Re: dmesg restricted to root in Rawhide

2024-03-04 Thread Chris Murphy
in the wheel group as is everyone else by default installing Fedora. A vast majority of Fedora users have this peculiar UX where `journalctl -k` not not require `sudo` but `dmesg` does require it. I think that's annoying and weird. -- Chris Murphy --

Re: reversible dual-boot test station, updated

2024-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
he older system root, with just a few steps. -- Chris Murphy -- ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/pro

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F39 to F40

2024-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
em: conflicting requests - package libva-intel-media-driver-24.1.3-1.fc40.i686 from fedora conflicts with intel-media-driver provided by intel-media-driver-24.1.3-1.fc40.x86_64 from rpmfusion-nonfree - package libva-intel-media-driver-24.1.3-1.fc40.x86_64 from fedora conflicts with intel-m

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F39 to F40

2024-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 21, 2024, at 6:47 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2024, at 12:11 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: >> >> >> Do you want to make Fedora 40 better? Please spend 1 minute of your time and >> try to run: >> >> # Run this only if

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F39 to F40

2024-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
l be enabled again > # This is last time we should do that :) > > sudo dnf module reset '*' > Uhh haha :) $ sudo dnf module reset '*' Last metadata expiration check: 0:03:30 ago on Wed 21 Feb 2024 06:41:04 PM MST. Unable to resolve argument * Error: Problems in request: missing groups o

Re: Figure out what killed an app (rhbz#2253099)

2024-01-31 Thread Chris Murphy
eeds, up to the point that the user wants an interactive desktop - and then the kernel needs to (in effect) preempt the resource hungry processes in favor of user-desktop interactivity. Resource control can do this but we don't have everything wired up yet, more work is need

troff noise when grepping man page?

2023-11-29 Thread Chris Murphy
, and what component to file a bug against? -- Chris Murphy -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project

Re: Partitioning in VirtualBox using FedoraCore 40

2023-10-11 Thread Chris Murphy
ing to install is macOS, it will create a VM with UEFI firmware. If you repurpose such a VM, or clone it, it'll still have UEFI firmware. -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test

Re: Partitioning in VirtualBox using FedoraCore 40

2023-10-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Oct 10, 2023, at 11:25 PM, George R Goffe wrote: > Chris, > > Thanks for responding. > > Here's the desired partition scheme: > > /boot > / > swap > /var > /opt > /usr > /export/home It's missing /boot/efi which is required on systems wi

Re: Partitioning in VirtualBox using FedoraCore 40

2023-10-10 Thread Chris Murphy
the mount point, is formatted ext4 (or anything other than EFI file system, which off hand I forget the term anaconda uses for this format). -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to tes

Re: why is my ESP filesystem getting mounted to /efi/???

2023-10-10 Thread Chris Murphy
and unmount it after the timeout). If /boot is used in fstab, then /efi is used for the ESP. I'm pretty sure /efi doesn't exist unless you've (at one time or other) configured sd-boot instead of grub. -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing lis

kdump enabled in F39

2023-10-10 Thread Chris Murphy
, -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https

Re: btrfs loses 32-bit application compatibility after a while

2023-07-20 Thread Chris Murphy
ime, whatever parent directory is used for the chroots could be swapped out with a subvolume for a short term work around. It doesn't sound like the problem happens very quickly. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Should Fedora switch to full kernel preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y)?

2023-07-20 Thread Chris Murphy
ervers would prefer the peak performance in general ? Maybe. But I'm not aware of any recent data one way or the other, certainly nothing Fedora specific. I don't expect full preemption will impact servers in any meaningful way. I just can't prove that. --

Re: Should Fedora switch to full kernel preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y)?

2023-07-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023, at 9:51 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19 2023 at 06:50:24 PM -0400, Chris Murphy > wrote: >> If restricted to desktops, then we can only do it with kernel >> parameters. That probably means doing it in Anaconda kickstart, with >> a

Re: Should Fedora switch to full kernel preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y)?

2023-07-19 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 24, 2023, at 2:12 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2023, at 4:43 PM, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > Therefore, I am >> asking if Fedora should use full kernel preemption by default. > > https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/228 > > The outstanding

Re: F39 Change Proposal: Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation by default (System-Wide)

2023-06-27 Thread Chris Murphy
it. But it is the first option on that page. https://alt.fedoraproject.org/ -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http

Re: SecureBoot certificates

2023-06-14 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, at 7:20 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: >> OK I tried this again and discover shim is signed twice. >> >> Issuer: C=US, ST=Washington, L=Redmond, O=Microsoft Corporation, >> CN=Microso

Re: SecureBoot certificates

2023-06-13 Thread Chris Murphy
atures, whether or not it's a problem. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/projec

Re: SecureBoot certificates

2023-06-13 Thread Chris Murphy
sha256sum hashes. So maybe there isn't actually a problem other than it's confusing that there are two signatures that also have different validity periods? I'm not sure what it means. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: SecureBoot certificates

2023-05-30 Thread Chris Murphy
y implemented yet in Fedora. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-cond

Re: Election Status?

2023-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 24, 2023, at 2:55 PM, Peter Boy wrote: >> Am 24.05.2023 um 20:30 schrieb Chris Murphy : >> >> I'm pretty sure we no longer have a program manager? > > What’s that about? As I understand it, part of recent Red Hat layoffs. Red Hat and Fedora program/projec

Re: more distinct default bash prompt?

2023-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
oss the visible spectrum, green will appear to be the brightest. Light purple is OK, Blue, indigo, or yellow tends to be harder to to detect complex shapes (like letters and numbers) but I'm not sure of the reason(s). -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing

Re: Election Status?

2023-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
pretty sure we no longer have a program manager? So I'm kinda expecting a lot of things to just silently break. I don't know what the fallback plan is. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

Re: Should Fedora switch to full kernel preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y)?

2023-05-24 Thread Chris Murphy
ing the default across the board and not having a boot parameter. Anyway, it seems like it would be semi-straightforward to do it in Anaconda just for desktops using kickstart `bootloader --append=` command. https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart-docs.html#bootloader -- Chris Mur

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 10, 2023, at 7:36 PM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 5:34 PM Chris Murphy wrote: >> __ >> >> >> On Wed, May 10, 2023, at 2:24 PM, Owen Taylor wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 12:02 P

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 10, 2023, at 7:11 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: >> Read-only drivers, which are the only drivers under discussion here, aren't >> a per se problem because they can't modify the file system. So they have no >> complaints abou

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
ead-only drivers, which are the only drivers under discussion here, aren't a per se problem because they can't modify the file system. So they have no complaints about that. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
ntents, and perform switch root. The next most common use case(s), device-mapper and md based, require a pile of user space programs running to do all the work setting things up. Maybe we can just get away with two images, a simple fast one and the universal. -- Chris Murphy _

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
; other hand you claim there's too much kernel+initrd in the boot > process? > > What is it now? Pick one: more initrd or less initrd? I've only ever said I want faster boot and smaller initrd. Everything else is pointing out the consequences of alternatives, not advocacy of the

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
w=windows-11 "The minimum size of this partition is 100 MB, and must be formatted using the FAT32 file format." So I'm not sure if Microsoft got the memo, and it's actually vendors' OEM images that are using large ESP size? -- Chris Murphy

Re: Fun with GRUB2, BLS and Multiboot USB

2023-05-09 Thread Chris Murphy
sight being 20/20 we could have changed grubx64.efi to look for "grub.static" in the same directory as the EFI program instead of "grub.cfg" and then there'd only be one grub.cfg and it'd be the real one rather than the forwarding one. -- Chris Murphy __

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, May 9, 2023, at 2:47 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 01:31:01PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: >> Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: >> > What about the increasing growth in linux-firmware and in particular the >> > NVIDIA firmwa

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-09 Thread Chris Murphy
userspace, systemd and so on in EFI mode. > > Good luck with that. Right. Hence Linux Boot. Dump all the toy drivers in favor of real ones. And a real user space. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-09 Thread Chris Murphy
r as of a year ago and it likewise creates a 100M ESP. Maybe Microsoft didn't get the memo and the space requirement is really something the OEM's are concerned about? So I expect this problem is not only our problem to solve. -- Chris Murphy ___ dev

Re: default bash history (non)preservation

2023-04-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023, at 12:02 PM, stan via devel wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 10:48:11 -0400 > "Chris Murphy" wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> For a long time I've noticed lost history from multiple Terminal >> tab/windows. It seems like the last tab or

Re: default bash history (non)preservation

2023-04-11 Thread Chris Murphy
ngth files, e.g. .bash_history-04863.tmp appear but I don't know what they do, there's nothing in them. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

default bash history (non)preservation

2023-04-11 Thread Chris Murphy
is belongs as a default, .bashrc or .bash_profile or some parent file that's copied to create these files (for new users); b) if this is (still) an optimal way to go about it; c) what are the possible negative side effects? Any thoughts? -- Chris Murphy ___

Re: is cockpit able to handle btrfs mirror's ?

2023-03-14 Thread Chris Murphy
opment perspective. There's a similar effect with multiple device Btrfs in KDE and GNOME, so it's not a Cockpit issue. https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/802 -- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Boot issue, probably with grub and maybe mdraid

2023-01-31 Thread Chris Murphy
https://github.com/coreos/bootupd is doing this automatically on BIOS firmware systems now or is planning on doing it? At one time they were. I think the thought process from this point forward is focusing on UEFI Secure Boot workflows rather than inhere

Re: F38 proposal: Shorter Shutdown Timer (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-01-17 Thread Chris Murphy
> thousands of users can talk like this. The least you have to do is test > and check what effects it has and prove that the concern is unjustified. The proposal changes a default behavior. It's not itself an override. -- Chris Murphy ___ dev

Re: Adding file swap on btrfs

2022-12-23 Thread Chris Murphy
once did a rollback way back when... :D -- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project

Re: F38 proposal: Shorter Shutdown Timer (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-23 Thread Chris Murphy
use the write order is eventually honored by the host. There's a variety of complex journal replay behaviors of the various file systems that'll come into play (no pun intended). -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: F38 proposal: Shorter Shutdown Timer (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
for it to be logged, sysroot needs to be rw. > > In some cases I know that the system is rebuilding the nvidia drivers so that > graphics work on boot up. I'd like to let that finish and it certainly takes > more than 15 seconds. But without a blame message, how do we know what needs

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
ed and I don't run out either), I'm willing to give it up for practical matters like simplicity and reduced attack and maintenance surface area. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an ema

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
to put their signed efifs drivers on the ESP because that's the only way their bootloader can read loader/entries to properly draw a boot menu. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, at 6:22 AM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 20/12/2022 19:56, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Great. The gotcha though is this in effect requires a change in the file >> system currently mounted at /boot, which is ext4. And ext4 isn't supported >> by sd-

Re: F38 proposal: Shorter Shutdown Timer (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
that'd be bad (regardless of the file system choice). Also I wonder if there's a way for desktops to opt into this behavior? Or a way for servers, iot, cloud, and rpm-ostree based systems to opt out? They very well might have legitimate reasons for very long service shu

Re: [systemd-devel] default journal retention policy

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022, at 11:00 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Do, 22.12.22 10:56, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: >> Still another idea, we could add a new setting MinRetentionSec=90day >> which would translate into "not less than 90 days" and wou

[systemd-devel] default journal retention policy

2022-12-22 Thread Chris Murphy
10% of file system size rule) still applies. So in no case would any use case end up using more space for logs. Any thoughts? -- Chris Murphy

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
n kickstart file part commands. Wow, great news! -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022, at 1:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > For example: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120845 > > For that matter, grubby likewise steps on *all* BLS snippets found in > /boot/loader/entries when using the --update=ALL flag, not just the BLS > sn

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022, at 1:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > So I think the first big barrier to entry is answering the questions: > > * Enhance parted/libparted to support arbitrary GUIDs and enhance > blivet to understand the full listing of GUIDs? Or > > * Enhance parted/li

Re: F38 proposal: Unified Kernel Support Phase 1 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
i.e. get to sysroot mount faster thereby obviating the need for a large initrd. The problem with a large initrd anyway is that we have to load the whole thing in memory and unpack it. And this will increase boot times. For whatever reason, the bootloader

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-09 Thread Chris Murphy
repomd. It quickly catches up to, and surpasses, Live media memory consumption. Off hand, I'm not sure what's producing all the anonymous pages during Live installation but it's a fairly linear increase as the installation progresses. Since it's an rsync based installation, I'm currently frow

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-09 Thread Chris Murphy
for Fedora 37. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Linux_Firmware_Minimization -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-09 Thread Chris Murphy
a very real energy hit of all this compression and decompression. I don't know how to weigh the costs and figure out a compromise, but totally ignoring one of the costs is probably incorrect. For all I know a balanced approach means using xz but at a lower compr

Re: Small rant: installer environment size

2022-12-09 Thread Chris Murphy
's tmpfs so it may not be compressed either (at least it's not subject to swap on zram out of the gate). I'm pretty sure partitioning happens before the packages are downloaded though, which means they get stored on disk not in memory. But the repo metadata is pretty big now and that's a big memory

Re: Unexpected system freeze

2022-11-29 Thread Chris Murphy
ed to see the systemd-oomd messages to see if there's a problem in the logic. It could also be kernel related. -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code

Re: Can't create msdos partition table without advanced partitioning?

2022-11-21 Thread Chris Murphy
ere's a problem (firmware confusion) with GPT. -- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/

Re: F38 prospoal: Enable bootupd for Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-11-11 Thread Chris Murphy
ader in EFI/FedoraB At any point of failure, only the EFI/FedoraA bootloader path is used. Once everything in EFI/FedoraB is committed to stable media, set bootnext FedoraB. If the boot fails, automatic failback to FedoraA. If the boot succeeds, bootupd can change bootorder

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-29 Thread Chris Murphy
y manifest as part of a dual boot Fedora installation. -- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-29 Thread Chris Murphy
pted into a Quick Doc for that purpose though. But my understanding of the original poster's issue is that he now has a bunch of system level customizations. Not so much user level customizations. Therefore the reuse home directory method wouldn't help much. -- Chris Murphy __

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-29 Thread Chris Murphy
as if there's a button you can push to fix that. There's no button for train derailments. It's a customized recovery every time that requires esoteric knowledge. Everything about it is manual. Are trains fragile? I'm not sure that's the best description but yeah once they start going off the rails i

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-29 Thread Chris Murphy
r hey I have that kernel in a btrfs snapshot I created after an F36 clean install. It should be 5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64 so the actual command ought to be cp -r /mnt/root00/usr/lib/modules/5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64 /mnt/root/usr/lib/modules/ OK I think that's everything? -- Chris Murphy ___

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-29 Thread Chris Murphy
stem volume that it boots from initially, if you wipe that, you'd be totally screwed on Windows too. And also these days on Windows you don't get automatic restore points either, you'd have to have done it before the mistake. -- Chris Murphy

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-29 Thread Chris Murphy
antic > frankly. Panic is one of the best known paths to data loss. Before making any further changes, I advise a backup of important user data. Do not attempt repair or reinstallation until there's at least two independent copies of your important data. -- Chris Murphy

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Chris Murphy
zen steps to repair this setup. They all have to be exactly correct or it won't work. Much of this logic is in the installer. -- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedorapr

Re: Grub menu with 3 kernels by default

2022-10-05 Thread Chris Murphy
://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049849 The GUI tool can use efibootmgr to set bootnext or even bootorder. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Grub menu with 3 kernels by default

2022-10-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Oct 5, 2022, at 11:43 AM, Geraldo Simião Kutz wrote: > On my acer Aspire laptop it's the "esc" key. Works everytime I want to see > the grub menu. The gotcha with ESC is that it brings up firmware settings on qemu-kvm when using UEFI (edk2-ovmf).

Re: Grub menu with 3 kernels by default

2022-10-05 Thread Chris Murphy
ecause it's reserved by UEFI firmware for one of its menus. And SHIFT has never worked. Maybe Esc or TAB? Given this inconsistency, I have a mixed opinion of the hidden GRUB menu. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, at 7:14 PM, Allan via devel wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2022 12:31:11 -0600 > "Chris Murphy" wrote: > > The original PinePhone only comes with a 16GB eMMC. Using 4GB for > journal on that would for sure be insane. The root file system for this d

Re: limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, at 12:13 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 10:12:57AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Fedora uses systemd-journald for system logging. By default it is a >> persistent log kept on /var, and uses up to 4G disk sp

Re: limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-27 Thread Chris Murphy
red the container case at all, that containers running systemd-journald would have their own journals and retention policy. I wonder if the container default should have volatile journals? Or forward the journals to the host by default? But yes I can see how many c

Re: limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-27 Thread Chris Murphy
re rotated weekly, it should mean a given journal file won't have more than a week's worth of entries. So you'd have between 4-5 weeks worth of entries at any given time. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.or

limiting the (systemd) journal size

2022-09-27 Thread Chris Murphy
issues/17382 -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines:

Re: gnome-shell crash when resuming/waking up from idle

2022-09-23 Thread Chris Murphy
mes per week, > completely randomly, I can't reproduce it intentionally. I haven't seen any gnome-shell crashes since before branch. -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an e

Re: Release criteria proposal: except BitLocker-enabled installs from Windows dual-boot criterion bootloader requirement

2022-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
iring grub2 to do > something it cannot do. An additional topic is having boot entries for Windows (and macOS) that don't work in the meantime. While we could just remove the scripts that create these entries to chainload another bootloader, they're still needed for BIOS systems which don

Re: Release criteria proposal: except BitLocker-enabled installs from Windows dual-boot criterion bootloader requirement

2022-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
iring grub2 to do > something it cannot do. An additional topic is having boot entries for Windows (and macOS) that don't work in the meantime. While we could just remove the scripts that create these entries to chainload another bootloader, they're still needed for BIOS systems which don't

Re: Release criteria proposal: except BitLocker-enabled installs from Windows dual-boot criterion bootloader requirement

2022-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
station working group discussed it at today's meeting, and there were no objections to the language change proposal. -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora C

Re: Release criteria proposal: except BitLocker-enabled installs from Windows dual-boot criterion bootloader requirement

2022-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
station working group discussed it at today's meeting, and there were no objections to the language change proposal. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedor

Re: Release criteria proposal: except BitLocker-enabled installs from Windows dual-boot criterion bootloader requirement

2022-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
fibootmgr, and see if desktops want to add a GUI wrapper around it. -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproje

Re: Release criteria proposal: except BitLocker-enabled installs from Windows dual-boot criterion bootloader requirement

2022-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
fibootmgr, and see if desktops want to add a GUI wrapper around it. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedorapr

Re: Release criteria proposal: except BitLocker-enabled installs from Windows dual-boot criterion bootloader requirement

2022-09-19 Thread Chris Murphy
Windows installer drops a payload on the drive, and sets a bootnext for an entry that points to the Windows bootloader, not via GRUB. And then, the instant we update either shim or grub, Windows boot will break. I think working around this is sufficiently tedious no users are li

Re: Release criteria proposal: require GNOME Shell extension install/remove to work

2022-09-13 Thread Chris Murphy
tance to broaden the scope of the criteria because our influence has limits, including the infrastructure aspects of extensions that we can't control (such as the web site itself). So we'd like to see this covered under existing criterion. -- Chris Murphy

Re: Silverblue user mailing list??

2022-09-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022, at 5:44 AM, Jack Craig wrote: > hi all, > > I've been subscribed to this list for a while and I have never seen any > traffic regarding Silverblue, is there a separate mailing list for > Silverblue?? Pretty sure most of it happens on Discourse.

Re: Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

2022-08-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022, at 9:43 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022, at 8:27 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> Another is that LUKS filesystem decryption uses a deliberately >> "memory-hard" algorithm called Argon2 which requires loads of RAM and >>

Re: Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

2022-08-30 Thread Chris Murphy
yptsetup if there's significant memory pressure, i.e. high potential that a future Fedora might fail to open this volume. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Request for testing: Fedora 37 pre-Beta validation tests

2022-08-30 Thread Chris Murphy
cker list looks short, but there are definitely some >> tests that have not been run. > > Last I checked, flatpak was still broken. Will retest this week. What's broken with flatpak? I've been using several flatpaks OK since 'dnf system-upgrad

Re: Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

2022-08-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, at 11:12 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, at 11:10 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> There *is* a workaround, BTW - I didn't mention this in my original >> mail, and probably should have. At least according to discussion in the >> bug, micr

Re: Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

2022-08-29 Thread Chris Murphy
Yes, but will you be able to install it? Yes you could go to koji, download the correct RPMs, and have rpm do it without dnf but... that'd be a pretty saucy work around. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

Re: /etc/grub2.cfg Flagged a Potenially missing

2022-08-29 Thread Chris Murphy
eplace grub.cfg, it's a static file these days. The files that change are drop-in files found in /boot/loader/entries and can be modified with grubby per examples at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2#Changing_kernel_command-line_parameters_with_grub

Re: After latest updates to F37 from updates testing, tab completion goes missing, wallpapoz stops working

2022-08-29 Thread Chris Murphy
that if the problem is related to a race condition, the problem may not happen. If that's the case you'll have to do separate boots with one of the above parameters at a time to see which debug method exposes the cause. -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list

Re: [fedora-arm] Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

2022-08-29 Thread Chris Murphy
ometimes be difficult to figure out whether your app's resource requirements are reasonable/normal or if it's run away. -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedorapr

Re: reversible dual-boot test station

2022-08-23 Thread Chris Murphy
I've added a section how to modify /etc/kernel/cmdline in the snapshot before rebooting. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chrismurphy/Draft/dualboot_teststation -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: reversible dual-boot test station

2022-08-23 Thread Chris Murphy
tes-testing for both 36 and 37, I'm no longer confident in this write up and have to retest. That /etc/kernel/cmdline can contain stale information has broken this use case at the moment, so I need to see if there's a better work around than deletin

Re: reversible dual-boot test station

2022-08-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Aug 21, 2022, at 2:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chrismurphy/Draft/dualboot_teststation I found a small problem, fixed in the latest version. Gory details: If you've ever used grubby, an /etc/kernel/cmdline file is created that co

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread Chris Murphy
it sounds to me like the hardware has become unreliable in some way. -- Chris Murphy ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fe

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022, at 11:46 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> After that, you can umount the file system. And mount again with '-o >> rescue=usebackuproot' and hopefully it finds a good backup root, and >> ca

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022, at 11:46 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > After that, you can umount the file system. And mount again with '-o > rescue=usebackuproot' and hopefully it finds a good backup root, and > can fix itself. If it gets confused again, it'll go read only to avoid > making

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