August 2022 - openSUSE Support - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Tumbleweed: how to recover from a botched zypper dup
by Achim Gratz 11 Sep '22

11 Sep '22

I have an old AthlonXP system that I decomissioned three years ago. It turned out later that just an SATA cable needed replacement. Today I tried to update to the latest Tumbleweed using zypper dup, which initially went well (if slowly), but then it hit the installation of filesystem, complained about missing lua triggers and admonished me that I would need a rescue system. Nothing in /usr/bin works anymore, although the (old) kernel boots until the first time it needs a shell for something. I do have a rescue system on USB from that time (actually a net install for Tumbleweed that I used to install the replacement system with), but it runs into trouble: the available shell prompt does not seem to offer a chroot command nor zypper and clicking past the language prompt will blink caps and scroll lock on the keyboard for about a minute and then reboots (perhaps it tried to mount the botched filesystem?). I'm not even sure a chroot would work since the filesystem isn't set up… Preferrably I could somehow use zypper (or rpm) to use the already downloaded package and target the failed installation (with --root /mnt or something like that). Is there a way to do that? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KomplexerWaves

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Thunderbird and Firefox refuse to open existing profile after upgrade 15.2->15.3
by Jogchum Reitsma 10 Sep '22

10 Sep '22

Hi, Yesterday I upgraded my sister's system from 15.2 to 15.3 After that, both Thunderbird and Firefox refuse to open te existing profiles. Gives the message "You are starting with an old version of <Thunderbird | Frirefox>". Which is an odd messages, because one would expect TB and FF to be newer, not older, after the upgrade... Anyone an idea how to solve this? regards, Jogchum Reitsma

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[TW] Different file/folder sort order in GTK and KDE
by Bob Williams 01 Sep '22

01 Sep '22

I am running Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma. I have noticed that KDE apps sort folders above files, which I like, whereas GTK apps sort everything alphanumerically. Is there a way to make GTK apps sort folders above files? Bob -- Bob Williams No HTML please. Plain text preferred. https://useplaintext.email/

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Sort has weird behaviour
by Graham Stephens 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

First let me start by saying this oddity does not just apply to openSUSE - I have a different Mint machine that also has the same behaviour. In both a visual file manager and in a terminal, the list of documents does not appear to sort correctly (I assume the graphical version is using sort?). Here is my terminal output (a bit mangled by my mail client, sorry): graham@localhost:~/Documents/Programming> ls F# - Beginning F 4.0, 2nd Edition.pdf F# - Expert F 4.0, 4th Edition.pdf F# - for Machine Learning - Essentials.pdf F# - Functional Programming Using F#.pdf F# - High Performance.pdf Fortran - Introduction to Programming using Fortran 95-2003-2008 3rd edition.pdf Fortran - Introduction to Programming with Fortran 3rd edition.pdf Fortran - Self Study F95.pdf F# - Programming F# 3.0.pdf F# - Real-World Functional Programming With Examples in F# and C# 1st Edition.pdf graham@localhost:~/Documents/Programming> ls | sort F# - Beginning F 4.0, 2nd Edition.pdf F# - Expert F 4.0, 4th Edition.pdf F# - for Machine Learning - Essentials.pdf F# - Functional Programming Using F#.pdf F# - High Performance.pdf Fortran - Introduction to Programming using Fortran 95-2003-2008 3rd edition.pdf Fortran - Introduction to Programming with Fortran 3rd edition.pdf Fortran - Self Study F95.pdf F# - Programming F# 3.0.pdf F# - Real-World Functional Programming With Examples in F# and C# 1st Edition.pdf graham@localhost:~/Documents/Programming> ls | sort -f F# - Beginning F 4.0, 2nd Edition.pdf F# - Expert F 4.0, 4th Edition.pdf F# - for Machine Learning - Essentials.pdf F# - Functional Programming Using F#.pdf F# - High Performance.pdf F# - Programming F# 3.0.pdf F# - Real-World Functional Programming With Examples in F# and C# 1st Edition.pdf Fortran - Introduction to Programming using Fortran 95-2003-2008 3rd edition.pdf Fortran - Introduction to Programming with Fortran 3rd edition.pdf Fortran - Self Study F95.pdf So -f seems to get the order right, but as far as I can see there should be no upper/lower case to sort. These files were downloaded; is it possibly some character set issue where the file names look the same but aren't? How do I tell? Thanks.

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nvidia driver update dependency problem
by DennisG 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

About a month ago updates appeared in the Nvidia repository (Leap 15.3) for the G04 group of driver files, to go from 390.151-lp.153.21.1 to 390.154-lp.153.16.1. But updating throws a dependency error for kernel-default-devel-5.3.18-57, which is old (probably about mid-March) and is not even in the update repository. I'm planning to do the 15.4 upgrade shortly, and want this cleared up beforehand. Ideas? Who to ask? Thx! --dg Leap 15.3, Plasma

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KDE: Wallpaper keeps changing
by c. marlow 27 Aug '22

27 Aug '22

SUSE Tumbleweed KDE I want to know why, every week when I run sudo zupper dup my wallpaper gets changed to the default KDE wallpaper? Is there a way to stop this from happening? Thanks Chris

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TLS version information
by Mark Neidorff 27 Aug '22

27 Aug '22

I'm running Leap 15.4 using KDE and KMail for my email (old habits are hard to break). I received and verified a notice from my ISP that they will be requiring TLS 1.3 (but will accept 1.2) starting September 1. How do I determine what version of TLS is in use on my system, and if it is not an acceptable one, how do I upgrade it? Thank you, Mark -- At a towing company: "We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows."

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WSL LEAP 15.4 default user + sshd
by David T-G 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Hi, all -- 1) How does the WSL app specify the user account as which to run? 2) How can I get sshd running to connect to my new instance? I have just installed LEAP P15.4 under WSL and am having trouble with the running user. If I let yast2 create an account, then opening the app runs a shell as that user. I don't want that UID, though, so I tried changing it, and LEAP started as root. So I wiped it all and started over and skipped user creation and created me manually, and it still runs as root. I don't see where I can tell WSL what user to be when it fires off the LEAP instance. In addition, I don't see how I can turn on sshd to support incoming connections. It wouldn't surprise me if I had to work with services in Windows, but I'd think I also need some magic inside the WSL instance. Has anyone done this? And, of course, since this is all probably WSL problems, pointers to the proper forum are welcome :-) TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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Re: Issues playing videos in Firefox with videolan.org repository - missing libavcodec59?
by Carlos E. R. 24 Aug '22

24 Aug '22

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TW: while trying to shutdown system, system blocks with "blockdev_get_no_open"
by Stakanov 22 Aug '22

22 Aug '22

when trying after the latest update (mainly concerning libvirt related software) I tried to shutdown the system I was able to see why my system sometimes requests a hardware reset because it would not shutdown or restart normally. The error is repeated hundreds of times. T1] blockdevice_get_no_open T1] blockdevice autoloading is deprecated and will be removed What could be the reason, it appears to have a problem with a hdd? What to do to get rid of the issue. Thank you in advance.

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