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ssh forward agent
by Frederic Muller 19 Jun '26

19 Jun '26

Hi! Is there something that changed in F42 making forward agent no longer working? I'm logging in using SSH key to a VPS to which I usually log in without any problem. I then sudo su, but it's asking for a password. My config is as such: Host myhost Hostname thatsite.com ForwardAgent Yes User myself IdentityFile ~/.ssh/s1_sca PubkeyAuthentication yes ControlPersist 5m I copied the old .ssh from my backup so it's all the same files and I do manage to ssh to the server, just not sudo su. Thank you. Fred

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Barcode reader Android
by Ger van Dijck 18 May '26

18 May '26

Hi All, A question witch has nothing to do with Fedora : Does excist a barcode reader without advertising links for Android ? Ger van Dijck.

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Strange Script Messages During DNF System Update
by Stephen Morris 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Hi, Are the following messages a concern relative to Openvpn, which I don't remember explicitly installing since the fresh install of the F43 KDE spin, but may have been pulled in when I did the Gnome group install from DNF. Openvpn has not been explicitly configured in any way by me, hence I don't understand the messages. [14/55] Upgrading libcamera-0:0.5.2-5.fc43.x86_64 100% | 20.7 MiB/s | 2.2 MiB | 00m00s >>> Running sysusers scriptlet: NetworkManager-openvpn-1:1.12.5-1.fc43.x86_64 >>> Finished sysusers scriptlet: NetworkManager-openvpn-1:1.12.5-1.fc43.x86_64 >>> Scriptlet output: >>> <stdin>:1: Conflict with earlier configuration for user 'nm-openvpn' in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/networkmanager >>> [15/55] Upgrading NetworkManager-openvpn-1:1.12.5-1.fc43.x86_64 100% | 23.5 MiB/s | 1.3 MiB | 00m00s [55/55] Removing java-25-openjdk-headless-1:25.0.1.0.8-1.fc43.x86_64 100% | 144.0 B/s | 442.0 B | 00m03s >>> Running %triggerin scriptlet: systemd-0:258.3-2.fc43.x86_64 >>> Finished %triggerin scriptlet: systemd-0:258.3-2.fc43.x86_64 >>> Scriptlet output: >>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/nm-openvpn-sysusers.conf:1: Conflict with earlier configuration for user 'nm-openvpn' >>> Complete! regards,

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Device Identification
by Stephen Morris 04 Jan '26

04 Jan '26

Hi, I've just connected up a new wifi dongle that came with my motherboard to the motherboard wifi terminals. Given that the device is not USB or PCI, how do I determine what F43 sees the device as and what chipset F43 thinks it has? If what Windows says the device is, is correct, I believe that I read somewhere that the Linux Kernel will potentially not have support for the device until the 6.18 kernel. regards, Steve

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User List Registration
by Stephen Morris 01 Jan '26

01 Jan '26

Hi, I've tried to register my email address on the list site and it tells me my email address is already registered, so I tried to login but couldn't remember my password so I requested a password reset. The email I received from that request tells me the database doesn't have my email address, what is going on? regards,

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BLSCFG Disabled Functionality
by Stephen Morris 01 Jan '26

01 Jan '26

Hi, What am I losing by disabling BLSCFG in /etc/default/grub? I've disabled this option because when I run grub2-mkconfig, with GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true, the GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=false is ignored (I have stopped using the grub menus created by "GRUBBY" (if that is what it is called these days) for the same reason)? regards,

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efivars showing 100% full??
by Michael D. Setzer II 01 Jan '26

01 Jan '26

On one machine it shows 100% efivarfs 384 383 0 100% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars On this machine it shows efivarfs 384 265 115 70% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars Looked online, but didn't find very useful info. First machine has Fedora 43, and was a clean install to 42 on a 2TB drive with 16G ram. Second machine has gone thru a number of upgrades. duf shows slightly differrent /sys/firmware/efi/efivars │ 384.0K │ 382.8K │ 0B │ ███████████████▌ 99.7% │ efivarfs │ efivarfs First machine is brtfs for most partitions and second is ext4? Not clear if this is a real filesystem, or something in ram? Didn't find anything to resize it, some talked about gparted, and some show using but shows lots of stuff? Machine has no Windows, or Floppy disk, or CD. Does have the nvme 2T disk, and does have NIC. Not sure why the size would be set to 384K? Thanks. # efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 0002 Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder: 0002,0001,0003,0004,0005,0008 Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,cdfd0087-f527-4531-8be3-888eb636d6d8,0x800,0x32000 )/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi57494e444f57530001000000880 00000780000004200430044004f0042004a004500430054003d007b 00390064006500610038003600320063002d003500630064006400 2d0034006500370030002d0061006300630031002d006600330032 006200330034003400640034003700390035007d00000000000100 000010000000040000007fff0400 dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 03 00 00 00 00 00 87 00 fd cd 27 f5 31 45 8b e3 88 8e b6 36 d6 d8 02 02 / 04 04 46 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 4d 00 69 00 63 00 72 00 6f 00 73 00 6f 00 66 00 74 00 5c 00 42 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 5c 00 62 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 6d 00 67 00 66 00 77 00 2e 00 65 00 66 00 69 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00 data: 57 49 4e 44 4f 57 53 00 01 00 00 00 88 00 00 00 78 00 00 00 42 00 43 00 44 00 4f 00 42 00 4a 00 45 00 43 00 54 00 3d 00 7b 00 39 00 64 00 65 00 61 00 38 00 36 00 32 00 63 00 2d 00 35 00 63 00 64 00 64 00 2d 00 34 00 65 00 37 00 30 00 2d 00 61 00 63 00 63 00 31 00 2d 00 66 00 33 00 32 00 62 00 33 00 34 00 34 00 64 00 34 00 37 00 39 00 35 00 7d 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00 Boot0001* Diskette Drive BBS(Floppy,Diskette Drive,0x0)0000424f dp: 05 01 17 00 01 00 00 00 44 69 73 6b 65 74 74 65 20 44 72 69 76 65 00 / 7f ff 04 00 data: 00 00 42 4f Boot0002* Fedora HD(1,GPT,433eb7d0-01f7-4a7b-80a4-ff0eabf2212b,0x800,0x12c000 )/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 12 00 00 00 00 00 d0 b7 3e 43 f7 01 7b 4a 80 a4 ff 0e ab f2 21 2b 02 02 / 04 04 34 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 66 00 65 00 64 00 6f 00 72 00 61 00 5c 00 73 00 68 00 69 00 6d 00 78 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 65 00 66 00 69 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00 Boot0003* USB Storage Device BBS(USB,USB Storage Device,0x0)0000424f dp: 05 01 1b 00 05 00 00 00 55 53 42 20 53 74 6f 72 61 67 65 20 44 65 76 69 63 65 00 / 7f ff 04 00 data: 00 00 42 4f Boot0004* CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive BBS(CDROM,CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive,0x0)0000424f dp: 05 01 1b 00 03 00 00 00 43 44 2f 44 56 44 2f 43 44 2d 52 57 20 44 72 69 76 65 00 / 7f ff 04 00 data: 00 00 42 4f Boot0005* Onboard NIC BBS(Network,IBA CL Slot 00FE v0109,0x0)0000424f dp: 05 01 1f 00 06 00 00 00 49 42 41 20 43 4c 20 53 6c 6f 74 20 30 30 46 45 20 76 30 31 30 39 00 / 7f ff 04 00 data: 00 00 42 4f Boot0008* M.2 PCIe SSD BBS(HD,P0: CT2000T500SSD8,0x0)0000424f dp: 05 01 1b 00 02 00 00 00 50 30 3a 20 43 54 32 30 30 30 54 35 30 30 53 53 44 38 00 / 7f ff 04 00 data: 00 00 42 4f +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com mailto:msetzerii@gmx.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+

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I can't launch PySol
by SOLES.G 01 Jan '26

01 Jan '26

Good morning... I'm hoping someone can help me. I can't launch PySol—a card game... From the terminal as root, it says this: ----------------terminal root -------------------- azucar@fedora:~$ sudo pysol [sudo] contraseña para azucar: pygame 2.6.1 (SDL 2.32.56, Python 3.14.2) Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html Exception ignored while calling deallocator <function AbstractAudioClient.__del__ at 0x7f60672785c0>: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pysollib/pysolaudio.py", line 57, in __del__ self.destroy() File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pysollib/pysolaudio.py", line 79, in destroy self._destroy() File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pysollib/pysolaudio.py", line 587, in _destroy self.mixer.stop() pygame.error: mixer not initialized Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/PySolFC/pysol.py", line 41, in <module> sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pysollib/main.py", line 473, in main app.mainloop() ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pysollib/app.py", line 195, in mainloop approc = self.mainproc() # setup process File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pysollib/app.py", line 389, in mainproc self.setTile(self.tabletile_index, force=True) ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pysollib/app.py", line 692, in setTile if self.scrolled_canvas.setTile(self, i, scaling, force): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pysollib/tile/tkwidget.py", line 556, in setTile if not self.canvas.setTile(tile.filename, stretch, save_aspect): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pysollib/ui/tktile/tkcanvas.py", line 330, in setTile self.setBackgroundImage() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pysollib/ui/tktile/tkcanvas.py", line 190, in setBackgroundImage sw, sh = self._geometry() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pysollib/ui/tktile/tkcanvas.py", line 202, in _geometry w = int(self.cget('width')) ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '10c' azucar@fedora:~$ ----------------end terminal root -------------------- Does this tell you anything...? Thanks Claudia Buenos días... A ver si alguien puede ayudarme. No puedo iniciar pysol --un juego de cartas... Desde la terminal como root dice esto: ----------------terminal root -------------------- (...) ----------------fin terminal root -------------------- ¿Les dice algo...? Gracias claudia

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claude on fedora
by François Patte 31 Dec '25

31 Dec '25

Bonjour, Is there a way to install claude on fedore 42? Regards. -- François Patte tél : +33 (0)6 7892 5822 https://www.pingala.homelinux.org/~fp

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Btrfs, and the Anaconda Web UI installer, oh my…
by Sam Varshavchik 31 Dec '25

31 Dec '25

Last time I installed Fedora on new hardware was with the last release that still used the old Anaconda installer. I think it was F41. I always ran ext4, but that time I relented and let Anaconda proceed with the default btrfs format. I read the various tales of people who had btrfs crap out on them, but I thought this was just water under the bridge. Well, I regret making that choice, now. btrfs blew chunks today, and various pointers from random search engine queries were no help. btrfs check, btrfs scrub, and various other, random things, did nothing useful. I started smiling when btrs check --repair started segfaulting on me, I haven't had segfaults from stuff in /usr/sbin in a long, long time. Finally I gave up when, after rebooting, btrfs volumes started getting mounted read-only, I decided that I had enough, and it was time to wipe and reinstall. I'm going back to ext4. To my surprise, the new Anaconda Web UI installer, apparently, had quite a lobotomy. There was no way to pick the filesystem format. It was going to drop btrfs around my neck again, and that's the final word. I look back, fondly, at the good old days when I simply ticked off a checkbox that told Anaconda to use LUKS to encrypt the filesystem, pick the filesystem format, and a few moments later that goose was fully cooked. Those were the good-old days. Eventually, I figured out the only way to get this done was to run fdisk myself, then get myself a crash course in using cryptsetup, and run mkfs to format each partition. Afterwards, go back into Anaconda, and tell it what each existing partition should be mounted as. I almost thought, for a moment, that I went back in time and was installing Slackware, again…

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