February 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Mysterious serial port (serial8250)
by Peter Suetterlin 21 Feb '18

21 Feb '18

Hi list, Today I needed to do some adjustment work that uses serial communication. I use cutecom for this (and can really recommend it!). However when I started it - nothing happened! It took some 30s, then the window popped up. When I clicked on the serial selection pulldown menu, again everything was dead for half a minute or so. Once I had opened a device it worked normally. Later I ran cutecom through strace and saw that when it hangs, it opens /dev/ttyS0 and closes it. This close seems to hang the whole process. Now the question is: What is this ttyS0!? This is a laptop... OK, it has a docking station, but that doesn't have a (physical) port either. So looking at the journal, I see kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A I looked in /proc/interrupts, but 4 isn't listed there. So how do I find out what this is? My search ended up in /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS0 but I don't really get a clue from what I see there :o The serial8250 driver is built fixed into the kernel, and seems important(?) and disabling not recommended... Can I somehow tell it to ignore that device, whatever it is? My 'solution' at the moment is to chmod /dev/ttyS0 to 600, then at least my cutecom works without hangs. -- 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] excessively large fonts in a qt application in gnome
by George from the tribe 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

I am running the viber desktop application on my desktop and on my laptop. On my laptop I use gnome because the battery lasts significantly longer than if I am using KDE. So, one of the problems I just ran into is that when running viber, because it is a qt application, the fonts are huge, and I cannot reduce the gui to a small enough level to make it useable. I have no idea where to start on how to reduce the fonts for a qt application in gnome. Normal font adjustments on the gnome tweak tool don't do anything for this qt application. Any ideas? -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | 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] Error when viewing the openSuSE package search
by Christopher Myers 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

When going to the openSuSE package search page today (https://software.opensuse.org/search ) the page says "404 Not Found" down at the bottom in the content area when you first bring the page up: http://susepaste.org/47555051 and when you try to search for anything: http://susepaste.org/32665423 Chris -- 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] Nuisance problem with my SSD hard disk on laptop
by Carlos E. R. 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Content-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1802152210171.5763(a)minas-tirith.valinor> Hi, I have a problem with my SSD hard disk on my laptop, which replaced a rotating rust disk. It is currently at the nuisance level. When I boot, the laptop does not recognize the disk and asks to insert one and press a key. I have to ctrl-alt-supr to try again. It takes a longish time (minute?) then suddenly grub appears, or not, with the error message again as a single text line at the top. The disk is: "Crucial MX399 2.5-inch SSD" The laptop is: "compaq presario CQ61-330SS", too old to have new firmware updates. Besides that, I haven't noticed any problems. Smartctl reports nothing wrong. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Minas-Tirith) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlqF+BkACgkQja8UbcUWM1zgCgD9FwDt7/IB24y5mfoTEc6qSx/d vbKMdB2UBizSg5BeBXcA/10eTm4udbdPY/A7PgQZ6EuoCgTs6h6fvZerGcxdMY0C =mK08 -----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] Is OpenSUSE Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

What are the patches that I can download and install to be protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities? ===BEGIN SIGNATURE=== Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 30 Oct 2017 [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2] http://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ [3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming ===END 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] old packages
by George from the tribe 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

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[opensuse] KMail problem: Decrypting emails does not work as intended
by Kaigue7 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Hi, I'm have an issue with Kmail. Every gnuPGP encrypted email I get won't open corretly. It only shows as two attachments, one PGP/MIME version idenfication and one OpenPGP encrypted message.asc. It works fine in Thunderbird, even though I get a message, that the email "needs to be repaired". Could it be related to incorrect formatting? Like HTML on the sender's side? The sender is using Thunderbird with Enigmail plugin via outlook.com IMAP. Thanks. David -- 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] X + keyboard freeze, sysrq fun
by Michael Fischer 18 Feb '18

18 Feb '18

Been a while, but I just got hit with the "X, keyboard and mouse all freeze at once" - no getting to another VT. But I could ssh in from another machine. As always when this happens, nothing useable in any logs. Trying to `sudo kill -9 pidof X`, etc.. did absolutely nothing. After a reboot, I went googl'ing for sysrq, which led me to discover that (a) my keyboard is not mapped for it (fixable), (b) /proc/sysrq-trigger would be just fine over ssh and (c) I can't figure out where output of sysrq's like 'l' (backtrace for all CPUS) goes - if only so that I can tell I've got things set up properly. The web says "goes to console", but on Leap, where the heck is that? If it is hidden by X on 1, is there a way to get it into the journal (journalctl)? So, I hereby solicit advice on: 1) clever ways to kill things that are locking up my system from an ssh session 2) clever ways to use /proc/sysrq-trigger, esp. if I can figure out if it is even working... 3) Debugging any of the above. After a dozen of these over the past 5 years or so, with no trace left in logs, I've kind of given up, but hey. TIA Michael -- Michael Fischer michael(a)visv.net -- 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] wrong kbd/vtty using mc
by Felix Miata 18 Feb '18

18 Feb '18

OK in 42.3: ● systemd-vconsole-setup.service - Setup Virtual Console Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (exited) since Tue 2018-01-30 23:03:26 EST; 2 weeks 4 days ago Docs: man:systemd-vconsole-setup.service(8) man:vconsole.conf(5) Main PID: 610 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Tasks: 0 (limit: 512) CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-vconsole-setup.service Jan 30 23:03:26 00srv systemd[1]: Started Setup Virtual Console. Wrong function key assignments in 15.0: ● systemd-vconsole-setup.service - Setup Virtual Console Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) Docs: man:systemd-vconsole-setup.service(8) man:vconsole.conf(5) vconsole.conf is identical in both. How do I get the same behavior in 15.0 as in 42.3? I see nothing helpful in man page for either vconsole.conf or systemd-vconsole-setup.service. /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup.service is a fraction of the size of 42.3 in 15.0, 18488 vs 59744. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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: TW partitioner
by Chuck Davis 18 Feb '18

18 Feb '18

I was going to do an install today but when I tried to import mount points from the old install the feature apparently is no longer in the partitioner. I certainly hope that feature is coming back soon....?? Anybody know? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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