March 2015 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Where can I get genIS_PLAINcache
by Chuck Payne 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi, I am trying to set up a simple repo, I read on the opensuse site about a binary called genIS_PLAINcache, because I can't see to find it or the package yast2-packmanager either. Can someone help. I am setting this repo up for SLE9, I have tried to use createrepo but I keeping getting errors. -- ---------------------------------------- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert Heinlein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Strange messages in log, when cron jobs run, about "Failed to open private bus connection"
by Carlos E. R. 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Since recently, I think, I get these messages on the warn log when a cron job runs, on two computers at least: <3.4> 2015-03-31 02:34:01 minas-tirith systemd 4025 - - Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/9/dbus/user_bus_socket: No such file or directory <3.4> 2015-03-31 02:38:01 minas-tirith systemd 4096 - - Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/9/dbus/user_bus_socket: No such file or directory <3.4> 2015-03-31 02:44:01 minas-tirith systemd 4195 - - Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/9/dbus/user_bus_socket: No such file or directory <3.4> 2015-03-31 02:45:01 minas-tirith systemd 4229 - - Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/0/dbus/user_bus_socket: No such file or directory <3.4> 2015-03-31 02:48:01 minas-tirith systemd 4508 - - Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/9/dbus/user_bus_socket: No such file or directory <3.4> 2015-03-31 02:54:01 minas-tirith systemd 4627 - - Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/9/dbus/user_bus_socket: No such file or directory <3.4> 2015-03-31 02:58:01 minas-tirith systemd 4873 - - Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/9/dbus/user_bus_socket: No such file or directory <3.4> 2015-03-31 03:00:01 minas-tirith systemd 4955 - - Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/0/dbus/user_bus_socket: No such file or directory User 0 is root, and 9 is news. Those directories do not exist, obviously. Should they? (they are not logged-in). And those messages are spamming the warning log. Anything that goes to the warning log is supposedly VERY important. It the message is trivial, it is a bug to create them on warning level, IMO. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlUZ9MoACgkQja8UbcUWM1yziAD+Pc2t90zgZWvI8j9EB68yWFFY QHJeqvwnAUciZiXnZl0A+wUgb+TUJhDGQ2jFINuvXg75u21IZsJ0IY33JOHUqMSL =0Zh3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] 13.1 Bash HISTCONTROL=erasedups -- not working? confirm?
by David C. Rankin 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

All, A value of HISTCONTROL=erasedups causes all previous lines matching the current line to be removed from the history list before that line is saved. (man bash) This isn't working on 13.1 for me. Can anyone else confirm that duplicates are NOT removed in 13.1 when this value is set? Searching, it looks like other distros have patched bash to insure this works when multiple terminals are open. (e.g.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/189881) If this is confirmed, could something similar be done here? The reason, after moving my history file from 11.4 to 13.1 and running for close to a year, I have close to 14,000 duplicate lines -- despite having 'erasedups' set: current lines: 20000 - uniq lines: 6099 = 13901 duplicates To fix the problem temporarily, I wrote the current file out, then sorted uniquely, then deleted the current history, read the sorted unique file in as current, and wrote the current back to HISTFILE: $ history -w | sort | uniq > uniqfile $ history -c $ history -r uniqfile $ history -w $ rm uniqfile That seems to have fixed the issue in the current session, and ~/.bash_history is current correct, but when closing the remaining sessions, I suspect the duplicates will once again be written to ~/.bash_history, even though 'erasedups' is set. If someone can confirm 13.1 is ignoring 'erasedups', I'll file the bug. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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] FF 36 -- uugh! How to turn off search pop-up?
by David C. Rankin 05 Apr '15

05 Apr '15

All, Updates to 13.1 brought in FF36 which has the annoying habit of popping up a dialog for search engine selection every time I type something in the search dialog -- grr. I've already set preferences -> search to my default StartPage search and I DO NOT want to have that annoying dialog pop-up every time I type. It often covers up the very text I am reading/copying into my query. Has anyone found an about:config switch, or userChrome.css/userContent.css way to kill it? p.s. - Will someone please take UI development away from the children who liked playing with Crayons and fingerpaints... What's next? Dancing icons on mouseover toolbar? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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] Full disk encryption with RAID+LVM+LUKS on openSUSE 13.2?
by Bjoern Voigt 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

I already installed laptops with openSUSE 13.2 and full-disk encryption on one hard drive. I used an UEFI boot partition (/boot/efi) and the filesystems / and /home (plus swap) on an encrypted LVM. This works. But now I have a server with three hard disks. I want to setup the same full-disk encryption with YaST like on the laptops. On the server I want to use LVM over RAID-5 (mdadm). Is this possible? (with YaST, manually nor not possible) Is there any detailed documentation for this? (Until now I am able to setup RAID-5 with YaST. But I do not find the option to encrypt the LVM volume group. Without a LVM volume group I can not use "/" as a mount point for LVM logical volumes. Encryption for the RAID 5 device /dev/md0 works. But this kind of setup may cause problems if I want to extend the LVM volume group later with additional RAID devices.) I also have a problem with unlocking the LUKS encryption. Unlocking with password works. But unlocking with USB stick does not work unfortunately. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915849 Greetings, Björn -- 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] On Mulitboot with UEFI
by Anton Aylward 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

This http://www.zdnet.com/article/hands-on-linux-uefi-multi-boot-part-2/ may be if interest to those who are just venturing into this direction for the first time. The point of my mentioning ZDnet is that its not for the ultra-geeks but neither is it for the Joe Sixpack who just wants to write to twitter and facebook. It is, however, for the 'masses' and tries to make the point that you don't have to be the pencil-neck twerp of the movies to use Linux. This series started off by making the point that it was easier to install Linux than to deal with the mess of the recent Windows updates. While I haven't done a Windows install recently and "10" may be something quite different, I've done very complex Linux installs (LVM, various FS, restores...) with less hassle than some should-be-simple operations with Windows. And yes, installing updates among them. I have up trying to move a hard disk from a dying mobo to a new one, something that you 'just do it' with Linux. I've a much more detailed posting on 'installation' coming up. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- 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] Tomcat 8 for openSUSE 13.1
by Rui Santos 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi all, I'm managing a few servers with the default openSUSE 13.1 tomcat7. I now require to upgrade tomcat to version8 (8.0.21 preferably). However I didn't find any repository providing it. I could install it manually and configure a systemd service for it, but I would prefer it the rpm way. Is anyone using it? If so can anyone provide me it's location? Thanks for your help, -- Rui Santos Veni, Vidi, Linux -- 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] retaining bash history across reboot
by Patrick Shanahan 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

I have five local boxes containing the same .bashrc localized for it's box. On two root's history is not retained across boots, but all users' and the other three roots are. All boxes/users are using bash as $SHELL from .bashrc shopt -s histappend export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -s' Why is history removed for the two boxes or how can I determine that. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- 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] Re: thin volumes, was: average partition and file sizes & file I/O speed
by Chris Murphy 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Linda Walsh <suse(a)tlinx.org> wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: >> shrink = fstrim >> grow = Just start the thing out at 4x the size you think you'll ever >> need in its lifetime.]] > > --- > Eh... xfs doesn't shrink. No need when it's on a virtual sized (thin) volume. When you use fstrim, unused LE's are returned to the pool. It's actually more efficient than an fs shrink would be. >And as was announced > today, (AGAIN), btrfs isn't stable in latest kernel. ? I'm not seeing anything on opensuse-bugs@ about it, or on linux-btrfs@ related to this. There are always some edge cases being run into. XFS is more stable, but bugs still get found there too. >So > thin snaps w/XFS -- not quite there....whereas this script > is pretty reliable.. checkpoints and can pick up a failed > diff from day before before continuing with the current > days. The issue I've had with thin snapshots is related to LVM metadata getting full and then the entire VG imploding spectacularly and none of the LV's in it working. I wasn't exactly trying to blow it up, but I was testing the thin_pool_autoextend_threshold before I realized the default was 100, meaning it's disabled. So it's user error, but could also arguably be a weird default that results in a distinctly non-graceful failure with no obvious way to repair the problem. Neither pvck nor vgck did anything, and I quickly gave up. But then also, vgmetadatacopies = 0 is also a default so maybe it couldn't do anything to fix it. Btrfs correctly gets some grief with its many repair options still not consolidated, but I haven't had it implode this spectacularly. -- Chris Murphy -- 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] Octave requires additional libs.
by don fisher 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

I wanted to install the octave matlab clone on my system. When I tried, I received a message stating that libhdf5.so.9()(64bit) was needed, but not found. How does one find the correct additional repository? I am curious that a package as popular as Octave is not fully supported. Please advise. Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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