January 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Creating a BTRFS root filesystem
by Mark Petersen 23 Jan '22

23 Jan '22

I'm trying to create a btrfs root filesystem following Richard Browns blog found here: https://rootco.de/2018-01-19-opensuse-btrfs-subvolumes/[1] but it seems that he missed a step or I can't follow directions. If I follow his recipe to the letter then no 1st snapshot is ever made and no default subvolume can be set. So, I omitted line 4 of step 4: and created a snapshot between his steps 6: & 7: btrfs subvol snapshot /mnt /mnt/(a)/.snapshots/1/snapshot After step 7: I am able to set the default subvolume, but I have the @ subvolume showing when I list the directory in step 8: Anyone have some pointers? Thanks. Mark -------- [1] https://rootco.de/2018-01-19-opensuse-btrfs-subvolumes/

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How to connect via WiFi
by Wolfgang Mueller 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

My new computer is an HP 15s-eq2147 FHD RYZ5-5 16GB 512 SSD DOS It has no cable connection to the internet, but only access via WiFi. Installing Leap 15.3 was no problem, but so far I did not manage to establish a WiFi connection. Using Yast, I set up a wicked service with fixed address, getting this list: Device Name: wlan0 Configured with address 192.168.2.16/24 (acer.ariannuccia.zz) Starting automatically on cable connection I find it somewhat absurd that a cable connection is required even for WiFi. Since I have no cable connection, I am looking for a work around. Any idea? The "Authentication Mode" offers these 5 options: No Encryption WEP - Open WEP - Shared Key WPA-EAP ("enterprise") WPA-PSK ("home") On my router (192.168.2.1) there are these "Encryption type": Unencrypted (not recommended) WPA2 (very secure) WPA / WPA2 (secure) WPA (secure) For avoiding problems with the correspondence of these methods, I have selected "No Encryption" on my computer and "Unencrypted (not recommended)" on my router. But the connection does not work. Any attempt to ping the router from the new computer is rejected with the reply: connect: Network is unreachable Any help would be welcome. Thank you in advance and best regards, Wolfgang

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authentification system
by jdd＠dodin.org 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

Hello, I'm building an usenet server on top of Leap 15.3. Looks like it would be interesting to authenticate users. Somebody spoke of kerberos. I don't expect more than a hundred users, at most. do you know some system a bit simpler? Do you have some link (including to Kerberos under Leap)? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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Compose key.
by Carlos E. R. 21 Jan '22

21 Jan '22

Hi, On this same machine, on 15.2 I have edited file "/etc/X11/Xmodmap". !! Fourth example: Make Menu key on WIN95 keyboard doing Compose !! CER !! keysym Menu = Multi_key !! keysym Win_R = Multi_key Does not work !!keysym Win_Menu = Multi_key Neither keysym Super_R = Multi_key This activates the compose key (using XFCE), on the right "Windows" key of my keyboard. On Leap 15.3 the exact same paragraph does nothing. Fresh test install. Why? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.3 x86_64 (Erebor-4))

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[oS-en] SUSE announces new distro for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux
by Carlos E. R. 21 Jan '22

21 Jan '22

<https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/suse_liberty_linux/> *SUSE announces new distro for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux* Run like RHEL Liam Proven in Prague Thu 20 Jan 2022 // 08:21 UTC Official details remain scant, but SUSE Liberty Linux is a new member of the growing tribe of CentOS Linux replacements. The new distro is a SUSE rebuild of CentOS 8, aimed at near-perfect RHEL 8 compatibility. Since Red Hat killed off CentOS Linux and replaced it with CentOS Stream, there's been renewed activity in the world of drop-in RHEL replacements. Now a new entrant has joined AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, as SUSE enters the fray with its own rebuild of Red Hat's freely-available source code. As it has only appeared on SUSE's website overnight, we don't have a demo version at time of writing, so here is what we know so far. At launch, Liberty Linux should be equivalent to the current Red Hat release – RHEL 8.5 – and compatible with packages from Red Hat's own EPEL repos. SUSE is building the distro using its own Open Build Service tooling. All of the userland of the new distro will be built from Red Hat's official Source RPMs (SRPMs), with the exception of the kernel. That comes from SUSE's own SLE enterprise distribution, currently on version 15 SP3, but compiled using a Red Hat-compatible configuration. Since these days openSUSE's stable distro, Leap, is binary compatible with SLE, that suggests that Liberty Linux will ship with kernel 5.3.18. That's a lot newer than RHEL 8.5's kernel 4.18, so RHEL device drivers and kernel modules almost certainly won't work – but SLE ones should. You can also only expect support for Red Hat's choice of filesystems, meaning XFS rather than SUSE's preferred Btrfs, which Red Hat doesn't support. The new distro is also x86-64 only, with no support for POWER or Arm boxes. ... further reading at the link -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.3 x86_64 (Erebor-4))

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open suse 15.2 using logrotate with fetchmail
by Joe Acquisto-j4 20 Jan '22

20 Jan '22

Looking for a means to setup logrotate for fetchmail on exisitng system. open suse 15.2 using logrotate with fetchmail Thanks.

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[oS-en] disk imaging code question
by Carlos E. R. 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I use this bash code (script) to image partitions - I arrived there with help here: function hacer() { echo echo "Doing partition $1 ($2) on $3" echo "copying, compressing, and calculating md5..." mkfifo mdpipe dd if=/dev/$1 status=progress bs=16M | tee mdpipe | pigz > $3.gz & # Try using "--fast" next time md5sum -b mdpipe | tee -a md5checksum_expanded wait rm mdpipe echo "$3" >> md5checksum_expanded echo "Verifying..." pigz --test $3.gz echo echo "·········" } Used this way: time hacer sda1 "5S" "sda1_WINBOOT" time hacer sda2 "250M" "sda2_WINDOWS" (the current directory is on the destination disk, external rotating rust via USB2) This works fine. Now, I noticed something. On gkrellmn I observe, as the script runs, that the reads on the source disk (ssd, in this case) and the writes to the destination disk alternate, are not simultaneous. And it took 5 hours to image perhaps 300gigs; of course, the destination is on USB2, and the CPU is old, but that alternation doesn't help. Could that be improved somehow? Short of writing my own binary code to implement it all... Never coded with parallelization, so that would not be trivial. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYccnxxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV+DEAn0qKBQv/D0k/pGQFYl6a w5+FjD23AJ0fsJs7A+zehwK0a5S/nHEJuP3bMw== =+rL4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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forgot password for only user on new opensuse 15.3 - any way to use the installation?
by Geza Giedke 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Dear all, I just received a brand new notebook, freshly installed with Opensuse 15.3 (bought at slimbook.es). When renaming the standard user and resetting its password I must have made a typo, because I can no longer log in (it's the only existing user). Now I see no other way but to reinstall the full system, which seems a pity. So before doing that I wanted to ask if there is a way to avoid that, e.g., by overwriting /home and /etc/passwd from a live USB to make the installed system accessible to a new user - or is a full reinstall the only way to make the system usable? Sorry for the embarrassingly stupid problem and thank you for your help Geza

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virt-manager connect to console button
by Simon Becherer 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

Hi, tumbleweed, since some updates i have in only one of my virtual machines (virt-manager+qemu) when i double click in virt-manager, a empty window and in the middle of the window is a button (free translated from german): "connect to console" "verbinden mit Konsole" when i click on this button, the screen of the virtual machine is there and all is fine. question is, why only at one machine, and where could i disable this function? -- www.becherer.de

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permanent changing of file /usr/lib/systemd/network/99-default.lnk
by Simon Becherer 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Hi, often on tumbleweed updates it updates the file: /usr/lib/systemd/network/99-default.lnk so it get overwritten. (since years with the same contens) i have to change always inside this file one line to let my network on same mac adress (network is with bridge and tap devices) i change: # MACAddressPolicy=persistent MACAddressPolicy=none all is ok again. i think this file is not the correct place to make this changes. where should i do this change to be not overwritten by system updates?? thanks, simoN -- www.becherer.de

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