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Almalinux 8.7 - Now Available
by Jonathan Wright 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

Hello All, We are happy to announce that AlmaLinux 8.7 is now available on the mirrors. You can read the announcement here: https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-87-now-available/ Release Notes: https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/8.7.html -- Jonathan Wright AlmaLinux Foundation Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>

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Install wine on almalinux-9
by John Thompson 18 Oct '22

18 Oct '22

I don't see a wine package available for almalinux-9. I would build it from source, but I don't see a 32-bit development environment available either. Does anyone know if/where either can be found for almalinix-9? -- -John Thompson (john(a)os2.dhs.org) Appleton WI USA

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Thunderbird fails to start
by John Thompson 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

The latest Mozilla Thunderbird package fails to start on my Almalinux-9 machine. The password window comes up, I enter my password, and an error message results: XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xhtml Line Number 8318, Column 15: <toolbarbutton id="imipGoToCalendarButton" --------------^ I am using this Thunderbird package: Name : thunderbird Version : 102.3.0 Release : 3.el9_0.alma Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Thu 06 Oct 2022 04:48:51 PM CDT Group : Unspecified Size : 287392892 License : MPLv1.1 or GPLv2+ or LGPLv2+ Signature : RSA/SHA256, Fri 30 Sep 2022 05:44:53 AM CDT, Key ID d36cb86cb86b3716 Source RPM : thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el9_0.alma.src.rpm Build Date : Wed 28 Sep 2022 05:03:02 AM CDT Build Host : x64-builder01.almalinux.org Packager : AlmaLinux Packaging Team <packager(a)almalinux.org> Vendor : AlmaLinux URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ Summary : Mozilla Thunderbird mail/newsgroup client N.B. the Thunderbird-102.3.3 tarball from Mozilla works fine. Any ideas? -- -John Thompson (johndthompson(a)gmail.com) Appleton WI USA

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started cancel waiting for multipath siblings of nvme0n1
by Patrick Begou 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Hi, I'm unable tu run a PXE boot + Kickstart based install for Alma Linux 8.6 on a DELL Precision 3571 laptop. The workflow hangs with the message: "/started cancel waiting for multipath siblings of nvme0n//1/" I find this is an issue known by Alma Linux (https://bugs.almalinux.org/view.php?id=209&nbn=6) but the proposed workaround do not work (or I dot not understand it): I've removed ./usr/lib/udev/prefixdevname in initrd.img as prefixdevname-tools was not found but this make a Kernel panic! And there are no details about the initrd.img modification steps. Any idea how to solve this (I have 3 laptops to deploy) ? Is there a way to use older boot images for Alma Linux ? My setup works fine for an old DELL Precision 3520 used for testing before deploying on these new 3571. Thanks for your advices Patrick

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HP-LIP does not work
by John Thompson 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Trying to set up my HP printers in almalinux-9 using HPLIP but it doesn't work. rpm -qa|grep hplip hplip-common-3.21.2-6.el9.alma.x86_64 hplip-libs-3.21.2-6.el9.alma.x86_64 hplip-3.21.2-6.el9.alma.x86_64 These are the official almalinux packages, e.g. $ rpm -qi hplip Name : hplip Version : 3.21.2 Release : 6.el9.alma Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Thu 22 Sep 2022 07:16:14 PM CDT Group : Unspecified Size : 27157762 License : GPLv2+ and MIT and BSD and IJG and Public Domain and GPLv2+ with exceptions and ISC Signature : RSA/SHA256, Tue 12 Apr 2022 01:22:53 PM CDT, Key ID d36cb86cb86b3716 Source RPM : hplip-3.21.2-6.el9.alma.src.rpm Build Date : Tue 12 Apr 2022 11:49:56 AM CDT Build Host : x64-builder01.almalinux.org Packager : AlmaLinux Packaging Team <packager(a)almalinux.org> Vendor : AlmaLinux URL : https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing Summary : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project Description : The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides drivers for HP printers and multi-function peripherals. Unlike other linux distros I've used, the GUI config tool "hp-toolbox" is not included. hp-setup fails thus: $ hp-setup HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.21.2) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0 Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/hp-setup", line 313, in <module> ui = import_module(ui_package + ".setupdialog") File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 972, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 984, in _find_and_load_unlocked ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ui5 I had been successfully using hplip (including the gui utilities) in almalinux-8.5, but none of the hplip utilities seem to work in almalinux-9 and I am unable to use any of my printers from the almalinux-9 machine. Any ideas? -- -John (JohnDThompson(a)gmail.com) Appleton, WI USA

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elrepo kernel-ml for el9 ready for testing
by Akemi Yagi 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

Hi all, elrepo kernel-ml for el9 is ready for testing. Details are here: https://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2022-September/006208.html Please test! Akemi

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Centos 7 to Almalinux 8 & VMWare
by Joey J 01 Sep '22

01 Sep '22

Hello All, I started the process to upgrade from Centos 7 to Almalinux, but ran into a snag with the drivers: - mptspi - mptscsih - mptbase I believe these are vmware drivers, but couldn't find a workaround since you cant just remove those drivers like it was a floppy. Any suggestions, instructions etc appreciated! -- Thanks! Jack

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Migration issue
by Stephen Beckwith 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

Greetings, I'm trying to upgrade (update) a very old CentOS7 setup. I have, I think, successfully updated the CentOS7 to CentOS8. The /etc/redhat-release file says 8.5, kernel version however is still 3.10, so I might have messed up some steps. Also, this CentOS7 was a KDE custom setup. During this process, I was running out of the GUI/DE - which at a point reverted to CLI only (inside a VMWare Workstation 16.2.x Virtual Machine). I have tried to get KDE installed, but alas, no joy. So I decided to follow the upgrade path to Alma Linux. Following the instructions on GitHub, when I run the almalinux-deploy.sh script, I get: Verify almalinux-relesae-latest.rpm package ERROR (in red) details say: RSA sha1 ((MD5) PGP) md5 NO OK MISSING KEYS: (MD5) PGP#c21ad6ea) Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated. I thank you for your time and expertise. Regards, Stephen Beckwith

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Errata missing again
by Dominik Rutkowski 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Hello, I hope this is the correct channel, already posted this on security mailinglist, but got no response I've just noticed again, that several errata are missing. Just one example RHSA-2022:5819 Can you please look into it? Thanks Greetings Dominik

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AlmaLinux 9 and libvirt-guest bug
by Alessandro Baggi 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

Hey there, I noticed that libvirt-guests service is installed and enabled but the configuration file /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests is missing. I noticed this also on RHEL9. I populated the missing file with one of almalinux 8 and it works as expected. Running "dnf whatprovides /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests" does not report any match. This missing is a bug or a wanted behaviour? Thank you in advance.

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