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Startup/Mounting fails because "No free loop devices"

It turns out that simply clearing up space in dev/nvme0n1p4 solved the problem. It had 89GB available but it appears it needed 115GB for the mount to succeed. The new output of df -h is Filesystem ...
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Why doesn't Journald store kernel messages for as long as other messages are kept?

-k for journalctl implies -b -0, i.e., it shows only infos from the current boot. The messages are there; just not displayed. See man journalctl's information on how to pick the ranges that you get ...
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xkeycaps fails with a segmentation fault, what to do?

"Segmentation fault" is the Unix/Linux way of saying "Illegal Memory Access". Your program tried to access an out-of-bounds memory address. Experience suggests location 0x00000000. ...
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Reverse dependencies to determining the Cause of DNF conflicting packages

This script would need to be ran as root/sudo. #!/bin/bash dnf repoquery --whatdepends "${1} \ --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch} 2>/dev/null \ | xargs -I '{}' bash ...
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Unable to extend fedora Server VirtualBox Volume (lvm2)

Ok thanks to Marcus I checked the filesystem and it was xfs so instead of using resize2fs I had to use xfs_growfs instead. sudo xfs_growfs -d /dev/fedora/root
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How to stop CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE spam in system logs

This should fix it: cat /etc/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant.service.d/log.conf [Service] LogLevelMax=2 sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl restart wpa_supplicant.service
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How to get OpenVPN's remote peer external (real) IP address?

If the IP address is not in the output of nmcli connection show, then as far as I can tell the best source would be inspecting the established TCP connections: port 1194 for OpenVPN, e.g. via ss --tcp ...
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Wi-Fi not working and Wi-Fi Settings not visible in Settings on Linux

After going through all these steps we spoke in the comments, if the Wi-Fi still doesn't work, it looks like there might be a hardware defect. Check if the Wi-Fi module is installed and active: Run ...
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Wi-Fi not working and Wi-Fi Settings not visible in Settings on Linux

Since the WiFi adapter does not appear in the lspci listing, it seems to have been completely disconnected from the PCIe bus. Some laptops have a mechanical switch or function key for "flight ...
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How to merge 2 partitions (without data loss)

Just make sure the partitions you want 2 merge are next eachother, then boot https://gparted.org/liveusb.php and resize the part you want bigger, thanks @maxemillian
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ssh remote port forwarding in systemd

I would add -N option. As per man ssh -N Do not execute a remote command. This is useful for just forwarding ports. Refer to the description of SessionType in ssh_config(5) for details.
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How to disable or change the behavior or Fn+S?

I had similar issue on thinkpad with fn + 4 combo. Editing the /etc/systemd/logind.conf file solved my issue on Arch linux (hyprland). Just changed: HandleSuspendKey=ignore HandleSuspendKeyLongPress=...
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Do i have to do restart the audit daemon manually after fedora regular update?

As you have restarted the system, there is no need to run any systemctl daemon-reload. You can still check the status of auditd service with systemctl status auditd
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Fstab does not mount on boot btrfs with subvolumes but "mount -a" does it

I found problem. In mount flags I misspelled compression flag compress=zst:6. It should be compress=zstd:6. For some reason it stopped subvolumes from mounting on boot but mount -a still did the trick....
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vgcreate: Cannot use /dev/vdb1: device has a signature

vgcreate is detecting that /dev/vdb1 either has a LVM PV signature that indicates it already is or has been part of some other Volume Group, or that there is some non-LVM filesystem on it. A LVM ...
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