On 2/14/21 2:40 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:
This began as "printer again" and I mentioned a number of crashes. I have decided to start over, i.e., loading a new version of OpenSUSE-TW. I obviously would like to save as much of my own files and apps as possible. I've never done this before, so I don't know what I have to do.
gparted shows some Windows partitions, then /dev/nvme0n1p6 as ext4 / and /dev/nvme0n1p7 as ext4 /home mount point shows as /run/media/doug/4640427543C81F7S The / and /home are formatted ext4, and I want to keep this formatting.
It does appear that my own stuff is in /home, but is this just the CONTENTS of the apps, or the entire installed app? That is, do I have to look up and install all the apps over again?
I have an outboard H/D with nothing on it, which gparted calls /dev/sda1, formatted ntfs at present. I want to copy the entire /home directory to this, and then copy it back to the cleaned up and reinstalled system.
Should I leave the ntfs format, or should I change it? If so, to what? ext4?
What should I be doing to get all this done, neatly and cleanly?
Before you go: There MAY be a problem with the eset AV program. Is this something (which I paid for) that I have to eliminate, and if so, what can I replace it with? It seemed that before I went for eset I tried to install something free, but unsuccessfully.
Sorry for the long post, but you folks have been a big help to this newbie to OpenSUSE, and I hope you will do so again. Thank you!
--doug
I agree with Lew, you don't need to reinstall just yet. The first likelihood is a conflict arising from the ESET driver. Products like NOD32 use a low-level driver which not only interrogates new files/mail/etc. for viruses but also hooks into processes used by apps. The version you have may have been installed incorrectly (I suspect this is your problem, with preload - see links I sent previous), but it may also be a bug (as was the case in one of the links) or it may be an incompatibility causing a service like d-bus to choke. If trying the preload fix is too challenging, then just uninstall and request a refund. If you really feel you need an antivirus on openSUSE, you should take a look at clamav. It provides a scanning daemon for file checking but IIRC it doesn't have the low-level hooks. It definitely does not include intrusion detection. Aide is for intrusion detection and IIRC is based on SELinux. Rkhunter I think is an on-demand scanner for rootkits and backdoors. These are fairly advanced tools. Before going down either path you probably should take a look at AppArmor first. --dg