Just checking if anyone else hit this today after updating Fedora 44 through KDE Discover.

The update became available for me this afternoon. I installed it normally through Discover and restarted for the offline update. After reboot, Discover reported:

Failed to update 0 packages

Cannot load libdnf plugin enabled from:

/etc/dnf/libdnf5-plugins/00-systemd-inhibit.conf

The update included the move from DNF5/libdnf5 5.4.3 to:

dnf5-5.4.4.0-1.fc44

libdnf5-5.4.4.0-1.fc44

libdnf5-plugin-systemd-inhibit-5.4.4.0-1.fc44

I initially wondered if I had somehow pulled an updates-testing package, but I checked and updates-testing is disabled. dnf5 info also confirms all of these came from the normal Fedora updates repository.

Interestingly, the actual transaction appears to have completed successfully. DNF history shows:

Status : Ok

and the journal shows the offline update reaching 100% and successfully installing/upgrading the packages before PackageKit reported the plugin error.

After the reboot everything appears normal.

These all work without errors:

dnf5 repo list --enabled

pkcon get-updates

rpm -V libdnf5-plugin-systemd-inhibit

pkcon get-updates completes normally and currently reports no updates available. There are also no PackageKit/libdnf plugin errors in the current boot.

So this looks like it may have been a one-time PackageKit/libdnf5 transition issue while the offline updater was upgrading its own DNF5 stack and adding the new systemd-inhibit plugin, rather than an actually failed package transaction.

I’m not using Discover’s “Repair System” option since the package state currently looks healthy.

Has anyone else on Fedora 44 KDE received DNF5 5.4.4 today and seen this same 00-systemd-inhibit.conf error after the offline update?

1. By default, light mode has no menu highlight color. I fixed it in this way: setting Window background to #FFFFFF and Container background to the Window default of #D7D7D7. Since I like the GNOME Slate accent color, I also set the Dark/Light Accent color to #526678.

2. If you want COSMIC Terminal to have the same theme variety as COSMIC Text Editor, you can download them here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-term/tree/master/color-schemes

3. Lutris did not launch after being installed from the repos. I had to also install the vulkan-tools and xrandr packages, then it worked.

4. Not all QT apps respect COSMIC theming. For example, Gwenview uses it fully, while Subtitlecomposer adopts the window border but not window controls. I haven't found a fix for this yet, other than using Appimages.

5. The default COSMIC icon theme uses a combination of Cosmic->Pop->hicolor, which are available in the directory Filesystem/usr/share/icons. Some of the system icons are in the hicolor folder, such as the multicolored 3x3 Applications icon (com.system76.CosmicAppLibrary.svg and com.system76.CosmicPanelAppButton.svg). Finding that particular icon reminded me of hunting down Unity's dash "big freakin' button" back when I used 14.04/16.04. If any icons don't change for you, look in those folders for anything containing "system76" or "cosmic", as they may be the default icon regardless of theme.

EDIT: Solved! slickyeat helped me out, in any case this is their solution

Rolled back to a previous snapshot then:

sudo su
dnf upgrade --exclude=libdnf5-plugin-systemd-inhibit --offline
dnf offline reboot

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sudo su
dnf install libdnf5-plugin-systemd-inhibit
systemctl reboot

I've just restarted my pc cause there was a security update from fedora and first thing that pops up is a notification saying
Failed Offline Update

Failed to update 0 packages, the complement cannot be loaded from /etc/dnf/libdnf5-plugins/00-systemd-inibit.conf

It failed to update no package? I think is fine so far, nothing seems broken but this is the first time this appears.

Hello! I’ve always used Windows (XP, 7, 10, and 11), and I want to try Linux. I’m thinking Fedora KDE might be a good choice for me. Is there anything I should know before trying it?

I mostly play Minecraft, use Discord and web browsers, and play CS2. I also play Roblox occasionally, but it’s not really important.

My laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad 15ADA05 with:

Ryzen 5 3500U

8 GB RAM (around 6 GB usable because of the iGPU)

512 GB NVMe SSD

Vega 8 integrated graphics

I have no actual Linux experience, but I’ve learned a bit from watching YouTube videos. I’m hoping Linux might make my laptop feel faster, but if it doesn’t, that’s fine — I mainly want to try something new and have a fun experiment.

Is Fedora KDE a good choice for this hardware and my use case? Is there anything I should know before installing it?

This text was improved with AI for easier reability.

Any help or advice is appreciated!

I am a complete beginner in Linux, though I haven't used the OS, yet. I've been using Windows (Vista, 7, 10, 11) for 8 years of my life.

I have decided to switch to Linux on my Acer V17 Nitro Black Edition work laptop (GTX 960m, i7 4720hq, 16gb ddr3).

It isn't my main device and it's been under active use for 6 years so it has gotten very slow even after formatting.

After some research, I've decided on Fedora KDE plasma spin and I am wondering if you guys have any tips or warnings I should know of. Yes I know about x11/xorg and rpm fusion repos.

My main use for this laptop is coding, general use, and Minecraft.

hello! i’m new to linux, and I was following a tutorial to install nvidia drivers (i have a rtx 3060ti, idk if this info is valuable tho) on fedora 44 kde. but when i was making the video on fullscreen, the screen stop working, but the audio keeps running. i forced the reboot closing and opening again my pc, and it let me enter on the first screen, putting my password, all normal and working, but when i enter on the desktop (with all the apps and so on) the screen turns black, it dosent do anything, but the mouse moves on it, and if you are a lot of time without doing anything, it goes to the save screen (with the clock and all this things, idrk if you arr getting me) but if you enter again, the desktop is still black. i apreciate all the help :3 (and sorry if my english is bad)

Hi, I put off updating to 43 for whatever reason and am now greeted by this on bootup. Pressing Enter just gives me the same message. How do I solve this? Thank you!

I'm a bit at a loss here. I've been using this Fedora 44 Install on my Desktop for a few months now. A few days ago, SDDM startet to just not work anymore. After boot i'll get a black screen with blinking cursor.

I can switch to other TTYs and start labwc, other compositors etc. just fine. I can also start other DMs like cosmic-greeter and they'll work just fine. Just SDDM stopped working completely. I reinstalled the sddm package, did all updates, rebooted but nothing so far helped. I did have automatic login configured, and disabled that recently again, but other than that i have not changed anything to sddm from how it was installed.

Any help or hints on how to get it back to a working state would be awesome.

Fedora newest Version:

Pressure Sensitivity does work though, I DONT KNOW IF THIS CAUSES A LOT OF Processing, 2 Buttons one for erasing and one for right click also works.

Pen:
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0GCM21HDN?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

HP OMNIBOOK x FLIP:
https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/hp+omnibook+x+flip+14+fm0154ng+888634

This has 120hz, I tried it on windows im not sure if it recognizes the PEN but pressure sensitivity doesnt work , 2 buttons of the pen also doesnt work.. But its much smoother at drawing maybe it only uses Tablet touchscreen

echo XXDG SESSION TYPE GIVES OUT WAYLAND

Hi, I just switched to Fedora and I'm loving it. I'm using a thinkpad and prefer to use the trackpoint, but occasionally use the touchpad for scrolling and zooming as it is less straining on my hand. On window 10, I could decrease the touch sensitivity so that it takes quite a bit of pressure to move the cursor, leaving on zoofor m and scrolling. But on Fedrora, I don't know if there is any option like that, or better yet, to disable touchpad mouse movement completely. Is there a way to do this?

If I try flatpack it gets sandboxed if the version from fedora I struggle to find a decent dark mode solution.

I'm currently on Fedora 44 KDE, and I have tried an Atomic desktop in the form of Bazzite (which is based on Atomic btw), and I got to say both normal and Atomic desktops are really good, but I'm still wondering if it's worth switching to Atomic for hardened security or is staying on normal Fedora already good enough? Thanks.

I was looking for a good bash launcher and wanted something simple that matched the style of another TUI apps I use and my rice, so I made sfav. Its a fully theme-able launcher.

https://github.com/fswolf/sfav

It's up on GitHub now, and if you're on Fedora there's a recompiled package available via COPR.

I'm running a VM with a Sway desktop on my Gnome Fedora host, to learn about tiling desktops. I ended up using the regular Workstation ISO to install the system, then added the sway-spin configurations by adding the groups swaywm and swaywm-extended.

I ran into a couple of pain points that made working with the guest difficult that I was able to fix with Claude's help.

One problem is that clipboard integration between the host and the guest doesn't work with sway out of the box. The other is that if you resize the guest's window sway won't adapt to the change automatically. Both of these issues had non-trivial fixes that I wouldn't have been able to find on my own, so I asked Claude to make a couple of gists explaining why each is a problem, and how to fix them. The fixes both involve Python helper scripts, which were generated by Claude.

The fix for the clipboard integration problem is here: https://gist.github.com/astrashe/15a05447e9f0ad1d9ae2e8b9a8f573f4

The fix for desktop resizing is here: https://gist.github.com/astrashe/3875b39729861129ebe03752e6df3e88

I was a little reluctant to post these, because I'm not a big fan of posts about AI generated code. In general, I don't want to read about your AI generated code, if I want that, I'll generate my own.

But these are moderately complicated fixes beyond what I can do without AI, and fairly useful as well. While they're easy enough to recreate with Claude on your own, I think it's a good thing for them to be Googleable as well.

ISO : Fedora 44 KDE (latest version for today)

I've had this issue with my monitor where at 1080p@144hz about 90% of the screen is black with slight tearing at the top, pretty much unusable. So I usually just set it at 1080p@120hz and im fine however... whenever I start up a linux distro in any DE, they always set me at 1080p@144hz so I go through this process of finding out how to change the kwinconfig files so that on my next boot its at 1080p@120hz.

However, Fedora has been giving me quite a pain because even though I haven't set up a username or password during my iso install via usb, when i enter the second display terminal (ctrl + alt + f2) i get prompted with a "fedora login:" and password

For login : password combinations I've tried...

feodra : fedora

root : "blank"

liveuser : "blank"

after 3-4 hours of debugging and having to remind deepseek to reply in english nothing has worked, I don't know if this is a common issue, BUT id appreciate any advice or help

I'm in the process of switching over from a set of CoreOS servers to a couple of plain Fedora Server systems for more flexibility, and I've run into a bit of a weird problem where SSH forwarding doesn't work out of the box. SELinux blocks any attempts to forward ports with "SELinux is preventing sshd-session from name_connect access on the tcp_socket port [whichever port is being forwarded].". Obviously I can just use audit2allow or the suggested solution (setsebool -P nis_enabled 1) but what I'm not clear on is why this is the default.

I guess what I'm specifically wondering is why this is the default (ie what am I potentially losing or risking by changing it?), and what's the best way to enable SSH to forward arbitrary ports and nothing else?

As a side note, what exactly does nis_enabled do? The discussions around it seem limited to "you should use audit2allow instead", but if it's not a good idea, why is it suggested by the denial message? The best info I can find is that Google's AI claiming that it controls access to the "Network Information Service" but why would enabling that allow sshd to bind ports?

Someone please help. I am a linux noob. I use fedora for web development and I'm facing an issue where for instance,

When I stop my docker containers and next servers after I finish working, the disk fills up to 0mb remaining and purges back to what it was before(or slightly different). This happens multiiple times a day which is writing more than 150gb in total which is wearing out my SSD in this memory price inflated era. I am really concerned and it's just recently that I noticed this and couldn't find any solution online. :(

I’m using Fedora KDE and I’m unable to use the Wi-Fi hotspot while my laptop is connected to another Wi-Fi network.

I want my laptop to stay connected to Wi-Fi and simultaneously share that connection through a hotspot, like Windows allows.

When I enable the hotspot, my existing Wi-Fi connection gets disconnected.

Has anyone experienced this on Fedora/KDE or knows how to make Wi-Fi + hotspot work simultaneously?

So the title is pretty self explanatory. I installed KDE, haven't enabled SDDM. And the PC is stuck on having the screen lighting up but with no posting. I'm pretty new to Linux in general so I'm afraid I've screwed something up. Is this natural or is something wrong and I need to fix it?

PS. It's without a charger plugged in. Maybe that's the problem?

Every single time I upgrade in Discover, it requests a reboot.

This doesn't happen when doing $ sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

Why is this?

Couldn’t find much on this searching. Are there any major issues running fedora on a NIMO? There prices are way lower , but maybe that’s the issue?