The upgrade of qemu packages from 9.1.0-2 to 9.1.1-1 broke the audio output of my Windoze 11 VM that I typically work from. Arch Linux is a rolling release, so it’s not as easy to just specify the version of a package you want to install using any of the normal commands with Pacman – it will try to install / reinstall the latest version available. This means it’s time to downgrade from the pacman cache! Since this upgrade just happened, the packages should still be available. Let’s take a look!

cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
sudo pacman -U qemu-*9.1.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Once complete, Windoze and Teams were back to squawking like an annoying parrot you just can’t shut up.

Ongoing discussion of this bug here: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2639