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downgrading mesa

2026-05-18T14:59:52Z

Do you even know it's a regression in that mesa version?

when I try to launch satisfactory i fails due to some vulkan error

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Post the error and

vulkaninfo --summary

GRUB "Invalid passphrase" but works on different PC

2026-05-18T14:57:12Z

What does fsck tell you about that partition?

Steam giving black screen, has audio and no apparent error.

2026-05-18T14:54:12Z

Can you repro with repo steam? According to this listing flatpak mesa is likely out of date with host mesa, though that shouldn't be as impactful as nvidia lib mismatches.

But to get somewhat more sane information, what output do you get from

pacman -Qs 'nvidia|vulkan|mesa'
glxinfo -B
vulkaninfo --summary #vulkan-tools

pipewire 1.6.5 warning

2026-05-18T14:53:58Z

Does changing the default sample rate to 44100 achieve anything?
Sanity check, you're using pipewire-pulse are are not running pipewire and PA concurrently?
Do you have https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/rtkit/ (working)?

On GTK's retirement of GSettings

2026-05-18T14:40:35Z

can be queried in a platform agnostic way the xdg-desktop-portals do their job reasonably well

1. reading files through a serial bus is a flat out dumb thing, popular with systemd and gnome only - portal kinda does this because it's meant for the flatschpak not-a-sandbox to isolate host files.
2. the various implementations collide what's addressed by hiding (some) services conditional to the DE
3. the varying implementations provide disjunct feature coverage but there's to my knowledge no query nor inherent failsafe plan, so if app developers forget to implement that, things are just broken
4. it's a single point of failure that can disfunct several applications and restarting those will not achieve anything, there's also no watchdog feature and the critical gtk implementation is written by gnome devs…

The overall approach makes somewhat sense with a security/data protection mind, but in general is just bloat.
getenv() works just fine and if one seeks dynamic adaptations (for settings) and can actually agree on some dbus API, one surely can also agree on some fucking ~/.local/share/palette for colors etc.
Also I seem to recall that Qt had no particular problems utilizing the UX disaster gnome calls a file picker, provided you run the Qt client in that environment.

xdg-desktop-portals was intended for, is geared towards flatschpak and is pushed for exactly that reason alone. cmv.

/rant

C++ problem file

2026-05-18T14:19:25Z

seth wrote:

Next to reading a book

I certainly didn't mean this as an "either/or", just to caution that one will not download understanding from a book, Matrix-style.

AUR connection issues (EOF/TLS errors)

2026-05-18T12:03:28Z

@Wennadocta the issue should be resolved for a while now, please let us know if there are still any problems left!

[Solved] Disable touchpad zoom on KDE/Wayland

2026-05-18T12:02:50Z

Thanks for the additional input, do note that the thread is a year old and was fixed via one mean that's likely to still work,

Closing this old topic.

Evolution : crash by clicking on "add a new calendar"

2026-05-18T11:54:30Z

Try installing https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … weather-4/

EFI stub: Warning: unable to unprotect memory range

2026-05-18T10:22:31Z

Tried all the new releases for the B850 GAMING X WIFI6E (Rev. 1.x) and it's still the same

Power spikes on laptop

2026-05-18T10:07:45Z

Baloo should™️ suspend it's indexer when on battery. FWIW I'd surmise somewhat of a spike while resuming stuff from sleep to be normal.

Ardour 9: Some LV2 plugins GUI fail to be opened again once closed

2026-05-18T09:49:49Z

michelesr wrote:

Got my anwser: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/solved-a … =michelesr
It appears to be an issue with mesa, installing mesa-git fixed it. However I don't know why the regular mesa package is broken.

It's because of sysprof integration in mesa: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … ote_474505 .

USB disk keeps disconnecting

2026-05-18T09:05:07Z

What xerxes_ and jonno2002 are pointing out is

[ 332.078275] EXT4-fs (dm-3): unmounting filesystem 245c388e-dec5-4ba7-adf9-c4da95835a16.

this being some sort of raid and the question is whether this also happens w/ a more "regular" usb disk.
Did you test jonno2002's workaround?

[SOLVED] archiso pacman wanting -Sy

2026-05-18T09:04:16Z

Welcome to the forums.

Please create a new thread, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … ow_to_post (especially the last bullet point) for details .

Moderator Note
Closing this thread.

Hibernate/suspend from X = dark panel; from TTY = works (ASUS G14, hyb

2026-05-18T08:54:25Z

May 18 01:14:34 ArkhamComputing systemd[1]: Starting Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen...
May 18 01:14:34 ArkhamComputing systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21 from PID 598 (plymouthd).
May 18 01:14:34 ArkhamComputing systemd[1]: Finished Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen.
May 18 01:17:55 ArkhamComputing sudo[3157]:   curtis : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/curtis/Documents ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl hibernate
May 18 01:17:55 ArkhamComputing systemd-logind[842]: The system will hibernate now!
May 18 01:17:55 ArkhamComputing systemd[1]: Starting System Hibernate...
May 18 01:17:55 ArkhamComputing systemd-sleep[3161]: in suspend-then-hibernate operations or setups with encrypted home directories.
May 18 01:17:55 ArkhamComputing systemd-sleep[3161]: Performing sleep operation 'hibernate'...
May 18 01:18:46 ArkhamComputing systemd-sleep[3161]: System returned from sleep operation 'hibernate'.
May 18 01:18:46 ArkhamComputing systemd[1]: systemd-hibernate.service: Deactivated successfully.
May 18 01:18:46 ArkhamComputing systemd[1]: Finished System Hibernate.
May 18 01:18:46 ArkhamComputing systemd[1]: systemd-hibernate.service: Consumed 2.089s CPU time over 7.517s wall clock time, 2.9M memory peak.
May 18 01:18:46 ArkhamComputing kernel: efivarfs: removing variable HibernateLocation-8cf2644b-4b0b-428f-9387-6d876050dc67
May 18 01:18:46 ArkhamComputing systemd-logind[842]: Operation 'hibernate' finished.
May 18 01:19:11 ArkhamComputing systemd[1]: plymouth-quit.service: Deactivated successfully.
May 18 01:19:11 ArkhamComputing systemd[1]: Stopped Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen.
May 18 01:19:11 ArkhamComputing mkinitcpio[3514]:   -> Running build hook: [plymouth-shutdown]
May 18 01:19:12 ArkhamComputing systemd[1]: Starting Show Plymouth Power Off Screen...

seth wrote:

Disable … certainly plymouth!

W/ the VT switching condition and absent any other explanation for the failure it's the single most suspicious element.

Edit: for clarification, I mean to boot with out it, no plymouth anywhere, including not in the initramfs.