November 2023 - openSUSE Support - openSUSE Mailing Lists

NVMe tunneling over USB4 / PCIe Alt mode?
by ASSI 16 Nov '23

16 Nov '23

I'm looking for a way to get an external NVMe enclosure connected via USB4 (PCIe Alt mode) to a Ryzen 7735HS (Rembrandt) based miniPC (MinisForum UM773 Lite). The USB4 controller is properly recognized: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ~> lspci -tv -[0000:00]-+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Root Complex … +-08.3-[36]--+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #8 | +-00.3 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #5 | +-00.4 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #6 | \-00.5 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4/Thunderbolt NHI controller #1 … --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Connecting an NVMe enclosure with an AsMedia AS2364 controller to the USB4 port however has this result: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ~> lsusb -vt … /: Bus 08.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/1p, 10000M ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub |__ Port 1: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=uas, 10000M ID 174c:2364 ASMedia Technology Inc. … --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Connection over USB should result in 20000M connection speed with this enclosure and cable; however it doesn't even use 2x2 mode, much less the PCIe Alt mode that would allow NVMe tunneling (hopefully). Instead it connects via UAS, so the disk shows up as SCSI disk and I cannot use NVMe CLI tools (among other things, that would allow me to change the sector size from 512 to 4096 on the QLC based 4TB SSD without having to mount them on an internal M2 port in a spare PC). Does anyone have any insights into how to make this work and/or can share experiences with NVMe enclosures where this works out of the box? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+

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Tumbleweed - WINGs Display Manager (wdm)
by Michael Hieb 15 Nov '23

15 Nov '23

I have always used the WINGs Display Manager (wdm) which is light, elegant and integrated into the Windowmaker windowmanager. I have just refreshed tumbleweed and found WINGs Display Manager and the windowmaker applets were removed. /mymachine# uname -a Linux laguna 6.5.9-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Oct 25 10:31:37 UTC 2023 (29edc7c) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux/ I have added back the windowmaker applets from the tumbleweed X11:windowmanagers repo (https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:windowmanagers/openSUSE_Tumb…). However when I look for the repos with WINGs Display Manager (wdm) all the packages listed on https://software.opensuse.org/package/wdm are no longer available. A careful search on the web turned up nothing. Is there any way to get WINGs Display Manager (wdm)? Or is it time to mourn its passing? Thanks

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my mails not on users@lists.opensuse.org
by Simon Becherer 10 Nov '23

10 Nov '23

Hi, since some days my mails will not shown on the users(a)lists.opensuse.org i have made a mail to: users-owner(a)lists.opensuse.org at 07.11.2023 18:31 but get no answer. what could i do, or who sould i asked to solve the problem? simoN -- www.becherer.de

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Chrome based browsers get borked regularly
by Ianseeks 10 Nov '23

10 Nov '23

Just a comment. It seems that one snapshot each week over the last month or so, the browsers like Opera and vivaldi get the inability to display stuff properly. They get do fixed a few days later when they are updated. Thank goodness it doesn't affect Firefox. opensuse:tumbleweed:20231107 Qt: 5.15.11 KDE Frameworks: 5.111.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.27.9 - kwin 5.27.9 kmail2 5.24.2 (23.08.2) - akonadiserver 5.24.2 (23.08.2) - Kernel: 6.5.9-1- default - kernel-firmware-radeon 20231019

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Postgres/Akonadi problem
by Ianseeks 06 Nov '23

06 Nov '23

Hi I have posted this problem on kdepim-users list but with no resolution. A little history. I changed from mysql to postgresql a long time ago when ver 9.6 was the latest version of postgres. I've update the DB to 10, 11, 12 until ver 13 which i have been using until now. I did try updating to ver 14 but it failed with locale issues during the update and i couldn't get a resolution. I just recently managed to get the database converted from postgresql13 to postgresql16 and the data was transferred to the new DB with no issues. I can't get akonadi loaded as it fails starting postgresql, its failing with a message saying it needs ver 9.6 as teh DB was created using 9.6. I can't see why it insists on ver 9.6 being there as i've updated to ver 16 and that process means i create an empty DB. Ver 9.6 doesn't seem to be in the repos anymore for me to even reinstall it. Thanks for any help. This is my .config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc file which worked happily before [Debug] Tracer=null [%General] Driver=QPSQL [QPSQL] Host=/run/user/1001/akonadi InitDbPath=/usr/bin/initdb Name=akonadi Options= ServerPath=/usr/bin/pg_ctl StartServer=true [QMYSQL] Host= Name=akonadi Options= ServerPath=/usr/sbin/mysqld StartServer=true ----- Here are the error messages. -------------- ~:> akonadictl start org.kde.pim.akonadictl: Starting Akonadi Server... org.kde.pim.akonadictl: done. ~> Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server... (QFileInfo(/usr/lib/postgresql/bin), QFileInfo(/usr/lib/postgresql/lib64)) QSqlDatabase: QPSQL driver not loaded QSqlDatabase: available drivers: QSQLITE QMARIADB QMYSQL QMYSQL3 org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Invalid database object during database server startup QProcess: Destroyed while process ("/usr/bin/pg_ctl") is still running. org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer... org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadiserver' exited normally... --------- This is from "systemctl status postgresql.service" × postgresql.service - PostgreSQL database server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postgresql.service; enabled; preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2023-10-31 16:24:13 GMT; 1min 31s ago Process: 5916 ExecStart=/usr/share/postgresql/postgresql-script start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CPU: 8ms Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li systemd[1]: Starting PostgreSQL database server... Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li postgresql-script[5916]: Your database files were created by PostgreSQL version 9.6. Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li postgresql-script[5916]: Could not find executables for this version. Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li postgresql-script[5916]: Please install the PostgreSQL server package for version 9.6. Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li systemd[1]: postgresql.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li systemd[1]: postgresql.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li systemd[1]: Failed to start PostgreSQL database server. ---------- From the journal using "journalctl -xeu postgresql.service" Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li systemd[1]: Starting PostgreSQL database server... Subject: A start job for unit postgresql.service has begun execution Defined-By: systemd Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel A start job for unit postgresql.service has begun execution. The job identifier is 2241. Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li postgresql-script[5916]: Your database files were created by PostgreSQL version 9.6. Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li postgresql-script[5916]: Could not find executables for this version. Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li postgresql-script[5916]: Please install the PostgreSQL server package for version 9.6. Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li systemd[1]: postgresql.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Subject: Unit process exited Defined-By: systemd Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel An ExecStart= process belonging to unit postgresql.service has exited. The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1. Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li systemd[1]: postgresql.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Subject: Unit failed Defined-By: systemd Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel The unit postgresql.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit- code'. Oct 31 16:24:13 Lian-Li systemd[1]: Failed to start PostgreSQL database server. Subject: A start job for unit postgresql.service has failed Defined-By: systemd Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel A start job for unit postgresql.service has finished with a failure. opensuse:tumbleweed:20231029 Qt: 5.15.11 KDE Frameworks: 5.111.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.27.9 - kwin 5.27.9 kmail2 5.24.2 (23.08.2) - akonadiserver 5.24.2 (23.08.2) - Kernel: 6.5.9-1- default - kernel-firmware-radeon 20231019

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