Mageia 8 x86_64 kernel-desktop working fine on three workstations.

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Intel P45 chipset
Radeon HD 4650

Intel Core i7-4770K
Intel Z87 Express chipset
Radeon R9 270X

AMD Ryzen 7 3800x
AMD X570 chipset
Radeon RX5700

AMD x3-450, Nvidia 730GT (390 driver) - phys hardware

The following 5 packages are going to be installed:

- cpupower-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-5.10.60-2.mga8-1-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-5.10.60-2.mga8-1-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-latest-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64

120MB of additional disk space will be used.

---rebooted---


$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 5.10.60-desktop-2.mga8 #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 11:12:31 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_uvm            925696  0
nvidia_drm             53248  1
drm_kms_helper        270336  1 nvidia_drm
nvidia_modeset       1056768  10 nvidia_drm
nvidia              15831040  392 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
ipmi_msghandler        69632  2 ipmi_devintf,nvidia
drm                   606208  4 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm


nextcloud client working, firefox, office, networking

CC: (none) => brtians1

The desktop kernel is working fine here on three 64-bit Intel systems, one of them a laptop; wifi, LAN, NFS shares, bluetooth audio, desktop applications.

Quad Core Intel Core i7-4790
NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] driver: nvidia v: 460.84 

Quad Core Intel Core i7-5700HQ
NVIDIA GM204M [GeForce GTX 965M] driver: nouveau

10-Core Intel Core i9-7900X
NVIDIA GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 460.84

CC: (none) => tarazed25

MGA8-64 Plasma on Lenovo B50
No installation issues.
Wifi-internet, NFS access, newspapersite with text, photos and videos, fie types like xls, pdf, odt, odp, mpeg, jpg, txt all OK. No ill effects seen.

CC: (none) => herman.viaene

On M8 hardware in a Vbox client, M8, Xfce, 32-bit


Linux localhost 5.10.56-desktop586-1.mga8 #1 SMP Wed Aug 4 11:32:23 UTC 2021 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Package kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.56-1.mga8.i586 is already installed
Package kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.56-1.mga8.i586 is already installed
Package cpupower-5.10.56-1.mga8.i586 is already installed

Boots to a working desktop. Screen resolution is correct. Common apps work.

Install kernel-desktop-latest cpupower kernel-userspace-headers from updates testing

The following 4 packages are going to be installed:

- cpupower-5.10.60-2.mga8.i586
- kernel-desktop-5.10.60-2.mga8-1-1.mga8.i586
- kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.60-2.mga8.i586
- kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.60-2.mga8.i586

Reboot system.

Linux localhost 5.10.60-desktop-2.mga8 #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 11:48:56 UTC 2021 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Package kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.60-2.mga8.i586 is already installed
Package kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.60-2.mga8.i586 is already installed
Package cpupower-5.10.60-2.mga8.i586 is already installed

Boots to a working desktop. Screen resolution is correct. Common apps work.

CC: (none) => wilcal.int

On M8 hardware in a Vbox client, M8, Plasma, 64-bit

clear
uname -a
urpmi kernel-desktop-latest
urpmi kernel-userspace-headers
urpmi cpupower

Linux localhost 5.10.52-desktop-1.mga8 #1 SMP Tue Jul 20 17:00:24 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Package kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.52-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.52-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package cpupower-5.10.52-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed

Boots to a working desktop. Screen resolution is correct. Common apps work.

Install kernel-desktop-latest cpupower kernel-userspace-headers from updates testing

The following 4 packages are going to be installed:

- cpupower-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-5.10.60-2.mga8-1-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64

Reboot system.

Linux localhost 5.10.60-desktop-2.mga8 #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 11:12:31 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Package kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package cpupower-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64 is already installed

Boots to a working desktop. Screen resolution is correct. Common apps work.

On real hardware, M8, Plasma, 64-bit

Packages checked:

kernel-desktop-latest virtualbox kernel-userspace-headers
virtualbox-guest-additions virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest
x11-driver-video-vboxvideo kernel-desktop-devel-latest
cpupower dkms-virtualbox

Boots to working desktop

M8   i586   Vbox Xfce   Client, boots to a working desktop - Screen size correct
M8   x86_64 Vbox Plasma Client, boots to a working desktop - Screen size correct

install from update_testing:

kernel-desktop-latest kernel-desktop-devel-latest virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest kernel-userspace-headers cpupower virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest

The following 9 packages are going to be installed:

- cpupower-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-5.10.16-1.mga8-1-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-5.10.60-2.mga8-1-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-5.10.60-2.mga8-1-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-latest-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- xtables-addons-kernel-5.10.16-desktop-1.mga8-3.13-32.mga8.x86_64
- xtables-addons-kernel-desktop-latest-3.13-32.mga8.x86_64

reboot system

Common apps work

M8   i586   Vbox Xfce   Client, boots to a working desktop - Screen size correct
M8   x86_64 Vbox Plasma Client, boots to a working desktop - Screen size correct

Phys Hardware, laptop, A6-9224 - APU, GNOME

Installed desktop, cpupower.

Suspend/sleep works, utilities and programs working

all good here

Advisory, added to svn:


type: security
subject: Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities
CVE:
 - CVE-2020-3702
 - CVE-2021-3653
 - CVE-2021-3656
 - CVE-2021-38205
src:
  8:
   core:
     - kernel-5.10.60-2.mga8
     - kmod-virtualbox-6.1.26-1.2.mga8
     - kmod-xtables-addons-3.18-1.20.mga8
description: |
  This kernel update is based on upstream 5.10.60 and fixes atleast the
  following security issues:

  Specifically timed and handcrafted traffic can cause internal errors
  in a WLAN device that lead to improper layer 2 Wi-Fi encryption with a
  consequent possibility of information disclosure over the air for a
  discrete set of traffic in ath9k (CVE-2020-3702).

  A missing validation of the "int_ctl" VMCB field allows a malicious L1
  guest to enable AVIC support (Advanced Virtual Interrupt Controller)
  for the L2 guest. The L2 guest is able to write to a limited but still
  relatively large subset of the host physical memory, resulting in a
  crash of the entire system, leak of sensitive data or potential
  guest-to-host escape (CVE-2021-3653).

  A missing validation of the the "virt_ext" VMCB field and allows a
  malicious L1 guest to disable both VMLOAD/VMSAVE intercepts and VLS
  (Virtual VMLOAD/VMSAVE) for the L2 guest. Under these circumstances,
  the L2 guest is able to run VMLOAD/VMSAVE unintercepted, and thus
  read/write portions of the host physical memory, resulting in a
  crash of the entire system, leak of sensitive data or potential
  guest-to-host escape (CVE-2021-3656).

  drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c in the Linux kernel before
  5.13.3 makes it easier for attackers to defeat an ASLR protection
  mechanism because it prints a kernel pointer (CVE-2021-38205).

  Other fixes in this update:
  - cfi_cmdset_0002: fix crash when erasing/writing AMD cards

  For other upstream fixes, see the referenced changelogs.
references:
 - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29384
 - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.57
 - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.58
 - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.59
 - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.60

Keywords: (none) => advisory

Switched from the desktop to the server kernel on this machine:
Quad Core Intel Core i7-4790
NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970]

Everything looks OK except for bluetooth.  rfkill state is set at login.  bluetoothctl sees the USB BT adapter and responds to power on, trust and list but  scan on finds only external adapters.  Using blueman-assistant or bluedevil-wizard does not help.  A device scan finds the BT controllers on nearby computers.  It used to lock on to the nearby BT audio speaker without trouble.  Now nothing.

Going to go back to the desktop kernel and check if it still works there.

No longer works on the desktop kernel now.  Beginning to wonder if there is some cross-talk going on here because of previous pairings.  Switching off bluetooth on the nearby machines had no effect.  As there is no problem on other computers this should probably be ignored - the dongle is Asustek so it might be firmware or something like that that causes this problem.  Wasted nearly three hours on this problem so best to forget it.

@len:
does it work if you boot an older kernel ?

@Thomas:
It certainly worked before with older kernels.  And I now have it working with the linus kernel on the problem machine.  It works with the latest kernel on another machine.  That inclines me to think that the fault was operational - in other words I probably did something wrong - hard to figure out what though.  It is a simple enough procedure.  Shall have a look at older kernels later.

Referring to comment 13.  Regressed to 5.10.56-desktop-1.mga8 and found no problem with connecting to BT audio.

An earlier linus kernel also worked fine  for bluetooth audio.

ok, that's interesting considering I dont have any additional patches regarding bluetooth compared to kernel-linus...

hm, what bluetooth hw in the computer ?

MGA8 64 with core I3 and 4GO RAM. Graphic card Nvidia Geforce 520M with optimus technology driver 390.
Driver broadcom-wl (6.30.223.271-61.mga8.nonfree).

Installation OK, the compilation was done without any problem.

Switching graphic card with mageia-prime without problem.

classic use documentation, internet, mail etc ok


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MGA8 VM 64 with LXQt

Installation Kernel ok after reboot.

CC: (none) => guillaume.royer

(In reply to Thomas Backlund from comment #17)
> hm, what bluetooth hw in the computer ?

Yes here, tested Bluetooth ok for me

@Thomas, comment 17:
On the machine where I had trouble it is an Asustek USB dongle, talking to an AudioPro C10.  
I don't think there was a real problem - just finger trouble.  Bluetooth on Mageia now looks mature, and user friendly with either bluedevil or blueman.

ok, thanks for all tests, flushing out

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8-64-OK, MGA8-32-OK
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs
Keywords: (none) => validated_update

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0409.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

On M8 hardware in a Vbox client, M8, Xfce, 32-bit

clear
uname -a
urpmi kernel-desktop-latest
urpmi kernel-userspace-headers
urpmi cpupower
urpmi virtualbox-guest-additions

Linux localhost 5.10.70-desktop586-1.mga8 #1 SMP Thu Sep 30 09:40:34 UTC 2021 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Package kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.70-1.mga8.i586 is already installed
Package kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.70-1.mga8.i586 is already installed
Package cpupower-5.10.70-1.mga8.i586 is already installed
Package virtualbox-guest-additions-6.1.26-1.mga8.i586 is already installed

Boots to a working desktop. Screen resolution is correct. Common apps work.

Install kernel-desktop-latest cpupower kernel-userspace-headers virtualbox-guest-additions from updates testing

The following 5 packages are going to be installed:

- cpupower-5.10.75-1.mga8.i586
- kernel-desktop-5.10.75-1.mga8-1-1.mga8.i586
- kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.75-1.mga8.i586
- kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.75-1.mga8.i586
- virtualbox-guest-additions-6.1.26-1.mga8.i586

Reboot system.

Linux localhost 5.10.75-desktop-1.mga8 #1 SMP Wed Oct 20 12:06:39 UTC 2021 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Package kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.75-1.mga8.i586 is already installed
Package kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.75-1.mga8.i586 is already installed
Package cpupower-5.10.75-1.mga8.i586 is already installed
Package virtualbox-guest-additions-6.1.28-1.mga8.i586 is already installed

Boots to a working desktop. Screen resolution is correct. Common apps work.

On M8 hardware in a Vbox client, M8, Plasma, 64-bit

clear
uname -a
urpmi kernel-desktop-latest
urpmi kernel-userspace-headers
urpmi cpupower
urpmi virtualbox-guest-additions

Linux localhost 5.10.70-desktop-1.mga8 #1 SMP Thu Sep 30 09:41:26 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Package kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.70-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.70-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package cpupower-5.10.70-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package virtualbox-guest-additions-6.1.26-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed

Boots to a working desktop. Screen resolution is correct. Common apps work.

Install kernel-desktop-latest cpupower kernel-userspace-headers virtualbox-guest-additions from updates testing

The following 8 packages are going to be installed:

- cpupower-5.10.75-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-5.10.75-1.mga8-1-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-5.10.75-1.mga8-1-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-latest-5.10.75-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.75-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.75-1.mga8.x86_64
- virtualbox-kernel-5.10.70-desktop-1.mga8-6.1.28-1.mga8.x86_64
- virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest-6.1.28-1.mga8.x86_64

Reboot system.

Linux localhost 5.10.75-desktop-1.mga8 #1 SMP Wed Oct 20 10:23:35 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Package kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.75-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.75-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package cpupower-5.10.75-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package virtualbox-guest-additions-6.1.28-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed

Boots to a working desktop. Screen resolution is correct. Common apps work.

On real hardware, M8, Plasma, 64-bit

Packages checked:

kernel-desktop-latest virtualbox kernel-userspace-headers
virtualbox-guest-additions virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest
x11-driver-video-vboxvideo kernel-desktop-devel-latest
cpupower dkms-virtualbox

clear
uname -a
urpmi kernel-desktop-latest
urpmi virtualbox
urpmi x11-driver-video-vboxvideo
urpmi kernel-desktop-devel-latest
urpmi kernel-userspace-headers
urpmi cpupower
urpmi virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest
urpmi dkms-virtualbox
 
Linux localhost 5.10.70-desktop-1.mga8 #1 SMP Thu Sep 30 09:41:26 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Package kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.70-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package virtualbox-6.1.26-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package x11-driver-video-vboxvideo-1.0.0-6.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package kernel-desktop-devel-latest-5.10.70-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.70-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package cpupower-5.10.70-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest-6.1.26-1.6.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package dkms-virtualbox-6.1.26-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed

Boots to working desktop

M8   i586   Vbox Xfce   Client, boots to a working desktop - Screen size correct
M8   x86_64 Vbox Plasma Client, boots to a working desktop - Screen size correct

install from update_testing:

kernel-desktop-latest kernel-desktop-devel-latest virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest kernel-userspace-headers cpupower virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest

Vbox:

The following 9 packages are going to be installed:

- cpupower-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-5.10.16-1.mga8-1-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-5.10.60-2.mga8-1-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-5.10.60-2.mga8-1-1.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-latest-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.60-2.mga8.x86_64
- xtables-addons-kernel-5.10.16-desktop-1.mga8-3.13-32.mga8.x86_64
- xtables-addons-kernel-desktop-latest-3.13-32.mga8.x86_64

reboot system

Linux localhost 5.10.75-desktop-1.mga8 #1 SMP Wed Oct 20 10:23:35 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Package kernel-desktop-latest-5.10.75-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package virtualbox-6.1.28-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package x11-driver-video-vboxvideo-1.0.0-6.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package kernel-desktop-devel-latest-5.10.75-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package kernel-userspace-headers-5.10.75-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package cpupower-5.10.75-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest-6.1.28-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
Package dkms-virtualbox-6.1.28-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Iris Plus Graphics G1 (Ice Lake) (rev 07)
        DeviceName: To Be Filled by O.E.M.
        Subsystem: Dell Device 097c
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

M8   i586   Vbox Xfce   Client, boots to a working desktop - Screen size correct
M8   x86_64 Vbox Plasma Client, boots to a working desktop - Screen size correct

@Wilcal, you are reporting tests on wrong bug