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Window always on top of a specified program window
by Paul Smith 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

Dear All, With XFCE, we can set a window to always be on top of all other windows. However, I am looking for a variant of such a feature: Always on top of the window I specify, say always on top of the Firefox window. Is such a tool available on Fedora? Thanks in advance, Paul

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How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?
by Thomas Cameron 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

It looks like the hostname is set in /etc/profile to uname -n, which means every instance I spin up thinks its hostname is "fedora." I don't want that. I want each hostname to set its hostname to whatever its DNS name is. We used to set the hostname in /etc/hostname to localhost.localdomain, and that would be substituted to whatever the DNS hostname associated with the system's IP address was, but that doesn't seem to work any more. What is the preferred way of having Fedora 35 server instances use the host's hostname from DNS? I notice that if I restart NetworkManager.service, then the reverse DNS hostname is set - hostname gives me host123.mydomain.com. I want to make it happen at boot. It's weird. Thomas

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[Test Week] Fedora Linux Kernel 5.16 is underway
by Sumantro Mukherjee 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

Hey All, Kernel 5.16 Test week is happening from 2022-01-23 to 2022-01-29. It's fairly simple, head over to the wiki [0] and read in detail about the test week and simply run the test case mentioned in[1] and enter your results. Justin Forbes, has added a new Kernel Image for testing. For folks, using UEFI this test iso should be good! As usual, the Fedora QA team will hangout at #fedora-test-day(a)libera.chat for question and discussion. If you are someone who is just starting out, remember that we give out badges[2] for testing new Kernel Builds! Collect 'em now :) P.S : Please respond/replyback to @test@lists.fedoraproject.org in case you have any questions!! [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2022-01-23_Kernel_5.16_Test_Week [1] https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events/126 [2] https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/science-kernel-tester-i -- //sumantro Fedora QE TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED

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condor
by Patrick Dupre 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

Hello, When I Run systemctl start condor.service I get: *** SECURITY information for homere *** homere : Jan 26 09:47:25 : root : problem with defaults entries ; TTY=pts/8 ; PWD=/root/condor ; USER=root ; condor.service - Condor Distributed High-Throughput-Computing Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/condor.service; disabled; vendor p> Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-01-26 11:09:35 CET; 463ms ago Main PID: 959618 (condor_master) Tasks: 2 (limit: 38217) Memory: 1.4M CPU: 13ms CGroup: /system.slice/condor.service └─959618 /usr/sbin/condor_master -f condor_status Error: communication error CEDAR:6001:Failed to connect to <192.168.13.3:9618> Any idea? =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 | | Room# D114A ===========================================================================

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default root password on mysql (mariadb)
by Anil Felipe Duggirala 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

hello, I am following these instructions (https://fedoramagazine.org/howto-install-wordpress-fedora/) to install MariaDb on Fedora 34. Trying to set the "root" password for mysql is not working for me, doing: sudo mysqladmin -u root password Gives error: Warning: Since password will be sent to server in plain text, use ssl connection to ensure password safety. mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: 'You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near '() IDENTIFIED BY 'mynewpassword'' at line 1' I am asking this question here because there is at least another person from Fedora had the exact same problem, but no solution was provided. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67861172/how-to-fix-error-changing-root… I don't believe the password for the 'root' user has been set for Mysql. I can start mysql simply by typing 'sudo mysql'. Should I try to change the password from within mysql? How can I check if a password has been assigned? thanks everyone. Anil F

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Window capture with OBS studio (F35)?
by Lars Kellogg-Stedman 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

I'm running Fedora 35 with an Nvidia Q1000 graphics card, using the Nvidia drivers. I'm use X rather than Wayland: $ loginctl list-sessions SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY 5 1000 lars seat0 tty2 1 sessions listed. $ loginctl show-session 5 | grep Type Type=x11 I would like to use OBS Studio to produce some videos, but I have been unable to get the "Window Capture" feature to produce anything but a black rectangle. I've tried capturing both Chrome and gnome-terminal windows without success. I have tried with and without the "Use alpha-less texture format" checkbox checked. Has anyone been able to get this to work successfully? -- Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars(a)redhat.com> | larsks @ {irc,twitter,github} http://blog.oddbit.com/ | N1LKS

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Re: [Test Week] Fedora Linux Kernel 5.16 2022-01-23 through 2022-01-29
by Justin Forbes 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 3:38 AM Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info> wrote: > > Lo! > > On 20.01.22 09:38, Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: > > > > I would like to invite all of you to participate in the Kernel 5.16 > > Test week is happening from 2022-01-23 to 2022-01-29. It's > > fairly simple, head over to the wiki [0] and read in detail about the > > test week and simply run the test case mentioned in[1] and enter your > > results. > > [...] > > [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2022-01-23_Kernel_5.16_Test_Week > > [1] https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events/126 > > [2] https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/science-kernel-tester-i > > Wouldn't it be better for everyone if stable pre-releases would be > offered for testing in these test weeks, *if* they are available at that > time? I was just wondering that, as according to your [0] it seems that > 5.16.2 is still being tested currently, but 5.16.3 is up for review > already since Monday -- with more that 1000 changes: > https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20220124184125.121143506@linuxfoundation.org/ > > [note, there are newer pre-releases for 5.16.3 already] > > These changes might fix a few bugs testers otherwise might run into > without need -- or introduce new bugs that thus can be found and fixed > before 5.16.y hits updates-testing. I do create test builds for stable rc kernels usually, but they are scratch builds and not secure boot signed. With the time it takes for full kernel builds, and then the time to spin new ISOs, etc. I would never get feedback in time for a stablerc before the kernel is released. And with 5.15 and 5.16, the early stable's often have more than 1 rc release. For most of the 5.15 test week, we were iterating over rcs to get 5.15.3 out because of an issue that would impact many/most users, which was a regression from 5.15.2. We knew about this issue, but having it as a test week kernel would have lost a lot of meaningful feedback because many testers would hit the known bug and stop testing. > I bring this up, as situations like happened a few times already, as > Greg often merges a big bunch of changes in the first two weeks after a > mainline rc1 is out (see https://lwn.net/Articles/863505/ ) -- and > that's usually the time when the kernel test week happens. > > Ciao, Thorsten > > P.S.: kernel.spec until a few years had some code that made building > stable rcs easy, but it was removed (and likely won't work well the the > ask based kernel.spec anyway). There are still a couple of ways to go about it. If you just want to deal with dist-git and the stable-queue quilt trees, it is pretty simple to cat the patches (in series order) to a patch file and apply that patch before the redhat patch. For kernel ark with the source tree, there are still some issues with the scripts that I need to fix up to handle a stable rc. Right now, the logic expects either an rc or a stable. I will try to get that done as we get further in the 5.17 cycle. It is still possible, and pretty easy to build a stable rc with a caveat. An example workflow for building the 5.16.3-rc2 stable kernel (this expects you have local branches for both stable/linux-5.16.y and stablerc/linux-5.16.y as linux-5.16.y-rc). 1) Update linux-5.16.y, linux-5.16.y-rc, and fedora-5.16 branches 2) In fedora-5.16 'git merge linux-5.16.y-rc' and fix any merge issues if they appear 3) git revert Greg's latest commit which actually changes the version to 5.16.3-rc2 (this chokes up our scripts). From there you can build as you typically would. The kernel is still versioned as 5.16.2, so I tend to specify the release to match the rc number, but that is personal preference. Once I get the scripts fixed, we won't need to revert the version patch, and the spec should be versioned correctly. Justin

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Network bridge with network-scripts
by Alex 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

Hi, can someone tell me if these instructions still work with fedora35 to build a bridge? https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/System_Administrators_G… This is for a headless server that I'd like to use to build a bunch of virtual machines, and would like to be able to assign real IPs to them. Thanks, Alex

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Artifacts running konsole under Fedora-35
by Jonathan Ryshpan 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

I've just upgraded from F34 to F35 and have troubles with KDE vs Wayland and X11. Wayland is very flaky, crashes of various kinds, sometimes killing individual apps, sometimes an entire session. I can't reproduce the crashes reliably; they happen when they happen. The only thing that may be relevant is that I am running Firefox with many (probably too many) windows and tabs. X11 messes up konsole, the KDE terminal emulator. When typing onto the screen, not displaying text generated by an application, the test appears slowly and with many strange artifacts. It looks like the text appears on one interlace and then gradually gets better; the text takes about 500 msec to recover; the same thing happens with window decorations when I mouse over them. I have attempted to record screen behavior using simplescreenrecorder, but when I start it, the problem goes away. Right now I'm using X11 with gnome-terminal, which doesn't show the problem. System is: Operating System: Fedora Linux 35 KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.89.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.15.12-200.fc35.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600 -- All Suggestions Welcome - Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh(a)pacbell.net> What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty, Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. Youth's a stuff will not endure." -- Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

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Podman 4.0 rc2 is available in updates-testing.
by Daniel Walsh 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

We would love to have people play with this and test it out. Note: this release has breaking changes to it's API, so it will not be released to f35. Only to F36, but users will be able to download and use it on F35, we will not push it to stable though. https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/

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