Hi all,
I have made previous posts where I have gotten help with troubleshooting problems with Fedora Linux in general. Sometimes I have not given enough information in posts to aid people helping me solve troubleshooting issues. Are there a list of commands I can use to help give information on issues I run into for people trying to help me in future posts please?
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Often we ask for basic info about your system.
Our preferred report is from inxi -Fzxx.
What else is requested is problem specific.
Being familiar with extracting logs with journalctl is helpful.
On KDE there is kinfo, on GNOME nothing comparable.
You have fprint --sysinfo --printonly which is pretty verbose.
Compared to inxi the fpaste (?) is hard to read because of it raw dump of lots of data.
Yes I think this was my issue too.
And kinfo is a looot simpler, which is often sufficient.
It seems kind of buried, but it’s easily found by searching for “about” either in the overview or the settings app itself.
Yes but we havent found a CLI interface yet. kinfo is the cli for printing the infos from kinfocenter afaik.
If we have found it, coming from this thread, we should document “how to give useful information”.
Will also add our current results to the moderator guideline draft.
Is that important for most cases? For many users, it might even be an intimidating barrier. The GNOME Settings panel has a nice “Copy” button…
no, this is a good step (also marked as solution). It is just not sufficient if also package versions (rpm -qa | grep packagename) are wanted, as you need the terminal anyways.
Or if the system does not boot to a GUI, which happens quite a lot too