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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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how to play 4K ultraHD blu-ray movie.
by home user 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

(fedora-42; gnome) When I try to play a commercial 4K ultraHD blu-ray movie with VLC, it seems to just keep loading and loading; nothing shows up. I see no error messages. An archlinux page suggests that I need vlc-plugin-aribb24. dnf says I don't already have it, and can't find it to install it. I found a Fedora packages page for aribb24, but dnf says I already have it. How do I successfully play the movie? Relevant web pages: "https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray" "https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VLC_media_player#Media_does_not_load" "https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/aribb24/aribb24/fedora-42.html" (and its parent page)

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F43 Kernel 6.18(?) Chromium based browsers crashing
by glenn 01 Feb '26

01 Feb '26

Seems the following behavior started after dnf update to the 6.18 kernel and all subsequent minor revs. After initial startup or after reboot, Chromium-based browsers start and run fine. Second attempt results in following, only resolved with another reboot: user@localhost:~$ google-chrome-stable radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeonsi: error: can't create border_color_buffer radeonsi: error: Failed to create a context. Created TensorFlow Lite XNNPACK delegate for CPU. [9095:9095:0125/123845.017117:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:1004] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=139 radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeonsi: error: can't create border_color_buffer radeonsi: error: Failed to create a context. [9095:9095:0125/123846.859251:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:1004] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=139 radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeonsi: error: can't create border_color_buffer radeonsi: error: Failed to create a context. [9095:9095:0125/123848.665358:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:1004] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=139 [9095:9095:0125/123848.665415:FATAL:content/browser/gpu/gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc:415] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye. [0125/123848.708552:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found [0125/123848.710446:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found [0125/123848.712883:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found [0125/123848.713955:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) google-chrome-stable user@localhost:~$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake-H GT2 [HD Graphics 530] (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard IGD Subsystem: Dell Device 06e0 Kernel driver in use: i915 -- 01:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde PRO / Venus LE / Tropo PRO-L [Radeon HD 8830M / R7 250 / R7 M465X] (rev 87) Subsystem: Dell Device 06e0 Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu user@localhost:~$ sudo lshw -C display [sudo] password for user: *-display description: Display controller product: Cape Verde PRO / Venus LE / Tropo PRO-L [Radeon HD 8830M / R7 250 / R7 M465X] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: 87 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=radeon latency=0 resources: irq:140 memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:ec300000-ec33ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:ec340000-ec35ffff *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Skylake-H GT2 [HD Graphics 530] vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 06 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:141 memory:eb000000-ebffffff memory:80000000-8fffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff user@localhost:~$ uname -a Linux localhost 6.18.6-200.fc43.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Jan 18 18:57:00 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux user@localhost:~$ printf 'Desktop: %s\nSession: %s\n' "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" "$GDMSESSION" Desktop: X-Cinnamon Session: cinnamon What I've done based on Ms. Google's suggestions (all no-joy, same result): -Start in incognito mode -Move .config/google-chrome folder(s) and remove profiles -dnf remove google-chrome-stable and reinstall -Disable hardware acceleration in Chrome Mozilla browsers work as expected. Suggestions on what to do next? Seems it's a radeon driver thing to my untrained eye? Is this a kernel or driver bug that needs to be filed? Thanks - Glenn

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Intel Arc dual display - hard freezes
by listy 31 Jan '26

31 Jan '26

Hi guys With 6.18.7-200.fc43.x86_64 (perhaps others) my Fedora freezes - I switch off, with physical power button, one of my two displays - in Fedora the secondary display in case it might matter - still OS runs fine, moment I turn that display back on, Fedora freezes and only power-cycle brings it back. Anybody sees this/similar - it was not the case a few kernels back. many thanks, L.

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Ethernet over Thunderbird/USB4 ?
by listy 31 Jan '26

31 Jan '26

Hi guys. Do you have any experience to share, using TB &| USB4 as ethernet link - bits I'm interested in: claims that AMD platform is more wobbly(with lower speeds) than Intel's - anybody? many thanks, L.

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Openvpn Upgrade Error Message
by Stephen Morris 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '26

Hi, I have seen an issue with this error in another thread but with the update I did today the networkmanager-openvpn package was updated and the update script produced the nm-openvpn conflict message below that has been reported previously, but the issue now is the config file specified in the script output message doesn't exist, so why is the message produced at all? >>> Running sysusers scriptlet: NetworkManager-openvpn-1:1.12.5-2.fc43.x86_64 >>> Finished sysusers scriptlet: NetworkManager-openvpn-1:1.12.5-2.fc43.x86_64 >>> Scriptlet output: >>> <stdin>:1: Conflict with earlier configuration for user 'nm-openvpn' in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/networkmanager-openvpn.conf:1, ignoring line. >>> [ 6/52] Upgrading NetworkManager-openvpn-1:1.12.5-2.fc43.x86_64 100% | 18.4 MiB/s | 1.3 MiB | 00m00s regards,

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KODI Hangs a Disc Load
by Stephen Morris 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

Hi, I have just installed Kodi to see if it provides a better mechanism to play Blu-ray videos I have bought. When I insert a Blu-ray disc into the USB player Kodi automatically mounts the disc and locks Kodi up, mouse movements are ignored and keyboard input for Kodi is also ignored. The only thing I can do is use ctrl+alt+delete to attempt to log out of KDE, but because Kodi is locked/hung the logout is prevented, the only option I have is to use the machine hardware reset to reboot Fedora. What do I need to look at to try to determine why Kodi is hanging on Blu-ray disc insert? regards,

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Selinux alert
by Paolo Galtieri 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Folks, I just upgraded my system from F42 to F43. The upgrade went fine, but when I logged into my system I started getting a lot of selinux alerts. It did stop after a while. The alerts were the following: time->Sun Jan 25 08:37:10 2026 type=AVC msg=audit(1769359030.005:1514): avc: denied { connectto } for pid=40025 comm="blocking-1" path="/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.Machine" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:thumb_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:systemd_machined_t:s0 tclass=unix_stream_socket permissive=0 I ran sudo ausearch -m AVC -ts today | wc -l the results was 3774 and that's just for today. Whatever process 40025 was it is no longer running and this is why the alerts stopped. Anyone know what's going on? Paolo

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gnome service
by Patrick Dupre 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Hello, I get the following message systemctl --user status org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.service ○ org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.service - GNOME color management service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.servi> Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d └─10-timeout-abort.conf Active: inactive (dead) systemctl --user restart org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.service Failed to restart org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.service: Operation refused, unit org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.service may be requested by dependency only (it is configured to refuse manual start/stop). See user logs and 'systemctl --user status org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.service' for details. Not sure about what I should do. journalctl -xe does not help me (no red stuff). Thank =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com ===========================================================================

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