May 2017 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Hard disk volumes and removable flash disks
by Istvan Gabor 03 May '17

03 May '17

Hello: I have openSUSE Leap 42.2 now. I installed KDE3 and it seems it works OK. One thing I don't understand: If I set KDE3 to show device icons on the desktop all my unmounted internal hard disk volumes are shown on the desktop as removable devices represented by the "pendrive" icon. If I plugin a pendrive it's put on the desktop as well (correctly) with the same icon. It seems the system doesn't distinguish between internal hard drive volumes and removable devices. 1. KDE3 or the base system is responsible? 2. How can I fix this? I want removable flash disks and external USB hard disks shown on the desktop but I don't want the many internal hard disk partitions there. 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] oSC17 Schedule and Registration Booth
by ddemaio 03 May '17

03 May '17

Hi all, I just wanted to write you about the schedule and registration booth for the openSUSE Conference. There were some slight modifications made to the schedule and some talks were shifted by no more than a three hour from when they were originally schedule. This was for Friday and Saturday; Sunday's schedule was unaffected. If there was anyone interested in helping out with the registration booth at the conference, please email me. v/r Doug -- 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 13.2 KDE 4 Question about a problem with PAM or permissions?
by stakanov 03 May '17

03 May '17

I have a user that has following setup: System settings are secure. User A all works as expected. You plugin a USB card / key and it asks for the root password. User B was for a long time full normal. Worked as A. Suddenly it refuses to open USB keys. It asks for the password but the user cannot see the input window for the rootpassword. What could be the reason. Yes I know I have to change the machine, but is is under the usual responsibility of that user, which is in Italy and I am in Brussels now. So I would like to have some clue where to search when I am going to do this over the phone. For me it is a kind of "focus stealing" but I am far from certain. The error message is: user did not input the authorization (or similar, in short, it is the message you get when you try to mount without authorization. -- 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] Network Manager not saving Wifi passwords - 42.2 & KDE
by James Knott 02 May '17

02 May '17

I'm trying to set up a WiFi connection, but the passwords don't seem to be saved. I'm also getting a pop up message "Failed to get secrets for... No agents were available for this request". Is this a new "feature" that resulted from an update? I haven't had this problem before. -- 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] OpenVPN & pfSense
by James Knott 02 May '17

02 May '17

I've already installed " openvpn-client-export". Is that the one you mean? On 05/02/2017 03:11 PM, Chuck Payne wrote: > There's a plug in that you should download on your pfSense that makes > export you openvpn much easier, I have it and I only down the config > zip that made setup on my opensuse much easier > > On May 2, 2017 14:39, "James Knott" <james.knott(a)rogers.com > <mailto:james.knott@rogers.com>> wrote: > > I'm trying to set up an OpenVPN, from my notebook to pfSence firewall. > I have exported the ovpn file and can import it into Network Manager. > However, I am unable to connect. One thing I've noticed is it > asks for > a private key password as well as a user password. When the ovpm file > is created, I am only asked for the user ID & password. > > Has anyone else set up OpenVPN to pfSense firewall? > > tnx jk > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > <mailto:opensuse%2Bunsubscribe@opensuse.org> > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org > <mailto:opensuse%2Bowner@opensuse.org> > > -- 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] OpenVPN & pfSense
by James Knott 02 May '17

02 May '17

I'm trying to set up an OpenVPN, from my notebook to pfSence firewall. I have exported the ovpn file and can import it into Network Manager. However, I am unable to connect. One thing I've noticed is it asks for a private key password as well as a user password. When the ovpm file is created, I am only asked for the user ID & password. Has anyone else set up OpenVPN to pfSense firewall? 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] removing a disk on raid 1 array
by jdd＠dodin.org 02 May '17

02 May '17

Hello, I tested a new server install with three disks as raid 1. No problem so far. But for reason not related to the hardware, I finally decided to don't use this server as main as expected and so want to reclaim some disks. I found various but not plain clues from the net, so I simply poweroff the computer, remove the disk (easy as this one was external esata) and reboot. The reboot is happening without any warning, yast2 do not show any problem as the removed disk is to be reformatted anyway, is there some other thing I have to do to get a clean system in the server? I only see this in the logs: md/raid1:md127: active with 2 out of 3 mirrors and Started Activate md array even though degraded may be I can reduce boot time in some way? thanks jdd -- 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] Realtek 8152 USB 4-port Ethernet
by Roger Oberholtzer 02 May '17

02 May '17

We have a new computer system with a RealTek USB-based Ethernet chip. There are 4 physical ports, each with PoE. Mysteriously, only one port seems to show up. No idea why. We have tried the original openSUSE r8152 driver, the one that came with the computer (2.00.0) and the latest from RealTek (2.08.0). It makes no difference. This is on an openSUSE 13.1 system (kernel 3.11.6-4-desktop). Which is what we want to run here. Mysteriously, lsusb only lists one MAC address: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:8152 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. CDC Ethernet: iMacAddress 3 00073240415B That is the MAC address we see. But there should be 3 more! What we do see is: 4: enp0s20u10: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:07:32:40:41:5b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fe80::207:32ff:fe40:415b/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever The BIOS is minimal. We do not see anything that seems to control this. I'm not a fan of this type of Ethernet interface. It is part of a fanless computer specially designed to run in cars and trains... Has anyone else gotten such a RealTek Ethernet chipset to work to work? -- 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] thunderbird calendar and google calendar
by george from the tribe 02 May '17

02 May '17

Hi, Using Leap 42.2 and Thunderbird 45.8... I use lightning and Provider for Google Calendar add-ons to link my thunderbird calendar to my google calendar. I was having a problem witha reminder coming up, and not being able to dismiss the event. So I decided to unsubscribe to all my calendars. So I unsubscribed to all calendars, restarted TB, and then went to add a new calendar from the File -> New -> Calendar sequence. It offers to add a network calendar, and so I choose network, and then google calendar. I have 2 separate gmail accounts. Then I input my gmail address for that calendar, and when it gives me a list of calendars to subscribe to, it populates the list of available calendars from my other gmail account, not from my first gmail account. I cannot get it to populate the list from my first gmail account. I tried to shut down TB, delete the calendar-data directory, and delete the storage.sdb directory, and then restart TB and run the sequence again to try and add back this calendar. But it is the same thing. It seems that tb is defaulting to some list of calendars in a configuration file somewhere, and so it is only looking at that one gmail account to get the list of calendars, and it is not looking at the other account. Anyone know how to reset it? If not, is there a TB forum that anyone knows of that might be able to offer more specific help on thunderbird? -- George Box: 42.2 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 42.2 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | Core i7-4710HQ | 64 | 16GB Laptop #2: 42.2 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- 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] Glad to see 4.4.62 kernel update, but disturbed by the number of btrfs bugs included
by David C. Rankin 02 May '17

02 May '17

All, Kudos to the opensuse team for pushing the 4.4.62 update out. That said, the sheer number of btrfs bug fixes included is both encouraging and troubling at the same time. Especially fundamental issues like: - btrfs: do not write corrupted metadata blocks to disk (bsc#1012452). - btrfs: Fix block size returned to user space (bsc#1012452). - btrfs: fix invalid reference in replace_path (bsc#1012452). - btrfs: fix listxattrs not listing all xattrs packed in the same item (bsc#1012452). - btrfs: fix truncate_space_check (bsc#1012452). - btrfs: make sure we stay inside the bvec during __btrfs_lookup_bio_sums (bsc#1012452). - btrfs: reada: Add missed segment checking in reada_find_zone (bsc#1012452). - btrfs: reada: Avoid many times of empty loop (bsc#1012452). - btrfs: Reset IO error counters before start of device replacing (bsc#1012452). - btrfs: use proper type for failrec in extent_state (bsc#1012452). ([security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2017:1140-1: important: Security update for the Linux Kernel) Now granted, I don't begin to understand all the intricacies of the btrfs code and many of the above may be benign, but writing corrupted metadata to disk, fixing block sizes, invalid references, staying inside bounds, missing segment checking, basic profiling issues, failing to reset counters, use of improper types, etc.. just doesn't sound good. I'm glad to see things progressing, and I'll continue to monitor the list for BTRFS issues (with a continuing trickle of "During the last month I had to reinstall _all_ of them. All with broken / inconsitent / strange behaving root Btrfs file systems." type posts) Keep up the good work. -- 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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