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by François Patte 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

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Fedora 37 Kernel and Gnome 43 Beta Test Weeks!
by Sumantro Mukherjee 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

Hey Fedorans, We have a couple of test weeks underway, and you can join us right now! Fedora Kernel 5.19 Test Week and GNOME 43 are happening. Test Weeks are QA events where we invite contributors and help them, get their first contribution to Fedora Project! There is a Fedora Magazine article[0] for a better description and with links to resources to get started with the aforementioned test week. Should you have any questions, contact us at the test list or #fedora-test-day on libera [0] https://fedoramagazine.org/contribute-at-the-fedora-kernel-5-19-and-gnome-4… -- //sumantro Fedora QE TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED

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puzzling message/suggestion during weekly patches.
by home user 17 Aug '22

17 Aug '22

(f35) While, as root, doing my weekly patches (dnf upgrade), I get the following message: ----- Upgrading : usbredir-0.12.0-2.fc35.x86_64 40/115 Upgrading : setup-2.14.1-1.fc35.noarch 41/115 warning: /etc/shadow created as /etc/shadow.rpmnew Running scriptlet: setup-2.14.1-1.fc35.noarch 41/115 WARNING: local host name ([private]) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? /etc/aliases: 77 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 778 bytes total Upgrading : rsyslog-8.2204.0-2.fc35.x86_64 ----- What is the message telling me to read, and where is it? I see no README file in directory '/', in "/etc", or in root's home. I see no directory "cf" in '/', in root's home, or in "/etc".

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unremovable gnome packages
by Adrian Sevcenco 17 Aug '22

17 Aug '22

Hi! I was trying to remove the gnome packages and because of gnome-shell i'm stuck with this list: gnome-autoar-0.4.3-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-bluetooth-42.2-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-bluetooth-libs-42.2-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-control-center-42.3-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-control-center-filesystem-42.3-1.fc36.noarch gnome-desktop3-42.3-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-desktop4-42.3-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-keyring-42.1-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-keyring-pam-42.1-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-online-accounts-3.44.0-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-session-42.0-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-session-wayland-session-42.0-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-settings-daemon-42.2-1.fc36.x86_64 gnome-shell-42.3.1-1.fc36.x86_64 So, why is gnome-shell not-removable??? is it not a desktop application?? Is there a way to solve this __nicely__ ? Thanks a lot! Adrian

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opinions: backups
by Bill Cunningham 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that would be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar and fsarchiver. There's backing up with btrfs too. I am thinking about back ups of the whole system and rpms I have installed. And maybe not backing up logs, old settings like are stored in the root directory of the user(s) and root account. Does anyone use any of these or other backups? I just want to save my rpms and not have to download all from scratch. IDK if dar or dump would backup things like /sys or other system directories. I have created dump backups but not really restored from scratch. Bill

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Long timeouts on logging out/shutting down
by Patrick O'Callaghan 15 Aug '22

15 Aug '22

I reported this on the Fedora KDE list a while back. Briefly, the kded daemon should die when the user session terminates, but actually waits around for up to 90 seconds before timing out. This blocks the system from shutting down, or from logging in the same user while the process is still running. This is happening despite KillUserProcesses being set to "yes" in /etc/systemd/logind.conf. The KDE list thread: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@lists.fedoraproject.org/t… My KDE BZ report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456713 However I have come across a report from years ago that tells of a similar problem with GDM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1341837 So it doesn't appear to be specifically related to KDE, or even kded as such. Is anyone else seeing this? poc

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Re: opinions: backups
by Chris Murphy 15 Aug '22

15 Aug '22

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022, at 2:32 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: > On 8/15/2022 12:17 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2022, at 5:08 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: >>> I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. >>> I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that would >>> be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My >>> allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar and >>> fsarchiver. There's backing up with btrfs too. >> I mainly backup just /home because I consider everything else replaceable. So for that it's > I want to keep my valuable info and get rid of everything else. But not > have to go through downloading and manually running dnf every time for > the rpms I individually install. There's quite a few of them. Are you > uploading to a server online? Or copying to another partition formatted > with btrfs? This command is an Intel NUC on the local network, and /srv/backups is a Btrfs formatted volume. $ sudo btrfs send -p home.20220810 home.20220815 | ssh chris(a)fnuc.local "sudo btrfs receive /srv/backups/fovo/" Although when I'm traveling it looks a bit differently because I'll use a locally attached USB stick: $ sudo btrfs send -p home.20220810 home.20220815 | sudo btrfs receive /run/chris/backups/fovo/ Because the "root" subvolume contains everything, including logs and VM images if you use virt-manager, databases, it can actually go through quite a bit of churn. Probably more than the typical "home". -- Chris Murphy

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Current Fedora version of ImageMagick is from 2017
by Paul Smith 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

Dear All, I have just noticed that the current Fedora version of ImageMagick is from 2017. Why is that? Thanks in advance, Paul

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install F36 KDE alongside Win 10
by Anil Felipe Duggirala 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

hello everyone, I have done this before, but now I have one big doubt when completing installation of F36 alongside Win 10. I shrunk one of the Win partitions to create good space for my Fedora installation. I have booted the Live installer and entered the Installation destination section (screenshot here: https://user.fm/files/v2-f5626c9be22f21a346c100750161ab0e/nh7b5m4y3fv6uixre…) If I select Automatic, will Fedora be automatically installed in the biggest unallocated space? and this space partitioned as per Fedora default? I have seen instructions where people select Custom, and manually create partitions, I am way too nervous about partitioning the disk myself. I don't want to mess up the Win installation that has taken me time to setup. I don't remember having to this before. thank you, Anil F

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WebEx client no longer works on Fedora 36
by Ranjan Maitra 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

Dear friends, Does anyone still have the official Cisco WebEx linux client work with Fedora 36? It used to work fine a month or so ago, but has not worked for me for the last two weeks (at least). Specifically, what happens is that the client opens up all right, but then when I either start or join meeting, the window tries to start and then everything comes crashing down. I am not sure what the problem is, and there are no error messages at all, but I was wondering if anyone had similar experiences and, more importantly, knew how to fix this issue. I am updated to the latest July version of WebEx and F36 (but for emacs, but that is not relevant). Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan

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