May 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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Leap 15.3 RC Gnome and Tumbleweed XFCE: Logitech Marble Mouse not working (40-libinput.conf missing)
by Peter McD 27 Jun '21

27 Jun '21

Hi, I have been using a Logitech Marble Mouse trackball and a Logitech optical mouse with Leap 15.2/KDE for quite a while. Trackball left-hand-mapping, and an optical mouse right-hand-mapping (one computer, two users) I left the the optical-mouse-setting as it came with the system, and added for the trackball the configuration below. Works the way I like it. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf in Leap 15.2/KDE-Plasma ---------------------------------------------------------------- Section "InputClass" Identifier "Marble Mouse" MatchProduct "Logitech USB Trackball" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "libinput" # default button assignments. # Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9" # right-hand-mapping # Option "ButtonMapping" "1 8 3 4 5 6 7 2 9" # left-hand-mapping Option "ButtonMapping" "3 8 1 4 5 6 7 2 9" Option "ScrollMethod" "button" # Option "ScrollButton" "8" Option "ScrollButton" "9" # Option "MiddleEmulation" "on" # use instead Buttonmapping "3 8 1 ... 9" EndSection ---------------------------------------------------------------- But not so with Leap 15.3 RC Gnome or with the current Tumbleweed XFCE. It seems that /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is not used except for a keyboard-configuration file in Tumbleweed XFCE. It is still there in Leap 15.3 RC KDE-Plasma. How could I get the trackball functionality in Tumbleweed XFCE? Peter

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Packman and certificates
by Roger Oberholtzer 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

If I download a package from Packman and install it directly, I get this warning: libvo-amrwbenc0-0.1.3-pm151.1.4.x86_64 (Plain RPM files cache): Signature verification failed [4-Signatures public key is not available] Of course if I add the repository this is all managed. But if I want to just install the RPM direct, is there a package with the certificates that I can install so this message is not given? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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supported fingerprint sticks
by suse＠a-domani.nl 31 May '21

31 May '21

Hi all, We are looking for a fingerprint-protected usb-stick. I noticed: two luxwallet devices, and on their site they clain (...) that those are linux-compatible. URL: https://www.luxwallet.nl/product-categorie/usb-opslag/vingerafdruk-usb/ However, one must first initialize them, with windows-only software. I've got lot of rubbish and junk here, but no W10. I tried wine, but all i got was: "No U: drive", nothing else :-( Anyone around here who got them working? (or other recommendable devices? read/write is OK, bootable would be perfect.) Kind Regards, Hans.

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Compositing crashing KWin on Login
by Matthias Bach 29 May '21

29 May '21

Hi all, For a while now I have this weird issue where, when logging into KDE after system boot, KDE is in a weirdly broken state: compositing is disabled (no wobbly windows, only half my windows are restored (curiously, Firefox always is, Konsole is always missing), and the desktop itself is not being drawn, resulting in remnants of moved windows staying on it. This happens when using the official NVIDIA driver from the openSUSE-NVIDIA repository on a GTX 1060. I have been using this same set-up for years but the issue only popped up a couple months ago without me knowingly changing anything. It also survived the move from Leap 15.2 to Leap 15.3 Beta / RC. Only my main user seems to be affected by this. Two test users I use irregularly don't seem to show the same behaviour. When going to the compositing settings in that state, I get a message that compositing crashed KWin and OpenGL detection has thus been disabled, see the German-language screenshot attached. Reactivating the detection and either doing a logout / login or running "kwin_x11 --replace" will result in compositing working again. I also have a slight impression that this is more likely to happen when there is disk activity while initiating the login. But this might also be a red herring. Does anybody have any hints what log files might help to home in on the issue causing this? I have a suspicion that I have some non-default configuration, that I am not aware of, that either directly causes this or exposes some underlying bug that is otherwise not triggered. Kind Regards, Matthias -- Dr. Matthias Bach www.marix.org „Der einzige Weg, die Grenzen des Möglichen zu finden, ist ein klein wenig über diese hinaus in das Unmögliche vorzustoßen.“ - Arthur C. Clarke

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Re: Moving from Freenode to Libera.Chat
by Carlos E. R. 27 May '21

27 May '21

On 27/05/2021 13.37, Richard Brown wrote: > On Thu, 2021-05-27 at 13:31 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >>> Again. Pidgin requires the password BEFORE a connection is >>> established. >> >> If nothing else, this is going off-topic here - FWIW, it worked just >> fine with konversation. No userid, no password, but there was a >> third >> step to verify my email address. > > Indeed - please can we relocate the "Carlos doesn't know how to connect > to IRC" portion of this thread to the Support list please? As long as somebody helps me there... Connection doesn't work: https://susepaste.org/81396729 -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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We knew there was something funny about the new Tbirds and gpg ...
by David C. Rankin 27 May '21

27 May '21

Icarus moment: Mozilla Thunderbird was saving OpenPGP keys in plaintext after encryption snafu Cockup has since been patched in latest release 6 Comments https://go.reg.cx/tdml/dfd67/60d51c7f/70bba22e/3ZNf Gives me the shivers about ever updating.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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IRC moving from freenode to libera
by Per Jessen 27 May '21

27 May '21

... continued from factory. Carlos, you have the wrong server specified. It is 'irc.libera.chat', not 'libera.chat'. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.6°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes.

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bind mount and yast partitioner
by Marc Chamberlin 27 May '21

27 May '21

Hello, I am running a number of OpenSuSE systems on my SOHO network at home and I keep hitting a small but annoying problem that I wonder if there is a better workaround/solution to. This occurs on all versions of OpenSuSE - 15.0, 15.1, and 15.2. I am not running 15.3 yet. All systems are x64 architecture. I want to access the complete file systems of each computer via samba and autofs, which means I want to be able to access the "root" directory / on each system. Some years ago Samba stopped me from designating / as a samba shared directory and exporting it. (I don't understand why except from Googling it appears someone decided that to allow /, to be exported as a Samba share, was a security problem. I get so annoyed at all the layers of security and obfuscation so have not tried to track down what is exactly going on with Samba and the "root" / directory. Please don't try to dissuade me and tell me about the security risks of making the "root" / directory available for mounting, this is a SOHO network and I solely control all the computers on it.) I know Samba will allow me to define a share for the "root" / directory but it doesn't seem to work, at least autofs will not recognize/mount it and still reports the directory does not exist if I try to cd into it. So to work around this I do a bind mount of / as /slash and samba then allows me to export /slash as a samba share. In my various configuration files I use the name "slash" as the name of the exported Samba share and I create a directory /slash so that my configuration files will work regardless of whether /slash is a bind mount or not. At least that is what I think I am doing. The config line in fstab looks like this - / /slash none bind smb.conf has the following definitions for the root directory - [slash] available = Yes browseable = Yes comment = Root directory inherit acls = Yes path = / read only = No create mask = 0755 force user = root autofs configuration for mounting the root directory / typically looks like the following, only names of the remote host changes. slash -fstype=cifs,rw,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,credentials=/etc/smb1.auth ://bigbang/slash This works fine for autofs and most tools that work on the host or across network file systems. All except, that is, the YaST2 partitioner. For some unknown reason it picks up the bind mount /slash and automagically reassigns all my mount points to be under /slash. So for example if I tell it to mount my home partition at /home the partitioner will reassign my mount point to be at /slash/home. More importantly, the partitioner reassigns / to be mounted as /slash. Then if I want to make any further change to partitions and save those changes, the partitioner will complain that the mount point for / is undefined and it wants to force me to define a / mount. The only workaround I have found is to remove the bind mount from fstab and then reboot. After reboot I can then use the YaST partitioner to make the changes I want, since because without the bind mount the partitioner now sees all the mount points of different partitions as subdirectories under / and not under /slash/. But without the bind mount defined in fstab, tools like autofs will no longer mount the "root" / directory though I do not grok why. So again I have to add back in the bind mount to fstab so that Samba shares will again work, and again I have to reboot. I have tried restarting all the appropriate services individually, such as nmb, smb, autofs, and network but no joy getting the the remote host's "root" / dir to remount, so I resort to rebooting the systems (a PITA) and that does the trick... Perhaps I am missing some magic trick or there is a better way to accomplish what I want to do, which ideally is to configure Samba to really share the "root" / directory. Sorry this is complicated and will be difficult to grok, it is for me! Any help would be much appreciated, I would love to once and for all resolve this irritant because I have to rediscover these issues and their resolutions each time something like autofs breaks or I want to use the partitioner. Thanks, Marc

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php7 zmq (ZeroMQ) for LEAP 15.2, anyone?
by Adam Tauno Williams 26 May '21

26 May '21

Anyone know where I can find a php7-zmq package for LEAP 15.2? I'd struck out in the usual places and it doesn't want to build from PECL/phpize. This is the last dependency to forward port an application of an old server. :( -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA

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