sudo pacman -Syu breaks the install

[vitekc45c]

Pinephone
Affected versions: beta 15 rc 4, 3, 2, 1, beta 14 (stable)
Error:

debugfs: File ´Bluetooth Playback´ in directory ´dapm´ already present!
debugfs: File ´Bluetooth Capture´ in directory ´dapm´ already present!
rcu: INFO: cru_preemp detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks { p2240} jiffies s: 237 root: 0x0/T
rcu: INFO: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCUdebug):

How to reproduce:
Flash image on SD card
boot phone
run update commands in console
reboot

[fedoraJ]

Which mobile desktop are you running? There is an issue with updates breaking SDDM for plasma-mobile.

[vitekc45c]

Which mobile desktop are you running? There is an issue with updates breaking SDDM for plasma-mobile.

Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-beta, on pinephone.

[fedoraJ]

Sounds like it's the same update bug. You can connect a keyboard to the pinephone and get into a tty session(CNTRL-ALT-F2).

If you run

sudo systemctl status sddm.service

do you get a message that the service has failed?

[franzthiemann]

I don't had a change to connect a keyboard yet, but I get the message:
[FAILED] Failed to start Simple Desktop Display Manager
when I boot my Pinephone Pro.

I also tried re flashing the Beta 15 RC4 Image. When I update using pacman -Syu I get to the same situation

Edit: screenshot of output of sudo systemctl status sddm.service: https://imgur.com/NI05Lse

[GreeyChip]

Have the same issue.
Updated with command sudo pacman -Syu
Output of sudo systemctl status sddm.service

× sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2023-10-08 01:48:48 NZDT; 2min 46s ago
   Duration: 72ms
       Docs: man:sddm(1)
             man:sddm.conf(5)
    Process: 4706 ExecStart=/usr/bin/sddm (code=exited, status=127)
   Main PID: 4706 (code=exited, status=127)
        CPU: 62ms

Oct 08 01:48:48 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: sddm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Oct 08 01:48:48 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: sddm.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 08 01:48:48 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: sddm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 08 01:48:48 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: Failed to start Simple Desktop Display Manager.

Output of journalctl -e

Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm sddm[4805]: /usr/bin/sddm: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.72: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm sudo[4798]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: sddm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: sddm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: sddm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm sddm[4812]: /usr/bin/sddm: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.72: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: sddm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: sddm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: sddm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: sddm.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: sddm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 08 01:58:26 manjaro-arm systemd[1]: Failed to start Simple Desktop Display Manager.

output of ldconfig -p | grep libicui18n

libicui18n.so.73 (libc6,AArch64) => /usr/lib/libicui18n.so.73
libicui18n.so (libc6,AArch64) => /usr/lib/libicui18n.so

[Strilock]

Can confirm, this happens on a fresh install. Tried multiple times, exaclty the same issue and same error messages.

[franzthiemann]

If you have the usb hub for the you can execute the following commands to fix it:
sudo pacman -Rdd qt5-es2-base qt5-es2-multimedia qt5-es2-declarative
sudo pacman -Syu qt5-base qt5-multimedia qt5-declarative
sudo reboot
of course, this requires a keyboard and an Ethernet connection

[Strilock]

Yep, that seems to have fully fixed the issue. Thanks for the swift response.

[fedoraJ]

Fixed the issue with mine a well. I didn't need to use the hub. My pinephone connects to my WiFi just fine even in the TTY session.

[Athozus]

sudo pacman -Rdd qt5-es2-base qt5-es2-multimedia qt5-es2-declarative
sudo pacman -Syu qt5-base qt5-multimedia qt5-declarative
sudo reboot

This solution worked so well for me, thanks a lot.

Note that I just did it on a working system (before the update), and I haven't needed to update first then enter tty, it was all-in-one. I also, of course, used a backup with Jumpdrive in case of mistake.

I'm not waiting for new Manjaro ARM release in order to get a well fixed system with latest 5.27 Plasma.