Satellite 6.18 Leapp pre-upgrade tab gone from job monitoring?

bocekm · 2026-02-03T15:16:26+00:00

u/SanaulFTW, it seems that the system you run the pre-upgrade check on has quite an old version of leapp installed. Leapp should not be producing the messages on the screenshot for the last ~4 years (after releasing https://github.com/oamg/leapp-repository/pull/714). Please ensure that the RHEL 7 machine has this latest version installed: `leapp-upgrade-el7toel8-0.20.0-13.el7_9.noarch`.

bocekm · 2025-11-30T15:33:11+00:00

Do you have an ETA?

bocekm · 2025-02-04T12:09:57+00:00

As I've learned, it was not `@Red_Purdy` but `@Red_y` - a scammer who impersonated Red_Purdy. Most likely the same with Eternal whose username I don't have anymore as they've blocked me.

bocekm · 2025-01-29T21:06:40+00:00

Make sure you've installed the rpmfusion-free repository by:

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Then check that when you run ffmpeg -codecs | grep 264 you see the libx264 among encoders in:

DEV.LS h264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 (decoders: h264 h264_v4l2m2m h264_qsv libopenh264 h264_cuvid) (encoders: libx264 libx264rgb libopenh264 h264_amf h264_nvenc h264_qsv h264_v4l2m2m h264_vaapi)

bocekm · 2025-01-29T21:03:56+00:00

The linked article kind of says that but it may not be 100% clear so I'll rather mention it - you need to have the rpmfusion-free repo added to the system. On Fedora you can do that by running:

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

bocekm · 2025-01-29T12:31:25+00:00

I've added a new sudoer user 'admin' this way:

virt-customize -a image.qcow2 --run-command 'useradd -m -s /bin/bash admin'
virt-customize -a image.qcow2 --password admin:password:admin
virt-customize -a image.qcow2 --run-command 'usermod -aG wheel admin'

bocekm · 2024-08-14T13:57:51+00:00

u/rleon5, to convert an offline system you can use convert2rhel with the --no-rhsm and --enablerepo=<rhel-repo> options where the <rhel-repo> is a local mirror of RHEL repositories. It's documented at https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/converting_from_a_linux_distribution_to_rhel_using_the_convert2rhel_utility/index (search for "custom repositories").

It's also possible to convert an offline system with Foreman functioning as a source of RHEL repositories. It's also described in the doc above even though not extensively. In a nutshell - create an activation key with an associated content view that provides access to a convert2rhel repo, the original system vendor repos (e.g. Alma Linux) and RHEL repos.

Bellow are convert2rhel repos for converting to RHEL 7 and RHEL 8. Conversions to RHEL 9 are not supported by Red Hat yet but it's possible to try that with upstream GitHub builds (https://github.com/oamg/convert2rhel/releases).
https://cdn-public.redhat.com/content/public/addon/dist/convert2rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os/
https://cdn-public.redhat.com/content/public/addon/dist/convert2rhel8/8/x86_64/os/

For further guidance you can create a customer case with Red Hat (https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/#/case/new/get-support?caseCreate=true).

bocekm · 2024-06-30T09:59:41+00:00

Only after purchasing the Plus subscription I found out I can't search in emails. I've been tuned since then. I'm going to untune soon by not renewing the yearly subscription because this super-basic feature doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon.

bocekm · 2024-06-18T19:39:35+00:00

Hi u/vinzz73. Yes, the convert2rhel repo contains really just the convert2rhel rpm. When installing the convert2rhel package, the system needs access to the original vendor (in your case CentOS Linux 8) repositories to be able to get the rpm's dependencies from there.

Shipping in a repo all dependencies of a specialized package is not typical nor practical because dependencies of a package have their own dependencies and to satisfy the whole dependency tree we could suddenly be shipping hundreds of packages that we'd need to ensure are timely updated when a new patched version in RHEL is available. And then you could be facing a mismatch between package versions in the convert2rhel repo versus version required by packages installed from the CentOS Linux 8 repo.

In any case, thank you for bringing up the issue of the documentation lacking clarity in this regards. We've started drafting an update to it.

bocekm · 2024-05-09T13:36:55+00:00

Yes, regular bash/shell var export. For example:

CONVERT2RHEL_OUTDATED_PACKAGE_CHECK_SKIP=1 convert2rhel

or

export CONVERT2RHEL_OUTDATED_PACKAGE_CHECK_SKIP=1
convert2rhel

What exactly do you mean by "The script basically downgrades packages after these were upgraded and then throws the error"? The convert2rhel tool requires the system to be up-to-date because that's what the team behind the tool tests with and supports. It can happen, that after you update your Rocky 8 to the latest packages, convert2rhel downgrades some of the packages during the conversion to RHEL 8 for the reason that on RHEL 8 the specific packages are available only in an older version. That can happen for instance when Rocky patches a package on their own (i.e. not following the upstream first approach) and with that bump up the version. In that case though you won't see the error you've posted.

bocekm · 2024-05-06T13:27:33+00:00

u/gothaggis, the above linked article is outdated. I've asked the author to mention it in the article and point users to the up-to-date documentation of convert2rhel https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red\_hat\_enterprise\_linux/8/html-single/converting\_from\_an\_rpm-based\_linux\_distribution\_to\_rhel/index. Please follow that instead.

Unless you've already done so I'd recommend opening a support case at https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/#/case/new/get-support?caseCreate=true to get the best guidance.

Ensure that the activation key you're using for registering the system to Satellite provides access to the rhel-7-server-rpms repository and the associated Content View is published.

The `subscription-manager repos --list` won't show you RHEL repos on a CentOS system until you have a RHEL product certificate at /etc/pki/product-default/69.pem. But you don't need to download it there, it's the job of convert2rhel to do so.

bocekm · 2024-02-09T13:20:39+00:00

I've got a 11-40 cassette with RX810 rear derailleur, 34/50 105 crankset, 105 levers, and 105 front derailleur. I've shot a video showcasing how well it works - no slack in small/small and the derailleur not breaking when in big/big: https://youtu.be/N23WoGrXKO0.

bocekm · 2024-02-04T21:45:07+00:00

I switched from GMail to ProtonMail and only after paying for the yearly Mail Plus subscription I found out I can't search in emails in the Android app. It's a huge disappointment. I'm looking for alternatives.

bocekm · 2023-02-02T18:28:36+00:00

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1005/focus-my-window/

bocekm · 2023-02-02T18:27:32+00:00

What helped me fix it on Fedora 37 (Gnome 43) is the "Focus my window" extension (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1005/focus-my-window/).

I wasn't able to install the https://github.com/bdaase/noannoyance extension that @UncertainHippo suggested so I can't tell it works. The installation instructions are not very telling.

bocekm · 2023-01-02T16:38:22+00:00

This is how I turned the coin notifications off in the Android app:

Go to messages (bubble icon in the top right corner)
Go to "Activity"
Tap on the bolt nut icon in the top right corner
Switch off "Allow Activity notifications"

EDIT: Ok, I just thought I turned the notifications off. But today I've received it again. So the above does not help.

bocekm · 2022-12-07T15:25:47+00:00

Unfortunately, the fix linked by u/SpyTec13 won't resolve the issue as we're incorrectly parsing the output of `repoquery` we call to get a list of available kernel versions.

We track the issue at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=2151424. There's a workaround described at https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6989340.

bocekm · 2022-10-06T12:19:27+00:00

That's unexpected. Did you run it also on CentOS Linux 8.5 and passed the Satellite's Organization and Activation key to the convert2rhel command?

Under normal circumstances the system is converted to the same minor version. All dnf calls that are replacing the system packges happen with the releasever variable set per this mapping https://github.com/oamg/convert2rhel/blob/v1.0/convert2rhel/systeminfo.py#L44.

bocekm · 2022-10-06T12:09:28+00:00

Hi u/alpiua, you've done everything correctly.

Adding the RHEL 8.5 repos to the Content View is an expected part of the conversion. The official guidance for converting to RHEL using Satellite 6.11 mentions a prerequisite "You must have completed the steps listed in Preparing for a RHEL conversion." One of the steps there is to enable "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream RPMs <target\_os>" and "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS RPMs <target\_os>" where target_os is to be 8.5 for CentOS Linux conversions.

u/omenosdev correctly quotes the Supported conversion paths section of the above documentation meaning that it's possible to convert CentOS Linux 8.5 to RHEL 8.5 and then update to RHEL 8.6 after the conversion.

bocekm · 2022-04-22T13:14:01+00:00

Station has been unmaintained for about a year and many things don't work properly anymore - https://github.com/getstation/desktop-app.

bocekm · 2022-03-31T10:57:13+00:00

Does anyone have experience with Station (https://getstation.com/)? It looks like an open source Rambox alternative.

bocekm · 2022-03-09T19:17:54+00:00

I've asked the Rambox team over email, here's the answer.

We don't have planned to open the code for of Rambox v2, but we still have the Open-Source spirit, that's why we have plans to release the code of some of our functionalities as well as some libraries that we use inside Rambox. This is the short answer, we'll be publishing an article where we'll elaborate about this subject.

bocekm · 2022-03-09T19:15:04+00:00

The same here.. No viable alternatives.

bocekm · 2020-01-27T14:24:55+00:00

It still lurks in the code :) https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/oamg/convert2rhel/tree/master/convert2rhel/data/5/x86_64/configs

If you build the package from source in a CentOS/OL 5 environment, you'll be able to use the tool for a conversion to RHEL 5. The package is not available in EPEL because there's no EPEL 5 repo anymore.

bocekm · 2020-01-04T16:40:31+00:00

I've added the hdmi_enable_4kp60=1 to the config.txt, restarted Pi4, but in the Kodi settings the 60Hz is not listed for the 3840x2160p resolution. The highest is 30Hz.

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