April 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] socks5 and ssh in firefox
by gumb 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Though I've been using ssh in a basic way I've never until now looked into how to run something like Firefox on a remote machine residing in another country so as to get around country-specific annoyances. So I found this page: https://calomel.org/firefox_ssh_proxy.html and followed the instructions, went into the Firefox network settings on my local machine and chose SOCKS Host, put in 127.0.0.1 and port 8080, and checked the box for Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5, but I see that by default, in the box 'No Proxy for' it already has localhost, 127.0.0.1 Wouldn't keeping that there defeat the object? Do I need to remove that? I tried removing it, then opened a terminal and did as suggested: ssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 {remote_machine} I see that by going to http://whatsmyip.org/ the remote IP address is shown and from testing a couple of sites, all seems to work as I need it to, but since I'll be wanting to do this occasionally and switch back and forth in the Firefox network settings, I don't understand if I should always remove that line in 'No Proxy for'? -- 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] chromium or chrome?
by David T-G 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Hi, all -- I've been using Chromium because it's what was available, but I've noticed that it seems to really crush my laptop (details if anyone is interested; maybe I could also be doing something better). I just found that, yes, Linux Chrome does exist, so now I wonder which I'd prefer. Any discussions on the merits of each? I also use FireFox, but I like having two browsers as options, so I hope the answer isn't "they both stink; just use FFox". And I hope the answer also isn't "forget them all and use this other one" ;-) TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- 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] Grub2 netboot: net variables undefined :(
by Peter Suetterlin 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Hi List, I'm using grub2 to set up pxe netboot for UEFI following this blog: https://github.com/openSUSE/kiwi/wiki/Setup-PXE-boot-with-EFI-Using-GRUB2 with some changes (we use http instead of tftp, as the latter is dead slow and the initrd is huge). In principle everything works. However, grub does not automatically set up the network. I have to do this manually using 'net_bootp'. But as the computer has three ports, one of them unconnected, this runs into a timeout that slows things down. So I would like to net_bootp $net_default_interface However, this variable is not set :(( Does anyone have an idea what is missing? Are those variables transfered via some module that I forgot to include, is there a bug in the grub used, or has it to do with hardware? At the moment I'm hardcoding the interface, which is sort-of OK as all affected computers have the same hardware. For reference here's my grub.cfg and the create command line. I'm doing this from a Leap 42.3 system (grub2-2.02-7.1). grub2-mkstandalone -d /usr/lib/grub2/x86_64-efi -O x86_64-efi \ --fonts="unicode" -o bootx64.efi boot/grub/grub.cfg grub.cfg: set timeout=2 menuentry 'Linux diskless' --class os { insmod net insmod efinet insmod tftp insmod http insmod gzio insmod part_gpt insmod efi_gop insmod efi_uga set net_default_server=10.0.2.32 net_bootp efinet1 echo 'Loading Linux ...' linux (http)/boot/linux echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd (http)/boot/initrd } -- 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] jstest Vibration
by Paul Groves 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

HI Everyone, I have been using jstest to test game controllers (which I repair). It is a great tool because it displays each button and analog input and I can see if they are working properly. However I am wondering how to test the vibration on these game controllers. The USB adapters are all vibration compatible (and the vibration works on this same PC in the various emulators I use). Surely there is a command or script to turn on the vibration? Does anyone know of such a thing? 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] Leap-15 kernel related anomaly
by Mark Hounschell 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

We have several out of kernel drivers. They build and run fine on the 4.12 kernel that comes on Leap-15. However when we build and run a vanilla kernel from kernel.org and try to build our drivers against it, the build fails. ./include/linux/kernel.h:6:10: fatal error: stdarg.h: No such file or directory #include <stdarg.h> ^~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. The vanilla kernel is built and installed like has been done forever via: #make -j# #make modules_install install I figured out what I had to do to get these out of kernel modules to compile. I have to explicitly include "-I/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/include/". Even the nvidia driver had to have this explicit include added to its Makefile. I have no idea how the kernel handles this but Leap-15 seems to have prohibited it from happening correctly in all but against the 4.12 Leap-15 kernel. I suspect this is not intentional. I also suspect it is a bug somewhere. Never in the history of using opensuse have we had to explicitly make this include in an out of kernel driver. Nobody else has either. Regards Mark -- 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] KDE/Plasma5 Compositor regression
by John Andersen 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

Since fairly recent versions of Plasma 5 (all from Opensuse repositories) going back sometime earlier this year, I've noticed an annoying regression on in the compositor on my hardware. I use to be able to run with all the bling turned on, wobbly windows, transparency, several different effects, fades, zooms, etc - almost all the features offed by KDE. Most of that stuff still works, but now menus, both KDE main menu, as well as application menues get filled with squiggly lines. Attaching an example of a pull-down menu in Tbird. If I then mouse down through the options, each line will become clear as the cursor pointer crosses it. All other compositing effects seem to work the same as they did say last year. KDE previously worked perfectly with all compositing features that your video card was capable of, after many years of effort getting that to work. I thought my video card was failing. Only full solution: I toggled off compositing (Alt-shift 12), and this squiggle fill goes away instantly. (I can also log in with compositing turned off of course.) Equipment: Older ATI RV515 M45 Mobility Radeon X1400. Using the Community drivers. Seen on Leap 42.2 problem started sometime early 2018. Persists in Leap 15 (kernel 4.12.14-6-lp150.8-default) Kde Plasma 5.12.4 Attached small image, lets see if it sneaks through the list server, or if I have to susepaste it, -- After all is said and done, more is said than done.

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[opensuse] Leap 15 Beta - Kudos for packaging Fluxbox (it's what I'm using now on 15)
by David C. Rankin 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Good job devs, I had pulled the 42.3 srpm for fluxbox and built it for Leap 15 beta. Just attempted a zypper dup (--no-recommends) and we now have an openSUSE version of Fluxbox, e.g. Problem: problem with installed package fluxbox-1.3.7-6.6.x86_64 Solution 1: install fluxbox-1.3.7-lp150.1.7.x86_64 (with vendor change) (no vendor) --> openSUSE Solution 2: keep obsolete fluxbox-1.3.7-6.6.x86_64 Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): 1 Problem: problem with installed package fluxbox-styles-upstream-1.3.7-6.6.noarch Solution 1: install fluxbox-styles-upstream-1.3.7-lp150.1.7.noarch (with vendor change) (no vendor) --> openSUSE Solution 2: keep obsolete fluxbox-styles-upstream-1.3.7-6.6.noarch Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): 1 That's nice :) -- 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] Do I need to do anything special for SSD in Leap 42.3?
by David C. Rankin 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

All, I was checking the opensuse articles on SSD and most are 11.2 - 11.4 timeframe, and the latest is non-official. https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:SSD_performance https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/ssd-in-opensuse https://lizards.opensuse.org/2015/02/06/ssd-configuration-for-opensuse/ All the prior articles discuss putting noatime in fstab, moving tmpfs to ram, disabling browser cache, and setting vm.swappiness=1. They also talk about running fstrim on each boot and putting it in boot.local. What do we do for trim? I've checked systemd trim.service and timer are disabled? Is these customization still needed on Leap 42.3 or does the setup now recognize SSD and make the needed changes? I don't swap (I have one, it's just never used - 8G of RAM). So do we need to enable fstrim service and fstimer? What says the brain-trust? -- 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] Silverlight / moonlight / pipelight
by Roger Oberholtzer 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

My company has an internal web site that requites sliverlight in the browser. I have not used this site in a while. But I need to now. When it offered to install something for Linux, it sent me to http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/redirector.html?=4.0.50401.0, and that failed (URL was not in the server). I looked around for openSUSE and saw references to pipelight. But I do not see any packages anymore (except in a user's project - and those are either broken or disabled). I see that there are mono packages. But it is unclear which packages are needed to get silverlight functionality. The mono site suggests installing mono-devel, but there is no such package in OBS. Is there any support for silverlight on Linux anymore? Specifically Leap 42.3. And Mozilla (but that's flexible). -- 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] driver for Canon Color imageCLASS MF733Cdw driver
by don fisher 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Sorry, somehow I got this message linked to another. Also, my distribution is OpenSUSELeap 4.3 as opposed to 4.2 referenced. I have purchased a Canon Color imageCLASS MF733Cdw laser printer for my OpenSUSELeap 4.2 distribution. 1. Using YAST/hardware/printer/add, I get No connections, try 'Detect More' message. 2. A Canon MF731C/733C UFRII is found at the IP address I assigned. 3. Under 'Find and Assign a Driver' the message no matching driver found is presented. At the Canon site I found a driver for linux linux-UFRII-drv-v350-usen.tar.gz I could find nothing under opensuse search tool that matched. If this is appropriate, how to I install the above tar file? I hope this description is complete enough. Don -- 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-15 Beta 187.1
by Mark Hounschell 15 Apr '18

15 Apr '18

I've been testing this for a while now. Looking pretty good. This afternoon it says I have 1244 packages to upgrade. Do I dare? Thanks Mark -- 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] experimental packages
by Dave Howorth 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

I'm considering installing mosquitto on my 42.3 system. I'd previously installed it on earlier openSUSE versions from a home repository. So I went to https://software.opensuse.org/package/mosquitto and I see that there are now official releases for Tumbleweed and 15.0, but not for 42.3 or older systems. In addition to various home repositories (listed under community packages), I see there is also a package marked 'experimental'. What exactly is an 'experimental' package? Is it better than a home package or more dangerous? There's no tooltip or other explanation of the meaning on that web page, so I clicked on Documentation which took me to https://doc.opensuse.org/ and then I typed 'experimental package' into the search box and it said 'Unauthorized access to internal API. Please refer to https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4542055' which isn't very useful. So I searched for 'opensuse experimental packages' on google, but it shows me lots of hits for particular packages that are 'experimental' but I don't see any definition of what that means. Cheers, Dave PS I did the searches without quotes. -- 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] the kernel version
by George from the tribe 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Ok, I am confused. The last thread talked about the kernel being used in Leap 15 that is coming out, as being kernel 4.12. Then this website that was linked on the thread: http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-kernel-4-12-reached-end-of-life-users-… talks about how kernel 4.12 has reached end of life and everyone should move to 4.13. So I looked on my desktop running 42.3 with all the latest updates, and this is my kernel: > uname -r 4.4.120-45-default Then I looked on my laptop running 42.3 with all the latest updates as of a week ago, which uses the kernel:stable repository, and this is the kernel it is using: > uname -r 4.15.15-1.g4904fc3-default So if 4.12 has reached end of life, then 4.4 (which is what is available in the distribution repos for 42.3) must be really old. But 4.15, which is available from the kernel:stable repository, is far out in the future and not yet being really developed. My conclusions there must be wrong, but why? Is there something to the way they number the kernels that I am missing here? Does openSUSE have a different numbering scheme than the rest of the linux world? -- 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] Leap-15 Beta 187.1 - Wohoo! GCC 7.3!
by David C. Rankin 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Now we are talking, A shiny new custom install of Leap-15 Beta with Minimal X, via IceWM and Low and Behold GCC 7.3! # gpasswd -a david wheel # visudo ... ## Same thing without a password %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL # vi /etc/pam.d/su ...(see 2 comment lines and 2 additions below) #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_rootok.so # Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" group. auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust use_uid # Uncomment the following line to require a user to be in the "wheel" group. auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid auth include common-auth account sufficient pam_rootok.so account include common-account password include common-password session include common-session session optional pam_xauth.so # exit $ su # ... (bingo - works fine) # hostname myhostname.mydomain.tld # echo myhostname > /etc/hostname # systemctl reboot ... $ done :) - painlessly, now to finish the KDE3 build... -- 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] leap15 build 187.1 - zypper up vs zypper dup
by Per Jessen 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Just in case somebody should not be not yet be convinced - this is a diff between the output of "zypper dup" and "zypper up": http://files.jessen.ch/office38-zypper-dup-up.diff 'office38' is a test desktop machine. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.9°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental 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] Question re security updates (shibboleth-sp)
by Josef Fortier 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Wondering how security updates are handled at the tail of an active cycle. The immediate concern, shibboleth-sp has a security issue in the current package. Looking at software.opensuse.com (hoping there'd be some updated package for opensuse there) I see that Tumbleweed and SLES variants, as well as the (beta) of 15 have updates. More surprisingly openSUSE 12.3 has an update (this seems to be the work of the Shibboleth people). But no package update for Leap. I'd guess this is because 15 is due out in May, but this seems a long time to me. Is there a policy that governs this? Thansk -- __________________________________________________________________________ Josef Fortier Systems Administrator fortier(a)augsburg.edu Phone: 612-330-1479 __________________________________________________________________________ -- 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] Bug fixes in opensuse are somewhat of a bad joke nowadays...
by David C. Rankin 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

What Removed Added ----------+----------+---------- status NEW RESOLVED ----------+----------+---------- Resolution --- WONTFIX ----------+----------+---------- Comment # 8 on bug 924818 from Tomáš Chvátal This version of openSUSE changed to end-of-life (EOL [1]) status. As such it is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of openSUSE, or consider the bug still valid, please feel free to reopen this bug against that version, or open a new ticket. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed during the lifetime of the release. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime -------------- Thanks -- that really helped. -- 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] leap 15
by jdd＠dodin.org 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

hello, is this now the right place to ask about leap 15? I don't want to add factory to my already too large subscription list :-( thanks jdd -- http://dodin.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] Late to Game, but finally moved to 42.3, clean install a bit awkward, but completes fine.
by David C. Rankin 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

All, I finally moved my laptop to 42.3 (even though I booted 42.2 here, because I haven't finished the hours of config still to come...), but nonetheless I have a blazing Leap_42.3 install with a fresh KDE3 desktop, all on 500G of Samsung SSD -- and yes -- the speed difference (especially compiling) is very noticeable. All in all the Leap 42.3 install was.. cumbersome, frustrating, took a bit of coaxing to install what I wanted installed and not what I didn't want, but it worked just fine. The cumbersome part was the inability to add repos prior to the install (or at any point during). This was compounded by the truly insane default partition scheme suggested using btrfs for a user-laptop?? We have dumbed-down the desktop to the point of file managers that have a shadow of the capabilities they provided a decade ago so they are "easier for the new user", but now we somehow expect the newbie to master an enterprise level filesystem notorious for snapshotting all usable space into oblivion? I guess the really smart people see the logic in that, but that logic just escapes us lesser mortals... The good parts of the install, after nuking the btrfs suggestion and the secondary non-native XFS suggestion and dropping back to the wasteful old ext4 that has never lost a file for me in a decade, the remainder went great. Both wired and wireless Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (wired) and Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (wireless) -- so kudos to that. A bit more of the cumbersome was completing the entire install in text mode with minimal yast modules present as the frustrating part of the install provided no KDE3 pattern, despite providing every other minor semi-maintained option of enlightenment, lxde, mode, cinnamon, icewm, windowmaker, etc.. You guys have a fantastic option in KDE3 that installs flawlessly, there is no reason not to have a patter for it for install. (enlightenment but KDE?) If you go this route, at least install the X-server and icewm so you will get the full yast. Even installing xterm, firefox, LibreOffice, etc.. still did not pick up the X-server dependency leading to needing to complete the install via out old buddy the yast2 interface (which is quite fine). The other slightly frustrating part (which has been there since at least 7.0) is clicking of a repo and.... waiting while the package info is loaded (and reloaded each time you move up/down the repo list) That and the 'tab-order' of all the text mode controls obviously haven't been revisited since the 10.0 days despite the letters changing. (tabbing reminds me of a pinball machine -- with no hope of shift-tab actually backing up to the previous pane) All-in-all other than the btrfs, awkward desktop pattern selection, and no X-server dependency -- there is not much to complain about. There was no fuss on the network-install connection or package retrieval, it just worked, there are some dependency issue when selecting packages without packman and/or videolan configured. The last surprise was the missing convenience directives in /etc/pam.d/su that no longer provided an easy uncomment to allow users of 'wheel' to su without a password, e.g. # Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" group. auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust use_uid # Uncomment the following line to require a user to be in the "wheel" group. auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid ... the removal may be a security enhancement, but thankfully I have a ssh client on my phone that I could jump on an older install and get the details (heaven know I didn't recall the specifics) Maybe next time I'll take the less painful route of upgrade, but I've done a clean install of every release (other than those I skipped when we were on the 6-month rapid-fire rabbit-pellet release cycles) back in the good ole days (when that steel-trap type logic reared it head in the name of progress) So now I sit with the shiny new ssd as sda and this old platter as sdb in my laptop, just wait to finish the bulk of the install by mounting the other under /mnt and rolling all the needed files and configs back over. (and tweaking the users/groups, etc.) That will be as a time-allows project over the next few days. So good job again. Leap 42.3 installs just fine. Other than the somewhat ironic logic of making things easier for new users while feeding them btrfs there were really no hiccups in the network install. (that speaks well, I don't think I've had a serious install problem in 15 years, sure there are things that could be made better, but the installer still mows the grass) -- 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] Its NOT supported
by John Andersen 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

But it worked for me. I upgraded from 42.2 directly to Leap 15 without installing 42.3. (Took an extra backup before I started). Everything worked fine. System boots fine, and seems as responsive as ever. (Its an SSD system). There were some dependency conflicts to resolve and I carefully selected the option to switch back to Opensuse packages for almost all the multimedia things I had installed from Packman. (as I've been assured here on this list that Opensuse has ceased sending crippled packages and all those issues are handled like every other distro - it just works). This may have been an error, as I can't get any video to play. Music does play. I'll hunt down this problem later. I half expected this to be the case anyway). The upgrade loaded a boatload of texlive stuff that I did not previously have, and have no use for, but I can clean that up later. -- 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] how to install viber7 on oS or TW
by Oszkó Albert 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

Hi all, I tried to install viber the other day on my laptops, but I met some missing dependencies - like libcrypto.so libssl.so and libpng.so named file. There are files with similar names in /usr/lib64. I tried to soft link them to the names that are expected, but without success. So how to proceed? Thanks, Albert

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[opensuse] Transferring LVM
by suse＠a-domani.nl 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

Hi, Coming week, I'll try to transfer to a more recent virtualisation server and install it with more up-to-date platform (12.3 => 42.3) My XEN-clients (SLES) are all stored in LVM's What would be the most efficiant way to transfer them from one piece of iron to another? After I create new LVM's, can I 'dd' them over the network? from node1:/dev/data/minoss-servers ==> node2:/dev/data/minoss-servers Hans -- 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] Doevecot Imap Really Slow with Recent Updates
by Charles Philip Chan 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

Hello all: There seem to be a permission problem with Dovecot in recent updates that leads to really slow operations. This is what I see in the journal log: ,---- | Apr 10 01:19:11 karnak dovecot[2406]: master: Fatal: execv(/usr/lib/dovecot/stats) failed: Permission denied | Apr 10 01:19:11 karnak dovecot[1925]: master: Error: service(stats): command startup failed, throttling for 60 secs | Apr 10 01:19:11 karnak dovecot[2406]: stats: Fatal: master: service(stats): child 14755 returned error 84 (exec() failed) `---- The permissions for stat seems to be OK: ,---- | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27240 Mar 29 07:24 /usr/lib/dovecot/stats `---- Have anyone else experienced this and is there a quick fix? Thanks. Charles

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[opensuse] zypper addrepo - http:// vs. https://
by Per Jessen 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

I'm sure someone has a quick explanation: a) zypper addrepo 'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:containers/openSU…' This fails: Download (curl) error for 'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:containers/openSU…': Error code: Bad URL Error message: Protocol http not supported or disabled in libcurl b) zypper addrepo 'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/containers/openS…' Works fine. (notice the extra slash between 'Virtualization:' and 'container'. c) zypper addrepo 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:containers/openSUS…' d) zypper addrepo 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/containers/openSU…' Both work fine. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.1°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted 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] File/folder permissions that does not make sense to me!
by Marc Chamberlin 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

I wonder if some kind guru could explain this logic to me or direct me to an appropriate users group... I have a mixed SOHO network in my home with both Linux and Windoz systems running on it. I use autofs to automount Windows folders on my Linux systems and for the most part I don't have any issues. But one thing that has been perplexing me is why I could not copy files from say my Linux laptop to my Windows system at the C:/Users/marc/Documents folder. (I automount C: using autofs under /mnt/samba/windowscomputername/C so I can have access to the entire drive from my laptop) What really perplexed me was that I could copy files to any subfolder under C:/Users/marc/Documents such as to C:/Users/marc/Documents/tmp/newfile. My instincts told me there had to be some sort of permission problem that I had to resolve on the Windows system. So I tried everything I could think of to relax the permissions so that anyone and everyone could access the Documents folder, but to no joy. It finally occurred to me to try and take a look at it from the Linux side, so using Dolphin I examined the permissions of the Documents folder and sure enough Dolphin was reporting that I only had read permissions on the Documents folder. So on a lark I decided to try and change the permissions via Dolphin (chmod also behaved the same way) to give me read/write permissions and I will be damned if that didn't work! But I will be twitched if I can understand why in the world that worked and why I have to give myself permission to write to the Documents folder on a Windows system, from/on the Linux system side also! Shouldn't file permissions and access be strictly governed by the system that owns the files and folders? Why does a Linux system user have to give himself/herself permissions in order to write to files on a different system? This is effectively saying that in order to write to a file system on another computer I have to give myself permission to do so on BOTH systems! In other words, it wasn't Windows that was blocking me from writing to the Windows file system from my Linux laptop, it apparently was Linux itself! Is there some weird magic about Documents folders on Windows systems? Doesn't make any sense to me... Just to be certain, I took a look at the folder permissions, under Windows, both before and after making the permission change on the Linux system, and I could not see any changes so this appears to be strictly a Linux side permissions issue... Marc.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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