I'm running Fedora 35 on a Dell Precision 3541, dual booted with Windows 10. Total storage for the system is 1TB, the storage dedicated to Fedora is about 650 GB. The system has 16GB of RAM. The desktop is Gnome.
Whenever I try to launch Google Chrome, Chrome begins to load for a few seconds, then I get logged out of Fedora.
I tried reinstalling both Fedora 35 and Windows 10; the problem remains. Both OSes were reinstalled from the same media as the original installs.
When I ran:
journalctl | grep error,
lines such as:
Dec 27 19:51:44 fedora kernel: BTRFS error (device sda10): bdev /dev/sda10 errs: wr 0, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 806, gen 0
dominated the output.
The output of:
mount | grep sda10
is
/dev/sda10 on / type btrfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,compress=zstd:1,space_cache,subvolid=258,subvol=/root)
/dev/sda10 on /home type btrfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,compress=zstd:1,space_cache,subvolid=256,subvol=/home)
Running:
ls -a /dev/sda10
outputs nothing.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome, with no effect.
Also, after I'd been having these problems for several days, the system firmware was updated. The updates had no visible effect on my issues.
ABRT reports that the failing component is gnome-shell.
I installed KDE Plasma and switched to it using switchdesk. The effect of this was to add new issues on top of the original one, which remained unaffected.
I reinstalled gnome-shell, and switched back to gnome.
I have two questions:
Does the "corrupt 806" in the output of journalctl above refer to a hardware or software error?
Can anyone point me to resources that will help me solve my issue(s)?
Many thanks in advance for your help or advice.
If you want to use old /home/username, best thing to do before adding it to newer installed GNU/Linux is to remove folder ~/.config, ~/.local, ~/.cache, any ~/.bashrc*, and any other dot files.
I think I've figured out the root of the issue, and a solution that fixes at least some of the problems I've been having.
My last Fedora installation was Fe33, and my user name was userA.
Before upgrading to Fe35, I backed up /home to an external drive.
Then I installed Fe35, and as it happens, used a different user name, userB.
Then I restored the contents of /home. :-(
This left me with thousands of text files, as well as environment variables, containing the path /home/userA. What a mess!
What I've done as a workaround is, in /home, run sudo ln -s userB userA.
That has solved a lot of problems; others might perhaps be fixed by updating environment variables, and removing and reinstalling programs, such as Chrome, which have not been working for me.
Not sure, but maybe you should update your BIOS first from Windows.
Download here: Dell Precision 3541.
I have KDE neon and recently it was upgraded to the latest version, 5.23. The problem I have that System Monitor Indicator widgets no longer working, they are just empty, like this:
When I open settings for that widget and go to Sensors page, there are no sensors available
I have the same issue on at least 2 different installations. Strangely, I can't find any informaiton about it anywhere. Is there any fix available?
Check if you have ksystemstats installed by running it in Konsole.
ksystemstats
If it appears not found or not installed, try to install it.
sudo apt install ksystemstats
then try again running in konsole (you will see that it initializes)
ksystemstats
and finally open System Monitor.
Since an update several weeks ago, the styling of certain applications on my fedora machine got corrupted and are showing black background instead of white. Please see the screen shots attached. It used to be the case for Nautilus' background as well until I changed the shell theme. Could someone point me in the right direction which files should be edited? Note: I have both KDE and Gnome installed on this machine.
I solved it by renaming the settings files in ~/.config/gtk-3.0:
cd ~/.config/gtk-3.0
mv colors.css colors.css.old
After doing that, be sure to reload gnome (or restart Linux)
I have installed a fresh Fedora 26, when I install fish (comes with 2.3.1 but I upgraded to 2.6) and I set it as default shell (chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish) works as expected... until I restart the PC and I try to login; gdm successfully logs me in, but after a few screen flashes it returns me to login screen, leaving me unable to login to my user.
I temporary solved this by login in another tty (Ctrl+Alt+F2) with my user and changed the shell back to bash: chsh -s /bin/bash.
Have someone else had this same issue? I've installed Gnome Ubuntu 17.04 and I couldn't reproduce this. Also, this is a common symptom for buggy nvidia drivers with wayland, mutter package buggy version, and incorrect home folder permissions. It was hard for me to find that fish was the actual culprit.
Update
After installing Fedora 27 and having the same issue, I started from scratch, and basically, to reproduce this is following these steps:
Install grc
Install Fish
Install Oh-My-Fish
Install Oh-My-Fish grc plugin-in
I have made a chrome extension. It is working well with other OS except fedora.
Extension have a popup window to select options , i observed that where ever i was using alert() to show some messages in popup.html file (the default_popup of extension); the browser as well as fedora hangs . Ultimately i have to restart the system .May be it is hanging due to some other reason but it is working fine in many other OS (I have tried in ubuntu , windows xp and 7) .Although in fedora 16 (with chrome 21) it stops hanging when i press esc yet why it is hanging ?Please suggest me any solution. Thanx in advance !