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nautilus slow start up with external drives
by Dave Mitchell 20 Aug '26

20 Aug '26

Since moving from F40 to F44, I've seen that there is now an approximately 4 second delay for nautilus to start up whenever there is an external USB drive plugged into my laptop. Any idea how to stop this?

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F42/Xfce - KVM monitor not waking up
by Robert Moskowitz 05 Aug '26

05 Aug '26

I just got a new KVM, as my old one was dying. If I am away from my system, and it turns off the monitor, the KVM monitor does not wake up on activating the notebook. I have a Win10 system also on this KVM. I have to switch to it (it also turned off its monitor), mouse around to get it to wake up the notebook monitor. The KVM monitor wakes up. Then I can switch back to F42 and the KVM monitor is now awake and working. So Win10 is giving some wake up command to the monitor that F42 is not. Any ideas what to look for and fix for this? It is a pain to switch to the Win system and back to the F42 system just to get my KVM monitor active... thanks

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Turning off extra Fedora-related traffic on Firefox?
by Don Marti 03 Aug '26

03 Aug '26

I'm working on some privacy research, and logging what DNS lookups get made when a browser visits a site. Right now, I have the following list for Firefox on Fedora. The one site I'm visiting is blog.zgp.org which has no 3rd-party resources on it. All the rest of the DNS lookups are the browser and/or Fedora. Are some of these introduced by Fedora, and is it possible to turn them off? I'm already writing a prefs.js file into a temporary profile to turn off DNS over HTTPS. (I also want to get some of the extra Firefox stuff turned off. It turns out that setting "browser.newtab.preload" to false is turning off a bunch of extra DNS lookups but there still seem to be some extras here.) location.services.mozilla.com (mozilla.map.fastly.net) firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com (mozilla.map.fastly.net) firefox-settings-attachments.cdn.mozilla.net (mozilla.map.fastly.net) detectportal.firefox.com (mozilla.map.fastly.net) blog.zgp.org (citrus.zgp.org) content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net ads.mozilla.org (mozilla.map.fastly.net) start.fedoraproject.org (wildcard.fedoraproject.org) fedoraproject.org fedoramagazine.org sea1.discourse-cdn.com avatars.discourse-cdn.com (avatarscdn-456a.kxcdn.com, a-us00.kxcdn.com) peertube.linuxrocks.online d36melcmqgchij.cloudfront.net communityblog.fedoraproject.org (fedoracom.wpengine.com) cloudflare-dns.com

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sound not working on Fedora 44 for Dell Premium PA14250
by Ranjan Maitra 01 Aug '26

01 Aug '26

Hi, My sound card does not appear to be recognized on my Dell Premium PA14250. I followed this website: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/how-to-troubleshoot-sound-p… but was not able to make any difference. I have the following output from lspci -k and I wonder if I am missing something beyond what is on that website. Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan

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How do I boot a live OS from its .iso file?
by Michael Hennebry 01 Aug '26

01 Aug '26

I've been trying to boot Fedora-Workstation-Live-44-1.7.x86_64.iso without success. In grub2, I've gotten as far as making loopback work. I think that linux and initrd commands come next, but what parameters to give them, I am at a loss. Google has not helped. All suggestions have failed. What comes after loopback? I'm running out of goats. -- Michael hennebry(a)mail.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods

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Re: F44 - is there a way to shrink swap?
by C. Linus Hicks 31 Jul '26

31 Jul '26

-----Original Message----- From: Robert Moskowitz via users Sent: Jul 31, 2026 12:38 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Cc: Robert Moskowitz Subject: F44 - is there a way to shrink swap? I had a runaway task that eat my memory all up, and barely was able to kill it while the system was swapping away trying to live. Now I see: $ free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 16216428 12187636 395764 3895004 6469616 4028792 Swap: 8388604 4372300 4016304 Is there a way to shrink the current swap size, and increase how much is available for actual use/ Or is that what is happening with total mem being 16Gb, 12Gb used and 4Gb swap used? So the system is doing its best? I probably should reboot before next weeks work.... Like what I am seeing with this Lenovo x260, but the memory is set at its max of 16gb. Assuming you mean that you want to bring all swapped-out pages back into memory and not shrink the size of your swap file/partition, just temporarily turn off swap (assuming you have enough physical memory). sudo swapoff -a && sudo swapon -a

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F44 - is there a way to shrink swap?
by Robert Moskowitz 31 Jul '26

31 Jul '26

I had a runaway task that eat my memory all up, and barely was able to kill it while the system was swapping away trying to live. Now I see: $ free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 16216428 12187636 395764 3895004 6469616 4028792 Swap: 8388604 4372300 4016304 Is there a way to shrink the current swap size, and increase how much is available for actual use/ Or is that what is happening with total mem being 16Gb, 12Gb used and 4Gb swap used? So the system is doing its best? I probably should reboot before next weeks work.... Like what I am seeing with this Lenovo x260, but the memory is set at its max of 16gb.

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grub
by Patrick Dupre 26 Jul '26

26 Jul '26

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How to add new hard drive to increase disks pace in bsfs?
by Jon Ingason 26 Jul '26

26 Jul '26

I have a PC with Fedora 43 installed 2Tb hard disk (SSD) an want to add another 2Tb hard disk (SSD) to increase total disk space to 4Tb. The file system following: UUID=xxxxxxxx / btrfs subvol=root 0 0 UUID=xxxxxxxx /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=xxxxxxxx /boot/efi vfat umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2 UUID=xxxxxxxx /home btrfs subvol=home 0 0 How is the simplest way to increase do this without lot of work?

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Re: grub
by Barry Scott 26 Jul '26

26 Jul '26

> On 26 Jul 2026, at 09:39, Patrick Dupre <pdupre(a)gmx.com> wrote: > > This is not an issue with the number of installed kernels. > For example > rpm -q kernel-core > kernel-core-7.1.4-200.fc44.x86_64 > kernel-core-7.1.4-202.fc44.x86_64 > kernel-core-7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64 > > I guess that it is an issue with os-prober > and of os-prober_proxy > 1) why both? > It seems that they provide the same entries. > 2) os-prober and os-prober_proxy probe unmounted partitions > which may be not relevant > Can I exclude the probing of specific partitions? > I guess that I can edit /etc/default/grub > setting > GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBE_PROXY="false" > but what about specific partitions ? If you read /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober you will see that setting GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBE_PROXY="true" Will disable the os probing completely. No idea how to limit to specific partitions. I do not have a os-prober_proxy on my f44. Barry p.s. I added the list back in. > > > On 25 Jul 2026, at 21:58, Patrick Dupre via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > > The grub interface (for choosing the distribution to load) offers me > until 5 options for the a single fedora 44 distribution available on a > disk partition (in addition older fedora [like 42]). > This is the result of grub2-mkconfig > A bit annoying. > > Some ideas? > > There is a dnf setting to control how many old kernels will be kept. > See man dnf.conf and installonly_limit > > Personally I raise that limit, but you can set to 2. > At 2 that means that if a new kernel causing you a problem you can > boot up and choose the last working kernel. > > There is also the rescue kernel that you can get rid of. > See https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/rescue-kernel-removal/139119 > > If you get rid of the rescue kernel make sure that you have a live USB in > case you need to repair your system. > > Barry > > > Thank. > > =========================================================================== > Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com > =========================================================================== > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new

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