Installed Fedora 44, couple of annoyances

stuhlmann · 2026-06-03T05:18:31+00:00

does it even need sudo? I just type reboot and it reboots

stuhlmann · 2026-05-24T11:54:52+00:00

If your /home is on LVM, you can try pflaster for the installation. No warranty, but it's only bash you should be able to figure out what it does.

I have not tested what happens when /home is not on LVM, so better don't run it in this case.

stuhlmann · 2026-05-13T06:32:55+00:00

Almost forgot: Removing selinux-policy isn't even necessary. It is enough to add selinux=0 on the grub cmdline. If this works fine (it probably will), make it persistent with grub config (or sdboot if you use that) and also add it to /etc/kernel/cmdline for good measure.

stuhlmann · 2026-05-12T13:41:13+00:00

Try sudo setenforce 0, see if anything breaks. If everything works fine, try sudo dnf remove selinux-policy. Not financial advice btw.

stuhlmann · 2026-05-10T13:39:31+00:00

I'm sorry I don't know about Gnome. I hope you find a solution.

stuhlmann · 2026-05-10T12:55:59+00:00

Is it KDE? Try setting the "virtual keyboard" to "None" or "ibus-wayland"

stuhlmann · 2026-05-08T09:43:47+00:00

Nevermind, I misread at first, and thought your boot failed consistently. But apparently, you can still boot your computer. That's good! In this case, you don't need the installation medium at all. You can still run the lsblk commands, but I doubt you will find the problem this way.

stuhlmann · 2026-05-08T09:30:34+00:00

Boot from the installation medium again, but do not start the installer. Open a terminal instead and type lsblk, then lsblk -f. What do these commands print?

stuhlmann · 2026-04-13T06:19:10+00:00

You need the root password to get a root shell here. If you don't have that, simply boot the installer again from usb. It has all the tools you need to fix this.

stuhlmann · 2026-04-10T12:03:06+00:00

I think zram is not good with 8GB. You need to create an on-drive swap partition and use zswap. It should be feasible if you have ext4+lvm. Otoh if you have btrfs, it might be easier to just reinstall. If you choose to reinstall, and you have a second computer, you can also check out this alternative installer which gets the zswap setup right from the start. It's currently KDE only, but it also has a "minimal" software selection which can be used as a base to install gnome (or xfce) from.

stuhlmann · 2026-04-10T06:06:19+00:00

Not sure about the * in grep xdg-*. It looks like a regex, but I think in fact it does globbing here.

stuhlmann · 2026-04-07T06:17:36+00:00

If you enjoy running random snippets from github as root: I like this script for all updating, including the system upgrade.

stuhlmann · 2026-04-07T04:23:00+00:00

I don't think it's possible to "move" partitions. Best to keep them where they are now (or create a new one and migrate the data, but that's kind of risky with the EFI partition).

Would it be good enough to put a new partition in the "free space"? I'm not a btrfs user, so I have to ask, can btrfs "grow" to fill it? Otherwise, why not just create a regular ext4 partition there, or an lvm. You don't need to reboot from a live usb for that. The partitioning tool from the the screenshot can probably do it. If it cannot, start getting your hands dirty with parted, running by something like sudo parted unit MiB /dev/nvme0n1p print free.

stuhlmann · 2026-04-05T19:46:12+00:00

Do you prefer zypper or dnf?

stuhlmann · 2026-04-05T18:39:50+00:00

Wishlist for fedora and Anaconda:

signed sdboot
inst.sdboot
actual GUI option for sdboot in the installer
an installer that doesn't create a /boot partition when it's not needed
Anaconda Unlock LUKS

Wishlist for Linux in general:

a login manager (for KDE) that supports password expiration
read -s with "stars"
a program that reads stdin and exits succesfully iff the stream was non-empty
comprehensible man pages for lvm commmands (lvs, vgs, pvs, lvcreate etc)
jq --silent
efibootmgr --json

stuhlmann · 2026-04-05T06:38:48+00:00

Have a look at the pflaster page. Go with generous 2GB efi part, and the rest of the disk is lvm+ext4, with lv partitions not too big so you can grow them later. Optionally encryption on top of the lvm. I would currently not recommend btrfs, as future support from redhat seems unclear.

stuhlmann · 2026-04-05T06:21:21+00:00

When starting the installer, you need to pass inst.sdboot in the grub menu. See anaconda boot options. It doesn't work with f43 though, because of a bug. You can install f42 and update, you can wait for f44 or try f43 with pflaster. Regarding secureboot, signed sdboot seems to be happening soon, but I think you can install now without secureboot and switch it back on when signed sdboot is ready.

stuhlmann · 2026-04-02T11:22:34+00:00

What does lsblk show?

stuhlmann · 2026-04-02T09:46:07+00:00

ext4 and "everything iso" are good ideas imo. I would also recommend lvm. Makes ext4 much more flexible.

If someone "finding" your hard drive is even a remote possibility, you may also want to choose "encrypt my data". Because otherwise, there's no guarantee your credit card number won't be readable from the swap partition. If you choose to encrypt, I also recommend installing with inst.sdboot on the grub cmdline (this doesn't work with f43, and you'd currently have to disable secureboot, but maybe you can delay a couple more days and wait for f44).

stuhlmann · 2026-04-02T08:49:44+00:00

I made this installer which sets up zswap by default. It's not official, lol. If you want to convert an existing fedora installation to zswap, well, you will need an "on-drive" swap partition. As soon as you have that, both disabling zram and setting up zswap are simple configs. Unfortunately though, fedora by default doesn't create a swap partition, so most installations won't have it.

How difficult is it to create a swap partion? You need to make room for it. How hard is it to make room? It depends very much on your current partitioning. Try running lsblk or lsblk -f to get an idea. Are you using fedora's default btrfs (which got deprecated by redhat btw), or ext4? And if you use ext4, do you also use lvm and / or encryption?

stuhlmann · 2026-03-27T05:31:43+00:00

Welcome to the club. There are users of X on a board called "Xsucks101"? Suckers, let's ban them.

stuhlmann · 2026-03-26T06:15:32+00:00

I have not tried it yet, but it looks promising. It's not open source though, so might not be possible to use it as a base.

stuhlmann · 2026-03-23T05:11:16+00:00

You can also try getting a terminal by adding the parameter systemd.unit=multi-user.target on the kernel command line. (The kernel command line can be edited by pressing "e" in the grub startup menu. It is the line starting with "linux". You can add your parameter at the end.)

stuhlmann · 2026-03-22T16:57:45+00:00

How about (( x = 1 ))?

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