March 2012 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 309148] boot-process: starting network / dbus with ldap authentification
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Feature added by: Alexander Fleischer (afleischer) Feature #309148, revision 1 Title: boot-process: starting network / dbus with ldap authentification openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alexander Fleischer (afleischer) Description: I asked to file this bug report as feature request: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569953 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569953) After configuring LDAP authentification via yast the system needs about 20 minutes to start the dbus-daemon on boot. I got a lot of ldap messages in /var/log/messages like these: Jan 12 12:01:44 w2 dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps://10.0.0.10: Can't contact LDAP server Jan 12 12:01:44 w2 dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 8 seconds)... Of course, because network is started after dbus, dbus can't connect to the ldap server, and waits several times until the timeout is reached. Network has dbus as "required-start", so i can't change the startup order and add $network to required-start in the dbus script. My temporary solution is to replace the /etc/nsswitch.conf file with a one without ldap access in /etc/init.d/boot.local and restoring the original one after the network is up. But this is not a clean solution, maybe an extra startup script can solve the problem. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309148

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[New: openFATE 311085] Enhance Monitoring Software
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Feature added by: Lars Vogdt (lrupp) Feature #311085, revision 1 Title: Enhance Monitoring Software Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Lars Vogdt (lrupp) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: With the new Nagios forks (icinga, shinken, ...) at the door and the additional tools around them, I think it's time for testing and packaging this stuff to be able to run the best monitoring solution on our own Products without any trouble. So evaluating the current Nagios package and also the forks would be the starting point - the next steps should be to create packages for our distribution and maybe also special documentation, if needed. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311085

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[New: openFATE 308824] Drop appending 127.0.0.2 line to /etc/hosts (incl. related configuration options)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Feature added by: Katarina Machalkova (kmachalkova) Feature #308824, revision 1 Title: Drop appending 127.0.0.2 line to /etc/hosts (incl. related configuration options) openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Katarina Machalkova (kmachalkova) Description: For years, SUSE-based products have been appending '127.0.0.2 host.domain host' to /etc/hosts as a convenience for applications which want to resolve the hostname and which thus become irresponsive without active network [1] Localhost IP associated with FQDN however causes various network services (samba, SLP, LDAP, ntp, ... ) to behave oddly [2]. An option in product-wide control files has been introduced so as not to append 127.0.0.2 on server-oriented products (SLES) - FaTE#303875, while keeping user the possibility to override the default in GUI and AutoYaST profile. Nevertheless, even reasonably set default doesn't prevent misconfigurations and user complaints [3] The suggestion is therefore to drop 127.0.0.2 modification of /etc/hosts altogether and drop GUI/control options associated with configuration thereof. These include: * GUI option in YaST installer * XML profile elements in AutoYaST * Variable in product-wide control file (control.xml) * Possibly also sysconfig variable Appending 127.0.0.2 line has always been sort of workaround for flawed (mostly) desktop applications and DNS servers, so rather than providing workaround with plethora of side effects, it'd more reasonable to have affected apps fixed. Bugs have been filed against some of them and fixed already. References: [1] Apps become slow when offline bugs https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304632 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383336 [2] Network services going insane with localhost IP associated with FQDN https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207392 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355608 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570108 [3] Even reasonably set default doesn't help https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510228 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308824

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[openFATE 307765] Debuginfo file system
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

Feature added by: Ruchir Brahmbhatt (Ruchir) Feature #307765, revision 1 Title: Debuginfo file system openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ruchir Brahmbhatt (ruchir) Description: It would be nice to have internet mountable debuginfo file system just like fedora. This will allow users to get traces from gdb without installing lots of debuginfo packages. This way we can have access to all debuginfo packages without installing them. This will encourage more users to report bugs. Some users may not be willing to install additional debuginfo packages due to lack of enough disk space or willingness to report bugs. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307765

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[New: openFATE 311124] Consolidate faillog, pam_tally, pam_tally2, pam_faillock
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

Feature added by: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk) Feature #311124, revision 1 Title: Consolidate faillog, pam_tally, pam_tally2, pam_faillock openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There are four different ways to track the number of failed logins and react to this: faillog, pam_tally, pam_tally2, pam_faillock. They are all incompatible together and pretty hard next to impossible to configure. Goal: Write one new module "pam_faillog", which replaces all of them. Should be able to read all current databases, supports all features together but uses advanced PAM functionality to make configuration very easy. The module depends on correct behavior of calling application, which means we need some checks if application behaves correct and maybe fix them. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311124

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[New: openFATE 308496] Include OpenShot Video Editor
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 May '13

23 May '13

Feature added by: Karl Fischer (karlfischer) Feature #308496, revision 1 Title: Include OpenShot Video Editor openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Karl Fischer (karlfischer) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: OpenShot is a Open source, Non Linear video editor, I believe that openSUSE 11.3 will benefit greatly to a such a Video Editor. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Making openSUSE a better MultiMedia desktop, having Gimp, Inkscape and Banshee this would be a very complementary. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308496

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[New: openFATE 310831] Bépo keyboard layout - «first class citizen»
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 May '13

23 May '13

Feature added by: Pierre Ducroquet (Pinaraf) Feature #310831, revision 1 Title: Bépo keyboard layout - «first class citizen» openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pierre Ducroquet (pinaraf) Description: Hi The usual qwerty keyboard layout (and similar layouts like qwertz, azerty...) are known for being suboptimal. Better layouts are available, like dvorak. These layouts are often tied to a language : dvorak is better for english, while french users will prefer bépo. On my system, I only use a bépo keyboard, that is not supported at all in the OpenSUSE installer, making it really painful to use. It would be a simple but nice addition to have bépo support in Yast. OpenSUSE would then be probably the only distribution providing that feature, and I don't think it costs much to include a new keyboard layout on the CD/DVD. Thanks -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310831

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[New: openFATE 308320] YMP YaST Workflow
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 May '13

17 May '13

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #308320, revision 1 Title: YMP YaST Workflow openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Description: If you click on a YMP link firefox opens a window[1] asking you what you want to do with that link, suggesting to let the meta package handler handle it. You click okay from which another window[2] opens, the download manager of firefox. After it is finished an new window[3] pops up asking you the initial questions about the YMP handling. Which repos to subscribe to and which package to install. If you okay twice yet another window[4] opens asking me for the root password to start the package manager. Which is another window[5]. If there is a new repo in the YMP that you did not have before it will open a window[6] asking you to import the signing key. Somehow i doubt that this many windows are neccessarry. For a workflow that is desinged for the stupid user this should be improved imho. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308320

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[New: openFATE 310041] HP 3D GuardDrive
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Feature added by: Dimitar Popov (dimitar_popov) Feature #310041, revision 1 Title: HP 3D GuardDrive openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Dimitar Popov (dimitar_popov) Description: I wish openSUSE to supply a daemon, which uses the /dev/freefall to provide hard disk head crash protection. There is an example application in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c which might be used as a base for such a daemon and the needed modules (hp_accel and lis3lv02d) are present in kernel 2.6.31. I think this is an important feature for HP laptop users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310041

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[New: openFATE 308557] Easier Network configration
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Feature added by: belal mandurah (belal_mandurah) Feature #308557, revision 1 Title: Easier Network configration openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: belal mandurah (belal_mandurah) Description: There are lots of confusing settings when setting up a network and they are in diffrent location to edit (smb.conf, netbios name, host name, domain name, workgroup name, ports, allowed services ... etc) It is really frustrating when you cant access shared files, especially for home users. I suggest that there should be an easier way to configure a network , perhaps a wizard. something that maybe look like M$ wizard when setting up a network. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308557

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