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Fedora is a Linux distribution with a fast release cycle, maintained by a community and sponsored by Red Hat.

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Fedora and Ubuntu on the Same Volume Group

Can I install Ubuntu and Fedora on the same volume group of LVM. I wanted to do this as I could extend or compress a logical volume in a volume group and share the space with others. I was going to ...
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Trouble getting TigerVNC working with current X11 session

I have a remote PC with a RTX600 GPU and nVidia drivers on Fedora 36 with two physical monitors attached. I'm trying to remote into the current X11 session but getting strange behavior. I'm using ...
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Missing audio from system settings

I was trying to diagnose why my headphones weren't working while speakers were, and decided to reinstall pulseaudio and pipewire. In the process, It looks like I deleted something else that I shouldn'...
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For the SDDM login screen, how do I change the behavior when my laptop lid is closed?

I have Fedora KDE 37 installed on my laptop. I use NoMachine to connect to the laptop remotely from my Windows 10 desktop, so I typically leave the lid closed. I was able to configure my normal ...
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GNOME suddenly bugged after rebooting

After restarting my computer, the appearance of GNOME has suddenly changed. Now it looks like this: When it should look more like this: I don't know if there is any way to go back to the layout as ...
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Windows 11 KVM Guest hangs on install in Fedora 37

I'm trying to install a Windows 11 guest in KVM in Fedora 37. I've installed KVM and its associated utilities with sudo dnf install --refresh @virtualization. I've dowloaded the Windows 11 ISO from ...
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Why does vkd3d not work in wine?

I am fairly new to this world, but finally decided to switch from windows and learn the command line in Linux. I also want to play games on it, because my PC isn't the strongest. I installed Lutris ...
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External Monitor Not Working Fedora 37

I am using Fedora 37 and for some reason my external monitor is not working. I have a USB-C display port directly connected to my NVIDIA graphics card (as far as I can tell). The graphics card appears ...
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How to check if one package out of a few is not installed

How does one check whether a package is installed in Fedora? Say I have curl ca-certificates gnupg2 lldb python3-minimal gcc libc6-dev and I want to check in if whether any of these is not installed. ...
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How to restore DNS settings in fedora

I recently added a Wi-Fi network, where I manually set it including DNS, but when I get to my home Wi-Fi network, I realize that some applications like Discord don't work, it stays in an infinite ...
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How to stop audio profile from changing?

I have a bluetooth headphone Edifier W800BT that always gets disconnect when joining a Zoom/Slack call. I noticied that, as soon as I join the call, the headphone audio profile changes from "High ...
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Windows 11 disappeared with my Linux & Windows dual boot

I had a dual boot with Windows 10 in a SSD NVMe M2 and Fedora 36 in a HDD, that I kept choosing the OS by pressing F12 key. I then enabled TPM 2.0 to update the system to Windows 11. After the update ...
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How to dnf history rollback without network

My last dnf install broke my configuration and now I don't have network access anymore. I want to rollback, so I tried: sudo dnf history rollback 40 But it does not work because it tries to download ...
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OpenVPN and WireGuard clients lost internet access despite no configuration changes to them nor server

For a few years both OpenVPN and WireGuard VPNs worked without any issues on my private Fedora server. I connect from mobile and Windows clients. Within the last few weeks both the VPNs lost access to ...
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Qt app doesn't apply Kvantum themes correctly on Fedora

So I've been using apps that use the Qt engine like: Prism Launcher or PeaZip with the Kvantum engine to theme those app. And in most of the apps I have, while some part of it are themed correctly, ...
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Fedora Live - Encrypted Persistent Overlay

I set up a live fedora on a USB stick with overlayfs. I've been prying into the files to see what goes where. I would like to have an encrypted overlay (everything's out in the open at the moment), ...
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virt-install automated fedora vm installation using kickstart file

I am trying to provision a fedora37 server using the KVM virtualization. I have the fedora server iso locally downloaled and using the below virt-install command to do the automated provision using ...
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Fedora: Error when install Postgres SQL: nothing provides libicui18n.so.69()

I had installed the Postgresql database on my Fedora system, which worked without problems. After some time I had uninstalled Postgres and wanted to reinstall it. When reinstalling with the following ...
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Fedora VM behind NAT can not ping host.domain name on intranet

I am using VirtualBox on Windows now. The network is roughly like this: [Fedora 37 VM] -- NAT network -- [Windows Host] ---- intranet ---- internet I use DNS on intranet to resole host.domain names ...
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Systemd will not enable this unit file, states "Invalid cross-device link" on the same file system

I have a Fedora 37 server I use for running my 3D printer farm. I have multiple instances of Klipper (3D printer firmware) running as individual systemd units along with other supplementary services ...
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How to add "Freezer" control group to Fedora 36, and does it matter for virtualization if I don't?

I'm trying to (re)install KVM on my development system (which has been often-upgraded over the years since Fedora twenty-something, and on which kvm was installed many moons ago and then forgotten ...
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How to restore the main kernel from the rescue kernel in Fedora 37

I have a Fedora 37 installation which kernel was corrupted when trying to setup propietary nvidia graphics. I lost wifi and all control to the screen. Booting into the rescue option in Grub fixes it ...
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Bluetooth headphones not connecting/pairing on fedora

Before anything am new to fedora so am sorry if i missed something obvious So my Bluetooth headphones refuse to connect to the laptop am using a small usb bluetooth adapter the problem isn’t from the ...
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iwconfig cannot Set Master mode:Invalid argument

I want to use bridge net in KVM with Fedora 37 but an error occurs [yellsmaclev@localhost ~]$ sudo ifconfig wlp1s0 down [yellsmaclev@localhost ~]$ iwconfig wlp1s0 wlp1s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any ...
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Unable to connect to remote server after: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www

I tried gaining write permissions to change an HTML file on a remote server that runs Fedora using: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www After entering this line in the terminal connected to the ...
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I'm looking for a remote / networked kind of Terminal or something like this

let's think about this scenario: Linux as host OS (I prefer Debian) and two different guest OSes, virtualized with qemu and kvm. The first one could be Fedora, the second one Arch. The virtualized ...
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Btrfs : compress and nodatacow priority + automation

I have a btrfs partition mounted on / with compression enabled: mount -o subvol=@,defaults,noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2 /dev/mapper/archlinux /mnt I want to disable the CoW ...
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Will the data I backed up using "backups application" in ubuntu can be accessed from fedora if I remove ubuntu and install fedora?

I want to ask that, I backed up all the important files and folders using "backups application" in ubuntu . And now I want to remove ubuntu and install fedora, will I be able to access the ...
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Fedora 36 KDE update broke my installation

Unfortunately the latest update to Fedora 36 KDE I applied (2/28/2023 ~21:00 EST) in my system BROKE my installation. I simply did a run of the mill sudo dnf update, not a version upgrade and now my ...
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Scancode is missing for XF86 key, yet keycode is available

I have a recent X1 thinkpad w/Fedora OS, and the new F9-F11 special keys don't work. They don't appear to be specified in the XF86 multimedia keys list: notifications, start call, and end call. From ...
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How to force a package removal that dnf wrongly suppose many packages are depending on?

I am trying to do some clean-up in my package list on a Fedora 37 workstation using dnf. I have many packages installed for evaluation purposes and yesterday my upgrade of Fedora 36->37 resulted in ...
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Set a service to run as account in LDAP with credentials

I feel like I am overlooking something obvious. My goal is to run a systemd service with an LDAP service account at system startup. THAT WAY, if I disable the account in LDAP, then the next time the ...
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How to extract files from an inaccessible partition?

I cannot boot into my installed Fedora 37 after moving around partitions. I have spent a week trying to fix the issue so have decided to cut my losses and assume I'll never get back into it. I have ...
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No bootable devices found for Fedora

As a word of caution: I am inexperienced and moved some partitions around when attempting to dual boot windows from Fedora, I didn't take note of what I was doing and so only have my current ...
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How do I make it so I don't need to log out and log back in for the apps I've installed with nix package manager to show up?

When I install a new app with the nix package manager on fedora (silverblue) I need to log out and log back in for the app icons to appear for the new apps I installed with nix. I made them show up by ...
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not detecting external monitor on waking up

Many months ago, everything was working fine. I put the system to sleep and on waking it up, the USB-C attached screen would wake up and I would be off to the races. Then, after some update, the ...
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Fedora 37 reboot after update - Grub Out of Range Pointer and not able to rescue boot w/ USB

After a regular Fedora 37 update last evening, I rebooted my home server (actually a Fedora Workstation 37 but with lots of extras). I went to log in this morning remotely and ... no connection. Upon ...
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DNS wont resolve on Fedora 37

I just installed Fedora 37 on my laptop and cannot get the DNS to resolve despite attempting every remedy I’m capable of completing. I am new to Linux and do not understand the jargon, I can use the ...
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How to replace Qwerty with Dvorak in Fedora 37 / Gnome 3?

I want to use Dvorak as my main layout on my system, but when I set it up via Gnome 3 settings and removed Qwerty I was still able to use it along with Dvorak. Added I’ll start from the beginning, I ...
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Dual booted Fedora 37 not detecting mic on logitech headset

I'm running Fedora 37 on the x86_64 Linux 6.1.11-200 kernel and when I go on discord I noticed that my mic is not the one from my headset but from my built-in input device (which is not what I want) ...
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Issues with fractional scaling and screenshot utility on Gnome

I am having issues with using fractional scaling under Wayland. I have a laptop with a builtin 1920x1080 screen, and an external monitor that is also 1920x1080. Without fractional scaling everything ...
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Automount USB flash drive on CLI (no fstab solutions please!)

I have been looking for how to automount a USB flash/thumb drive on a Linux machine which does not have a GUI. So, it must be CLI-only solution. The most common answer I found was based on editing ...
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Audio not play unless restart pulseaudio or switch device

I was using/trying paprefs to stream audio to a remote device, however after that, my system stop playing audio unless I go into settings and switch device to another and back (or restart pulseaudio ...
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nftables won't load rules at boot

On Fedora 37 : my nftables rules are written in /etc/sysconfig/nftables.conf iptables.service could not be found as it is the default in F37 nftables.service and NetworkManager.service are enabled ...
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How to fix date formats and address formats not displaying as advertised (in KDE, which probably matters, & in Fedora, which probably doesn't matter)

While setting the formats under "System Settings" > "Regional Settings" > "Region & Language", I noticed that two of my selections just don't display as ...
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How can I set a custom number format, date format, and time format (in KDE, if that matters), independent of any locale-related database of formats?

Under "System Settings" > "Regional Settings" > "Region & Language", there are settings for Language Numbers Time Currency Measurements Paper Size Address Name ...
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Troubleshooting a lagging mouse only when an extern monitor is plugged

I don't really know if this kind of issue belongs here, but the process of troubleshooting it may. My laptop is running Fedora 37 with Xfce desktop. I control my mouse with the touchad, which is very ...
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How to log in to a system what was created without any users. (Selected, in installer, to create user, but it didn't happen) (Fedora if that matters)

I just installed Fedora (37, KDE spin), and after booting into it I get presented with a log-in screen I can't get through using the user credentials I set up in the installer! So how do I get in?? ...
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I Have LUKS Enabled And Integrated With TPM 2. How To Hide Passphrase Screen?

System: Fedora 37, Gnome 43 I enabled LUKS encryption on setup and enabled auto-decrypt via TPM 2 with following an article from Fedora Magazine. Auto-decrypt works but while it decrypts, it shows the ...
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"unknown frontend: ncurses" when starting lem editor

I'm trying to install lem editor. I installed roswell. Then I tried to install lem using below $ ros install follow-dependency=t lem-project/lem 'follow-dependency=t' is not a valid target for '...

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