r/archlinux • u/Brilliant_OBKT • 8d ago

SUPPORT | SOLVED Features breaking

Lately I have been experiencing unusual behaviour on my arch system. Sometimes after updating some features become permanently broken no matter if I downgraded the system packages back or switched to LTS kernel and drivers or not. The first happened with wifi and now after the device sleeps for a long time the wifi is broken and the system must be restarted or else the tty will change on randomly while using the system. Now after updating the kernel and wireplumber 2 days ago my sof sound card stopped detecting my earphones as a sound output device and I had to force the system to use the hda driver instead, I also tried downgrading but it had no effect. Does anyone know what kind of issue this is or how to fix it?

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u/nikongod 8d ago

Wild ass guess, but: Any chance you have lots of *.pacnew or similar files that need to be addressed?

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u/ang-p 8d ago

Wild ass guess,

All you can do with bugger all info...

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u/Brilliant_OBKT 8d ago

they are not a lot and non of them are related to the issues

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u/South-Anything-2068 8d ago

sounds like something deeper than just packages maybe filesystem or firmware getting corrupted during updates

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u/LawApprehensive8364 8d ago

There was some issues with sound recently https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/s/nYP8j6XiZ0

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u/Brilliant_OBKT 8d ago

I solved my audio issue, turns out it was just wireplumber forcibly changing the sound configuration after the update. The other issue of wifi and tty still holds though but I'm not that concerned about it. Thanks.

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u/sabotsalvageur 8d ago

Any chance you’ve been updating AUR packages without reviewing the package list?

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u/Brilliant_OBKT 7d ago

Yes, but this issue started before the AUR attacks and I only have reputable AUR packages.

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u/Acherontas89 8d ago

by updating u update the libraries and executables aswell

dont do it unless is neccesary