Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 9:42 AM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Chris Murphy wrote: > > I don't know why anaconda can't run the rescue mode when launched from > > a Live OS environment. > > The main thing that is missing is an icon/button on the desktop, I guess. > Though of course Anaconda need

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-12 Thread Chris Murphy
Recently I've been messing with the following minimal modifications to see what happens: ; mount the top level of the fs mount /dev/sdXY /mnt cd /mnt ; make a snapshot btrfs sub snap -r root root.rescue ; modify the rescue boot entry nano /boot/loader/entries/$(cat /etc/machine-id)-0-rescue.conf

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 7:21 AM Marc Pervaz Boocha via devel wrote: > There are a couple of things. > One important but overlooked usecase is offline repartioning. Modifing > the disk partioning is imposiple on a live disk(maybe with lvm). Its > nice to to have a equivalent of gparted live availab

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-12 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Chris Murphy wrote: > I don't know why anaconda can't run the rescue mode when launched from > a Live OS environment. The main thing that is missing is an icon/button on the desktop, I guess. Though of course Anaconda needs to provide a CLI executable (or a flag to the liveinst one that is alrea

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 6:35 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Robert Marcano via devel wrote: > > I am not sure about having a full graphics environment, but it would be > > nice to have the functionality of the server installers rescue mode, > > where the system try to create a system tree at

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 5:12 AM Fabio Valentini wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:39 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ticket > > brought to us asking for a GUI-based rescue/recovery environment[1]. > > While we all agreed in

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-06 Thread Robert Marcano via devel
On 4/5/22 11:11 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:47 AM stan via devel wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 15:58:14 -0500 Gregory Bartholomew wrote: Of topic but related: I wish there was supported option to remove the current rescue kernel, Is echo "dracut_rescue_image=no" > /etc/dra

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-06 Thread stan via devel
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:35:16 -0500 Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:40 PM Gordon Messmer > wrote: > > > The ticket mentions Boot Repair, which is the first thing that > > comes to mind: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair > > > Boot repair is obviously tricky b

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-06 Thread stan via devel
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:26:35 -0500 Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 9:47 AM stan via devel > wrote: > > I just manually remove the rescue vmlinuz and initramfs and > > then run > > /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/51-dracut-rescue.install add $(uname -r) > > "" /lib/modules/$(uname

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:40 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > The ticket mentions Boot Repair, which is the first thing that comes to > mind: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair Boot repair is obviously tricky because you have to have something bootable to initiate the repair. Practically sp

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 9:47 AM stan via devel wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 15:58:14 -0500 > Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > > > > Of topic but related: I wish there was supported option to remove > > > the current rescue kernel, > > > > Is echo "dracut_rescue_image=no" > /etc/dracut.conf.d/rescue.co

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:47 AM stan via devel wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 15:58:14 -0500 > Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > > > > Of topic but related: I wish there was supported option to remove > > > the current rescue kernel, > > > > Is echo "dracut_rescue_image=no" > /etc/dracut.conf.d/rescue.

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread stan via devel
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 15:58:14 -0500 Gregory Bartholomew wrote: > > Of topic but related: I wish there was supported option to remove > > the current rescue kernel, > > Is echo "dracut_rescue_image=no" > /etc/dracut.conf.d/rescue.conf not > sufficient? That is an interesting option. It isn't do

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:20 AM Marc Pervaz Boocha via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 17:38 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ticket > > brought to us asking for a GUI-based rescue/recovery e

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Marc Pervaz Boocha via devel
On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 17:38 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > Hey all, > > Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ticket > brought to us asking for a GUI-based rescue/recovery environment[1]. > While we all agreed in principle that such a thing would be a very > good thing to have, we d

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-05 Thread Rajeesh K V
> So I come to y'all to ask about this and give us some feedback on the > idea, how to do it, and what kinds of things you expect people to need > a recovery environment for. As somebody used to often get a knock on the door past midnight in the early 2000’s because some guy in the hostel borked t

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/31/22 14:38, Neal Gompa wrote: Additionally, we're not really sure what the scope of things should be provided in said recovery environment and what kind of things people would expect to be able to fix in there. The ticket mentions Boot Repair, which is the first thing that comes to mind

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-04 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Robert Marcano via devel wrote: > I am not sure about having a full graphics environment, but it would be > nice to have the functionality of the server installers rescue mode, > where the system try to create a system tree at /mnt/sysimage IIRC and > allows you to run `chroot /mnt/sysimage` to ent

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-04 Thread Gregory Bartholomew
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:53 AM Robert Marcano via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > I am not sure about having a full graphics environment, but it would be > nice to have the functionality of the server installers rescue mode, > where the system try to create a system tree at /mnt/s

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-04 Thread Robert Marcano via devel
On 3/31/22 5:38 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: Hey all, Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ticket brought to us asking for a GUI-based rescue/recovery environment[1]. While we all agreed in principle that such a thing would be a very good thing to have, we don't really know how to a

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-04 Thread Neal Becker
There are several recovery disks available that could serve as examples. https://www.system-rescue.org/ On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 7:12 AM Fabio Valentini wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:39 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ti

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-04 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:39 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > Hey all, > > Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ticket > brought to us asking for a GUI-based rescue/recovery environment[1]. > While we all agreed in principle that such a thing would be a very > good thing to have, we d

Re: RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-04-01 Thread Marius Schwarz
Am 31.03.22 um 23:38 schrieb Neal Gompa: Hey all, Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ticket brought to us asking for a GUI-based rescue/recovery environment[1]. While we all agreed in principle that such a thing would be a very good thing to have, we don't really know how t

RFI/RFC: Fedora Linux graphical recovery environment

2022-03-31 Thread Neal Gompa
Hey all, Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ticket brought to us asking for a GUI-based rescue/recovery environment[1]. While we all agreed in principle that such a thing would be a very good thing to have, we don't really know how to achieve such a thing. Additionally, we're