September 2022 - openSUSE Support - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Firefox does not play H.265 videos
by Bjoern Voigt 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

Something seems to be wrong with my openSUSE Tumbleweed Packman codecs. Yesterday my Firefox 105.0.1 (from mozilla repository) was unable to play H.265 videos (in *.mp4 container) at all, I could only hear the sound. Today I fixed some codecs in YaST ("switch system packages" to Packman), so that packages like libavcodec59 now are from Packman (was openSUSE). I installed the missing packages gstreamer-plugins-bad-codecs and gstreamer-plugins-ugly-codecs from Packman. But still, I can only play some H.265 videos in Firefox. E.g. the MKV H.265 video https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3-obtCH8dE8V0NXdi1Jd3NrNkk/view?usp=shari… (from https://kodi.wiki/view/Samples) plays well. But my H.265 videos in MP4 container from my smartphone still do not play in Firefox. They play in VLC and MPV, so the codecs are installed. But Firefox still needs an unknown dependency to play H.265 in MP4. I did not found good documentation about this topic. There is a bit documentation about H.264 (not H.265): https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Firefox_MP4/H.264_Video_Support Any ideas? Which multimedia framework does Firefox use? Greetings, Björn

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kmail - no longer able to send emails
by Ianseeks 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

Hi Last night i sent a few emails successfully, went off to have some food (left it logged in), came back 30 mins later and could no longer send emails. The message i get is: "Failed to transport message. Connection lost to server host" The ISP was working fine as i could use the browser interface and send emails fine. Any ideas where i can look? I did go to the settings and check the "Sending" config and it all looked fine, i also did "Auto Detect" and it got the details ok. I've also confirmed the setting with the ISP config page. regards Ian -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20220926 Qt: 5.15.5 KDE Frameworks: 5.98.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.25.5 - kwin 5.25.5 kmail2 5.21.1 (22.08.1) - akonadiserver 5.21.1 (22.08.1) - Kernel: 5.19.10-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.17

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Printer confusion
by Mark Neidorff 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Well, I've got 15.4 going well enough (all updates installed) to try to tackle printing. Years ago I bought a Canon ImageClass MF 5950DW, which is not directly supported by OpenSUSE. I don't give up easily, SUSE does not support my printer directly. But I found: https://printerdrivers.com/canon-imageclass-mf5950dw-drivers-download/[1] which are (supposedly) drivers for linux. (sorry, but the file is copy protected so I can't copy and paste from it) Anyway, it says: "When you have downloaded the particularly needed software, connect the printer" ...and here I don't know what the "paritcularly needed software" is, because they don't say. So, any help will be appreciated. Many thanks, Mark -- A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. -------- [1] https://printerdrivers.com/canon-imageclass-mf5950dw-drivers-download/

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newer firefox ESR LTS release 102.3.0 for current leaps at last?
by cagsm 21 Sep '22

21 Sep '22

apparently there are no more releases for the old and dated ancient pre-102 ESR of forefox (and thunderbird).... <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar> when will 102.3.x and newer appear for leap 15.4? as there are CVE on firefox even for ESR 102.x.y when will opensuse leap folks get these updates and fixes? ty

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sending messages from o.o account
by Axel Braun 20 Sep '22

20 Sep '22

Hi, AFAIK openSUSE does not tun its own SMTP server, so if one wants to send a mail he has to use a different (ono-oS) SMTP server. This leads to issues, as one smaller mail provider uses means of sender authentification (see below) in between. How can we deal with these authentifications when using a o.o address? Thanks Axel -- host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [66.102.1.26] SMTP error from remote mail server after pipelined end of data: 550-5.7.26 This message does not pass authentication checks (SPF and DKIM both 550-5.7.26 do not pass). SPF check for [opensuse.org] does not pass with ip: 550-5.7.26 [178.254.4.101].To best protect our users from spam, the message has 550-5.7.26 been blocked. Please visit 550-5.7.26 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#authentication for more 550 5.7.26 information. p11-20020a05600c204b00b003b4b2707425si9307880wmg.75 - gsmtp

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Package Update Indicator stops to work
by Marco Calistri 20 Sep '22

20 Sep '22

Package Update Indicator (/usr/bin/gpk-update-viewer) stopped to indicate new packages available for download. I've tried also to set the updating schedule from weekly to daily without any effects. System's details in my signature. Regards, -- Marco Calistri Build: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220919 Kernel: 5.19.8-1-default - XFCE: (4.16.0)

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[support] determine binaries/libs called by zypper dup
by Felix Miata 20 Sep '22

20 Sep '22

Zypper dup in TW got interrupted, now zypper dup cannot find the old shared library libboost_thread version. The current version has already been upgraded, as all installed libboost_*. How can I determine which other package(s) hasn't been upgraded yet, resulting in calling the old libboost_thread version and zypper failing to run? *zypp* & *curl* are already upgraded. There may be some python* packages yet to do. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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"disabling vim syntax", or "how to override a suse default"
by David T-G 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

Hi, all -- I'm running Leap 15.x on various computers davidtg@jpo:~> for H in jpo diskfarm gezebel ; do echo $H ; ssh $H " egrep '^(NAME|VERSION)' /etc/os-release " ; echo '' ; done jpo NAME="openSUSE Leap" VERSION="15.2" VERSION_ID="15.2" diskfarm NAME="openSUSE Leap" VERSION="15.2" VERSION_ID="15.2" gezebel NAME="openSUSE Leap" VERSION="15.1" VERSION_ID="15.1" (yes, I'm planning to update soon; see my recent update-and-migrate thread) and have finally gotten tired enough of stupid syntax highlighting, especially when vim complains No Syntax items defined for this buffer on startup, to dig into it. I find that the SuSE vimrc turns it on by default: davidtg@jpo:~> grep syn /usr/share/vim/vim80/*vimrc* /usr/share/vim/vim80/gvimrc_example.vim: " Switch on syntax highlighting if it wasn't on yet. /usr/share/vim/vim80/gvimrc_example.vim: if !exists("syntax_on") /usr/share/vim/vim80/gvimrc_example.vim: syntax on /usr/share/vim/vim80/suse.vimrc:" enable syntax highlighting /usr/share/vim/vim80/suse.vimrc: syntax on /usr/share/vim/vim80/vimrc_example.vim:if has('syntax') && has('eval') GAAAH! No wonder I'm seein' this thing all of the time ... Of course, I turn it off davidtg@jpo:~> cat .vimrc source $HOME/.exrc syntax=off in my own .vimrc file, but that doesn't seem to matter ... This concept has come up before for default aliases, too. I tried a few ways to permanently stomp on some /etc/profile.d/* files, but anything that promises to be permanent also breaks updates, so I'm stuck making the same changes again and again. I foresee the same thing with syntax settings *sigh* So what's the best way to step on a setting or file that is placed by default but should be able to be overridden -- just once, and thus forevermore -- by the admin? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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[support] mtools docs need explaining
by Felix Miata 17 Sep '22

17 Sep '22

From mlabel man page: [quote] mlabel [-vcsn] [-N serial] drive:[new_label] ... s Shows the existing label, without prompting the user. ... n Assigns a new (random) serial number to the disk [/quote] What does "drive:" mean trying to run the mlabel command against a FAT16 filesystem while booted to openSUSE Leap 15.4? The man page contains no examples. # lsblk -f /dev/sda6 ├─sda6 vfat P06 ASU8 0620-2111 /disks/E # mlabel -n /dev/sda6 # errors (whether or not mounted) # mlabel -s /dev/sda6 # errors (whether or not mounted) # mlabel -n <mountpoint> # errors (while mounted) # mlabel -s <mountpoint> # errors (while mounted) All 4 commands above produce: Mtools version 4.0.18, dated January 9th, 2013 Usage: mlabel [-vcsn] [-N serial] drive:[new_label] # mlabel -s E: Drive 'E:' not supported Cannot initialize 'E:' mlabel: Cannot initialize drive -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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set help
by eixstance 17 Sep '22

17 Sep '22

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