dbxtool service errors (was: Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu)

2018-06-28 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Hello, Gerald. Sorry for late reply, I managed to catch up with this thread only now. On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:01, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski < > domi...@greysector.net> wrote: > > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 07:54, Gerald B.

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-20 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Actually, that is the error I am receiving... is your SecureBoot enabled or disabled? You can check by: mokutil --sb-state On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski < domi...@greysector.net> wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 07:54, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > [...] > >

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-20 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:55 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > The mcelog.service message is associated with rhbz#1166978 > The dbxtool.service message is associated with rhbz#1508808 > The rngd.service message is associated with rhbz#1490632 And abrt-xorg.service fails in some cases; see rhbz

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-20 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 07:54, Gerald B. Cox wrote: [...] > The dbxtool.service message is associated with rhbz#1508808 Thanks to this, I checked my machine and filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1593258 because I'm seeing a different variation of yours. Regards, Dominik --

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Here is another bug that was opened in 2014 and closed "WONTFIX because it was directly tied to F24. Here we are with F28 and it still exists: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166978 Again, if we're concerned about the cleaning up of the boot process, why are we apparently ignoring

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-11 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 10-06-18 19:02, Gerald B. Cox wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 2:07 AM, Hans de Goede mailto:hdego...@redhat.com>> wrote: Hi, On 04-06-18 21:17, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 12:43 +0200, Jan Kurik wrote: = Proposed System Wide Change: Hide the

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-10 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 2:07 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 04-06-18 21:17, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 12:43 +0200, Jan Kurik wrote: >> >>> = Proposed System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu = >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu >>> >> >> I've

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-09 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 08-06-18 00:35, Gerald B. Cox wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 2:07 AM, Hans de Goede mailto:hdego...@redhat.com>> wrote: A question to you (and the Fedora community in general) where should the documentation for this live ? I would like to have something longer lived then

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-07 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 2:07 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > A question to you (and the Fedora community in general) where > should the documentation for this live ? I would like to have > something longer lived then the Changes wiki page or the > release notes. > If it were me, I would put it

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-07 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 04-06-18 21:17, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 12:43 +0200, Jan Kurik wrote: = Proposed System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu We (QA) would like to note that the "How to test" section of this Change seems heavily

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-06 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01-06-18 22:29, Peter Jones wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:14:57PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Jason L Tibbitts III said: If we're going to patch grub to expand the set of keys it will watch for, is it possible to just expand the set to encompass all keys? We don't

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-05 Thread Till Maas
Hi, On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 05:09:46PM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Talking from my experience running Rawhide on two my laptops for ~5 > years, I really don't remember where I would really need to use older > kernel. If I had to, it was probably due to something like audio issues > with my

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-05 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 06/04/2018 06:09 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 1.6.2018 v 16:29 Ken Coar napsal(a): On 06/01/2018 05:06 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: It is irony, that people, who are capable to get into the grub menu if they need, complain about it being hidden. So to say, I am 100% for hiding the grub menu,

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 12:43 +0200, Jan Kurik wrote: > = Proposed System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu We (QA) would like to note that the "How to test" section of this Change seems heavily under-developed: "1. Install Fedora in a fresh

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-04 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 05/31/2018 04:54 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: Plus, there's an upside: if you're hammering F11 or F8 or F12 or Esc or whatever to try and get into the BIOS, and you miss it, then at least you stop in grub instead of going straight into the OS. A big part of the 'dark pattern' of the

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 1:22 AM, Till Maas wrote: > > My proposal was for the instructions to recommend pressing a certain key > but still accepting any key in grub, then there is no lie, since "Press > space to enter grub" is still true when other keys allow the same. I'm still not a fan

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-04 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 1.6.2018 v 16:29 Ken Coar napsal(a): > On 06/01/2018 05:06 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: >> It is irony, that people, who are capable to get into the grub menu if >> they need, complain about it being hidden. So to say, I am 100% for >> hiding the grub menu, speeding up the boot process, and if

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-04 Thread Till Maas
Hi, On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 03:44:12PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Till Maas wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 02:30:20PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:00 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III > > > >> > If we're going to patch grub to expand

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-01 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:14:57PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Jason L Tibbitts III said: > > If we're going to patch grub to expand the set of keys it will watch > > for, is it possible to just expand the set to encompass all keys? We > > don't really need to make it that hard

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Ken Coar wrote: > On 05/31/2018 06:06 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III >> wrote: "CM" == Chris Murphy writes: >>> >>> Plus, there's an upside: if you're hammering F11 or F8 or F12 or Esc or >>> whatever to

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-01 Thread Ken Coar
On 06/01/2018 05:06 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > It is irony, that people, who are capable to get into the grub menu if > they need, complain about it being hidden. So to say, I am 100% for > hiding the grub menu, speeding up the boot process, and if need it, I'll > find a way to get it. I fail to

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-01 Thread Ken Coar
On 05/31/2018 07:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Well, to unpack a bit: "let's just slap a choice in the installer!" is > almost never the right answer. I consider myself n00b-slapped. My only defence is my ignorance of discussions in this area. Point taken. :-) -- #kenB-|} Ken, Baron

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-01 Thread Ken Coar
On 05/31/2018 06:06 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III > wrote: >>> "CM" == Chris Murphy writes: >> >> Plus, there's an upside: if you're hammering F11 or F8 or F12 or Esc or >> whatever to try and get into the BIOS, and you miss it, then at

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-01 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 31.5.2018 v 21:36 Jason L Tibbitts III napsal(a): >> "JF" == John Florian writes: > JF> Does Fedora really have that large of non-technical audience? > > It's an interesting question, but it seems to me that the answer doesn't > really matter. If they're non-technical, the assumption

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-06-01 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 6:53 AM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Jan Kurik writes: > > > = Proposed System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu > > > > > > Owner(s): > > * Hans de Goede > > > > > > On systems with only a single OS installed, the

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, May 31, 2018, 20:19 Ben Rosser wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 6:31 PM, Adam Williamson > wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 15:58 -0400, Ken Coar wrote: > >> At 2018-05-31T02:36, Jason L Tibbitts III irritated the > >> Akashic Field to say: > >> > > >> > If a user is technical, and our

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Ben Rosser
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 19:19 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: >> So, back to the topic of this thread: while I don't think this choice >> belongs in the installer, I do think there should be detailed >> instructions somewhere for end users on how

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 19:19 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > So, back to the topic of this thread: while I don't think this choice > belongs in the installer, I do think there should be detailed > instructions somewhere for end users on how to enable or disable the > grub boot menu, so they can _choose_

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 20:18 -0300, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018, 19:32 Adam Williamson > wrote: > > > > > > How about making this a yes/no installation option? > > > > http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/ > > > Well... That's a bit of a non-sequitur... Well, to unpack a bit: "let's

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, May 31, 2018, 19:32 Adam Williamson wrote: > > > How about making this a yes/no installation option? > > http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/ Well... That's a bit of a non-sequitur... > > ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Ben Rosser
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 6:31 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 15:58 -0400, Ken Coar wrote: >> At 2018-05-31T02:36, Jason L Tibbitts III irritated the >> Akashic Field to say: >> > >> > If a user is technical, and our documentation is reasonably good, >> > then they should be

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 15:58 -0400, Ken Coar wrote: > At 2018-05-31T02:36, Jason L Tibbitts III irritated the > Akashic Field to say: > > > > If a user is technical, and our documentation is reasonably good, > > then they should be able to achieve the level of verbosity they want. > > When you

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >> "CM" == Chris Murphy writes: > > CM> I think it's to avoid ambiguity. F8 on one of my computers tells the > CM> firmware to do a firmware update or some such thing, so I'm going to > CM> press F8 and maybe get a firmware update

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > > More concretely, perhaps plymouth could display such a message on its > splash screen for as long as its running. But the message should > probably be more accurate, along the lines of "Reboot and hold the > Shift key for more boot

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Till Maas wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 02:30:20PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> I think it needs to be made specific, unambiguous, and deliberate. Yes >> this means it is also obscure if you don't know the decoder ring, but >> worse is when the

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Till Maas wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 02:30:20PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:00 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III > >> > If we're going to patch grub to expand the set of keys it will watch >> > for, is it possible to just expand the set

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Till Maas
Hi, On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 02:30:20PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > I think it needs to be made specific, unambiguous, and deliberate. Yes > this means it is also obscure if you don't know the decoder ring, but > worse is when the decoder ring is either random or changing all the > time. But for

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 02:30:20PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:00 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III > > If we're going to patch grub to expand the set of keys it will watch > > for, is it possible to just expand the set to encompass all keys? We > > don't really need to make

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Ken Coar wrote: > At 2018-05-31T02:36, Jason L Tibbitts III irritated the > Akashic Field to say: >> >> If a user is technical, and our documentation is reasonably good, >> then they should be able to achieve the level of verbosity they want. > > When you need to

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "CM" == Chris Murphy writes: CM> I think it's to avoid ambiguity. F8 on one of my computers tells the CM> firmware to do a firmware update or some such thing, so I'm going to CM> press F8 and maybe get a firmware update menu, or maybe I'll get a CM> GRUB menu, depending on my timing. And I

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:26 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > > I think it was a fair question which was raised about the size > of the audience being sought to be catered to, vs the mass of > users of Fedoraproject code, and their 'least astonishment' > and loss of acquired knowledge as to use > > If

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread stan
On Thu, 31 May 2018 14:36:39 -0500 Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > that they don't want to see the stuff and indeed, what we should be > going for is a completely smooth transition between the BIOS logo and > the login screen, with no flashing back to text mode. I am pretty > sure that's the end

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:00 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >> "JK" == Jan Kurik writes: > > JK> 1. Add patches to grub to also make pressing F8 show the menu > > One thing I've never really understood is the reason for using such a > small set of keys to interrupt the boot process. I

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread R P Herrold
I think it was a fair question which was raised about the size of the audience being sought to be catered to, vs the mass of users of Fedoraproject code, and their 'least astonishment' and loss of acquired knowledge as to use If there are, oh, say, twelve people in the world that actually

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread John Florian
On 05/31/2018 03:36 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: what we should be going for is a completely smooth transition between the BIOS logo and the login screen, with no flashing back to text mode. Should we? Yes, I get that looks nice, but it can be at the cost of functionality.  In the end, I sit

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "AL" == Andrew Lutomirski writes: AL> If the protocol were that the boot menu would be shown if any key at AL> all were held down, then we wouldn't need a 1 second delay. For some reason I also recall just holding shift down to get into grub, and doing searches on that seems to imply that

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >> "JK" == Jan Kurik writes: > > JK> 1. Add patches to grub to also make pressing F8 show the menu > > One thing I've never really understood is the reason for using such a > small set of keys to interrupt the boot process. I seem

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Ken Coar
At 2018-05-31T02:36, Jason L Tibbitts III irritated the Akashic Field to say: > > If a user is technical, and our documentation is reasonably good, > then they should be able to achieve the level of verbosity they want. When you need to get into single-user mode, the documentation is probably not

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "JF" == John Florian writes: JF> Does Fedora really have that large of non-technical audience? It's an interesting question, but it seems to me that the answer doesn't really matter. If they're non-technical, the assumption is that they don't want to see the stuff and indeed, what we

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread John Florian
On 05/31/2018 06:43 AM, Jan Kurik wrote: = Proposed System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu Owner(s): * Hans de Goede On systems with only a single OS installed, the grub menu does not offer any useful functionality, so we should

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Jan Kurik
Forwarding reply from Ken: -- Forwarded message -- From: Ken Coar To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 12:20:32 -0400 Subject: Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu On 05/31/2018 06:43 AM, Jan Kurik wrote: > = Proposed System Wide Cha

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jason L Tibbitts III said: > If we're going to patch grub to expand the set of keys it will watch > for, is it possible to just expand the set to encompass all keys? We > don't really need to make it that hard to find the grub menu, do we? To add: printing a message to the

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "JK" == Jan Kurik writes: JK> 1. Add patches to grub to also make pressing F8 show the menu One thing I've never really understood is the reason for using such a small set of keys to interrupt the boot process. I seem to recall that in older versions (perhaps pre-grub2) the space bar or

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Kamil Paral
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jan Kurik writes: > > = Proposed System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu = >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu >> >> >> Owner(s): >> * Hans de Goede >> >> >> On systems with only a single OS installed, the grub

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jan Kurik writes: = Proposed System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu Owner(s): * Hans de Goede On systems with only a single OS installed, the grub menu does not offer any useful functionality, so we should hide it by default.