May 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

HELP please
by Stevens 12 May '22

12 May '22

System: Ryzen 7 2700X, 32GB RAM, GTX-1060 w/3GB, KDE Plasma 3.12.8, Kernel 4.12.14 I have a GP106 sound device (actually, I have a video card which has HDMI output) and I assume the GP106 is the way to send audio via the HDMI. Whatever the case may be, my problem is that some time earlier this year the $#@!& system started defaulting to HDMI-2 instead of HDMI-1, which kills the sound to my speakers. I can go to Configure Desktop in the Settings menu, Audio Volume, Advanced and change the device profile from Digital Stereo (HDMI2) to Digital Stereo (HDMI1) and it starts working and will until the desktop changes, then it changes back to HDMI2 profile. I cannot find where the default profile is stored and there is no option to apply the change when I make it. I have spent a lot of time looking and now I am down to asking for help. Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks in advance. Fred

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NEW 15.4 Beta - Why is GCC 7.5 so OLD?
by David C. Rankin 12 May '22

12 May '22

All, Installed 15.4 beta and was surprised to find gcc at --version 7.5 (gcc 12.0 is current), 8.3 came on my RaspberryPi 3B+ a couple of years ago. The problem is this, 15.0 has 7.2, barely has full C++17 support, C++20 is current and 23 is just around the corner. There is virtually no C++20 support in the gcc 7 release: https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html Before I installed 15.4, I browsed the repo and there was gcc-7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 available, but Yast during 15.4 install only shows 7.5 and does not show any alternative versions. I really do not want to have two differing versions of gcc installed (no good comes from that), but don't see getting much mileage out of gcc 7.5 when C++20 is needed. Any chance gcc will get an update before the 15.4 release (gcc 11 is fine, no need to jump on the bleeding edge of 12). If not, is there a safe way to have a non-conflicting gcc install generally available in a 15.4 install? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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15.3 KDE network manager -- no persistent IPv6 address
by James Knott 11 May '22

11 May '22

I run OpenSUSE 15.3 on a notebook computer, with network manager for configuring IP. One thing I've noticed is there do not appear to be any persistent IPv6 addresses. Normally, with SLAAC, there is 1 persistent address, based on either the MAC address or a random number. There can then be up to 7 privacy addresses, depending on how long the computer has been running. Without a persistent address, DNS can't be used to reach it. Is it possible to enable a persistent address with the network manager? tnx jk

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vncserver or: how to make a useful tool useless
by Peter Suetterlin 09 May '22

09 May '22

Hi, I have a script that starts a vncserver session on a remote machine, sets up a ssh port redirect and connects to that with vncviewer. It no longer works :( (on Tumbleweed) The reason I found is speedy:~% rpm -q --changelog xorg-x11-Xvnc * Thu Feb 17 2022 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch(a)suse.com> - n_vncserver.patch * fix location of Xsession script - vncserver usage has radically changed; please check this: https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/blob/master/unix/vncserver/HOWTO.md In short, instead of creating sessions on the fly, everything has to be pre-defined, restricted to *one* session per user, and launched via systemctl. Of course only as root..... Sorry, but I find this "improvement" a complete desaster in userfriendliness :(((

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Unhappy computer
by Marc Chamberlin 03 May '22

03 May '22

Hello - I have an OpenSuSE x64 15.3 system that has become unhappy about a 4Tb disk drive. When I start up the system, a "start job" with no time limit, is automatically started (I kinda suspect it is actually running fsck but I have no way to find out and the message I do see is pretty useless. Is there a way to find out what this "start job" is actually running? ). I let it run for 5 days before I found it had stopped (crashed perhaps?) So this morning I restarted the computer again and once again this "start job" started and has now been running for a few hours. So my question is, what is a reasonable amount of time to let this run? Can it be bypassed? Should I simply considered the drive is irreparable? I don't know what is a reasonable amount of time since I have never seen fsck take so long. But I have also seen fsck do what I almost call a miracle and restore drives completely after a disk crash... So not sure what I should do at this point and if it is indeed fsck that is running I would like it to repair the drive if it can.. Thanks for any advice... Marc -- *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/This email is digitally signed and the OpenPGP electronic signature is added as an attachment. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the OpenPGP signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like./)

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