Questions tagged [fedora]
Fedora is a Linux-based free operating system sponsored by Red Hat.
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Why my SUnreclaim is too high (issues with having free memory)?
I have lot of memory (32Gb) on my laptop though still have issues with having amount of free memory. I am using linux (Fedora 27) and this happens after while since reboot.
If you check free output, ...
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Pulseaudio high CPU usage
Is it normal that the pulseaudio process has sometimes a CPU usage of ~40%, even without playing audio? The process seems to run in realtime-priority, is that the cause of the problem?
Update:
I ...
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How to get playlist name(title) with youtube-dl
I have an issue with youtube-dl in Linux, so I want to create a bash
script letting me download a playlist and put all the videos in a
separate folder having the name of that playlist
here is my ...
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Invalid length of startup packet docker compose postgresql
I am trying to install/setup pgadmin4 on a linux fedora 28 machine and when I try running this command
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.dev.yml up
I get these errors:
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Stopping ligatures in konsole
After upgrading to Fedora 29 konsole has started to use ligatures for my monowidth fonts (currently Inconsolata), which is beyond terrible for example when it decides to combine "fi". I have futzed ...
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How to override Dropbox's online file list with my local file list?
Several months ago, I was using Dropbox while using Fedora as my primary OS. Then, my Internet connection was disconnected for a period of several months. In the meanwhile, I reorganized my Dropbox ...
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High I/O system hanging
I have a Fedora 20 box that i'm trying to import a massive amount of data in to postgres on (billions of rows). System spec:
16GB RAM, 6 core 3.2 ghz, 500GB RAID0 PCIe SSD
Everytime I/O load gets ...
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LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose not working?
I'm trying to track down a problem with direct rendering being disabled, after reverting to nouveau on Fedora 18 x64 (the official NVidia drivers were having stability issues). Unfortunately, when ...
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Bluetooth not seeing mouse (Fedora)
I have a Lenovo S10 'netbook' that I've installed Fedora 17 ("LXDE spin") on. So far pretty much everything works great, except, the on-board Bluetooth. lsusb shows the controller present (0a5c:2101 ...
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Create a keyboard shortcut that maps to the down/up arrows on the keyboard in Fedora
I would like to map Alt+N and Alt+P to the down arrow and up arrow, respectively. I want to do this because various popup dialogs in eclipse require the user to type the arrow keys and no shortcuts ...
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Stop Firefox JavaScript alert from beeping
When a JavaScript calls the alert() method, Firefox send out a BEEP in my headphones. Does any one know how to stop that sound?
I am running the newest Fedora Linux with Firefox 3.6.16 using Kde as ...
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How to update Hyper-V integration features in Fedora VM?
I have a virtual machine running Fedora 24 within Hyper-V on my Windows 8.1 physical machine. The summary panel on the machine says that my integration services need upgraded, but I cannot find a way ...
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Why does dnf uninstall python-pip want to uninstall Fedora?
Having trouble installing packages with pip (wow. so unexpect. much surprise) and upon trying to toss it entirely and start over (no, dnf reinstall was not sufficient) I found that dnf seemed to think ...
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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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Cannot create a virtual machine on Fedora: Activation of org.freedesktop.machine1 timed out
I am trying to create a new VM within Fedora using virt-manager. However, I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line ...
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Issue with WINE after NVIDIA Driver installation
I used to be able to successfully play Pocket Tanks and Commandos on my Fedora 20 64bit system using WINE. Few days ago I finally got time to install NVIDIA Driver. After that, WINE is now not working....
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Increase disk space for Fedora Live CD
I am trying install some apps on fresh fedora live cd, but with no luck.
Error message appears due installation that not enough disk space:
[SKIPPED] wine-stable-common-7.0.0-3.1.i686.rpm: Already ...
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How to assign physical cores to a single process on Fedora?
I m having a Python script where the overhead of parallelization per added threads is above the maximal performance benefit of hyperthreading.
But setting the number of threads at half the number of ...
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In Linux (Fedora 25), why am I getting a warning about DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID not being set?
Here is an example.
$ gnome-terminal &
[1] 8521
$ Warning: DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID not set and no fallback available.
I don't get this warning if I start a new terminal using "Open Terminal" in the ...
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What is the equivalent of Debian's "keyscript" in Fedora?
I am trying to put together a specific setup in Fedora. On boot, I should be asked for a password to unlock a keyfile located on a USB drive.
Afterwards, the system proceeds to boot normally. The ...
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Why os Fedora is calling containers on startup?
My fedora distro is messed up with docker containers...
Everytime I restart this I need to call "docker ps" and then call "docker kill" for each container that is running...
How can I discover who ...
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No kernel sources available for 4.4.4-301.fc23.x86_64
I am trying to use vagrant on Fedora 23, but it isn't working at all.
It isn't working because virtualbox's kernel modules will not install and compile with 4.4.4-301.fc23.x86_64.
I installed ...
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How do I enable OpenGL 3.3 on Fedora 23 with AMD graphics card?
I am using the open-source Mesa drivers (Gallium3D/radeonsi), which should support OpenGL 3.3, but don't seem to on my system.
According to this news article and this page recent Mesa versions should ...
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using firewalld and firewall-cmd how to add-rule to primary INPUT chain not INPUT_direct
so after reading the firewalld man page and fedora documentation, I have come to the understanding that to add a custom rule to firewall with specific arguements i need to use the structure
firewall-...
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Fedora 22 - Can't Access GNOME Lock Screen
I recently installed Fedora 22 and I'm using GNOME v3.16.2. I am new to Fedora, but moderately experienced with Linux. I cannot figure out how to lock my screen with a keyboard shortcut.
I have ...
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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 create symbol versioned functions in an so file in Fedora?
Due to the following bug in Fedora:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=296524
I decided to compile my own versions of zlib and libpng. But after doing so, I realized that libcairo could ...
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Download yum packages on Debian for an offline fedora20 system
I need to download YUM packages (namely java-1.7.0-openjdk, gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-plugins-ugly) for an offline Fedora 20 machine, and I'm working on a Debian 7.
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is it possible to install boost 1.55 on fedora 20 without breaking dependencies to existing boost 1.54?
I must switch from boost and boost-devel 1.54 to 1.55 due to a bug in 1.54 on a fedora 20 x86_64 machine and I wonder what's the preferred way.
There are some packages that rely on boost (source-...
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Picking right serial device
I have several identical USB to serial port adapters on my Fedora FC12 server. Each time I boot, the devices seem to change devices names (/dev/ttyUSBn). Now I will assume that the bus and device ...
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Mutt - View All Mail from All Subscribed Folders
I'm running into an issue that I feel should be relatively easy to resolve, however I find myself unable to do so. :)
I currently have mutt set up with my email server and all is well regarding ...
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Configuring VNC Windows to Linux
Not sure if this is obvious or just plain weird but I'm having a few issues with VNC between Windows and Linux on my home network.
I've set up TigerVNC on Fedora 12 and I've got Putty running on a ...
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Noticable performance drop after upgrade to Fedora 39
I have an older machine. I've had the impression for a while that despite this fact, it is in fact slower than it used to be, and not just slower than a modern machine.
Yesterday I upgraded to Fedora ...
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Restore "Unknown" Partition To ntfs
I'm using Fedora.
I don't know why my NTFS (/dev/sda3) partition is changed to "Unknown". I can't read this partition. My important files are located in there and I have to change it back to ntfs ...
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Can't access internet after disconnecting AnyConnect VPN on Fedora
I am using Fedora 38 KDE and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client 4.10. After disconnecting from the VPN, I cannot access to any internet site.
Before connecting to the VPN, I have the following ...
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Fedora 36 hangs on kernel 5.19.16-200.fc36
My desktop computer hangs after installing kernel 5.19.16. Booting into 5.19.15 works fine.
It freezes when I get to enter the password to unlock the encrypted hard drive (LUKS), which is the first ...
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Flameshot on Gnome 42
A new security feature in somewhere in the display server/window manager stack prevents me from seamlessly using the much loved screen capture utility, Flameshot. I've google for how to restore the ...
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Fedora Gnome black screen after boot
The issue is pretty consistent, almost every time when I boot I see black screen.
I found 2 simple workarounds:
press "Sleep" button and then immediately wake the PC up
press Ctrl + Alt + ...
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How to alt-tab to the last focused window of an application in GNOME without all the other windows of that application appearing on top?
I have multiple windows of many applications opened. I want to switch between one window of one application and one window of another application very frequently. If I press Alt + Tab, all windows of ...
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Permanently disabling Touchscreen in Fedora 35 (Wayland)
The Touchscreen on my computer hasn't been working properly for years, and since I never use it I simply used to have it disabled permanently. But since the upgrade from Fedora 32 to Fedora 35, all ...
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Chromium-based applications crashing after recent Fedora upgrade
After a recent dnf upgrade on my Fedora 34 system, I'm no longer
able to run either google-chrome or brave-browser. Both fail with:
GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=159
Brave additionally ...
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Can not install VLC Media Player on Fedora 34
when i try to install VLC # dnf install vlc , i get these Errors:
Error:
Problem: package vlc-1:3.0.16-1.fc34.x86_64 requires vlc-core(x86-64) = 1:3.0.16-1.fc34, but none of the providers can be ...
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Fedora unable to mount nfs due to firewalld
I am trying to create a nfs to share between my host and guest VM (run with qemu-kvm).
I followed this guide ad this is the situation:
host:
cat /etc/exports
/mnt/nfsshare 192.168.122.76/24(rw,sync,...
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Bad Superblock when mounting LVM SSD
I made a complete copy of my Fedora boot ssd using dd however the new drive does not boot correctly and is not mountable when connected via usb enclosure on a different machine. I get a bad superblock ...
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Installing Fedora 33 in VirtualBox on Windows host: nothing happens
I'm trying to install Fedora 33 in VirtualBox on a Windows 10 host.
So I created a VDI file Fedora.vdi and inserted the iso file Fedora-MATE_Compiz-Live-x8-_64-33-1.2.iso .
Then I start the virtual ...
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Getting the following error when copying some files from guest to host shared folder:. “cp: cannot create regular file ... Operation not permitted”
I have a Fedora virtual machine running on my Mac via VirtualBox with a shared folder.
When I try to copy files from a folder in my guest (Fedora) machine to the shared folder in my host (Mac) machine,...
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Google Chrome really slow loading pages (single-threaded blocking process)
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Performance degradation using Chrome version 84.0.4147.125 and Chromium version 84.0.4147.89 on Fedora 32 (Kernel 5.7.15-200.fc32.x86_64)
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Realy slow render speed when opening a new tab ...
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Using xrandr, is it possible to use only part of a secondary monitor without panning
there are a few other questions that talk about this but most of them are not for secondary monitors, or at least they don't seem to be, and I've hit a point where I'm not sure if I'm missing ...
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gnu stow to ignore dirs
I am relatively new in stow (using for last 6 months). While this is working fine for backing up my config files, it is actually storing unwanted files, and not obeying my .stow-local-ignore.
I am ...
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Unable to setup dual boot Fedora with Windows 10
I was trying to set up dual boot Fedora 31 with windows 10 on my Asus TUF laptop. But as soon as fedora starts booting up it powers off as it displays some startup logs and then suddenly initiates ...