Sync Update for Week 39, 2023

brent

just got home from work, updated 42 critical packages: kernel, firefox, nemo, glibc, breeze icons, and all else you had in there.
rebooted. all icons good, folders normal, apps all launch, no problems.

As a user I could not be happier with Solus leadership and crew after the power came back on at the beginning of the year.

WetGeek

brent just got home from work, updated 42 critical packages

I just installed 111 on my Plasma laptop. Lots of packages with names starting with "K". As before, when I rebooted, my Bluetooth was disabled. No real biggie this time, as I now knew what to do. I plugged in the dongle for a wireless mouse, and used it to enable Bluetooth in my System Settings. After that, no more problems.

WetGeek

WetGeek As before, when I rebooted, my Bluetooth was disabled.

Team, any idea what might be doing this? The first time it happened, it took me by surprise. It had never happened in all the years I've been doing weekly updates. All I knew was that my mouse didn't work, and my keyboard didn't work. I could do nothing with this laptop. So I used that occasion to reinstall the OS, making some small improvements as I did.

The next week, I accidentally found out that Bluetooth was disabled after the update, so I dug out a wireless mouse, plugged the dongle in, and used that mouse to enable Bluetooth in the system settings. That's all it took to make my mouse and keyboard both work normally again. They even connected automatically.

So, every week since then I've known what to do, and it doesn't take me long to enable things again, but it's really annoying. Plasma system here. Low priority problem. If I should file a bug report, let me know and I'll do that.

UncleSlacky

The update went well as usual, but I wonder why the papirus-icon-theme package always takes so long to install compared with pretty much any other package?

Harvey

UncleSlacky

It contains 100,049 files: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getsolus/packages/f65561579085342c31f9649b17574bad823b7ca5/packages/p/papirus-icon-theme/pspec_x86_64.xml

brent

UncleSlacky I also noticed the update kind of parked itself there for a long while. reckoned it was many files. sometimes these theme folders have. sometimes these theme packages surprise you.

brent

EbonJaeger the firefox weekly update are interesting to read when I make the time to scan changelog:

"CVE-2023-5217 A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libvpx, a library used to process VP8 and VP9 video codecs data, processes certain specially formatted video data via a crafted HTML page. This flaw allows an attacker to crash or remotely execute arbitrary code in an application, such as a web browser that is compiled with this library."

these things are probably more common than I thought. As a layman I think either bad guy tried to implement or a white hat go there first..

ReillyBrogan

brent The former unfortunately. The libvpx vulnerability and last weeks libwebp vulnerability were both discovered being actively exploited in the wild. Hence the rush to patch them across all affected software immediately.

ermo

WetGeek If I should file a bug report, let me know and I'll do that.

I think you should. Then we can make it a point of focus to figure out if this is a general issue, an issue that affects certain hardware etc.

Thanks for reporting and for being so patient with us while we get our ducks in a row.

elfprince

Is there a real need to use Papirus theme? It does take 'eons'....... 😆

ReillyBrogan

elfprince It looks nice and that's good enough for me. It's not like waiting a minute or two for an update to install for it is an actual deal breaker.

elfprince

ReillyBrogan a minute or two? On my machine it takes many minutes.... But I get it. No problemos.

WetGeek

ermo I think you should.

Done. #416.

ReillyBrogan

BTW, let us know if you think this summarized changelog is something you find valuable or not. It takes a fair amount of time to sort it out and we won't do it if it's not useful enough to people (we could be updating more packages with that time instead).

Please mention if you'd be willing to help support someone doing this on a weekly basis via additional opencollective donations.

ermo

ReillyBrogan BTW, let us know if you think this summarized changelog is something you find valuable or not.

I may not be your typical user, but I find it to be a very nice addition to the sync notes.

Top Job! 💪😎👍️

kaktuspalme

ReillyBrogan I like those a lot. It gives somewhat more insight then just looking at the package update list. It also shows how active the development is and might help attracting new users which might help raising more donations. Just restarted my small monthly contribution 😉

But I would understand if you stop it because of the work something like this needs.

zeeleeuw

ReillyBrogan

ReillyBrogan Really liking the summarized changelog 👍. Also happy 😊 with update on LyX. Thanks

Steph

Update ok
Note for Firefox, it was no longer in French but in English, I had to redownload the language fr

davidjharder

Steph Would you mind posting your firefox localization settings to this thread https://discuss.getsol.us/d/9689-firefox-dont-keep-language-setting-after-update/5

ReillyBrogan

Steph This issue has been resolved in unstable and the fix will be in the next sync. Firefox will now automatically adapt to the system locale, and this setting should persist through future updates. You will not need to install any languages manually, the correct one will be installed and configured automatically. Note that existing Firefox profiles will be in English the first time you launch them after the update, but subsequent launches should be in the correct language.