Solus Updates for Week 51, 2025.

CorvusRuber

LOL.
Just LOL.

rmgibbs

Thank you! New to Solus and very impressed with your work!

Best regards,

Rick

sheepman4267

AntL85

Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen.

Solus SC was deprecated for a lot of reasons, but mostly because it's a nearly unmaintainable codebase. It would need to be completely rewritten in order to be acceptable on a modern system. By moving to PackageKit software centers, we get better DE integration on KDE and GNOME, VASTLY decreased maintenance burden, and the same (basically no) DE integration on Budgie and XCFE that we had before. And they're more reliable.

But hey, take this as a challenge: If you really want to take that horrible old codebase and bring it up to modern standards, I'd advocate for the rest of the team to consider it for inclusion. I give you two weeks of effort on that project before you give up and/or go insane.

Also, if a new software center came about that filled a need not filled by Discover or GNOME Software, I'd want us to consider that too. But I don't think it's going to be based on the old SC.

Original-Syn

sheepman4267 Indeed, I looked at that before starting on Solseek. I saw Python 2, and it was an easy decision.

AntL85

sheepman4267

"But hey, take this as a challenge: If you really want to take that horrible old codebase and bring it up to modern standards, I'd advocate for the rest of the team to consider it for inclusion. I give you two weeks of effort on that project before you give up and/or go insane."

Not gonna happen since my developments have now been solely focused on RISC-V systems using COSMIC, Cinnamon and Budgie.

Axios

I dunno Solseek is turning out pretty slick Used it completely this time with no issues.
Just got get it through my head left side is command window and pretty much right side is info+what your doing.
I do eopkg and flatpak updates every friday and its all right their in one spot.
(Just Opinion)

Xoph

Axios It is funny I am used to GUI tools having come over to Linux Desktop just over the last year, but tools like Solseek with its setup feels like a GUI tool and even allows using with the mouse, as I try to get ore efficient with the keyboard centric terminal. I much prefer it to Discover and Gnome Software.

paracetamol

Funny this came up... I experimented with making a clone of Software Center, having had a not so stellar experience with GNOME Software in the past (CPU spikes, high memory usage, general slowness).

Long story short, the transition wasn't as bad as I feared, Solseek became a thing and along the way I realized libadwaita, which I tried to make use of to give the clone a more modern, polished look, is noticeably slower (talking mainly about the time it takes for an application window to initially appear) and clunkier than other GUI toolkits I know. All that combined killed my motivation to continue. But if someone is determined and has the chops, it should not be a prohibitively hard thing to attempt what I tried to do. The data eopkg operates on are XML files and Python's pickled objects. They're both trivial to work with from virtually any Python version. Also some other languages do have libraries able to read the pickle format (serde_pickle in Rust, for example) if Python's not up your alley.

If you'd like a starting point, here's what I managed to put together:

https://github.com/blargh-sys/scredux

elusian

Since the budgie upgrade I have been getting regular budgie-session segfaults (sending me back to the login screen) when doing a specific task.

Probably related to this issue but I'll try to gather some backtraces too

tflovik

I have also exerienced logots from Budgie, everytime it has happened i have been using Firefox so i don't know if that is related or a coincidence.

Original-Syn

tflovik It has been shown to be caused by the Firefox autoscroll.

reon

On a different laptop, I installed the latest ISO and updated to this latest update.

GNOME will take several seconds to show the confirmation window to shutdown/reboot/logout

HuggleBerry

Since the last update I noticed two issues:

AutoFill of KeePassXC stopped working. Could also be an issue with KeePassXC, not sure if there was an update, too
It happened twice that budgie crashed. The second time was just now. Maybe you see something suspicious in the logs?

Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer systemd-coredump[4879]: Process 1506 (budgie-session-) of user 1000 dumped core.

Stack trace of thread 1506:
#0 0x00007f8428c0104d n/a (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x4804d)
#1 0x00007f8428bdcb26 g_object_unref (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x23b26)
#2 0x00007f84286d61a4 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x771a4)
#3 0x00007f84286da5c1 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x7b5c1)
#4 0x00007f84286dfc41 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x80c41)
#5 0x00007f84286e0c08 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x81c08)
#6 0x00007f84286e0e77 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x81e77)
#7 0x0000556f3833247e n/a (/usr/lib64/budgie-session/budgie-session-binary + 0x947e)
#8 0x00007f842822b529 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x2b529)
#9 0x00007f842822b5da __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2b5da)
#10 0x0000556f38332b75 n/a (/usr/lib64/budgie-session/budgie-session-binary + 0x9b75)

Stack trace of thread 1565:
#0 0x00007f8428336dad syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x136dad)
#1 0x00007f842872582d n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xc682d)
#2 0x00007f8428723977 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xc4977)
#3 0x00007f84282a783e n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa783e)
#4 0x00007f84283396dc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x1396dc)

Stack trace of thread 1566:
#0 0x00007f84282afd22 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xafd22)
#1 0x00007f84282a3ab8 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa3ab8)
#2 0x00007f842832ac03 ppoll (libc.so.6 + 0x12ac03)
#3 0x00007f84286e0bdf n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x81bdf)
#4 0x00007f84286e1025 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x82025)
#5 0x00007f8428723977 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xc4977)
#6 0x00007f84282a783e n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa783e)
#7 0x00007f84283396dc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x1396dc)

Stack trace of thread 1567:
#0 0x00007f84282afd22 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xafd22)
#1 0x00007f84282a3ab8 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa3ab8)
#2 0x00007f842832ac03 ppoll (libc.so.6 + 0x12ac03)
#3 0x00007f84286e0bdf n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x81bdf)
#4 0x00007f84286e0e77 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x81e77)
#5 0x00007f8428980160 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x180160)
#6 0x00007f8428723977 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xc4977)
#7 0x00007f84282a783e n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa783e)
#8 0x00007f84283396dc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x1396dc)

Stack trace of thread 1569:
#0 0x00007f84282afd22 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xafd22)
#1 0x00007f84282a3ab8 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa3ab8)
#2 0x00007f842832ac03 ppoll (libc.so.6 + 0x12ac03)
#3 0x00007f84286e0bdf n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x81bdf)
#4 0x00007f84286e0cf8 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x81cf8)
#5 0x00007f84264958de n/a (libdconfsettings.so + 0xb8de)
#6 0x00007f8428723977 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xc4977)
#7 0x00007f84282a783e n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa783e)
#8 0x00007f84283396dc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x1396dc)
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon.desktop[2349]: ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2349, errno = 25
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer org.kde.discover.notifier.desktop[2356]: ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2356, errno = 2
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer org.buddiesofbudgie.BudgieWm.desktop[1774]: Window manager warning: META_CURRENT_TIME used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer xdg-desktop-portal-gtk[2513]: Backend call failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Remote peer disconnected
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer DiscoverNotifier[2356]: QThreadStorage: entry 6 destroyed before end of thread 0x55cb381e1330
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer DiscoverNotifier[2356]: QThreadStorage: entry 2 destroyed before end of thread 0x55cb381e1330
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer DiscoverNotifier[2356]: QThreadStorage: entry 1 destroyed before end of thread 0x55cb381e1330
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer at-spi2-registryd[1717]: X connection to :0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer systemd[1486]: dbus-:1.8-org.a11y.atspi.Registry@0.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer systemd[1486]: dbus-:1.8-org.a11y.atspi.Registry@0.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer systemd[1486]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer systemd[1486]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Starting xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service - Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation)...
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer xdg-desktop-portal-gtk[4998]: cannot open display: :0
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer systemd[1486]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer systemd[1486]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dez 30 17:50:57 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Failed to start xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service - Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation).
Dez 30 17:51:03 MyComputer wireplumber[1752]: spa.bluez5: BlueZ system service is not available
Dez 30 17:51:03 MyComputer budgie-session[5288]: budgie-session-binary[5288]: WARNING: Desktop file /usr/share/xdg/autostart/org.buddiesofbudgie.SettingsDaemon.DiskUtilityNotify.desktop for application org.buddiesofbudgie.SettingsDaemon.DiskUtilityNotify.desktop could not be parsed or references a missing TryExec binary
Dez 30 17:51:03 MyComputer budgie-session-binary[5288]: WARNING: Desktop file /usr/share/xdg/autostart/org.buddiesofbudgie.SettingsDaemon.DiskUtilityNotify.desktop for application org.buddiesofbudgie.SettingsDaemon.DiskUtilityNotify.desktop could not be parsed or references a missing TryExec binary
Dez 30 17:51:03 MyComputer gsd-xsettings[5329]: Failed to get current UI scaling factor: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Destination does not exist
Dez 30 17:51:03 MyComputer gsd-usb-protection[5407]: Failed to get screen saver status: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
Dez 30 17:51:03 MyComputer gsd-usb-protection[5407]: Failed to fetch USBGuard parameters: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
Dez 30 17:51:03 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Started dbus-:1.8-org.a11y.atspi.Registry@1.service.
Dez 30 17:51:03 MyComputer gsd-sharing[5357]: Failed to stop gnome-user-share-webdav.service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit: Unit gnome-user-share-webdav.service not loaded.
Dez 30 17:51:03 MyComputer gsd-sharing[5357]: Failed to stop rygel.service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit: Unit rygel.service not loaded.
Dez 30 17:51:03 MyComputer at-spi2-registryd[5463]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Dez 30 17:51:03 MyComputer spice-vdagent[5479]: vdagent virtio channel /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 does not exist, exiting
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-wm[5474]: Running Mutter(Budgie) (using mutter 0.9.4) as a X11 window and compositing manager
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer bsd-power[5413]: Error setting property 'PowerSaveMode' on interface org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig: Cannot invoke method; proxy is for the well-known name org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig without an owner, and proxy was constructed with the G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_DO_NOT_AUTO_START flag (g-io-error-quark, 0)
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-wm[5474]: Called enable_unredirect_for_display while unredirection is enabled.
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer org.buddiesofbudgie.BudgieWm.desktop[5474]: Window manager warning: Failed to parse saved session file: Datei »/home/boing/.config/mutter/sessions/1038206f85d37416f4176711346394437000000052880000.ms« konnte nicht geöffnet werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-wm[5474]: Property 'libinput Accel Profile Enabled Default' for device 'HID 1241:1166' returned 3 items, expected 2
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-wm[5474]: Property 'libinput Accel Profiles Available' for device 'HID 1241:1166' returned 3 items, expected 2
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-wm[5474]: Property 'libinput Accel Profile Enabled' for device 'HID 1241:1166' returned 3 items, expected 2
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Started dbus-:1.2-org.freedesktop.portal.IBus@1.service.
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer bsd-media-keys[5384]: Failed to grab accelerator for keybinding settings:rotate-video-lock
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer bsd-media-keys[5384]: Failed to grab accelerator for keybinding settings:screensaver
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer bsd-media-keys[5384]: Failed to grab accelerator for keybinding settings:playback-random
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer bsd-media-keys[5384]: Failed to grab accelerator for keybinding settings:playback-repeat
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer bsd-media-keys[5384]: Failed to grab accelerator for keybinding settings:hibernate
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-panel[5545]: gi_repository_require: assertion 'GI_IS_REPOSITORY (repository)' failed
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-panel[5545]: notifications_view.vala:186: Unable to connect to notifications dispatcher: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-panel[5545]: OverlayMenus.vala:129: Unable to connect to Budgie XDGDirTracker: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-daemon[5900]: statusnotifier.vala:149: Registered status notifier host org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierHost-budgie_daemon
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-session-binary[5288]: Entering running state
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-daemon[5900]: statusnotifier.vala:149: Registered status notifier host org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierHost-budgie_e6fd0614-0e07-11ef-9aa8-581122c6e2c7
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-daemon[5900]: statusnotifier.vala:117: Received register request for item with service=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/nm_applet, path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/nm_applet, name=:1.156, sender=:1.156, owner=:1.156
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer budgie-daemon[5900]: statusnotifier.vala:119: Registering item with service=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/nm_applet, path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/nm_applet, name=:1.156, sender=:1.156, owner=:1.156
Dez 30 17:51:04 MyComputer snap-userd-autostart.desktop[6060]: WARNING: snap is running with partial confinement. Snaps may stop working in 2025. See https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/software/third-party/snap for details
Dez 30 17:51:08 MyComputer firefox.desktop[6510]: ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
Dez 30 17:51:08 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Starting xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service - Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation)...
Dez 30 17:51:08 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Started xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service - Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation).
Dez 30 17:51:11 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Created slice app-dbus\x2d:1.2\x2dorg.gnome.keyring.slice - Slice /app/dbus-:1.2-org.gnome.keyring.
Dez 30 17:51:11 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Started dbus-:1.2-org.gnome.keyring@0.service.
Dez 30 17:51:11 MyComputer gnome-keyring-daemon[7259]: discover_other_daemon: 1
Dez 30 17:51:11 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Created slice app-org.gnome.Terminal.slice - Slice /app/org.gnome.Terminal.
Dez 30 17:51:11 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Starting gnome-terminal-server.service - GNOME Terminal Server...
Dez 30 17:51:12 MyComputer org.gnome.Terminal[7272]: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Dez 30 17:51:12 MyComputer org.gnome.Terminal[7272]: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Dez 30 17:51:12 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Started gnome-terminal-server.service - GNOME Terminal Server.
Dez 30 17:51:12 MyComputer systemd[1486]: Started vte-spawn-e1e5f63e-c6d0-465e-8c91-222d7907787a.scope - VTE child process 7543 launched by org.gnome.Terminal process 7272.
Dez 30 17:51:13 MyComputer budgie-panel[5545]: Dropping signal PropertiesChanged of type (sa{sv}as) since the type from the expected interface is ()

TraceyC

HuggleBerry

This is the same crash elusian reported in this reply. There's a link to the issue on the Budgie tracker.

Tranquility

HuggleBerry Question regarding the AutoFill not working for you: I recently did a fresh install of Solus and had KeePassXC running with default-settings. One of the default-settings, when performing auto-fill (Ctrl+Shift+V), is to prompt you with a dialog whether you truly want to copy/paste your credentials, and then you have to click yes or no. I clicked yes and nothing happened. This is obviously wrong behaviour, I'd say.
But then I changed the KeePassXC-setting to NOT ask any more and then AutoFill worked fine again.
Can you try if that fixes it for you, too?

Edit: Just to make sure, here's a screenshot of the setting:

HuggleBerry

TraceyC
Great, thank you!

Tranquility
Nope, that didn't do the trick. I reinstalled KeePassXC but that also did not help. Upon further testing I noticed that it works every once in a while, like every 10th try. I didn't figure out why 🙂

Axios

I never ever have Firefox crash in last 10years but it did..
Sent report to Mozilla

So maybe it will help with latest issue.
Havent changed Firefox at all.
plasma
(Dunno)

For the dev this is the crash report on mozilla site
https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/893c47c7-0aea-4670-93e4-4c9020251230
might be of help

Original-Syn

Axios
Looking at the Firefox crash reports, this appears to be a common issue reported over the last few weeks across multiple distros and DEs. The signature libgallium-25.3.1.so (part of Mesa) has close to 300 reports over the last few weeks.

https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/signature/?product=Firefox&signature=libgallium-25.3.1.so&date=%3E%3D2025-12-23T23%3A36%3A00.000Z&date=%3C2025-12-30T23%3A36%3A00.000Z&_columns=date&_columns=product&_columns=version&_columns=build_id&_columns=platform&_columns=reason&_columns=address&_columns=install_time&_columns=startup_crash&_sort=&page=1

Axios

Original-Syn I knew it was a problem child from just a google search
didnt know you could search mozilla that way thanks thats cool.

Maybe the info will help with issues.
My budgie kicked back to login screen and firefox crashed on plasma so something seems to effect them both
More info the better

Original-Syn

Axios Absolutely

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