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Attempting mount of Bootable CD/DVD gives "Can't open blockdev" message
by George R Goffe 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

Hi, I'm not sure what to do about this problem. Is it a broken device? I'm seeing "no media found" messages too. blockdev /dev/sr0 says: fc37-bash 5.1 ~# blockdev /dev/cdrom blockdev: cannot open /dev/cdrom: No medium found fc37-bash 5.1 ~# blockdev --report /dev/cdrom RO RA SSZ BSZ StartSec Size Device rw 256 512 512 0 1073741312 /dev/cdrom mount says: fc37-bash 5.1 ~# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt mount: /mnt: no medium found on /dev/sr0. dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call. dmesg | tail -3 says: [ 2159.692983] /dev/sr0: Can't open blockdev [ 2908.948008] /dev/sr0: Can't open blockdev [ 3597.306199] /dev/sr0: Can't open blockdev I have tried inserting an old (1996) bootable cd media AND a quite recent "live" DVD media from Fedora Core 36/7 with the same messages. Booting from the DVD using an external CD/DVD player (NOT the broken(?) one) does work. I have not tried the old cd at all recently (1996). Any attempt to use the internal(?) CD/DVD fails. eject /dev/sr0 DOES work though. Again, is the device broken? What else should I try? Best regards and STAY SAFE. George...

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Temporary XFCE Thunar weirdness
by Sam Varshavchik 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

Something weird happened after I installed a bunch of updates and rebooted. There were no kernel updates, or anything that I recall might be related. Normally I have a lone "File System" icon that opens up Thunar. After the reboot I got half a dozen icons. I recall a "Root Filesystem" icon, a "proc" icon, a "sys" icon; an icon for every filesystem mount point. It was really weird. Additionally attaching my MP3 player, a usb-storage device, elicited no response, it was not getting auto-mounted. I tried logging out and in, without any changes. After another reboot things were back to normal. Just the "File System" icon that, obediently, launched Thunar. My usb-storage device was getting auto- mounted just fine. Has anyone else seen this before, and know what's up? I'd be curious to know if there's a way to fix this up without rebooting.

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Unlogging
by Beartooth 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Recent releases (I"m running F35) seem to log me out at certain times, regardless of what I'm doing. I want not ever to get logged out. How and where do I set that? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

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WSL
by Patrick Dupre 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Hello, Does somebody have experience with fedora and WSL? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install Thanks =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 | | Room# D114A ===========================================================================

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/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmpfr
by Michael Hennebry 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmpfr As mentioned in another thread, I am trying to compile gappa 1.4 . ./configure LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64 complains From config.log configure:4678: checking for mpfr_snprintf in -lmpfr configure:4703: g++ -o conftest -g -O2 -L/usr/lib64/ conftest.cpp -lmpfr -lgmp >&5 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmpfr collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status [hennebry@fedora ~]$ ls /usr/lib64/libmpfr* /usr/lib64/libmpfr.so.6 /usr/lib64/libmpfr.so.6.1.0 [hennebry@fedora ~]$ What is going on? How do I deal? configure is written in the obfuscated shell generated by autotools. Editing that seems unlikely to be successful. -- Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards

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How to install F35
by Michael Hennebry 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

How does one install F35? I've got the workstation iso on a DVD. It runs, but clicking on install seems to have little or no effect. I certainly do not get any prompts for the next step. What is the magic formula? BTW I do not have the wiggle room for dual boot. I backed up my home directory and edited my partitions before running the DVD. Do I need to have an internet connection available to do the install? The first time I tried this, an "update" or whatever it was doing took over an hour before I gave up. I'd prefer a separate update step that I can watch. The joy of installion is a reason I do it so rarely. -- Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards

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screen lock - ? - not locking
by lejeczek 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Hi guys. I have "Automatic Screen Lock Delay" set to "5 minutes" but instead of locked screen I get some apps reshuffled between two monitors. My setup is laptop (AMD APU) with external monitor which monitor is set to "Primary". It's mostly Thunderbird which I keep on laptop-display and when this non-lock happens I find Thunderbird moved to "primary" and some Firefox/Chromium windows moved from Primary to laptop. Something looks like seriously fcuked up with recent f35, it was not weird from the start, updates from recent months introduced this I think. I say seriously because the fact that "locking" does not work is serious - Fedora eventually locks the screen but that is not that first "5 minutes". It seems that it takes a few - how many I did not time - tries before it succeeds. Anybody sees this or similar misbehavior? many thanks, L.

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New Text Editor - A Question.....
by Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

Just wondering ladies and gentlemen. Is there any way to get the new text editor to use a "dark" theme? I love its simple interface and the fact that the text can be BOLDED again! But this bright white?..is KILLING my eyes! Just wondering is all! Thanks! WEGO II

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Xfce close on lid down?
by ToddAndMargo 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

Hi All, Fedora 35 Xfce 4.16 I have a customer with a shiny new System 76 laptop. How do I configure it to shutdown or suspend when he closes the lid? Many thanks, -T

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Creating a wi-fi device
by Geoffrey Leach 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

When Fedora 32 was installed on my laptop it did not creat a wi-fi device (aka wlan0). How should I go about creating the appropriate device? Thanks.

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