October 2020 - openSUSE Support - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-support] problem with KDE plasma slideshow
by George from the tribe 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

So I have now installed 15.2 on all 3 pcs that I regularly use... All overall very happy with the new system... On my desktop only, I have had some issues with the system slowing down and locking up. It seems to be related to plasma. My desktop has an nvidia graphics card and I run 3 monitors off of it. For background on the setup, I read somewhere, I think in the forums, something about disabling an Xorg file or something like that, so that the graphics driver it uses is the one that is part of the kernel? It had me do something that disabled making it point to nouveau or a proprietary nvidia driver, but I can't remember what I did. In any case, the system seems to work ok except that sometimes I seem to get these intermittent hangs. (If anyone can remember the link to the tutorial that described that procedure that would be great, because I am kicking myself now for not having bookmarked it.) So I decided to fully reset kde by removing the .config directory and set everything up again from scratch. I have run into a snag in the setup now. I like to set a slideshow for my desktop to pictures on my hard disk that I have taken. I noticed that when configuring the desktop, the new applet for 15.2 provides a thumbnail preview for every single picture that is added in when setting up a slideshow. This is where the snag hits, and I think I know why. If I add a directory that just has 30 or so pictures, or even up to 100 or so pictures, it is no big deal. The system finds all the pictures right away, makes thumbnails and puts the thumbnails in the preview pane, and within a couple of seconds everything is fine. The problem comes when I add one of my pictures directories that has thousands and thousands of pictures. Because the applet is built so that it won't let you out until it has retrieved thumbnails for every single picture in every subdirectory, it locks up plasma. For a long time. A really long time. I haven't found out how long because I have to kill X every time with ctrl-alt-double backspace after 15 minutes or so. It clearly doesn't need to put preview thumbnails for all 30,000 pictures in that little applet. Perhaps someone on the development team could modify the way it looks at that? Do I need to send this to KDE instead of noting it here? I haven't tried setting up a slideshow on my other 2 pcs, which are both laptops and neither one uses nvidia, so I don't know for sure if the problem is more with nvidia on my desktop or with the way the applet is coded. Thanks, George -- George Box: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-support] leap didn't make it
by Doug McGarrett 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

On a different computer, I installed leap, just to see what it offered. It got very little use, but was left in sleep mode until I tried to bring it up today. It came up, but it was unhappy-- things in the GUI didn't work. Rebooted. Came up black screen with mouse cursor in center. Long story short, nothing I tried, including rescue mode (or whatever it's called) brought back normal operation. Finally put install disk in and tried rescue, but it asks for login: and password: tried my username and my password from when the system worked, but it doesn't want that. If someone knows what it wants, I'll go on from there. otherwise, maybe just put the Windows drive back and forget it. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-support] Mozilla Thunderbird 78.4
by Carlos E. R. 31 Oct '20

31 Oct '20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I see that "Mozilla Thunderbird 78.4" has been announced as an "automatic" or security update for Leap 15.1. Isn't this premature, is this safe already? Shouldn't users be warned about it? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCX52ogRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVy6oAnRX0SM1kQlyOkZqROzxp v6yufdrzAJ0eb4+mC98GKICmkQhhoTnax33FGQ== =wdqa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-support] Problem with initramfs?
by Robin Klitscher 31 Oct '20

31 Oct '20

Sorry about the length of this, but I need to explain the setting. The machine is a brand new Intel i7, UEFI with NVMe and SATA SSDs in GPT mode. It carries two installations of Leap 15.2 (one for production and one to play with); and one installation of Tumbleweed. Each of these is stand-alone with its own separate / and /home, on ext4 filesystems throughout. It was all going well, but then I made a silly mistake. When booted externally into Parted Magic from a USB stick I accidentally deleted a data partition on one of the drives with gparted. I’ve managed to reinstate the partition and its contents from backups, but the error has meant I could no longer boot into any of the internal systems installed. I just got thrown to a Dracut emergency shell and “enter root password for maintenance”. I’ve now reinstalled one of the Leaps from scratch, and it’s working. But the other Leap and the Tumbleweed aren’t. To cut a long story short, in each case the journal ends with dracut timeout errors; and there are messages that “not all disks have been found” and “you might want to regenerate your initramfs”. From this it seems a fair bet that something to do with the external deletion and renewal of the partition with gparted has confused the installed kernel(s). I’d prefer to fix this without re-installations. If there’s a way of invoking either mkinitramfs or dracut from the Dracut emergency shell, I can’t find it. Is there? Alternatively, is there a way of rebuilding the initramfs in the two errant installations when booted to the one that works? Or is there some other fix that will avoid starting over and reinstalling everything from scratch? (Please understand that, being an 84-year-old novice in these matters, I am only partly knowledgeable and would appreciate simplicity.) -- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-support] Change in powerstate triggers change display layout
by Francisco Isgleas 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

Hi, I've just got a new laptop and installed Leap 15.2 on it, got it updated right after installation and began setting my environment when I noticed that the Display Layout change action (osd) was triggered without me pulsing the combo keys (Fn+F9 in this hardware), At first, I noticed it popped up after 2:30 minutes (sharp). After a while, I discovered it happened also when unplugging the charger, and when plugging it back. At the moment this is no critical for me to keep working on the laptop. but sure it is annoying, and some applications won't work properly if this trigger keeps happening, like the screensaver/dimmer (detects activity and never activates) or rsibreak (detects activity and resets counters) Do you know what the reason for this might be, and where to start to look for fixing this? OS: Leap 15.2 (5.3.18-lp152.44-default), KDE Plasma System: SCHENKER VIA 15 Pro (AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics) You can find some logs attached, Thanks in advance Francisco

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[opensuse-support] still trying to scan
by Doug McGarrett 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

Digging a bit deeper than before: I am looking into the information appearing in epkowa.conf. I already know that this file must be introduced into /etc/sane.d/ and I have done so. # For each network attached device, you must add an entry as follows: # # net <IP-address | hostname> [port-number] # Ask your network administrator for the device's IP address or check # for yourself on the panel (if it has one). The port-number is very # optional and defaults to 1865. # Note that network attached devices are not queried unless configured # in this file. # # Examples: # #net 192.16.136.2 1865 #net 10.0.0.1 #net scanner.mydomain.com I know the net IP address; it is a fixed address of 192.168.1.26. ( My user name is doug; the computer name is linux1; or does it want the printer name? What is "my domain?") It shows examples, none of which completely agree with the above "requirements." Looking for a suggestion as to how to fill in the blanks. Thanx for your assistance--doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-support] Fail to install amdgpu driver on Leap 15.2
by Isgleas, Francisco 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

I'm trying to install amdgpu-pro-20.20-1089971-sle-15 driver on my Opensuse Leap 15.2 laptop, but the dkms fails to install complaining about DRM_VERSION macro: DKMS make.log for amdgpu-5.6.0.13-1089971 for kernel 5.3.18-lp152.47-default (x86_64) Wed Oct 28 21:04:48 CET 2020 make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-5.3.18-lp152.47-obj/x86_64/default' CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/amd/amdkcl/main.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/amd/amdkcl/symbols.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/amd/amdkcl/kcl_mn.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/amd/amdkcl/kcl_memory.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/amd/amdkcl/kcl_ioctl.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/scheduler/sched_main.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/amd/amdkcl/kcl_device_cgroup.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/scheduler/sched_fence.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/amd/amdkcl/kcl_drm_cache.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/scheduler/sched_entity.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/ttm/ttm_memory.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.o In file included from <command-line>:0:0: /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/include/kcl/kcl_version.h:4:34: error: missing expression between '(' and ')' #define DRM_VERSION(a, b, c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c)) ^ /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/include/kcl/kcl_version.h:5:26: note: in expansion of macro ‘DRM_VERSION’ #define DRM_VERSION_CODE DRM_VERSION(DRM_VER, DRM_PATCH, DRM_SUB) ^~~~~~~~~~~ /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/include/kcl/kcl_fence.h:60:5: note: in expansion of macro ‘DRM_VERSION_CODE’ #if DRM_VERSION_CODE < DRM_VERSION(4, 19, 0) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/5.6.0.13-1089971/build/include/kcl/kcl_version.h:4:34: error: missing expression between '(' and ')' #define DRM_VERSION(a, b, c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c)) <snip> I've tried changing my os-release ID to opensuse rather than opensuse-leap trying to bypass the OS check, but not to avail. Also, in the documentation recommends to report this via bug report at freedestop.org's bugzilla, but that is already shutdown, and I fail to find a proper GIT repo for AMD to report this, My system is an AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics with 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir (rev c7) Could you shed light on how to get the driver installed on my system?

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[opensuse-support] Brother scanner ADS-1700W - Tumbleweed - driver installation problem
by Peter McD 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hi, I have a Brother scanner ADS-1700W, which works under Leap 15.2 There is an older and a newer driver, the older works in Leap. Some time ago I could get the older driver somehow working in Tumbleweed. But after a fresh Tumbleweed installation Yast doesn't even install it: Here are the error messages driver: older - younger --------------------------------------- error messages/driver works in Leap: Fehler: INVALID:brscan5-1.1.0-0.x86_64 (RPM): Fehler beim Überprüfen der Signatur [6-Datei ist unsigniert] Header SHA1 digest: OK MD5 digest: OK Paket ist nicht signiert! Subprocess failed. Error: RPM fehlgeschlagen: grep: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: binary file matches [1;31mERROR: brscan5 depends on libstdc++/libstdc++6 (>= GLIBCXX_3.4.14)[1;0m error: %prein(brscan5-1.1.0-0.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 254 error: brscan5-1.1.0-0.x86_64: install failed --------------------------------------- Error messages Paket 'brscan5' ist beschädigt, Integritätsprüfung ist fehlgeschlagen. Header SHA1 digest: OK MD5 digest: OK Paket ist nicht signiert! Die Installation des Pakets 'brscan5' ist fehlgeschlagen. Subprocess failed. Error: RPM fehlgeschlagen: grep: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: binary file matches [1;31mERROR: brscan5 depends on libstdc++/libstdc++6 (>= GLIBCXX_3.4.14)[1;0m error: %prein(brscan5-1.2.2-0.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 254 error: brscan5-1.2.2-0.x86_64: install failed -------------------------------------- Both drivers seem to have the a problem with libstdc++6, which is installed. Any ideas? Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-support] Severe problems with Firefox under Tumbleweed
by Freek de Kruijf 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

After a recent upgrade of Tumbleweed Firefox is not usable anymore. It takes almost 100% of the CPU and keeps indicating loading a page. When I close it it asks for a problem report to Mozilla. Is it possible to replace the current version to an older, working version in the repository? -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-support] graphical client for git
by mike 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hi, What is the best graphical client for git from opensuse for tumbleweed? Thanks, mike s -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

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