Sync Updates for Week 30, 2023

ReillyBrogan

nolan Which issues did you have specifically? And which ones have you resolved?

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ReillyBrogan
Warning ahead, can't troubleshoot as I don't have the problematic install
The following refers to my previous install which had issues with this update.

Whether you're on the LTS or current kernel

Current (Shannon)
6.3.12-244.current
Trying the previous stable one didn't help after the update

DE (Budgie, GNOME, Plasma, Other?)

Budgie 10.7.2

GPU and GPU driver

Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
I believe the drivers were, non formally, that mesa and that i915. (default, updated with the system)

I believe the following was true also for the previous install:
driver: i915
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
resolution: 1366x768_60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.4 renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL
GT2)

Whether or not you have secure boot enabled.

I didn't have secure boot enabled (and still don't)
I do have a UEFI/GPT/Solus automatic full disk (previous time with Luks, LVM) installation.

Also, had Luks and LVM (now I don't use).

Could login, but couldn't use the desktop once logged in. Mouse cursor moved and that's it. icon panels were missing, mouse clicks didn't do anything or were not captured etc (non formal description). I didn't know enough/though to check keyboard by then.

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I forgot:

on chroot, made the 1st steps as written and then I had eopkg check with no broken package. I did notice the upgrade removed package, no idea if that is OK, it could be.

Anyway in time I was asked to in instruction, I did trigger the things which are triggered after update as was asked, I think I exit as had to, and rebooted, (I don't remember the orders, but those I followed,) instruction said don't reroll unless issue was not solved by those previous steps and a reboot, it didn't solve the issue, but from that point I messed up by my fault before even getting to try the actual reroll.

CPU I forgot to add (the rest of the info, above)
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 1024 KiB

EbonJaeger

For Budgie people having login problems where you get the Oh No screen, what we really need are journal logs which should point us in the right direction.

Attempt to log in
Get to Oh No screen
Switch to a TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F2)
journalctl -xe and look for errors; most probably a SEGFAULT

The trick will be figuring out how to post the logs, given you can't start a Budgie session... The best you can do might be to take a picture of the screen with a phone and use that to post to the forums. Not ideal, but...

If anyone else has a better idea to get logs, please share.

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EbonJaeger
Regarding method of getting (existing) logs. I had a way. It's not a recommendation, it's for those who may install anyway unless one else who fits to recommend, recommends it.

I think I could copy some logs while using a USB live with storage and also decided to take some logs to storage on the session while I was chrooting. Maybe such could be done from an OS on other disk as well, regardless of chrooting maybe too. Somehow. I don't know regarding permissions.
But it was easier for me and maybe it is easier than remembering the command but I did that only as a last resort since I'm going to install something else on the system soon anyway.

(my backup is OS agnostic as far as I know, so I am not afraid, though it takes some work and apps etc are not backed up in the way I chose, it can still bring back an OS like solus of any flavour/mint/mx, maybe zorin maybe even spiral etc, to function nicely in not so long time after an installation.)

nolan

regarding to the boot issue, I took a picture [too big here]
it said:

[!!!!!!] Failed to start up manager.
[  15.188781] systemd[1]: Feezing execution.

was the only in the screen.

I thought it could be some issue it the bios (uefi configuration) I guess I disabled secure boot or something else, I managed to boot selecting the disc drive instead of the solus boot manager(uefi), Checked for broken packages and as I said

nolan font-weather-icons-otf

was broken, reinstalled it with --reinstall , rebooted and selecting the disck drive again, booted to desktop as normal, shut down and boot a few times to ensure it was OK, no problems after that.

Then followed the guide for enabling secure boot in an existing installation, I updated clr-boot-manager clr-boot-manager update maybe it fixed the problem? I'm not sure at this point.

nolan

No SEGFAULT fortunately

nolan

nolan I'm on desktop now, no problems on my end at the time.
EDIT: the dates are wrong, it's not today [29] it's yesterday [28] that is useless now.

penny-farthing

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.

528491

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!

ReillyBrogan

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

brent

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

penny-farthing

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. 😉

WetGeek

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.

rothom

Great work, no issues (Budgie)

EbonJaeger

Tracked down the Mahjongg issue. The package in the repo just needs to be updated.

EDIT: FIxed in Unstable

penny-farthing

ReillyBrogan
EbonJaeger

So I'd like to join @WetGeek in thanking you both for your remarkable efficiency (and the Solus team in general).

inkbug

AhmedBenhamouda

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

AhmedBenhamouda

ReillyBrogan tried that
This is what I have

synth-ruiner

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.

ReillyBrogan

synth-ruiner can we get some info on what your system is? Specs, DE, etc?

ReillyBrogan

dassuan Can you update again and see if this issue is still present?

synth-ruiner This one might also have been fixed by the ibus patches I just pushed to stable. Can you update again and test it?

Staudey

synth-ruiner Saw this ibus regression on their dev tracker, so yeah, probably also related to the 1.5.28 update (now reverted)

https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2480

RegularJogger

@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

I was asking about what steps in @EbonJaeger 's post fixed the gnome-mahjongg issue when I realized that it was in answer to a much earlier problem. So I tried to delete my post, but cannot find a way to do that. Is this a new flarum feature? Immutable posts?

inkbug

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"

sudo eopkg rebuild-db

sudo eopkg up

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.

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