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

2022-12-27 Thread Ian Laurie
ing rather 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 o

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

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: Replacing DNF with DNF5: changes reverted and helping steps

2023-08-07 Thread Ian Laurie
t hesitate to reach back if you cannot 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

Can we squeeze coreutils-9.4 into Fedora 39?

2023-08-29 Thread Ian Laurie
before coreutils-9.3. If it's too 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 ___

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 ___

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

2023-08-30 Thread Ian Laurie
[1] https://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 Condu

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

2023-09-13 Thread Ian Laurie
a period. Plasma 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 _

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 3

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

2023-09-15 Thread Ian Laurie
is certainly unusable 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 unsubsc

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: Planned un-retirements of Pantheon DE related packages

2023-11-21 Thread Ian Laurie
I am 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 --

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 Co

Re: Does splint work for anyone?

2024-02-09 Thread Ian Laurie
ut I don't. -- 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.or

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: Aust

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: Karma for OpenSSL needed

2022-11-01 Thread Ian Laurie
ASAP? 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 lis

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: nixus

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. -

VirtualBox and HOST kernel-5.17.12 weirdness

2022-06-03 Thread Ian Laurie
ut since I 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 a

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

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 and

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

2022-06-11 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 in

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

2022-06-14 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

2022-06-15 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, On

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

Re: Rawhide hangs booting 5.11.0-rc2

2021-01-12 Thread Ian Laurie
gards, 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. --

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: 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,

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

2021-02-14 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

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 tcryp

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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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://

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 Co

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&#

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 su

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 su

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 c

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

2022-03-15 Thread Ian Laurie
systems 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.fedorapro

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 s

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

2022-04-03 Thread Ian Laurie
we need 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 lis

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

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

2023-06-22 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.o

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F40 to F41

2024-09-02 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
In my case on two boxes I went all the way, actually did the upgrade. Somewhat boringly it just worked in both cases. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

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

2024-06-03 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
removed from Wayland. -- 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.fed

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 dev

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

2024-06-04 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
ssion. 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

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

2024-06-05 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
hanism should be chosen 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

Re: List of long term FTBFS packages to be retired next week

2025-01-23 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
On 23/1/25 19:30, Miro Hrončok via devel-announce wrote: rats  athoscr, cicku, fale Would be a shame to lose rats. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel

Re: Retiring GlusterFS in Fedora 42. First Notice

2025-01-05 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
On 4/1/25 09:20, Samuel Sieb wrote: Is there some sort of alternative or is this type of storage just not interesting anymore? Wasn't Ceph distributed file system supposed to replace Gluster? I could be totally wrong here. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/S