December 2016 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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[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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Re: [opensuse] Re: ntpsec
by Per Jessen 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

Mark Atwood, Project Manager wrote: > Are you using the tarball, or checking out the head from git? > Hi Mark I used the 0.9.5 tarball and the ntpsec-master zip-file from github. /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] rsync like function need
by Greg Freemyer 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

I should know this, but .. I'm moving hundreds of thousands of files from USB drives to a new destination drive. I've used rsync to make a copy of the files which is great. But I need to ensure all the files are exact copies. I don't think rsync has a "hash destination and report disagreements with source" feature. Is there a tool for doing that? fyi: I have a windows cmd line tool for doing this, but I'd rather work in linux. 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] copying rip'ed CD music to USB stick with vfat
by Per Jessen 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

I have a USB stick (thumbnail size) for the car, I rip CD's and copy them over. Every now and then, the copy will fail with error messages that appear to be related to the character sets and such: cp: cannot create directory ‘Pet Shop Boys - Discography: The Complete Singles Collection’: Invalid argument rsync: mkstemp "/var/run/media/per/BBC2-DF04/.06 - What Have I Done To Deserve This?.mp3.7myEiY" failed: Invalid argument (22) rsync: mkstemp "/var/run/media/per/BBC2-DF04/.18 - Was It Worth It?.mp3.Hbf1LV" failed: Invalid argument (22) cp: cannot create regular file ‘10 - Fughetta "In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr".mp3’: Invalid argument Apparently '?', ':' and '"' are all causing a problem. I've googled it some and read a few pages about how to mount the usb stick with the right codepage and charset .... it's been so long since I've had to dabble with codepages and charsets .... Here is what I would like to do - pop in a CD, crank up k3b, rip the contents into a folder <name-of-cd>, copy that folder to the usb stick (already mounted). On my laptop, the USB is typically mounted like this: /dev/sdb1 on /var/run/media/per/BBC2-DF04 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro) All suggestions and insight most welcome. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.8°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental 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] Printer Reboot Loop
by John Andersen 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

Just saw this on El Reg site http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/07/epson_printers_in_reset_loops/ Just FYI.... -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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