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[opensuse] Project management software question for project managers
by Ted Byers 29 May '24

29 May '24

I am looking for project management software I can install on my Suse box. Alas, there are quite a number of prducts that claim to be suitable project management products, but I am hoping to obtain a little help separating the wheat from the chaffe. Basically, when I open the project management software, I want to be able to choose from among a number of projects that are under way, and then see the relation between a client's wish list and the functional requirements specs, and then how these specs relate to the UML diagrams that have been created, and from there, what tasks have been defined for each requirement and the identity of all persons involved, the developers and their managers, and the person who designed the code that supports the requirement. And with that, I want to be able to see the project's timeline, the related bugs, &c. I would even want to be able to open the source code files and examine the code that was actually written. Here is my wish list: 1) a web application that stores data in either PostgreSQL or MySQL. 2) easy integration with UML tool (or has it's own UML tool that supports round trip engineering) 3) resource management (e.g. computers, and development tools, that can be used, personelle assigned to each task) 4) documentation of relation between functional requirements specs to specific tasks and specific unit and integration tests. 5) time/effort tracking 6) bug tracking, including data relating the existance of the bug, and effort required to fix it, to the person who wrote the original code, the person who supervised him or her, and the person who designed the 'feature' in question, the time taken to complete the original task, and the technologies used (to imprrove accountability as well as to determine retraining and continuing education needs (people aren't disposable, so instead of taking a harsh aproach to problems identified, I prefer to use education as a corrective, but I can't design corrective instruction without knowing precisely what the need is). I also need to know if a developer has a higher than normal bug rate simply because he doesn't take enough time to ensure the job is done right, or because I haven't adequately trained him, or because of a poor choice of tools, or somethng else that may be my fault. 7) use of task effort tracking history to generate provisional effort/cost estimates from new project's functional requirements 8) easy integration with open source ERP products like OFBiz (which may make trakcing resources and manpower easier, as well as connect real production data to the enterprise's accounting systems) 9) easy integration with CMS products, like Wordpress (especally for production documentation, includng degin documentation and user guides and reference manuals) 10) easy integration with verion control systems such as subversion. If there is a decent product that supports all of this, great (and language used to implement it doesn't matter), but if I have to write code to add missing requirements, then I am limited to those implemented using Perl or Java (and running on Tomcat). I don't know PHP well enough, and I don't know Ruby at all; and I really don't want to think about implementing this sort of thing in C++ (though I could if absolutely necessary). If you have project management experience, and use tools that are available for Suse Linux, what software product(s) did you use, and with what result? While I await relies, I will continue to review web documentation for those products I have found so far, to see if any of them are a) suitable for use in production and b) to see to what extent they support the features I am after. I have seen a number of products so far in my search, that deserve to be nameless, because they provide no way to relate cost estimates to one's team's track record, or to the details of the design, and seem satisfied with production of a pretty gantt chart (which is why I have formed the view that there is a whole lots of chaffe in the set of applications that call themselves project menement software - I have yet to find anything that really has the potential of being labelled wheat). Thanks Ted -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 17 May '24

17 May '24

I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say about the free SuSE "Installation support". The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as /media/recorder11. I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and longer, and not leave the problems to the customers. I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has fitted the limited rules for the free installation support. Terje J. Hanssen

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[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Creating a new user for a deamon
by Rowan Reid 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

I'm setting up a cron job for a analysis tool, I'm trying to use the SuSE tools where possible but YAST doent' allow you to create new user without a home I tried /dev/null is there a proper way to do this ? Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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Leap 15.4 - GDM won't start
by Linux Kamarada 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Hi, everyone! I upgraded from Leap 15.3 to Leap 15.4 yesterday (actually, from Linux Kamarada 15.3, which is Leap-based, to Leap 15.4) following the same upgrade procedure I'm used to years now: https://linuxkamarada.com/en/2021/12/23/linux-kamarada-and-opensuse-leap-ho… (of course, I replaced 15.3 by 15.4, for it to work) https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade Now I'm not able to log in to the graphical interface as usual. Plymouth stops spinning, GDM should appear next, but it doesn't. The only thing I'm able to do is switch to the first terminal (Ctrl + Alt + F1) and reboot using Ctrl + Alt + Del. I'm not even able to log in to the terminal, if I don't change the kernel. Back to GRUB, if I enter the advanced options and select the recovery mode of the 5.14.21-150400.22-default kernel (the one from the Main repo, not the Update repo), at least I'm able to switch to the first terminal (Ctrl + Alt + F1), log in to the terminal and do: $ startx Then I have a fully functional GNOME desktop. Inspecting /var/log/messages, I found the following that caught my attention, I'm not sure it is related to the problem: 2022-08-18T00:53:01.675443-03:00 kamarada-pc /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[4082]: #011(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. 2022-08-18T00:53:01.794755-03:00 kamarada-pc /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[4153]: > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86WWAN 2022-08-18T00:53:01.794810-03:00 kamarada-pc /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[4153]: > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86RFKill 2022-08-18T00:53:01.837606-03:00 kamarada-pc /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[4183]: > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86WWAN 2022-08-18T00:53:01.837667-03:00 kamarada-pc /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[4183]: > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86RFKill 2022-08-18T00:53:02.122276-03:00 kamarada-pc gnome-session[4211]: gnome-session-binary[4211]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed 2022-08-18T00:53:02.122366-03:00 kamarada-pc gnome-session[4211]: gnome-session-binary[4211]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed 2022-08-18T00:53:02.122442-03:00 kamarada-pc gnome-session-binary[4211]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed 2022-08-18T00:53:02.122491-03:00 kamarada-pc gnome-session-binary[4211]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed Does anyone have any idea on what's going on and/or how it can be solved? Thanks! Antonio The Linux Kamarada Project https://linuxkamarada.com/

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[oS-en]
by Carlos E. R. 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I get an unknown GPG key warning, twice, when zypper or yast tries to check for updates. I did this: wget https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub sudo rpm --import linux_signing_key.pub And now I get one warning, so there is another key that is missing: Unknown GnuPG Key The file repomd.xml (http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64) is digitally signed with the following unknown GnuPG key: ID: 4EB27DB2A3B88B8B. This means that a trust relationship to the creator of the file cannot be established. Using the file may put the integrity of your system at risk. Use it anyway? [ ] Do not show this message again. Where can I download that missing key from? Or is the command secuence I run incomplete or incorrect? (Leap 15.3) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYvKibxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVaJEAoInpGLur54g7iTRWFj6F SrwlFwsfAJ0YFvwAKKzpAe8rTX5jXVzlPqKD9A== =5ups -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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15.4 needs cross-arm-none-eabi
by David C. Rankin 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

This is both a shout-out and a question by doesn't openSUSE provide the package? gcc provides the cross-arm-none-eabi toolchain used to program microcontrollers (TI, Raspberry, etc..) A build service user provides the packages is reasonable shape: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/wkazubski/15.4/ But why doesn't openSUSE also provide the packages. The devel:/gcc repo provides the cross-arm-none full packages, but not the eabi sub-packages. This is the difference between as 26M install and an a 1.8G install. For example with the Pi-Pico, there is no need for 1.75G of the devel:/gcc packages. Why not provide the eabi subpackages? The wkazubski packages work fine, just need a bit of maintenance. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Make Kwallet behave ?
by Nicolas Kovacs 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

Hi, I've been a KDE user since version 2.x on Slackware more than 20 years ago. I really like it for my daily work, but some details are a bit of a PITA. Kwallet is one of them. Here's a few scenarios that happen erratically on my Tumbleweed installations. 1. KDE starts, Kwallet pops up immediately and leaves me about ten seconds to type in my very long GPG password. In the background, applications that need a password to connect (like OwnCloud) fail and have to be restarted. 2. KDE starts, Wi-Fi tries to connect but fails, OwnCloud asks me for the connection password, and after about a minute or so, Kwallet decides to pop up too late to the show. 3. KDE starts, Kwallet pops up, I type in my password fast enough, Wi-Fi connects but OwnCloud asks me for the connection password even though Kwallet has been opened successfully. Any idea how I can make Kwallet behave ? Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info(a)microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12

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tumbleweed setfacl on sddm login mystery
by Michael Hamilton 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

I noticed on my existing tumbleweed desktop, when I login a setfacl appears to be setting permissions on /dev/i2c-1 and they are reassigned to sddm on logout. % getfacl /dev/i2c-1 getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: dev/i2c-1 # owner: root # group: root user::rw- user:michael:rw- group::--- mask::rw- other::--- This appears to happen for all users. But on a recently installed tumbleweed I don't see this behavior - no users have access to the i2c devices, no ACL's are assign on login. There is no i2c related group on either the old or new machine. Both machines are on the latest tumbleweed, both run Nvidia's driver. So I would expect the same behaviour on both. I do see that the nvidia devices have ACL's set on login (so perhaps this is X11 or nvidia related): getfacl /dev/nvidia0 getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: dev/nvidia0 # owner: root # group: video user::rw- user:michael:rw- group::rw- mask::rw- other::--- It's possible I setup something years ago and have forgotten about it. I think I have used i2c in the past for sensors. More recently I've started using it with ddcutil and vdu_controls (which I wrote) - I was puzzled that they work with no permission changes required on my desktop, but not on this new machine. I'm looking for clues that might throw some light on the situation. Michael

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Desktop search on Tumbleweed : Recoll or similar applications
by Nicolas Kovacs 27 Aug '22

27 Aug '22

Hi, A few weeks ago I decided to move all my desktop installations from OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed, since it looks like the latter gets more love from the developers. So far things look good. I only have a small number of details to tackle. Under Leap I've been using Recoll, a nifty desktop search application that's quite powerful, though it's also a bit of a resource hog. https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ Under Leap the Recoll package was provided by the KDE:Extra repository. Now I have a few questions. 1) If I want to use Recoll under Tumbleweed, what's the recommended way to install it ? 2) Can you guys recommend a similar desktop search application ? Recoll is great for finding the proverbial needle in the haystack, like for example a single sentence in gigabytes of mail archives, or even a character string in a PDF or even a Word document. But maybe there are other applications out there that do the job well ? Thanks & cheers from rainy Austria, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info(a)microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12

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