Troubleshooting

Every time a new kernel arrives via dnf upgrade, your Fedora EFI boot entry disappears. You reboot and the UEFI firmware can’t find Fedora anymore. You have to manually regenerate GRUB and recreate the boot entry. Again. This is a Fedora issue with duplicate or malformed boot entries in the UEFI firmware. The kernel update process has hooks that regenerate GRUB, but if you have bad entries sitting there, the system gets confused and deletes the good one instead of refreshing it. ...

G4 desktop, Fedora 44 on SDA. Decided to try RakuOS on a spare NVMe. Booted the G4 again and Fedora wouldn’t boot from SDA. The EFI entry exists. The files are there. But the UEFI firmware just skips SDA and boots something else. understanding the problem Your computer’s EFI system (UEFI firmware) has a boot order list. That list points to files on disk that tell the firmware how to boot each OS. If that pointer gets broken or the bootloader itself isn’t properly initialized, the entry becomes dead weight. It exists but doesn’t work. ...

Fedora 44, KDE Plasma, Wayland session. Simple thing, holding a key down. 7777777777777777777 Except it wasn’t doing that anymore. Hold 7, get one 7, and instead of it repeating I’d get a little popup underneath the cursor with a handful of characters sitting in it. Looked exactly like one of those mobile long-press accent menus. Checked System Settings → Input Devices → Keyboard → Key repeat. All fine, delay and rate both set correctly. Tried the Test area right there in Settings, same thing happened, single character then that popup. Tried it in a terminal, tried it in the browser, tried it in an editor. Everywhere. Not one app misbehaving, the whole session. ...