Questions tagged [fedora]
Fedora is a Linux-based free operating system sponsored by Red Hat.
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Computer suddenly became slow?
I am using Fedora OS on my Desktop. Normally, I always leave my computer on and access with teamviewer remotely. Last week my computer was on for 7 days, and after I start using it I have discovered ...
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How do I efficiently move a large, empty disk image to another system
I'm currently trying to move a fairly empty, fresh qcow2 image from one system to another that's far away. I've basically got a fresh install of ubuntu LTS (real size 6gb, apparent size 200gb). Most ...
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Attempting to Update with Yum through Terminal Fails
Since upgrading to Fedora 22, I have had an issue with updating using yum through the Terminal. Whenever I run the sudo yum update command, this happens every time:
What's the matter? What can I do ...
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Install emacs customized way
I am using fedora 22/centos 7 (x86_64) on my Acer laptop. I was trying to install Emacs GNU editor.
dnf -y install emacs
When I am installing Emacs GNU editor it installs Emacs and Emacs client ...
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switch off anti aliasing in fedora 22
I updated to fedora 22 last days and under most desktops ( kde/gnome/gnome3 ) all terminals have a very very ugly font setting. It is nearly impossible to use some text base editors in this terminals ...
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AMD R9 270x HDMI audio not working correctly with ALSA. Works with PulseAudio. Is it possible to fix?
Some days ago I installed Fedora 22 on my media center pc. Previously I had Windows 8 installed because I wanted to play some games and watch some blurays, and everything worked as wanted. The HDMI ...
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Windows theme selector in Tweak Tool disappeared after Fedora 22 upgrade
Running Gnome 3 under Fedora 21 and prior, the gnome-tweak-tool Appearance panel showed theme selectors for the following:
Global Dark Theme
Window
GTK+
Icons
Cursor
Shell
Enable Animations
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How to start LXDE on Fedora Server?
I have Fedora Server 22 installed on my server.
I installed LXDE with:
sudo dnf groupinstall "LXDE Desktop"
And rebooted. But it started in text mode.
How do I start LXDE?
Update
startx gives me ...
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Changing the name of the network interfaces in Fedora 21
I am a software tester for an ethernet switch and I am sometimes working at home.
On the computer I am using at work the two network interfaces are called eth0 and eth1. On my private laptop they are ...
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Setting up nfs between Fedora 21 server and Rasperry Pi running OpenELEC
I'm trying to set up a home network to share my various audio and video files to different media server machines. I currently have a machine running Fedora 21 which hosts all the files that I want to ...
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Fedora 21 Sound stopped working when installing the 4.0.4 kernel
Today I did a yum update as part of my attempts to get my qemu-kvm vm up and running.
It appears to have had a side effect I didn't anticipate.
Other than qemu itself, the only other thing that ...
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how to install the fedora supplemental wallpapers?
In this blog post we can see the list of Fedora 22 supplemental wallpapers. I've been searching for a while now, but I can't find how to install them on my fedora 22 system. This post gives the ...
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How can I pin/unpin a specific kernel version/package in fedora 21?
I'm currently running fedora 21 with a btrfs filesystem. Unfortunately, I'm currently forced to stick to the oldest of my three kernel versions (3.18.7-200.fc21.x86_64) on boot since newer versions ...
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Who's crashing my kernel?
Symptoms
Suddenly, a message saying "A problem in the kernel package has been detected" started appearing after I login upon boot. A new message is shown every second, incessantly (...
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Get iso file from virtual machine
I have VMWare inside which I am running fedora.
I want to make a copy of this virtual machine .iso file -
so that I can run this image on another computer.
e.g.
Basically I want to run instance of ...
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Process stuck after being put into BG
I'm trying to put a process into background with (Ctrl+Z + bg):
[andrey@localhost dir]$ git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/rust
Cloning into 'rust'...
remote: Counting objects: 465324, done.
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renaming network interface with systemd
I want to rename on Fedora 22 a network interface managed by systemd-networkd (version 219) from the system-assigned name enp2s0 into wan. For that I created the following file /etc/systemd/network/80-...
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MS Office 2010 not working in fedora 22 in Wine
I am new in Linux, Using Fedora 22 beta. I have installed Wine. Then installed ms office standard 2010 package. Everything was okay except the MS PowerPoint.Then thought as we do in windows, I will re-...
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use curl to download and yum to install (NTLM proxy issues)
I need to use a wi-fi under a corporate environment with my Fedora 21. It uses NTLM. With curl i've been able to reach sites (yahoo) setting the proxy, the type of proxy, the user and the password, ...
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Fedora Remove All Packages but Base Install
I have bloated my system with unnecessary packages and want to "start from zero". Rather than reinstalling I would prefer to do it from the OS and do it live.
How do I remove all packages not in base ...
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Starting a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox on Fedora Workstation 21 Fails
I would like to install the Windows 10 Tech Preview in a Virtual Machine on a computer using Fedora Workstation 21 64 bit as the host operating system. I have installed VirtualBox and created a new ...
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Missing LUKS passphrase from login.keyring
The passphrase for my external HD (which I randomly generated and foolishly never wrote down) was stored in my Fedora 21 keychain (~/.local/share/keyrings/login.keyring). I used to be able to see it ...
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WiFi authentication times out
Since today I have this very annoying issue that the WiFi on my HP ProBook is not authenticating anymore. I haven't changed any settings and my mobile phone connects to the WiFi fine. Also trying ...
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How best to iron out disk I/O lag cause?
Running luksCrypt (which I know causes some lag esp. with my -c serpent-xts-plain64 -s 512 -h whirlpool setup) but as of late lag has become very much more noticeable. I use xfs and lvm on this ...
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How to upgrade from Fedora 1 (Yarrow) to a newer version with anaconda?
I'm trying to upgrade from Fedora core 1 to a newer version.
The instructions on this page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_from_EOL_Fedora_using_yum
tell me to save myself a world of ...
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How to move specific icons from message tray to top panel in Gnome 3.14?
I'm using Fedora 21 with GNOME shell 3.14.
I found an extension called TopIcons which works well but it moves all icons, whereas I need only specific ones.
I found an instruction but it seems to be ...
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Configure firewalld to distinguish home and public ethernet connection
I connect my notebook via ethernet at home and outside. I want to open some ports for services like samba only at home and not somewhere else.
How can i let firewalld automatically detect where i am, ...
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How to set up an OpenVPN Access Server inside of NetworkManager for GNOME?
I have an OpenVPN server running on a VPS I rent out from Atlanta. It is running CentOS 7 and is using the latest version of the OpenVPN Access Server software.
I want to set up my VPN inside of the ...
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NetworkManager icon on notification area is not present
I have noticed that recently the NetworkManager icon is not present on the notification area plugin on my XFCE panel after every fresh login; however, I am able to see its notifications and it in fact ...
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Fedora 21 reports root file system as 100% full, cannot use yum
When I try to use a yum command like
yum update
the terminal yields this:
Error: Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/fedora
* free 0
* needed 100 k
When I execute ...
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Fedora CHECKSUM giving error in Windows
I've never used Fedora before this. I just downloaded the image from official website (Live Workstation 64bit). I downloaded the CHECKSUM as well. Now when I try to verify the CHECKSUM using the given ...
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Execute script on login Fedora 21
I'm trying to launch a script located in my home directory when I login on Fedora 21. I have tried to make this desktop file in /usr/share/autostart
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Wallpapers
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Is it possible to enable / disable yum repository using dnf?
How to enable/disable yum repo (i.e. set enabled=0/1 in /etc/yum.repo.d/*.repo files) using dnf?
According to question yum: enable a disabled repository yum can't do that.
Used system: Fedora 21
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booting Fedora from USB taking forever
I am trying to install Fedora 21 workstation from a .iso usb drive and it is taking forever. It allows me to select the live workstation, and then the white diagonal fill line goes up until it is ...
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GNOME 3.4 looks wrong after switch from KDE 4.10 on Fedora 17
I run Fedora 17 on my desktop, and there are two accounts. The first one is my account, where I use KDE 4.10 all the time; the other account has been running GNOME 3.4 since it was created. The Fedora ...
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USB 3.0 not going past the speed of USB 2.0
I have a WD My Passport Ultra, which I know can reach 100MB/s easily while connected to USB 3.0 port, but I'm getting 40MB/s on 3.0 and 2.0 ports.
What may be the problem?
I run Fedora 18 (32 bit (on ...
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Fedora ia_64 chroot environment - grub is retaining external environment
The system is Fedora 20. There are two environments, the first is the booted environment. It is LVM based and is labeled 'fedora'. The second is LVM based as is labeled 'vg_raidrootbu-server'. The ...
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Can't install ffmpeg in Fedora 19 via yum
I'm trying to install ffmpeg to encode videos to html5 playback (mp4, ogg, etc.)
I already added the rpmfusion repos. I'm using Fedora 19 in Rackspace Cloud Server.
this is the output for repolist ...
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FedoraVM - Root password reset
Have Oralce VM VirtualBox and FedoraClient21 64bit is installed in the VM. I cannot remember the root password. As soon as I start up Fedora, I see two options of FedoraClient and Rescue. Both all ...
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Fedora 19: Changing runlevel 3 to 5 and it fails to start in GUI
I've installed Fedora 19 in VirtualBox. During the Installation I had choosed Minimal Installation. So its now working Runlevel 3 and not in GUI.
So I did
ln -fs /lib/systemd/system/graphical....
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Fedora 21 - Gem: change EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY
I am using some locally installed gems in my environment and I would like to change the EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY path to ~/.gem/bin
How could I achieve this?
$gem env
- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.2.2
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Completely stop gnome keyring popups
After some updates to fedora in the last few years, I've been getting the following popups (one when I login and one when ever I start google-chrome)...
"Choose password for new keyring"
"An ...
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Increase screen resolution in VirtualBox guest without VirtualBox guest additions?
Without VirtualBox guest additions installed, the only screen resolution is 640x480:
$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 640 x 480, ...
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How to use kexec in Fedora to automatically use the newest installed kernel?
How to use kexec in Fedora Linux to fast-reboot automatically to the newest installed kernel?
kexec --load command line usage is rather verbose — you have to provide:
kernel image, like /boot/...
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None of USB ports are working on Windows and Linux
None of the USB ports work anymore on my Acer Aspire E1-571G laptop which is running both Windows 7 and Fedora 21. It can’t detect anything. For example flash memories, USB mouse, my Android phone ...
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Cross-platform Download Manager for Windows and Fedora [closed]
I'm looking for a software that can be used for downloading files in different Internet Protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP).
The software must be able to continue downloads even if the computer has been ...
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ssh connection between two local computer
I'm trying to establish an ssh connection between my personal computers, connected with LAN and Wi-fi to different networks.
Let's call them computer A, with Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS, connected with LAN, ...
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CD drive keeps popping out on Dell D630 when using Fedora but fine with Windows XP
I have a Dell D630 laptop that I did a clean install of Fedora on last weekend. Every time I open the CD drive and close it, it pops open again after a couple seconds. This happens whether or not it ...
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spicy-client assertion failure after computer crash
I usually use spice-client to connect to remote VMs without any problem.
Today during usual work my pc freezed (I am strong confident that this is not due to spice) and forced me to brute shutdown.
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Faster scroll speed for vncviewer when in full screen
I've started x11vnc on a machine with two screen and am using vncviewer from a single screen machine to connect to it. That is, the local window is smaller than the remote screen. In fullscreen mode (...
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