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Dnf skipped -
by Bob Goodwin 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

For the last three mornings I've been seeing dnf update skipped two rpms but have seen no complaints on this list so It seems like time to ask about it: Skipped: VirtualBox-6.1.4-1.fc31.x86_64 VirtualBox-server-6.1.4-1.fc31.x86_64 Complete! I installed virtualbox in anticipation of F-32beta but I have not installed anything in a vm yet if that matters? Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, Fedora Linux-31 XFCE

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Using Steam with Fedora
by Patrick O'Callaghan 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

For several years I've been using a Windows VM with passthrough graphics as a gaming platform. It works pretty well, but ties up machine resources even when idle, so I'm now experimenting with Valve's Linux version of Steam with the Proton additions to the Wine libraries. I've disabled the VM, installed the latest proprietary Nvidia drivers, modified grub appropriately and rebooted. The Nvidia modules are loaded. The nvidia-settings command shows the GPU. However when I run games under Steam, they are using the internal Intel GPU, making this configuration essentially unusable for AAA gaming (i.e. games will start but are unplayably slow). I can find no documentation on how to change this (whether via a global Steam option or even individually for each game). For the record, Linux Steam is a 32-bit executable, but I don't think this should affect anything (my machine is 64-bit). Has anyone done this successfully on Fedora? There are any number of Google hits on similar themes, but mainly focussed on Ubuntu, which is what Valve are mostly aiming at. poc

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prep. for upgrade.
by home user 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

stand-alone home workstation; f30; dual-boot (with windows-7); Gnome (mainly). I plan to upgrade to f31 in about a month. I looked thru the instructions for the upgrade. I know that beforehand, * I should do a back-up, and * that I should download the Fedora Workstation Live image to a USB stick. F31 seems to have had more problems than the past several (6+ years) of releases. I don't have any data; that's just my impression based on this list. (I am curious what actual data would show.) question 1: In addition to doing a back-up and making a live image USB stick, what preparations should I make to, within reason, minimize the probability of problems when I do the upgrade? question 2: How do a make an f30 Fedora Workstation Live image on my USB stick? I found a place in the Fedora website to do f31, but I seriously want f30 for this. Thank-you! Bill.

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centos 8 mock built rpm was unexplained dep in /usr/bin/python
by Barry Scott 13 Mar '20

13 Mar '20

I'm packaging pylint for python2 on centos8 and it builds fine but will not install. (Yes I know python2 is end of life - working on it) mock is used to do the builds. Here is what happens with I do the dnf install: # dnf install -y ods-python-pylint Last metadata expiration check: 0:19:59 ago on Fri 13 Mar 2020 16:22:30 UTC. Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides /usr/bin/python needed by ods-python-pylint-1.9.3-2.noarch (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages) And this is what rpm thinks are the requirements: $ rpm -qpR ods-python-pylint-1.9.3-2.noarch.rpm ods-python-astroid ods-python-backports.functools_lru_cache ods-python-configparser ods-python-enum34 ods-python-futures ods-python-isort ods-python-lazy-object-proxy ods-python-mccabe ods-python-singledispatch ods-python-wrapt python(abi) = 2.7 python2 python2-six rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1 Anyone know where is the /usr/bin/python coming from or how I can debug this? Barry

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Reasons for staying on a old version ( Re: Prepping for upgrade)
by Christopher Marlow 13 Mar '20

13 Mar '20

I am just curious why people stay on old versions of Fedora like say FC30 instead of upgrading to 31? I am guessing after a new version of FC comes out, that the previous version is still supported for a limited time? Thanks, Chris Fedora 31 Workstation XFCE Desktop Enviroment.

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problem with gimp while attempting to upgrade from f30 to f31
by François Patte 12 Mar '20

12 Mar '20

Bonjour, I want to upgrade my f30 system and: dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=31 Adobe Systems Incorporated 4.7 kB/s | 1.9 kB 00:00 amdgpu-pro-local 5.6 MB/s | 74 kB 00:00 Fedora Modular 31 - x86_64 982 kB/s | 5.2 MB 00:05 Fedora Modular 31 - x86_64 - Updates 1.0 MB/s | 4.0 MB 00:03 Fedora 31 - x86_64 - Updates 1.2 MB/s | 22 MB 00:18 Fedora 31 - x86_64 1.2 MB/s | 71 MB 00:57 google-chrome 20 kB/s | 3.5 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 31 - Free - Updates 262 kB/s | 387 kB 00:01 RPM Fusion for Fedora 31 - Free 557 kB/s | 663 kB 00:01 RPM Fusion for Fedora 31 - Nonfree - Updates 111 kB/s | 67 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 31 - Nonfree 336 kB/s | 241 kB 00:00 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'libdnf::ModulePackageContainer::EnableMultipleStreamsException' what(): Cannot enable multiple streams for module 'gimp' Abandon (core dumped) What's this? And what can I do? Thank you? -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte FSF https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/presenting-shoetool-happy-holidays-from…

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Fedora Mate accessibility
by Devin Prater 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

Hi all. I just tried installing Fedora Mate into a virtual machine, using VmWare for accessibility reasons. I am blind, so use the Orca screen reader <https://github.com/GNOME/orca>. During installation, Orca works fine, although I had to turn up the sound volume using AlsaMixer in mate-terminal. After installation, though, I must, again, turn up the volume through alsamixer, then start Orca. But, moving to the desktop, opening the applications menu and using arrow keys to move around, and pressing Alt + F2 and running terminal, Orca does not speak anything. After restarting a second time, Orca did turn on, but still didn’t read the log in screen. I just pressed Return, since I chose not to set a password for this test account on a test virtual machine. Still, Orca did not read the desktop after I logged in. So, is there a step I’m missing? Or is Fedora Mate simply not designed to be accessible? As Mate is the desktop environment many blind people enjoy using, both because of the linear menus and light resources, I think some dedication should be set to making this spin of Fedora, one of the most up-to-date variants of Linux that is user friendly, accessible. Thanks for any help with this.

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DNF Not Resolving Kernel Package
by Jamie Fargen 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

When installing an RPM compiled from source, seeing and error and it doesn't look like the dnf is resolving the kernel package. # dnf install rtl8812au-kmod-4.3.14-2.x86_64.rpm kernel-5.5.7-200.fc31.x86_64 Last metadata expiration check: 0:17:25 ago on Tue 10 Mar 2020 10:09:05 PM EDT. Package kernel-5.5.7-200.fc31.x86_64 is already installed. Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides kernel = 5.5.7-200.fc31.x86_64 needed by rtl8812au-kmod-4.3.14-2.x86_64 (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) Regards, -Jamie

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detect bluetooth mouse connecting?
by Tom Horsley 10 Mar '20

10 Mar '20

I always need to run some ximput commands when my bluetooth mouse connects, I'm wondering if I can automagically detect the mouse connecting and run the commands so I never have to remember to do it manually. The only thing I've found so far that notices a new mouse connection is messages for the device appearing in dmesg. Once upon a time, I'd get dbus messages when connecting a usb mouse, but I don't see anything showing up on dbus for a bluetooth mouse. Is there some well known way to detect new bluetooth connections which I simply can't find in my googling?

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Clone fedora 31 on new computer
by Robert McBroom 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Windows 10 on nvme ssd. Two additional drives is the system. Desire to put fedora on a partition of a gpt drive. Live system on usb drive but the custom install sees only the entire drive not the desired partitions. Set up for /boot,/ and /home. I have a repository with current fedora 31 rpms on a network drive. Followed many threads on the uefi bios and think I see how to add fedora to the boot sequence. How do I tweak the install to go where I want it?

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