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Zypper dup fail on repmod Packman
by Marco Calistri 27 Feb '21

27 Feb '21

Permission to access 'http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/repodata/repomd.xml' refused. Anybody else? Thanks. -- Marco Calistri Build: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210223 Kernel:5.10.16-1-default Desktop: XFCE (4.16.0)

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Problem with Self-extracting DOS Archive
by michael.kasimir＠gmx.de 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Hi all, currently I have the problem to unpack an archive file which was packed as self extractor in 1998. I guess that this file was created with the operating system W...95. The associated file archiver was ARJ 2.55b ALPHA TESTWARE Copyright (c) 1990-96 ARJ Software. Jul 16 1996. which works/has worked on DOS level. The core problem is apparently now that obviously the created self-extracting archive is not extractable across different operating systems, because the runtime environment is completely different today (e.g. 32-bit --> 64-bit, etc.). Presumably, the self-extracting archive can only be extracted under the operating system. Unfortunately I don't have an old operating system to try this, nor the hardware used at the time of packing to run it. I have now tried to solve my problem with the DOSBox 0.74-3 program. The existing ARJ.EXE packing program can apparently be started normally with it. However, the existing self-extracting archive does not. In DOSBox the following error message is issued: This program cannot be run in DOS mode. Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem? Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Michael Kasimir Be Free, Be Linux

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Old emails just arriving
by Ianseeks 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hi I've just had about 10 emails arrive to this list, the earliest being 15 Jan 2021 (i had not received them before). I've had 1 email arrive late before, never about 10 regards Ian -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20210218 Qt: 5.15.2 KDE Frameworks: 5.79.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.21.0 - kwin 5.21.0 kmail2 5.16.2 (20.12.2) - akonadiserver 5.16.2 (20.12.2) - Kernel: 5.10.16-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.17

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KDE Plasma - switching to English does not work
by Bjoern Voigt 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

For an online session with English speaking participants I want to temporarily switch my KDE Plasma desktop on Tumbleweed from German to English. All texts should be shown in English. The keyboard layout should stay German. Units, time&date etc. should also stay German, but this is not important. I tried to switch from German to English on two places: - Yast - see https://paste.opensuse.org/7974c2c3 - KDE system settings - see https://paste.opensuse.org/37e295e8 Of course I logged in again after changing these settings. I also tried rebooting. Unfortunately desktop and console are still German. So probably something is configured wrong. Programs do not show English messages: myuser@mybox:~> rm does-not-exists rm: das Entfernen von 'does-not-exists' ist nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden "locale" shows German settings too: myuser@mybox:~> locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Later I also added these environment variables to $HOME/.profile export LANG=en_US.utf8 export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" export LC_ALL= Also these settings do not help much: myuser@mybox:~> rm does-not-exists rm: das Entfernen von 'does-not-exists' ist nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden myuser@mybox:~> locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8" LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL= Here are some config files: /etc/locale.conf LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /etc/sysconfig/language # empty lines and comments deleted INPUT_METHOD="" RC_LANG="en_US.utf8" RC_LC_ALL="" RC_LC_MESSAGES="" RC_LC_CTYPE="" RC_LC_COLLATE="" RC_LC_TIME="" RC_LC_NUMERIC="" RC_LC_MONETARY="" RC_LC_PAPER="" ROOT_USES_LANG="ctype" AUTO_DETECT_UTF8="no" INSTALLED_LANGUAGES="de_DE,en_US" myuser@mybox:~> locale -a | grep ^en_US en_US en_US.iso885915 en_US.utf8 Any ideas? Please send my a working en_US setup (config files etc.). Greetings, Björn

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zypper and YaST can't see the Packman repository
by J Leslie Turriff 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Now that I've upgraded to Leap 15.2, I'm trying to re-add the Packman repository, but when I try to refresh it, zypper tells me | █ zypper ref -r Packman | Retrieving repository 'Packman' metadata ................................................................................................. [error] | Repository 'Packman' is invalid. | [Packman| https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL | History: | - [|] Error trying to read from 'https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/' | - Timeout exceeded when accessing 'https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/content'. | | Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. | Skipping repository 'Packman' because of the above error. | Could not refresh the repositories because of errors. After removing and re-adding Packman (using cut-and-paste from https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories) several times with the same results, I tried using YaST's Software Repositories tool. Using the Add button and selecting Community Repositories, YaST tells me | Unable to download list of repositories | or no repositories defined (see attached) However, I'm able to browse to https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ and view its contents. I also tried disabling privoxy, but that didn't help. Is there some sort of cache entry that needs to be purged? I've never seen this before. Leslie --

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Review Article: How to Install OpenSUSE Leap 15.2
by TrendOceans 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Recently I have written an article on " How to Install OpenSUSE Leap 15.2." <https://trendoceans.com/how-to-install-opensuse-leap-15-2/> If you Guys can review this article, it will be amazing because you all are masters, which avoids issue during the following guide for new users. We all want users should have the best experience without any humdrum, and this will be possible if you review this article and share feedback with me. I hope so you guys we will share feedback soon. Article Links https://trendoceans.com/how-to-install-opensuse-leap-15-2/ Regards, Gagan Trend Oceans

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huge zypper cache never cleaned up?
by Maximilian Trummer 22 Feb '21

22 Feb '21

I just noticed that my zypper cache in /var/cache/zypp/ is almost 45 GiB in size on one machine. Now I could clean this myself of course, but I wondered if there is no service that does this automatically. regards

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scanner is detected wrong
by Pal 22 Feb '21

22 Feb '21

Hello, I've upgraded my system to Leap 15.2 from 15.1 and my scanner cannot be used since then. It is a Mustek BearPaw 2400 CUPlus which is supported by Sane and I use it on OpenSUSE in the last 15 years w/o problems. Backend file is still on its place (I upgraded with zypped dup), scanner is visible with lsusb after system is booted up and it can be also seen in yast scanner section. It can be used to scan one page with xsane but after that it doesn't work anymore and says device is not available. It also cannot be listed with lsusb nor in yast modul. Can you please help what to check.

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printer again
by Doug McGarrett 17 Feb '21

17 Feb '21

I managed to get all the print queues cleared, with some difficulty. I used YaST to remove a second HP printer, so there is less confusion. I don't know why it got there in the first place. Now there is just one, not working. I wrote a little one-sentence file in Kate and told it to print to the LaserJet. Nothing happened--no light came on in the printer or anything. Then checked on the terminal. linux1:~ # lpstat linux1:~ # lpq -a Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size 1st doug 289 Untitled 10240 bytes linux1:~ # lprm -P HP_LaserJet_Pro_M201dw linux1:~ # lpq -a no entries I think lpstat should have shown the existence of the queue, as lpq -a did. I then cleared the queue with lprm -P, as you can see, and the queue is gone, but no output resulted. I then went to a laptop with a Linux system (not OS-TW) on it and repeated the exercise, which shows the LaserJet working fine. What now? --doug

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Hacked!
by doug mack 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

This is probably off-topic, but I have evidence that my machine has been hacked. When trying to access CUPS I get a message that says in effect that it is a security issue and does not complete. This hack probably occurred in the last 3 or 4 days, and I apologize for any messages sent to the list from the Linux partition-- I may have sent one or two before finding the situation. I am writing this from Windows (ugh!) after running Avast Security on this partition. There is no AV software on the Linux partition, and I am having a terrible time trying to get and install something along this line. The closest I came is Eset, which requires a 32-bit lib, which I have found, and downloaded, but I'm not sure how to install it. (This is a 32-bit lib on a 64-bit file, somehow. Eset will not let me proceed without this.) If someone would like to assist, I will open the Linux system, write down as best I can what I am trying to do and then post it here in Windows, so as not to send any malware to the list. --doug PS: This version of Thunderbird is driving me crazy! -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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