Fedora Articles

@font-face Crashes Firefox on Fedora 11 (Obsolete) Until Fedora updated one of its libraries, Firefox on Fedora 11 would crash on any website that uses an embedded font.
Airport Extreme vs. Linux (Obsolete) Broadcom refused to release drivers or specs for the chipset, so for years no one could even write their own.
Double Lock Screen (Obsolete) Usually multiple desktops on Linux will stay out of each others’ way when they aren’t running. Not always.
Fedora 7 Problems With Glint Video Driver (Obsolete) Grab the Live CD first and make sure that all your hardware works properly. If not, see if the fix is available before you actually upgrade.
Firefox Thinks It’s Running an Older Version Than Last Time (But Isn’t!) Look for the compatibility.ini file in your Firefox profile, and delete the LastVersion line.
Fixing a Blank Article Pane in NewsFlash There’s a bug in WebKit that can prevent articles from displaying in NewsFlash, but there’s a workaround.
Fixing Flash in Fedora Core 5 (Obsolete) Flash hard-codes the paths where it looks for fonts, instead of letting the X server tell it where to look.
Linux Ejecting DVD Drawer on Wake (Fixed) (Obsolete) It’s a recent bug in the Linux kernel. Wait a couple of days and it’ll be fixed and Fedora will ship the new one.
Nepomuk is Not Running (Obsolete) KMail kept tossing errors on launch because an old config was trying to load the wrong Nepomuk backend.
NVIDIA on Fedora 27: Bad Resolution and Painful Mouse Lag (Fixed) (Obsolete) As of 2017, Wayland didn’t work with the binary NVIDIA drivers, and the system would lag painfully. If you tell GDM not to use Wayland, it will fall back to the older display system.
Repair missing UEFI entry for Fedora Linux Boot to a live image and either manually edit the menu with efibootmgr or use a specialized tool like boot-repair.
Resolving SELinux audit errors on boot in Fedora Core 4 (Obsolete) Rebuild the initrd so it can label the boot filesystem with the new policy.
s3cmd crashes with ‘expected str instance, bytes found’ s3cmd 2.3.0 breaks on Python 3.12. The fix is simple, and will be in the next s3cmd release, but here’s how to fix your local copy before it’s released.
Seeking the Perfect Balance for BOINCing After a brief stint at distributed computing early in the pandemic, I came back first to Folding@Home, then BOINC, with the goal of only using spare power to help out with research.
Setting up a Wireless Network on Linux 2.6: Ralink 3062 and Network Manager (Obsolete) Wifi on Linux can still be a pain to get working. Here’s how I set up a Zonet ZEW1642 on Fedora 13 using the Ralink 3062 drivers.
Using Plasma Discover on GNOME in Fedora Fedora’s packages for Discover are missing dependencies, so you have to install kf6-purpose and kf6-kitemmodels on the command line to use it.
What do GNOME Online Accounts Do? It’s not obvious which services GNOME will use from each provider. Here’s where to find it.
When digiKam Failed to Connect (Obsolete) File permissions. Always check the file permissions.
Workaround for Gmail being blocked by “Temporary Error” in Firefox on Fedora (Obsolete) In this case it was a Fedora-specific issue, but it could be worked around by holding down shift and hitting reload.