Solus Update Post for Week 42, 2025

bubba66

All good on the Budgie box and 2 x XFCE laptops 🙂

Thank you

Mark12870

I would like to point out that linux-current still has a bug on AMD GPU. There is a problem with suspending and it is fixed on kernel 6.17.
More info here: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-PM-Hibernation-FIxes

ernesto

Everything is fine on XFCE after the update. Thank you team.

Axios

All is well.

mestrini

Still stuck in 6.15.6-321 with same issue from https://discuss.getsol.us/d/11953-blank-screen-after-updating-to-6165-332

macmau74

This morning I easily updated a Solus Budgie virtual machine to Polaris. However, my laptop Asus still remain on Shannon, even though I repeated the instructions..

Sebastian

For me, I had to Install any package via eopkg for the switch to Polaris be visible with the eopkg lr command

AlphaElwedritsch

Sebastian For me, I had to Install any package via eopkg

😳 Really? Any package? The complete repo?

😂 Just a joke... 😉

Sebastian

No, I meant any one, not any

AlphaElwedritsch

Sebastian I know, was a joke...

AlphaElwedritsch

The epochal transition went smoothly.
I'm now on Polaris...

But one thing is strange.

Gnome Software wants to update my "Secure Boot dbx" from 20230501 to 20250507 as integrated firmware.

But eopkg up doesn't show me this update. Why?

Should I do the update in Gnome Software, or will the machine no longer boot?

alfisya

AlphaElwedritsch Firmware update is provided by fwupd and not provided/controlled by Solus. It usually comes straight from manufacturer through LVFS.

That's what Gnome Software and Discover shows.

AlphaElwedritsch

Thanks. I did it. No problems...

BuzzPCSOS

There have been some issues with my Plasma Laptop regarding battery charging.
My battery is prevented from charging above 80%, my battery is normally at about 80% charge.
Directly after the update was complete I shut my laptop down for a few hours. When I switched it back on again the battery was showing 7% charge which is excessively high discharge even if it had entered a suspend or hibernate mode. I switched off again and left it charging for thee of four hours. When it was turned back on again the battery showed 20% charge. It has never done this before, battery health is about 79% so it should be fine. Poked about in the Energy - Info Centre and suddenly my battery charge shot up to 100%. All very strange behaviour, I hope it has had it's little tantrum and everything is back to normal now.

Edit: 24 hours on and everything is behaving fine. Just a glitch I guess. Really weird though.

DinimixisDEMZ

BuzzPCSOS I am experiencing this issue (and my laptop is new).

I solved this by changing the kernel scheduler (I tested with scxctl) and fixed it with rusty. (The most for my laptop)

This is so very strange...

After 2d, I changed to the "rusty" scheduler, testing with scxctl switch -s rusty and editing /usr/share/defaults/scx_loader/config.toml to preserve the setting across reboots.

I think... it's a trouble with the flash scheduler?

vemothe

Seems like the proton-vpn-gtk-app broke with this update since I had to install the following dependencies to get it working - python-bcrypt python-pynacl python-aiohttp python-fido2 python-gnupg python-jinja

alfisya

vemothe Hopefully will be fixed by this. It will come next sync. Cheers!

theabdulhakim

I really miss the Solus Software Center — it was fast, clean, and perfectly integrated with the system. Please consider bringing it back! If needed, you could also add optional support for third-party sources like Flathub to give users more flexibility while keeping the native experience intact.

AlphaElwedritsch

theabdulhakim Please consider bringing it back!

That won't happen. You have to get used to it, no matter how painful it may be. The path is irreversible.

Sometimes things get worse before they get better.

And if you feel like everything is falling apart, stay calm. It's just sorting itself out.

Dalai Lama

Harvey

Lets see. Do a fuck tonne more work to bring back an updated version of the old software center with new features that would only work with eopkg which we are going to switch away from in the long run?

Umm... No.

WhiteWolf

Harvey does it meant we will moss? 🙂 In far, far future? Or a Solus fork of it? Or something totally new?

Harvey

WhiteWolf
Yes moss and a lot of other tooling from AerynOS as we said ages ago https://getsol.us/2023/04/18/a-new-voyage/

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