Common F31 bugs

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This page documents common bugs in Fedora 31 and, if available, fixes or workarounds for these problems. If you find your problem in this page, please do not file a bug for it, unless otherwise instructed. Where appropriate, a reference to the current bug(s) in Bugzilla is included.

Release Notes

Read the Fedora 31 release announcement and the Fedora 31 release notes for specific information about changes in Fedora 31 and other general information.

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Core system issues

Encrypted system does not resume from hibernation correctly if you wait more than 90 seconds to input encryption password

link to this item - Bugzilla: #1705522

If you install Fedora 31 with the system partitions encrypted, and then use the hibernate (suspend-to-disk) feature, you will be prompted to input the encryption password during system resume. If you wait longer than 90 seconds before inputting the password, the system will not resume from hibernation correctly - instead a fresh boot will be performed and your previous state will be lost.

There is currently no known workaround for this problem besides simply making sure you input the password soon enough to avoid it happening.

Workstation (GNOME) issues

Custom keyboard layout switch key combinations do not work in X11

link to this item - Bugzilla: #1743005

It has been reported that in Fedora 31, if you run GNOME on X11 (not on Wayland) and configure a custom key combination for switching the keyboard layout via GNOME Tweak Tool or direct configuration editing, the custom combination will not work. Custom switcher combos do work in Wayland, and the several pre-defined combos available via the GNOME Control Center do work in both X11 and Wayland. Switching layout via the graphical menu in the top panel also works.

Users settings applet hangs if incorrect existing password is entered when changing user password

link to this item - Bugzilla: #1763525

If you enter a user's existing password wrong when attempting to change their password from the Users settings applet in Fedora 31 Workstation, the applet may hang. It should be possible to exit the applet with alt-F4 and try again. If you enter the existing password correctly, things should work fine.

KDE issues

Discover app may trigger errors if attempting multiple operations on a package in a single run

link to this item - Bugzilla: #1762291

The Discover package management application in KDE appears not to refresh its internal accounting of package states after performing an install or remove operation. So, for instance, if you run it and install a package, the install will work fine, but on some level that instance of Discover still doesn't 'know' the package is installed. If you then attempt to uninstall it, you may get a "Package not found" error.

It seems some actions within Discover do trigger a refresh of this state, so this issue is somewhat unpredictable. But if you encounter unexpected errors when doing something like this, we recommend you exit the application and run it again. This should avoid such issues.

Upgrade issues

Upgrade to Fedora 31 may fail if DNF decides packages need to be reinstalled (often related to RPM Fusion third-party repository)

link to this item - Bugzilla: #1764169

It has been reported that an upgrade to Fedora 31 may fail in a certain specific circumstance. There is a known design limitation to the Fedora upgrade process: it involves running two DNF transactions, the first (the download transaction, run in the normal system environment) deciding which packages will ultimately need to be upgraded and downloading them, and the second (the upgrade transaction, run in a special limited environment after the system is rebooted) actually applying those upgrades using the previously-downloaded packages. The second transaction is not recalculated in exactly the same way as the first; instead, the lists of packages to be 'installed' and 'removed' in the first transaction are recorded and used to create the second transaction, which runs without a constraint that applies to the first but expects that duplicating the lists of packages to be 'installed' and 'removed' will result in an identical transaction.

It seems that in some cases, when calculating the second transaction, DNF can decide that some packages should be 'reinstalled', when it did not do so when calculating the first transaction; in this situation, the relevant packages will not have been downloaded as part of the first transaction, and so will not be available to DNF when attempting to perform the second transaction, and so it will fail. The failure manifests as the 'upgrade' step taking an unusually short time, and the system remaining at Fedora 30 when it reboots; no changes are actually made to the system, so this is not a damaging failure, it just means the upgrade does not work. If you examine the system journal and/or /var/log/dnf*.log log files from the time of the upgrade attempt, you will see an error indicating that a package has an incorrect checksum - this is slightly misleading, what it really means is that the package file was not present *at all* when DNF went to calculate its checksum.

We have not yet worked out precisely the conditions that cause this failure, but it seems at least most often to happen when packages related to the third party 'RPM Fusion' repository are installed. Temporarily removing packages related to that repository, then re-installing them after the upgrade is complete, may help to work around the bug.

On Fedora Silverblue/IoT, the GRUB menu shows duplicate entries

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Upgrading Fedora Silverblue or Fedora IoT from an older Fedora release to Fedora 31 might result in duplicate GRUB entries at boot time. However, the default boot entry is still the correct one. Hence, updating and rebooting should still work as usual. This is due to both GRUB2 (via blscfg) and ostree-grub2 (via /etc/grub.d/15_ostree) emitting menu entries. However, we cannot yet turn off the latter in favour of pure BLS booting due to a combination of: (1) older systems may have a GRUB2 too old to understand BLS, (2) OSTree systems do not yet have a mechanism for updating bootloader software, and (3) there is no easy way to detect the currently installed GRUB2 version.

We're working on ways to address this. In the meantime, one way to remove the duplicate menu entries is to disable blscfg support by setting GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=false in /etc/default/grub. This will take effect on the next update and reboot.

For more information, see https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/pull/1929 and https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/boot-entries-gone-after-upgrade/8026.

ARM issues

Nvidia Jetson TK1 requires nouveau driver to be blacklisted for graphical output

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Due to an issue with Nouveau on the Nvidia Jetson TK1 you will need to blacklist the driver. To do this before booting the system, mount the installation media and edit the file /etc/extlinux.conf, adding rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau to the kernel parameters (line that begins with append).

Etnaviv on imx.6 requires CMA adjustment for graphical output

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To use the Etnaviv driver on imx.6 based boards you will need to make a small adjustment to the kernel parameters to fix CMA memory allocation issues. To do this before booting the system, mount the installation media and edit the file /etc/extlinux.conf, changing cma=256MB to cma=256M@2G. This was fixed in a recent upstream kernel commit, so the fix should appear in a future Fedora kernel update.

Low memory systems

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Systems with low memory (less than 512MB) may run out of memory when running some applications- most notably dnf. To workaround this, stop and disable the zram service:

systemctl stop zram; systemctl disable zram; swapoff /dev/zram0

It is recommended you then create a swap file to use in its place.

AArch64 issues

Some AArch64 systems may boot with iommu/arm-smmu errors using Device Tree

link to this item - Bugzilla: #1724276

Some Enterprise AArch64 systems may boot with iommu/arm-smmu errors when booting using device tree (the fedora default). It is recommended to boot these systems using ACPI by adding acpi=force to the kernel parameters. If you would like to use device tree you can work around this issue by adding arm-smmu.disable_bypass=n. To do one of these permanently, you can use one of the following:

sudo grub2-editenv - set "$(grub2-editenv - list | grep kernelopts) acpi=force"
sudo grub2-editenv - set "$(grub2-editenv - list | grep kernelopts) arm-smmu.disable_bypass=n"

This should be fixed in a system firmware update.

Other software issues

Docker package no longer available and will not run by default (due to switch to cgroups v2)

link to this item - Bugzilla: #1757078

The Docker package has been removed from Fedora 31. It has been replaced by the upstream package moby-engine, which includes the Docker CLI as well as the Docker Engine. However, we recommend instead that you use podman, which is a Cgroups v2-compatible container engine whose CLI is compatible with Docker's. Fedora 31 uses Cgroups v2 by default. The moby-engine package does not support Cgroups v2 yet, so if you need to run the moby-engine or run the Docker CE package, then you need to switch the system to using Cgroups v1, by passing the kernel parameter systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0. To do this permanently, run sudo grub2-editenv - set "$(grub2-editenv - list | grep kernelopts) systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0".