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[opensuse] Help with bugzilla
by don fisher 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

As suggested, I have been trying to file a bug report relating to the thread I started relating to the Leap upgrade failure. I cannot seem to access bugzilla, or if I am I cannot recognize it. I created an account and confirmed my email address. When I click the link to bugzilla.opensuse.org, I receive a page with a red banner stating "Please confirm that your email address is valid by clicking here and following the instructions. If you have already done so, please log out and log back in." I have confirmed my email address, and if I press the "log out" I receive "Bad request! Your browser (or proxy) sent a request that this server could not understand". I do not know how to proceed. from here. Please advise for the GUI impaired:-) 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] Is offline upgrade still preferred over Zypper system upgrade (13.2->Leap 42.1)?
by Bjoern Voigt 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

The Wiki page "SDB:System upgrade" (https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade) warns Warning: Do not skip a release when upgrading! Example: do not upgrade from 13.1 to 42.1. Instead, from 13.1 upgrade to 13.2, then from 13.2 upgrade to 42.1. Other possibility: Offline upgrade, a.k.a. traditional or DVD upgrade. For more information, read offline upgrade. This upgrade method is safer and more versatile. Unless you have a good reason to do otherwise, use the offline upgrade method. Especially this disadvantage of Zypper system upgrade makes my sceptical: It does not do all of the cleanup and maintenance that an offline DVD Upgrade does. Does this still apply for the upgrade from 13.2 to Leap 42.1? Which method works better in practice? (Personally I use both methods. I prefer Offline upgrade (from USB) for PCs with a limited number of packages and less extra repositories. I prefer the Zypper system upgrade method for PCs will much packages from different repositories. Zypper system upgrade also causes less downtime.) 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] Help with system internal error failure on Leap 42.1 upgrade
by don fisher 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

I have a 13.2 system that has been running for about a year on a 1TB Samsung drive, model 840 EVO mSATA. The Leap 42.1 upgrade system went through the entire upgrade process, rendering my previous system useless, and then on the last screen posted the following internal error message: Internal error: Please report a bug report with logs Detail unknown udev device /dev/disk/by-id/wwnQx5002538844584d30-part2 Call: /usr/share/YaST2/lib/bootloader/udev_mapping.rb:42in to kernel device I desire help with this. I do not know where the requested "logs" would be stored. I looked in /var/log and did not notice any obvious candidates. Where does this udev mapping come from? I have many Samsung SSDs and would like to have the problem fixed for all of them at one time. So if I knew which drives were mapped I would know which ones to request repair on. The failed drive still exists, so if there are any requests for files I will try to recover them. How come 13.2 can access these drives, and Leap cannot? Is it the new kernel? It would be great if the Upgrade code checked this before overwriting an functioning system:-) 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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Re: [opensuse] Format disk with 13.2 btrfs file system
by don fisher 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

On 01/21/2016 12:03 PM, don fisher wrote: > On 01/20/2016 06:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016, 10:56 AM don fisher <hdf3(a)comcast.net >> <mailto:hdf3@comcast.net>> wrote: >> >> I the opening email I indicated that I wanted to reproduce the btrfs >> file system provided by the distribution media. I wish to create a >> bootable backup on a USB drive, and require THAT file system. >> >> >> >> Ahhh. Very important question. Difficult answer. Big problem is the >> expectation the bootable backup should be the same as the installed >> layout. Even the idea the filesystem should be the same is open to >> debate. >> >> Per usual, on Linux, there are many possibilities. And it depends on >> distribution behavior. >> >> For example, openSUSE by default uses snapper to take snapshots of the >> filesystem very frequently. It does not make sense to create a bootable >> backup with all of these snapshots. >> >> But how to do even a non-bootable backup that retains all snapshots is >> unanswered. Even whether the effort to keep all snapshots in any backup >> is unanswered >> >> The functionality exists to do this. But user source tools are limited. >> About the most complete is to make rootfs a seed device, add a 2nd >> device, then delete seed device. This causes seed to be used as source, >> and 2nd device becomes independent copy. And it's own volume UUID. >> >> But it's not bootable yet. That requires GRUB work. And GRUB work >> depends on firmware, BIOS vs UEFI. See? >> >> Difficult problem. >> >> >> >> >> That is >> what I was requesting. I have tried to RTFM and have not found the >> information that I require, so I will go back to using the >> distribution >> media to generate a file system on my USB drive. >> >> >> This is not your deficiency. The rule are not mature. They are not >> mature because we don't even clearly understand the use cases yet. >> >> I think we are better off with a future OSTree + Btrfs. Right now there >> are few optimizations in OSTree (specifically rpm-ostree) for Btrfs. But >> I think stateless systems will be easier to backup and restore and also >> update and rollback. Right now it's messy. >> >> >> Chris Murphy > My goal, for now, is to disable creation of snapshots. I have built a > bootable USB drive and have been able to use it to transfer my system to > another machine, the one I am currently working on. I have an Alienware > laptop, and the recommendations on the Nouveau-Nvida list were to run > version 4 of the kernel. So last night I attempted to upgrade my 3.2 > system to Leap, only to receive an internal error message at the very > end suggesting I should send the logs to ? But I do not know where the > logs are kept, so I will repeat the operation and take a picture of the > message flashed on the screen. > > If I did not have the bootable USB drive, I would be dead in the water > right now. So I think there is some merit in having an image backup. > > 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] pakagekit/Yast/zypper
by ianseeks 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Hi How do you get packagekit to quit when you answer Yes to zypper or yast's question asking do you want packagekit to quit so you can use zypper or yast? I've had the software updates widget sitting there with 1254 updates pending but as it does not give you any idea of percentage done progress, i prefer to use zypper or yast (especially as i'm using breeze dark on this user and you cannot even read what is being downloaded or installed.). regards Ian -- 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] switched email
by tech＠reachthetribes.org 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

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[opensuse] ~/.fonts not displayed in GNOME Termial. (42.1)
by Billy.Zheng 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Hi, I install openSUSE 42.1 gome desktop. following is my problem. $ ls ~/.fonts Inconsolata-dz-Powerline.otf KaiGenGothicCN-Normal.ttf Inconsolata.otf SourceCodePro-Medium.otf $ fc-cache -f -v. /usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 10 dirs /usr/share/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/Speedo: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 29 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs /usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/ghostscript: caching, new cache contents: 52 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 136 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 218 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/uni: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: skipping, no such directory /opt/kde3/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory /usr/local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory /home/zw963/.local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory /home/zw963/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 10 dirs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: skipping, no such directory /opt/kde3/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory /usr/local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory /home/zw963/.local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory /home/zw963/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory /home/zw963/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory /home/zw963/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory fc-cache: succeeded It seem like /home/zw963/.fonts is cached now. But, I want to select this fonts (Inconsolata-dz-Powerline.otf) in my terminal, it could not found there. Thanks. -- Geek, Rubyist, Emacser Homepage: http://zw963.github.io -- 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: fonts and colours
by Basil Chupin 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

I have Leap 42 installed as a test system on the same computer as openSUSE 13.2 -- but as separate booting systems. I am also using the very latest versions of Thunderbird and Firefox on Leap and 13.2 -- but the important part to the question I am asking here is that I am using, thru the use of symlinks, the *same* '/.mozilla' and '/.thunderbird' in both Leap and 13.2. And here is the problem followed by the question: in 13.2 I have selected the fonts I like to be used in both TB and FF as well as the background colours and font colours -- however, in both I am allowing fonts used by the originating source to be used for displaying the text. (Trying to explain this is getting hairy but I hope that you are getting the picture :-( ). when I use both Firefox and Thunderbird in Leap the font and the colour chosen in 13.2 are ignored even though the same /.mozilla and /.thunderbird are being used. I have also selected the same colours and fonts in the System Settings (Startup>System Settings>whatever). Why am I getting a different result when using Leap to what I get in 13.2? Anyone have a suggestion, or two, please? BTW, evern though I haven't upgraded a copy of TW to the latest, I am getting the same results as in Leap: different fonts and colour schemes. BC -- 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] command to check all packages
by George Olson (SUSE list) 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Is there a command that I can use to check all installed packages on my system to see if any are installed from a particular repository? I just got KDE5 back after messing with extras, applications, framework5, qt5, and wolfi's repository. I have been doing so much back and forth with zypper in and zypper dup from the different repos that I really don't know what on my system is installed from what. But my system is working now, and so I want to just check everything and see what repositories I have that are really not being used and then delete them. Thanks :) -- George Box #1: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Box #2: 13.1 | KDE 4.12 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | 4GB Laptop #1: 13.1 | KDE 4.12 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | 8GB Laptop #2: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | Core i7-4710HQ | 64 | 16GB -- 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] darktable update
by buhorojo 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

42.1 Hi and TIA because we really don't know how to ask this question. We tried Darktable 2 from https://software.opensuse.org/package/darktable graphics repository. We could go back to 1.6 by removing 2, removing the repository and then reinstalling. I'm sure there's a more elegant way, but anyway... Question: one day I suppose after an update, 2 will become the norm. Will it still be possible to choose 1.6 when that happens? Specifically, would we be able to keep the TCA lens adjust from 1.6 with 2? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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