December 2016 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Question on "amarok"
by Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Der listmembers, I found out recently that amarok is incapable to download any covers. Initially I thought that this was related to the version of amarok I am using and I even posted a bug - report upstream. However, I found out now that using openSUSE 13.2 the download of the cover for a certain album works flawlessly. In contrast, using either 42.1 or 42.2 there is no way to get covers from the internet. I used the same album in all cases and the same version of amarok, build as rpm from the same source package from the opensuse mirrors. I therefore consider this as a bug of opensuse and would appreciate very much if a kind soul out there could verify my findings (Album -> Fetch Cover). Whatever internet source I choose, there are no successful downloads of covers, in contrast, 13.2 does this easily. Many thanks for your efforts, take care Dieter Jurzitza -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza 76131 Karlsruhe -- 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] MQTT
by Dave Howorth 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

So having got my device working using a USB lead, I now want to configure it to use a wireless connection with MQTT. I've got the wireless going, I think, but now I believe I need an MQTT broker. confession: I don't know much about MQTT so please use words of one syllable :) I looked in YaST and didn't see anything for mqtt. I looked on google and found the home page for mosquitto, which lists packages for 13.1 and 13.2 but I currently run 42.1. I looked on https://software.opensuse.org/ and see various packages but I don't know which if any are relevant - most seem to be client libraries in various languages. Does anybody know enough about this subject to steer me in the right direction? Cheers, Dave -- 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] 42.2 USB WiFi stalls during >100 Gbyte transfer
by Roger Price 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

I NET-installed 42.2 on a new box, replaced the ethernet cable connection with a USB WiFi adapter, and tried to transfer 118 Gbytes of user data from an existing 13.1 box to the 42.2 box. Repeated attempts failed. Here are some of my results. Source machine: 13.1. Dell 690, 32 Gbytes memory, 4 cores, Kernel 3.12.62. Engenius USB EUB 9603 EXT WiFi adapter. Destination machine: 42.2. Dell T7500, 48 Gbytes memory, 12 cores, Kernel 4.4.27. Summary of tests ---------------- I tried three different USB WiFi adapters on the Destination machine, and with each adapter tried 10 times to transfer 118 Gbytes. 1. EnGenius USB EUB 9603 EXT, same as the source machine. lsusb: ID 1740:9603 Senao RTL8188S WLAN Adapter Successful transfers of 118 Gbytes of data: 0 Failed: 10. Min data transfer 5 Gbytes, Avg 11.6, Max 21 Gbytes. Notes: All tests failed with reboot needed to restore network connection. 2. Ubiquity WiFiStation lsusb: ID 0cf3:b002 Atheros Communications, Inc. Ubiquiti WiFiStation 802.11n [Atheros AR9271] Successful transfers of 118 Gbytes of data: 3 Min transfer time 415 min, Avg 594 min, Max 832 min. Failed: 7. Notes: In all cases, reboot needed to restore useful network connection. On 4 occasions rcnetwork restart allows "ping free.fr" but performance degraded. 3. TP-Link TL-WN722N lsusb: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n Successful transfers of 118 Gbytes of data: 10 Min transfer time 417 min, Avg 424 min, Max 429 min. Failed: 0. Notes: Consistently successful. Transfer rate = 4.6 Mbytes/sec. Additional attempts ------------------- An additional 4 attempts were abandoned when the source machine WiFi stalled. I made further tests using rsync and got similar results. An additional test was lost due to bug https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1009932 Comments on results ------------------- I am surprised by these results. Looking at the "useless" result of case 1, one is tempted to say "Engenius adapter is broken", but it's the same Engenius adapter which on the 13.1 box is capable of supporting the 10/10 success of case 3. It looks like a 42.2 problem, similar to bug https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=998307 "Bug 998307 - wifi (intel 8260) stops working and network need restart". See comment 6 "But it's been fixed in 4.8." Since that 4.8 fix won't apply to 42.2, it seems to me that a bug report is in order but I have little technical detail other than "heavy load". Cases 2 and 3 use the same Atheros AR9271, but the results are very different. Whether this is a hardware or a software problem I cannot say. Roger -- 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] (Solved) Kde/Plasma5 Settings won't stick
by John Andersen 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

I've got a setting in KDE/Plasma 5 that will not stay as I set it, which in turn means I can't get either 2G or 3G graphics support in Vmware Virtual machines. (And it turns off some of the Desktop effects such as Wobbly Windows which also worked under 13.2) This is new in Leap 42.2, and used to work in 13.2. KDE, Settings, (Configure Desktop) - which displays a window titled System Settings in OpenSuse (Note no other distro labels it as Configure Desktop in the menu). Then Display and Monitor Compositor Rendering Back-end setting. This setting is to xrander, and I can change it to OpenGL 2.0 or OpenGl 3.1. However, as soon as I leave that screen, and re-enter, it has reverted to Xrander. Under 13.2, using the same Community Radeon drivers I was able to get OpenGL 2.0 at least and this was available to vmware virtual machines. My Video Card: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV515/M54 [Mobility Radeon X1400] This (undated) page suggests it should be supported with Opengl3.1: https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:AMD_video_cards I have the mentioned xf86-video-ati installed. And Like I say, this worked magically under 13.2. ------Solution: Apparently there are some bad defaults chosen in 42.2 which send all community ATI driver users into xrender hell. However, some digging around on the net reveals that if you simply add the line > export KWIN_COMPOSE=O2 to your ~/.profile you will be able to select the proper Rendering backend for your system and regain that functionality. You will have to turn font anitaliasing back on after this. -- 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] Thunderbird settings don't stick
by Bob Williams 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Using openSUSE Leap 42.2 and KDE Frameworks 5 I've recently started using chromium as my default browser rather than firefox. Thunderbird is my email client, and I would like clickable links in email messages to open in chromium. However, every time I change these strings in the Thunderbird config network.protocol-handler.app.ftp;/usr/bin/firefox network.protocol-handler.app.http;/usr/bin/firefox network.protocol-handler.app.https;/usr/bin/firefox to point to /usr/bin/chromium the settings silently reset themselves to firefox. I have even uninstalled firefox, but it still happens. I have also changed my preferred browser in System Settings. What am I missing, or is this broken behaviour? If the latter, is it Thunderbird, KDE or openSUSE that is causing the problem? Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 4.4.36-5-default Distro: openSUSE 42.2 (x86_64) Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.26.0, Qt: 5.6.1 and Plasma: 5.8.2

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[opensuse] Re: unexplained tar Error
by Andreas Pfaller 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

On Thursday 08 December 2016, Paul Groves wrote: This should give you some idea how to get a working script: #!/bin/bash files[1]="1" files[2]="2" files[3]=" 3 \" 4 " files[4]="5" files[5]="6 7" files[6]='"8 9"' echo "files contains ${#files[*]} elements:" for f in "${files[@]}"; do echo "|$f|" done echo echo "${files[@]}" touch "${files[@]}" Run it in a temporary directory. The results of the "touch" should be enlightening ;) Andreas -- 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] Time is running out for NTP
by Per Jessen 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Everyone benefits from Network Time Protocol, but the project struggles to pay its sole maintainer or fund its various initiatives. http://www.infoworld.com/article/3144546/security/time-is-running-out-for-n… -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-0.1°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- 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 do I use my @opensuse.org email alias?
by Dave Plater 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Hi, I've had an opensuse.org email alias for a few years now but I can't work out how to use it. I recently had an email to my main opensuse account email address stating that I've been inactive, I sent a test message to my @opensuse.org address and it didn't bounce so the address exists. I've searched through my profile and account settings but can't find anything. Thanks Dave P -- 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] repository metatdata download times
by Dave Howorth 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

When I run software update, it says it is updating the repositories and this takes some time (seemingly a long time). Tonight I noticed that it claims to be downloading at over 600 k(something)/second. That seems to me to be sufficiently fast that the changes in the repositories since the last time I donloaded them (yesterday) should take almost no time. So is it using some kind of braindead download method or something? What can we do to improve it? Cheers, Dave -- 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] PXE HDD test
by Paul Groves 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

Anyone know any good programs that I can put on my PXE server that I can test Hard Disks with? Also would be nice to have a USB boot-able with the utility too. (Thinking along the lines of memtest86) Thanks Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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