[CentOS] CentOS user survey results
Over the past 3 or 4 months, we have been running a survey about how you use CentOS. Many thanks to those who participated in this, to help us better understand how we can give you what you need. I've written up the results of the survey here - https://blog.centos.org/2020/07/centos-community-user-survey/ While some of the results were expected - most of you use CentOS in small to medium shops, running services either for work or personal use - there were some eye-opening things in this. To me personally, the volunteerism question shows that a lot of you are looking for places to get involved, and that we haven't done a great job telling you where and how. We'll be working to fix that. For those of you who missed the survey, we intend to do this again, perhaps as often as twice a year, and also provide opportunities to give more feedback beyond the simple 5-minute questionnaire. Thank you all for participating, and for being part of our community. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] After update to 8 (2004) ... system is unbootable - UEFI Secure boot
Am 16.06.20 um 22:04 schrieb Fabian Arrotin: On 16/06/2020 15:06, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Hi all, I updated a Dell XPS laptop from CentOS 8.1 (1911) to 8.2 (2004). Installed kernels are kernel-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64 kernel-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 kernel-4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64 Unfortunately I can not boot into the latest kernel-4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64. After grub2 screen I only see following line: EFI stub: UEFI Secure Boot is enabled Booting into the older kernel is still possible. The above line appears and after that the normal kernel output scrolls over the screen (rhgb quiet disabled). Is the new kernel correctly signed? What can I do? -- Thanks Leon Hi Leon, Don't think that it's due to secureboot, as on my work laptop (thinkpad t490s), I have secureboot on, and kernel working fine. OTOH, on my family laptop (also in secureboot mode), when I updated from 8.1.1011 to 8.2.2004, laptop became unresponsive during the microcode_ctl update (in scriptlet) and after that it auto-reset itself , so in the middle of the whole rpm transaction. I tried to recover it but it was to a point where it was faster to just reinstall from scratch with 8.2.2004, which I did ... and in gnome, everything was fine, etc (adding repo, pkgs) but then on the *same* kernel it was installed with, just tried a reboot, and nothing : grub shows menu, you select kernel and on upper left there is only cursor (fixed) and nothing happens .. I'll try to diagnose what's the issue as actually that means troubles with family using that laptop :) Did you got managed to boot kernel-4.18.0-193.14.2.el8_2 or a newer one? I must still boot into kernel-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 ... and with the upcoming new kernel that depends on a new shim and grub2 package I wonder about the implications for my XPS hardware ... -- Thanks, Leon ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] After update to 8 (2004) ... system is unbootable - UEFI Secure boot
On 29/07/2020 19:43, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Did you got managed to boot kernel-4.18.0-193.14.2.el8_2 or a newer one? I must still boot into kernel-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 ... and with the upcoming new kernel that depends on a new shim and grub2 package I wonder about the implications for my XPS hardware ... The following article discusses a way to add a hash for older kernels to the Allow List that should allow older kernels to continue to boot: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/grub2bootloader Quoting... Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Due to hardening within the kernel, which is released as part of these updates, previous Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel versions have not been added to shim’s allow list. If you are running with Secure Boot enabled, and the user needs to boot to an older kernel version, its hash must be manually enrolled into the trust list. This is achieved by executing the following commands: # pesign -P -h -i /boot/vmlinuz- # mokutil --import-hash # reboot ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird 68.10.0
On 7/27/20 1:43 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Am 27.07.20 um 19:50 schrieb Chris Schanzle via CentOS: >> Sorry if I'm being overly impatient, but is there some snag with >> releasing Thunderbird 68.10.0 for EL8? >> >> [RHSA-2020:3038-01] Important: thunderbird security update >> >> https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3038 >> >> Thanks! >> > > at the door: > > https://git.centos.org/rpms/thunderbird/releases We have been working non-stop for the last several days on the embargoed kernel, grub2, and other secure boot items (that is .. the 'Boot Hole' issue) for el7 and el8 for the .. therefore some other updates were pushed back. I am trying to finish up the 'Boot Hole' el7 updates right now .. 2 other people are currently working on the el8 items. Once these get pushed .. hopefully tonight .. we will be working on the other updates starting tomorrow. Thanks, Johnny Hughes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] mysql-connector-odbc i686 package
Hi all, I am looking for a i686 package (32 bit) for mysql-connector-odbc. However, I could locate only the x86-64 version on the repositories. Not much of a DB person but trying to connect to a 64bit MySQL server on remote host. Any suggestions where I can locate the i686 package? Is there a mariadb package that I can use? Thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
