Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
Is there a way of using Signal-Desktop with Fedora 40.
C'era una volta/once upon a time, there was.
But all of the instructions for finding rpms, installation, etc., are
either stale or unusable (installation fails; too many depencies that are
not findable).
Suggestions?
Thank you,
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
26 minutes
Cannot enable extensions after upgrade from F39 to F40
by Jacek Pliszka
Hi!
I have upgraded from F39 to F40 and my gnome shell extensions stopped working. e.g.
$ gnome-extensions list | grep dock
dash-to-dock(a)micxgx.gmail.com
$ gnome-extensions enable dash-to-dock(a)micxgx.gmail.com
$ gnome-extensions list --enabled
returns nothing.
Any hints? I have some deja vu that it is flat/snap related somehow...
4 hours
Latest upgrade KDE Wayland high CPU
by richard emberson
Just upgraded from 6.8.8-300.fc40.x86_64 to 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64.
With both using KDE Wayland.
With 6.9.5-200.fc40 there is high idle CPU usage:
around 35% for /usr/bin/plasmashell --no-respawn
around 25% for /bin/kwin_wayland --wayland-fd 7 --socket wayland-0 --xwayland-fd 8 --xwayland-fd 9 --xwayland-display :0 --xwayland-xauthority /run/user/1000/xauth_oPtMqQ --xwayland
and 20% for [kworker/u18:2-events_unbound]
There are a bunch of kworkers that for a time take up 20% CPU (such as [kworker/1:2-events] and others)
With version 6.8.8-300.fc40 where was no such high CPU usage.
What to do?
Thanks
Richard
4 hours, 21 minutes
fedora upgrade to 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64: no /bin/thunderbird-wayland
by richard emberson
With fedora 6.8.8-300.fc40.x86_64 thunderbird packaged contained /bin/thunderbird-wayland.
With fedora 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64 the thunderbird package 115.12.1 does not contain /bin/thunderbird-wayland
dnf search thunderbird
======================= Name & Summary Matched: thunder ========================
plasma-thunderbolt.x86_64 : Plasma integration for controlling Thunderbolt
: devices
plasma-thunderbolt.i686 : Plasma integration for controlling Thunderbolt devices
thunderbird.x86_64 : Mozilla Thunderbird mail/newsgroup client
thunderbird-librnp-rnp.x86_64 : OpenPGP implementation for Thunderbird based on
: RNP
thunderbird-wayland.x86_64 : Thunderbird Wayland launcher.
....
On package page for thunderbird-wayland
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/thunderbird/thunderbird-wayland/
says stable release is 115.9.0-1.fc40
but the "Recent Activity" has some notes associated with thunderbird-115.12.1-1.fc40
Was thunderbird-wayland left out or is it no longer needed?
Thanks
Richard
4 hours, 40 minutes
F40 kernel 6.9.* and VMware 17.5.* question
by Mark C. Allman
Anyone have VMware Workstation or Player 17.5.1 or 17.5.2 working on the
6.9.* kernels? The kernel modules from VMware haven't worked in quite a
while. They don't compile for the 6.9.* kernels, and, if I'm remembering
correctly, they don't compile when running the 6.8.* kernels either.
I have the code for vmnet and vmmon from
https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-17.5.1.
There are all kinds of exceptions when the kernel modules are loaded at
boot time. I tried running vmplayer as a test -- it "ran" but trashed
the kernel and required hard reboots. One of the tests totally bricked
my laptop (that was fun to recover).
I'm currently running kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64and all packages are
up to date. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 7591, Core i7-10510U CPU, 16GB
of ram.
-- Mark
4 hours, 56 minutes
password issue with f40
by Michael Hennebry
I recently installed F40 from DVD.
F40 and I are having a difference of opinion
regarding what password I gave the initial user.
F40 is winning.
I find it hard to believe I typed in the same wrong password twice,
but it's F40's opinion that counts.
I try to login: click on the user and type in my password.
F40 just goes back to the select a user screen.
There is only one user.
My usual strategy is to boot a live disk
and to edit the passwd and shadow files directly.
It did not work.
Now F40 no longer even gives me a chance to type in a password.
It just blinks at me and goes right back to the select a user screen.
What is going on?
How do I fix it?
I would much prefer not to reinstall.
Even if I have to reinstall, I would like to know what is going on.
My line from /etc/passwd :
hennebry::1000:1000:The Michael:/home/hennebry:/bin/bash
My line from /etc/shadow :
hennebry::19893:0:99999:7:::
--
Michael hennebry(a)mail.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical
reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young
goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods
6 hours, 11 minutes
Seamonkey not displaying pix
by Beartooth
Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not
display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also gives
me a link to Media Viewer; but the help page for that is over my head.
I tried posting via Gmane to seamonkey.user, but have had no
replies. I tried dnf reinstall seamonkey (with seamonkey not open), but
that didn't help.
It used to be a good browser. Can I fix it?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
10 hours, 29 minutes
smokeping alternative?
by Alex
Hi,
I've been using smokeping to monitor network problems for what seems like
decades. It now seems to have been removed from the internet, lol.
What are you using to monitor network drop-outs and latency and traffic
problems? I'm already using munin to monitor service performance, and
nagios to monitor services, but I'm looking for something that can graph
latency in the same way as smokeping used to.
Ideas greatly appreciated.
2 days, 8 hours
Interesting mount problem - F40
by Frank Bures
Hi,
I have a small SSD that I use for /boot and /boot/efi partitions - /dev/sda
I boot from /dev/sda
I have another small SSD that I use as a dd backup of /dev/sda - /dev/sdg
After update to a new kernel, I dd the /dev/sda to /dev/sdg so that in case
of a failure I could boot from /dev/sdg.
This scenario worked perfectly till several weeks ago.
What is happening now is that the machine boots from /dev/sda, but then
mounts /dev/sdg for its /boot and /boot/efi. So in df I see /dev/sdg
instead of /dev/sda that the machine booted from.
I solved the problem by editing /etc/fstab and pointing /boot and /boot/efi
to the relevant /dev/sda[1-2] instead of the original UUID.
Question: is this solution OK or have I done something wrong? Is there a
better way of solving this?
Thanks
Frank
--
<listfrank1(a)gmail.com>
2 days, 11 hours
