Questions tagged [fedora]
Fedora is a Linux-based free operating system sponsored by Red Hat.
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Oracle Instant Client SDK header files not found
I'm trying to configure phpstorm db plugin to connect to an oracle remote database.
It uses oci8 driver and so I'm going to install it.
(also if I specify to connect using thin driver it connects but ...
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Mojibake in the linux console
There was no problem for five years. But when reinstalling Fedora from scratch, she reappeared again.
So, in the console (not the terminal) (Ctrl-Alt-F3, for example), Linux was displayed small ...
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Automatic Date & Time update results in wrong time on Linux Machine
I am using Fedora 29, with kernel version 4.19.15-300 on my laptop. It has been a while that I see the computer clock is about 6 to 7 minutes ahead.
Pondering why, I checked the status of chronyd (...
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Cannot change php.ini settings without restart of machine
I finally found out that I need to the restart my machine to take over some php.ini configuration changes. But I'm wondering why I cannot just restart httpd. What do I have to do that I don't need to ...
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Apache SuexecUserGroup and group permissions on fedora with joomla
I'm having trouble with permissions and ownership on a fedora28 system with apache-2.4 and joomla-3.9. I'd like to be able to have only the minimal number of files necessary to be owned by apache and ...
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Can't install software using gnome-software on Fedora 29
I have recently installed Fedora 29 on HP ProBook 420 G2, previously Windows 7.
The installation completed with no known issues, however now when I try to use gnome-software to install any software, ...
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Pixels in Fedora 29 show up as “dead” but they are actually active
I get blocks of dead pixels on Fedora 29 (The same happened with 28). But they are not dead. When I go to the applications overview, or when I am logging in to the computer, the pixels work fine. But ...
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Hardware accelerated mplayer does not render movie in Fedora 26
I bought a GPU for my Linux system just to be able to play movies without any glitches and issues of integrated graphics and get rid of messages like your "system is too slow to ...". Then I ...
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Why does videos not resume from last point played? Fedora
Basically, why does videos (Fedora's default gnome application for playing video files) not resume from the last point played when I close and re-open it? And is there a way to make it do so? I looked ...
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Timeshift schedules not working on Fedora and Manjaro. Why? Systemd?
Nowadays I am using Fedora and Manajro mostly. I use openSUSE and sometimes min Mint.
I have installed TimeShift in my machine with Manjaro and a friend's machine with Fedora. In both the scheduled ...
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Fedora 28 - random keyboard lag
I have recently installed Fedora on my new Dell Vostro 5471 laptop. The installation froze at configuring user settings, so after 2 hours I have rebooted the laptop. Looked like everything was working ...
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How to automatically use Bluetooth headphones as audio output in Fedora?
When I turn on my Bluetooth headphones, I hear "connected" if my Fedora laptop is nearby, and I see the device appear in the Bluetooth settings window. If I go to the Sound settings window, however, ...
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gthumb crashes when playing videos — need to understand crash reports & compiling & dependencies system
I'm running gthumb 3.4.5 on fedora 26. It tends to crash whenever I try to play some movie in it. I'm just a java developer, not advanced linux admin, I need some information how these issues are ...
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Google Recaptcha fails over tethering
I've done research for the last couple days concerning tethering Fedora 28 x64 bit over an android tethering.
The android phone is a non-standard AOSP with functional APN settings. I recently ...
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Copy Fedora 28 BTRFS from Single Drive to Motherboard RAID(1) and make bootable
I have a bootable Fedora 28 system running on a single drive (sdc), using BTRFS.
I used to have F24 running on my Raid-1 mirror, now I would like to transfer the 28 to the Raid-1 mirror.
The RAID-1 ...
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Installing a package from Fedora 28 that is missing from Fedora 29 using Rawhide
I want to install texlive-scheme-full using Fedora 29 Rawhide. During installation one package cannot be found:
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Problem: package texlive-scheme-full-7:svn44177-15.fc29.noarch requires ...
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How to use Gnome Lockscreen instead of xscreensaver Lockscreen
I am using Xscreensaver in my Fedora 28. I was using it only because Apple Aerial Screensaver can be added as a screensaver to it.
But the login screen of xscreensaver is ugly and doesnt go with the ...
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Changing GDM Login Screen Behavior: No gdm.d directory
I am running Fedora 28 and am attempting to disable the user list in GDM (as the machine is domain joined, this is undesirable). In CentOS 7 this is as simple as putting a file named "00-login-screen" ...
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Fedora 26 hangs on reboot
I'm using fedora 26 and i keep getting these weird hangs on reboot, they are not consistent (I can reboot 20 times and it would work fine, and reboot 20 times again and it will hang).
The last ...
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obexftp is not working on all devices
I use bluetooth to transfer files between by Fedora 26 (with KDE) box and my Android devices. I have 4 devices paired, 2 mobile phones and 2 tables. The Android versions are 5 & 7.
My problem: ...
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Fedora 27 MacBook 12” 2015 Keyboard and Trackpad Driver
I have recently setup my computer to run both Fedora 27 and Mac OS, on different partitions. I was successful during installation, and the WiFi driver (brcmfmac) worked out of the box. However, I ...
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Fedora 27 - VirtualBox repo empty?
I'm trying to install VirtualBox 5.2 onto my Fedora 27 dektop box. As per Oracle's official guide, I added the Fedora repo file, however dnf cannot find the VirtualBox package and claims the repo ...
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updating radicale (CalDAV server) in Fedora Linux
I run a number of Linux servers in windows desktop environments. On a couple of them (one at work, one at home) I run radicale CalDAV servers for the benefit of iPhone users. These servers all get ...
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How can I download a file from Wine CMD on Fedora?
Note: This is simillar to the question here: Wine: How to download a file from CMD? however, I was not able to use or understand the answer provided. I need to be able to donwload a file from within a ...
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Linux mail server and Outlook configuration
I have a linux box where I am hosting my own internal mail serverusing sendmail. I used to send mails to a abc user in the mail server from my windows outlook using abc@mail keyword in the To field ...
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Switch default gateway with route command
My laptop is connected to two networks, WiFi and Ethernet. These are two completely separate subnets. The ethernet connection is a development router that I'm working on. At the start of the day when ...
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Fedora 27 no hdmi output on AMD card
I just bought new laptop with AMD Radeon RX 550M card, installed fresh new Fedora 27 and everything was working properly.
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After update (dnf update) and restarting laptop my hdmi stopped ...
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Live USB hangs on black screen with static cursor before menu
I am trying to boot the current Fedora 27 Live image from USB on a newly bought Trekstore Primebook C11 to determine if the hardware works with Linux.
Unfortunately, I cannot even get into the boot ...
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How to Install ncurses-devel version 5 on Fedora 26?
I am building android for NXP I.MX6 on Fedora 26, after doing lunch (many times, every time), I get following error:
prebuilts/clang/host/linux-x86/clang-2690385/bin/clang++: error while loading ...
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Fan always running when on AC Fedora 25
I have a dell inpiron 7520 15r se running Fedora 25. Whenever I plug in AC the fan goes on full speed. It turns off again when I unplug. I have tried laptop-mode-tools too.
$> cat /proc/i8k
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Is my disk safe after a SysRq reboot?
Every time I do a SysRq S-U-B sequence (I have tried others, too, but I suppose these are the commands that matter) my system does a full hard drive scan on the subsequent boot. Unfortunately ...
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Gnome / Fedora26 Switching Windows is very slow
I'm using Gnome / Fedora 26. When I click "master" key (i.e. Windows button on the keyboard) - I get a preview of all open apps on the screen, and this operation is fast. However switching to another ...
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Issue with dual boot Windows 8 and Linux Fedora 26
I am tortured with a bad dual boot situation a few days now.
I had a really crippled - low specs and a poor Celeron N2930 CPU - ACER E15 laptop with windows 8.1 preinstalled which it was a nightmare ...
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Setting up hostapd in Fedora 25/26
I am trying to setup a wireless access point on Fedora with Hostapd, because Hostapd has some extra features I need over the default hotspot functionality of the Gnome network manager.
I have added ...
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Attempted to dual boot Windows 10 and Fedora, now completely locked out of booting to Windows
As the title says, I attempted to dual boot Fedora and Windows 10 today and I can no longer access my Windows 10 partition. I'll lay out the steps I took as best I can. For reference, the laptop is a ...
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Fedora switch GUI/text mode without having to log in
So I do have Fedora 26 with GNOME installed. Now I mostly use text-mode, so I did systemctl to make Fedora boot to text mode. Now, sometimes I want to lookup something on the internet, read the emails,...
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How do I add a custom entry to the Fedora grub2 boot menu, as legacy (not UEFI)?
Yesterday, I installed Fedora 25 on my Windows 10 system to dual boot. Unfortunately, I quickly figured out that the computer would no longer boot to Windows off the boot menu, though it does have a '...
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Xvfb: connection refused when running test script via browser on Fedora
I have a python script which will only be triggered by calling my.ip.address/test. It works fine if I run the PHP code via command line.
However,if I access the test automation via browser using the ...
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How to resolve sftp:// or smb:// directories on Linux
I have noticed that whenever you "mount" a network share or location using graphical tools like Thunar or Nautilus, you get a nice sftp://path/to/file kind of url to files and directories alike, ...
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SVN access configuration
I have inherited a Fedora 17 server that is used to host Subversion repositories.
I thought it was configured with very limited access, but some tests today reveal that there is no access control at ...
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OpenVPN - Fixing DNS leak using UFW
I am currently running OpenVPN on Fedora 24 and experiencing a typical DNS-leakage, since my /etc/resolv.conf entry is not changed after starting OpenVPN.
To get rid of the DNS-leak, I am trying to ...
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Connecting to SMB/CIFS share not working in Thunar on Fedora 25
I set up a system with the XFCE-spin of Fedora 25.
The thing that is not working for me is connecting to samba (CIFS) shares using the default file manager Thunar. I click on explore network in the ...
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How to connect to 802.1x secured wired student dorm network with Fedora?
I'm in student dorm and I installed Linux Fedora on my external HDD. However, my dorm has 802.1x security and requires authentication in order to connect to it. My university has provided shell ...
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How to customize user keyboard layout(on Fedora 24)
I want to add symbols to the third level(AtlGr+<key>) of my keyboard layout(which is French (Canada)). I've written an xkb symbols snippet:
default partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "...
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Cannot connect to fedora 25 from Windows via TeamViewer 12
After installing TeamViewer 12 on machine 192.168.1.10 with the aim of connecting from 192.168.1.11, I've noticed 2 problems:
1 - There is no TeamViewer ID shown via command line info:
[root@...
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autofs cifs mount(s) hang / become momentarily unreachable
I use autofs on my Fedora 25 desktop in order to access some cifs mounts on my work network.
/etc/auto.master:
/home/user/work/mountpoint /etc/auto.custom --timeout=43200 --ghost
/etc/auto.custom:
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A start job is running for dev-disk-by -- BUT fstab is fine
I am setting up a new root partition on /dev/sda2 (newer Fedora 25)
I have done this before and had no problems in the past.
(If you realy need to know how see Fedora on New Root Partition
This time ...
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ACPI Error after kernel update with Fedora 25
I started having some issues after the latest kernel update (4.9.5-200). I'm running Fedora 25 on a ThinkPad T530.
When I boot with the latest kernel, I get the following error message on the screen (...
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Wifi hardware is disabled after sleeping mode Fedora 25
After returning from the sleeping mode, the wifi hardware is disabled. Only when I reboot the wifi will come up.
Fedora 25
Any help on that?
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powerline-tmux breaks on fedora25
I'm using powerline with tmux but it displays multiple status lines and the terminal renders in a mess.
It's like the screenshot in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32606489/zsh-tmux-powerline-...