March 2021 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Upgrade from Leap 15.1 to 15.2 Desktop Failure
by Jim Flanagan 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

Greetings, Just did an upgrade from my stable Leap 15.1 install to 15.2. I downloaded the DVD and did the upgrade from booting that. It asked me if I wanted to used the online repos as I have an internet connection so I said OK. Everything seemed to go well and booting into my KDE desktop. But clicking the gecko start menu gives an error. "Error loading QML file:file///sur/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kicker/contents/ui/main.qml:27:1: module "org.kde.plasma.private.kicker: is not installed" The system is running and I see my desktop widgets doing their thing. But I can't do anything. I can get to tty1 and login as root but I don't know what to do from there. I tried running yast in tty1 but get errors when I try software management. This system was first installed with Leap 15.0, upgraded to 15.1, now to a partially broken 15.2. Any suggestions most welcome. Jim F

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Firewall configuration, confused.
by Gustav Degreef 20 May '21

20 May '21

Hello, I read with great interest the entire recent thread "Possible malware?" and tried to make sure that I set my firewall (firewalld) to block all ssh connections from outside my home LAN. My ISP provides access via cable modem and I set up my own router. There are 3-4 laptops running opensuse 15.x (and 2 android phones) on my home network (adresses configured with DHCP) and I log in periodically via ssh (as user, not root) to the other computers to fix various issues. Via the yast2 firewall configuration I set only the "public", "internal" and "home" zones to have ssh as an allowed service. The "external" and other zones do not have ssh allowed. I read quite a few articles on the firewall configuration, but I am not sure that I set it right. Is there anything else I should do? Thanks, Gustav.

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Now look at this! (a bit of a rant at FF and page designers)
by Carlos E. R. 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 top - 02:40:02 up 11 days, 17:10, 2 users, load average: 1,47, 1,61, 1,52 Tasks: 652 total, 2 running, 649 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie %Cpu(s): 11,2 us, 0,9 sy, 0,6 ni, 86,5 id, 0,2 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,6 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem : 32821800 total, 2750532 free, 28228940 used, 1842328 buff/cache KiB Swap: 10485760+total, 95023808 free, 9833788 used. 3340160 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11012 cer 20 0 14,010g 0,010t 81556 167372 R 100,9 33,92 670:39.60 Web Content <======== 11096 cer 20 0 9982108 4,464g 119580 993160 S 2,985 14,26 306:24.60 Web Content 32435 cer 20 0 8121244 2,753g 92956 915588 S 0,000 8,796 302:12.75 thunderbird-bin 10799 cer 20 0 6830940 1,331g 506812 454940 S 1,791 4,251 401:56.06 firefox 11152 cer 20 0 5157264 829856 71600 175304 S 1,194 2,528 102:52.05 Web Content 10942 cer 20 0 4462244 704732 58320 176224 S 0,896 2,147 119:38.94 Web Content 11068 cer 20 0 5306312 644124 100104 534320 S 0,896 1,962 124:44.93 Web Content 10990 cer 20 0 4281224 586028 111408 154048 S 6,866 1,785 210:21.72 Web Content 4206 cer 20 0 4019828 564988 15012 0 S 0,299 1,721 6:00.57 shotwell See that process using 0,010t of resident memory? I've never seen the word "teras" of ram used for a single process... :-o It was probably this page: <https://www.movistar.es/particulares/oferta-combinada/fusion> just a list of packages from my ISP... I have another tab that Firefox about:performance says it is using 2.33GB of ram. A train information page: <https://www.thetrainline.com/en/train-times/seville-to-berlin> what a lot of crap, how can they design those pages that eat so many resources. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHkEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYFqbahwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVxGMAn3VfxZV19w7GaTc1CW2h OV8qDQZ9AJiRKzg2WVHSRODK9mm6rCmW0q2z =sPPH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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where are the rpmdb and alternatives files supposed to be?
by L A Walsh 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

As near as I can tell, the rpm db files were (are) in /var/lib/rpm while some things seem to be accessing them in /usr/var/lib/rpm. Oddly, /lib/rpm is pointing to /etc ?? That doesn't seem right. I seem to have multiple copies of the alternatives directory: /etc/alternatives ^^ this one is full of symlinks /var/lib/rpm/alternatives /usr/var/lib/rpm/alternatives ^^ these two are full of small files Thanks, I think...

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nvidia-smi can't see the second graphic card in the system, why?
by Karl Sinn 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Hi, when I run nvidia-smi as root it shows me the information of both graphic cards. If I run it as a user I get only infos about the first card. Why is that so, and how can I change that? thanks, Karl

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/usr/local/lib ? do I need to manually update the cache?
by Per Jessen 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

On 15.1 and 15.2 both, ld.so.conf contains: # cat /etc/ld.so.conf /usr/local/lib64 /usr/local/lib include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf # /lib64, /lib, /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib gets added # automatically by ldconfig after parsing this file. # So, they do not need to be listed. On 15.1 - long-running system: # ldconfig -p | grep local libbwbemag.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libbwbemag.so libbulwark.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libbulwark.so On 15.2, newly booted, 'ldconfig -p' shows nothing. I have copied some new libs to /usr/local/lib, do I now need to rebuild/update the cache manually? I ran 'ldconfig' and now the cache is fine. I feel like I must be missing something. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.1°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland.

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Annoying desktop "features"
by James Knott 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

There are a couple of useless features in the KDE desktop. One is something triggers a bunch of thumbnail over the desktop, instead of the normal apps & folders. The other is when the mouse is held over an app, such as a browser, again thumnails pop up along the bottom of the screen, all showing exactly the same thing, so they can't even be used to select an open windows. I find both of these to not only be useless, but often get in my way. Is there anyway to disable this nonsense? I'm running Leap 15.2. tnx jk

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question to sudoers
by Karl Sinn 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

Hi, I try to make one bash script to be run as root as a user without the password being asked for. As a test to see how this works, I edited sudoers with visudo and added this line at the end of the file: karl ALL= NOPASSWD: /bin/su After a restart I expected user karl to be able to run su without password. It didn't work, where's my mistake? thanks, Karl

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suspicious packages? libicu-suse65_1 and other icu stuff? no current changelog in installed pacakages?
by cagsm 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

Hello list, is there something wrong with select packages that are being pushed out onto the user base of opensuse? 2021-03-29 23:17:13|install|libicu65_1-ledata|65.1-lp152.3.3.1|noarch||update-openSUSE-Leap-oss|4e193919a16d495b20446cd5c67bed9037870d1d8e65cea6ab856ee1278565a7| 2021-03-29 23:17:18|install|libicu-suse65_1|65.1-lp152.3.3.1|x86_64||update-openSUSE-Leap-oss|1e7771fe36ce8974c7ad0334c0a5d3154c29d469450572b812c5c96914a12d84| 2021-03-29 23:17:20|install|libicu-devel|65.1-lp152.3.3.1|x86_64||update-openSUSE-Leap-oss|65becc9cf7973632f2633342418932df42c3e827f2dd93dcf00d428bdeac774c| last changelog inside these rpm is from may 2020 (may twenty twenty) and i fail to find any of these icu stuff being announced on the updates list mailings archive? i wonder how i can trust such packages?

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mutt/tls : prime sent is too short
by Peter Suetterlin 27 Mar '21

27 Mar '21

Hi, I just upgraded my TW notebook to 20210316. Now I cannot log in to my (university) mail server via mutt anymore. I only get gnutls_handshake: The Diffie-Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough). Looks some default settings have changed? But which - and how do I override it? Thanks for any hints!

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