Fedora 39

I decided to try upgrading my Fedora to Fedora 39 (from 38)

I ran into a few issues already.

  1. I used the option from https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/#sect-performing-system-upgrade to download and upgrade the system using the “on boot” update. This then caused the initrd issue I’ve encountered before (https://blenderfox.com/2023/05/02/fedora-5/), I fixed that by booting up the previous version, then finding I couldn’t log in unless I picked “Gnome on XOrg”.
  2. The breakage of Wayland login seemed to be related to Problems with wayland after updating to fedora 39 – Fedora Discussion. And interestingly was fixed in the same way: removing ~/.config/dconf/user, logging out and then back in via Wayland. It completely reset my Gnome state, so all my custom docked shortcuts were gone and it offered to run me through the Gnome tutorial again
  3. Running my ansible playbook to configure my machine again, seemed to run for the most part, but failed at installing a pip module — but that looks like a module build failure, not the playbook.

And now I discovered that there’s no F39 of VirtualBox yet, so I guess I’m rolling back for now….

Car Accident

I finally got some good news about my car accident from 2020 (https://wordpress.com/post/blenderfox.com/7610)

After just over 3.5 years, the other side’s insurance (Aviva) finally settled and the costs have been recovered. And I expect it was quite a lot of cost too. As mentioned in https://wordpress.com/post/blenderfox.com/8108:

Total costs the other side will have to foot:
Value of my car (written off): £3000
Value of the car next to me (written off): £2500
Value of the car that both our cars got shunted into (written off): £1500
Repair of the damaged car (sole survivor): £1500
Hire car (45 days @ £75 per day): £3375

Total Costs: £11875

And this is not including the other side’s own car, which was likely also written off.

I’m just glad it’s over now