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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 40 is officially released!

« Last post by ClassicHasClass on April 24, 2024, 05:38:45 pm »

the system crashes after reboot, turns the fans on to the max and I have no video signal on the HDMI of the embedded card.

Is fast reboot on or off?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 40 is officially released!

« Last post by MauryG5 on April 24, 2024, 06:46:24 am »

Well then we can update without problems, it's nice to recover Chromium after years and that the system has finally stabilized regarding the general performance of GNOME.  The initial bugs on Fedora are nothing new, we know that we have to act as a test bed since it updates very quickly, I'm not worried about this in fact, they will fix it soon as usual.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 40 is officially released!

« Last post by DKnoto on April 24, 2024, 02:28:09 am »

What worries me most is the very large variance in SSD performance from version to version. Once it is 4.5 GB/s and the next time it can be even less than 1 GB/s. The best was in versions 6.2.x, there the SSD reading speed often exceeded 6 GB/s.

BTW.Does a machine reboot work properly in Fedora 40? With me on Fedora 39 since kernel 6.6.x, the system crashes after reboot, turns the fans on to the max and I have no video signal on the HDMI of the embedded card. I have to turn off Talos II from the Power button and turn it on again.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 40 is officially released!

« Last post by tle on April 23, 2024, 06:37:19 pm »

Great news, unfortunately the 6.8.x series kernels perform poorly with SSD, below average from the last two years

Just curious to know if 6.9 would address this issue

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 40 is officially released!

« Last post by DKnoto on April 23, 2024, 05:13:48 pm »

Great news, unfortunately the 6.8.x series kernels perform poorly with SSD, below average from the last two years

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Fedora 40 is officially released!

« Last post by tle on April 23, 2024, 09:29:08 am »

More info: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

The F40 brings GNOME 46 and Linux kernel 6.8.7. Chromium RPM package is officially supported.

IMHO it is probably the best version for my blackbird till date. All sluggish gfx regression of mutter is gone, everything runs pretty snappy.

amdgpu works out of the box (well the only thing that does not work is no HDMI signal which does not impact me much as I am using DisplayPort)

There are a bit bugs with certain apps for example GNOME Loupe could not open image file.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« Last post by tle on April 22, 2024, 05:58:47 pm »

chromium-browser from 40 prerelease is crashing for me (on Gnome under X and Wayland, and under Hyprland).

With my standard set of plug-ins and pages open:

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> chromium-browser
[0412/102708.587427:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[364318:364318:0412/102708.559539:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[364318:364318:0412/102709.204710:ERROR:policy_logger.cc(157)] :components/enterprise/browser/controller/chrome_browser_cloud_management_controller.cc(161) Cloud management controller initialization aborted as CBCM is not enabled. Please use the `--enable-chrome-browser-cloud-management` command line flag to enable it if you are not using the official Google Chrome build.
[364318:364318:0412/102713.344891:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[364392:364392:0412/102720.809604:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[364392:364392:0412/102722.572608:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
[364392:364392:0412/102724.714188:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 3 times!
[0412/103107.321681:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103107.334242:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103107.338864:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103107.340250:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103107.435499:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[1]    364318 trace trap (core dumped)  chromium-browser
The GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() error occurs when the window changes focus, I think.

In guest mode, just idling:

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> chromium-browser --guest
[0412/103708.627004:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[369882:369882:0412/103708.582956:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[369882:369882:0412/103708.831739:ERROR:policy_logger.cc(157)] :components/enterprise/browser/controller/chrome_browser_cloud_management_controller.cc(161) Cloud management controller initialization aborted as CBCM is not enabled. Please use the `--enable-chrome-browser-cloud-management` command line flag to enable it if you are not using the official Google Chrome build.
[369882:369882:0412/103711.858597:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[369929:369929:0412/103713.406984:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[0412/103939.744484:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103939.747291:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103939.751427:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103939.752799:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103939.853552:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[1]    369882 trace trap (core dumped)  chromium-browser --guest
Initial research indicated this might be a Wayland issue, but it also occurs under X.

Possibly I don't have a dependency installed or at the correct version. chromium-browser was installed with dnf, though.

If the correct procedure is "wait for the actual 40 release" I'm happy to do that. 

I would totally expect rough edges because it's been like few years gap since that last effort from the community to support latest version on Fedora/RHEL.

I highly recommend you file report any bug to Fedora, I know Than Ngo is actively working on polishing things up for the Fedora 40 release tomorrow.

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Applications and Porting / [DEV] wasmtime is a porting blocker for many rust-based apps

« Last post by tle on April 22, 2024, 05:55:20 pm »

Rustlang-based apps have emerged as the most trendy language/tech choice for Linux apps lately.

Because of lacking of ppc64le backend in wasmtime, many popuilar apps such as Zed text editor, DenoJS could not be ported to ppc64le. There was a report from lleabout (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/1183) in the past but it did not produce any result yet.

If any member who could take on the work, I am more than happy to crowd source a bounty to reward for their efforts.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« Last post by MauryG5 on April 14, 2024, 04:03:11 am »

Well I think it's still early in fact, then as we know Fedora being a constant test bed has several defects which the developers then correct by running it on the various platforms of us end users and therefore I think that the beta releases are even worse in terms of bugs. Let's wait for the final version of Fedora to arrive and then see how Chromium runs. We have to start again after years of missing this browser. However, for some time now I have seen that the original Google search engine can be used again and now Chromium is also coming out and no longer ungoogled Chromium like a short time ago. Maybe Google has allowed us to use Power again, who knows... Or maybe Raptor still manages to run the regular version, bypassing the block they put in place at the time, I don't know...

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Blackbird / Re: Availability of P9 hardware post-ISA 3.1 HW launch

« Last post by MPC7500 on April 13, 2024, 07:46:59 am »

Vikings doesn't sell RaptorCS products anymore.