[fedora-arm] Re: Raspberry Pi 4 issues with Fedora Rawhide

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 8:56 AM Lukas Brabec <lbrabec@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I am writing this email to raise awareness well ahead of the F41 branching
> on August 6 about the bugs I found while running Fedora Rawhide on the RPi 4.
> I have proposed these bugs as blockers for the F41 release:
>
> * gnome-initial-setup: Choosing avatar results in SetIconFile call failed for
> unknown reason [0]
> I proposed this as F41 Final blocker, but this is fairly minor bug and I can
> imagine that we would waive it if not fixed and create a common issue.
>
> * gsk: vulkan renderer breaks gtk4 apps on Raspberry Pi 4 and 400 [1]
> GSK now defaults to vulkan and it causes problems on RPi, I initially
> encountered crashing gnome-initial-setup (and later that all GTK4 apps are
> crashing upon startup). Thus I proposed it as a F41 Beta blocker. This
> crashing on app startup will be resolved in the next GTK release, the fix is
> already merged.
> However, there are still issues with GTK4 apps [2], all related to vulkan
> renderer [3] [4] [5]. It is not yet clear if the problems are bugs in GTK or
> mesa. In the end, if proven difficult to fix, we could always switch back to
> older renderer as suggested by Adam during F40 cycle [6].
>
> * Raspberry Pi 4 won't wake up from suspend [7]
> Although we don't have a criterion for suspend, I proposed this as a blocker
> bug. I cannot login every time I keep Raspberry Pi idling for 15 minutes and
> I have to restart it, this could also lead to loss of data. This is something
> different compared to the x86_64 situation. On x86_64 we probably wouldn't
> block on suspend on some particular hardware configuration, but I think we
> should block here since we support only a handful of ARM boards.
> Also, suspend on Raspberry Pi OS is disabled, so I'm not sure if suspend on
> Raspberry Pi is something we even want in Fedora.
>
> [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278845
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282171
> [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6726#note_2121079
> [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6743
> [4] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6744
> [5] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6745
> [6] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6498#note_2063629
> [7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2283978

It looks like <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242759> is
still outstanding. The 2242759 bug is "dnf system-upgrade fails on
some RPi4 due to system boot date that pre-dates gpg key."

Jeff
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