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[opensuse-support] 15.0 Console login impossible
by Felix Miata 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

Forum thread https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/533906-Leap-15-0-Console-login-p… so far has 9 unique users, majority with few or no prior posts, with ostensibly the same problem: akarako (OP, over a month ago) damidim gldickens3 guszamso hastagger holgre5 inozemcew juando larryr Regular/admin forum users have had no luck so far eliciting a cause or reproducing. I looked for a bug on this - no joy. Does anyone know if there is an existing bug report that can be referenced in the forum thread? A solution maybe? I hesitate to consider filing a bug for something I can't reproduce. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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] "bad" locale -> bad/no box characters
by Felix Miata 26 Dec '18

26 Dec '18

These are from 42.3 installations. On both, /etc/sysconfig/language is identical, and 'DroidSansMono.ttf: "Droid Sans Mono" "Regular"' results from 'fc-match monospace'. These show good vs. bad box drawing characters in Konsole3: Good: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/lc423goodP5BSE.jpg Bad http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/lc423bad00srv.jpg Locale on the good host, all POSIX except CTYPE and ALL, same in Konsole3 as in XTerm: # locale LANG=POSIX LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= On the bad host, all en_US.UTF-8 except LANG, and XTerm is OK, but Konsole is not: LANG=POSIX LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 The difference between good and bad has root in .bashrc: export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 The question is, why does Xterm get box characters right, but Konsole not. Bug? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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 15 Packman VLC - no drag'n'drop?
by Michael Fischer 25 Dec '18

25 Dec '18

Leap 15 VLC 3.0.2-lp150.3.5 from Packman (what else might be helpful?) Open File, select file with mouse, drag to Playlist window does not work. Open File, double click file, or select file with mouse and click the Open button works. Rather annoying when one wants to set up a playlist *before* playing anything. Anyone else have this problem? Solutions? Googling found a bunch of similar complaints, but from 7-8 years ago, generally solved by removing configs. I tried same by going into ~/.config/vlc and renaming files there, but to no effect. FWIW, I saw some things about problems with 'remote' files, e.g. over NFS. This is not applicable to my setup; all files are on local disks. TIA. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael(a)visv.net -- 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] zypper ps suddenly shows entries like /memfd:unknown-usage:/usr/lib64/libQt5Qml.so.5
by Freek de Kruijf 23 Dec '18

23 Dec '18

Since shortly "zypper ps" shows entries starting with /memfd: These entries are also present when using lsof on certain processes. It looks like this type has been introduced recently and zypper does not ignore these entries. I also see an entry /usr/sbin/haveged (deleted) for process haveged, which disappears after a restart of haveged. Howver /memfd: remains after killing the process and restarting it. Bug report? -- 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] pysol
by mike 23 Dec '18

23 Dec '18

Hi, Seems pysol has a programming error , at least on tumbleweed it does. The program stops because of this error- _tkinter.TclError: cannot use geometry manager grid inside .140028703953408.140028703953480 which already has slaves managed by pack according to a web search--Warning: Never mix grid and pack in the same master window. Tkinter will happily spend the rest of your lifetime trying to negotiate a solution that both managers are happy with. Instead of waiting, kill the application, and take another look at your code. A common mistake is to use the wrong parent for some of the widgets. if this is the problem the maintainer will have to modify it....so I have no way to know who to tell... Thanks for your time, mike -- 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] Re: [opensuse] Tumbleweed on thinkpad T480
by Simon Becherer 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

Hi, only for info, Am 21.12.18 um 11:02 schrieb Michael Hirmke: > notebookcheck.net) I decided to buy a DELL XPS 13 9370. > The developer edition comes with Ubuntu preinstalled. > I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed and tested each and everything. .... > So I can definitely recommend this notebook and especially for use with > linux. .. at opensuse-support(a)opensuse.org there are at the moment some mails for DELL XPS 13 9370 [opensuse-support] latest snapshot - distorted screen on DELL XPS 13 9370 simoN -- 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] latest snapshot - distorted screen on DELL XPS 13 9370
by mh＠mike.franken.de 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

Hi *, my DELL XPS 13 9370 has a builtin Intel UHD Graphics 620 chip. After installing the latest Tumbleweed snapshot yesterday I get a completely distorted screen in KDE after login from sddm. The problem only occurs, when using xf86-video-intel, using the modesetting driver everything looks as expected. Two questions: 1. The latest snapshot updated libvulkan_intel-18.1.7 to libvulkan_intel-18.3.1. Can this be the culprit? 2. What in general is the best X11 driver for the 620 chip at the moment - intel or modesetting? And why? Thx! Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- 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 packets pandoc and patterns-fonts-fonts in Tumbleweed
by Freek de Kruijf 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

On my laptop with Tumbleweed after a "zypper dup" I need to ignore failures to remove the packages pandoc and patterns-fonts-fonts. It appears that the newest versions are installed together with the previous ones. However trying to remove the older versions fails because they do not exist anymore, except apparently in some configuration. I don't have this problem on my desktop. Any suggestions? Bug report? -- 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] fwupd problems on DELL XPS 13
by mh＠mike.franken.de 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Hi *, I got a new DELL XPS 13 9370 up and running with openSUE Tumbleweed. Because of problems with the Atheros wifi device I want to update the BIOS. Running "fwupdmgr get-devices" gives "/usr/lib/fwupd/efi/fwupdx64.efi.signed cannot be found", though. The same messages occurs when restarting the fwupd daemon. Running the update with "fwupdmgr refresh" and "fwupdmgr update" gives: No upgrades for XPS 13 9370 Thunderbolt Controller, current is 33.00: 33.00=same, 28.00=older ignoring XPS 13 9370 System Firmware [8a21cacfb0a8d2b30c5ee9290eb71db021619f8b] as not updatable So the update of the Thunderbolt controller had succeeded in a previous run, but the firmware update itself does not run. I read a lot of things on the internet, but couldn't find a solution. One thing I read was to sign fwupdx64.efi with sbsign. This utility can be found in the sbsigntools package with was not included in one of the standard Tumbleweed repos. So I installed it from an openSUSE developer repo. Unfortunately I don't know what cert and key files to use for signing. So the questions are: 1. How to do a BIOS upgrade with fwupd in Tumbleweed the correct way? 2. If signing fwupdx64.efi is the correct way, what cert and key file to use? TIA. Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- 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] Decrease number of snapper snapshots
by Maximilian Trummer 15 Dec '18

15 Dec '18

The btrfs wiki says: "qgroups with many snapshots slows down balance" [1]. According to this bug report [2] and also my own experience, btrfs balance can slow down the system to the point of freezing. Since snapper leaves 2-10 regular and 4-10 important snapshots and using YaST as well as zypper also creates a new one each time, you can easily end up with 20+ snapshots, leading to the freezes. Now my question, is it safe to set NUMBER_LIMIT="2-5" (instead of "2-10") and NUMBER_LIMIT_IMPORTANT="4-7" (instead of "4-10") in /etc/snapper/configs/root? As I understand the issue, this should alleviate the freezing issue a little until it's fixed for good. [1] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status [2] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1063638 regards

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