Failed to load SELinux policy. Freezing

In this post, I will tell you how to fix “Failed to load SELinux policy. Freezing” issue and reboot your Fedora with SELinux set to Enforcing. It was the first day of Flock 2016, when I was working on my demos, that my laptop failed to boot after a bad system halt. The error was: systemd[1]: Failed to load SELinux policy. Freezing. I was running Fedora 23 on my laptop with SELinux set to enforcing....

August 18, 2016 · Ratnadeep Debnath

Flock 2016

This year, Flock took place in Krakow, Poland from Aug 2 - Aug 5, 2016. I reached at Krakow on July 31, 2016. Day 0 Next day, we met other attendees who started coming down from various places. In the afternoon, we went out for a city tour, visited Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory, had lunch and returned back to the hotel. In the evening, we headed out to a nearby mall to have dinner with fellow attendees....

August 13, 2016 · Ratnadeep Debnath

Storing IRC logs for Fedora Hubs

We have started working to power realtime IRC chat on Fedora Hubs pages, using Waartaa. We plan to load the Waartaa chat widget as an <iframe> inside Fedora Hubs. The user story we are looking forward to create is as follows. A user logs in to Fedora Hubs using his FAS account. He then creates a network connection to IRC and connects to the IRC server. Under the hood, it will run an ircb bot for the user’s IRC connection in waartaa....

April 21, 2016 · Ratnadeep Debnath

Fedora 22 Release Party, Bangalore

We had a Fedora 22 release party in Bangalore, on Aug 1, 2015. It took place a Hackerearth’s office in Bangalore. We had around 9 attendees for the party along with the hosts from Hackerearth. The event started at around 10:30 AM and continued till 1:30 PM. We started with us introducing ourselves. Following the introductions, Sayan giving a brief introduction about the Fedora Project and it’s history. This was followed by me speaking on Fedora 22 release and it’s highlights....

August 23, 2015 · Ratnadeep Debnath

FUDCON Pune, 2015

After 4 years, after 2011, FUDCon came back to Pune, again in 2015. It took place from 26th to 28th June, 2015 at MIT, Pune. Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) is the annual conference for people interested in Fedora in any way. This year’s FUDCon had a great line up of talks and multiple parallel tracks: Container, Openstack, Storage. I took part in FUDCon this year as a speaker and a volunteer....

July 9, 2015 · Ratnadeep Debnath

Fedora meetup, Bangalore, June 2015

We again met at Starbucks Coffee, Indiranagar on June 6, 2015 at 5:30 PM for our monthly Fedora meetup in Bangalore. Attendees: Ratnadeep Debnath Lalatendu Mohanty Nitish Bharadwaj Topics discussed: Openstack setup and overview Vagrant on Fedora, it’s quirks and how we can make it more awesome Statscache demo How to start contributing to Fedora infra This meetup was one of the most fruitful Fedora meetups in Bangalore. We had folks from different communities (Project Atomic, Openstack) to add more value to the meetup....

June 9, 2015 · Ratnadeep Debnath

Rootconf 2015

Last month, May 15-16, there was Rootconf in Bangalore. Rootconf is a premier conference for devops and system administrators. The highlights of this Rootconf were SaltStack, RancherOS, Project Atomic, PostgreSQL, etc. We also had Fedora presence in the conference. 3 Fedora ambassadors: Aditya Patawari, Praveen Kumar and myself were present at the event. We distributed Fedora 21 workstation DVDs at the registration desk and announced about FUDCON Pune, 2015 as well....

June 4, 2015 · Ratnadeep Debnath

Fedora meetup, Bangalore, May 2015

We again met at Starbucks Coffee, Indiranagar on May 2, 2015 at 6 PM for our monthly Fedora meetup in Bangalore. Like the meetup in the month of April, there were only 2 attendees: myself and Sayan Chowdhury. Well, we are used to such things and were not disheartened. As decided over the mailing list, we discussed on the hot topics from in the Fedora Cloud ecosystem: Project Atomic Docker Kubernetes We also explored docker-swarm, consul and discussed on how to build autoscaling cluster with these....

May 9, 2015 · Ratnadeep Debnath

Meeting reminders in fedocal

fedocal 0.13 release makes it possible for anyone to download iCal file for a meeting and brings support for client side notifications. You can do this in the following ways: Click on a meeting in fedocal In the meeting modal/page, click on the iCal export link to download iCal file for that particular meeting. You can also export iCal file for the meeting with reminder info in by checking the reminder checkbox beside the iCal export link, and then clicking on the iCal export link....

March 31, 2015 · Ratnadeep Debnath

Fedora meetup, Bangalore, March 2015

We resumed our monthly meetups in Bangalore on the March 7, 2015. We’ve now decided to hold Fedora meetup in Bangalore on the 1st Saturday of every month. Here’s link to our event on Fedora Calendar: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/2036/. We met at Starbucks Coffee, Indiranagar. at 6 PM. It was good place to chat and had free wifi internet too. We were 4 people. We discussed on: upcoming Fedora 22 release contributing to testing Fedora 22 images contributing to Fedora Infra We were also having some discussions on #fedora-apps on Freenode during the meetup regarding various tasks we’re handling and brainstorming on new ideas....

March 14, 2015 · Ratnadeep Debnath