April 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] reading LVM vols after reinstall
by David T-G 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hi, all -- You may recall from quite a while ago that I got a couple of 4T disks and cleaned out my collection of external drives. Yay! :-) I also have two pairs of other disks -- 500G & 300G -- in the box, but I didn't make it much farther than that. I'm also still running on my old Knoppix live install since I haven't had time to get back to SuSE Studio. I boot from a uSD card in a USB caddy; the spinning disks are solely for data. As I was going through the data transfer to consolidate, I came across some some disks which had been mirrored by LVM. Surprisingly, the LVM on my Knoppix install didn't recognize them other than by the disk label; I couldn't get to the old data. I'm not worried about the old content, since they were just scratch drives I used for playing around with LVM to get my feet wet, but ... If I create a 4T mirror using the two large disks, will I be able to see the content when I build a new SuSE Studio uSD card image and boot from it? How about the 500G+300G stripes which I will then put together to get an 800G mirror, just in case striping is different? The Knoppix image is running root@diskfarm:~# lvm version LVM version: 2.02.66(2) (2010-05-20) Library version: 1.02.48 (2010-05-20) Driver version: 4.18.0 which, while not terribly current, doesn't seem so old that I expect problems. The prior LVM was definitely old, like maybe SuSE 8 or so -- but, on the other hand, I'd also hope that any LVM would be able to use older metadevices, even if perhaps in read-only mode. TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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[opensuse] pidgin won't connect to yahoo
by Bruce Ferrell 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Debug seems to show some sort of TLS issue. Any thoughts? -- 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] Moving / and /boot partitions
by James Knott 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

This process managed to completely kill my system. However, I suspect it may be a hardware issue. After I could no longer boot my system, I tried to reinstall from DVD. It stops at about 98% and the last lines in details are about preparing the system for initial boot and the last line showing is "Copying log files to installed system". I bought this motherboard about 8 years ago and have always used it with IDE drives. I guess I'll be putting in the new motherboard sooner than planned. On Sunday, March 23, 2014 11:37:16 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar(a)gmail.com> wrote: В Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:13:05 -0400 James Knott <james.knott(a)rogers.com> пишет: > Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > Do you want to install grub2 in MBR or on partition? > > > >> > > > I though the usual practice with Linux was to have grub on the boot > partition, with the MBR pointing to it. That's the way it's configured > here. > > a) mount your new boot partition anywhere; e.g. /newboot b) run "grub2-install --force --boot-directory=/newboot /dev/your-boot-partion" c) use fdisk to mark your boot partition as active. I assume you have valid MBR on this disk ... This will make your new boot partition bootable with grub2 as bootloader and grub2 will use new boot partition to search for executable and configuration files. Assuming your BIOS is set to boot from this disk. To properly create grub.cfg and initrd for new configuration: mount /dev/new-root-device /mnt mount /dev/new-boot-device /mnt/boot mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys mount --bind /run /mnt/run chroot /mnt grub2-mkconfig > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg mkinitrd Do not do it from openSUSE DVD rescue boot, it has weird links in /dev that may screw device detection (at least for LVM or anything that uses device mapper). Having duplicate filesystem labels or uuids may be a problem as well. Probably grub-mkconfig needs better support for off-root rescue root. Patch was floating upstream, need to get a look once more. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org -- 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] show oct permission valu in dolphin
by jdd 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Hello, I just noticed than filezilla in it's permission editing screen shows both the symbolic (rwx) and the octal (777) values of permissions. I always have many problems converting symbols to numbers, so I would *love* to have dolphin do the same, let only as pedagogical way to learn is that possible? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- 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] Is there a patch for kernel 3.14.xx ?
by Basil Chupin 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Is there a patch for kernel 3.14.x to be able to compile the nVidia driver 331.49 (on oS 13.1)? The dkms which I have installed does not want to touch the driver with kernel 3.14.x although it was most happy to do so with the earlier versions of the kernel (3.13.x). Thanks for any information you may provide. BC -- A civilisation is judged by how it treats the most vulnerable. Lauren Smith - 30 January 2014 -- 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] [Final] The road to releasing KDE 4.13 (Repository naming)
by Raymond Wooninck 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Dear KDE Users, Maybe you have heard already about it from another openSUSE mailing list, a blog post or through our openSUSE community page on Google+, but the KDE repositories have been changed since last Tuesday. Below you will find the changes that were done based on the release of KDE 4.12.4 Based on a small discussion in the opensuse-kde mailinglist and feedback on our survey, we oncluded that the majority is in favor of creating a single repository where we track the current KDE release. The name for this repository will be KDE:Current and will initially be build for oS 12.3 and oS 13.1. After the release of the KDE:Current repo, the repositories KDE:Release:XY have been cleaned and removed. Initially KDE:Current will be delivered with 4.12.4 as that the KDE 4.13 release is scheduled for mid April. Also the repository KDE:Extra and KDE:Unstable:Extra will change as that some of the building targets (KDE:Release:XY) are disappearing and be replaced with KDE:Current. The KDE Repository page https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KDE_repositories has been updated to reflect the changes. We would like to ask those that have been working on the localization of this page in other languages, to update their pages as well. Regards Raymond -- 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] making cohabitate php scripts and apache
by jdd 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Hello, I manage my own online servers and usually use /srv/www/htdocs as web root. But sometime or for test purpose I would like to run some php scripts from the public_html of some user. But then I get permission problems. At a moment or an other the scripts bugs When I copy from local computer to the server I use mostly fish (or download directly on the server), so the files use to have local user name:users permissions, when apache wants wwwrun:www (AFAIR). most files I get have 766 permissions (write enabled only for the owner, read everybody), so no read problem but write problems. is there a general openSUSE way to solve this without breaking security? Changing file owner can be only by root... thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- 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] KDE4 repositories - changes?
by Carl Hartung 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Note: I'm running 12.3 x86_64 Hi All, Today I started seeing this error: > File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium > 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_411_openSU…' I'm now unclear about what's going on after reading this page: https://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories The KDE repositories that I have configured are as follwos: KDE 4.11.2 for openSUSE 12.3 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/411/openSUSE_12.3/ KDE4 Extra http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_411_openSU… Is the problem simply that some mirrors are down or have I run into a 'dead end' and I need to revise my repositories? Thanks & regards, Carl -- 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] libre office + thunderbird --> acces denied to user
by Carlos E. R. 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Please post to the mail list, not in private. On 2014-04-02 15:15, Benjamin wrote: > In sofar as this problem occured the second or third time on my opensuse > system (within the last 3 years), wouldn´t this be a bug? No, unless you prove that the system caused the partition to fill up. There are mechanisms to clear up "/tmp" periodically. One possibility is to tell the system to erase /tmp on every boot. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

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Re: [opensuse] Encrypted root, two disks
by Vojtěch Zeisek 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Dne St 2. dubna 2014 10:49:04 jste napsal(a): > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Vojtěch Zeisek > <vojtech.zeisek(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > > Dne St 2. dubna 2014 10:30:13 jste napsal(a): > >> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Vojtěch Zeisek > >> <vojtech.zeisek(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > >> > Dne St 2. dubna 2014 09:31:18 jste napsal(a): > >> >> On Apr 2, 2014 6:01 AM, "Vojtěch Zeisek" <vojtech.zeisek(a)opensuse.org> > >> >> wrote: > >> >> Instead of encrypting the whole partition or file system for /home you > >> >> can > >> >> use eCryptfs to encrypt $HOME for each user, which sounds like it's > >> >> only > >> >> you. eCryptfs is WAY more flexible them that built-in encrypted, not > >> >> easily > >> >> expandable image thing that openSUSE/Yast uses for creating encrypted > >> >> home > >> >> directories. If you're using openSUSE >=12.3 it's fairly seamless to > >> >> get > >> >> started, installing ecryptfs-utils will setup all the needed pam bits > >> >> then > >> >> you need to migrate a users homedir and you'll be all set. > >> >> > >> >> eCryptfs has a utility to migrate a users unencryptred home directory, > >> >> ecryptfs-migrate-home, to use ecryptfs. While you don't need it > >> >> there's > >> >> also a utility to encrypt swap, ecryptfs-setup-swap, which should also > >> >> be > >> >> encrypted. > >> >> > >> >> If you've a bit leery about migrating, depending on how much data > >> >> existing > >> >> in your $HOME, create a test account to migrate to get yourself > >> >> comfortable > >> >> with it. > >> >> > >> >> Here's a good article from the one of the maintainers. > >> >> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/02/long-overdue-introduction-ecryp > >> >> tfs > >> >> .ht ml > >> > > >> > It seems like interesting tool, but I feel it as a step backwards... It > >> > doesn't seem as way I'd like to follow. > >> > But thanks anyway. :-) > >> > >> Having used the existing/current encryption mechanisms, dmcrypt and > >> the link, for many many year I'd argue the opposite, they're a step > >> backwards and ecryptfs is where people should be moving to. This is > >> why I've spent time patching (ecryptfs-util and pam-config) and > >> getting it working more seamlessly in SuSE. > >> > >> On of the beauties of ecryptfs is that it's pass-thru encryption which > >> is layered above the file systems so everything that hits is get > >> encrypted. If you grow/extend your volumes there's no additional step > >> of using cryptsetup to resize mapping, which is something that can be > >> easily forgotten/missed. > >> > >> Enjoy ;-) > > > > Can You secure whole FS with it? > > Yes, see https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/ecryptfs.html for > some examples, however I've never used it to encrypt /. Personally I > do not use encryption for non-data locations, I.e /, /usr, etc since > IMO that doesn't buy you anything other than unnecessary overhead. Interesting. Still, I'd prefer whole disk solution, but this also sounds good. Well, I don't see any performance looses when using encrypted root... All the best, V. -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/

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