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KGpg "An error occurred while scanning your keyring"
by Jonathan Ryshpan 12 Oct '25

12 Oct '25

This error pops up whenever my system boots up. Clicking on [Details <<] produces a message box with the single entry "Details" in it. What's happening? Thanks - jon

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ESC/P thermal receipt printers and Linux...
by Fernando Cassia 19 Aug '25

19 Aug '25

Running dmesg after plugging my POS-5890K labelled usb thermal receipt printer, it identifies itself as full-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci idVendor=0416, idProduct=5011 Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Product: POS58 USB Printer Manufacturer: GD32 Microelectronics SerialNumber: Printer I found the hard way that these printers are not supported by CUPS by default ... one has to go the extra length to either send esc/p codes manually via your own app http://kg4zqz.blogspot.com/2016/08/escposf-thermal-printer-filter-and.html ...or compile a driver from source, just like 20 years ago for some printers... maybe 2018 will be the year of desktop linux *sarcasm* I've tried this driver and it didn't work... http://scruss.com/blog/2015/07/12/thermal-printer-driver-for-cups-linux-and… (the driver source was fetched by git from its current github repo, so it's not out of date, it's in fact newer than the above blog post) What gives more clues is the small piece of thermal paper that came with the printer with a printout of its self-test (surely from Windows). It reads: 58-IV-U Thermal Printer Version: 58.E-Z04-AA Revised date: 06-Jan-2017 Command Standard: EPSON (ESC/POS) Print mode: Normal mode & Hex Mode Print method: Line Thermal Print width: 384 dots/line Print speed: 90 mm/s Chinese Mode: NO Print density: Level3 Current Codepage:0 Interface Type: USB Current Character: Chinese (GB18030) Alphanumeric Code Page: 0: OEM437 (Std.Europe) 1: Katakana 2:OEM850 (Multilingual) (…) 96:(Thai2) I wonder why the CUPS folks have not released a generic “EPSON ESC/POS” printer driver where the above parameters can be tweaked and entered manually. The driver mentioned above was compiled, and installed but didn’t work. A sample print gave gibberish. A second text-only printing (by clicking the CUPS “print self-test page” read “IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOU’RE USING THE WRONG DRIVER FOR YOUR PRINTER”. A crude bug-finding code it seems… Any ideas before I head over to the CUPS maling list and pull my hair? For instance, this blog post https://mike42.me/blog/2015-03-getting-a-usb-receipt-printer-working-on-lin… talks about using "usblp" but commenters say "usblp" was deprecated (already in 2015) So what does replace usblp? And look, here someone else also pulling his hair. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45926734/raw-cups-printer-how-to-avoid-… FFS, a line printer was the first type of printer, back in the days of RS232 ports. If we can't get a USB line printer detected and configured and send ASCII to it, we're doomed. All because there's a dozen poorly documented layers of software crap obscuring it... FC

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Managing dual boot
by Patrick Dupre 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

Hello, I have a machine with a dual fedora boot on 2 drives (with grub2) I daily maintain one (say A on /dev/sda4), and occasionally the other one (say B on /dev/sdc5). The problem is when I update B, grub is not update properly, i.e., I cannot boot on B with the new kernel. Hence, I run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg on both machines But it is not enough I tried grub2-install /dev/sda But I get Installing for x86_64-efi platform. grub2-install: error: This utility should not be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. If you really wish to proceed, invoke the --force option. Make sure Secure Boot is disabled before proceeding. What is the correct procedure? dnf reinstall shim-* grub2-* Thank =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com ===========================================================================

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rdp server with 2FA?
by ToddAndMargo 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

Hi All, Is there an RDP server that runs on Fedora and that has multi-factor authentication? And that runs well. Many thanks, -T

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firefox after update
by Roger Wells 13 Apr '25

13 Apr '25

Hi, Updated F41 via "software" icon on desktop today, 28Mar2025, which I do each week at this time Now firefox doesn't launch. Running from command line: firefox env: ‘firefox-wayland’: No such file or directory Run from desktop icon: icon swirls for about 15 seconds then disappears. what happened?

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WinFsp in Windows server 2025 STD
by ToddAndMargo 06 Apr '25

06 Apr '25

Hi All, Anyone know how to get WinFsp to work in Widows Server 2025 STD? https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp/releases/download/v2.1B2/winfsp-2.1.24255.… does not install VirtioFsSvc Many thanks, -T

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I need help with xRDP
by ToddAndMargo 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

Hi All, Fedora 41 Xfce 4.12 I am trying to set up xRDP with Xfce. When I log into xRDP from mstsc.exe (Windows 10), I am prompted (session = Xorg) from my user name and password. After entering it, I get a blue screen that eventually times out with Can't create session for user todd -X server could not be started. What am I doing wrong? -T This is the instructors I am following: Install Xrdp Server to connect to Fedora Desktop Xfce from the Windows Remote Desktop feature. References: https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_41&p=desktop&f=6 https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1hzuvww/how_to_switch_from_gnome_t… https://idroot.us/install-xrdp-centos-8/ [1] Install and Start Xrdp Server. # dnf -y install xrdp # systemctl enable --now xrdp # systemctl start xrdp [2] vi /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini Replace the port with a masked port For example: port=Not_3389 comment out all of [Xvnc] and [X11rdp] uncomment all of [Xorg] [Xorg] name=Xorg lib=libxup.so username=ask password=ask ip=127.0.0.1 port=-1 code=20 ; Frame capture interval (milliseconds) h264_frame_interval=16 rfx_frame_interval=32 normal_frame_interval=40 # systemctl restart xrdp [3] If Firewalld is running, allow RDP port. # firewall-cmd --add-port=[port_you_chose]/tcp # firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent # firewall-cmd --reload [4] vi /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh # test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession # exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session chmod 755 /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh # systemctl restart xrdp [5] Connect from Windows clients. <Win><R> mstsc.exe An example on Windows 11. --> Open Start Menu --> [Windows Tool] --> [Remote Desktop Connection]

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follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.
by home user 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Good evening, Well, I though it was solved. But something is still awry.... ----- bash.3[ShiPin]: time grope -ob9LHPEaKY Western/.Organ/organ_dir.txt real 0m0.043s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.016s bash.4[ShiPin]: time Grope -ob9LHPEaKY Western/.Organ/organ_dir.txt real 7m15.297s user 1m49.880s sys 0m46.325s bash.5[ShiPin]: alias | grep rope alias Grope='~/myroot/testprogs/Grope' alias grope='~/myroot/testprogs/grope' bash.6[ShiPin]: cat ~/myroot/testprogs/Grope grep -rile $1 bash.7[ShiPin]: cat ~/myroot/testprogs/grope grep -rilIe $1 bash.8[ShiPin]: ----- The results are correct. But notice that the case sensitive search took over 7 1/4 MINUTES; the case INsensitive search took less than 1/20 second. That's a nearly 4 orders of magnitude difference! I would think that the case INsensitive search would involve more processing, and so should take longer. What's going on?

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problems adding a new printer to HP Device Manager
by Robert Moskowitz 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

I just set up an HP 9125e ink jet. What a job. The tools expect dumb networks and it took me hours to figure out how to get things setup. But it is done now. I got through their Android setup program and got the printer's ethernet working as I want. On my F41 system with Xfce, I have the printer showing in Printer Setup and can print to it. But I cannot get HP Device Manager to find the thing. I tried both the DNS name I have for it and the direct IPv4. Any tips? thanks

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[Fedora Test Days] Fedora 42 KDE Test Week 2025-03-31
by Sumantro Mukherjee 30 Mar '25

30 Mar '25

Hey Folks, As many of you may know, KDE is becoming a blocking deliverable in this release we are hosting The KDE test week[0]. You can still submit the results here[1]. KDE is very important for our community members and testing this way ahead of time helps us find bugs and eliminate them!! Thanks for testing! [0] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2025-03-31_F42_KDE_Test_Week [1] https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events/213 -- //sumantro Fedora QE TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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