February 2020 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Memtest version
by James Knott 15 Feb '20

15 Feb '20

The version of memtest, included with 15.1, does not work with UEFI drives. I downloaded the proper version and installed it on a USB stick and it works fine. Will the version included with 15.2 work with UEFI? Given that the world is moving to it, I fail to see the point in keeping a version that doesn't work with newer computers. Perhaps both versions could be provided and selected as appropriate. -- 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] TW : crontabs not running properly
by ellanios82 15 Feb '20

15 Feb '20

Hi List :) - since a recent 'zypper dup' last week , am not getting my usual output from runs of cron : in fact 'zero' output .... as root, have executed : # crontabs -l and this shows my crontab OK and, as root, have executed # systemctl status cron.service and this shows cron service up and running OK ..... what am i doing wrong?? : Why zero output from cron?? ~ 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] Layout of files on ISO
by Michael Fischer 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

Need to reinstall 15, and was checking my old USB sticks. I note that they have 2 partitions, one with EFI/, and one (marked bootable) with the "rest" of the 3.7G of the iso. Having a fit of paranoia and wondering "is this correct"? Thanks. 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] Printer with ethernet and without bluetooth: how can I convert it to be bluetooth compatible?
by stakanov 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Is it possible to branch a pinter with ethernet in a way that I can reach it with my notebook via bluetooth? Is there a special printserver maybe? The printer is an aging Lexmark 543C that however does a marvelous service. It would be really handy to have him respond via BT.... _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Ihre E-Mail-Postf�cher sicher & zentral an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und alte E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://www.eclipso.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] Latest big upgrade garbled up TW
by oszko＠chem.u-szeged.hu 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Dear all, In the last few days there was a big TW upgrade with more than 1300 items. I am glad, I could reboot. But... My laptop says it removed thunderbird. Well, then let's reinstall it. It says it is already installed and nothing to be done. Then let's remove it. It says there is no such software. I tried to change from CLI zypper (zypper -f did not work either) to Yast, I failed, because neither Yast nor Yast2 worked, missing some modules. I tried to save some documents, it insisted to put them in temp. I tried to run zypper dup several times, with minor success. these processes always began with trying to remove cyrus* packages that could not be done because they are not installed - said zypper. i use TW with KDE Please help, where should I begin to tidy up things? Thanks: Albert ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- 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 memory usage has increased
by Carlos E. R. 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Since two or three updates, Thunderbird has gone up in memory usage. For instance, I booted the machine yesterday, hibernated it at night, restored it this morning, but surprisingly, Th is not using any swap. This did not happen before, and is rare just after hibernation for any program. See the output of "top" sorting by memory usage: top - 09:46:35 up 23:53, 2 users, load average: 0,17, 0,14, 0,26 Tasks: 458 total, 1 running, 456 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie %Cpu(s): 3,4 us, 0,4 sy, 0,0 ni, 96,1 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem : 8161256 total, 2389700 free, 3092868 used, 2678688 buff/cache KiB Swap: 25165820 total, 23576484 free, 1589336 used. 4703144 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11580 cer 20 0 4397124 0,988g 111832 0 S 5,060 12,70 2:13.59 thunderbird-bin Something regarding memory has changed in Thunderbird. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXkJqhgAKCRC1MxgcbY1H 1RK3AJ97JfgC2iC0H08dsc+jaukvfz2msACeIkzKjDaE7f74xfkDWGBaaBjlGg0= =zmnK -----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] Printing a PDF from Libreoffice and from Ocular
by Basil Chupin 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

What is the trick to be able to successfully print a PDF file from (a) Ocular and (b) from Libreoffice? The question really relates to the the selection of page numbers when printing a range of pages. For example, I opened a PDF file in ocular and selected a range of pages to print --eg, 53 to 85 but the printing started from page 42 (I watched as the pages were being printed so stopped the job before too many pages [and ink] were wasted. The same happened (but with a different PDF file) when the file was opened in Libreoffice. At the bottom of the displayed page it shows the correct page number as the start page for the pp range I want to print but the printing begins from a different page (similar to the experience with Ocular). I also notice that with Libreoffice the left hand column displays a 'slideshow' page number but using these page numbers produced even mare wasted paper. The question therefore is: is there a "trick" in selecting the correct starting/ending pages to be printed when a PDF file is opened in either Ocular or LibreOffice? All help most appreciated. BC -- All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door. -- 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] Problem with Btrfs - it thinks disk is full
by Vojtěch Zeisek 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Hi, I installed twice new TW system (once after replacement of disk) using TW snapshot 20200205 image. Installation went fine, but on running system I repeatedly run into problems with 'df -h' showing no space available, but 'sudo btrfs fi show /' correctly showing plenty of space. The answer is in 'sudo btrfs fi df /' showing I'm (nearly) running out of space of Metadata: $ df -h Souborový systém Velikost Užito Volno Uži% Připojeno do devtmpfs 12G 0 12G 0% /dev tmpfs 12G 111M 12G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 12G 1,7M 12G 1% /run tmpfs 12G 0 12G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren 3,5T 759G 0 100% / /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren 3,5T 759G 0 100% /.snapshots /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren 3,5T 759G 0 100% /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren 3,5T 759G 0 100% /opt /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren 3,5T 759G 0 100% /boot/grub2/i386-pc /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren 3,5T 759G 0 100% /root /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren 3,5T 759G 0 100% /usr/local /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren 3,5T 759G 0 100% /tmp /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren 3,5T 759G 0 100% /var /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren 3,5T 759G 0 100% /home /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren 3,5T 759G 0 100% /srv /dev/sda1 300M 8,1M 292M 3% /boot/efi tmpfs 2,4G 0 2,4G 0% /run/user/65534 tmpfs 2,4G 16K 2,4G 1% /run/user/1000 $ sudo btrfs fi show / Label: 'korinek' uuid: df8db051-fb0b-4d70-b4cb-3126d757f544 Total devices 1 FS bytes used 758.09GiB devid 1 size 3.48TiB used 760.03GiB path /dev/mapper/pocitac-koren $ sudo btrfs fi df / [sudo] heslo pro root: Data, single: total=757.00GiB, used=755.49GiB System, single: total=32.00MiB, used=112.00KiB Metadata, single: total=3.00GiB, used=2.57GiB GlobalReserve, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00B The numbers keep changing, so it's not super up-to-date, but I hope the problem is obvious. Fix is possible by using 'sudo btrfs balance start /' - it usually enlarges limit for Metadata. I never had such issue on older system (updated to the same TW snapshot), but I keep having it regularly on new installs. Is it some known bug with Btrfs, or should I report it? Yours, V. -- Vojtěch Zeisek https://trapa.cz/ Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/

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[opensuse] Nextcloud client
by jdd＠dodin.org 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

Hello, I use Nextcloud client on openSUSE 15.1 plasma (kde) I plan to use Nextcloud pretty extensively as I just setup a personal server with lot of disk space. but, right now, when I add anything on my Nextcloud account, it's downloaded on my laptop disk. When it was only 10Gb, I could cope with it. of course I can simply use the web interface, but the kde integration is so good I would like to keep it. is it possible to setup the Nextcloud client so that it only keep a link to the server (like the android client does) and download only on demand? 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] Boot failure after kernel update
by Josef Wolf 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

Hello, today, I did a "zypper update" (after a long time) This upgraded my kernel to vmlinuz-5.5.1-4.g267811a-default After that, I was no longer able to boot: - At the prompt to typing LUKS key, the USB (cherry) did not work. - using a PS2 keyboard, I could type the LUKS key, but the LUKS volume could not be accessed. Investigation showed, that mkinitrd failed to add a lot of modules to the initrd image. This is the message from mkinitrd: Some kernel modules could not be included This is not necessarily an error: dm_crypt dm_mod dm-cache dm-cache-mq dm-cache-cleaner sr_mod scsi_dh ata_piix hid_generic ehci-hcd ehci-pci ohci-hcd ohci-pci uhci-hcd xhci-hcd yenta_socket scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua usbhid hid-apple hid-sunplus hid-cherry hid-logitech hid-logitech-dj hid-microsoft firewire-ohci pcmcia usb_storage hid-hyperv hv-vmbus sdhci_acpi virtio_blk virtio_scsi crypto_LUKS sg Update bootloader... For the older kernels, mkinitrd still works as expected. Thus, luckily, I can still boot some old kernels. When I search for the missing modules, I find that the modules for the newest kernel got a new extension (compression?): raven:/ # find /lib -name 'hid-cherry*' /lib/modules/5.5.1-4.g267811a-default/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-cherry.ko.xz /lib/modules/5.2.8-1.gbf37e83-default/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-cherry.ko /lib/modules/4.8.1-3.gf7183f5-default/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-cherry.ko raven:/ # Anybody out there who understands the situation and has an idea how to fix? -- Josef Wolf jw(a)raven.inka.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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