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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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cockpit motd doesn't display
by Ranbir 26 Jul '22

26 Jul '22

Hello Everyone, On my AlmaLinux 9 installs, the cockpit motd I'm used to seeing upon login via ssh isn't being shown. I've looked at the symlinks that get created when the unit is enabled and everything appears to be fine, yet no motd noting that cockpit is available. I get the inactive message just fine. As soon as it's activated, the inactive message dissapears and doesn't get replaced with the active one. Has anyone else encountered this? -- Ranbir

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AlmaLinux vs. RHEL packages
by Lana Deere 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

I was comparing the packages in the AlmaLinux9 ISO with those in the RHEL 9 ISO and found differences. Most the naming differences are "alma" versions of the rpms, similar to these: < libstdc++-devel-11.2.1-9.4.el9.alma.i686.rpm < libstdc++-devel-11.2.1-9.4.el9.alma.x86_64.rpm --- > libstdc++-devel-11.2.1-9.4.el9.i686.rpm > libstdc++-devel-11.2.1-9.4.el9.x86_64.rpm What does it mean when there is a package name difference like this? There also seemed to be a package here or there which only existed in one of the releases. For example, RHEL has > virt-who-1.31.22-1.el9_0.noarch.rpm but not AlmaLinux. Conversely AlmaLinux has < plotnetcfg-0.4.1-18.el9.x86_64.rpm but not RHEL. Is there any conclusion I should draw from this? .. Lana (lana.deere(a)gmail.com)

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Almalinux 9 and libvirt guest
by Alessandro Baggi 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Hi all, I'm using Almalinux 9 and installed virt-manager and libvirt. I noticed that the file /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests does not exist in EL9 while in EL8 it is present. How I can setup things like "parallel shutdown", action on host shutdown and start up? Thank you in advance. Alessandro.

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Unable to use xfce desktop
by John Thompson 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

I just reinstalled almalinux-9 after an selinux screw-up and cannot get xfce to work. I've installed all the requisite packages, but the gdm login screen no longer shows an option to select a different desktop (i.e. no "gear" icon). I tried pointing ./xinitrc to "exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session" but no joy. I installed the switchdesk package and ran "switchdesk Xfce" program reports "Desktop now set up to run xfce" but logout/login still comes up as the butt-ugly almalinux default desktop. Xfce worked fine on this machine prior to the reinstall. What am I missing? -- -John (JohnDThompson(a)gmail.com) Appleton, WI USA

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AlmaLinux 9 First Boot Problem
by Alessandro Baggi 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

Hey there, I have installed AlmaLinux 9 on my workstation. I know that I should wait until x.2 minor but if anyone wonn't test since first releases no bugs will be discovered. First problem: I'm not able to install nvidia driver (from nvidia.com) using dkms. I tried the latest driver and the previous one running under 8.6. Actually I'm running nouveau driver. I got this error: "DKMS make.log for nvidia-510.54 for kernel 5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64 (x86_64) Fri May 27 17:30:08 CEST 2022 make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64' Compiler version check failed: The major and minor number of the compiler used to compile the kernel: gcc (GCC) 11.3.1 20220421 (Red Hat 11.3.1-2), GNU ld version 2.35.2-19.el9 does not match the compiler used here: cc (GCC) 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9) Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. It is recommended to set the CC environment variable to the compiler that was used to compile the kernel. The compiler version check can be disabled by setting the IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH environment variable to "1". However, mixing compiler versions between the kernel and kernel modules can result in subtle bugs that are difficult to diagnose. *** Failed CC version check. Bailing out! *** make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/510.54/build/Kbuild:194: cc_version_check] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: *** [Makefile:1862: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/510.54/build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64' make: *** [Makefile:82: modules] Error 2 " Anyone encountered this issue and solved? Running gcc --version I get 11.2.1. How could the kernel be compiled with a newer gcc version? it was build running CentOS Stream? I don't know. I checked for update but there are not available upgrade. Second issue is related to libvirt. All my VMs were using spice and QXL but EL9 deprecates spice and QXL. So to solve the problem I did imported all my old VMs. No problem here just more work. I noticed that /etc/sysconfig/ files libvirtd and libvirt-guests are not more available. I always used them to config "start on boot" shutdown parallel vms or shutdown timeout. Where I can set this option in EL9? I don't know if the following is an issue, but running dnf module list I can't get appstream (it is empty). I think it is normal because EL9 is a young release but I excpected to see at least the default release with el9.0. Thank you in advance. To AlmaLinux Team: great job!

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Filezilla on AlmaLinux aarch64
by Andrey Bibiano Jardim 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

Good day. I've just installed the AlmaLinux 9 on Raspberry Pi 4 (aarch64). I've tried to enable all kind of repos possible, but I couldn't find the Filezilla package. I thought it was strange, because on another distros I can simply enable remi and/or epel and download it. Does you guys have any idea of how can I get it? Another packages as firefox, @xfce go normally. Tks in advance; Andrey

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