Re: F41 Change Proposal: Anaconda as native Wayland application (System Wide)

2024-06-05 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
sen to be as broadly compatible with as much as possible, and frankly Wayland is currently not that. That said, if my whole life was Linux, I would move to a QEMU/KVM only workflow, but I still have one pesky Win box in my life that I can't get rid of (at work) so VirtualBox for me still makes sense

Re: F41 Change Proposal: Anaconda as native Wayland application (System Wide)

2024-06-04 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
. However, it is fickle, depending on the GNOME stack, there have been times when 3D on was better. With 3D off, and GNOME in an Xorg session, it almost works. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney -- ___ devel mailing list

Re: F41 Change Proposal: Anaconda as native Wayland application (System Wide)

2024-06-04 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
the exact same VM install works flawlessly. So it wasn't that my installation went wrong. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le

Re: F41 Change Proposal: Anaconda as native Wayland application (System Wide)

2024-06-03 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney -- ___ 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: Retiring Celestia from Fedora due to licensing issues

2024-03-20 Thread Ian Laurie
On 3/21/24 03:36, Mattia Verga via devel wrote: I will be following the procedure for completely removing a package [3], however there are a couple of things that I'd like to ask: I think the Astronomy Labs version of Fedora ships with Celestia so their group will needs a heads up. -- Ian

DNF5 ~ how to "remove --oldinstallonly" ?

2024-02-21 Thread Ian Laurie
I have my dnf configured with installonly_limit=6 and now and then find it useful to get rid of old kernels (for example after a move from Fedora n to n+1). I know in the early days of DNF5 you couldn't do this, but can you do it now? -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia

Re: Does splint work for anyone?

2024-02-09 Thread Ian Laurie
. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney -- ___ 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: [Test-Announce] Kernel 6.7 Test Week is underway!

2024-02-01 Thread Ian Laurie
this fix so quickly, it is greatly appreciated. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct

Re: Planned un-retirements of Pantheon DE related packages

2023-11-21 Thread Ian Laurie
still using elementary-code-6.2.0-2.fc37 which interestingly does actually work on 37/38/39 and even Rawhide. Looking forward to an update. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel

[EPEL-devel] Are we sticking with exa or moving to eza in EPEL?

2023-10-10 Thread Ian Laurie
I realize exa is still in the EPEL9 repos, was wondering if there is an intention to move to its replacement eza as was done in F39 and F40? Ian -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel

Re: F40 Change Proposal: KDE Plasma 6 (System Wide)

2023-09-17 Thread Ian Laurie
On 9/18/23 07:48, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: SDDM was switched to Wayland for F38 and newer. If you want it to use X11, you have to edit /etc/sddm.conf and set: [General] DisplayServer=x11 *sigh* Well... setting DisplayServer=x11 works, the greeter works properly now. Thanks. -- Ian

Re: F40 Change Proposal: KDE Plasma 6 (System Wide)

2023-09-15 Thread Ian Laurie
in VirtualBox, but now even the greeter has issues, and I think that's newish. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le

Re: F40 Change Proposal: KDE Plasma 6 (System Wide)

2023-09-13 Thread Ian Laurie
On 9/14/23 09:48, Neal Gompa wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 7:45 PM Ian Laurie wrote: I'm an Xfce user so my care factor is minimal. I've not tried Plasma on Wayland in the 39 branch yet but I do intend to. Would you please report this to bugs.kde.org if it shows up in Fedora 39 KDE Beta

Re: F40 Change Proposal: KDE Plasma 6 (System Wide)

2023-09-13 Thread Ian Laurie
on X11 works as expected. I'm an Xfce user so my care factor is minimal. I've not tried Plasma on Wayland in the 39 branch yet but I do intend to. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel mailing list -- devel

Re: Can we squeeze coreutils-9.4 into Fedora 39?

2023-08-30 Thread Ian Laurie
://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2236321 -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https

Re: Can we squeeze coreutils-9.4 into Fedora 39?

2023-08-30 Thread Ian Laurie
propose it as a Beta FE... OK I have filed a BZ [1] and a freeze exception request against it, hopefully I've done it correctly. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2236321 -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel

Can we squeeze coreutils-9.4 into Fedora 39?

2023-08-29 Thread Ian Laurie
late to get 9.4 into 39, is it possible to locally include this specific reverting patch? [1] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/NEWS -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel mailing list -- devel

Re: Replacing DNF with DNF5: changes reverted and helping steps

2023-08-07 Thread Ian Laurie
not install the newest packages, I think you may need a --nogpgcheck in there to allow it to work. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-23 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
On 6/22/23 19:01, Matthew Miller wrote: Sure, but... that's the _opposite_ of the direction things are going. Awesome post. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Test upgrades from F37 to F38 - it will take you just a minute

2023-02-23 Thread Ian Laurie
On 2/24/23 10:17, Ian Laurie wrote: On 2/22/23 20:30, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Do you want to make Fedora 38 better? Please spend 1 minute of your time and try to run: Looked good here, just some downgrades as follows: Downgrading:  fwupd    x86_64 1.8.10-1.fc38

Re: Test upgrades from F37 to F38 - it will take you just a minute

2023-02-23 Thread Ian Laurie
1.8.10-1.fc38 fwupd-plugin-modem-manager x86_64 1.8.10-1.fc38 fwupd-plugin-uefi-capsule-data x86_64 1.8.10-1.fc38 inxi noarch 3.3.24-2.fc38 mock-core-configsnoarch 38.1-1.fc38 Ian -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser

[EPEL-devel] Re: Hints for manual upgrading from CentOS 8 Stream to CentOS / Alma / Rockey 9

2023-02-08 Thread Ian Laurie
On 2/9/23 07:38, Richard Shaw wrote: I know upgrades are not supported but its for a small home server that really only does two things: For a home server you can use RHEL, the real deal, why mess with downstream rebuilds? Just a thought. Ian -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ

Rawhide with kernel-6.2 requires VBox SVGA video mode to boot in VirtualBox

2022-12-27 Thread Ian Laurie
ather than the "correct" "VMSVGA" setting. The old setting produces a configuration alert with Linux systems (although it does work). This feels like a kernel problem to me rather than a VirtualBox problem at this point. Anyone else seeing this, I can't be the only one?

Re: Fedora 37 compose report: 20221108.n.0 changes

2022-11-08 Thread Ian Laurie
On 11/9/22 01:18, Fedora Rawhide Report wrote: OLD: Fedora-37-20221107.n.0 NEW: Fedora-37-20221108.n.0 [big snip] This seems to have all the gnome fixes, plus a load of KDE fixes, and the 6.0.7 kernel shouldn't this be a release candidate? -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ

Re: Karma for OpenSSL needed

2022-11-01 Thread Ian Laurie
? Are we not fixing Fedora 35?  It won't be EOL until mid December (delays in 37 pushed it out a few times). -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel mailing list -- devel

[EPEL-devel] Re: Qt update and packages rebuild

2022-10-03 Thread Ian Laurie
may have dated back to May for all I know. I became aware of the QT conflict when I used the command line to do updates from a virtual console, but the issue could have been there from any time in the past. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F36 to F37

2022-09-13 Thread Ian Laurie
activation point (long before the beta was released). I recall some non-show-stopping complaints from dnf, but the upgrades happened without a blocking incident and all machines are functioning normally now. Ian -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney

Re: VirtualBox and HOST kernel-5.17.12 weirdness

2022-06-15 Thread Ian Laurie
On 6/16/22 06:36, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 6/15/22 07:01, Ian Laurie wrote: On 6/12/22 14:34, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Sun, 2022-06-12 at 13:59 +1000, Ian Laurie wrote: On 6/12/22 11:20, Ian Laurie wrote: On 6/12/22 09:46, Ian Laurie wrote: On 6/12/22 00:58, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi

Re: VirtualBox and HOST kernel-5.17.12 weirdness

2022-06-14 Thread Ian Laurie
On 6/12/22 14:34, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Sun, 2022-06-12 at 13:59 +1000, Ian Laurie wrote: On 6/12/22 11:20, Ian Laurie wrote: On 6/12/22 09:46, Ian Laurie wrote: On 6/12/22 00:58, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 6/11/22 01:02, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: On 2022-06-08 15:00, Alexander G. M

Re: VirtualBox and HOST kernel-5.17.12 weirdness

2022-06-11 Thread Ian Laurie
On 6/12/22 11:20, Ian Laurie wrote: On 6/12/22 09:46, Ian Laurie wrote: On 6/12/22 00:58, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 6/11/22 01:02, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: On 2022-06-08 15:00, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: Ian Laurie wrote on Friday, 3 June 2022 at 11:17 p.m.: Is anyone else

Re: VirtualBox and HOST kernel-5.17.12 weirdness

2022-06-11 Thread Ian Laurie
On 6/12/22 09:46, Ian Laurie wrote: On 6/12/22 00:58, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 6/11/22 01:02, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: On 2022-06-08 15:00, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: Ian Laurie wrote on Friday, 3 June 2022 at 11:17 p.m.: Is anyone else seeing crashes and other strange events

Re: VirtualBox and HOST kernel-5.17.12 weirdness

2022-06-11 Thread Ian Laurie
On 6/12/22 00:58, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 6/11/22 01:02, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: On 2022-06-08 15:00, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: Ian Laurie wrote on Friday, 3 June 2022 at 11:17 p.m.: Is anyone else seeing crashes and other strange events in VirtualBox 6.1.34 (from RPMFusion

Re: VirtualBox and HOST kernel-5.17.12 weirdness

2022-06-06 Thread Ian Laurie
On 6/6/22 20:25, Paul Black via devel wrote: On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 at 05:17, Ian Laurie wrote: Is anyone else seeing crashes and other strange events in VirtualBox 6.1.34 (from RPMFusion) with Linux guests when the Linux host is running Fedora 36 with kernel-5.17.12? I do

Re: VirtualBox and HOST kernel-5.17.12 weirdness

2022-06-03 Thread Ian Laurie
On 6/4/22 14:17, Ian Laurie wrote: Is anyone else seeing crashes and other strange events in VirtualBox 6.1.34 (from RPMFusion) with Linux guests when the Linux host is running Fedora 36 with kernel-5.17.12? When I first started to see problems on my first host I blamed my SSD drive, memory

VirtualBox and HOST kernel-5.17.12 weirdness

2022-06-03 Thread Ian Laurie
have this on 2 host was wondering if others are already some way along in working out the problem. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: Possible regression in GNOME in Fedora 36 Branched 20220401.n.0

2022-04-03 Thread Ian Laurie
On 4/4/22 10:09, Brandon Nielsen via devel wrote: On 4/3/22 6:45 PM, Ian Laurie wrote: I noticed in VirtualBox with GNOME and 20220401.n.0 that if I resized the VM window when logged into GNOME it slammed me back to the greeter, apparently without killing my login session. I still had a VM

Re: Possible regression in GNOME in Fedora 36 Branched 20220401.n.0

2022-04-03 Thread Ian Laurie
On 4/4/22 10:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/3/22 16:45, Ian Laurie wrote: I noticed in VirtualBox with GNOME and 20220401.n.0 that if I resized the VM window when logged into GNOME it slammed me back to the greeter, apparently without killing my login session. What video device does VirtualBox

Possible regression in GNOME in Fedora 36 Branched 20220401.n.0

2022-04-03 Thread Ian Laurie
a BZ ticket for it I think. I logged this as a warning for now: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_36_Branched_20220401.n.0_Installation -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel mailing list -- devel

[EPEL-devel] Re: slowing down the stalled request process

2022-03-30 Thread Ian Laurie
e.  I can understand that RHEL 9 changes may have introduced "difficulties" but some response, any response, would be nice. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedorap

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F35 to F36

2022-03-15 Thread Ian Laurie
On 3/16/22 01:13, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 15/03/2022 01:25, Ian Laurie wrote: Sadly it's not able to boot graphically, but I think the issue is with my RPMFusion NVIDIA drivers.  I can login fine to a virtual console however, and lightdm is running, just not working.  The startx

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F35 to F36

2022-03-15 Thread Ian Laurie
ems are relatively legacy unfortunately, but still looking good here. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F35 to F36

2022-03-14 Thread Ian Laurie
On 3/15/22 11:25, Ian Laurie wrote: On 3/14/22 20:55, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 14/03/2022 10:49, Ian Laurie wrote: Yeah I'm thinking I should, and not just because of this.  Mainly for on-time kernel support. Also, since Fedora 36 the NVIDIA and VirtualBox kmods can

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F35 to F36

2022-03-14 Thread Ian Laurie
On 3/14/22 20:55, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 14/03/2022 10:49, Ian Laurie wrote: Yeah I'm thinking I should, and not just because of this.  Mainly for on-time kernel support. Also, since Fedora 36 the NVIDIA and VirtualBox kmods can be automatically signed after the build to support

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F35 to F36

2022-03-14 Thread Ian Laurie
On 3/14/22 20:55, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 14/03/2022 10:49, Ian Laurie wrote: Yeah I'm thinking I should, and not just because of this.  Mainly for on-time kernel support. Also, since Fedora 36 the NVIDIA and VirtualBox kmods can be automatically signed after the build to support

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F35 to F36

2022-03-14 Thread Ian Laurie
On 3/14/22 19:15, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 14/03/2022 04:39, Ian Laurie wrote:   Problem: package VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.32_149290_fedora33-1.x86_64 requires libvpx.so.6()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed Use VirtualBox from the RPM Fusion repository. Yeah I'm

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F35 to F36

2022-03-13 Thread Ian Laurie
33-1.x86_64 (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) -- Ian Laurie ilau...@bigpond.net.au ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Cond

Re: Fedora 34 cryptsetup fails to mount veracrypt volume with kernel 5.11.3, worked in 5.11.2

2021-03-09 Thread Ian Laurie
Just FYI kernel 5.11.5 still doesn't work for me, 5.11.2 does work. Didn't check 5.11.4 however. On 3/10/21 7:50 AM, Ian Laurie wrote: Thanks Milan, turns out our generated passphrase is exactly 64 bytes long. If your passphrase is longer than 63 characters, please read https://gitlab.com

Re: Fedora 34 cryptsetup fails to mount veracrypt volume with kernel 5.11.3, worked in 5.11.2

2021-03-09 Thread Ian Laurie
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Fedora 34 cryptsetup fails to mount veracrypt volume with kernel 5.11.3, worked in 5.11.2

2021-03-09 Thread Ian Laurie
Fedora 34 with latest updates (kernel-5.11.3-300.fc34.x86_64) won't mount Veracrypt volumes. I can boot with the previous kernel 5.11.2 and it works fine. kernel-5.11.3-300.fc34.x86_64 cryptsetup-2.3.4-2.fc34.x86_64 Commands I'm using are: sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sdb1 vcvolume --type

Re: Unable to install using Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-34-20210213.n.0.iso

2021-02-14 Thread Ian Laurie
Sorry, fixed, I'll send just plain text. Ian On 15/02/2021 5:18 am, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 12:24:12PM +1100, Ian Laurie wrote: Hey Ian... would it be possible for you to adjust your mail client to send text and html instead of just html? Many on this list expect the text

Re: Unable to install using Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-34-20210213.n.0.iso

2021-02-13 Thread Ian Laurie
fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi" Ian On 14/02/2021 1:29 pm, Ian Laurie wrote: It looks like the perf-5.11.0-0.rc7 dependency issue was caused by selecting the "C Development Tools and Libraries" option on the right side, so presumably MA

Re: Unable to install using Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-34-20210213.n.0.iso

2021-02-13 Thread Ian Laurie
It looks like the perf-5.11.0-0.rc7 dependency issue was caused by selecting the "C Development Tools and Libraries" option on the right side, so presumably MATE would have worked without that selected. -- Ian On 14/02/2021 12:24 pm,

Unable to install using Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-34-20210213.n.0.iso

2021-02-13 Thread Ian Laurie
I tried testing out Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-34-20210213.n.0.iso with an Xfce and MATE install, both failed. I've attached screen shots of the error my software selection gave me for each attempt. -- Ian

Re: Rawhide hangs booting 5.11.0-rc2

2021-01-12 Thread Ian Laurie
, Hans Hi Hans, I did file a bug report against rc2 but I suspect it may be a different issue, most of the crashes that appeared in the abrt mechanism were not reportable. FWIW here it is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914598 But I think it's a different issue. -- Ian Laurie

Rawhide hangs booting 5.11.0-rc2

2021-01-09 Thread Ian Laurie
something weird happened in the update, I reverted to a backed up copy of the vm (also reasonably up to date) and updated kernel* and rebooted with the exact same results. Is anyone else seeing this problem with VirtualBox guests? -- Ian Laurie ilau...@bigpond.net.au