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Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux (phoronix.com) 25

Posted by BeauHD from the easier-on-the-eyes dept.
A proposal within the Fedora Linux community suggests improving the kernel's DRM Panic screen to a more user-friendly, BSOD-style experience. Phoronix reports: Open-source developer Jose Exposito proposed today a nicer experience for DRM Panic integration on Fedora. Rather than using DRM Panic with just the kernel log contents being encoded in the QR code displayed when a kernel panic occurs, the proposal is to have a customized Fedora web-page with the encoded QR contents to be shown on that web page. Besides having a more pleasant UI/UX, from this web page the intent would also be to make it easier to report this error to the Fedora BugZilla. Being able to easily pass the kernel log to the Fedora bug tracker could help in making upstream aware of the problem(s) and seeing if other users are also encountering similar panics.

Right now this idea was just raised earlier today as a "request for comments" on the Fedora mailing list. While a prototype at this point, Exposito already developed a basic web interface for demoing the solution.
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  • Don't Panic. (Score:3)

    by geekmux ( 1040042 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:33PM (#65995390)

    A proposal within the Fedora Linux community suggests improving the kernel's DRM Panic screen to a more user-friendly, BSOD-style experience..

    Ah, those BSOD experiences hanging on lounge room walls like perverted tributes to Blue Man Group..

    ..as if they could ever be "friendly" enough for the end user crippled with data center parking lot paranoia at 2AM eating a cigarette and smoking a pizza trying to figure out what the fuck they're going to do after the server shit out its third BSOD, and management was way too cheap to buy after hours support.

    In the immortal words of Douglas Adams, I suggest you add Don't to that DRM Panic screen. Problem solved. Bring a towel. Just in case.

    • a more user-friendly, BSOD-style experience

      Going out on a limb to say that using the words "more user-friendly" and "death" together isn't the warm and fuzzy they think it is. Just sayin' ...

  • DRM needs a name change (Score:5, Insightful)

    by rtkluttz ( 244325 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:43PM (#65995402) Homepage

    DRM, digital rights management greatly predates DRM in the display manager context. It also carries a massively bad connotation to it. DRM in the display manager context just needs to concede that to the clusterF that is digital rights management.

    • Seriously. Find a better name for KVM while they're at it.

      • Why, when Keyboard/Video/Mouse is now essentially deprecated by VMs? Kernel based VMs are far more common than Keyboard/Video/Mouse setups in 2026, by multiple orders of magnitude. Indeed, most people who know about KVM never even think about K/V/M setups, often having never even heard of them.

        • KVMs are incredibly popular, especially since the advent of WFH when they're an ideal way to ensure a desktop and "the company laptop" can share a good keyboard and couple of screens.

          They were once a thing rarely seen outside of data centers, today they're a commodity item.

          • It seems they are making a comeback. They aren't nearly close to as common as VMs though. Also, there is no namespace collision, so your claim that they shouldn't use KVM in the OS namespace because it is also used in the hardware namespace continues to be ridiculous.

            • It's not that ridiculous if you want to search for something that also happens to have attributes common to hardware KVMs. Makes it pretty hard to find anything. Not sure if that's the case here but people calling their software "railway" or "bleach" underestimate the difficulties for end users.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by tepples ( 727027 )

          If anything, a K/V/M switch has become more useful for programmers who maintain software for both macOS and other platforms ever since the Mac mini switched to Apple silicon.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      It also carries a massively bad connotation to it.

      Indeed it does, enough that the editor who posted this article attached it to the Digital Rights Management category. At least it's better than using the DEC [wikipedia.org] category for "digital" topics.

    • DRM as in Digital Rights/Restrictions Management isn't in the display context, it is in the copyright usage context. It need not involve computers at all. For example Discmans play DRM protected CDs.(Look Ma ... no video!)

  • Spam spam spam spam... (Score:3)

    by dgatwood ( 11270 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:44PM (#65995404) Homepage Journal

    But I don't want any DRM. Can't we get a panic screen without DRM?

    Well you could always get DRM, DRM, Panic, Sausage, and DRM. That's only got a little bit of DRM in it.

  • I always wondered why microsoft didn't do this or something like it over the decades.

    Nowadays (and for a long while) the chances that you have a truly unique problem is low... (although it looks like we're heading for a new dark age where googling relevant error identifiers will yield nothing since nobody actually posted about it on a searchable forum or stack overflow etc. )

  • Fedora has brought a lot of dogshit into Linux. They always push the worst tripe they can lay hands on. If it's not short stroking Pottering's M$ inspired shitware like PulseAudio or Systemd, then it's other garbage like Flatpack, SELinux, Network Manager, Avahi, Polkit, firewalld, Wayland, more bugware from Ted Tso like BTRFS, telemetry for IBM, and lately "AI" whatever the fuck that means. Plus there

    No. The kernel panic output does NOT need a colorful candy shell to make Windows Admins feel more comfor

    • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Since you have all the sources, can't you just compile it to your liking?

  • Beats the old days of a kernel panic just flashing the lights on the keyboard

  • It will as soon as with the next rolling upgrade be integrated as "systemd.bsodd". It might break boot, logging, TCP/IP routing and power off, will require all system configs to be encoded in cuneiform, but realistically there's no alternative because the old DRM panic screen is obsolete and beyond maintainability.

    • It will as soon as with the next rolling upgrade be integrated as "systemd.bsodd". It might break boot, logging, TCP/IP routing and power off, will require all system configs to be encoded in cuneiform, but realistically there's no alternative because the old DRM panic screen is obsolete and beyond maintainability.

      Get off my lawn, Poettering!

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