January 2017 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] SIP Phone client
by Klaus Vink Slott 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Until now I have used SFLPhone but it was showing some age and the fact that the files on Opensuse buildservice has not been updated for quite some time now has been worrying. Now after update to LEAP, it can't install any more due to some library stuff. So what do the community recommend as a replacement - preferably a KDE application, - or at least something the works and integrates whiteout to many problems. -- Regards Klaus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SuSEconfig -module fonts
by Roger Oberholtzer 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

SuSEconfig has been gone for quite a while. I used to use it to add fonts via scripts. What is the correct method to add fonts (.ttf) these days? They are not in an RPM. And I do not want to run an interactive program. I googled a bit and did not see anything that addressed this. Bad search words, I guess. I don't know what I am looking for is called... -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Epson Perfection 1260 Photo scanner not working with 42.2
by James Knott 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

I have an Epson scanner which worked until I upgraded to openSUSE 42.2, from 13.1. It no longer works. When I try to configure it in Yast Hardware, I see an Epson Scanner that's not configured and plustek, but it says "No scanner recognized by this driver". Suggestions? tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: I'm not sure "-pae" is worth it
by Per Jessen 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

> On 01/19/2017 02:49 AM, Per Jessen wrote: >> >> With that size memory, it would be running a PAE kernel. > > OMG! > The PAE mechanism involves a mapping table for the 32-bit system to > address more than 4G. I'll leave aside the issue of why anyone might > need for than 4G when many of us run excellent systems in that or > less. Leaving out HPC apps, here are a few reasons - virtual hosting, databases, web- and mail-servers. Virtual hosting is probably the one real reason for 32Gb and more. Are there any desktop apps that would benefit? Photo editing? > I believe Per Jensen mentioned a server that had been up for over 4 > years with just 2G. Yup. > I'm sure that more than 4G I have in my 64-bit desktop would be nice I've got 4Gb in my main workstation, the big memory consumers are firefix, Xorg, thunderbird, and libreoffice. > If I were corporate and the LAN/SAN were the limit I'd see about > gigabit networking or optical networking. But then again, all my > machines, except for a few from the Closet of Anxieties with 800Mhz > 32-bit/1GRAM are 64-bit. For office networks, 1GigE has long been the norm, quite possibly moving towards 10GigE in some areas. For a SAN, 32Gbit is probably the norm now, 8G fibre is slowly coming on to the 2nd hand market. > But "-pae"? > Even so, a processes address space remains at 32-bits, meaning it can > only access a maximum of 4GB of memory. The OS however can access a > 64GB address space, allocating 4GB chunks to processes. In the business, we have one system left running with a PAE kernel - it's a mailserver with 12Gb of memory, nothing special. We don't need lots of memory per process, just lots of them. (imap users). > If this were critical, if this were corporate, I'd seriously look at > getting a new mobo and a 64-but processor. In our case, sure, but there wouldn't be a lot gained. That mailserver just keeps going and going, when it does eventually die, we'll replace it. There are two things that speak for an immediate upgrade - a) availability of spareparts b) electricity savings > As a manager, I look at this way: the cost of time (that is, salary or > consultant's fee) flutzing around with this, ongoing, There isn't any more futzing around than with any other box. If you want PAE, just install the right kernel, that's all. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-4.1°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] firefox ESR 17 broken with latest updates on 42.1
by Felix Miata 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

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[opensuse] Mouse out of control under Tumbleweed
by Terry Eck 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

I have installed Tumbleweed for the second time. First time I did not have a problem with the mouse but I lost access to the internet and the system would not reboot hence the reinstall. I also have access to windows 10 on the same machine so I don't think it is a hardware problem. The basic problem is the mouse is erratic in that it leaves pointer trails on the desktop as well as flashing when I try to detect the edge of a window to expand it. I'm hoping someone can point be to a solution. I have no idea if it is a video driver problem or what. Thanks for any help. Up to this point openSUSE was quite reliable. Regards, Terry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Opensuse 42.2 and Python 3.6
by Adolph & Sharon Weidanz 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

All Does anyone know when or if the repos will be updated to 3.6? -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes _.._ _ ."\__/"./`_\ _/__<__>__\/ jgs `"/_/""""\_\\ Adolph & Sharon Weidanz PADI Staff IDC Instructor/OWSI 283315 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] One Click Install
by John Andersen 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Any clues what I have to change to get Opensuse 1 Click Installs to work with Chrome/Chromium/Vivaldi? If I don't launch them with firefox they just spew some xml and fail. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] connecting to samba folders on a network
by george from the tribe 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

I recently took up a position volunteering at an international school 3 times a week. All the staff here are volunteers, and as a result, we often have some holes in our knowledge. Since I began using openSUSE 5 years ago (my first and only Linux distribution that I experimented with) I have learned quite a bit, but some things were never necessary to learn. For example, Samba shares. I was not setting up an internal server in my house, so I didn't have any need to explore how to set up shared folders and drives. At the school where I volunteer, I work in the engineering department, not the IT department. So even though I am just a user of the network and not a sysadmin, I asked if my workstation could be openSUSE instead of windows, and they agreed, no problem, as long as I can for the most part work out all my own technical problems, since they mostly only know windows. The system here is like this. A few years ago we had someone come through in the IT department that set up the school's network on a linux server, CentOS, and set up samba folders for sharing on the network. It still runs, and those are all the shared drives on the network. As part of the engineering department, I need to access these shared drives and read the files, in particular the drawing files. When I set up my pc as a client for reading samba shares (I allowed samba services for both a server and a client in the firewall), I went into yast -> windows domain membership, and then set up the domain. Then I went to dolphin, clicked on the network icon, and searched through the samba shared folders. We found some of the network folders that came up, but not all. I had an IT guy come here and we were able to manually navigate to the network folder I need, which has the format of: smb://administrator username@servername/path With that format, I am able to access the folders, but only in dolphin and only by manually entering the long navigation path. I tried to set up a network drive with the network folder wizard in dolphin, but it is very difficult to figure out what goes in what field, and which part of the wizard to use. Do I connect via FTP? I read somewhere that samba clients on linux machines can connect to samba folders via ftp. Do I connect instead as if the samba folders are emulating a Microsoft Windows Network drive? In that one, it has fields for entering name, server, and folder. In the FTP, it has fields for entering name, user, server, port, and folder. I tried both, with various combinations of username, server name, path, etc. in the appropriate fields, and it is never able to create a network folder. However, I can still access the network folder in dolphin if I manually enter the folder string, as I noted above. BTW, I am using Leap 42.2 and KDE. George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Update on erratic mouse movement
by Terry Eck 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

It turns out that when I use IceWM instead of Plasma 5 the mouse problem goes away. I'm hoping someone can point me towards a solution. It has to be related to Plasma 5. Are there any controls with regard to the mouse under this window manager? In a prior post I had given some information about my system obtained for Yast. Regards, Terry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SAS/SCSI Hotplug
by Paul Groves 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Hi, I have a couple of external tape drives. one SAS and the other SCSI. I do not wish to have these powered on at all times because they have very loud fans. I can turn them on and off easily as the drives have a power switch I can flip on when required, but the drives are not automatically detected again until reboot. lsscsi does not show them but after reboot it does. How can I configure the system to automatically re-detect these drives? Or perhaps a command that can be run before the backup script starts? Using openSUSE 42.1 x64 Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] LibreOffice help menu
by Dave Howorth 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

I run LibreOffice Version: 5.2.3.3 Build ID: 20m0(Build:3) on openSUSE Leap 42.1 I just clicked on LibreOffice Help in the Help menu and discovered that it opened a web page instead of a help window. The web page is https://help.libreoffice.org/index.php?title=5.2/Common/Help&Language=en-US… and I can't figure out how to use it to get help! It seems to be some kind of overview/index but there doesn't seem to be any way to actually invoke help. How do I use it? Thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Ktorrent Font Size adjustment in XFCE desktop environment
by ellanios82 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

- after recent TW dup , ktorrent fonts have become tiny : How to increase ktorrent font size : have tried Qt and KDE Font utils without result ? thanks ellan ..... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] RESOLVED: Mounting a 5TB NTFS drive?
by Greg Freemyer 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

The issue was trivial. The partition table was GPT and I was using fdisk to look at it. Once I used "gdisk -l" to look at the partition setup, I found I needed to mount partition 2. Sorry for the noise. Greg On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > I routinely mount USB-3 drives to openSUSE. Normally to 13.1. I > don't recall ever mounting anything over 4TB before. > > I'm in the field today and the only DVD I have with me is a 13.1 DVD. > > I bought a new Seagate 5TB USB-3 drive. It works in Windows 10 and I > have put data on it. > > I can see the 5TB drive when I boot the PC in question from the > openSUSE 13.1 DVD, but it fails to mount. > > Is there a known problem going over 4TB? Will it work if get a Leap > 42.2 machine? (90 minutes round trip drive time to my office, thus > the question). > > Thanks > Greg > -- > Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mounting a 5TB NTFS drive?
by Greg Freemyer 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

All, I routinely mount USB-3 drives to openSUSE. Normally to 13.1. I don't recall ever mounting anything over 4TB before. I'm in the field today and the only DVD I have with me is a 13.1 DVD. I bought a new Seagate 5TB USB-3 drive. It works in Windows 10 and I have put data on it. I can see the 5TB drive when I boot the PC in question from the openSUSE 13.1 DVD, but it fails to mount. Is there a known problem going over 4TB? Will it work if get a Leap 42.2 machine? (90 minutes round trip drive time to my office, thus the question). Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Programming F1 with twm or ctwm
by Richmond 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

I have two computers with an identical .ctwmrc, and it has this line: "F1" = : window : f.iconify On the first computer it works, pressing F1 iconifies a window, but on the second it doesn't work, it just makes the mouse cursor disappear for a second. Sometimes OP (an escape sequence?) appears in the xterm window (if that is the window targetted). This second computer did have a .Xmodmap but I renamed it. I rebooted the system after renaming .Xmodmap. I have found the same problem with twm. I changed the default window manager to twm, the default display manager to xdm, rebooted the system, created a new user, copied the .twmrc file, but still F1 didn't work. xev shows it is sending key 67 F1. I have tried plugging in a USB keyboard, but no difference. What's happening? Why does it behave differently on this computer? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Leap 42.2 with Intel Skylake?
by Lew Wolfgang 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Hi Folks, I recall issues with Skylake, are they still present? Anyone have any recent experiences to share? This would be for a laptop. Thanks, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] A question....
by ianseeks 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

HI I've had a console session open running 'top' and i switched to ctrl-alt-F7 to login to a graphical session. I put the password in, hit enter and switched back to the console to watch 'top'. My question is, why doesn't the graphical login proceed at normal pace to load the desktop? It seems to halt the login progress until i switch back to the graphical session. Regards Ian -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20170112 Qt: 5.7.1 KDE Frameworks: 5.29.0 KDE Plasma: 5.8.5 kwin5-5.8.5-1.1.x86_64 kmail2 5.4.0 Kernel: 4.9.0-2-default Nouveau: 1.0.13_2.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Leap 42.2 overwrote Win10 mbr on /dev/sda on grub update for SuSE on /dev/sdb
by David C. Rankin 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

All, This was somewhat disturbing. I have 2 drives in my laptop, win10 on /dev/sda and Leap 42.2 on /dev/sdb. I boot either by selecting the drive I want to boot with the quick select bios boot option (e.g. press F9, the select hd1, hd2 of network boot) A couple of days ago, there was an update to grub2, and whatever hook is in place forced a grub reinstall. The problem is that grub installed to /dev/sda (writing itself to my win10 drive, instead of writing itself to my opensuse drive). This was quite surprising when I next tried to boot win10. Thankfully, grub detected and set up a chain-load for win10, but the issue is -- why would it touch /dev/sda, when it was booted from and running on /dev/sdb. I was able to recover/remove grub from /dev/sda with a call to bootsect, but I want to prevent this from ever happening again. I suspect part of the problem was the original installation of grub2 by yast and the creation of the archaic /boot/grub2/device.map containing '(hd0) /dev/sda' during install. I have rewritten device.map to contain (hd1) /dev/sda (hd0) /dev/sdb What I need to know is "Are there any other hooks or defaults in the way opensuse calls `grub-install` following a grub2 update that would cause it to write to /dev/sda instead of the drive opensuse is running on?" (after that we can get to 'why in the heck did an update to grub require a grub-install on a working system to begin with?' there was no kernel update or any change that would warrant a reinstall of grub to the drive) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] baloo crashes resumed - how do I install debug symbols
by Mikhail Ramendik 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Hello, Unfortunately, killing the database and restarting the scan did not end my baloo troubles. When I saved a docx document today it crashed again. And this is not just about docx parsing - indexing has gotten frozen: > balooctl status Baloo File Indexer is running Indexer state: Indexing file content Indexed 7028 / 98944 files Current size of index is 88.30 MiB This seems to mean that indexing is stuck on a particular file for quite some time and nobody knows what file. Might be time to go to the KDE mailing lists or forums, but first I need to install debug symbols, and this is an opensuse thing. So how *do* I Install them? -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to start mdadm service in openSUSE Leap 42.2?
by Istvan Gabor 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Hello: I have a few md raid1 sets I used in previous openSUSE versions. In my freshly installed Leap 42.2 the raid sets are not assembled automatically at boot, though I have a correct mdadm.conf file. I can manually assemble the sets using mdadm. # cat /proc/mdstat cat: /proc/mdstat: No such file or directory # cat /etc/mdadm.conf DEVICE containers partitions ARRAY /dev/md/pc:6 UUID=21316afe:1a4dd0bf:50911056:88042a7c ARRAY /dev/md/pc:7 UUID=64e23ea9:7dcb9ee2:7bca71bd:248cc5cf # mdadm -E --scan ARRAY /dev/md/6 metadata=1.0 UUID=21316afe:1a4dd0bf:50911056:88042a7c name=pc:6 ARRAY /dev/md/7 metadata=1.0 UUID=64e23ea9:7dcb9ee2:7bca71bd:248cc5cf name=pc:7 # mdadm -A /dev/md6 /dev/sdb6 /dev/sdc6 mdadm: /dev/md6 has been started with 2 drives. # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md6 : active raid1 sdb6[3] sdc6[2] 20971520 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> How can I start md service in Leap 42.2? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Zypper message
by ianseeks 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Hi I've been getting the message below for the last week or so when i do a zypper dup but it never removes these applications. The following 3 applications are going to be REMOVED: Desktop "Grouping Plasmoid" "System Tray" Any ideas? Regards Ian -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20170112 Qt: 5.7.1 KDE Frameworks: 5.30.0 KDE Plasma: 5.8.95 kwin5-5.8.95-174.1.x86_64 Kernel: 4.9.0-2-default Nouveau: 1.0.13_2.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] baloo crashes
by Mikhail Ramendik 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

On 16 January 2017 at 22:39, John Andersen <jsamyth(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Crashes how exactly? > Is it on specific files? Right now it has crashed when I was saving a DOCX file. The message has: Executable: baloo_file PID: 2541 Signal: Segmentation fault (11) Time: 17/01/2017 02:53:49 > You can put files and file types in the exclude list. > You have to dig that out and do it manually because the kde people keep hiding the System Settings > plug in for that feature. > > Look in baloofilerc > locate baloofilerc /home/misha/.kde4/share/config/baloofilerc I have added *.pdf,*.docx and will see if this resolves the issue, but really, this looks like a bug anyway. I wonder how I can get the debug symbols so I can file it meaningfully. -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] baloo crashes
by Mikhail Ramendik 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

On 16 January 2017 at 22:39, John Andersen <jsamyth(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I am running Leap 42.1 and I am getting constant crashes of baloo, the >> file indexing daemon. Is there anything I can do about it? >> > > Crashes how exactly? There is a KDE window telling me Baloo has crashed. It tried to file a bug but fails to find debug symbols and fails to install them. > Is it on specific files? Could not really trace that. Probably when downloading PDFs but not just that. -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] raspberry 3 pi and USB throubhput ?
by Greg Freemyer 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

The Raspberry PI thread got me thinking. I need a "portable PC" that can do high-speed USB-3 i/o. I've been using a laptop with both USB-3 ports and a eSata port. I would like enough horsepower I can run compression on the data stream. Effectively "dd if=/dev/sdb | gzip > compressed_image_file" (I actually use ewfacquire from the distro to do this.) My plan is to buy a new laptop, but a nice Arm box might be a much better choice. Especially if I can get one for under $200. I could buy 3 of those instead of a decent laptop. Any suggestions of what I should look at? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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