting, surprise: the boot screen now only displays "Solus 4.7 Endurance," which I assume means access to the most recent Solus kernel. Is this normal?

Thanks for your feedback.

Blumoop

Question, when Discover and GNOME Software become ready to release in Solus, will the old Solus Software Center automatically be deleted and replaced?

TraceyC

Blumoop Question, when Discover and GNOME Software become ready to release in Solus, will the old Solus Software Center automatically be deleted and replaced?

Not exactly. Discover and GNOME Software Center are already released and available for people to install, as noted by people using them. The intention in 4.7 is to allow people to voluntarily install them, so they could share feedback and report any bugs so we can address them.

In 4.8, Discover and GNOME Software Center will be installed by default in new installs (and added to existing installs), along with Solus Software Center. This will allow more users to test and report feedback. We will address any issues coming out of this as well.

We do intend to deprecate Solus Software Center in the release after 4.8, if there are no major issues in doing so and we feel the other software centers live up to our standard of quality. (No ETAs).