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Fedora has broken VirtualBox with 6.19.6
by Michael D. Setzer II 13 Mar '26

13 Mar '26

Tried to run VirtualBox and it fails with akmod issue. Found solutions for other distros, but only option for Fedora is to boot with an older kernel. Seems Fedora has restrict access to KVM thus not allowing VirtualBox to work? The error is caused by VirtualBox trying to use low-level CPU functions (CR4, TLB) now restricted to KVM akmods Checking kmods exist for 6.19.6-200.fc43.x86_64 [ OK ] Building and installing VirtualBox-kmod [FAILED] Building rpms failed; see /var/cache/akmods/VirtualBox/7.2.6-1-for-6.19.6-200.fc43.x86_64.fa iled.log for details Some things say to wait for rpmfusion to come up with update, but not sure how they can make a patch if Fedora has restricted to only KVM? +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com mailto:msetzerii@gmx.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+

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Anybody use Cobbler?
by lejeczek 13 Mar '26

13 Mar '26

Hi guys. When I try to start cobblerd then SELinux goes loud. A long list of files/folder being blocked, access denials by SE - though cobblerd service starts. Seems that _cobbler_ wants to go everywhere in /etc, here is just a snippet: ... SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python3.12 from getattr access on the directory /etc/lvm. For complete SELinux messages run: sealert -l 8a34d355-1c7e-4067-8a71-9d8dc195a5ce SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python3.12 from getattr access on the directory /etc/lvm. # ausearch -c 'cobblerd' --raw | audit2allow -M my-cobblerd SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python3.12 from getattr access on the file /etc/aliases.lmdb. For complete SELinux messages run: sealert -l 33eaf315-38b9-47dc-bea8-ff304ffa4281 SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python3.12 from getattr access on the file /etc/aliases.lmdb. # ausearch -c 'cobblerd' --raw | audit2allow -M my-cobblerd SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python3.12 from getattr access on the file /etc/adjtime. For complete SELinux messages run: sealert -l 0434ff96-1606-49c7-8bf5-21305bf1b6cd SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python3.12 from getattr access on the file /etc/adjtime. # ausearch -c 'cobblerd' --raw | audit2allow -M my-cobblerd ... This is on Centos 10 but, anybody sees this/similar? I'm thinking... what the hell? is Cobbler looking for in there... Do I have something very badly configured.. thanks, L.

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Re: Fedora has broken VirtualBox with 6.19.6
by C. Linus Hicks 12 Mar '26

12 Mar '26

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026, at 12:20 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: >> From what I've found. Works fine with Previous kernel with >> Module? But information shows that latest kernel has Fedora >> restricking access to only KVM, so VirtualBox can not work with >> the restriction?? >> >> So, module can't build because of restriction Fedora just installed? >> Perhaps they will find a way to get around issue with an update. >> >> So, works with 6.18.16 but fails with 6.19.6, so only change is >> Fedora Kernel. So currently have to boot with 6.18.16 to have it >> work? >> >> So change in 6.19.6 causes problem. > >Correct. The problem is that it is failing when trying to build the kernel modules for the 6.19 kernel. > >The was a "last straw" event for me. I have played with Qemu / KVM before was still using VirtualBox. I just re-installed KVM and created a fedora install. All well. I will next work on >converting some old Windows VMs and if that goes well I will fully un-install VirtualBox. What version of VirtualBox are you running? VirtualBox introduced initial support for Linux kernel 6.19 in VirtualBox 7.2.6, released on January 28, 2026. This version includes the necessary updates to handle changes to low-level CPU functions and kernel module compilation required for the 6.19 kernel. Key Details on 6.19 Support: * Initial Support: VirtualBox 7.2.6 is the first release to provide "initial support" for the 6.19 kernel (which was officially released on Feb 8, 2026). * Fixes: The update specifically addresses issues with compiling kernel modules, which arise from stricter handling of low-level CPU functions (such as the CR4 register) moved into a protected namespace in the 6.19 kernel. This topic: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=114417 Reports that the module build issue is fixed in 6.19.06 but I have not verified this.

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OT: Just upgraded a Fedora 42 machine to Fedora 43, but got an error I had fixed with 42?
by Michael D. Setzer II 11 Mar '26

11 Mar '26

Deals with converting libreoffice files to pdf files. Involves making a change to one line. Edit the script: Open /usr/bin/unoconv and replace the following line: Old: from distutils.version import LooseVersion New: from packaging.version import parse as LooseVersion Says old version is outdated. Not sure is this is linked to the libreoffice directly, or if libreoffice using the /usr/bin/unoconv Made change and message goes away. Sure someone might know best place to report it to correctly fix issue? Thanks. +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com mailto:msetzerii@gmx.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+

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Systemd VConsole Loadkeys Issue
by Stephen Morris 11 Mar '26

11 Mar '26

Hi, The systemd-vconsole-setup service fails to start because loadkeys reports it can't find keyboard map "au". The kde system_settings keyboard layout allows the specification of a keyboard layout of "English (Australia)" which is layout "au" which I have set. If I change /etc/vconsole.conf from "KEYMAP=au" to "KEYMAP=us" systemd-vconsole-setup activates quite happily. Given that kde system settings can find keymap "au" (based on it being able to find keyboard layout "au") why can't loadkeys find it, and how do I fix it so that I can use the Australian layout? The other question I have is, what is systemd-vconsole-setup.service actually used for given that with it not activating there doesn't appear to be any impact to KVM, or is that service not relevant to KVM? regards,

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sagemath
by Patrick Dupre 11 Mar '26

11 Mar '26

Hello, I am trying to install sagemath-10.8 from the tar file (I could not find a package ready for fedora). I did make configure ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sage --enable-build-as-root It ends by real_configure: notice: the following SPKGs did not find equivalent system packages: appdirs brial cachetools chardet cliquer colorama cvxopt cypari distlib eclib ecm fflas_ffpack filelock fplll fpylll gengetopt gf2x givaro glpk iml lcalc libbraiding libhomfly linbox lrcalc m4ri m4rie mathjax matplotlib maxima meson mpc mpfi patchelf planarity ppl pplpy primecount primecountpy primesieve pyzmq qhull rw singular suitesparse symmetrica sympow tox virtualenv zeromq 4ti2 _develop _recommended bliss cbc coxeter3 free_fonts fricas giac igraph isl libgraphviz libnauty libsemigroups lrslib msolve onetbb pdf2svg polymake sbcl sirocco texlive xindy checking for the package system in use... (ignoring conda because no environment is active) fedora real_configure: hint: installing the following system packages, if not already present, is recommended and may avoid having to build them (though some may have to be built anyway): $ sudo dnf install brial brial-devel cliquer cliquer-devel eclib eclib-devel gmp-ecm gmp-ecm-devel fflas-ffpack-devel libfplll libfplll-devel gengetopt gf2x gf2x-devel givaro givaro-devel glpk glpk-devel glpk-utils iml iml-devel L-function-devel L-function libbraiding-devel libhomfly-devel linbox linbox-devel lrcalc-devel m4ri-devel m4rie-devel mathjax3 maxima-runtime-ecl maxima meson libmpc libmpc-devel mpfi-devel patchelf planarity planarity-devel ppl ppl-devel primecount primecount-devel primesieve-devel primesieve qhull qhull-devel rw-devel Singular Singular-devel suitesparse suitesparse-devel symmetrica-devel sympow tox python3-virtualenv zeromq zeromq-devel real_configure: hint: installing the following system packages, if not already present, may provide additional optional features: $ sudo dnf install 4ti2 4ti2-devel gnupg2 openssh bliss bliss-devel coin-or-Cbc coin-or-Cbc-devel coxeter coxeter-devel coxeter-tools gnu-free-mono-fonts gnu-free-sans-fonts gnu-free-serif-fonts texlive-gnu-freefont giac giac-devel igraph igraph-devel isl isl-devel graphviz graphviz-devel libnauty libnauty-devel libsemigroups libsemigroups-devel lrslib lrslib-devel tbb tbb-devel pdf2svg polymake sbcl sirocco sirocco-devel latexmk texlive texlive-collection-latexextra texlive-collection-langcyrillic texlive-collection-langeuropean texlive-collection-langfrench texlive-collection-langgerman texlive-collection-langitalian texlive-collection-langjapanese texlive-collection-langpolish texlive-collection-langportuguese texlive-collection-langspanish texlive-collection-langcjk texlive-xindy real_configure: hint: After installation, re-run configure using: $ make reconfigure --------------------------- After analysis, I found that some of this packages are installed or not available appdirs brial cachetools chardet cliquer colorama cvxopt cypari distlib eclib ecm fflas_ffpack filelock fplll fpylll gengetopt gf2x givaro glpk iml lcalc libbraiding libhomfly linbox lrcalc m4ri m4rie mathjax matplotlib maxima meson mpc mpfi patchelf planarity ppl pplpy primecount primecountpy primesieve pyzmq qhull rw singular suitesparse symmetrica sympow tox virtualenv zeromq 4ti2 _develop _recommended bliss cbc coxeter3 free_fonts fricas giac igraph isl libgraphviz libnauty libsemigroups lrslib msolve onetbb pdf2svg polymake sbcl sirocco texlive xindy for example brial. What would you recommend ? Thank. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com ===========================================================================

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Re: volume icon no longer works after F42 -> F43 upgrade
by Bob Marčan 11 Mar '26

11 Mar '26

On Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:52:35 -0600 "Ranjan Maitra via users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Wed Mar04'26 09:15:34PM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote: > > From: Sergio Cipolla via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:15:34 -0000 > > To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > Cc: Sergio Cipolla <lists(a)tutanota.com> > > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Subject: Re: volume icon no longer works after F42 -> F43 upgrade > > > > Maybe volumeicon is already deprecated. > > I just did a web search for alternatives: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=modern+replacement+for+volumeicon+linux&ia… > > -- > > Thank you, I have pavucontrol, and that works even now, but that does not do the same thing as volumeicon which actually can be made to use pavucontrol (which is what I used to do) and does not go into the system tray. Perhaps it will work: the rest (really, volctl and pwvucontrol on linux) do not seem to be in the Fedora repos. > > Ranjan > -- https://github.com/fernandotcl/pa-applet pa-applet.spec ========= # do not generate debugging packages by default %define debug_package %{nil} %global _hardened_build 1 %define name pa-applet %define tarname %{name}-master.tar.gz %define version 1.0 %define rel 0%{?dist} Summary: pa-applet is a systray-applet that allows you to control some of PulseAudio features. Name: %{name} Version: %{version} Release: %{rel} License: GPL Group: Applications/Productivity Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz Prefix: %{_prefix} Vendor: Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos <fernandotcl AT gmail.com> Packager: %{packager} Provides: %{name} AutoReqProv: yes Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root BuildRequires: glib2-devel gtk3-devel libnotify-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel autoconf automake pkg-config Requires: pasystray #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %description pa-applet is a systray-applet that allows you to control some of PulseAudio's[1] features. More specifically, pa-applet allows you to control the volume level of the default sink and mute or unmute it. It also allows you to change the active profile of the default sink, which can be useful to tell PulseAudio to redirect audio to the HDMI output instead of outputting to the built-in speakers in a computer connected to an HDMI device. pa-applet is not meant as a replacement to padevchooser[2] or pavucontrol[3], which are much more feature-complete projects. pa-applet offers a more limited feature set, but in a nicer shell, more appropriate for regular desktop usage. Note that this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by the PulseAudio project. #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %prep %setup -n %{name}-master chmod +rw -R * #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %build ./autogen.sh #./configure --prefix=%{_prefix} --mandir=%{_mandir} --disable-nls %configure --disable-nls make #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %install [ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT make DESTDIR=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT} install find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_mandir} -type f -exec gzip -9nf {} \; || true cd $RPM_BUILD_DIR/%{name}-master find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT ! -type d | sed -e "s@^$RPM_BUILD_ROOT@@g" \ -e "s@^%{_prefix}/bin@%attr(755, root, root) %{_prefix}/bin@g" \ -e "/^\%{_prefix}\/share\/doc\/.*$/d;" \ > %{name}-filelist #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %post %preun #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %clean [ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %files -f %{name}-filelist %defattr(-,root,root) %doc [A-Z][A-Z]* ChangeLog #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %define date %(echo `LC_ALL="C" date +"%a %b %d %Y"`) %changelog * %{date} Bob Marčan <bob.marcan(a)proton.me> - Fedora 43

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volume icon no longer works after F42 -> F43 upgrade
by Ranjan Maitra 06 Mar '26

06 Mar '26

Hi, After my upgrade from F42 to F43, I can no longer get volumeicon (that controls my volume) start up. I get: $ volumeicon ALSA lib confmisc.c:165:(snd_config_get_card) [error.core] Cannot get card index for 1 Failed to open sound device with name: hw:1 My card is as follows: $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3271 Analog [ALC3271 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [PHL 276E8V] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Any suggestions as to what I should do here? Please let me know what other information I should be looking at. Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan

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Fedora 41 firewalld blocking DNS after switching to custom resolvers
by Vahid Shaik 05 Mar '26

05 Mar '26

Hi, On a fresh Fedora 41 Workstation install, I switched from the default DNS to custom resolvers using nmcli: nmcli con mod "Wired connection 1" ipv4.dns "1.1.1.1 9.9.9.9" nmcli con mod "Wired connection 1" ipv4.ignore-auto-dns yes nmcli con down "Wired connection 1" && nmcli con up "Wired connection 1" After this, DNS resolution works for about 30 seconds then stops completely. Regular browsing dies but ping to IP addresses still works, so it's clearly DNS only. Checked resolvectl status and it shows the correct servers (1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9). But firewall-cmd --list-all shows the active zone is FedoraWorkstation, and I suspect firewalld might be interfering with outgoing DNS on port 53. If I run systemctl stop firewalld, DNS works fine immediately. Restarting it breaks DNS again. I tested from an external tool at https://dnsrobot.net/dns-lookup to confirm 1.1.1.1 itself responds fine for my domains, so the problem is definitely local to my machine. Has anyone seen firewalld on Fedora 41 blocking outgoing DNS queries to custom resolvers? Is there a specific rule I need to add? I checked the FedoraWorkstation zone and dns service is listed as allowed, but it seems like that only covers incoming port 53. Thanks

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I need gimp snap help
by ToddAndMargo 05 Mar '26

05 Mar '26

Hi All, Fedora 43 gimp-3.0.8-4.fc43.x86_64 gimp: when using the "paint tool" how do I make lines snap to the horizontal and vertical? Hold down shift only makes little circles on the page and I can put the=m anywhere Yours in Confusion, -T

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