Sync Updates for Week 30, 2023

No SEGFAULT fortunately

I'm a Budgie desktop user, 216 updates, 1.55 GiB processed today.

After rebooting, I encountered a problem on Redshift, reported by @brent :
I had the message "Failed ro run Redshift. Trying location provider 'geoclue2'... Unable to get location from provider".

On @Staudey 's wise advice, I set the command

/usr/lib/geoclue/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent

to autostart in Budgie Desktop Settings, but I had to reboot my computer, because otherwise I couldn't play my music or videos (application screen frozen). The problem is now solved for redshift after reboot, it's an interesting application which has the advantage of gently and gradually reddening the screen in the evening.

If I notice anything else, I'll be sure to let you know.

In any case, thank you and congratulations to the Solus developer teams, well aware of the hard work provided, which fully justifies the absence of updates last week.
I would also like to salute the effort to inform users, made each week by these teams concerning these updates. @WetGeek had asked for it with insistence, he was right, thanks to him too.

I use arc-gtk-theme as my Gnome Shell theme. It works great as a gtk theme, but for Gnome Shell it broke with the upgrade to 44. This is minor and also an upstream issue, so no problem here. Just switched to the default shell theme for now. Everything else went smooth, thanks for the huge amount of upgrades!

Users who are still experiencing issue with Budgie and are using Intel graphics, does sudo eopkg it mesalib --reinstall help at all?

Staudey Seems like this was already an issue in the past with a geoclue update (that's why it was reverted here). Unfortunately it seems the redshift app no longer sees any development.

edit: Arch Wiki describes a workaround here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/redshift#Automatic_location_based_on_GeoClue2
(but note that the location is apparently different in Solus: /usr/lib/geoclue/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent)

Staudey I added the command for geoclue and it worked, thank you. If Redshift is being neglected then its a perfect time for me to migrate to Budgie's NightLight. thanks for the info

Another bug found on Budgie Desktop concerning the Mahjongg game: it's not possible to click anywhere other than on the middle pawn, as shown below:

And of course, you can't play to it !
I specify that I played it this week before update without encountering this problem.
Thank you in advance for your help, but of course, there is no emergency.

Great work, no issues (Budgie)

penny-farthing And of course, you can't play to it !

Confirming this for myself and my wife. She tried to play gnome-mahjongg this morning, and I thought it was just her laptop acting up. But after seeing this post in the forum, I checked my laptop as well, and sure enough, it affects me, too. I just hadn't tried to play any of these games today.

AhmedBenhamouda

I had the very same issue (Solus Plasma), however, the steps in EbonJaeger 's post corrected the issue.

ReillyBrogan tried that
This is what I have

Playing a game using Wine this morning, I noticed my keypresses are sometimes getting 'stuck', like the keydown event is registering but not the keyup, and I have to press the key a second time to cancel it out. I never got this before the update, so I'm inclined to think it's related. Typing out this post has been fine so I don't think it's an overall system problem.

@EbonJaeger @ReillyBrogan

• current kernel
• Budgie edition
• Intel HD 530, i915 driver
• secure boot disabled

Can get to a different tty from the login screen, so here's my journalctl -rb dump pastebin from one of the failed Budgie session boots:

My budgie panel applets:

• keyboard language indicator/switcher
• keyboard lock keys indicator
• budgie menu
• icon task list
• systray, network, volume (sorry, don’t remember if these are separate or not)
• notifications
• clock
• raven trigger

Not sure if worth mentioning but I also just noticed that when my panel pops in before the desktop gets completely frozen by the memory leak/cpu load caused by budgie-panel, the icon task list applet has been the only applet that's consistently missing from the panel at that stage every single time so far.

Also what else I've tried to do to, unfortunately, no effect:

• rolling the update back (eopkg throws a system error: Repo item libatk-32bit not found)
• reinstalling budgie-desktop
• reinstalling mesalib
• booting in with a previous kernel

Thank you so much for looking into this!

WetGeek

Referring to this page of the help center, I mounted my system from a live usb of ZorinOs which I happened to have at hand, and chrooted my Solus system.

Then I followed the first three steps under "Repairing Packages"

1. sudo eopkg rebuild-db
2. sudo eopkg up
3. sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall If you see output that starts with "Usage", this means the system has no broken packages.

Then I ran sudo eopkg it --reinstall systemd and rebooted.

That seems to have done the trick.

inkbug Then I followed the first three steps under "Repairing Packages"

Thanks for your reply. Indeed, these are steps to solve a booting problem. That's a much earlier issue than the mouse problem I had confirmed I was having with the gnome-mahjongg solitaire game. @EbonJaeger had written that he has fixed it in the unstable repository, so it's no longer an issue.

That's why I wrote to tell you I was trying to respond to a message you wrote about an earlier problem somebody else had. I confused that reference with @Ebonjaeger's more recent message, which didn't contain any "steps" in it.

But when I realized that you and I were referring to two different messages from @EbonJaeger, and tried to delete my post (so I wouldn't add to the confusion) I wasn't able to delete it. I'm not having a boot problem at all. Just a mouse problem in that specific game that's already been fixed in the unstable repository.