Re: GPU lockup on Fedora 25 Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750

2016-12-30 Thread johnrory . odwyer
Unfortunately I've had another GPU lockup this time with kernel 4.9.0 See attached extract from journal Dec 30 23:36:04 laptop kernel: radeon :02:00.0: GPU lockup (current fence id 0x002057e9 last fence id 0x002057ea on ring 0) Dec 30 23:36:05 laptop kernel: BUG: unable to h

Re: Can F25 install Btrfs on top of LVM?

2016-12-30 Thread Mayavimmer
On 30/12/2016 19:54, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/30/2016 02:39 AM, Mayavimmer wrote: >> The plan is to nondestructively >> upgrade the old OS to F25 by keeping both for a while, giving the user >> the option to boot the old OS if they want > > I don't understand how "upgrading" the old OS will b

Re: EFI F25 LVM install does not need separate /boot partition

2016-12-30 Thread Mayavimmer
On 30/12/2016 19:46, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/30/2016 02:19 AM, Mayavimmer wrote: >> Is it safe? > > If your system boots, then probably, yes. > Actually, I just found out that might not be the case. Out of five F25 installs I tried on one machine today, the ones without separate /boot destr

Re: GUI won't start - vdsmd.service ???

2016-12-30 Thread Jeffrey Ross
It appears to be something with the docking station the kernel doesn't like, I remove the laptop from the docking station and the gui starts right up. When not in the docking station and I run lspci -vnn it provides the following 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4

GUI won't start - vdsmd.service ???

2016-12-30 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I'm running Fedora 24 kernel 4.7.9-200 (x86_64). the system is on a Lenovo T440P. the machine boots and is accessable from the network but the system itself never presents a login prompt after starting a blank gray screen. Below are some the information that I think is useful, I'm not sure where

Re: Can F25 install Btrfs on top of LVM?

2016-12-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/30/2016 02:39 AM, Mayavimmer wrote: The plan is to nondestructively upgrade the old OS to F25 by keeping both for a while, giving the user the option to boot the old OS if they want I don't understand how "upgrading" the old OS will be "non destructive" or give the user the option to boo

Re: EFI F25 LVM install does not need separate /boot partition

2016-12-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/30/2016 02:19 AM, Mayavimmer wrote: Is it safe? If your system boots, then probably, yes. If so, why does the Fedora installer propose a separate /boot in this EFI hardware case with GPT partitioning? The kernel and initrd need to be in a place that GRUB2 can read them. Anaconda can

Re: GPU lockup on Fedora 25 Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750

2016-12-30 Thread John O'Dwyer
Thanks Chris I was waiting for kernel 4.9.0 to hit the fedora 25 repo but I took your advice and downloaded it now from koji and installed it I am testing it now & so far so good. I will let you know how I get on ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.

Re: EFI F25 LVM install does not need separate /boot partition

2016-12-30 Thread Porfirio Andrés Páiz Carrasco
On Dec 30, 2016 4:20 AM, "Mayavimmer" wrote: > > It seems that on EFI hardware Fedora 25 can be installed without the > suggested separate /boot partition. I just selected auto partitioning on > a LVM device, then deleted the given new /boot partition. It seems to > work ok. > The simple answer is

Re: Google Chrome generates many audit type 1326 messages

2016-12-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/30/2016 06:55 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 16:04 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> I think you're right, though it requires a close reading of the man >>> page to understand this. Anyway I've enabled it in the audit rules and >>> so far it seems to work. >> >> Huzzah! H

Re: F24 Grub chainload for Win7 fails (long)

2016-12-30 Thread Ron Leach
On 29/12/2016 15:46, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Ron Leach wrote: Grub starts fine, the F24 selection boots perfectly into F24, but selecting Windows just causes the machine to 'hang', showing a constant cursor in the top left corner of the screen. Could be this bug

Re: Google Chrome generates many audit type 1326 messages

2016-12-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 16:04 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > I think you're right, though it requires a close reading of the man > > page to understand this. Anyway I've enabled it in the audit rules and > > so far it seems to work. > > Huzzah! Hope that's "the magic bullet" for you. Unfortunately

Can F25 install Btrfs on top of LVM?

2016-12-30 Thread Mayavimmer
I am trying to install F25 on a legacy box that already has a working Ext4 over LVM over Md raid 1 of 2x2TB disks, and only a single empty non raid partition on the second disk. The plan is to nondestructively upgrade the old OS to F25 by keeping both for a while, giving the user the option to boot

EFI F25 LVM install does not need separate /boot partition

2016-12-30 Thread Mayavimmer
It seems that on EFI hardware Fedora 25 can be installed without the suggested separate /boot partition. I just selected auto partitioning on a LVM device, then deleted the given new /boot partition. It seems to work ok. Is it safe? If so, why does the Fedora installer propose a separate /boot in

Re: Most system update requires system reboot or session restart

2016-12-30 Thread James Hogarth
On 29 December 2016 at 18:34, Javier Perez wrote: > I remember reading years back about solutions that allowed Kernel upgrade > without reboot. Ksplice and Kpatch comes to mind. Whatever happened to them? > > The facilities arrived in kernel 4.0 with Red Hat and Suse working together with kpatch