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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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argh -- can't get wireless in someone else's house
by Robert P. J. Day 28 Dec '25

28 Dec '25

i'm embarrassed to admit that i can't, for the life of me, get a wireless connection at a friend's house at the moment. updated fedora 8, and a stock linksys WRT54GL. i have the SSID, i have the WEP key, i even have the router password, so i've logged in and checked everything -- no MAC filtering, no DHCP client limit, etc. but when i try to bring up wireless, /var/log/messages shows me: Feb 8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 Feb 8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 Feb 8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 Feb 8 08:38:07 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 ... Feb 8 08:39:00 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. i can certainly see the WAP: # iwlist wlan0 scan ... Cell 02 - Address: 00:18:39:6A:01:EF ESSID:"XXXXXXXX" Mode:Master Channel:6 Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) Quality=83/100 Signal level=-46 dBm Noise level=-67 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s ... i'm pretty much out of ideas here -- any thoughts? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================

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Re: TV over the internet
by R. G. Newbury 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

On 01/11/2010 06:08 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: William Case wrote: >>> > > Hi Tim; >>>> > >> >>> > > I have a TV tuner card with my computer connected to my cable. It's >>> > > great. I prefer it to having my computer connected to my TV. >>> > > >> > What application do you use for watching? I've been looking for something user >> > friendly to give some people still on FC4 because they can understand xawtv and >> > all the easy to use applications stopped working. They rejected MythTV at the >> > point where it said "have your DBA set up a database..." and I have not found >> > anything which can handle clear-QAM, over the air digital, and NTSC without >> > asking for user entered channel frequencies in MHz or other things these people >> > aren't about to do. >> > >> > Note: even if I was willing to set it up for them for free, they would expect >> > support at the same price, advice I give them, time consuming work not so much. >> > > I use TVTime. It does one thing only, but it does it well. It gives me > my cable TV. > > It is easy to install and configure and just keeps on ticking. > > (Actually it does more than one thing, but there is no doubt that it's > main purpose is to run a TV tuner card for TV viewing.) Still on FC4???? On a Pentium 3 too I presume? Clear-QAM and OTA require an ATSC tuner, while an NTSC tuner is needed for analog cable. There are tuner units which will do both, although not all will do so simultaneously. Mythdora is a Fedora based, all in one install of mythtv. It will set up everything you need from one iso image. And Mythtv has definitely NOT required 'your DBA to set up a database' since well before Fedora 4. If your hardware is known to Fedora, then mythtv will not require any 'channel entered frequencies'. You merely select the proper tuning basis, such as US-Broadcast or US-cable when setting up the tuner(s). At the moment, the problematic area is setting up QAM on cable channels due to the cablecos using their own variable channel numbers for the channels (and generally, not including proper PSIP infor in the stream). That is, of course, where the cableco actually provides some clear QAM...which Rogers Cable in Canada, for example, has not done since June 2007. Geoff -- Please let me know if anything I say offends you. I may wish to offend you again in the future. Tux says: "Be regular. Eat cron flakes."

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securing this workstation.
by home user 19 Oct '25

19 Oct '25

(Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation) This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done today. It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home or office network. It is not dual-boot. I do need for Firefox, Thunderbird, and dnf to be able to interact with the "outside world" appropriately. I do occasionally need to be able to download or upload things. Beyond those (and maybe other appropriate things that don't at the moment come to mind), I do not want anyone or anything to be able to get into this workstation. For example, no "ssh", "scp", "rlogin". I gather from the Fedora docs that I should use firewalld or firewalld-config. I have both. But Fedora docs does not give me enough detail. I am not an IT professional. What specifically should I do to keep unwanted people and things out?

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KGpg "An error occurred while scanning your keyring"
by Jonathan Ryshpan 12 Oct '25

12 Oct '25

This error pops up whenever my system boots up. Clicking on [Details <<] produces a message box with the single entry "Details" in it. What's happening? Thanks - jon

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New kernel 6.15.10-200 seems to stop gkrellm from seeing the Ethernet interface.
by Doug H. 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

DNF got the new kernel (6.15.10-200.fc42.x86_64) yesterday morning. I remembered this morning to reboot to it. I then noticed that gkrellm did not have the normally visible Ethernet krellm showing. I could get it to show by checking the box for "Force chart to be always shown even if interface is not routed". But it was not showing the network activity. All networking stuff seemed fine, checking with various command line stuff. And all the websites I checked via a browser were working fine. I have "fixed" things by rebooting into the previous kernel (6.15.9- 201.fc42.x86_64). I am thinking about rebooting to the newer kernel and trying other network tools, like Wireshark. Anybody else seeing anything like this? -- Doug H.

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How can I effectively use my SSD and HDD using bcache/bcachefs/btrfs?
by Pramod V. U. 08 Sep '25

08 Sep '25

(I know that there has been a recent friction between the kernel dev and the bcachefs dev; IDK what the outcome has been, if any) I am planning to shift back to kinoite after a brief 2-3 months of struggling to use windows (excess RAM, battery drains fast, updates take their own sweet time, and more). It will take another 1-2 months before I actually do it; Hopefully with the new installer. I now have a 256 GB SSD as well as a 1 TB HDD. The HDD is too slow for me to run fedora directly on it (Haven't tried tuning though...) I plan to install the entire system giving the full storage space to bcachefs, cache backing metadata all features to speed it up. I use systemd-homed's per-user LUKS encryption support, so global encryption is not that necessary. (But preferred if bcachefs encryption won't slow the LUKS loopbacks on top of it) If bcachefs is not available, I'll have to do with bcache and btrfs. In case no bcachefs, - A part of SSD for the base OS (root, esp, boot, swap). - Another part for bcache cache. - A partition on the HDD backing the cache, with `/var` or just `/var/home`. OR just the same setup without bcache, /var or /var/home directly on HDD (the speed though...) (bcache-tools is an extra package I have to layer, the only package I layer on my immutable/atomic system; That's why I'd be happy to have it inculded in the base, or an included alternative) I don't use LVM or ZFS, and would like to avoid the complexity. Also dm-cache scripts I would like to avoid. I also don't prefer to use it windows-style as a plug-in separate file-tree than the standard $HOME/*. But I am open to it if it's the simplest possible idea. (Note: I will leave a minimal amount of space in either disk, for windows. I need it for a specific wine/bottles-incompatible software requiring 3D graphics.) Kindly suggest me with possible ideas and solutions... If bcachefs is available and sufficiently stable, else if I can use bcache+btrfs (ext4 if btrfs overkill... mostly not), or just speed up my HDD.

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Intermittent total freeze of KDE
by Frank Bures 08 Sep '25

08 Sep '25

Hi, Recently I am having problems with total freezes of my KDE. I am running F42 KDE workstation. It started as F39 and was eventually upgraded several times to the recent F42. I am using NVIDIA GTX 1630 card with plain nouveau drivers. No additional video drivers were installed. When KDE freezes there is no access to any GUI (mouse, keyboard), but the system is still running and it is accessible via ssh. The only way out is to reboot via ssh using sudo systemctl reboot This phenomena generates the following entries in the journal: Jul 23 23:13:05 ryzen.frank-local.localdomain kernel: nouveau 0000:2b:00.0: gsp: mmu fault queued Jul 23 23:13:05 ryzen.frank-local.localdomain kernel: nouveau 0000:2b:00.0: gsp: rc engn:00000001 chid:120 type:31 scope:1 part:233 Jul 23 23:13:05 ryzen.frank-local.localdomain kernel: nouveau 0000:2b:00.0: fifo:000000:000f:0078:[Xwayland[3410]] errored - disabling channel plus additional consequent entries related to VMs losing their access to the video. There is nothing else in the journal. I am at loss as to what these messages mean exactly. I am not absolutely sure but it looks like the problem is triggered when multiple remote desktops are displayed locally using NoMachine package. However, the problem is intermittent to the point that is is unpredictable. Could please someone advise what could be the possible way to troubleshoot? Thanks Frank -- <listfrank1(a)gmail.com>

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New computer recommendation?
by ToddAndMargo 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

Hi All, I have been recommending Lenovo's Think Station computer to customers. But I really do not like how proprietary they are. Repairing them is impossible after the warranty period expires as Lenovo is the only source of parts and Lenovo won't sell you parts. Anyone have a recommendation for a business grade computers that use generic parts and are very reliable? Many thanks, -T

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