Fwd: [Test-Announce] Heads up: testing requested for significant
PackageKit update
by Kamil Paral
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 1:29 AM
Subject: [Test-Announce] Heads up: testing requested for significant
PackageKit update
To: <test-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Hey folks!
The desktop team kindly let us know that there's a fairly significant
PackageKit update coming. It's been built for Rawhide today (so will be
in tomorrow's compose) and is now in updates-testing for F37:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-6c1c40d160
what it does is re-enable a feature where the PackageKit daemon doesn't
run forever as it does now, but shuts down after an inactivity timeout.
This should save a decent amount of RAM, as the daemon tends often to
consume 400M+ of the stuff.
This feature has been turned on and off and on and off again a few
times before because it was found to cause problems. This time, a few
folks have done some diligent work trying to ensure all the previously-
encountered problems were solved, but of course it's *possible* they
missed something, or there are some other problems that folks weren't
aware of.
So it'd be great if as many folks as possible can install this update
and check how it goes. In the past, problems have tended to arise when
you mix operations between dnf and PackageKit-based apps like GNOME
Software, so please pay attention to those kinds of cases - if you
habitually do some stuff with dnf at the command line and some stuff in
Software, keep an eye out for new problems or oddities. Also look out
for incorrect or non-functional update notifications from GNOME,
especially if you e.g. update via DNF but then get a notification from
GNOME for the same updates.
There's some more background reading here:
https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/pull/578
for folks who are interested.
The update for F37 has karma auto-push disabled and time-based auto-
push set to 21 days, so we have plenty of time to find any major
problems with it - don't worry about it being rushed into stable before
we're sure it's OK.
Thanks everyone!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha
https://www.happyassassin.net
1 year, 2 months
Last known Good for Rawhide (Server Edition) -- Not Good
by Onyeibo Oku
Good Morning,
I'd like to bring something to attention. I just downloaded Server
Boot Media (Netinstall) from:
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-2022120...
I made a USB boot disk out of that and it failed to boot.
Here is what I get after choosing to install at the GRUB Menu:
error: ../../grub-core/fs/fshelp.c:257:file '/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz'
not found
error: ../../grub-core/loader/i386/efi/linux.c:258:you need to load the
kernel first.
Press any key to continue ...
The ISO was registered as "last known good". This can't be good.
Which one really works?
1 year, 2 months
Re: [Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Prioritized bugs and issues
by Ben Cotton
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 5:35 AM <bcotton(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> You are kindly invited to the meeting:
> Prioritized bugs and issues on 2023-01-11 from 10:00:00 to 11:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis
> At fedora-meeting-1(a)irc.libera.chat
>
> More information available at: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/program_management/prioritized_bugs/
There are no nominated prioritized bugs, so I'm cancelling this week's
meeting. I follow up with the currently accepted bugs out of band. The
next meeting is scheduled for 25 January.
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
1 year, 2 months
6.1 kernel in F36/F37?
by Andre Robatino
What's going on with the 6.1 kernel for stable releases? Normally, there are Koji builds even if it's not intended for stable releases yet, but the only Koji build for the 6.1 kernel was for Rawhide. Is there an issue causing it to be skipped?
1 year, 2 months