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Dominant language: C
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Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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make build of aarch64 linux/linux-esx packages fail due to gcc 12.5.0 / binutils 2.46.1 requirements Open

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vmware/photon#1682 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Review pull requests faster? Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

vmware/photon#1677 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Photon 5.0: obsolete dhcp-server gets replaced with broken kea package Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vmware/photon#1667 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 31, 2026
photon:5.0 arm64 image is missing /bin/sh Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vmware/photon#1660 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2026
The branch shown when landing on this repository should be main Open

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vmware/photon#1659 · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Add valkey package for aarch64 (arm64) Open

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vmware/photon#1655 · 1 assignee · Opened May 26, 2026
Photon 5 nginx (1.28.3) vulnerable to CVE-2026-42945 — upstream patch only in 1.30.1+ Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vmware/photon#1654 · 6 comments · Opened May 14, 2026
nginx-cve-2026-42945 Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/photon#1653 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 14, 2026
Regarding BPF module in Ubuntu Base image Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

vmware/photon#1652 · 5 comments · Opened May 8, 2026
Node.js v24 Segmentation Faults During npm Global Installs in Dell VSI (Virtual Storage Integrator) OVA on VMware Photon OS 5.0 (Build b9d98344d) Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

vmware/photon#1647 · 13 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2026
iptables and ebtables missing 'alternatives' dependency in Photon 5 GA repo Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vmware/photon#1646 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Update download Links to point to packages.broadcom.com Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

vmware/photon#1645 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2026
Docker Compose broken after update Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/photon#1640 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 11, 2026
`photon-subrelease` gating - clarifications and CPE integration Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

vmware/photon#1639 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 6, 2026
https://packages.broadcom.com/photon/photon_cve_metadata schema was changed Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

vmware/photon#1638 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 4, 2026
Problem With Deploying Defend 4 Container from Elastic due to missing kernel option Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

vmware/photon#1636 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 19, 2026
logrotate: wtmp and btmp configurations missing due to upstream changes (spec file mismatch) Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

vmware/photon#1635 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 6, 2026
What is package "no" ? Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/photon#1630 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 5, 2025
Python PIP completely broken Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vmware/photon#1620 · 9 comments · Opened Nov 24, 2025
Additional restriction in Photon 5.0 EULA Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/photon#1617 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2025
Updating tdnf to version 3.5.13-3.ph5 causes issue with SSH Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/photon#1616 · 14 comments · Opened Nov 10, 2025
SSH disconnect after 15 min of idling Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

vmware/photon#1614 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 28, 2025
Mixing "CVE" format pattern case for Python packages Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/photon#1612 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 7, 2025
[DOCS] Administration Guide Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

vmware/photon#1610 · Opened Sep 16, 2025
[DOCS] Network Troubleshooting Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 62/100

vmware/photon#1608 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2025
Docker compose "init: true" causes container start failure Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

vmware/photon#1605 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2025
Update ca-bundle.crt manually? Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/photon#1603 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2025
Please add the realmd/realm package/command to Photon OS Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

vmware/photon#1600 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2025
Secure Boot with support for FIPS 204 ML-DSA post-quantum signature algorithm Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/photon#1599 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2025
package nginx 1.27 has wrong version Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vmware/photon#1597 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 13, 2025
Steps for resetting a lost root password not working Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

vmware/photon#1595 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 27, 2025
Improve pdf quality of docs Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/photon#1594 · Opened Feb 13, 2025
Build improvement for OpenJDK 17/21 Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

vmware/photon#1588 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2025
Circular dependency in cloud-init units Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

vmware/photon#1583 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2025
Docker Socket API broken after Python update Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

vmware/photon#1582 · 10 comments · Opened Jan 5, 2025
sssd-ad-2.8.2-13.ph5.x86_64.rpm fails to load AD module Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/photon#1581 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 3, 2025
Clarification for JSON advisory license Open

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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/photon#1570 · Opened Nov 20, 2024
Are there instructions to Dual boot photon Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

vmware/photon#1569 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 19, 2024
Missing Updated Packages from Security Advisories Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/photon#1565 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2024
Error Kernel Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

vmware/photon#1563 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2024
k8s apiserver not running on RPi 4 model B Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/photon#1558 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2024
Doesn't boot on XCP-NG/XEN Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/photon#1555 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2024
Error: 404 when downloading https://packages.vmware.com/photon/5.0/photon_5.0_x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/photon#1554 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2024
first try on photon-os for docker-swarm fails with cgroup Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/photon#1545 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 13, 2024
Upgrading Photon OS 3.0 to 5.0 without internet Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/photon#1544 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 8, 2024
security advisories missing in Security-Updates-{1,2,3,4,5}.md Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

vmware/photon#1540 · Opened Feb 9, 2024
Photon OS 5 and PostgreSQL 15 installation is not complete Open

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vmware/photon#1537 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 24, 2024
Photon 3.0 cgroup exhaustion. VM shuts down with CPU disabled Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

vmware/photon#1535 · 16 comments · Opened Jan 18, 2024
check_spec_files fails Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/photon#1534 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 18, 2024
Cross-compiling 5.0 branch Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/photon#1533 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 17, 2024

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