January 2016 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] yast lock software selection ?
by Per Jessen 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

During installation of Leap42.1 I'm trying to lock a package (bind-utils) - I'm using the text gui, so this is either '*' (asterisk) or Alt-L. Neither one locks, instead they deselect ... (as a '-' (minus)). /Per -- 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] 13.2 update kernel will not install
by Felix Miata 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

The following NEW package is going to be installed: kernel-desktop 3.16.7-29.1 1 new package to install. Overall download size: 0 B. Already cached: 42.8 MiB After the operation, additional 215.8 MiB will be used. Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): y committing Checking for file conflicts: ..........................................................................[done] In cache kernel-desktop-3.16.7-29.1.x86_64.rpm (1/1), 42.8 MiB (215.8 MiB unpacked)(1/1) Installing: kernel-desktop-3.16.7-29.1 [error]Installation of kernel-desktop-3.16.7-29.1 failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/.vmlinuz-3.16.7-29-desktop.hmac;569a2135: cpio: open failed - No such file or directory error: kernel-desktop-3.16.7-29.1.x86_64: install failed Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a) Did the latest updates break rpm or cpio? dmesg: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/132/dmsg-gx780-s132.txt journalctl -b: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/132/journal-gx780-s132.txt zypper.log tail: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/132/ztail.txt -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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] USB Docking Station Brought Tumbleweed Tumbling Down a Rocky Slope
by SDM 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

Hi, I'm using dd on openSUSE TW 20160113 to zero out (/dev/zero) 2 SATA hard drives, and have plugged them both into a generic USB docking station that has always allowed me to read SMART data from any drive and never had any problems transferring terabytes of data. I wanted to zero both drives out because they were given to me as possibly faulty, and in my research I've found that zeroing out a disk can make bad sectors surface, and then show up in the SMART data which is exactly my intention. The issue I just had is that with the first disk (WD Blue 500 GB), after dd ran for some time it locked my system up and I couldn't log out of or restart Plasma. I switched to a different TTY and issued the "reboot" command as root, and even then systemd was giving me "a start job is running" message which appeared about 3 times, for different processes. One notable thing which errored out is my home partition wasn't properly unmounted. I then just hit the reset switch because I wasn't going to sit there all night. The UEFI BIOS then hung until I yanked the USB cable out of the USB port. Before powering the SATA docking station down, I had a Windows laptop nearby which I plugged the docking station into, and it hung up on installing the USB drivers, and just sat there with a spinning circle. I then powered the docking station down and then back up, and drivers were instantly found. I then plugged the SATA docking station's USB cable into my openSUSE PC and it didn't hang on boot and everything was normal again. When I ran smartctl on the drive, a new error came up: ---------- *Read SMART Log Directory failed: scsi error medium or hardware error (serious) ** **** **Warning! SMART ATA Error Log Structure error: invalid SMART checksum. ** **SMART Error Log Version: 1 ** **No Errors Logged * ---------- From then on, that error came up when running smartctl on that drive and was very slow to display information in terminal. So I figured the drive was pretty much toast, even though there wasn't anything else interesting in the SMART logs reads with smartmontools. I checked on smartmontools' website and it says the software does support reading SMART data over USB. It looks as though possibly a bad logic board on the drive temporarily messed up firmware in the USB docking station, which in turn wreaked havoc with Linux. I'm getting the feeling that Linux with its monolithic kernel is very unforgiving if you have a bad USB device, or, in my case (if my guess is right) a bad logic board on an HDD which in turn messed up the firmware on the docking station. The same exact thing happened with the second drive; a Hitachi 750 GB HDD. Drive was inserted into the USB docking station, I ran dd while periodically checking SMART data in another terminal window, and eventually plasma started choking and I had to reboot from another TTY. This time there was no problem unmounting /home, but the "a start job is running" error came up on a couple processes. I believe this time I did unplug the USB cable before issuing the reboot command, and maybe if I hadn't done that the same thing would have happened as before where it couldn't unmount /home on my SATA HDD in my computer and it would have hung up making me then press reset. Once again, I couldn't boot the system with the USB docking station plugged into USB port. The UEFI graphical BIOS would hang at "B4", which is in a little readout in the lower right-hand corner which gives you status on the POST process. As soon as I unplugged the docking station, it stopped hanging at "B4" and was fine. So obviously the USB docking station can be brought to its knees by a bad drive or is faulty, but I doubt the latter because I've never had this issue with it. Again, as before with the previous drive, as soon as I power cycled the docking station with the Hitachi plugged in, there were no hangs on boot and everything went back to normal. Currently i'm running dd on a known good drive which itself is plugged into the docking station, and monitoring its progress to see if maybe the problem wasn't with the two drives but rather the docking station. However, it looks as though it's going to make it through the full wipe. No freezes yet, and it's almost finished. I may test with a live USB Linux image plugged into my laptop, and do the dd wipe there since I can't afford to have my main desktop cut down to a stump again, and have everything go to complete crap. I would like some input as to how something like what I wrote about can crap up the whole system bus and make Linux an unhappy camper. Is this one of the weaker areas of the kernel, a bug, or something else? Maybe it wouldn't have happened on Leap, and has something to do with the kernel on TW? Update: the known good drive finished the dd wipe process without locking up my system. SDM -- 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] Baloo file indexing bork
by John Andersen 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

Some time recently, around when KDE 4.14 came out, and also in KDE Plasma5 (or whatever its official name is) Baloo (which was working very well for me) stopped indexing plain/text files unless they had an extension of .txt AND were smaller than 50K. I traced this to what was supposed to be a short term hack in src/file/extractor/app.cpp which can be seen here: https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=baloo.git&a=commitdiff&h=44975bd11c4c97be13a117… That was a year and a half ago, and it only JUST recently slipped into KDE4 and KDE5. The thing is, I have been relying on Baloo indexing of massive amounts of source code to find references, usages, etc. Source is plain text, and suddenly the rug has been yanked out from under me as Baloo will no longer index plain text. I am seeing this also in KDE Framework 5.17 (Arch/Manjaro) and I suspect in Leap. Does anyone have a working Baloo installation undr Leap 42 that they can test this out? Create a file called deletme.txt and add a few words plus a uncommon word like slartybartfast into it. Copy deleteme.txt to deleteme.ttt At command line type baloosearch slartybartfast You should see both files listed. This fails on Manjaro-kde and Opensuse 13.2, only one file is indexed. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- 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] Question: Leap 42 and Icon in Taskbar
by Basil Chupin 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

I just updated by test installation of Leap to the very latest whoopsies and found that 'ksnapshot' has been replaced by 'spectacle'. Fine, I knew about this change so 'No worries, mate'. I had 'ksnapshot' as an icon in the QuickLaunch section of the Taskbar -- but now that 'ksnapshot' has been replaced and removed from the system I still have the icon for 'ksnapshot' in the QuickLauch section of the Taskbar. But, of course, it no longer launches 'ksnapshot' and so I don't need the damn thing. But I cannot remove this icon for 'ksnapshot'. In openSUSE 13.2 it is simply a matter of right-clicking on the icon, selecting 'icon settings' and clicking on 'remove icon' or some such words. But not in Leap 42. Oh no. Jumping around the room with a dead chicken being swung over one's head doesn't remove the icon either :'( . Does anyone know, please, how to remove the icon -- or any icon for that matter! -- from the Taskbar? BC PS Ignore the Signature line below: this message actually written using Leap 42. -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.4.0-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- 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] Network set up after crash
by don fisher 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

I am running 13.2, and was trying to build USB drive. Something was wrong, and when I tried to boot the USB drive it started looking for LVM and other things. My system was broken. I managed to recover most of it using rsync and data on other drives. But I cannot get the networking to full capability. I have been running wicked. If I do ifdown and ifup on my devices, they appear to work. But when I go to the tray and click on network icon it is blank. It shows no devices or connections. When I click the wrench, the widow there also gives me no device choices. I can run Thunderbird, but the graphical windows contained within the emails do not load. Thunderbird displays "loading message" at the bottom, but nothing happens. I looked at the section on using the Network Manager and enabled it as described. I did a rcnetwork restart as it suggested, but nothing changed. Where does the applet go to look for the network devices and connections? Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks 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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[opensuse] alternatives to pk-update-icon
by David Hume 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

I had pk-update-icon installed, but it was notifying me of updates which would then fail to install. On the last occasion I ran zypper and it said there was nothing to do. So I un-installed pk-update-icon, but is there some other thing which will notify of updates? -- 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] leap: rkhunter warn about sshd change
by stakanov＠freenet.de 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

I have been warned by rkhunter about an sshd change. This is odd, because I did not change anything. So I went to /etc/ssh/sshd and I went through it. I found a string that is new (and that for the time being I commented out. Before it did read like this: # override default of no subsystems Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server As I did not put this: has there been an update? And why would an update activate sftp-server on my system (AFAIK, I do not use it). And if, wouldn't this even be the completely false syntax, as this should then be used together with a " Match group sftponly entry in the same sshd to avoid users to access sshd settings. And it would make sense only if a allow user or allow group policy was set. I did not allow anybody. Thanks for helping me to understand the sense and the justification of existence for this string. --- 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] strange ext4 problem
by jdd 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

Hello, I have a strange ext4 problem. The disk was an old backup I didn't use and just wanted to reuse, but just in case I would like to know how to fix it and see if the disk is not damaged. any hint? thanks jdd dmesg says: EXT4-fs (sdn1): bad geometry: block count 488378390 exceeds size of device (488378389 blocks) notice there is only one block error then: LANG=us ; mount /dev/sdn1 /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdn1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so. fsck.ext4 /dev/sdn1 e2fsck 1.42.11 (09-Jul-2014) The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 488378390 blocks The physical size of the device is 488378389 blocks Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt! Abort<y>? no sauvegarde-2t contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information sauvegarde-2t: 957175/122101760 files (0.9% non-contiguous), 453175967/488378390 blocks -- 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] list of directories containing a specific file type
by Istvan Gabor 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

Hello: I would like to search for all the directories containing files with jpg extension (*.jpg) on my system. The output should list only the directory paths, one path only once either it contains one or more *.jpg files. The file names should be omitted. I'd like to do it in a bash terminal. Is this feasible? I looked at the find command but could find how to get the wanted output. 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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