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[opensuse] problems typing text (curious!)
by jdd 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Hello, I try to copy/paste text from a "cat /etc/apache2/vhosts.d" on my leap server (through ssh). the goal is to write a document page on Pmwiki, but I get the same problem pasting in Thunderbird I'm in kde, also Leap 42.1 example below. I can't have the <Directory and /> on the same line, when I can have it there: <Directory /> (same for the other lines) the two of them are UTF8. I suspect some invisible character. How can I get rid of this annoying thing? Note: I don't know how to send you an example, Thunderbird fix the problem :-). See on right what I have when typing and on left the draft record. http://dodin.org/owncloud/index.php/s/2xcwaGr6hTjg75T so a solution is to type in in Thunderbird, record only as draft and copy paste the draft... thanks jdd cat /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/10.vhost.conf # forbid access to the entire filesystem by default <Directory /> Options None AllowOverride None # Order deny,allow # Deny from all Require all denied # RewriteEngine On # RewriteOptions Inherit #DirectoryIndex index.html index.php </Directory> -- 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: [opensuse-factory] broken shasums for 42.2 isos?
by James Knott 15 Dec '16

15 Dec '16

On 11/20/2016 09:24 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > wget > http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.2/iso/openSUSE-Leap-42.2-… > wget > http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.2/iso/openSUSE-Leap-42.2-… > shasum -c openSUSE-Leap-42.2-NET-x86_64.iso.sha256 > openSUSE-Leap-42.2-NET-x86_64.iso: OK > shasum: WARNING: 14 lines are improperly formatted > > Is this expected? It's not what I expected. I ran into the same thing, but was able to find the correct shasum on the mirror page. -- 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 42.2 Feedback
by Aaron Digulla 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

Hi, I've upgraded to Leap 42.2 a week ago and I'd like to share my experiences. It was 90% successful but I have two big pain points: 3D and hibernate. Both features have degraded slowly over the past months (it started with Leap 41.1, 13.2 was very stable for years). Newer kernels tend to be less stable. 4.1 worked pretty good, 4.7 didn't work at all. I used "zypper dup" to upgrade my distribution from Leap 41.1 and that worked well, despite the fact that the wiki wasn't updated for Leap 42.2. But the instructions for 13.x -> 42.1 were easy enough to understand, so I could translate them myself. First boot worked, display manager failed. I had some trouble downloading the correct NVIDIA driver. I have a ASUS GTX 1050 Ti, so I needed 375.20. When I had that, the display manager (sddm?) started working. There were a couple of updates, so I installed those. I'm using KDE. Clicking on "Logout" did nothing. journalctl reported that sddm-greeter was crashing. I tried again, same result. Yesterday, I installed updates again and sddm-greeter refused to work afterwards. I had to reboot manually from the console. This sucks. From my point of view, sddm seems to be more of a problem than anything else. Not being able to do anything from the UI leaves me helpless and frustrated. I understand that Mesa updates replace important 3D libraries and sddm needs them but this piece of software is so important that it should fall back to something useful when it can't use 3D. That said, after updates, a lot of KDE software, chrome and chromium started to act up until I reinstalled the NVIDIA drivers. The error messages were mostly useless (that's what the KDE error reporter told me) or I didn't get any message at all. I'm not sure what less educated users would do in my situation. Not being able to reboot after installing security patches shouldn't happen. It makes me wonder whether I really need those patches. I also have a lot of graphics garbage on the screen after resume from hibernate to disk. That started with Leap 42.1 some time in September, I think. Window frames, Flash web content and desktop icon texts are most vulnerable. My guess is that the KDE 3D code is broken somehow but I don't know how to find out what is happening. Frustrating again. Also, when this happens, I can't disable 3D effects in systemsettings5 since that crashes immediately when I try to open the effects. During hibernate, I get messages on the (text) console that "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ../kernel/locking/rwsem.c:21" Out of 20 attempts to hibernate, 4 fail to resume with the message: "ACPI: Hardware changed while hibernated, success doubtful" Something in the kernel must be broken since my hardware didn't change. And there is another "BUG: scheduling while atomic: systemd-sleep/.../..." Please let me know if I can provide more information to track down these bugs. Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/ -- 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] LVM / software raid / dynamic raid? For a backup server of stable data.
by Greg Freemyer 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

This email might be offtopic, not sure. I have a minimum of 10 TB of data I want to consolidate off of multiple USB drives to free them up. The data is almost exclusively static and rarely accessed, but I need to maintain it. I have 2 copies of this data in most cases currently, but it is spread around multiple USB3 drives. (I have dozens of them). The plan for now is just to consolidate one copy of the data. I bought a 10 TB SATA drive to hold a first big chunk. I expect it will get filled quickly as I start to consolidate my backup copies, so I want to be able to grow the volume holding the data by adding disks to the pool and extending the volume. I suspect I will also want to have more resiliency at some point. (ie. raid 0 => raid 5 => raid 6) If I truly had confidence in this storage pool I might eliminate both copies of the data that is on USB drives currently. But even with raid 6, I think I would worry about a total LVM or Volume crash Or even a user error! Even though I know LVM and MDraid somewhat, I don't know if is "dynamic" and "reliable" enough for what I want. And advice out there? Goals: - Create a fileserver that I can add drives to from time to time and grow it's capacity. Probably 10TB drives so I don't have too many spindles in the mix. When bigger drives become available, I'd prefer to use them, so being stuck will all the same size drives is a negative. - Performance is non-critical. I've used LTO-4 tapes to do this in the past, but I hope online is a better choice now. With LTO-4, once I had a new data set (typically 100GB - 2TB) I would make a backup with tape and put it away for the time I needed to ensure I still had it. (Often years). - Share the exported volumes with Windows PCs. (Not critical, but preferred) - have the ability to start the drive pool with a single drive and add to it over time - Allow the added drive to be either as SATA USB3.1 - Allow the Raid "protection level" to be adjusted for a given volume from time to time. === I was actually planning to do this with Windows and its "Storage Spaces" solution. I just this afternoon put a new 10TB drive in a windows PC and added it to the "Storage Space" (like LVM). But my reading says the "resilience level" of a volume has to be set at the time the volume is created. I can grow it later, but I can't change it from a raid 0, to a raid 1, to a raid 5, etc. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- 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] How to set VGA mode after boot, like bootloader does? (for 'kexec' consistency)
by L A Walsh 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

I found that it's the boot loader that sets the initial screen mode before the kernel is loaded. It is often set again during boot by programs that set the console keyboard and font -- and seems to be separate from the mode one is in during a graphical boot. I'm trying to figure out how to set that VGA mode from "userland" (running as root) just before jumping to a new kernel with kexec. If I don't, kexec starts the new kernel in a non-deterministic mode that displays mostly garbage on the screen up until the screen's mode is reset by console kbd+font progs. Alternatively -- I've also seen the screen go blank for the entire boot process until the system displays the login prompt. Does anyone know how to do set the VGA mode from userland so kexec will start in a known state? I don't think the method used in boot loaders would work, as I think they are making BIOS calls to detect and set modes... :-( Thanks MUCH!... linda -- 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] Email Server
by Paul Groves 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Hi All, I am looking to set up an email server (on my existing home server). Any recommendations? I want the basic abilities (smtp imap and pop / mail groups / address books etc.) It will mainly be used with my wordpress / osticket installs as well as forwarding emails to lists. I have not set up a linux mail server before so would not know where to start. The server is opensuse 42.1 64-bit Thanks -- 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] Anyone with problems using GNU Emacs on TW?
by Dr. Werner Fink 03 Dec '16

03 Dec '16

Hi, I've a curious bug report for GNU Emacs used on the command line. The user reports that if an ampersand is used to background the emacs process it does not show a window on the X screen. But the window will be shown if the shell command fg is used ... Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr

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[opensuse] merging several audio in mp4
by jdd 03 Dec '16

03 Dec '16

Hello, Last kde version (16, appimage) allow simulténeous audio editing but render tracks indoendently (result is three files) I try to use mkvmerge to merge the tracks, but with mixed result and anyway I don't think mkv is html5 compliant. is it possible to merge these audio tracks (with the ability to choose one of them only) in an mp4 file? 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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[opensuse] suse_update_desktop_file: invalid option -- 'w'
by Bjoern Voigt 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

If I try to rebuild the current version of MythTV from Packman (mythtv-0.28+git.20161105.1434df8-1.1.src.rpm) I get the following error message: mybox:~ # rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/mythtv.spec suse_update_desktop_file: invalid option -- 'w' error: Unknown option w in suse_update_desktop_file(cinrud:D:N:C:G:) suse_update_desktop_file: invalid option -- 'w' error: Unknown option w in suse_update_desktop_file(cinrud:D:N:C:G:) Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.kunUcV + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD I have absolutely no idea, where does the option 'w' come from. 'rpmbuild' itself seems to throw the error message. /usr/lib/rpm/suse_update_desktop_file.sh has only an error message with uppercase letters (echo "UNKNOWN OPTION: $1"). I use OS Tumbleweed 20161119. Any ideas? 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] Some weirdness re systemd and mount (42.2)
by Carlos E. R. 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, in the process of setting up my new miniserver, I bumped into a curios situation. Two days ago I copied several files from the old server, one of them, some entries from fstab. One, was this: /dev/mapper/cr_hoard2 /data/hoard xfs nofail,noatime 0 3 LABEL=old_d_tmpry /data/waterhoard xfs user,relatime,exec,nofail 1 3 Then I noticed that systemd was trying to mount them and complaining about some dependency not found re mounting the disks - obviously, as they were not yet connected, I needed a new usb3 enclosure instead of the old usb2. No big deal, just some log noise. I simply commented out the line: #/dev/mapper/cr_hoard2 /data/hoard xfs nofail,noatime 0 3 #LABEL=old_d_tmpry /data/waterhoard xfs user,relatime,exec,nofail 1 3 Well, today I assembled the two disks and connected them. Both went online as soon as each was powered up, despite the line in fstab being deactivated! No, I don't mean mounted somewhere in /media via the desktop. No. They were mounted in the places that figured in the fstab file! Seems things are getting worse in this respect in 42.2 than in 13.1 :-( (the password for the encrypted disk is in a file on the encrypted home partition, so that part was not a surprise) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlg/V/QACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VNJgCcDNYbBD3sl2JTdRr5+V7uBLvl HVoAnjBBEkaQwNwDreujqGZN5EZhQvPg =kkZ1 -----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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