March 2016 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] can you help me encrypt my laptop?
by Daniel Bauer 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

Hello, I'd like to have a fully encrypted laptop (all except /boot/ , incl. / and swap) with leap 42.1. The Installer doesn't let me encrypt / (when clicking "encrypt" a message says it's not possible to encrypt / ) I know there is a possibility to use an LVM (I'd have to update my forgotten knowledge, though :-) ), BUT - my system / will be on a SSD, while the rest (/home) will be on a normal HD. As far as my searches showed me, it is not an intelligent choice to put an SSD and a normal HD in an LVM... My notes about encrypting a system using Luks are outdated from 2008, when no UEFI, no secure-boot and no GRUB2 existed... I don't know, if boot.crypto still would works, and then I don't know how to tell GRUB2 to use the new initrd that was created during the encryption-process... ( My old procedure was in short: - Install system on the disk where later /home will be - make /home where later / will be - encrypt the now /home and move the system there - encrypt the now / - making crypttab entries and adjust fstab - make a new initrd - tell Grub to use root=dev/mapper/root ) but times have changed... Google did not help me :-( Can you help me to achieve my goal (have unencrypted /boot and encrypted system on SSD and encrypted /home and /swap on HD with only one passphrase at boot)? Thanks for hints, links to uptodate-how-to's... Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com room in Barcelona: https://www.airbnb.es/rooms/2416137 -- 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] Speedtest.net no longer works with Firefox
by James Knott 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

I occasionally check out my Internet connection with speedtest.net. However, recently that site no longer works with Firefox. However, it still works with Chromium and Seamonkey. There was a recent update to Firefox, which I suspect may have caused the problem. Has anyone else noticed this? -- 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] possible to revert all packages from repo X to standard repos without access to X?
by Felix Miata 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

I thought I asked this lately, but cannot find any evidence that I did. I have a 13.1 installation that had had X11:XOrg enabled and dup'd to that I want to revert all packages from. None seem to have dependencies to trigger other packages to revert as well, so each seems to need to be be searched first by name, then by version, and only then removed by typing in complete package name, and there are a lot of them, taking more than minute each to remove this way. I don't see but one x11 pattern that might have facilitated this. Since X is too broken to use, YaST2 isn't available, and yast seems too unwieldy for this purpose as well. Surely there must be some easier way to get "System Packages" from X11:XOrg replaced by currently available versions, no? -- "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] Installation report - Zotac Zbox CI323 nano
by Per Jessen 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

For my mythtv livingroom client, I've played with a Minix Neo x7, and an Intel Compute Stick. Both were nice, but in the end I gave in and bought a mini-PC barebone. First phase of installation went fine, I installed over pxe+ssh+http onto a 16Gb micro SD card. I think it took about an hour. Second phase, i.e. the first boot-up, went less well. I'm still investigating, but I suspect the initrd did not include support for the SD card reader, so root couldn't be mounted. I've been trying to get dracut to include the right modules, not much luck sofar. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (6.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, 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] Re: installing the proprietary nvidia drivers (was: MSI GE72 2QC Apache with Nvidia GTX960 ...)
by Per Jessen 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Oszkc3b3 Albert wrote: > Opensuse's SDB says Nvidia linux drivers work "flawlessly" with > Leap and installation is "trivial". Well, it is not. First one has to > install gcc, kernel-sources and kernel-devel, but it is not a big > deal. But at the end of installation Nvidia tells you that it could > not symlink to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 and two other files because they > exist. And it is right. I tried to delete them, but it still insists > that those files exist. I went through the exercise on my Leap desktop machine, I don't recall any such issues. Maybe because I needed an older nvidia driver. Your description "it could not symlink to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 and two other files because they exist." doesn't sound correct - are you sure that's what it says? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.2°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] VLC
by Dave Howorth 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

I've recently installed Leap and VLC with it, but it's refusing to play a video. I went looking for codecs and am becoming even more confused. There seem to be several possible sources and dire warnings not to mix sources. And advice on different pages differs. Is there an authoritative page that explains what the options are for installing VLC on Leap and where to get all the codecs? 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] virtualbox
by Ruben Safir 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

When I run virtualbox it asked me to run an init script that doesn't exist. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 -- 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] puzzle of the week - any ntp experts out there?
by Per Jessen 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

This one's amusing (well, it depends) - I've been playing with ntp multicast on ipv6 for a while. It works very well (on ff05::101), but today I noticed a tiny difference: An ntp client (A) that uses the ipv6 multicast: # ntpq -pn remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== *fe80::202:a5ff: 192.168.2.254 2 m 12 16 376 -0.388 -23.481 2.378 An ntp client (B) that is configured as ipv4 broadcastclient: # ntpq -pn remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== *192.168.2.137 .DCFa. 1 u 13 16 376 0.266 0.026 0.283 The time server (192.168.2.137,192.168.2.254) has a DCF77 receiver, and is stratum 1. Notice the _refid_. The question is - why does (B) see the time server as stratum 1, when (A) sees it as stratum 2? Here it is quite clear, the ipv4 connection is preferred over the ipv6 multicast: # ntpq -pn remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== *192.168.2.254 .DCFa. 1 u 245 256 377 0.378 6.466 1.371 xfe80::202:a5ff: 192.168.2.254 2 m 4 16 377 0.288 117.385 0.458 I know this would be better asked on the ntp list, but still :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (6.9°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] "Restore previous session" doesn't
by Robin Klitscher 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

This is a 64-bit desktop machine using KDE in Leap 42.1. Video is nVidia GEForce GTX 670, nVidia proprietary driver version 361.26 installed "the hard way". KDE Plasma version is 5.5.95; KDE Frameworks is 5.20.0; Qt version 5.5.1; kernel 41.1.15-8-default. Desktop effects is active; compositor rendering backend OpenGL 3.1 I like to use the "Restore previous session" setting on login. Typically the "previous session" would include applications Thunderbird, Akregator and Knode. Until recently this all behaved well, with the applications opening on login as advertised. But, since an update to Plasma a few days ago, it hasn't worked well in the case of Thunderbird specifically. Akregator and Knode continue to startup on login as expected, but Thunderbird doesn't, and I have to start it manually. That's no big deal, but I'd like to understand why. I don't know if it's relevant, but in .xsession-errors:0 I get things like this: QUOTE kdeinit5: Got EXT_EXEC '/usr/bin/thunderbird' from launcher. kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/bin/thunderbird' QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 3680, resource id: 123731968, major code: 18 UNQUOTE but, even it that's relevant, it's 'way past my ability to interpret. Can anyone guide me, please, to a solution for this? There's another point that might or might not be related. Hitherto I'd been using a desktop scheme titled "Tragedy" - and had done so for years through a number of previous iterations of openSUSE and KDE. I believe it was/is a KDE4 package that might not have been updated for Plasma 5 etc. But it ran OK under Leap 42.1/KDE"5" until I applied the above-mentioned Plasma update, since when it hasn't worked. So, is there anything I can do about either or both of these matters, it, or are the (apparent) regressions simply a part of the march of progress? [In respect of the Thunderbird session start problem, I should perhaps add that I've tried disabling the "Tragedy" desktop scheme and selecting the default "Breeze" scheme, but it didn't help.] -- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand -- 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] download.opensuse.org download speed degradation
by Marco 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hello. Is anyone else experiencing a major performance degradation with download.opensuse.org, independently from the IP returned by the DNS? In this days I never get more than 10KiB/s. Tnx Marco dig examples: > dig download.opensuse.org ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-rpz2+rl.14038.05-P1 <<>> download.opensuse.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11713 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 4 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;download.opensuse.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: download.opensuse.org. 22 IN A 195.135.221.134 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: opensuse.org. 82362 IN NS nsprv2.novell.com. opensuse.org. 82362 IN NS nsprv1.novell.com. opensuse.org. 82362 IN NS nshou1.novell.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: nshou1.novell.com. 54 IN A 69.7.179.47 nsprv1.novell.com. 25031 IN A 130.57.1.2 nsprv2.novell.com. 25031 IN A 130.57.2.4 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Wed Mar 16 17:40:50 CET 2016 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 187 > dig opensuse.org ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-rpz2+rl.14038.05-P1 <<>> opensuse.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38191 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;opensuse.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: opensuse.org. 466 IN A 130.57.5.70 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: opensuse.org. 81342 IN NS nsprv1.novell.com. opensuse.org. 81342 IN NS nshou1.novell.com. opensuse.org. 81342 IN NS nsprv2.novell.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: nsprv1.novell.com. 24011 IN A 130.57.1.2 nsprv2.novell.com. 24011 IN A 130.57.2.4 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Wed Mar 16 17:57:50 CET 2016 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 162 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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