Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sat, 2020-11-28 at 11:22 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 1:58 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > Then I suggest backing up whatever you need to save and doing a > > reinstall. There is a thin LV option you can select in the installer, > > although I think btrfs is pro

Dragora bollixed?

I'm running F33 Mate, but I think I was also seeing the problem I'm asking about under at least F32, and maybe also earlier. Dragora has two icons that I can put on a panel. One of them is supposed to be an updater. It works, afaict. The other seems intended to do what it used

Re: Dragora bollixed?

On 29/11/2020 05:10, Beartooth wrote: I'm running F33 Mate, but I think I was also seeing the problem I'm asking about under at least F32, and maybe also earlier. Dragora has two icons that I can put on a panel. One of them is supposed to be an updater. It works, afaict. The o

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:54 PM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > Where exactly are you getting this from ? > > I have been using swap on LVM thin volume pretty much up around always, > excluding this crash. It's possibly stale information, back from when the installer first added support for LVM th

Re: Dragora bollixed?

On 29/11/2020 07:37, Ed Greshko wrote: On 29/11/2020 05:10, Beartooth wrote: I'm running F33 Mate, but I think I was also seeing the problem I'm asking about under at least F32, and maybe also earlier. Dragora has two icons that I can put on a panel. One of them is supposed to be an u

Lost the UEFI boot info that my BIOS shows

Something went wonkers with my system, and although I could try to reboot it would get so far and then fall back into some kind of maintenance mode. Rather than fight it at the time, I thought it was a good time to ensure I have a good backup of my home filesystem. So I booted a Live USB stick and

Re: Lost the UEFI boot info that my BIOS shows

On 11/28/20 9:27 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: > Any idea what happened to my HD boot info in my BIOS, or how to restore it? > PS. It is a Dell laptop. Hi, I'm assuming you're booting off a UEFI-based system and that you lost the menu entry stored in NVRAM corresponding to "Fedora". You can recover your

Re: Lost the UEFI boot info that my BIOS shows

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 9:17 PM Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 11/28/20 9:27 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: > > Any idea what happened to my HD boot info in my BIOS, or how to restore > it? > > PS. It is a Dell laptop. > > Hi, > > I'm assuming you're booting off a UEFI-based system and that you lost > the menu

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On 11/28/20 4:13 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:54 PM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: Where exactly are you getting this from ? I have been using swap on LVM thin volume pretty much up around always, excluding this crash. It's possibly stale information, back from when the in

Re: F32 --> F33 upgrade fails .

On 11/26/20 3:09 AM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Upon trying to download the files in order to be able to upgrade from F32 to F33 i get the following errors Error:  Problem 1: package openssh-ldap-8.3p1-3.fc32.x86_64 requires openssh = 8.3p1-3.fc32, but none of the providers can be installed  

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 5:43 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > It's possibly stale information, back from when the installer first > added support for LVM thinp. I forget if it was someone on the > installer or LVM team, but I can't find any reference. The installer, > to this day, creates swap on a con

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > I don't see why it would be any different on a thin LV as long as the > swap file is fully provisioned. It's still just a fixed set of blocks > on the hard drive. > I need some advice. I have checked the filesystem with e2fsck, and it rep

Re: Dragora bollixed?

On 29/11/20 12:26 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 29/11/2020 07:37, Ed Greshko wrote: On 29/11/2020 05:10, Beartooth wrote: I'm running F33 Mate, but I think I was also seeing the problem I'm asking about under at least F32, and maybe also earlier. Dragora has two icons that I can put on a

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On 11/28/20 10:57 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb > wrote: I don't see why it would be any different on a thin LV as long as the swap file is fully provisioned.  It's still just a fixed set of blocks on the hard driv

Re: Dragora bollixed?

On 29/11/2020 14:58, Stephen Morris wrote: On 29/11/20 12:26 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 29/11/2020 07:37, Ed Greshko wrote: On 29/11/2020 05:10, Beartooth wrote: I'm running F33 Mate, but I think I was also seeing the problem I'm asking about under at least F32, and maybe also earlier.    

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 12:37 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > Pretty low. If e2fsk is happy with it, then it should be good. > Although that doesn't verify that the file data is all there, so there > is still potential for hitting an I/O error somewhere during the > process. But trying won't hurt a