May 2015 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] zypper slow on some networks
by Roger Oberholtzer 08 May '15

08 May '15

I am helping a coworker get his openSUSE 13.1 system up and running here at work. Mysteriously, when running zypper (or yast), downloading packages screeches to a near standstill. It quickly gets to where it downloads less than 100 bytes / sec. All other network activity seems fine. I tried setting export ZYPP_ARIA2C=0 but it makes no difference. It really seems that only zypper acts this way on this network. I do not know if the environment variable still works with zypper. It was a while since I had this problem. Maybe it is no longer implemented. Anyone else have a slow zypper? I might add that it happens on all my openSUSE machines in this office. -- Roger Oberholtzer -- 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] Strange messge from sec-check
by stakanov＠freenet.de 08 May '15

08 May '15

Hello everybody. I have got a strange message from sec-check and would like somebody to explain me what could be the reason. I had an old, unused user on my system. It was called caleidoscope. It did not receive email had kmail not activated. I erased it. I created recently due to a problem with kontact (did not start anymore https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340867 ) a new user mercurio.For being able to use Kontact again, I created all but mail and address list by hand. I created an all new set of filters. Now it seamed that Kontact was healthy again. Now I activated my mail in mercurio, imported the former mail from my mail personality. NONE of these things had anything to do with caleidoscope. No links, no shared folder. Nothing. I am running seccheck every day. Normally I have always logical output. But this time I was literally baffled by the following output: + user caleidoscope mailbox is owned by mercurio. WTF? a) I do not even have caleidoscope on my system any more. b) I did not own anything by intentional action. c) mecurio does not receive root mail, so that cannot be the reason, and I did not import anything from caleidoscope before that. d) I do not find any reference to the "mailbox" of caleidoscope within mercurio. e) If there is, I want to erase that account called mailbox (of caleidoscope) that was "owned". It should not be on the system. How can I find it? Question: does anybody has a clue what might have happened here? Could the mariadb be compromised by something? How can I check the list of all other users that have access to the mailboxes of the user mercurio? Thank you. --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- 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] Re: Strange messge from sec-check
by stakanov＠freenet.de 08 May '15

08 May '15

p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } In data venerdì 8 maggio 2015 12:12:54, Yamaban ha scritto: > On Fri, 8 May 2015 10:50, stakanov wrote: > > Hello everybody. > > > > I have got a strange message from sec-check and would like somebody to > > explain me what could be the reason. > > > > I had an old, unused user on my system. It was called caleidoscope. It did > > not receive email had kmail not activated. I erased it. > > > > I created recently due to a problem with kontact (did not start anymore > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340867 ) a new user mercurio.For > > being able to use Kontact again, I created all but mail and address list > > by hand. I created an all new set of filters. Now it seamed that Kontact > > was healthy again. > > > > Now I activated my mail in mercurio, imported the former mail from my mail > > personality. NONE of these things had anything to do with caleidoscope. > > No links, no shared folder. Nothing. > > > > I am running seccheck every day. Normally I have always logical output. > > But this time I was literally baffled by the following output: > > > > > > + user caleidoscope mailbox is owned by mercurio. > > > > WTF? > > a) I do not even have caleidoscope on my system any more. > > > > b) I did not own anything by intentional action. > > > > c) mecurio does not receive root mail, so that cannot be the reason, and I > > did not import anything from caleidoscope before that. > > > > d) I do not find any reference to the "mailbox" of caleidoscope within > > mercurio. > > > > e) If there is, I want to erase that account called mailbox (of > > caleidoscope) that was "owned". It should not be on the system. How can I > > find it? > > > > > > Question: does anybody has a clue what might have happened here? Could the > > mariadb be compromised by something? How can I check the list of all > > other users that have access to the mailboxes of the user mercurio? > That "Mailbox", could it be the one in /var/spool/mail/ ? > There could be a old file named "caleidoscope", and due to the (presumed) > fact that the new user "mercurio" has the same uid as the old (and deleted) > user "caleidoscope", that file is now owned by user "mercurio". > > Due to the difference between the uid, that now points to "mercurio" and > the file name "caleidoscope", the program "sec-check" give you the message > about shown above. > > Is there is a file, "ls -l" should show it owned by "mercurio" > > ls -l /var/spool/mail/caleidoscope > > If size is Zero (0): simply delete it. > Else: use less and look into it, if wanted, use > > cat /var/spool/mail/caleidoscope >>/var/spool/mail/mercurio > > And remove /var/spool/mail/caleidoscope afterwards, > now the user "mercurio" has "New Mail". > > MariaDB is another beast, not my speciality, sorry. > > - Yamaban. That was admittedly quite brilliant. It was exactly what you prospected. At least this is solved. In fact, although mercurio is not meant to have a mailbox in var, as it does not receive root mail, it took over the one of the deleted caleidoscope due to the user ID. Thank you. Great. --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- 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] New kernel and Dracut
by Frans de Boer 08 May '15

08 May '15

OK, I compiled a new kernel for the 13.2 release and was installing it. I have to manually copy bzImage and System.map because I do not use the make install which requires the perl-Bootloader to be available. Before I just did mkinitrd -B and the initrd file was made. Now that is part of dracut and I can't create a new initrd file. The message log states that many modules are not supported - like "Module "raid1.ko" is not supported......". This is true because I did not compiled this as a module, but as a build-in. My system is not booting because it is waiting for my drives to appear. The exact same config is used under 12.3 and of course working. Now with dracut I run into problems. Any suggestions? Regards, Frans -- 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] macbook multi monitor
by blue hut 08 May '15

08 May '15

Hello, I have a Macbook with an intel and nvidia graphics card. I used the nouveau driver and nvidia card for some time. But my laptop got really hot. So recently I blacklisted the noveau driver. And only use intel card. But then I realized: multiple monitor doesn't work with it! So now I consider switching back to nvidia, is the proprietary driver better? Also I read this: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee but it seems that won't help me cooling down my laptop, since I will use multiple monitors all the time I guess all the time it will also use the nvidia card, is this correct? I understand bumblebee like this: If I need not much good graphics, it switched to lower card (intel), if I need good graphic, it enabled the high card (nvidia). But when I will need multi monitor, it will use nvidia all the time, right? Is it even right that the intel card doesn't support multiple displays? regards, Michael -- 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] Firefox Problem
by Bob Rea 07 May '15

07 May '15

I restarted os 12.3 because the system was operation sluggishly, especially firefox. When I restarted firefox offered to restore windows but before I could reply, it started showing error message, the standard one, crash reporter. I tried to start firefox and it told me it was already running, and I needed to close it to start anew. I tried to kill all firefox processes, but the last of these showed: ob@gandalf:~> ps ax |grep firefox 4028 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto firefox bob@gandalf:~> ps ax |grep firefox 4103 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto firefox bob@gandalf:~> kill 4028 4103 bash: kill: (4028) - No such process bash: kill: (4103) - No such process Each time, It shows a new process that does not exist. It just keeps doing this. top does not show firefox, nor does ksysguard. What can I do about this? -- Bob Rea mailto:gapetard@stsams.org http://www.petard.us http://www.petard.us/blog http://www.petard.us/gallery America, it was a wonderful country until they took it private and turned it into a theme park of itself -- 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 opensuse 13.1 repos?
by Michael J Dur 07 May '15

07 May '15

I just did a 13.1 install from disc, and I'm not able to refresh/update. I can access http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/ in the browser. The message is: zypper refresh Repository 'openSUSE-13.1-1.10' is up to date. Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-13.1-Non-Oss' metadata -------------------------------------[\] File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/' Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): i Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-13.1-Non-Oss' metadata .................................[error] Repository 'openSUSE-13.1-Non-Oss' is invalid. [|] Valid metadata not found at specified URL Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Skipping repository 'openSUSE-13.1-Non-Oss' because of the above error. Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-13.1-Oss' metadata -----------------------------------------[|] File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/' Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): i Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-13.1-Oss' metadata .....................................[error] Repository 'openSUSE-13.1-Oss' is invalid. [|] Valid metadata not found at specified URL Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Skipping repository 'openSUSE-13.1-Oss' because of the above error. Repository 'openSUSE-13.1-Update' is up to date. Repository 'openSUSE-13.1-Update-Non-Oss' is up to date. Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error. -- 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] inserting USB stick crashes plasma desktop
by Istvan Gabor 07 May '15

07 May '15

Hello: If I insert an USB flashdisk into my computer with openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.3, a window appears saying "We are sorry, Plasma Desktop Shell closed unexpectedly.". The screen flashes but everything restores. But if I click on the device notifier icon, the desktop crashes again, finally resulting in the disappearance of the panel. I can still switch between open windows by ctrl-Alt, but I cannot access my USB stick. Is this normal? If not, how could I prevent/fix it? The USB stick works without problem in my other openSUSE 12.2 system with KDE 3, so the problem is probably not with the flashdisk. This is the "Developer Information" saved form The KDE Crash Handler window: Application: Plasma Desktop Shell (plasma-desktop), signal: Bus error Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0xb5445740 (LWP 12733))] Thread 4 (Thread 0xa419fb40 (LWP 12734)): #0 0xffffffff in () Thread 3 (Thread 0xa1802b40 (LWP 12735)): #0 0xffffffff in () #1 0x00200001 in () #2 0x0000000d in () #3 0x00200001 in () #4 0x00000000 in () Thread 2 (Thread 0xa0d6eb40 (LWP 12736)): #0 0xffffffff in () Thread 1 (Thread 0xb5445740 (LWP 12733)): #0 0xffffffff in () #1 0x00000000 in () Thanks for your help, 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] blank spam
by jdd 06 May '15

06 May '15

Hello, I receive on a regular basis (several a day) blank messages that are obviously spam, here two of them as examples (below): Return-Path: <Franklin_Sabrina30(a)corexsud.com> X-Original-To: jdd(a)dodin.org Delivered-To: jdd(a)dodin.org Received: from 94-183-247-79.shatel.ir (unknown [94.183.247.79]) by ks311900.kimsufi.com (Postfix) with SMTP id B2554C0234 for <jdd(a)dodin.org>; Wed, 6 May 2015 01:33:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <8[10 Return-Path: <Longoria_Devin30(a)activcomputing.com> X-Original-To: jdd(a)dodin.org Delivered-To: jdd(a)dodin.org Received: from 188.165.211.22 (unknown [37.1.18.77]) by ks311900.kimsufi.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C136EC0145 for <jdd(a)dodin.org>; Tue, 5 May 2015 23:50:41 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <7[10 as you can see the return path and the from are different for each message. Thunderbird anti spam do not see them. I fear filtering out all blank message may me miss some friends error. the kimsufi part is my own imap server what do you think? thank jdd -- 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] no space left on the device
by jdd 06 May '15

06 May '15

Hello, I was hit this morning by the "no space left on the device" symptom, probably related to BTRFS (?), when btrfs's df (znd normal df) gives at least half space free. To work I had to reinstall on the other disk a 13.2 version (with ext4, this time). I know it's a discussed problem, and I read many posts on the subject, but It still don't get how to solve it. I *can* login with the failsafe mode, as root (or not), CLI only, but any action that include temp file fails with "no space left on the device", yast segfault... I cleared /tmp and some files in /home with no change. Is it possible to recover this? how? thanks jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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