I have 2 things that require I stay on the current version of my Fedora 32 kernel NVidia proprietary driver that doesn't seem to auto install despite being dkms enabledVMware® Workstation 15 Pro version 15.5.6 build-16341506 which won't run on kernels later than...
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Docker on Fedora 32
Commands to run to get moby-engine running on Fedora 32 # as root or sudo'd dnf install grubby grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="systemd.unified_cgroup_hierachy=0" # check the output of the above grubby --info=ALL sudo mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd sudo mount -t...
July 2020 VMWare Player and Workstation won’t compile their modules on kernel 5.7.6-201.fc32.x86_64 Fedora 32
So just had to downgrade my running Kernel to use an earlier one using: grubby --set-default /boot/vmlinuz-5.6.19-300.fc32.x86_64 I couldn't get the the vmware modules to compile on 5.7.6-201.fc32.x86_64. These things change rapidly and they will probably make an...
Can’t launch OpenVPN on Fedora 32 due to SeLinux preventing access to key
Network manager allows you to add certs to an OpenVPN connection but the connection fails with SeLinux enabled You know it's seLinux because when you disable seLinux it works # disable seLinux NM openvpn works setenforce 0 # enable seLinux NM openvpn fails setenforce...
Wine System Tray on Gnome Shell Fedora 32
I love gnome-shell I love the simplicity, the integration of the all the system settings in one place and the ability to extend it with extensions But it looks like in their quest to align with the Fisher-Price Desktop Standard they have trimmed some functionality...
Fedora 25 Kernel Upgrade Breaks MacBook Pro WiFi
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/71227/how-to-keep-fedora-22-updates-from-breaking-broadcom-bcm4312-wireless/ The fix is to boot to the latest kernel and run
Circular Reboot due to Harddisk Removal
Until yesterday I had two hard drives in my Fedora 13 box. Hard disk 1 - /dev/sda was a 200GB Western Digital and hard disk 2 - /dev/sdb is a 500GB Samsung containing my Fedora 13 installation. The Western Digital, after many years of faithful service has died, and so...
Wine Fonts are all Squares in Fedora 12
I recently installed my first Wine application in Fedora 12. This was the result: The fix: Download spec file from http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/packages/SPECS/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.1.spec (don't use the default corefonts spec file. This spec file has been modded to...
Fedora 11 – So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
So I had Fedora 11 installed for a few weeks... The install program created overlapping partitions which required manual intervention. I have an Intel video chipset and I ran into the screen blanking bug and several other bugs as mentioned in the...