Cinnamon 6.6.0-1 breaks Desktop and Panel

[jstonepvr]

This evening I updated Cinnamon to version 6.6.0-1 and immediately lost both the desktop and panel. I was able to downgrade Cinnamon to version 6.4.13, and after a reboot, everything is back to normal. I have edited the /etc/pacman.conf file to ignore Cinnamon for the time being. Any help and /or ideas are appreciated. Thank you!

The following is my system info:

jeff@Lappy ~]$ inxi -Fxxx
System:
  Host: Lappy Kernel: 6.17.9-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 15.2.1 clocksource: tsc
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.13 tk: GTK v: 3.24.51 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 14-cf0xxx v: Type1ProductConfigId
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8544 v: KBC Version 74.37 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 5VQ99UA#ABA uuid: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI
    vendor: Insyde v: F.64 date: 07/23/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 21.6 Wh (100%) condition: 21.6/21.6 Wh (100%)
    volts: 11.63 min: 11.55 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion
    serial: 02778 01/26/2019 charging: status: full cycles: N/A
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3-7100U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    smt: enabled arch: Amber/Kaby Lake note: check rev: 9 cache: L1: 128 KiB
    L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2400 min/max: 400/2400 cores: 1: 2400 2: 2400 3: 2400
    4: 2400 bogomips: 19200
  Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 off: eDP-1 empty: none
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5916 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Quanta HP TrueVision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 0408:5362
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.00x11.26")
    s-diag: 583mm (22.95")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 pos: primary model: Asus VP228
    serial: LBLMTF011165 res: N/A dpi: 102 size: 476x268mm (18.74x10.55")
    diag: 546mm (21.5") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 note: disabled model: AU Optronics 0x733c res: N/A
    dpi: 112 size: 309x173mm (12.17x6.81") diag: 354mm (13.9") modes: 1366x768
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
    inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.3.1-arch1.2
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
    device-ID: 8086:5916
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71
    class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.17.9-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 4000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: c4:65:16:8d:54:d4
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8723DE 802.11b/g/n PCIe Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw88_8723de v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:d723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: dc:f5:05:6b:4a:c5
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-8:4 chip-ID: 0bda:b009
    class-ID: e001 serial: 00e04c000001
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: DC:F5:05:6B:4A:C4
    bt-v: 4.2 lmp-v: 8 class-ID: 6c010c
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
    v: 3.0 port: 5060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 29.48 GiB (6.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL2512HCJQ-00B07
    size: 476.94 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: S63CNF0R305994
    fw-rev: GXA7302Q temp: 35.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 457.75 GiB used: 29.37 GiB (6.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C pch: 38.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.62 GiB used: 2.56 GiB (33.6%)
  Processes: 230 Power: uptime: 44m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 258 default: graphical
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1135 Compilers: clang: 21.1.6 gcc: 15.2.1
    Shell: Bash v: 5.3.9 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.40
[jeff@Lappy ~]$ ^C
[jeff@Lappy ~]$ 

The issue has been fixed by updating to Cinnamon version 6.6.0-2

[ajgringo619]

I saw the same thing. I’ve tried on real hardware, in a VM, with XLibre: all failed to load a complete desktop. Even Cinnamon (Software Rendering) didn’t work.

Strange thing is that there are very few error messages, giving little information as to why this is happening.

[r0ckhopper]

The sad reality is that Cinnamon users on Arch are basically beta testers for Linux Mint. I would suggest opening an issue at https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues (I could not see a current issue that described your problem as above).

[inverse]

Also noticed the same thing and was looking around for a fix or if to just hold back on this.

[drunkenvicar]

me as well (Cinnamon)

Endeavour un-usable for me. Will stand by today for a remedy.

[MyNameIsRichard]

From another thread:

@autofire

I think it was a Cinnamon regression, and it’s been fixed. Try running sudo pacman -Syu followed by cinnamon –replace. Then once you have a working desktop, logout and log back in.

EDIT: Turns out it was actually a regression caused by Arch leaving a dependency out when packaging Cinnamon 6.6.

[drunkenvicar]

my terminal unusable for entering characters.

Will try this in tty boot thank you.

What does the -replace do? Replace same version with same version I wonder?

[jstonepvr]

This is fixed by updating to Cinnamon version 6.6.0-2

[Stagger_Lee]

@drunkenvicar

What does the -replace do?

It’s actually --replace, with 2 hyphens - this forum combines 2 hyphens into one longer dash (an em dash) unless you format the text.

Basically it restarts Cinnamon.

[drunkenvicar]

will give it a shot in a while.

I should be able to ctrl+alt+F2 a terminal right out of the broken desktop I hope. thanks for the info

[drunkenvicar]

for the record or anyone experiencing this: the cinnamon –replace command produced ‘invalid command’ (or something) in terminal output. It did not work.

What did work: pacman -Syu because Arch/Endeavour had a new Cinnamon update ready, so reboot and I was fine.

[r0ckhopper]

@drunkenvicar

for the record or anyone experiencing this: the cinnamon –replace command produced ‘invalid command’ (or something) in terminal output. It did not work.

It should have been cinnamon --replace i.e. a double hyphen/dash.

[Stagger_Lee]

@drunkenvicar

the cinnamon –replace command produced ‘invalid command’

Because:

@Stagger_Lee

It’s actually --replace, with 2 hyphens

[drunkenvicar]

I did use two hyphens*

it was still rejected. but no worries the update fixed it

*unless I mangled the m’s and n’s in cinnamon in my haste