Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

2024-08-30 Thread Dave Close
Tim via users wrote: >> Microsoft's August security update included a patch to prevent >> vulnerable GRUB2 (susceptible to bypassing UEFI secure boot) >> installations from booting. >Hmm, would they prevent their own system from booting if it had (yet >another) security flaw? > >Perhaps they sho

Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

2024-08-30 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2024-08-30 at 12:53 +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > Microsoft's August security update included a patch to prevent > vulnerable GRUB2 (susceptible to bypassing UEFI secure boot) > installations from booting. Hmm, would they prevent their own system from booting if it had (yet another) se

Re: ACPI in boot log.

2024-08-30 Thread home user via users
On 8/30/24 5:39 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM home user via users ACPI tables are part of the firmware. You should update your BIOS/UEFI to the latest version provided by the manufacturer, and then report back. If you have additional questions, please state the ma

Re: ACPI in boot log.

2024-08-30 Thread home user via users
On 8/30/24 5:39 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM home user via users wrote: ACPI tables are part of the firmware. You should update your BIOS/UEFI to the latest version provided by the manufacturer, and then report back. If you have additional questions, please stat

Re: ACPI in boot log.

2024-08-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM home user via users wrote: > [...] > 1181 Aug 30 08:10:44 coyote audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 > auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 > msg='unit=systemd-vconsole-setup comm="systemd" > exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" host name=

Re: ACPI in boot log.

2024-08-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2024-08-30 at 13:10 -0600, home user via users wrote: > There are many lines of concern, having something to do with "ACPI".  > Are these false alarms that I can ignore, or ticking time bombs that > need attention soon, or a problem for which I've been lucky to not > yet see symptoms (other

ACPI in boot log.

2024-08-30 Thread home user via users
Good afternoon, (f39 standalone workstation last patched Thursday, August 29) My boot log (from journalctl -b > jlog.txt) contains the messages below.  Note that for context, I'm including the last 5 lines before the errors and the first 5 lines after the errors.  I left in short sequences of

Re: solved: warning in log during boot.

2024-08-30 Thread Barry Scott
> On 30 Aug 2024, at 16:36, Doug Herr wrote: > > The only reason you might need those items is if you wanted to install an > rc.local file. Better to write a systemd service to do what you need and not use the legacy rc.local. As I mentioned systemd is going to stop supporting the old rc.d

Re: solved: warning in log during boot.

2024-08-30 Thread Doug Herr
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024, at 8:28 AM, home user via users wrote: > Wednesday evening, I renamed "/etc/rc.d/", rebooted, and checked the > logs. Not that it really matters, but you could put back the few parts that come from systemd: >rpm -qil systemd | grep "etc/rc.d" /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/init.d /e

solved: warning in log during boot.

2024-08-30 Thread home user via users
On 8/27/24 8:19 AM, home user via users wrote: Good morning, (f39 workstation last patched Thursday, August 22) My boot logs (from journalctl -b > log20240826.txt) contain the warning below.  Note that for context, I'm including the last 5 lines before the warning and the first 5 lines after

Re: warning in log during boot.

2024-08-30 Thread home user via users
On 8/29/24 10:31 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 28 Aug 2024, at 16:54, home user wrote: Something else is puzzling me here. The warning during boot would not happen unless something#1 during boot is looking at and/or using something#2 in that directory, right? What? What will happen when that

Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

2024-08-30 Thread Barry Scott
> On 30 Aug 2024, at 13:53, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > Microsoft's August security update included a patch to prevent > vulnerable GRUB2 (susceptible to bypassing UEFI secure boot) > installations from booting. > > https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/windows-update-breaking-linux-dualboot-fi

Re: Fedora 40: the last three kernels fail

2024-08-30 Thread Maarten Hoes
Well, just because it got annoying, I tried out some different settings for the VM in VMWare, to see if that changed anything. I tried out some different 'Guest Operating System (version)' settings, under 'options->general->guest operating system->version', but that did not change anything. The

Dual boot failure after Windows update?

2024-08-30 Thread Matthew Saltzman
Microsoft's August security update included a patch to prevent vulnerable GRUB2 (susceptible to bypassing UEFI secure boot) installations from booting. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/windows-update-breaking-linux-dualboot-fix The update was supposed to not install on already-configured dual

Re: Bind mounting hogs.

2024-08-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2024-08-29 at 23:22 -0400, R. Clayton wrote: > Is this an old system that has been updated across several versions? > > It is; my notes start at 31, and it's been all updates since. > You might want to consider doing a fresh install, using BTRFS rather than LVM. Your disk space admin wi