Karsten Gresch

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Archives for May 2019

Fedora 30: Install Pantheon or Deepin

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With the now-new Fedora 30, there came two new desktop environments: Pantheon from ElementaryOS and Deepin.

One of my daughters used ElementaryOS and Pantheon for quite a while, and it turned out to be extremely stable and fast.

The installation is just dead simple:

sudo dnf groupinstall 'pantheon desktop'

If you want to give Deepin a try:

sudo dnf install deepin-desktop

Reboot afterwards [1] (caveat: check your boot menu if using BIOS boot) and select the new desktop environment at the login window after selecting the user entry.

[1] Basically log-off could also work, but I prefer to have a freshly rebooted system when changing the desktop environment.

Fedora 30: When grub2-mkconfig Doesn’t Work

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The new Fedora 30 is out and comes with a lot of great new stuff!

The upgrade process is fairly easy, just make sure you have enough space on your / partition left (~6 GByte).

If you happen to have a BIOS booting computer (instead of one with UEFI boot), there is a chance that after the upgrade your boot menu doesn’t reflect the newly installed kernel from Fedora 30.

Even worse, running

sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

doesn’t change the menu entries in grub.cfg.

 

The culprit at least for me was this entry in /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true

which enables the Boot Loader Specification (abbreviated BLS; there are still some hickups with the Fedora specific implementation) and for some reason doesn’t allow reflecting kernel file changes in /boot/ in grub.cfg or else (when rebooting, I only saw the old menu entries, no matter what).

 

To solve this trouble, change the line in /etc/default/grub to

GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=false

 

Now, run 

sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

and you should be good to go.

(B.t.w. – you can test the menus with:

grep -P "^menuentry" /boot/grub2/grub.cfg | cut -d "'" -f2

).

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