Shim update breaks booting (was: Fedora 27 compose report: 20170825.n.0 changes)

2017-08-26 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 08:24:59PM +, Fedora Branched Report wrote:
> Package:  shim-signed-13-0.2
> Old package:  shim-signed-0.8-10
> Summary:  First-stage UEFI bootloader
> RPMs: shim-aa64 shim-ia32 shim-x64
> Added RPMs:   shim-aa64 shim-ia32 shim-x64
> Dropped RPMs: shim
> Size: 2238688 bytes
> Size change:  1219336 bytes
> Changelog:
>   * Thu Mar 23 2017 Petr Šabata  - 0.8-9
>   - Re-enable dist tag for module builds
> 
>   * Tue Aug 22 2017 Peter Jones  - 13-0.1
>   - Initial (partially unsigned) build for multi-arch support on x64/ia32.
> 
>   * Thu Aug 24 2017 Peter Jones  - 13-0.2}
>   - Obsolete old shim builds.

The package no longer ships /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/shim.efi which is what
people's boot entries refer to. It's shimx64.efi now. This causes
failure to boot on EFI systems.

Which component, if any, is tasked with adjusting EFI boot entries in
such a case? Anyway, it doesn't happen, so some kind of warning (at
least to -devel and -test) would seem appropriate, ideally prior to the
new package reaching the mirrors.
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Re: Fedora Rawhide and NVIDIA

2015-12-19 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 02:12:24PM +, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Presumably to RPMfusion, who supply it. AFAIK it's not part of the
> > standard
> > Fedora repos.
> 
> I am not using a packaged NVIDIA driver, I download from the NVIDIA
> site and run that installer.

I don't think the proprietary Nvidia driver ever really worked with
Rawhide's debug-enabled kernels. If you want to use current kernels, I'd
recommend Nouveau. It offers the superior user experience anyway, as
long as you can live with its lower 3D performance.
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Re: [F24 Criteria Change] Cockpit Release Criteria

2015-11-06 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 11:10:30AM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> First, on browsers - according to the W3C's w3schools site, they see about
> 60-65% of visitors on Chrome and Firefox around 20-24%. IE is 3rd at around
> 6-8%. Other browser usage statistics reports seemed to have similar numbers.

Note that W3C is not affiliated with w3schools in any way.
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Re: Consistent names changed yet again?

2014-08-30 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 02:25:46PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
 Some ethernet hardware on embedded systems doesn't have built-in MAC
 addresses.
 
 Not having any is not the same as changed.

They generate one at boot-time.
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Re: Did anyone's F20 system randomly reboot after updating from updates-testing just recently?

2014-01-16 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 08:42:31AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
 
 I don't think it's selinux because I ausearch -m AVC hasn't report anything 
 for me in three days. I'm suspicious of initscripts though.

Hmm, I just encountered the scriptlet issue using yum but can also
reproduce with dnf. Trying to remove the resulting duplicate packages
gets me more of the same _unless_ I toggle SELinux to permissive mode.
Then 'yum remove' completes without any errors, as does dnf. The same is
true for installation of new packages (with s/preun/prein/ obviously).

The somewhat weird thing is that no AVCs are generated, so it doesn't
look like a run-of-the-mill policy issue.

A quick try at downgrading initscripts yielded no difference to the
behaviour described above.
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Re: Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

2013-12-19 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:03:36AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
 Well, I did some testing during F20 cycle which seems to indicate F20
 Shell takes up a lot more memory than F19 when using llvmpipe. We're not
 sure exactly what's going on yet,

It's not just Gnome Shell's fault I think. At least for some time during
Alpha/Beta even kickstarted text-only installs (virt-install pointed to
an install tree over HTTP) locked up due to lack of memory.  That's with
1 GiB and no swap. Increase that to 1.5 GiB and the install process
completed.

I'll probably retest that with final F20 later, now that the set of
components used for installation doesn't potentially change from one
attempt to the next.
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Re: Recommended system requirements for f20 not sufficient?

2013-12-19 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 04:34:43PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
 During Alpha, that's normal, it's been that way for 2-3 releases. Modern
 debug kernels are very slow and inefficient; installing with a debug
 kernel seems to exhaust 1GB of RAM quite easily. That's a separate
 issue, though, and not relevant to final release.

Yep, you're right. Just checked it and the F20 final release installs
without a problem with 1 GiB of memory. For text mode, that is.
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Re: how do I tell what release yum upgrade will give me?

2013-07-30 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 02:16:35AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
 If by tweaking you mean manual manipulation of /etc/yum.repos.d/
 content, I'd need a howto. I don't do so well on my own messing with
 config files containing $ /or ? in URLs.

Don't touch those. You don't need to mess with anything but the
enabled=0|1 lines. Want Rawhide? Toggle enabled to 1 for the rawhide
repo in fedora-rawhide.repo. Set everything else to 0.

There's also yum-config-manager(1) …

Lars
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Re: Rawhide - Calibre

2013-07-21 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 09:03:05AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
 Are you using the rpm or the download from Calibre's site?  Note that they
 do recommend one does not use a distro's version.

Did they fix the serious security problems in the upstream-provided
packages? They used to install some exploitable helper program suid
root. The Fedora package (and most other distros') stripped that binary
and made Calibre use a more secure mechanism.

The original bug[1] seems to have the status Fix Released but after
reading the discussion on the bug I'd really avoid installing their
packages.

If the Fedora package doesn't work for you let's make it work.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027
or LWN coverage at https://lwn.net/Articles/465311/
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Re: F19-mailserver selinux complains

2013-06-08 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:06:32PM +0300, Cristian Sava wrote:
 virtual environment. All needed is stock or was packaged on F19
 (rpmbuild -ta ... / rpmbuild -ba ...) and all is working fine (selinux

It took me a while to figure out you're not talking about Fedora
packages but RPMs/specfiles provided by some 3rd party. Please make this
a bit clearer next time.

Thank you,
Lars
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Re: F19 and playing flash videos with Firefox

2013-05-27 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:27:24AM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
 Anybody has a hint for me?

Yes. Use zdfmediathk.sourceforge.net to watch/download the online
offerings of the german public broadcasting outlets. And tell them to
don't require proprietary browser plugins for the content you paid for
with your fees.

Aside from that: nope. ;-)

Lars
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Re: netiquette (Re: Password strength checker not for root account)

2013-05-26 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 01:51:09PM +0200, Karel Volný wrote:
 hm, nice to get two replies discussing the form and zero replies on the topic

Uhm, sorry. To add something to the topic: it seems that Anaconda (as of
Beta RC4) considers CorrectHorseBatteryStaple-like passwords to be
strong.

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Re: Password strength checker not for root account

2013-05-23 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 07:48:23AM -0700, richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote:
[removed tons of garbage in a single gigantic line]
div style=Could we please keep to bottle-posting? This kind of forces the 
reader to read the entire post and get the contextnbsp;/div/body

As much as I agree: you are aware that you're asking this from a
frickin' HTML-only mail?

Lars
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Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 2 (TC2) Available Now!

2012-10-06 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Friday 05 October 2012 17:44:48 Jurgen Kramer wrote:
 Done!

I don't think the missing ifconfig (as stated in your bz comment) is a bug. 
Those tools are deprecated for eons and if it's finally possible to not install 
them by default, I think that's fine. Other distributions already managed to do 
this some time ago. Use the ip command from the iproute2 package.

That said, giving up a habit is not always as easy as one wants it to be (I 
regularly use the net-tools stuff myself when available), so the net-tools 
package will probably stay with us for another few eons.

The network breakage on your VM doesn't seem related to the missing net-tools 
package. I just installed a fresh F18 VM from TC2 netinstall media and network 
connectivity is just fine.

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Re: New Anaconda - BACK, BACK, BACK...

2012-09-13 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Thursday 13 September 2012 15:00:06 Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:

 Please, don't tell me that this is because configuration could be done
 in parallel and it's for my convenience and to give me the choice which
 aspect of installation I prefer to configure first.

That's not what it's about (IMHO). The nice thing with the new installer UI is 
that you can reconsider a choice without having to think about losing all the 
other settings you've done afterwards.

I can imagine that especially your dumb average computer guy would 
appreciate this.

Lars
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Re: f17 alpha, dropbox

2012-03-05 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Thursday 01 March 2012 11:48:02 Benjamin De Kosnik wrote:
 anybody have any luck with dropbox on F17 x86_64? It's not showing up in
 the panel, but is in the applications-internet menu. When clicked, it
 tries to install, but fails.

Do you see any SELinux denials?

Dropbox people managed (again) to ship badly built libraries with their 
program. The file _ctypes.so in the .dropbox-dist directory is (falsely) marked 
as requiring an executable stack which causes the program start to fail.

I just checked the latest stable version (x86-64) downloaded from their 
website and it's still broken. You can manually clear the execstack flag of the 
so, though.

$ execstack -c /path/to/your/.dropbox-dist/_ctypes.so

Dropbox should now be able to run. You may want to file a bug report with them.

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Re: F16 with current updates from testing - resume does not work anymore

2011-10-21 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 06:59:26 PM Christian Menzel wrote:
 Hi!
 
 After installing the F16 beta, suspend/resume did work on my Thinkpad X220.
 
 Now after some updates the system won't resume anymore but just blink with
 all its LEDs including ThinkLight.

My suspend issues disappeared when I updated to the latest firmware version 
(1.22 iirc) available from Lenovo.

Be aware that you have to use EFI to boot Fedora. The latest firmware 
revisions (at least, don't know about the former versions) make bogus 
assumptions that you never want to boot from a GPT-partitioned disk while 
using BIOS compatibility mode. It just won't try booting from a GPT disk, you 
have to use UEFI.
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Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Final Test Compose 1 (TC1) x86_64 install images available now!

2011-10-17 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Monday, October 17, 2011 01:48:59 PM Andre Robatino wrote:
 This is a followup to the earlier TC1 announcement

Installation went fine on Thinkpad X220 in UEFI mode. As this was not the case 
with previous images the bug fixing efforts were apparently successfull. The 
image used was the efidisk.img (x86_64, of course).

Logging in with GDM doesn't work the way it should but this issue is tracked 
in the accordant GDM bug already.

Lars
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Re: f 16 beta in virtualbox

2011-10-05 Thread Lars Seipel 
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 20:45 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:

 Sure. But explain it accurately. Sometimes Fedora has a pre-release X
 server, sure. But sometimes it has a released one, and Oracle still
 don't support it. And the big roadblock is the guest additions being
 closed source, or else we could just update them ourselves.

Are you sure they are not open source? They don't care about pushing
anything upstream but the guest additions are still free software AFAIR.
Debian is packaging them, I think. There was something about their
scripts for generating the ISO images and maybe their installer being
closed, though. 

Just took a quick glance and their SVN repo seems to contain something
that looks like the corresponding code.

https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Additions

Nevertheless, using Virtualbox with bleeding edge kernels or recent
x.org versions is just a big pain.

Lars

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