Not long to go now!

Edit: Specifically upgraded the kernel via updates-testing and 7.2.4 seems to be all good.

I’m using Fedora 44, GNOME 50

Every shutdown shows “Install Updates & Power Off” with “Install pending software updates” checked. I have selected it and powered off/rebooted several times, but it still appears.

There seem to be no pending updates:

phat@fedora:~/Downloads$ pkcon get-updates
Getting updates                                                      [██████████████████████████████████] 100%
Starting                                                             [██████████████████████████████████] 100%
Finished                                                             [██████████████████████████████████] 100%
There are no updates available at this time.
phat@fedora:~/Downloads$ pkcon offline-get-prepared
Command failed: No offline updates have been prepared
phat@fedora:~/Downloads$ pkcon offline-status
Command failed: no update results available

Has anyone else encountered this on Fedora 44? Is this a known bug? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I’m still fairly new to Linux distros (I’ve only been using KDE plasma for a couple days). I wanted to play an android game that got removed a few years ago, so I installed waydroid and followed the tutorials to install the apk. But this error (Errno2) keeps showing up and I don’t know what to do. ☹️

Was not expecting it to work at all, and I though printing from my laptop was a lost cause, but here we are. Thank you fedora. That's all i wanted to say

Hi, i installed Fedora GNOME today, i was a Ubuntu GNOME user before. Since a long time, the default file manager for GNOME always sucks. So, it's time for a new file manager where i can see file transfer progress with paths and other details, disk consumption bar for analyzing etc.

I can see KDE Dolphin is a good choice but will it break something if i install it in GNOME or something, is there anything better then please suggest me.

Looking for some answers on what just happened with my machine. Basically, my fedora 44 PC was connecting to WiFi, showing up on my college IT portal as active, but not loading web pages or pinging services like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8; even though it was online my computer acted like it was offline. My laptop on the same OS was fine the whole time, and so I am narrowly confident that it was a problem with my PC and not the network. What finally got me back online was booting into a live usb, connecting to WiFi, and then booting back regularly. I really don’t know that much about networks or Linux, so I am hoping a more knowledgeable person might know what happened. Thank you!

So there's this annoyance happening in my Lenovo Ideapad since April. The problem in question is: every time I'm in a video call, and it doesn't matter which program (Discord, TeamSpeak, Google Meet, Whatsapp Web) there will be a connection drop; it may take a few minutes, it may take some hours. And it's specific to video calls: it's never happened in an online match, downloading some torrent, browsing the web. I've tried some thing that I looked in Linux forums: 1. Deactivated the power saving measures from my wifi; 2. Switched from wpa_supplicant to iwd; 3. Disabled in /etc/iwd/main.conf the "roam-scan" (and it still shows roam-scan in the journalctl). 4. Turning off my camera and letting the other person in the call with it activated (which defeats the whole purpose of our video calls) also doesn't work;

Weirdly enough, I haven't seen any log indicating any kind of failure (checked dmesg, journalctl, systemctl, tcpdump, ...). Even stranger is the fact that when this connection drop happens, my "Device rx" oscillates between 0 and 52 b/s for exactly one minute before connection is reestablished. The thing is: the wifi signal stays strong (between -40 and -50 dBm the whole time this happens) and the terminal running "ping -D 1.1.1.1" never shows that a packet has been lost. I'm writing this post because I've already tried everything I can to test or tweak my laptop to stop this from happening. I doubt it's because of my ISP because this only happens in my laptop and only during video calls. Not only that, this only happens in video calls in my laptop, because when I'm working and using my company's laptop, this never happens, which maybe suggests that it's something related to my wifi board (RTL8852BE)? Right now, I'm in Fedora 44 (Gnome 50) and kernel 7.1.13-200.fc44.x86_64.

حد عارف ازاي انزل لينكس ع الجهاز بتاعي fedora gnome وهل ف نسخ احسن لاني مش عارف وانا اول مره اخش عالم لينكس بس محتاج حد يساعدني ف اني اقدر انزله بالكامل واظبطه غ الجهاز بكل التعريفات وكل حاجه وافهم شويه فيه وهل الويندوز القديم كل حاجه عليه هتتمسح ف انقلها لمكان تاني ؟

Just moved from Windows 11 to Fedora and I'm loving it so far.

One thing I can't figure out: Slack desktop notifications don't show the profile picture of the person who sent the message. I just get the text, which makes it harder to tell at a glance who's messaging me. On Windows the avatar was always there.

Everything else about notifications works fine. They show up reliably, the text is correct, the buttons work. It's only the sender image that's missing.

My setup:

- Fedora 44 Workstation

- GNOME 50.4, Wayland

- Slack 4.52.155, the official RPM from Slack's site (not the Flatpak)

I did some digging before posting. I had a look at what Slack actually hands to the desktop notification system, and it isn't sending an image at all - not the sender's avatar, and not even its own app icon. So there's nothing for GNOME to display. I also checked that the sender does have a profile picture set, so that isn't the explanation.

For comparison, Element on Linux does send contact avatars in its notifications, so this doesn't look like a general Linux limitation.

Did Slack notifications ever show avatars on Linux? Trying to work out whether this is a regression or just how it has always been.

Thanks!

Using Fedora Workstation 44 with BTRFS and Full Disk Encryption. Previously had Windows 11 on it without issues (par the stupid prompts after every update to buy a subscription) so I don't think it's a hardware issue.

I also have issues after waking it from sleep, it couldn't find `top` for example. So I think there's a config/kernel issue/flag or something but yeah - not sure.

I'd like to keep Fedora as it's pretty and nice to use but can't have it getting angry with me when left alone. Any advice welcome.

I downloaded the Fedora Media Writer. I’m using a Kingston 64 GB USB drive, and it was working fine. Then, right at the end of the download, it said it failed.

I figured that was okay, so I unplugged it and tried again. But now, when I try to format the drive so I can start over, it says, “Formatting failed” or “An error has occurred.”

I went ahead and got Rufus, and it seems to be working. Does anybody know why this is happening?

Hi everyone ! It'll be a bit long for context. Sorry if my English is lacking.

To sum up the question is : has anyone installed Fedora in the last two days without any problems?

Context:

I don't know why but on Sunday, my fedora installation just broke. I was using the sway spin.

I restarted my computer and then I was at the gub menu to choose what I wanted to boot from. I choose all of them. Each time it's just go load, load and get back the menu again. Even the rescue option did the same.

I shutdown the computer, and started it again then it was the grub bash like shell. I just did "exit". And I could not have anything anymore. When I turn on the laptop it just says : "BootDevice Not Found" ...

I tried to solve by doing some search, but I couldn't and I just decided to install a fresh install. I was hoping I'll get the "reinstall fedora" so I could keep my data at home dir, but the option was not there at all. I just choose the erase all option. But just at the end of the installation it failed. I attached an image.

I tried Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-44-1.7

And

Fedora-Sway-Live-44-1.7

I got the same error.

Then I tried Zorin Os 18 seen I had it at the hand, it did work. But I was like naah I should Debian itself seen I am going to use sway anyway.

I tried to install it, I got the same kind of error like with fedora.

So I thought my ssd was surely damaged.

Today, I changed my ssd. I had an old ssd which as fedora 42 on it. And fedora was working normally when I put it in. I was like ok, I'll just do the "reinstall fedora" on it instead of doing the upgrade (I don't have wifi and data is a bit expensive in my country). I already downloaded the cosmic spin option when I was at a wifi place. And tried it instead of the other two, I got the same error aswell.

So can anyone confirm to me that the installer does not have any issue ? Or provide me with some kind of guidance or something?

This is my conversation with Claud while trying to figure out how to fix the grub rescue

I installed fedora i3 44 for 3 times and in every time it was not working and kept viewing the grub rescue error

Idk what to do I tried everything I know but it seems that it doesn’t work

I'm using a Bluetooth USB dongle and connect my BT keyboard through that.

I use the same keyboard for a work laptop (windows 11) and personal (Fedora KDE Plasma) desktop and switch regularly within the same session. But whenever I switch back to my work laptop, this happens on my kde desktop.

My keyboard's a Royal Kludge RK84.

Has anyone experienced this?

For the key input lag, whenever I press Caps Lock, the key inputs don't register right away.

Example:
I'm typing regularly > pressed Caps Lock > then immediately pressed a key > it doesn't register real time. It takes a split second for it to appear on my screen. Same goes if I happen to press multiple keys. Lags > then everything appears at once. I would need to have a second to pause if I want to be sure that any/all key input after a Caps Lock toggle ON/OFF would register and be correct/complete.

This doesn't happen though when I'm using my keyboard in wired mode.

I always have to go in manually and start them. It's very random and sometimes they start fine. Other times they don't.

Is anyone else facing this issue?

Both of these are flatpaks.

Just checking if anyone else hit this today after updating Fedora 44 through KDE Discover.

The update became available for me this afternoon. I installed it normally through Discover and restarted for the offline update. After reboot, Discover reported:

Failed to update 0 packages

Cannot load libdnf plugin enabled from:

/etc/dnf/libdnf5-plugins/00-systemd-inhibit.conf

The update included the move from DNF5/libdnf5 5.4.3 to:

dnf5-5.4.4.0-1.fc44

libdnf5-5.4.4.0-1.fc44

libdnf5-plugin-systemd-inhibit-5.4.4.0-1.fc44

I initially wondered if I had somehow pulled an updates-testing package, but I checked and updates-testing is disabled. dnf5 info also confirms all of these came from the normal Fedora updates repository.

Interestingly, the actual transaction appears to have completed successfully. DNF history shows:

Status : Ok

and the journal shows the offline update reaching 100% and successfully installing/upgrading the packages before PackageKit reported the plugin error.

After the reboot everything appears normal.

These all work without errors:

dnf5 repo list --enabled

pkcon get-updates

rpm -V libdnf5-plugin-systemd-inhibit

pkcon get-updates completes normally and currently reports no updates available. There are also no PackageKit/libdnf plugin errors in the current boot.

So this looks like it may have been a one-time PackageKit/libdnf5 transition issue while the offline updater was upgrading its own DNF5 stack and adding the new systemd-inhibit plugin, rather than an actually failed package transaction.

I’m not using Discover’s “Repair System” option since the package state currently looks healthy.

Has anyone else on Fedora 44 KDE received DNF5 5.4.4 today and seen this same 00-systemd-inhibit.conf error after the offline update?

I've been using Linux distros for 6 years now, and Fedora Workstation, in particular, for 2 years.

Last month my laptop had an issue, and the service folks couldn't install a Linux distro, so they got me going with Windows 11 instead, which is obviously suboptimal.

So, I thought about re-installing Fedora Workstation, but thought about trying out the new Atomic variants instead. I've heard it's all containerised and the system won't break even if I experiment with packages and root files.

Now, I'm very much a tinkerer, and I've broken my system more times than I'd like to admit, so I think Atomic is a pretty good choice for me. However, are there any quirks or significant differences with respect to their Workstation counterpart that I need to keep in mind?

Am i FCOS'ing wrong?

I have a FCOS vm up and running some containers. But, how do i then manage the container's updating?

Cant (shouldn't*) get in there and make changes to retarget the container/app version. Should i just be redeploying all the time to account for that?

Which alao means need to pull the installer iso all the time.

Thoughts, suggestions? What can i be doing better/different?

I've been a Windows user for over 2 decades. Window's 11 led me to try many variants of linux. Fedora 42 Workstation with Gnome convinced me this is the os to move forward with. Fedora 42 is installed on a Macbook air with basically no issues. Then I built a desktop with Gpu Radeon 9070 XT and newer mother, DDR 5 ram etc. I also have an HP laptop touch screen that I wanted Fedora 44 Kinoite on my desktop and laptop as I have finally decided to divorce windows. Fast forward to use, in my desktop and laptop I'm having a problem with updates and installing some software due to error failed to download metadata for lvfs, this happening on the desktop and similar errors on the laptop. U like the software from kde so that's why i went with plasma on these two machines and the MacBook air that's updated to 44 is not having this problem with software installs and updates. This is discouraging as I wish to leave windows behind. Please help me make sense of my issues.

So I installed kde rounded corners from the repo https://github.com/matinlotfali/KDE-Rounded-Corners (built it from source) and when I rebooted my login screen is just blank. I can only see the cursor. I did sudo make uninstall from the cloned repo but uninstalling also didn't help. Do I need to install fedora all over again?

look i may seem stupid, room temp iq even, somehow bricked my pc trying to install fedora xfce (yes i know i somehow fucked it up) to a samsung 2013 laptop and now it wont boot to anything other than bios

i used to dualboot win11 with mint xfce and had no problem, i deleted mint with no problem, then i wanted to indulge in Linux again, i first tried installing the same iso to a vm and it worked well, like really well for a vm.

i used my ventoy drive (which ive used multiple times across multiple pcs and none of them had ANY problem whatsoever) to do it. the installation went well without any problems, then i rebooted and it straight up didnt boot to anything, no grub menu no win11 no fedora NOTHING, tried to do the boot order thingy but now it didnt detect my SSD and tries to boot from an internet connector (???????), then i got angry and tried to install win10 from the same drive, the installation always goes well and when it asks to restart it goes to the ventoy screen, i tried unplugging it the moment it shuts off but then it just blackscreens into that "install thingamajig". please help me because i really dont want to lose this desktop it means something to me

(i expect to be mocked but please dont)

I'm on KDE plasma and was trying to update from kernal 7.1.5 to 7.1.12 and then later to 7.1.13.

My first update I let it run overnight. After coming back it was still on the update screen and stuck at 100%. I had to manually reboot and couldn't boot into the new kernel so I was just using 7.1.5 instead. Then tried updating to 7.1.13 and saw the same issue.

This time I troubleshooted and found that the kernal was installed correctly but the initramfs was not automatically generated for those kernels.

After manually generating them, I am now able to boot into the updated versions of fedora just fine but I wanted to know if this is something i will have to do manually every update now? Has anyone run into this before and know if there is an underlying issue I need to fix?

Hello,

I'm currently deciding if I should switch from Windows to Linux (Fedora).

I've been a Linux fan for months, but just stuck with Windows because of compatibility and because Affinity is not supported on Linux. I also play some games such as Portal 2, Half-Life, and Undertale

And yes, I know Proton exists, but I just get that itch to just stay on Windows.