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NFS client names not mapping
by Robert Nichols 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

In a Fedora 35 VM, all users and groups in an NFS mounted filesystem are mapped to "nobody" even though the names and numeric IDs are the same on the server and client. The messages logged are of the form: "name 'xxxx@local' does not map into domain 'localdomain'" I have no nfs-idmapd service running. This same setup is running fine on a CentOS 8 VM. I didn't have to do anything special to make this work in CentOS 8. What am I missing here in a Fedora 35 installed with default configuration in a QEMU/KVM virtual machine? Where does Fedora get its domain name? When I type "hostname --fqdn" I get "hostname: Name or service not known". The CentOS 8 VM apparently gets its domain name from the /etc/hostname file, which contains "cent9-vm.local". This does not appear to work in Fedora 35. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.

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Does anybody still use `starship'?
by Igor Raits 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

Hello, I saw some recent discussions (yet another time) how packaging Rust / Go / Node.js is horrible, we should simply bundle everything and such. Let's not discuss this here, though. I'm interested to hear if there are any users of the `starship' application here in Fedora that consume it from the repositories. Please speak up if you do! As pointed out in the other places, I don't think we are able to update things like that as fast as releases popping out with just as few people working on the packaging Rust stack these days (I'm pretty much not contributing for last couple years due to the other work). And the question, if we want to keep packaging it (with some slower update cycle, as the time permits) or we want to retire it completely. Personally, I'd love to have more people working on packaging (and most importantly keeping up-to-date) Rust crates / apps but I think this is not so realistic :) -- — Igor Raits.

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LibreOffice Calc chart printout missing axes and gridlines.
by home user 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

Good morning, I'm not sure if the problem is in LibreOffice or something else. Also, I did try to post this in LibreOffice support, but my login does not work, and trying to create a new account does not work. (Fedora-34, Gnome, LibreOffice 7.1.8.1, HP LaserJet Pro MFP M180nw) I have a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet. It has a chart. On my workstation monitor, the chart looks as I desire: border, x and y axes, legend, axis labels, data curves, tick marks along the axes, and a grid in the plot area. When I print the chart to a PDF file and then display the PDF file, it look the same as in LibreOffice Calc. But, when in LibreOffice Calc, I print to the printer, there are no axes and no grid lines. How do I get the axes and grid lines to show? Thank-you in advance. Bill.

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Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?
by linux guy 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Hi people. I'm using a server to run a bunch of simulations. By bunch I mean hundreds. Each simulation takes from 10 minutes to 10 hours to run. All of the simulations are run from the command line. Every day I generate more simulation cases. I'm looking for a method/system/app that I can give a list of tasks that will run them on the server, automatically, one after another. How could I do this ? Thanks

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Picking a new laptop
by joe＠zeff.us 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

I'm still trying to get my current laptop running again, but I'm probably going to need to get a new one. If nothing else, this one doesn't really have enough memory and it's maxed out. Right now, I'm also trying to get Xubuntu loaded onto my sister's Acer Aspire 1, and having considerable difficulty getting it to boot from the USB. I'm not comfortable with her new laptop and would rather not get myself an Acer. If any of you have had good experiences recently with getting Fedora installed on a laptop, suggestions would be very welcome.

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Dock & window switching issues in Fedora 35
by Matt Morgan 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Hi. I recently upgraded to Fedora 35. I would like to change two behaviors back to what I had before: 1) when I mouse up to the hot corner, the application dock is now at the bottom of the screen. How can I get the dock to position itself vertically along the left side of the screen? I've tried a few gnome extensions but none I can find does that (except when floating the dock, which is not what I want). 2) When I alt-tab I can get an application list, but not a window list (e.g. if Thunderbird has two windows open, I see one entry for Thunderbird, not two). I think I used to use an extension called "Alternate Alt-tab" to change this, but that extension doesn't seem to be available for F35. Bonus question: I can't find a weather extension for gnome anymore. The one I used to use was called "OpenWeather," I think. Is there a substitute? Thanks, Matt

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Persistence of Grub2 menu overrides
by Dave Ulrick 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Every so often I have to boot Linux into single-user mode. I do this by waiting for the Grub2 menu, selecting the desired kernel, and pressing 'e'. Then I select the 'linux' statement, add '<space>1' to the end of the line, and boot with <Ctrl-X>. This still works fine, but since upgrading to Fedora 34 I've noticed that the menu overrides I make in this manner are persistent. That is, if I add "1" to the end of the boot parameters for one boot, "1" will remain in effect until I explicitly remove it: press 'e' from the Grub2 menu, remove "<space>1", and press <Ctrl-X>. This was rather scary when I first discovered this behavior. Booting into single-user mode without asking to do so is ordinarily associated with a serious system issue. Was this a deliberate change? If so, where is it documented? I'm not sure I totally like this change. In some situations, it could be handy to add a kernel parameter using the Grub2 menu and have it stick around from one boot to another, but sometimes the old behavior was good for a one-time "failsafe" change that would be reverted just by doing a normal reboot. Contents of /etc/default/grub: GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1 acpi_enforce_resources=lax" GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true Thanks, Dave

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Failed installation of F 35 Workstation
by WMU Bavaria 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

My laptop crashed to the point it won't boot, so I ended up burning Fedora 35 Workstation on a LiveUSB and re-installing. When the install ended, it told me that it had failed to install the boot loader and the system wasn't bootable. I know that I created a /boot, but I don't know if I needed more than that and Anaconda didn't ask for more. What do I need to do to recover from this?

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heads up: node export service file has been renamed
by Barry Scott 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

I just updated one of my servers and it failed to reboot. The reason is that I had: Requires=node_exporter.service in the default target and the update had installed a change to the name of the node exporter service. It is not called prometheus-node-exporter.service Having been bitten I'm changing to use: Wants=prometheus-node-exporter.service Just incase it changes again. Barry

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firewalld restricts localhost - ?
by lejeczek 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Hi guys. I'm trying still not squared away Centos 9 firewalld and since closest to it is Fedora, here is a natural place to ask I thought - 'forward-port' if you use it for 'localhost', like here: port=80:proto=tcp:toport=81:toaddr=127.0.0.1 does it work on Fedora, out-of-box? It used to, if I remember correctly, but now it seems (again, Centos 9) that such 'forward-port' is blocked, meaning destination 127.0.0.1:81 is not reachable.

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