November 2017 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] the gost of a removed hard-disk gives me a problem
by C. Brouerius van Nidek 11 Nov '17

11 Nov '17

One of my hard-disk stopped functioning properly so I removed it from my main computer. The HDD had two partitions, the first a 2 GB swap and the second partition an ext 4 159 GB single work-space. After removal of the disk I found that the reboot took me much longer. Looking at the cause I found that the machine is still looking for the local swap. I have given all my swap spaces a volume label, in this case label swapc. >From where is the boot-loader getting its information so that I can remove this old and unjust information. -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20171108 Qt: 5.9.2 KDE Frameworks: 5.39.0 kf5-config: 1.0 KDE Plasma: 5.11.2 plasmashell 5.11.2 Kernel: 4.13.11-1-default Linux User 183145 working on a Pentium IV . -- 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] Is there a difference between the result and action of dracut -f and mkinitrd?
by stakanov 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

As of title: is the result for both commands (in leap) the same or is there a difference? Is there a difference in action? What command should be preferred? Thank you. -- 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] Heads up, vbox 5.1.2X to 5.2 update will leave headless win guests unable to capture mouse/kbd
by David C. Rankin 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

This is a side-note for anyone that virtualizes windows guests on a linux host and provides the headless guests for remote access. For all previous 5.1 host updates, the headless guests would make use of the existing guest additions to allow normal login and update of guest additions within the guest itself. Apparently there is an incompatibility between 5.1.X guest additions and the new 5.2 guest additions that prevent guests from recognizing existing 5.1.x guest additions after the host is updated to 5.2. (meaning you have to start the windows guest normally on the host (or use VBoxManage on the host) to install the new 5.2 guest additions. This has the side effect of making win guests unavailable for remote access until 5.2 guest additions are installed. If accessed remotely before the guest addition update, the login screen will be visible, but there is no way to interact with it as neither keyboard or mouse can be captured (with or without use of the local host-key -- usually right-ctrl) I don't suspect too many people will fall into this issue unless you virtualize guests on a server and provide access via network (remote) access via rdesktop or the like. (but if you do, know you remote clients will have no way to login until you update their guest additions) The kicker is it requires host access to fix, where before remote clients could update their own guest additions following vbox version update on the host. Reported upstream ticket/17259 (also, there are a few other issues for headless guests like setvideomodehint color depth settings being lost, etc.. and there seems to be a bit of degraded video performance for headless guests) Hopefully these bumps will get ironed out before 5.2.1 comes out (or 5.2.2) -- 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] Please Recommend - OpenSource KVM/XEN virtualisation / Cluster Management
by andreil1 09 Nov '17

09 Nov '17

Hi ! I would be glad if someone with successful experience would recommend me open source KVM/XEN virtualisation and cluster management software, which offers GUI, backup, live migration, and possibly high-availability features. Systems will run under KVM, or may be XEN full virtualisation. Right now I’m trying to install and configure Ganeti + Django-based GUI, but it appears quite difficult and time consuming, and I’m close to the point to give up, and switch to something else. I’m need to run several SuSE & Ubuntu guests, host version of Linux doesn’t matter, it could be SuSE, Debian, whatever else. Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s). Andrei -- 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] pdftk exists in suse?
by ken 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Is there an app called pdftk for suse? I know there are many apps to handle PDFs, but this one is unique in its capabilities... I haven't found another which can do all the same things. -- 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] Yast segmentation fault on several installs of 42.3
by andreil1 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi, I have several installs of Leap 42.3, and almost all of them have the same problem with yast2 - launching it results in: /sbin/ast2: line 447: 30273 segmentation fault (core dumped) $y2ccbin $Y2UI_ARGS “$@“ However, yast2 —gtk works just fine. No updates from repositories really helps. Anyone know how to fix this issue ? Thanks in advance. -- 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] Missing GFTP?
by Vojtěch Zeisek 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi, https://software.opensuse.org/package/gftp says GFTP should be available for TW in main OSS repo, but $ LC_ALL=C sudo zypper in gftp Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... 'gftp' not found in package names. Trying capabilities. No provider of 'gftp' found. Resolving package dependencies... Nothing to do. What is wrong? V. -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/ https://trapa.cz/

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[opensuse] KDE and directories
by Roger Oberholtzer 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

I think I know the answer to this (and Google was no help), but I thought I would ask in case I messed something very obvious: Is it possible to have KDE run a program when you enter a directory? Say in Dolphin. We want to sense if the current directory contains a file with a specific name. If so, do something. The point is that it should be automatic. And it must be done for all directories. There is no name rule or pattern that can be used. We already register numerous file associations. So I explored https://specifications.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-in…. There is something about Non-regular files and inode/directory. But I just don't see how to use this to trigger running a program. Has anyone implemented this in such a general way? -- 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] Upgrading oracle jdk curiosity
by Carlos E. R. 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to upgrade jdk from oracle to jdk-8u151-linux-x64.rpm. They have changed the rpm internal naming scheme again. YaST sees it as "1.8", while the currently installed is seen as jdk1.8.0_144. To see what was going on, I tried manually: # zypper install jdk-8u151-linux-x64.rpm Retrieving repository 'Local RPMs' metadata .................................[done] Building repository 'Local RPMs' cache ......................................[done] Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... The following NEW package is going to be installed: jdk1.8 The following application is going to be REMOVED: "Rodent package manager plugin" <================== 1 new package to install. Overall download size: 166,1 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 276,4 MiB will be used. Continue? [y/n/...? shows all options] (y): n # - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloC+i4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UgFQCfbquz+BptkMkiGRY80Gy0o0M9 tdsAnjMC1NKFzL0VI6avJGNp1WEr7Zz6 =uVGa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] btrfs rollback gives dead display manager
by listreader 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

After a possibly ill-advised sideload upgrade/fix of a perl app, I tried to do a btrfs rollback but I end up with a dead display manager. Going back to the current/last snapshot and display manager works fine. I see nothing in intervening snapshots (or in yast2) that relates to any display manager changes nor anything else in there that would seem to have anything to do with display manager. This is a new (few days) fresh install of Leap 423 with xfce that previously to this event had all updates installed. Display manager is lightdm. Any ideas? Thanks. Ralph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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