Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-05-03 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 5/2/24 16:28, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2024-05-02 at 15:41 -0400, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: On 5/2/24 14:34, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: While I follow the philosophy of updating regularly, there are likely some who install Fnn, and never update, and then would expect an update

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-05-02 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 5/2/24 14:34, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: While I follow the philosophy of updating regularly, there are likely some who install Fnn, and never update, and then would expect an update to Fnn+2 to work without issue(s). -- The CLI update strongly suggests doing 'dnf update --refresh' before

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-04 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 4/3/24 17:49, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: And is there a statistical evaluation of that data somewhere? Downloading 350 MiB (!) of raw CSV data does not sound to me like a convenient way to work with it. It's messy, but interesting. Here's the architecture data for the last 3 or so

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-03 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 4/3/24 14:56, Adam Williamson wrote: If you have two equally good options and you already picked one, you should stick with it, not just switch between them every so often for the sake of it. If Plasma were demonstrably, markedly and uncontroversially *superior* to GNOME (please don't take

Re: F41 Change Proposal: Switch to DNF5 (system-wide)

2024-04-03 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 4/3/24 06:36, Aoife Moloney wrote: the dnf-automatic command will be obsoleted. https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes.html does not say anything about automatic updates, and https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/dnf5/dnf5-plugin-automatic/ simply suggests that dns update be

Re: AVX extensions not detected properly on a Zen 2 CPU?

2023-08-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
Nevermind, my mistake---I have dl_hwcap2=0x0 On 8/28/23 14:27, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: On 8/28/23 09:15, Florian Weimer wrote: * Julian Sikorski: I have noticed the following message in my kernel log today after I attempted to decrypt my veracrypt external hard drive

Re: AVX extensions not detected properly on a Zen 2 CPU?

2023-08-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 8/28/23 09:15, Florian Weimer wrote: * Julian Sikorski: I have noticed the following message in my kernel log today after I attempted to decrypt my veracrypt external hard drive: [20542.328594] AVX2 instructions are not detected. [20542.382731] AVX or AES-NI instructions are not detected.

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F38 to F39

2023-08-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 8/26/23 00:51, Solomon Peachy via devel wrote: I have twenty-year-old perl scripts that still work just fine, but in my experience, even couple-years-old python code most likely won't. I love both perl and python, but have to say that perl stability is partly due to the fact that its

Re: Potential (security) issue for beginners/non-experts when release is End Of Life: Fedora doesn’t consider the behavior of beginners/non-experts sufficiently

2023-08-15 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 8/15/23 09:51, Stephen Smoogen wrote: Each of these groups have 'farms' of several hundred of each type of phone which get continual updates and they have a long certification process to make sure that they reach 'all the phones updated without problems and ran N hours without issues

Re: Potential (security) issue for beginners/non-experts when release is End Of Life: Fedora doesn’t consider the behavior of beginners/non-experts sufficiently

2023-08-14 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 8/13/23 16:57, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: look at SUPPORT_END in /etc/os-release and nag more frequently. Highly recommend other Fedora editions consider similar notifications. I don't think more nagging is going to help. It is just going to be considered yet another annoying nag to

Re: F40 Change: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

2023-07-17 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 7/12/23 19:21, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: 1. The GDPR and similar regulations are 100% clear that consent must be opt-*in*. Opt-*out*, as is proposed here, is not consent. Therefore, this change is proposing collecting telemetry *without user’s consent*. I seems to me that

Re: F40 Change: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

2023-07-13 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/12/23 16:34, Jeremy Newton wrote: I know that I would personally always opt out on principle, and would vote for opt-in or dropping the proposal. I am under the impression that most Fedora users are in the same boat as me. For the record, my personal opinion is that an opt-out is an

Re: SecureBoot certificates

2023-06-14 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 6/14/23 09:29, stan via devel wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 11:05:53 -0400 "Chris Murphy" wrote: OK I tried this again and discover shim is signed twice. It has been awhile since I built a local kernel that I signed, but even a locally built kernel was signed twice when using rpmbuild. I

Re: SecureBoot certificates

2023-05-31 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
I also have a recently updated F38 with shim-x64-15.6-2.x86_64. The BOOTX64.EFI file has two certificates   Subject: C=US, ST=Washington, L=Redmond, O=Microsoft Corporation, CN=Microsoft Windows UEFI Driver Publisher   Subject: C=US, ST=Washington, L=Redmond, O=Microsoft Corporation,

Re: subarchitectures and RISC-V, was Re: F39 proposal: RPM 4.19 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-04-12 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 4/11/23 22:08, Jeff Law wrote: On 4/11/23 19:14, przemek klosowski via devel wrote: The situation in the RISC-V universe is even more complicated because of all the extensions ... Whatever standard scheme Fedora uses for x86 will hopefully be very useful for RiSC-V era that is apparently

subarchitectures and RISC-V, was Re: F39 proposal: RPM 4.19 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-04-11 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 4/4/23 10:28, Dan Čermák wrote: Chris Adams writes: Yeah, it'd be back to the i386/i586/i686 days... which was a bit of a PITA sometimes. But cramming multiple architectures of core libraries into a single RPM would be bad for disk space, image size, downloads, etc. But something that

Re: Porting Fedora for the LoongArch architecture.

2023-01-13 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 1/11/23 01:24, Peter Robinson wrote: Also before becoming a main Fedora architecture the infrastructure team will need to be able to source enterprise grade hardware that can be racked in a datacentre and remotely managed. There's likely some other requirements the infrastructure team has

Re: F38 proposal: Add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to distribution build flags (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-06 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
Andrii, copilot to pilot, you are responding to Jakub Jelinek's points, not Neal's. Jakub is a compiler/toolchain engineer with considerable experience, so when he talks about compiler technology involved in tracing execution flow, I am inclined to believe him. I understand that your

Re: Inactive packagers to be removed after the F37 release

2022-09-15 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 9/14/22 03:51, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 13/09/2022 23:50, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: Another option is a TPM-based authenticator.  Would this be acceptable? No. TPM 2.0 chip is a *proprietary* black box. Some of them have known critical security vulnerabilities[1]. OK, but so

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F36 to F37

2022-09-13 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 9/12/22 08:59, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Do you want to make Fedora 37 better? Please spend 1 minute of your time and try to run: # Run this only if you use default Fedora modules # next time you run any DNF command default modules will be enabled again sudo dnf module reset '*' dnf

Re: F37 Change Proposal: Unfiltered Flathub (System-Wide Change)

2022-07-13 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/30/22 10:23, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I take a pretty dim view towards arguments about "Flathub is untrusted" and "Flathub packaging is poor" since proponents of these arguments conveniently ignore the fact that traditional RPMs are totally unsandboxed. [...] Opponents of Flatpak have

Re: F37 Change Proposal: Firefox Langpacks Subpackage (System-Wide Change)

2022-06-30 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
How about a middle ground, by splitting langpacks into several larger groups (roman-alphabet+arabic+far-eastern?, asian+european?). This way we wouldn't have to constantly twiddle with new packages and keep the number of packages sane. p On 6/30/22 06:32, Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote: On Thu,

Re: Debuginfo on F36

2022-05-18 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 5/18/22 23:57, Jerry James wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 9:41 PM Jerry James wrote: I just updated my home machine to F36. Now, when I try to debug a Fedora-built package after installing the appropriate debuginfo packages with dnf, I get: (No debugging symbols found in .gnu_debugdata

Re: How much free space in /var is required for upgrades?

2022-05-13 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
I had issues with this for several releases now, although I never got a broken upgrade like you're reporting: every time so far I got a message 'you need additional 4GB on /' before the actual upgrade started. It would be sad if the free space estimation code didn't work and allowed broken,

Re: Need advice on NET_ADMIN capability on a binary (iotop-c)

2022-02-23 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 2/22/22 12:14, Boian Bonev wrote: Hi Dan, Thanks for the suggestion - I like that way because it gives full control to the admin together with the responsibility and does not implicitly do unexpected things. It is also a clean approach both from user experience and packaging point of

Re: More is not Less

2022-02-18 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 2/13/22 22:08, Todd Zullinger wrote: Ron Olson wrote: Sorry if I missed something, but under Rawhide I discovered when I tried to “more somefile.txt” I got “less” behavior, while Fedora 35 still runs more like, uh, more. I'm not quite sure what "less" behavior you mean, so I'm only

Re: Fwd: conditional require (RPM dependency solving puzzle)

2022-02-01 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 2/1/22 12:54, Miro Hrončok wrote: Thanks to Steven, Stephen and Miro for finding this solution. Still, having to add flags and deleting the existing doc package is not completely gruntling---it works, but it's not automatic and, for the future, I am curious if there's another way. Sorry

Fwd: conditional require (RPM dependency solving puzzle)

2022-02-01 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
rpm -q -conflicts kicad-6.0.1-4.fc35.x86_64.rpm kicad-doc < 1:6.0.1-4.fc35 ... When I add the '--best --allowerasing' flags, then I get the desired result: # dnf update kicad-6.0.1-4.fc35.x86_64.rpm --best --allowerasing Last metadata expiration check: 0:43:04 ago on Mon 31 Jan 2022

conditional require

2022-01-31 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
During recent major version update, some files were moved from -doc to , and as a result updates of fail due to a file conflict. Manual update of -doc resolves this, of course. A simple solution would be to declare that Required: package-doc >= 6.0.0 but that would force the install of

Re: new systemd in rawhide

2021-12-10 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 12/10/21 09:13, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: What happens if these libraries are not installed an cannot be dl-opened? The functionality that requires those libraries will not be available. This is quite

Re: F36 Change: Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-12-09 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 12/9/21 10:15, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 09/12/2021 15:32, Lennart Poettering wrote: TPM2 chip you'll get much weaker security guarantees https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/how-to-go-from-stolen-pc-to-network-intrusion-in-30-minutes/ The Lenovo TPM implementation exploited

Re: F36 Change: Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-12-07 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 12/7/21 10:39, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: If available, use the TPM2 to additionally tie the password to local hardware. If the user is removed, also remove that password from that storage. During boot, if it is necessary to authenticate before the root file system has been

Re: Unowned system directories

2021-11-29 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 11/23/21 22:13, Steve Grubb wrote: ``` $ rpm -qf /var/cache filesystem-3.14-7.fc35.x86_64 ``` Top level ownership is not good enough because we have to be able to determine what is in use now vs what I can delete. For this particular one, I always assumed that I can delete anything in

Re: F36 Change: Unit Names in Systemd Messages (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2021-11-17 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 11/17/21 13:49, Matthew Miller wrote: Finished systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules. Finished systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service - Create Static Device Nodes in /dev. Starting systemd-sysctl.service - Apply Kernel Variables... [...] Would something like Started Journal

Re: Introduction: nedia, a Silverblue fan

2021-11-09 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
Kia ora to you, and welcome to Fedora! I hope you find something interesting to contribute in. p On 10/27/21 23:30, Aiden Langley wrote: Kia ora koutou, I'm nedia, I live in NZ & I've been knocking about the matrix/irc for a few days now. I'll be 28 on the 30th, I've been using Fedora for

Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements

2021-10-20 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 10/14/21 18:30, Peter Boy wrote: A default installation of Fedora Server Edition occupies about 2.2 GiB of storage and consumes 505 MiB of Ram. An absolute minimum might be 2 G RAM and 5 G storage This pretty much would require a reinstall on upgrade, because during the regular upgrade

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F34 to F35

2021-09-08 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
This is F34 with 5041 packages. I think people alrady reported arduino-core and gnuradio, I reported the gqrx libboost/boost_thread  issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002104 On 9/7/21 12:14 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Do you want to make Fedora 35 better? Please spend 1 minute

Re: Schedule for Monday's FESCo Meeting (2021-08-23)

2021-08-27 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 8/25/21 4:54 AM, Alexander Sosedkin wrote: It's not ideal if one obsolete website forces downgrading the security potentially for all the connections. I hope 5) is addressing that. That's something apps and only apps can handle. Well, but if the system policy says that TLS1.0 is banned,

Re: Schedule for Monday's FESCo Meeting (2021-08-23)

2021-08-24 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 8/23/21 5:49 AM, Alexander Sosedkin wrote: Sure. Crypto-policies are there to give you control of what's enabled, ideally what's enabled by default. 1) There's a blanket `update-crypto-policies --set LEGACY` 2) There's a possibility to reenable disabled algorithms with custom policies,

Re: systemd-oomd blows away the gnome-shell desktop session

2021-07-30 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 7/27/21 10:04 PM, Aleksei Bavshin wrote: IIRC, gnome-terminal supposed to put each tab into a new cgroup. which would address David's problem of losing his desktop session---but is still a bad experience, because you'd be running the compile (or some other memory-intensive process) in a

Re: F35 Change: Remove SHA-1 from Sqlite (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2021-07-09 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 7/9/21 11:48 AM, Ben Cotton wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 11:45 AM Ben Cotton wrote: == Upgrade/compatibility impact == SHA-1 algorithm will not be supported in sqlite. Instead SHA-3 algorithm can be used. == User Experience == Users won't be able to use SHA-1 algorithm with sqlite.

Collecting data from Fedora user community

2021-07-07 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
We had several discussions recently that could use some real-world data on e.g.: - x86_64-v2 prevalence - GUILE usage in make/gdb - count of systems with UEFI/GPT vs BIOS/MBR - debugd server usage - etc The common thread is that some sort of measurement would help figuring out the best

Re: x86_64-v2 in Fedora

2021-06-17 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 6/17/21 4:44 AM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 16.06.2021 22:22, Matthew Miller wrote: Well, that's certainly A Position. I don't think it's anything nearly so absolute, though, and depends on what, who, how, why, and a host of other things. And "it can help us answer questions like

Re: Package maintainer docs: Package Retirement: `git rm` all files in the other branches

2021-06-16 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 6/16/21 6:26 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: Otto Urpelainen wrote: Also, if the intent is to get rid of the package completely, should not adding it to fedora-obsolete-packages be required as well? Why? Adding working packages to fedora-obsolete-packages forces removing them from users'

Re: x86_64-v2 in Fedora

2021-06-16 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 6/16/21 12:09 PM, Florian Weimer wrote I'm missing something---I get identicaloutput on my v3 Core i7-4810MQ Why do you expect different output? Stephen was showing off his 'oldest' system and I assumed that it was some Penryn-era relic, so I expected a <= v1 result. One cohort of

Re: x86_64-v2 in Fedora

2021-06-16 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 6/16/21 8:45 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: oh cool. this even works on CentOS and RHEL systems: ``` smooge@xanadu ~]$ podman run fedora:latest /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help ... Subdirectories of glibc-hwcaps directories, in priority order:   x86-64-v4   x86-64-v3 (supported,

Re: F35 Change: Make btrfs the default file system for Fedora Cloud (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-05-25 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 5/25/21 5:04 PM, Peter Boy wrote: So the same model works totally fine for both desktop and server. I myself lack the exact technical knowledge, but (all?) server and file system experts I hear consider just that a gross misconception. I think you and Neal talk about two different

Re: When is pappl going to be good enough to replace cups?

2021-05-25 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
There are so many moving pieces here that it's hard to get a handle on this. I had trouble seeing local network printers so I tried following the advice Zdenek published [1], but I ran into a nest of issues: printing depending on avahi, which fails quietly and is hard to debug. Specifically,

Re: F35 Change: Drop the the "Allow SSH root login with password" option from the installer GUI (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2021-05-21 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 5/15/21 11:53 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Creating a non-root user account, possibly with admin rights (all possible from within Anaconda) would seem like a safer option for accasional/emergency password based access to such machines over SSH. I don't see, how this would any safer than

Re: RPM name collisions

2021-05-07 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 5/7/21 12:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Really? I mean, third party repos have been around forever. It's not like they're a new thing. I'm not really opposing any sensible improvements here, I'm just not seeing the same clear story as you are here? Why do you think there are going to be a

Re: RPM name collisions

2021-05-06 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 5/5/21 2:29 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: If a third party wants to do something nefarious and can convince you to "install a repository" in some way, that means that at minimum they convinced you to drop an arbitrary file in /etc/yum.repos.d . What they probably did was convince you to

Re: how to ignore fedora's rawhide repo in the kickstarts file?

2021-05-05 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
so fedora-live-base.ks includes fedora-repo.ks which by default has fedora-repo-rawhide.ks uncommented (and fedora-repo-not-rawhide.ks commented out). I think the only way would be to edit that file. Of course you can edit it programmatically, or via some sort of symlink swapping ln -sf

RPM name collisions

2021-04-29 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
Few weeks ago we had an announcement of a Python supply chain hack where people supplied libraries with names matching some private library names, which took precedence and overrode those private libraries, giving the hackers control. Now, the name collisions are built-in into RPM, because

Re: Another F34 update experience : gtatools-*

2021-04-28 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 4/28/21 6:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2021-04-28 at 17:42 -0400, przemek klosowski via devel wrote: Trying to update F33 -> F34 on a development laptop with about 4700 packages. I think it started as F30 and did three Fedora system upgrades. ... I am getting four err

Another F34 update experience : gtatools-*

2021-04-28 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
Trying to update F33 -> F34 on a development laptop with about 4700 packages. I think it started as F30 and did three Fedora system upgrades. I did the standard dnf upgrade --refresh dnf system-upgrade --releasever=34 download I am getting four errors:  Problem 1: package

Re: Default 'fedora' hostname and failing split DNS VPN

2021-03-26 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
I've been having problems with DNS resolution in F33 as well: I use F5 VPN (work requirement). I tried your nsswitch recipe, but got some errors: authselect apply-changes [error] [/etc/nsswitch.conf] is not a symbolic link! [error] [/etc/nsswitch.conf] was not created by authselect!

Re: F34 Change proposal: Wayland by Default for KDE Plasma Desktop (System-Wide Change)

2020-12-30 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 12/29/20 11:26 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: More likely what you're really confused about is something that a lot of people are not aware of.  Wayland is a protocol, not a program.  I believe there's a library, but the final implementation is done in each window manager.  The X11 "emulation" is

Re: F34 Change proposal: Wayland by Default for KDE Plasma Desktop (System-Wide Change)

2020-12-29 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 12/29/20 5:20 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I don't think this GNOME bug is in any way related to the topic of whether KDE should default to Wayland So I am confused---I thought it is a problem in Wayland, perhaps in its X11 emulation but still Wayland.  Yes, the app is misbehaving,

Re: F34 Change proposal: Wayland by Default for KDE Plasma Desktop (System-Wide Change)

2020-12-29 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 12/28/20 3:51 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: I really don't see we have much of a choice here. X11 is eventually going away and Wayland is the path forward. ... If you notice issues, please open bugs. I have an open bz about reliable wayland crashes:

Re: Proposal: drop "Test installation media" from live media

2020-12-17 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 12/17/20 10:04 AM, Marius Schwarz wrote: Am 17.12.20 um 14:35 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: Right, but it's not automatic, and requires an existing known-good system, which is the actual 'root of trust' here. This cannot be assumed about a flash drive, which is why the automatic image

Re: Proposal: drop "Test installation media" from live media

2020-12-16 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 12/16/20 5:38 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 04:28:49PM -0500, przemek klosowski via devel wrote: I was trying to make a point that we don't have a way to check the initial image: it could be altered to falsely claim to be signed by fedoraproject. well, we do: https

Re: Proposal: drop "Test installation media" from live media

2020-12-16 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 12/16/20 2:23 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Yeah, there has to be an anchor for your trust. Right now that is "I trust the certificate authority that issued fedoraproject.org's cert". I was trying to make a point that we don't have a way to check the initial image: it could be altered to falsely

Re: Proposal: drop "Test installation media" from live media

2020-12-14 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 12/11/20 1:07 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Right now, when you start Fedora live media to install Workstation or KDE or etc., you get an ugly text prompt which defaults to doing a media test ... the most likely failure modes are like this: 1) Doesn't even write properly. 2) Doesn't boot

Re: Fedora 34 Change proposal: Remove and deprecate nscd in favour of sssd and systemd-resolved (Self-Contained Change)

2020-11-17 Thread przemek klosowski via devel
On 11/17/20 4:24 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: dig @9.9.9.9 +nsid heise.de FWIW, a neat way to look at differences like that is     watch -d dig @9.9.9.9 +nsid heise.de I use it often for looking at hotplugs (watch -d lsusb) etc. ___ devel

Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F32 to F33

2020-10-05 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 10/2/20 3:50 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Do you want to make Fedora 33 better? Please spend 1 minute of your time and try to run: sudo dnf --releasever=33 --setopt=module_platform_id=platform:f33 \ --enablerepo=updates-testing --enablerepo=updates-testing-modular \ distro-sync

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: hundred percent cpu load

2020-08-14 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 8/14/20 8:33 AM, Wells, Roger K. via devel wrote: That was not the cause. Now when it happens I have only three tasks running at 100% (same ones as reported earlier). Everything else, kerneloops, shutdown via power switch, etc, is as before. Could you repost to the list with more info? I

Re: EarlyOOM +ZRAM Only

2020-08-14 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 8/14/20 7:33 AM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: On Wednesday, August 12, 2020 1:16:34 PM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: This is weird---your swap was 100% full, and ram almost full, and yet killing 4GB VirtualBox didn't seem to free up memory. I suspect some sort of measurement

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: hundred percent cpu load

2020-08-13 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 8/13/20 4:12 PM, Wells, Roger K. via devel wrote: I'll do something to disable it. Oh, just thougth I'd mention---what I'd do would be locate sadc <- hopefully this would return the location of the sadc binary, perhaps /var/lib64/sa/sadc rpm -qf /var/lib64/sa/sadc  <- this will

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: hundred percent cpu load

2020-08-13 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 8/13/20 4:12 PM, Wells, Roger K. via devel wrote: So sadc is not part of current Fedora. It may be some artifact from older Fedoras (e.g. sysstat-11.5.7-4.fc27.x86_64 has /usr/lib64/sa/sadc) or some custom system activity data collection software that is locally installed at your site.

Re: hundred percent cpu load

2020-08-13 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 8/13/20 2:04 PM, Wells, Roger K. via devel wrote: After some time, usually hours, the following four tasks in top are running at 100%: sadc kworker/6:1+events_freezable dmesg systemd-journal So sadc is not part of current Fedora. It may be some artifact from older Fedoras (e.g.

Re: EarlyOOM +ZRAM Only

2020-08-12 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 8/12/20 2:27 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi! I 've just had a problem using EarlyOOM + ZRAM. I haven't a disk-based swap partition. I was using mainly Zoom (desktop app) + Firefox + VirtualBox (Debian with 4GB of RAM), and EarlyOOM killed Zoom in the middle of a call :( This is weird---your

Re: memory testing

2020-07-15 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/15/20 1:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Hi, While bad RAM is uncommon, it comes up with some regularity to cause folks a lot of grief. I'm wondering if there's a way to make it easier to get bad news :-\ In particular there are cases where RAM defects just don't show up with a few hours of

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-13 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/10/20 5:22 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: Android, actually, is trying to get it right by a) being a platform so that common security updates are available from the platform owner, and can be applied to everyone's system and b) having a secure remote update method. The problem with

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-10 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/10/20 8:25 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le vendredi 10 juillet 2020 à 08:00 -0400, Przemek Klosowski a écrit : Not quite---as I said in next sentence that you didn't include in your quote, secure boot also tries to prevent unauthorized modifications, That does not work either, because

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-10 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/10/20 7:37 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le vendredi 10 juillet 2020 à 07:12 -0400, Przemek Klosowski via devel a écrit : My point is that however the updates are being produced, they need a secure remote update method. It's not realistic to expect end users to be in the loop If you remove

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-07-10 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/9/20 2:24 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: <50 runs later on btrfs> 16 readonly mounts failed (32% failure rate) Within the successful mounts, 1 or more files were unreachable in 30 attempts. Across all 50 attempts, 7720 files were lost. Is that better than ext4, and will ext4 need fsck just to be

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-10 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/10/20 5:06 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: The problem IOT side is not the security of the software update chain. The problem is that manufacturers skimp on software updates in the first place Yes, that's the situation right now: everyone has a custom firmware tied to a short product

Re: The future of legacy BIOS support in Fedora.

2020-07-09 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/9/20 10:46 AM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: "Secure Boot" doesn't make root non-uid 0, and can't keep root from controlling system devices, even uploading unsigned firmware to peripherals. While it's true that a completely secure software chain doesn't really exist yet, we are slowly going

Re: Enable EarlyOOM on Fedora KDE - Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal

2020-07-09 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/9/20 8:44 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: * disk access is literally O(1) slower than RAM access This notation is meaningless. By the definition of the O notation, O(1)=O(1)=O(k) for any constant k. Yes, you are right of course, but I just hope

Re: Enable EarlyOOM on Fedora KDE - Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal

2020-07-08 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/8/20 12:15 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: I'd rather crash and restart where I left off than have the computer drag me along trying to save my application. Sorry, what? Why would your data not be on your system? What about "the modern way of computing" would move your data from your system

Re: Enable EarlyOOM on Fedora KDE - Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal

2020-07-07 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/6/20 6:49 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: Unless you're actively using all of those tabs (I don't know how you would be, but it's certainly possible), swap sounds like the perfect solution. Unless Firefox keeps JS running in there, and it's updating the DOM, these would likely be able to get

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-07-06 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/2/20 4:38 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: Running 10 loops on each of btrfs, ext4, and xfs I got results that look like this (ext4 always creates empty lost+found so it will always find at least 1 file there) btrfs ... == 4 fsck failures, 2 mount failures ext4 ... == 0 fsck failures, 0 mount

Re: Enable EarlyOOM on Fedora KDE - Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal

2020-07-06 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/4/20 8:18 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: I've never managed to get one of my own Fedora machines to the point of OOMing, and, when I have seen others do it, it's a problem that would have been solved by having more swap space. I am a tab hoarder so I used to wedge the browser due to memory

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-07-01 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 7/1/20 3:50 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: This sounds like a "wtf, why are you doing this btrfs?" sort of thing, but this is just the reality of using checksums.  It's a checksum, not ECC. Yes, exactly---why isn't it ECC? Wouldn't it work better, especially in the context of faulty hardware?

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-06-29 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/29/20 7:59 AM, David Kaufmann wrote: Unfortunately I think this arguing is moot, as the issue seems to have been decided already anyway. I only remember one change "proposal" to actually being pulled back in the last year, and I'm really disappointed about having fake discussions on devel@

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-29 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/29/20 12:38 PM, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: On 6/27/20 11:40 PM, Tom Seewald wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 7:32 PM Garry T. Williams Just a PSA: btrfs raid1 does not have a concept of automatic degraded mount in the face of a device failure. By default systemd will not even

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-29 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/27/20 11:40 PM, Tom Seewald wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 7:32 PM Garry T. Williams Is this hopefully seen by upstream as a bug that will be fixed? This removes the system availability benefits of raid, and I've never heard of another system that would behave like this, whether that's

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-06-27 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/27/20 12:50 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: As an alternative, I would like to recommend we make Emacs the default. Emacs does not require "specialist knowledge", but is much more powerful once you do learn how to use it properly. It's also not as hard to use as nano. I used emacs for 30+

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-26 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/26/20 1:43 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: One issue that I have seen mentioned as an issue within the last week is still the problem of running out of space when it still looks like there's space free. I didn't read the responses, so not sure of the resolution, but I remember that being a "thing"

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

2020-06-26 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/26/20 12:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: That pattern will change with btrfs. There will be fewer of some problems, more of others, and the messages will be different. fsck.ext4 is pretty much all we have, all we're used to, and it's a binary pass/fail. Even though we're talking about edge cases

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-06-26 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/26/20 10:33 AM, Neil Horman wrote: If I google how to quit vi, I see a full 10 pages of the answer to the question documented in detail The fact that people have to google their way out of such a mundane circumstance is in my opinion enough to give this proposal a: +1 As background, I

Re: wireguard kmod package

2020-06-24 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/24/20 6:03 PM, Joe Doss wrote: On 6/24/20 4:28 PM, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: It was akmod-wireguard (thanks Laura, Alexander, Joe, Leigh and Ian). This leaves the question: Shouldn't kernel>5.6.0 obsolete kmod-wireguard and akmod-wireguard? and maybe replace wiregu

Re: wireguard kmod package

2020-06-24 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/24/20 4:29 PM, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: I noticed that kmod-wireguard is being updated on F31, even after WireGuard became a part of Linux kernel since 5.6.0. Shouldn't kernel>5.6.0 obsolete kmod-wireguard? Is it kept and updated because it was originally installed

Re: wireguard kmod package

2020-06-24 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/24/20 4:35 PM, Laura Abbott wrote: On 6/24/20 4:29 PM, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: I noticed that kmod-wireguard is being updated on F31, even after WireGuard became a part of Linux kernel since 5.6.0. Shouldn't kernel>5.6.0 obsolete kmod-wireguard? Is it kept and updated beca

Re: RHEL 9 and modularity

2020-06-24 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/24/20 8:56 AM, Petr Pisar wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 08:14:39AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 3:38 AM Petr Pisar wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 06:51:36AM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: Yes. Putting the "stream identification" into the package

wireguard kmod package

2020-06-24 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
I noticed that kmod-wireguard is being updated on F31, even after WireGuard became a part of Linux kernel since 5.6.0. Shouldn't kernel>5.6.0 obsolete kmod-wireguard? Is it kept and updated because it was originally installed via @commandline? We had a discussion about not removing any

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Fedora-Retired-Packages

2020-06-24 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/24/20 5:51 AM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 24.06.2020 04:40, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: Nice, thanks for finding this --- but it also lists all the debugsource/debuginfo packages This is intended, because debug repositories are disabled by default and these packages does

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Fedora-Retired-Packages

2020-06-23 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/23/20 5:35 AM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 23.06.2020 10:39, Miroslav Suchý wrote: A tool which will give user a list of packages that can/should be removed. dnf -C list extras Nice, thanks for finding this --- but it also lists all the debugsource/debuginfo packages, and for

Re: Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: Default animated background for Fedora Workstation

2020-06-16 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/15/20 9:46 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:05:42PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: So I'm confused here, does anyone know why the animated wallpapers don't work in KDE Plasma or any other desktop? I personally love animated wallpapers and I'd like to see this on my KDE Plasma

Re: Supporting hibernation in Workstation ed., draft 1

2020-06-05 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 6/4/20 1:36 AM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 9:05:22 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: UEFI Secure Boot doesn't prevent you from gaining access to firmware setup. It can cause some options in firmware setup to become unavailable, e.g. compatibility support modules for

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