Hello everyone!
My name is Vítek, I'm an IT student and administrator from Czechia. I'm just getting started in the Fedora project and I'm interested in helping the QA/testing team.
I have been using Linux daily for the last 5 years as my daily desktop OS. I have experience with many distros and also in managing Linux servers. Hope I can be helpful in some way. :)
My FAS username is smoliicek.
Thanks!
Vít Smolík | IT Student
✉️ me(a)smoliicek.cz
🌍 https://smoliicek.cz
Hey folks! Just a note about current openQA test failures for Rawhide
updates.
Unfortunately it's a bit intractable. The cause seems to be something
in the kernel.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-0b8ce0290c (kernel-
6.16.0-0.rc5.45.fc43) was gated because of these weird failures. But
then the perl 5.42 side tag landed, and python3-perf - which is built
from the kernel - became uninstallable, so we tagged in the kernel from
the perl side tag to fix that...which turns out to be that same kernel-
6.16.0-0.rc5.65.fc43 . Oops. So we can have:
1) a kernel which doesn't cause weird failures in openQA, but an
uninstallable python3-perf which breaks all sorts of common build
chains and installs
2) an installable python3-perf, but weird openQA failures
I can't find another choice right now :( So we're stuck.
The openQA failures come along with a ton of warning kernel traces
about DRM stuff, which are apparently fixed by
https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/663110e1-3aa0-4f6f-8727-3a240bc96075@kern…
, but I don't know if fixing those tracebacks will actually fix the
test failures, or if that's some other issue. Also, that patch is not
yet merged to mainline, so just doing a newer kernel snapshot build
won't pull it in.
Kernel builds were failing anyway due to a dracut bug -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379116 . I've just
bisected that and sent a dracut build with the offending commit
reverted, so we can build kernels again, but I'm not going to try and
do any kernel builds (I can't anyway as I'm not on the SB signing
list).
In the morning I'll see if fiddling with the openQA settings to use a
different graphics adapter mitigates the problem, unless Justin's got a
new kernel build through and it fixes the problem, or something. Until
then, F43 updates will likely fail gating. Sorry for the inconvenience
:(
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# #meeting:fedoraproject.org: Quality
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Meeting started by @adamwill:fedora.im at 2025-07-07 15:00:33
Meeting summary
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* TOPIC: Roll Call (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:00:37)
* TOPIC: Previous meeting follow-up (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:06:40)
* INFO: "kparal to go ahead and implement the image size criterion move from beta to final" - this has been done, thanks kamil (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:10:43)
* INFO: "lruzicka to go over the Rawhide openQA results and fix what can be fixed" - lukas fixed some needle issues, there are some more substantial failures we need to continue looking into, including a rhythmbox startup failure we're working on with upstream and a GNOME Software update download issue we need to look into (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:16:42)
* TOPIC: Fedora 43 status (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:22:19)
* INFO: the big Fedora data centre move happened last week, it should be *mostly* done now but if you notice any services down or weird infra behavior, please report it (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:22:48)
* INFO: the gnomr 49-alpha update is stuck due to no gnome-kiosk build - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-b79b32194c (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:25:45)
* TOPIC: Test Day / community event status (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:30:59)
* INFO: there is nothing coming up ATM, stay tuned for more! it looks like KDE, upgrade and virt test days / weeks are in the works (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:36:03)
* ACTION: Aoife Moloney will meet with Sumantro Mukherjee to see if she can help with announcements and co-ordination of test days this cycle (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:43:03)
* TOPIC: Open floor (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:43:09)
Meeting ended at 2025-07-07 15:57:33
Action items
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* Aoife Moloney will meet with Sumantro Mukherjee to see if she can help with announcements and co-ordination of test days this cycle
People Present (lines said)
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* @adamwill:fedora.im (46)
* @bittin_:mozilla.org (17)
* @lruzicka:matrix.org (9)
* @kparal:matrix.org (7)
* @amoloney:fedora.im (4)
* @derekenz:fedora.im (3)
* @zodbot:fedora.im (2)
* @meetbot:fedora.im (2)
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# #meeting:fedoraproject.org: Fedora Meeting
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Meeting started by @lruzicka:matrix.org at 2025-06-23 15:05:09
Meeting summary
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* TOPIC: Recapitulate recent period. (@lruzicka:matrix.org, 15:08:21)
* ACTION: lruzicka to go over the Rawhide openQA results and fix what can be fixed (@lruzicka:matrix.org, 15:12:01)
* INFO: KDE is going to use the new Anaconda webUI, too, so there might be some glitches that would need to be fixed on automation. (@lruzicka:matrix.org, 15:13:25)
* INFO: https://github.com/hughsie/colord/issues/193 is causing a long delay on first boot of Workstation installs ATM, should be fixed with the new colord release when it's packaged (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:17:35)
* INFO: Python 3.14 has landed and rebuilds are pretty advanced, only a relative few remain (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:18:19)
* TOPIC: Test Day / community event status (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:18:58)
* INFO: kernel 6.15 test week went off well - https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/testday/2 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:20:36)
* INFO: stay tuned for F43 test days to start ramping up soon (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:25:10)
* TOPIC: Open floor (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:25:15)
* INFO: Red Hat Fedora QE team has lost some members to the all-consuming AI maw, so our scope will have to be reduced. See kparal's long message in the full meeting log for details, and look for proposals coming to a mailing list / discourse post near you soon (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:28:12)
* INFO: big Fedora data center move is coming up next week, scheduled for June 30 and July 1 (with probable fallout for the rest of the week). expect many outages over that time (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:30:13)
* INFO: please consider applying for the open position on the RH team: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Software-Quality-Engine… . note the requirements are being loosened from what is in the post, so if in doubt, please go ahead and apply anyway (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:30:50)
* INFO: adamwill wrote a new tool designed to do installability and reverse dependency validity testing for packages fast and with as few false failures as possible - rmdepcheck: https://codeberg.org/AdamWill/rmdepcheck . it's currently deployed on openQA staging for testing and runs on ELN updates and Fedora updates in the core, critical-path-base and critical-path-base groups (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:33:35)
* INFO: for rmdepcheck you can browse results via staging resultsdb, e.g. https://resultsdb.stg.fedoraproject.org/results?&testcases=update.rmdepchec… . you can tweak the search options to change the end date or only look for failures (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:37:35)
* INFO: lruzicka has made some enhancements to testcase_stats to make the tables more compact and easier to browse (@adamwill:fedora.im, 15:41:56)
Meeting ended at 2025-06-23 15:51:34
Action items
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* lruzicka to go over the Rawhide openQA results and fix what can be fixed
People Present (lines said)
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* @adamwill:fedora.im (62)
* @kparal:matrix.org (28)
* @bittin_:mozilla.org (16)
* @lruzicka:matrix.org (16)
* @derekenz:fedora.im (6)
* @boniboyblue:fedora.im (5)
* @nielsenb:fedora.im (4)
* @zodbot:fedora.im (3)
* @meetbot:fedora.im (2)
* @sumantrom:fedora.im (2)
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Adam Williamson (he/him/his)
Fedora QA
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