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No network access after latest update- Fedora
Everything seems fine, but I have no network access 😅 happened after I restarted for a System update. Can't figure out what is wrong - help please 😊 Wired connection.
Enabled Wifi, but same problem; connect but cannot reach gateway. (other computers and pads are connected, and they work fine).
Bootc and associated tools provide the basis for building a personalised desktop. This article will describe the process to build your own custom installation.
Configure fedora to function as a VPN hotspot
I am currently using this travel router as a way for me to connect numerous devices (Android TV, Work Laptop, etc.) back to my home network so I can access my home server running Jellyfin/NAS/etc. while traveling.
I am also able to directly connect to my home VPN from my fedora Linux laptop. It occurred to me that it should be possible to share this connection to my other devices & remove the need to carry around the extra router (I'm all about minimalism when traveling!). I wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction on how I would go about configuring this.
Thank you so much!
SOLVED GNOME extensions stopped working after upgrade to 42
I've just upgraded to Fedora Workstation 42 and am now unable to activate any GNOME extensions. The little switches in the GUI do not respond. It's the same for all extensions. The Extensions and Extensions Manager apps are both installed as flatpaks - do I need to adjust their permissions in Flatseal? Is the problem due to something else? Thanks!
Edit/solution: I totally missed the ‘Use Extensions’ switch at the very top. All my extensions are working on the current GNOME version (48) now. I am the most silly. Hopefully the other solutions in the comments will be useful to someone else in future :)
This article will guide you on enforcing DoT (DNS over TLS) on running systems and boot time which is supported in Fedora 42. It will also guide you to set up encrypted DNS for system installation if you want to try it with current Fedora Rawhide.
No Hidden Software, No Surprises | Inspecting root to see what package installed which files and files that are not part of a package
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Description of new variants of Fedora Atomic Desktops, and new features and changes in current variants.
Step by step guide to rebasing your Silverblue installation to Fedora 42
Fedora Linux 42 released
Fedora Linux 42 is officially released. Thank you so much to everyone who works so hard on Fedora and in all of our upstream projects.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28643300
What’s new?
We’ve promoted our KDE Plasma Desktop offering to “Edition” status. The Fedora KDE team has been hard at work making sure bugs get fixed and everything is polished just so. We’re confident that this can stand along our other amazing flagship offerings.
I know the naming is a bit confusing, with GNOME-powered “Workstation” using a generic label while KDE Plasma Desktop has the tech right in the name. We’ll get that figured out eventually. If you don’t know where to start, don’t panic. Pick one and see how it goes. They’re both excellent desktop environments with great upstream communities, and the same Fedora system underneath it all.
We also have a new alternative desktop choice: COSMIC. This is a modern, written-all-in-Rust desktop environment from our friends over at System 76.
Perhaps most excitingly, we have a new installation interface! The previous UI was design
The effort to ensure that open-source software is reproducible has been gathering steam over th [...]
Introduction to Wireplumber, the session and policy manager for Pipewire.
App launchers with interactive extensions like Alfred & Raycast?
I did some searching and many users recommend Rofi but looking at man rofi-script
it seems to just be a list picker. You pick something from the a list and only one thing runs. On Alfred and Raycast you can have interactive extensions which are essentially keyboard navigable UIs.
cmd enter
to go back & select another subreddit. Fedora 40 hands after updates seem to have been applied
Fedora 40 running on Dell laptop with KDE spin has done it twice on separate occasions: after rebooting for updates it just hangs after applying them. Is this something known? I've looked on google but could find only similar queries in other places with no answers or "just hard reset it" answers. I've been running Fedora for over a decade now and haven't seen such behaviour until recent releases. Some config drift? something else?
smartd.service causing long boot times
I'm running Fedora 41 KDE and had what appeared to be an issue with the system not loading to desktop from the GUI login screen. I am getting a black screen with just the cursor and nothing else. I can get a terminal window going on TTY3-6 to reboot and doing so would load into the desktop pretty much instantly.
Turns out that there's actually a process causing total boot time from power on to exceed 6 minutes. Boot log is viewable here https://paste.centos.org/view/raw/8846c1ec
Using systemd-analyze blame
I can see that smartd.service is causing 3 minutes of that boot time. From a quick search it seems like it might be doing a full SMART test of my 3 SSDs on the first boot of the day.
Does anyone know how to disable this at boot? There doesn't appear to be a conf file in /etc/ and smartmontools isn't installed.
edit with solution
Thanks @just_another_person@lemmy.world and @notanapple@lemm.ee for cor
Installing “testing > stable” packages?
For instance I want to install neovim-0.11.0-1.fc42 which is currently labeled testing > stable
on the top right.
It seems like its a matter of days until the nvim 0.11.0 Fedora package is ready, but I would like to know in case I want to want to install other packages, especially if it takes over a week for new versions of nvim.
Hello everyone! Current Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller here, with some exciting news! A little while ago, I announced that it’s time for a change of hats. I’m going to be moving on to new things (still close to Fedora, of course). Today, I’m happy to announce that we’ve selected my successor: ...
Help fixing logrotate.service
Hello all, can anyone help me figure out what permissions/ownership settings and/or configuration changes I need to make to fix logrotate.service on my Fedora 41 host?
Here is what journalctl reports: https://pastebin.com/Hp31DJEX
It seems like the permission for /var/log/samba/
and /var/log/sshd/
might be messed up? I am struggling to find what the right ownership/permissions for these directories and files should be.
Additionally, when I look in /var/log/ I see many different log files for the same services: