July 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] tvheadend access control
by Dave Howorth 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

I want to try tvheadend as an alternative to mythtv. I installed the package and started the service from YaST. It's running. I believe all setup is supposed to be done through its web interface at http://localhost:9981/ but when I go there I am presented with an 'Authentication Required' dialog. I gather that the vanilla tvheadend is open-access when shipped and any required access control is added after installation and configuration from within the web interface. So I can only suppose that somebody decided unrestricted access was dangerous and modified the program before shipping the opensuse version. I've tried a few obvious candidate name-password pairs. I've looked in what seem to me to be the obvious places for any documentation, or configuration file that contains details of the required username and password, but have failed to find any such. Does anybody know how to get access to tvheadend's web interface? -- 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 crashed then the log reporter had an error then bugzilla crashed :(
by Dave Howorth 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

So I just had YaST crash on me and then, and then when I ran save_y2logs that had an error and then whilst trying to report the bug, bugzilla crashed: Secure Connection Failed The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem. Further, it appears that the bug was not recorded! It's title started "yast software manager crashed ..." and a search of bugzilla doesn't find it. I'm not about to try resubmitting 5 MB of logs without some kind of assurance that it's not going to do exactly the same again. How else can I send the logs? -- 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] Where is wine-mono?
by Carlos E. R. 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Running wine for the first time it complains that wine-mono is not installed. It says it can download it from upstream, but it reccomends using the distribution package. However, yast doesn't find it, and neither the opensuse search page, except some home repos (for Leap 15.0). Did I miss something? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAltGz4wACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UIzQCfXlBSl05tYnv9TOpBKo2jfsOI Uy0An2VaE00jAt6X+0XdNTj0wa+R/EfV =tSC6 -----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] libreoffice save-as / load
by Simon Becherer 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

Hi, before 2 tumbleweed libreoffice updates when "save as" in libreoffice always was the last directory active (the directory where the document was loaded before), but now always i fallback to my "home directory" -> file open "home directory" -> save as "home directory" (and my old filename is not displayed any more so its not possible to change a number or so in side file name easily (document1 -> document2), always have to move to the directory i want to save, and type complete filename new. is this bug or a feature? and if a feature, where could i get the old behavior back? (i never save directly in home) regards, simoN -- www.becherer.de -- 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] kdeinit5 in root directory
by Simon Becherer 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

Hi, tumbleweed i have: inside "/" top directory ll -a srw------- 1 root root 0 24. Jun 12:00 kdeinit5__0 is this normal, or is this something i could delete or move? i was thinking inside "/" there should only directory's ? am i wrong? simoN -- www.becherer.de -- 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] What is Wine-nine?
by Carlos E. R. 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The description for package "wine-nine" in repo "wine" is wine-nine - An MS Windows Emulator Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop. You can run your Windows executables with it and write your Windows programs under Linux and link against the WINE libraries. It is not necessary to have a Windows installation to run WINE. Please have a look at /usr/share/doc/packages/wine/README.SUSE. There is more documentation available in that directory. Read 'man wine' for further information. You can invoke wine by entering: 'wine program.exe' wine can be configured by running 'winecfg'. The description for package "wine" is: wine - An MS Windows Emulator Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop. You can run your Windows executables with it and write your Windows programs under Linux and link against the WINE libraries. It is not necessary to have a Windows installation to run WINE. Please have a look at /usr/share/doc/packages/wine/README.SUSE. There is more documentation available in that directory. Read 'man wine' for further information. You can invoke wine by entering: 'wine program.exe' wine can be configured by running 'winecfg'. So....what is the difference? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAltUbKAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XGngCggPY+IJSqfpOZv1jEoBtyn/C8 e00AnRDym5HrnWFdInGca6lMTQJ7xP8Q =py4T -----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] MythTV
by Dave Howorth 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

I'm planning to install MythTV. It's not clear to me so far exactly what I need to install or what I need to do. YaST lists a bunch of mythtv packages from packman. The latest available seems to be 27 whilst I understand the current version of mythtv is 29. I don't see any particular package that installs it. The closest I have found is mythtv-0_27-setup and its description says "MythTV provides a unified graphical interface for recording and viewing television programs. Refer to the mythtv package for more information. This package contains only the setup software for configuring the mythtv backend." But there is no mythtv package listed. As it happens, I think I do want the backend, because I'm installing a tuner card (TBS6205) so I can record programmes. I intend to then export them over my network to a FireTV box plugged into my TV and running kodi, although I'm open to better ideas. I don't yet know whether I'll want any separate means of controlling what mythtv records on the server. google has led me to the mythtv wiki but I haven't found anything there that fills me with confidence yet. https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_General seems close but is for the current version, not the old version on packman. google also shows various people apparently overwhelmed by complexity, which is why I'd like to find an accurate set of instructions. Does anybody know of one? -- 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] print to pdf-file?
by L A Walsh 21 Jul '18

21 Jul '18

Does anyone have experience with or use a package(rpm) that can act as printer, and print the result to an Adobe-PDF formatted file? Looking for something like Adobe's "Pdf-printer" software that they used to sell...that would act as an installed printer on Windows -- that you just printed to -- and a popup would ask for the name of the file for it to save-to, but that would run on linux. Thanks, Linda -- 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 chainloading
by Istvan Gabor 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hello: It will be a little bit long to explain what I want to do. I have several linux OS-es on a hard disk. Each OS has its own boot loader installed on the OS's root partitition. The MBR has also a boot loader. This boot loader chainloads the other boot loaders on the root partitions. This makes easy to completely separate different boot menus for different OS-es. For the management of the above scenario at least one of the OS-es must have 2 different boot loader install configurations, one for the mbr boot loader (chainloader) and one for the OS's own boot loader on the root partition. This can be easily done by using legacy GRUB boot loader by making two separate directories for the chainloader and the other configuration. Each directory contains all the files necessary to install and make work GRUB boot loader. Legacy GRUB has command option --prefix which enables to use different GRUB config files for different GRUB installations. Here's an example: To install MBR grub chainloader: In grub shell I use: setup --force-lba --prefix=/boot/grub.chainload (hd0) (hd0,0) # in this case config files in /boot/grub.chainload dir are used. And to install the OS's own boot loader on the root partition: setup --force-lba (hd0,0) (hd0,0) # here the default /boot/grub is used. Now my question: how can I do the same with GRUB2? I would like to have a main GRUB2 menu/loader on the MBR which chainloads GRUB2 loaders on the different root partitions. Since GRUB2 configuration files are spotted at different places (/etc/default/grub, /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, /etc/grub.d/* scripts), I don't know how I could make different configuration files for the different install locations, not to mentions how I could install the different GRUB2 loaders to different locations (to mbr and to the root partition). I would appreciate any help in this matter. Thanks in advance, Istvan ps: Please don't ask me why I do want to do this and please do not suggest that I use one GRUB2 menu to load all of the different OS-es. I want to do it because I could do it with legacy GRUB and I expect that it is doable with the advanced GRUB2 too, and anyway I got used to do it that way. 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] I just found something interesting :-)
by Carlos E. R. 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I wanted something to capture a video of the screen, instead of a photo. I hit google: "display video capture in Linux". And got this on the first highlighted hit: Best Screen Recorders for Linux Kazam. Kazam is a minimal and nifty tool for screencasting. ... Open Broadcaster Software Studio. OBS Studio is, without doubt, the most feature-rich and advanced screencasting application available for Linux. ... SimpleScreenRecorder. ... recordMyDesktop. ... VokoScreen. ... ScreenStudio. ... Green Recorder. ... Peek. Más elementos... Linux screen recorder - It's FOSS <https://itsfoss.com/best-linux-screen-recorders/> It is a site that seems to list software to do things in Linux with comments and photos :-) Or at least has some. Or at least has one, I didn't search for others. In this case, I found the tool I wanted, kazam. Well, except that it doesn't work, but there are more tools in that list. Trying "SimpleScreenRecorder" next. [...] Yes, that one did what I wanted. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAltPi9MACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X84QCfYKnRiclKT6EBze3zBEeSZTsH zccAn0HZRlj+kkvROiGHyx/jR6pY7uQT =VG2w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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