reversible dual-boot test station
by Chris Murphy
Hi,
I mentioned this in a QA meeting, and have given it enough testing that I think it's broadly usable. If desired it can be copied out of my user account and put up somewhere where QA folks will see it and can modify it as issues or improvements are discovered.
What is it? The idea is to produce a system that can confidently be used for baremetal testing, without risking the primary operating system. While VM's are a great way to test, it's also a really idealized environment that tends to not expose an assortment of bugs that affect particular hardware. But then quite a lot of folks reasonably don't want to upgrade their daily use hardware early on, because they don't want to always have to debug things, or have to figure out how to undo the upgrade if it really goes badly.
Therefore, I present a dual-boot setup offering:
* no re-partitioning;
* no installation step, instead system upgrade is used;
* reversibility, or undoability, i.e. with just a few steps you can delete the "test OS".
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chrismurphy/Draft/dualboot_teststation
--
Chris Murphy
2 months, 3 weeks
sudo make install for homebrewed kernel on F39 runs in a error
by old sixpack13
sudo make install for homebrewed kernel on F39 runs in a error after upgrade (F38 => F39)
error message:
INSTALL /boot
grub2-mkrelpath: error: failed to get canonical path of `/boot/vmlinuz-6.5.4_MY'.
dirname: missing operand
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.
after a short Analysis (I'm unsure):
- it seems package grub2-common and
- the files under /lib/kernel/install.d
Anyway:
thanks for a new release !
7 months, 2 weeks
email
by pmkellly＠frontier.com
Good morning,
Yesterday I got a new ISP. I have a new email address and I changed my
email address in the Fedora Account System. I just checked it this
morning and the new address is still there. However this morning the
meeting announcements and test reports came to my old email address.
Fortunately I haven't discontinued that ISP with it's associated email
address yet.
What else do I need to change for the QA related email to come to me new
email address?
Have a Great Day!
tablepc Pat
7 months, 2 weeks
Question to F39 who did a new install apart upgrade
by old sixpack13
since F38 it happens to me that the dir for the journals is filled up with a lot of small journals (~5 MB) and something regarding time
Is this still the case with F39 *new* installs (explicit *NOT* upgrades, e.g. F38 => F39)
7 months, 2 weeks
2023-10-02 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting?
by Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting
# Date: 2023-10-02
# Time: 15:00 UTC
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto)
# Location: ** #fedora-meeting on irc.libera.chat **
Greetings testers! There is a meeting slot on Monday, but I won't be
around (I'll be on my way back from a weekend trip). If anyone else is
able to run a meeting, please do volunteer! If not, we'll do one next
time.
As usual lately, please note this meeting will really be *on IRC*.
The Matrix bridge is still down and the meeting bot for Matrix is not
quite done yet. So please use an IRC client or the web client -
https://web.libera.chat/#fedora-meeting - to join.
If anyone has any other items for the agenda, please reply to this
email and suggest them! Thanks.
== Proposed Agenda Topics ==
1. Previous meeting follow-up
2. Fedora 39 status
3. Test Day / community event status
4. Open floor
--
Adam Williamson (he/him/his)
Fedora QA
Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @adamw(a)fosstodon.org
https://www.happyassassin.net
7 months, 3 weeks
Accented uppercase letters
by Alessio
I'm pretty sure that before Fedora 39, typing an accented character
(Italian keyboard) while the caps lock is active, will result in the
uppercase version of such accented character (i.e. è -> È).
It was an useful way to type accented capital letters instead of E'
Now it doesn't work anymore.
Or better, it doesn't work in many applications (i.e. Libreoffice,
Firefox, Evolution, GNOME Text Editor), but it works on Chrome or
Telegram.
What might be the cause?
Thanks,
A.
7 months, 3 weeks
Fedora 39 (silverblue) doesn't suspend properly
by João Antonio
Suspending fedora silverblue 39 (rebased from 38) instead logs out of GNOME.
I don't see crashing logs.
I tried resetting gsettings via dconf Editor but it didn't solve the issue.
# System Details Report
---
## Report details
- **Date generated:** 2023-09-26 14:11:33
## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:** Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15ALC6
- **Memory:** 8,0 GiB
- **Processor:** AMD Ryzen™ 7 5700U with Radeon™ Graphics × 16
- **Graphics:** AMD Radeon™ Graphics
- **Disk Capacity:** 256,1 GB
## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:** GLCN40WW
- **OS Name:** Fedora Linux 39.20230925.n.1 (Silverblue Prerelease)
- **OS Build:** (null)
- **OS Type:** 64-bit
- **GNOME Version:** 45.0
- **Windowing System:** Wayland
- **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.5.5-300.fc39.x86_64
7 months, 3 weeks
Memory usage
by Alessio
Hello.
I have a Fedora Workstation machine. I monitor it with check_mk.
Since the upgrade from 38 to 39, there is a constant warning about committed memory.
Total virtual memory: 14.85% - 2.03 GB of 13.68 GB, Committed: 129% -
17.72 GB of 13.68 GB virtual memory (warn/crit at 100.00%/150.00% used)
WARN
Well, I know that RAM usage is not so simple to interpret, and honestly
I don't understand it very well (what is committed memory?), but the
workload of the machine is exactly the same as before (I use such
computer to display a web page with Firefox, btw the situation does not
change if I close Firefox), and as you can see in the attached graph,
such committed memory usage started to grow the day I upgraded to
Fedora 39.
Any idea? Could it be a clue of some memory leak?
Thanks,
A.
7 months, 4 weeks
