August 2021 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

https://opensuse.pkgs.org/15.3/mozilla-x86_64/seamonkey-irc-2.53.8.1-lp153.1.2.x86_64.rpm.html
by mcgarrett 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

Well, I'm back. Have an older computer to tide me over the lightning problem. Still have the unanswered question: How to install an rpm file which does not download, but is listed on the website shown in the subject line. I'm sure that this is absurdly simple for mindreaders, but I'm not one of them. And yes, I have looked at chapter 10 of the https://opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup. . .but I don't see the answer there. (On another post, I will ask how to read my much earlier posts (and answers) about setting up a printer which is not automatically found by the system. Or an answer here to that also would be appreciated. When you answer question 1, I will print the answer and save it, when the printer is installed.) Thank you for your patience with an old geezer. --doug

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Built in NTP server addresses?
by James Knott 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

While monitoring NTP with Wireshark, I could see requests going out to the Internet, as well as to my local server. However, only my local server has been configured for use. Why is it going out to the net? Are there built in server names? Here are a couple of examples: jknott@linux:~> host 209.115.181.106 106.181.115.209.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mirrors.switch.ca. jknott@linux:~> host 2606:4700:f1::123 3.2.1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.f.0.0.0.0.7.4.6.0.6.2.ip6.arpa domain name pointer time.cloudflare.com. I have never configured those servers on anything I've worked on. I'm running Leap 15.3.

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What is SUSE:SLE-15-SP3:GA?
by James Knott 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

In my repositories, I have a server SUSE:SLE-15-SP3:GA URL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP3:/GA/pool/ which generates an error when I open Software Management: An error occurred during repository initialization. [https-download.opensuse.org-df28b823|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP3:/GA/pool/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL History: - [https-download.opensuse.org-df28b823|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP3:/GA/pool/] Repository type can't be determined. I see there are a few similar repositories that are on a server that doesn't appear to exist. These are on my desktop system, but not ThinkPad. Any idea what they are? I assume they can be deleted. tnx jk

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lastlog permissions
by Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Hello List, for quite some time, I've noticed that the permissions and group of /var/log/lastlog (and sometimes a few others, like [bw]tmp) differ from what chkstat expects. This is, of course, easily fixed with chmod and chown, but the old permissions tend to re-appear after zypper updates. It's probably not really a problem, but does anyone know where the diffence comes from? Thanks, A. -- Ansgar Esztermann Sysadmin Dep. Theoretical and Computational Biophysics http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/grubmueller/esztermann

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Trouble with the touchpad while typing
by Carlos E. R. 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hi, I have Trouble with the touchpad while I type, almost since ever, currently with XFCE in Leap 15.2. The touchpad activates randomly, apparently touched by my hand and destroys what I typed. I have in settings "Disable touch pad while typing" set to 2 seconds. Type "SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad". Edge scrolling. This is supposed to impede the trouble I have, but it does not. If I type and I try to move the mouse pointer it doesn't respond till two seconds have passed, which is a nuisance I would accept if it worked. There are two types of incidents. One, the cursor location suddenly moves several paragraphs up in the middle of typing a word, thus within centiseconds. Certainly inside the 2 seconds protection. Two, a large portion of the text I'm typing suddenly gets selected, again in the middle of typing a word (I type fast), so that on the next letter I type the entire highlight gets replaced with that next letter, erasing at times all my work. In the first case, I can select the offending text and move it to the correct location, or hit undo. In the second case, I have to use undo, so I don't actually lose my work. Almost always it happens inside Thunderbird. At least, i don't remember it happening in other apps. It is possible that the protection I need is from accidental tap, not accidental move. minas-tirith:~ # hwinfo --mouse 40: PS/2 00.0: 10500 PS/2 Mouse [Created at input.249] Unique ID: AH6Q.ZHI3OT7LsxA Hardware Class: mouse Model: "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" Vendor: 0x0002 Device: 0x0007 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" Compatible to: int 0x0210 0x0002 Device File: /dev/input/mice (/dev/input/mouse0) Device Files: /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/input/event1 Device Number: char 13:63 (char 13:32) Driver Info #0: Buttons: 2 Wheels: 0 XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2 GPM Protocol: exps2 Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown minas-tirith:~ # -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))

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no more Kile packages for 15.3?
by Carlos F. Lange 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

There are no longer packages for the LaTeX frontend Kile in 15.3. I can't even find it in the Community Repos. What are the plans for Kile? Has it been replaced by another LaTeX frontend? -- Carlos F Lange Gaúcho nas Pradarias https://sites.google.com/site/carlosflange/

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burning flash drive with dd--fails
by mcgarrett 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Why doesn't this work: dd bs=4M if=/home/doug/Downloads/Win10_21H1_English_x64 of=/dev/sda Here is the downloaded file in /home/doug/Downloads: -rw-r--r-- 1 doug users 5824122880 Jul 22 22:20 Win10_21H1_English_x64.iso Here is the fail message: dd: failed to open '/home/doug/Downloads/Win10_21H1_English_x64': No such file or directory (Since I am IN that directory, I first tried without specifying the directory, but got the same failure.) Confused as usual--doug

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