March 2021 - openSUSE Support - openSUSE Mailing Lists

how to prevent /etc/profile.d/ files from returning
by David T-G 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, all -- I'm running Leap 15.2 (and this has been happening for a while), and after a round of updates I have to go back to /etc/profile.d and wipe out files that I don't want (alias.bash + ls.bash in particular). Different from adding my own run commands to profile.local.sh thereunder, I want to NOT get the stock stuff. Is there any way to keep them from being dropped again so that I don't have to deal with this over and over? *sigh* TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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system crashed during upgrade--HELP
by Doug McGarrett 19 May '21

19 May '21

OpenSUSE TW. System crashed during the second part of upgrade, where files were reporting "done." Crash occurred at 966/2162 Installing shim _15 + git47-222222222.2.x86_64 Rebooted to blank (black) screen with message as follows: GNU GRUB VERSION 2.04 Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completion. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device file completetions. grub _ Is it possible to save this, and if so, how? Have left computer in this condition awaiting answer. --doug

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/tmp is emptied; /var/tmp/ is not
by DennisG 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

At boot, my /tmp directory is being cleaned out. However, /var/tmp/ still has ~3000 folders, containing ~300 files. All but 2 of the folders are named zypp.*, created over the past 2 years and appear to contain mostly public/private keys and associated files. My /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf looks like (as recommended on the Forums): D! /tmp 1777 root root 1d D! /var/tmp 1777 root root 1d So it would appear that the first line for /tmp is being used (I presume by a systemd unit), but the second line is not. My /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf has: d /tmp 1777 root root - d /var/tmp 1777 root root - which I have understood is the installed default and is not used when tmp.conf exists under /etc/tmpfiles.d/ (?). What am I missing? TIA! -- dg Leap 15.2 w/KDE

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re: HP LaserJet
by Doug McGarrett 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

The HP_LaserJet_Pro_M201dw installed and worked via YaST, but now is giving me trouble: if I send it a print job, the panel light goes on and says OK, and the green printer horseshoe light come on but the printer doesn't print. lpstat shows the file has been sent: HP_LaserJet_Pro_M201dw-363 doug 15360 Sun 28 Mar 2021 03:17:28 PM EDT How do I trouble shoot this and fix it, please? --doug

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proper place for xrandr script to run before sddm?
by mh＠mike.franken.de 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

Hi *, on my notebook I use a small script to handle the connected graphics ports via xrandr. This script has to be run before sddm-greeter gets started. For a long time now the script was started from [/usr]/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup, because I couldn't find a better place for it. It is annoying, though, that Xsetup gets overwritten with every update of xdm. What's more annoying, is the fact, that no .rpmsave file is created during update, despite the fact I had modified the file. Is there a better/proper place for a script like that, where it can survive an update unchanged? Something like Xsetup.d/? TIA. Bye. Michael.

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running a script (not a daemon) at boot under systemctl
by David T-G 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

Hi, all -- I'm still a bit hung up on systemd :-( I've created a simple unit file diskfarm:~ # cat /etc/systemd/system/disks-timeout-set.service [Unit] Description=Set disk timeouts if needed [Service] Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=true ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/disks-timeout-set.sh [Install] WantedBy=multi-user,target which calls the script, which runs and exits. The script runs happily, and I can even systemctl start it with apparent success. I've tried to enable it diskfarm:~ # systemctl enable disks-timeout-set.service Failed to enable unit: Invalid argument without any luck, though. 1) A service is really what I want for a simple run-and-exit script, right? No other unit type makes sense. 2) So what's the error and how do I debug? I've surfed like crazy, but everything presumes a daemon and all of the "enable" examples always succeed :-) TIA & HANN :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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No password Thunderbird
by Doug McGarrett 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Somehow I have accidentally set Thunderbird to open without a password. It's wonderful! It was a royal pita! Now in case it changes back, or if a zypper dup changes it back, I'd like to know how to do it on purpose. I have no reason to need a password for my email. I have no secrets on it, and no porn. If someone should get in and read it, so what? And there's nobody here to read it but me anyway. --doug

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Wrong battery parameters management.
by Marco Calistri 27 Mar '21

27 Mar '21

Hello, (my system details are in mi sig.) Since some weeks I notice a wrong battery parameters measurement, despite it being apparently healthy and still owning its normal duration time. I tried to reset it and the Linux energy management as suggested by several sources by discharging and recharging it, as well as by pressing the computer power button for 15 seconds, without success. The problem is that kernel reads the full-charged value a lot over the battery design capacity for this reason it looks as the charging never reach 100%. See the picture: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoEY5BnM7ZYpbaHdbSRF2zgMcQM?e=lwNo6T Anybody have faced similar issue? And any eventual solution for that? Many thanks! -- Marco Calistri Build: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210321 Kernel:5.11.6-1-default Desktop: XFCE (4.16.0)

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Mouse battery nags driving me bonkers with Plasma/Leap 15.2
by Daniel Morris 27 Mar '21

27 Mar '21

A slightly off-the-wall request, but does anyone know how to tame the mouse/peripheral battery nags under Plasma with Leap 15.2? I've a Logitech M705 mouse which has 2xAA 2450mAh rechargeable batteries. Somewhere in the Leap 15.1 update cycle (I think) I started getting nags about low-battery in the mouse. At first I thought "how helpful" as the same type of geniunely flat batteries in my wireless keyboard sent me on an epic wild-goose chase a few years ago (hint, no probs in the graphic driver). Twice. Here's the notification message: Mouse Battery Low (10% Remaining) The battery in ("Marathon Mouse/Performance Plus M705") is running low, and the device may turn off at any time. Please recharge or replace the battery. I'm guessing the slightly lower voltage in low self-discharge rechargeable batteries is confusing upower, but I can't find where/if it can be tuned. The level is reported regularly by the mouse itself, as it returns from low power/auto sleep mode. Yes, I've tried a fresh set of rechargeables, after their 20hr topup. Regular AA's are rated for three years in the mouse, so would expect at least 12 with high capacity rechargeables. upower --dump reports (for this device): Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/mouse_hidpp_battery_1 native-path: hidpp_battery_1 model: Marathon Mouse/Performance Plus M705 serial: 406d-13-d9-8d-16 power supply: no updated: Fri 26 Mar 2021 18:07:57 GMT (12 seconds ago) has history: yes has statistics: yes mouse present: yes rechargeable: yes state: discharging warning-level: low battery-level: low percentage: 10% (should be ignored) icon-name: 'battery-caution-symbolic' 10% is clearly wrong and something needs re-calibrating. Daniel

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Thunderbird--change preference to read pdf
by Doug McGarrett 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

There seems to be no way to change the preference for incoming pdf files. Okular has not been able to read a couple of recent pdf attachments. I wish to make the preference for pdf ALWAYS Master PDF Editor 5, which can read the files OK. How do I get to a place where I can change this preference? Thanx for your help--doug

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what's this delay thing at boot?
by David T-G 24 Mar '21

24 Mar '21

Hi, all -- I have an existing Leap 15.2 system with an nvme SSD, and I'm happy with how it boots. It does not, such that I have ever noticed, exhibit this behavior. However, I have also just built another Leap 15.2 diskfarm:~ # grep . /etc/SUSE-brand /etc/os-release ; uname -a /etc/SUSE-brand:openSUSE /etc/SUSE-brand:VERSION = 15.2 /etc/os-release:NAME="openSUSE Leap" /etc/os-release:VERSION="15.2" /etc/os-release:ID="opensuse-leap" /etc/os-release:ID_LIKE="suse opensuse" /etc/os-release:VERSION_ID="15.2" /etc/os-release:PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.2" /etc/os-release:ANSI_COLOR="0;32" /etc/os-release:CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:15.2" /etc/os-release:BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org" /etc/os-release:HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/" Linux diskfarm 5.3.18-lp152.63-default #1 SMP Mon Feb 1 17:31:55 UTC 2021 (98caa86) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux system on a single SATA SSD, and as it boots is reports [ slider ] A start job is running for dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-System.device (nns / 1min 30s) that always runs to the 90-second timeout and then fails. What is that, and how do I make it not?!? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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how to see boot messages when in a diagnostic shell?
by David T-G 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Hi, all -- I am building a Leap 15.2 system and had some filesystem mount issues that caused the system to stick at "enter root password or press Ctrl-D to continue" asking for help. I did get that one (user missing from the passwd file but specified as an NTFS volume content owner) figured out, but it wasn't because I could figure out how to see the errors that went by before the screen cleared and the message & password prompt popped up. I tried looking in /var/log/messages and running dmesg and poking at anything else that I could imagine, but I never did see that mount error. When I'm in a recovery/maintenance single-user shell after a boot failure, how do I see the boot messages to read back and see what blew up? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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Repository Packman not accessible - Permissions to access denied
by michael.kasimir＠gmx.de 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

Hi all, if I try to update repositories, I receive since yesterday the following message: Permission to access 'http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/repodata/ repomd.xml' denied. Regards Michael Be Free, Be Linux

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Re: How to delete and reinstall Java
by J Leslie Turriff 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

I've screwed up the Java package on my machine, and now the system can't see/run java. ...Aaaand it appears that I won't have to reinstall it after all, just add back the symbolic link | ln -s /usr/lib64/jvm/java-11-openjdk-11/bin/java /usr/bin/java which possibly update-alternatives erased? Anyway, my Java seems to be working again. Leslie -- openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64

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How to delete and reinstall Java
by J Leslie Turriff 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

I've screwed up the Java package on my machine, and now the system can't see/run java. Background: In order to use packages NetRexx and NetRexx-Pipelines, which until recently depended on Java 8, I had both Java 8 and Java 11 installed, with update-alternatives mediating the two. Now the NetRexx products have been upgraded to work with Java >8, so I didn't need the Java 8 any more. I deleted that, but I'm guessing that update-alternatives wasn't notified. I removed the entries from its "database", but that hasn't helped. Poking around, I see various things like aliases defined in /etc, that refer to java, but don't have comments, etc. tying them to one or the other of the packages. I'm thinking that I need to delete the NetRexx components (easy), then Java 11, then reinstall Java and then NetRexx. Zypper shows | ● zypper se -i java-11 | Loading repository data... | Reading installed packages... | | S | Name | Summary | Type | ---+---------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------- | i+ | java-11-openjdk | OpenJDK 11 Runtime Environment | package | i+ | java-11-openjdk-headless | OpenJDK 11 Runtime Environment | package When I try to remove them zypper says, | ● zypper rm java-11-openjdk{,-headless} | Reading installed packages... | Resolving package dependencies... | | The following 26 packages are going to be REMOVED: | apache-commons-lang3 apache-commons-logging bouncycastle flute java-11-openjdk | java-11-openjdk-headless libbase libfonts libformula liblayout | libloader libreoffice-base librepository libserializer pdftk pdftk-qgui | pentaho-libxml pentaho-reporting-flow-engine sac texlive-arara | texlive-collection-binextra texlive-collection-plaingeneric texlive-latex2nemeth | texlive-scheme-medium texlive-tex4ht texlive-texosquery | | 26 packages to remove. | After the operation, 209.0 MiB will be freed. | Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y) which is not surprising, but how do I tell zypper to leave those other 24 alone? None of the zypper remove options seem to allow that. | -t, --type <TYPE> Type of package (package, patch, pattern, product). | -n, --name Select packages by plain name, not by capability. Default: false | -C, --capability Select packages solely by capability. Default: false | --details Show the detailed installation summary. Default: false | -r, --repo <ALIAS|#|URI> Work only with the specified repository. | -y, --no-confirm Don't require user interaction. Alias for the --non-interactive global | option. Default: false | -D, --dry-run Don't change anything, just report what would be done. A meaningful file | conflict check can only be performed if used together with | '--download-only'. Default: false | -u, --clean-deps Automatically remove unneeded dependencies. | -U, --no-clean-deps No automatic removal of unneeded dependencies. | | Solver options | | --debug-solver Create a solver test case for debugging. | --force-resolution Force the solver to find a solution (even an aggressive one) rather than | asking. | -R, --no-force-resolution Do not force the solver to find a solution, let it ask. | --solver-focus <MODE> Set the solvers general attitude when resolving a job. I tried to use YaST sw_single to delete the two Java 11 packages, but bizarrely, it tries to install them instead of removing them. Help! Leslie -- openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64

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Non-bootable system after upgrade
by Jogchum Reitsma 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Hi, Today I tried to upgrade a system which apparently hadn't been upgraded for ages: it still ran 42.3. I did it he way I am used to: choose for a fresh install, and import the filesystem layout and mountpoints from the existing system. (It still puzzles me why the default proposition from the installer always is to re-arrange the existing filesystems on disk, in a way that is destroying all data on it.. Why not at least keep the /home partition intact?). In this process I get the warming The system might not be able to boot: * A partition of type BIOS Boot Partition is needed to install the bootloader * Such a setup is not supported and may cause problems with the bootloader now and in the future And I'm given the choice to continue or not. The message as such is somewhat ambiguous to me: is a partition of type BIOS Boot Partition needed for the new installation, and is it non-existing? Or, the other way around, does it exist and should it be deleted for a successful install? Moreover, the message doesn't give a clue as to what to do. This warning slightly resembles another one, for which I asked for and got help for the 10th of October 2018 (https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/533410-Warning-about-missing-bio…); there I decided to continue, and installation went without problems. Therefore, AND not knowing what the installer wanted, I decided to continue. But this time the installation itself went smoothly, but left me with an unbootable system: there is no valid partition found to boot from. The partitions on the disk are: /dev/sda1 4.00 GiB Swap on Swap /dev/sda2 50.00 GiB BtrFS on / /dev/sda3 0.86TiB XFS on /home /dev/sda4 1.00 GiB FAT on /boot/efi Why did the system boot on 42.3, and refuses it to boot from 15.2? More important, what can I do to make the system boot? Preferably without touching /home... Your help is greatly appreciated! regards, Jogchum

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Fail to boot on LiveCD
by Christian Schmitz 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Hi everyone. I am having trouble booting from usb. I am trying to recover data from a notebook with windows. So i think use a live linux from opensuse. And perform the following steps: 1) download a opensuse liveCD, (3 opensuse versions and others) 2) install the image with imagewriter to a usb with a SD memory. 3) go to failed notebook select boot from usb 4) Grub menu works fine. 5) I select start live..... 6) The system cant boot: mount /run/overlay/squashfs_container: wrong fs type on /dev/loop0 mount /run/overlay/rootfsbase: special device /LiveOS/rootfs.img does not exist. system halted Y try on another notebook (that work well) with the similar result. dracut: FATAL: failed to mount live ISO dracut: Refusing to continue I need touch some on bios? live TW & live Leap are broken? Some special command to grup is required? Or any other idea or clue? Best Regards Christian -- Be Free, Be Linux

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segfaulting TW update packages
by Ben T. Fender 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

5 packages of TW update are giving me segfaults 'been getting such segfaults with the least dozen or so zypper dup's anyone else with this prob? The following package is going to be REMOVED: libreofficekit The following 5 packages are going to be upgraded: gutenprint icewm-themes kio-extras5-lang man-pages python-base 5 packages to upgrade, 1 to remove. Overall download size: 33.9 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 10.1 KiB will be used. Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y Retrieving package gutenprint-5.2.15-1.4.x86_64 (1/5), 20.2 MiB ( 81.2 MiB unpacked) Retrieving: gutenprint-5.2.15-1.4.x86_64.rpm ..................................................[done (1.1 MiB/s)] Retrieving package icewm-themes-0.1-688.8.noarch (2/5), 3.3 MiB ( 7.6 MiB unpacked) Retrieving: icewm-themes-0.1-688.8.noarch.rpm .................................................[done (1.1 MiB/s)] Retrieving package kio-extras5-lang-20.12.2-1.2.noarch (3/5), 733.2 KiB ( 1.7 MiB unpacked) Retrieving: kio-extras5-lang-20.12.2-1.2.noarch.rpm .........................................[done (927.0 KiB/s)] Retrieving package man-pages-5.10-1.2.noarch (4/5), 3.5 MiB ( 4.4 MiB unpacked) Retrieving: man-pages-5.10-1.2.noarch.rpm .....................................................[done (1.1 MiB/s)] Retrieving package python-base-2.7.18-4.2.x86_64 (5/5), 6.1 MiB ( 23.8 MiB unpacked) Retrieving: python-base-2.7.18-4.2.x86_64.rpm .................................................[done (1.1 MiB/s)] Checking for file conflicts: ..............................................................................[done] (1/6) Removing libreofficekit-7.0.3.1-1.1.x86_64 ..........................................................[done] Additional rpm output: error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 46298 Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 3dbdc284: BAD Header SHA256 digest: BAD (Expected 57532ca9c53931110285faca261b45231f84d4df559929a8bec6597d54c0b209 != 110c507997cace879600f106df6530abc962a7bf37f74259a9b2375d9adab5b4) Header SHA1 digest: BAD (Expected 28e300d47541dda0725a8395cfc548616ce00076 != 1eb9b0a46733cd1ab79ebdf2bec9b4bfc4c52b09) (2/6) Installing: gutenprint-5.2.15-1.4.x86_64 ...........................................................[error] Installation of gutenprint-5.2.15-1.4.x86_64 failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command was killed by signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): i (3/6) Installing: icewm-themes-0.1-688.8.noarch ..........................................................[error] Installation of icewm-themes-0.1-688.8.noarch failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command was killed by signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): i (4/6) Installing: kio-extras5-lang-20.12.2-1.2.noarch ....................................................[error] Installation of kio-extras5-lang-20.12.2-1.2.noarch failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command was killed by signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): i (5/6) Installing: man-pages-5.10-1.2.noarch ..............................................................[error] Installation of man-pages-5.10-1.2.noarch failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command was killed by signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): i (6/6) Installing: python-base-2.7.18-4.2.x86_64 ..........................................................[error] Installation of python-base-2.7.18-4.2.x86_64 failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command was killed by signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): i

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tumbleweed overview of stability
by Simon Becherer 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Hi, i would like to inform you that jimmy has fixed his page: https://review.tumbleweed.boombatower.com/ so its again possible to see with only one click all bugs + mails related to a specific snapshot. that will make live easier. many thanks, jimmy!!! simoN cc to users(a)lists.opensuse.org -- www.becherer.de

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intel / nvidia and xorg.conf
by mh＠mike.franken.de 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Hi *, I'd like to setup a machine with an internal Intel UHD630 device plus a PCIe NVidia GTX750 card. I started with the Intel device as single graphics adapter. With the attached xorg-intel.conf everything works as expected, all screen and monitor sections have been accepted by the X server and the plugged monitors show the appropriate output streams. Then I added the NVidia sections to this xorg.conf, named it xorg- intel_nvidia.conf and things got strange. Screen 0, that has the nvidia device attached , works as expected - the tv signal shows up on the tv. But for the screens served by the intel device I get an error messages saying "(EE) Screen 1 deleted because of no matching config section." - but the sections contain exactly the same parameters as they have in the intel only configuration, where they are working perfectly!?!? Whats more, I still get Screen 1, but with some default settings. I don't get Screen 2 at all. I spent at least four days trying to find out whats going on here, but didn't succeed. To make it even harder, every time I run xrandr for any of the screens, the NVidia driver is dumping core 8-( This also doesn't happen with the intel only setup. Any idea whats up here? Thx. Bye. Michael.

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