August 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Kmail + Akonadi = DOS Attack on Imap.
by John Andersen 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

Just a heads up of people using Kontact or Kmail 4.10 or 4.11: If you see an akonadi_imap_resoruce process start to consume 30 to 50% sustained cpu, you are probably DOSing the Imap server. Its bad enough when its your own imap server, but people are getting calls from their ISP about this and getting banned. Many bug reports in bugs.kde.org, but the all seem to track back to this one: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316840 as the root of the problem. See also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316541 Best to stick with Thunderbird for Imap connections for a while. or keep a watch on top, because this can trigger even AFTER you close kmail/kontact. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Problem with USB headset microphone volume
by Jim Sabatke 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

SUSE 12.2 Plantronics Audio 478 USB Headset KDE Volume Control Programs - pavucontrol - kmix HP G72 Laptop I can't seem to get any volume out of my headset microphone. If I max the volume on either control program, I can hear if I scratch my fingernail on the mic, or if I stick the microphone in my mouth and yell, I get a very low volume, highly distorted sound through the headset. The sound level bars pavucontrol show high responsiveness to sound, but it doesn't come through the headset. Skype doesn't work, including the test site. No programs seem to work for recording or hearing microphone input. A fairly exhaustive search online shows this seems to be, and has been, a pretty common problem for some time, over multiple distro's, and versions. There aren't a whole lot of suggested fixes, and the most common one is to run pavucontrol, which certainly gives me more options than kmix. In fact, when I started with only kmix, I couldn't see any input sources until I installed pavucontrol, which then caused the microphone to be recognized on both programs. I need this because I am disabled, but volunteer time and expertise to a couple of highly visible and important state task forces that report to the Secretary of Health Services and I serve, as a volunteer on the board of directors of a very large and influential advocacy agency serving others with the same disability as I deal with. It's not important you know that, except that I am not paid and am trying to make a difference, and can't afford to acquire and dispose of technologies that may or may not work, and from what I read online anyway, this is a pretty common problem. I also do NOT want to be forced into the Windows world, and in fact, I am trying to advocate for others in my situation to use Linux where I would help them (and I have been supporting Linux users for a very long time. I just run into new things every so often that I need help with). This is all to say this is important to more people than me, and any help is doing work for the public good. Enough said. So, any help on this would be very much appreciated. TIA, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Wireless N router? (possibly offtopic)
by Greg Freemyer 25 Aug '13

25 Aug '13

All, I have a G router that works fairly well, but I just bought a Mac Mini and when I situate where I want it (next to an existing wlan desktop and a mx922 printer), the connection is not stable. The Mac Mini claims N support, so I bought a new Asus N750 router for $130. The G router was half that much several years ago. I find that the N router is not talking okay to the N750 router, but not to my Canon MX922 printer which is also wireless (wireless 802.11b/g or n capability required in my router per the spec sheet). The mx922 connects, but it won's stay connected. I have 2 options I think, but no idea which is best: 1) Take the N750 router back and get a N900 router instead, They claim the N900 has greater range. 2) Get a wlan extender for the N750 Is there any consensus out there for what I should do? Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] slow LXDE
by lynn 25 Aug '13

25 Aug '13

On Sun, 2013-08-25 at 03:17 +0000, Charlie Smith wrote: > Unsubscribe > > Sent from my iPhone OK, but I'll see if anyone can help me first. Sent from my cOmputer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] slow LXDE
by lynn 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

LXDE clients joined to a DC running samba with a separate file server running smbd. All 12.3 Hi I'm trying to debug slow LXDE clients. One thing we've noticed is that the file server is flooded with smbd errors looking for files which don't exist e.g.: [2013/08/24 22:59:33.060232, 3] ../source3/smbd/trans2.c:5399(call_trans2qfilepathinfo) call_trans2qfilepathinfo: SMB_VFS_LSTAT of lynn2/.kde failed (No such file or directory) There are countless other file failures. These continue to be sent until I log out. If I log into the same account with KDE, win xp or win7 , the messages disappear and the file server reverts to inactivity after the initial burst of getting either my home folder or my windows profile. If I log into LXDE on a client which does not have KDE, the messages are still present. Following log.smbd and top is scary with the latter around 0.7% per client. That's unacceptable load in a domain. We've (almost) eliminated the DC as it runs its own version of smbd. The file server is a bare bones install and no one is logged in anyway. A Lubuntu client also behaves as expected. 1, Why is LXDE sending constant requests for files that don't exist? 2. What is the equivalent to log.smbd if I log in locally to a client? How do I see what files are being requested? (I need to totally eliminates cifs from this). Thanks, L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] nmbd does not start at boot in openSUSE 12.2
by Istvan Gabor 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

Anton, I haven't received your answer in my mailbox, so I am copy-pasting it from the web-site: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Istvan Gabor said the following on 08/03/2013 06:12 PM: nmbd demon does not start when my openSUSE 12.2 system is booted. smbd demon starts normally. This is openSUSE 12.2 with up to date kernel and samba packages, using systemd init. # ps -e|grep -i smb 3082 ? 00:00:00 smbd 3230 ? 00:00:00 smbd lnx:~ # ps -e|grep -i nmb lnx:~ # How can I fix this? If you are using systemd then the daemons start via .service descriptions. Grep around to see what the one that starts smbd contains and see if there is one that isn't enables for nmbd and winbindd. Try starting the manually as described in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=147305 If that works then enable them (as described in many other threads here), but do check dependencies (and required files, libraries, directories etc) and the order they should come up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately it did not help. 1. It took a long time until I found out that the service names in openSUSE are: smb.service and nmb.service, instead of smbd.service and nmbd.service as mentioned at the site you linked. 2. I could not find any *.service file containing strings 'smb' or 'nmb' on my whole system. (Starting search in the / directory.) 3. These are the results of grep and systemctl status commands: # ps -e|grep -i smb 2893 ? 00:00:00 smbd 2946 ? 00:00:00 smbd # # # ps -e|grep -i nmb # # # systemctl status smb.service smb.service - LSB: Samba SMB/CIFS file and print server Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/smb) Active: active (running) since Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:14:41 +0200; 3min 2s ago Process: 2856 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/smb start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/smb.service ├ 2893 /usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf └ 2946 /usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf Aug 05 14:14:41 lnx smb[2856]: Starting Samba SMB daemon ..done # # # systemctl status nmb.service nmb.service - LSB: Samba NetBIOS naming service over IP Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/nmb) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:14:41 +0200; 3min 7s ago Process: 2814 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/nmb start (code=exited, status=7/NOTRUNNING) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/nmb.service Aug 05 14:14:41 lnx nmb[2814]: Starting Samba NMB daemon ..failed # # 4. I can start smbd manually: # systemctl start nmb.service # # systemctl status nmb.service nmb.service - LSB: Samba NetBIOS naming service over IP Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/nmb) Active: active (running) since Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:19:58 +0200; 18s ago Process: 4625 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/nmb start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/nmb.service └ 4634 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf Aug 05 15:19:58 lnx nmb[4625]: Starting Samba NMB daemon - Warning: /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid exists. ..done # 5. This is a new openSUSE 12.2 installation without any hacking. All packages are installed by YaST and samba was set up and configured by YaST as well. Should not it work out of the box? Any further help, possibly specific, is appreciated. Thanks! Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Two questions
by Ys 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

Hi, I have 2 questions: 1. Can I upgrade the kernel from 3.7 to 3.10.9? 2. How do I automaticly mount a SATA hard drive on start up? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Scheduled Cron Jobs in YaST
by Paul Groves 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

-----Original Message----- From: Dirk Gently Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 8:35 PM To: Paul Groves Subject: Re: [opensuse] Scheduled Cron Jobs in YaST Paul Groves wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know if it is possible to create and edit Cron Jobs in YaST > instead of modifying the files directly? I cannot find anything in the > OpenSUSE manuals. > > Any help is appreciated. What's the advantage to that? If you don't understand cron jobs, then you shouldn't be messing with them anyway, regardless of what interface you work through. The current way is the best way, because those who don't know what they're looking at will shy away from messing with crontab and related files. Dumbing-down crucial administration tasks is NOT a win -- because it makes it easy for the under-informed to fool themselves into thinking they know what they're doing. It's purely for ease of administration as I am the only one at my place of work who understands crontab. If there was a nice YaST plugin that just showed when the tasks run and what they run then my colleagues can troubleshoot in my absence. I was thinking of something like FreeNAS has in it's web interface, you click a'dd cronjob', click checkboxes and type in time(s) for when you want it to run then type a command. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] User 'scard' has been added to the passwd file
by ellanios82 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

after a recent zypper update, have noticed rkhunter warning : Warning: User 'scard' has been added to the passwd file. Warning: Group 'scard' has been added to the group file. ____________ - any ideas please . . . where does this originate ? best regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Scheduled Cron Jobs in YaST
by Paul Groves 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hi all, Does anyone know if it is possible to create and edit Cron Jobs in YaST instead of modifying the files directly? I cannot find anything in the OpenSUSE manuals. Any help is appreciated. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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