Sync Updates for Week 30, 2023

Sebastian I don't think anyone is planning on getting rid of Xorg anytime soon, especially as Budgie still relies on it (and MATE for that matter, while the replacement xfce isn't generally available yet). On the other hand it seems the GNOME project tends to only really test things on Wayland these days, and most of their devs don't use Xorg anymore from what I regularly read on their gitlab repositories, so I'd expect to see more and more Xorg-only issues on that particular desktop.

ReillyBrogan It fixes mine too, thanks!

Staudey

WhiteWolf I don't understand what you're trying to say

Hi all
and thanks the team for the efford... the update was huge.

I applied the update yesterday, but this morning there was another smaller update (both times I rebooted the system).
Right after the today's update I had a black screen said that system is in emergency mode :

Pressing Ctrl-D shows Starting default.targer and continues to the login screen !

• I run the commands described in issue Severe lagginess loading applications in GNOME above and rebooted, but these seem irrelevant. (but after that gnome extensions are back yeee ! )
• Also checked issue Swap and other partitions aren't mounting on login, in my setup UUID's are already in use. I provide fstab contents here for anyone to check...

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <fs>      <mountpoint> <type> <opts>      <dump/pass>

# /dev/ROOT   /            ext3    noatime        0 1
# /dev/SWAP   none         swap    sw             0 0
# /dev/fd0    /mnt/floppy  auto    noauto         0 0
none        /proc        proc    nosuid,noexec  0 0
none        /dev/shm     tmpfs   defaults	0 0
UUID=a6dbc22c-4594-4482-88ee-9eaa9d58fbe7   swap    swap    sw  0   0
# /dev/sda3 at time of installation
UUID=7c01f72a-aa98-423a-9e46-9072e9bed746   /home   ext4    rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro   0   2
# /dev/sda2 at time of installation
UUID=cbe8d7f9-19c3-4123-9d8c-f61fda5b93f0   /   ext4    rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro   0   1

# GB1000EAMYC - 1TB (windows 7)
/dev/disk/by-uuid/5EB0ABBBB0AB9853 /mnt/win7-disk auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=win7-disk 0 0

# WD30EZRZ-00GXCB0 - 3TB (didebackup)
/dev/disk/by-uuid/5AAD8CC805012671 /mnt/didebackup auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=didebackup 0 0

any suggestions ?

Staudey Haha, me neither. First of all, it's totally unrelated, and secondly this "poll" only shows that most of it's participants do not use Solus. Doesn't give us any insights for the future directions of Solus, for example.

But I am asking myself for quite a while why the Solus team is not usings polls on this forum to get feedback and opinions of the userbase on some specific topics or the desired course of action.
I mean, I am not trying to say that the decision making process should be democraticed, wouldn't make any sense since what do I now about all theses technical aspects that are important and must be considered for developing an OS, I am just a clueless enduser.
But if I was asked for example should we in general focus more on progress or stability, I would vote for stability.
So now I don't know how to say this without sounding like a total jerk, because I am really grateful for Solus being it simply the best OS I have ever used, but still I wish to express my concern. I remember a time where you could do an update without being worried for a second. Elegance, simplicity, working out of the box and stability/reliability was what Solus was about. And I hoped that we were on this track again by starting the New Voyage. And again, Idon't intend to blame anybody by saying this, I now everybody is working hard to fix issues, and that in spare time and for free.
I just whish that Solus again radiates this shining excellence as most trustworthy, stable, troublefree and beautiful OS ever existed.

Many of my apps can't access my files anymore (Download files in librewolf, add exe to Lutris).

after sync I get this error at boot:

[!!!!!!] Failed to start up manager.
[11.179840] systemd[1]: Freezing execution.

Most of the times restarting solves the problem and I can login succesfully, but today it needed 5 tries.

Fanmion Did you perform the steps under "Severe lagginess loading applications in GNOME" in the known issues in the top thread?

I updated all my computers this morning (Budgie, Plasma), all went smooth.

Thank you very much to the team !

Fanmion Do you mean the file picker?

Fanmion Step by step instructions for reproducing the issue (preferably with pictures if you're having trouble describing what you mean) would be very useful for us to help troubleshoot your issue. It seems like your issue is very uncommon/rare since nobody else seems to fully understand what you're talking about.

[deleted] We added xdg-desktop-portal-gnome to GNOME installs, but using the dbus-broker fix above resolves the only known issue with it. That's why we're asking for reproduction steps as it appears to be a new issue and Fanmion already did the dbus-broker steps.