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Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Common Issues category Common Issues f37 , f38 , f39 , f40 , f41 , f42	0	9282	November 21, 2021
GNOME suspends after 15 minutes of user inactivity, even on AC power Common Issues f38 , suspend-resume , gnome , f39 , workstation	0	31041	March 22, 2023
Fractional display scaling in Workstation makes some apps incorrectly sized, impacts games Common Issues fonts , zoom , gnome , workstation , accessibility , f41 , f42	1	28816	October 29, 2024
Install media don't boot in UEFI mode on certain motherboards Common Issues f37 , f38 , uefi , boot , grub , f39	1	28779	March 22, 2024
Windows with encrypted disks (Bitlocker) can't be booted from the GRUB boot menu Common Issues f37 , f38 , dual-boot , boot , windows , grub , f39 , f40 , f41 , f42	1	22323	April 14, 2025
Proprietary video codecs are no longer hardware accelerated by default on AMD GPUs since Fedora 37 Common Issues f37 , f38 , amd , hardware , video , mesa	0	18946	November 21, 2022
Third-party modules (e.g. Nvidia) are not rebuilt during system upgrade Common Issues kde , gnome , virtualbox , nvidia , kernel , f39 , 3rd-party-software , f40 , f41 , f42	0	15640	November 10, 2023
Wayland session is unavailable with vendor-provided NVIDIA driver Common Issues f37 , f38 , wayland , gdm , gnome , nvidia , f39 , f40	0	14958	September 27, 2022
Steam from Flathub might not start on Fedora 38 Common Issues f38 , flatpak , f39 , steam	0	12344	April 13, 2023
Chromium-based browsers display garbled web pages after Mesa is updated Common Issues f37 , f38 , chrome , chromium , mesa , f39 , f40	0	11022	May 29, 2023
Popular third-party RPMs fail to install/update/remove due to security policies verification Common Issues f38 , rpm , security , beta , dnf	1	10811	March 7, 2023
DNF operations use large amount of RAM and may fail in low-memory environments Common Issues f35 , f36 , f37 , f38 , dnf , f39 , f40	1	10706	May 16, 2024
Clipboard is not shared with KDE virtual machines Common Issues f36 , f37 , f38 , kde , virtualization , desktop , f39 , f40 , f41 , f42	1	8821	April 14, 2025
Merely booting Fedora 42 Live media adds a "Fedora" entry to the UEFI boot menu Common Issues uefi , livecd , boot , f41 , f42	1	8509	April 15, 2025
On-screen keyboard fails to open automatically in KDE on a touch device Common Issues f38 , kde , keyboard , touchscreen	1	8094	August 17, 2023
Flatpak install/update fails with "Need more input" or "Input buffer too small" Common Issues f38 , flatpak , rpm-ostree	2	7772	June 27, 2023
USB printers stop working if they use a classic driver while driverless printing is supported and enabled Common Issues f34 , f35 , f36 , f37 , f38 , printing , f39	1	6617	March 22, 2024
Can't configure SSH VPN in GNOME Settings Common Issues f36 , f37 , f38 , ssh , vpn , gnome , f39 , workstation , f40	1	6384	September 16, 2024
VLC not exposing VA-API as a hardware acceleration option Common Issues graphics-acceleration , video , vlc , f39 , f40 , f41	1	5861	March 18, 2025
Third-party RPMs with an invalid signing key might cause errors during package operations Common Issues f38 , rpm , security , dnf , f39	0	5745	March 28, 2023
Dnf system-upgrade can fail on Raspberry Pi Common Issues f38 , raspberry-pi , f39 , f40 , f41 , f42	0	5574	October 11, 2023
Compression not enabled for btrfs subvolumes renamed during install Common Issues f34 , f35 , f36 , f37 , f38 , btrfs , f39 , f40	1	5174	September 30, 2024
All GNOME extensions need an update in Fedora 39 (GNOME 45) Common Issues gnome-extensions , gnome , f39 , workstation , f40	1	4882	March 25, 2024
Install media sometimes fail media check at 4.8% Common Issues installation , fedora-media-writer , usb , f40 , f41 , f42	0	4741	March 15, 2024
USB scanners appear as multiple devices and not all of them work, if driverless scanning is enabled Common Issues f34 , f35 , f36 , f37 , f38 , scanning , f39	1	4182	March 22, 2024
GNOME login screen might not start when mesa-va-drivers-freeworld from RPMFusion are installed Common Issues f37 , f38 , amd , rpmfusion , mesa , gnome	0	3897	April 30, 2023
F39 kernels fail to install when /boot/efi/$machineid is present Common Issues upgrades , boot , grub , kernel , f39 , f40	0	3888	November 16, 2023
Keyboard layout is always English when unlocking encrypted drives on Atomic desktops Common Issues f38 , keyboard , encryption , boot , f39 , kinoite , silverblue , f40 , f41 , atomic-desktops	1	3585	March 18, 2025
Boot might fail with "vmlinuz[…] has invalid signature" in atomic desktops Common Issues secure-boot , boot , f39 , kinoite , silverblue , f40 , atomic-desktops , sway-atomic , budgie-atomic	1	3390	May 6, 2024
The installer (and some other apps) might not start on systems with an Nvidia graphics card Common Issues f38 , installation , desktop , nvidia , workstation	0	3309	July 13, 2023