October 2017 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Evolution default browser
by Christopher Myers 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, I've got Evolution installed on oS Tumbleweed using KDE, and for some reason, it doesn't respect the fact that Firefox is my default browser - -- every link I try to click on opens in Chromium. Is there any way to change things around? I didn't see any option in the configuration for browser choice. I've googled around on and off for a couple of days now and haven't found anything useful. Thanks! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEE7GM/Dul8WSWn72odQ1nEo4DFCIUFAlm6k/QACgkQQ1nEo4DF CIWfBgf+K9LYvaYDDFUMJtRTMq+58e2lEP5GkXi7dKQhxhFkeKegwqnyo+fEfpvb RI1FT2aJAqBKsIZ5oZlxsGeJYcmp/+JO7AJ6Oa8XkWz02rmhgXjKPxqQgzQX87FM rNGqxOLXfcKu+CmcMERZswTQ/B/ZtA82eUls6Y5W7lIh2tAUbt2CnFP/6q5uM4wl pO2KNbcVJTTM2uEPSzEIBCQ/7jfZ9ogF+qIClPkn1UCmu3EqkLAhS+cdKzzJs+Cx pXyosNImtxW4FMl6W+m2NS08RCc69+U3Myr9aDe8q8/2fnM/HYApeezDsIpKkdnO t2Nr2WaxarbwUyqt15vTiNs0Q229jg== =joxc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] pdftk exists in suse?
by ken 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Is there an app called pdftk for suse? I know there are many apps to handle PDFs, but this one is unique in its capabilities... I haven't found another which can do all the same things. -- 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] Yast segmentation fault on several installs of 42.3
by andreil1 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi, I have several installs of Leap 42.3, and almost all of them have the same problem with yast2 - launching it results in: /sbin/ast2: line 447: 30273 segmentation fault (core dumped) $y2ccbin $Y2UI_ARGS “$@“ However, yast2 —gtk works just fine. No updates from repositories really helps. Anyone know how to fix this issue ? Thanks in advance. -- 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] Unstable wifi on 42.2
by Mikhail Ramendik 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hello, I have Leap 42.2. After some update relatively recently (or possibly after a change of VDSL provider and therefore of access point/router) wifi became unstable. It is an old-ish 2.4 GHz card that uses the rt2800pci driver. It is working, but after some time, pings to the access point/router become very slow (up to 3 seconds!) and packet loss appears. Network connectivity is noticeably flaky (slow loads, extrtemely laggy games, etc). The output of the dmesg command contains the following kind of messages periodically: [ 8488.700135] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: [ 8488.700139] cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset [ 8488.700140] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time) [ 8488.700141] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) [ 8488.700142] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz, 92000 KHz AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) [ 8488.700143] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) [ 8488.700144] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz, 160000 KHz AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) [ 8488.700145] cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 80000 KHz, 160000 KHz AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (0 s) [ 8488.700146] cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5730000 KHz @ 160000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (0 s) [ 8488.700147] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) [ 8488.700147] cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 0 mBm), (N/A) [ 8489.835461] wlan0: authenticate with 70:50:af:cc:3b:02 [ 8489.851029] wlan0: send auth to 70:50:af:cc:3b:02 (try 1/3) [ 8489.853331] wlan0: authenticated [ 8489.854916] wlan0: associate with 70:50:af:cc:3b:02 (try 1/3) [ 8489.858363] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 70:50:af:cc:3b:02 (capab=0x1411 status=0 aid=2) [ 8489.858433] wlan0: associated [ 8490.006569] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:0e:2e:e5:df:23:70:50:af:cc:3b:01:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=192.168.1.10 LEN=308 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x0 0 TTL=64 ID=0 PROTO=UDP SPT=67 DPT=68 LEN=288 What can I do to fix or diagnose this? -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- 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] openSUSE merits a better home page
by Roger Price 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

openSUSE merits a better home page than the current one [https://www.opensuse.org/] A recent article in Linux.com [4] explains << Initially openSUSE’s mission statement was to “encourage use of Linux & Open Source everywhere.” But, that’s no longer the heart and soul of openSUSE. OpenSUSE has evolved beyond just a Linux distribution project. They now cater to a totally different audience -- developers and sysadmins. So, openSUSE board members drafted a new mission statement: “Openly engineered tools to change your world.” ... >> << “... What we do essentially is engineering - we help in building packages, we help in testing and we help in delivering them. We care about the process.” said Brown. “At the same time everything that we do is a tool, OpenQA is a testing tool, OBS is a packaging tool, YaST is system management tool, even our distributions Leap and Tumbleweed are tools.” >> Now that openSUSE recognizes that it's main audience is a world of developers and sysadmins, the home page should show this with a style suitable for developers and sysadmins. The home page should be precise and unashamedly technical with just sufficient graphics; no twirling logos, no large pastel coloured rectangles. The home page should also be a tool, providing a crisp statement from the Chairman of the Board on why openSUSE+Yast is the best distribution of them all, and clear links to all the other tools from the top of the page. See Debian [1], DNS24 [2] and openBSD [3] for succinct examples of what can be done. Roger [1] http://www.debian.org [2] http://www.dns24.ch [3] https://www.openbsd.org/ [4] https://www.linux.com/blog/event/open-source-summit-na/2017/6/opensuse-leap…

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[opensuse] Synchronization of notes
by Vojtěch Zeisek 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi, I'm looking for a way how to synchronize notes. So far I have been using KDE Basket. It is very nice application, but it has no support for syncing. My requirements are: 1) Running in sys tray of openSUSE with KDE (not necessarily KDE application). 2) Synchronization over custom server (I have SFTP, ownCloud, ...). So no solution provided by private company. 3) App available for Sailfish OS and Android (well, Sailfish can run Android apps, but native Sailfish app is better). 4) Web interface is not required, but nice. 5) Fully FOSS solution. 6) Having multiple notes, group them, and so. Rich text is not required. ownCloud offers in its app store several note apps. Does anyone have recommendations which to use? I'm bit confused by high number of them... QOwnNotes http://www.qownnotes.org/ also looks promising, but I'd like to hear some experience before trying to deploy it (or something similar). V. -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/ https://trapa.cz/

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[opensuse] These packages need to be selected to install: grub2
by Per Jessen 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

I think this is the first straight installation I've done of 42.3, everything else has been an upgrade. I noticed this in the installatrion summary: Software │ │These packages need to be selected to install: grub2 │Please manually select the needed items to install. Not sure what to make of it. I don't need grub2. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.8°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] mcelog: CPU 6 on socket 1 received Bus and Interconnect Errors in Other-transaction
by mh＠mike.franken.de 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Hi *, on my main server after a cold boot I see the following messages in my journal: ... kernel: mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 6: Machine Check: 0 Bank 20: c8012a4000200e0f kernel: mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 mce: MISC 800000 mce: kernel: mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:306f2 TIME 1508767394 SOCKET 1 APIC 10 microcode 36 mcelog[2635]: CPU 6 on socket 1 received Bus and Interconnect Errors in Other-transaction mcelog[2636]: Location: CPU 6 on socket 1 ... systemd[1]: Starting Machine Check Exception Logging Daemon... systemd[1]: Started Machine Check Exception Logging Daemon. mcelog[2628]: Hardware event. This is not a software error. mcelog[2628]: MCE 0 mcelog[2628]: CPU 6 BANK 20 mcelog[2628]: MISC 800000 mcelog[2628]: TIME 1508767394 Mon Oct 23 16:03:14 2017 mcelog[2628]: MCG status: mcelog[2628]: MCi status: mcelog[2628]: Error overflow mcelog[2628]: Corrected error mcelog[2628]: MCi_MISC register valid mcelog[2628]: MCA: BUS error: 1 6 Level-3 Generic Generic Other-transaction Request-did-not-timeout mcelog[2628]: Running trigger `bus-error-trigger' mcelog[2628]: QPI: mcelog[2628]: Intel QPI physical layer detected a QPI in-band reset but aborted initialization mcelog[2628]: STATUS c8012a4000200e0f MCGSTATUS 0 mcelog[2628]: MCGCAP 7000c16 APICID 10 SOCKETID 1 mcelog[2628]: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 63 mcelog[2628]: <27>Oct 23 16:04:47 mcelog: CPU 6 on socket 1 received Bus and Interconnect Errors in Other-transaction mcelog[2628]: <27>Oct 23 16:04:47 mcelog: Location: CPU 6 on socket 1 ... This is with kernel 4.4.90-28 on openSuSE Leap 42.3, but after checking older journal entries I saw, that it also happened with 4.4.87-25. Machine specs: - Supermicro X10DRi/X10DRi, BIOS 2.0 12/28/2015 - 2 x 6 core CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz - 128 GB RAM The error does not happen when restarting the os, only after a cold boot of the machine. I couldn't find appropriate information on the net. Is cpu 1 damaged? Can I do anything to correct the problem - or just ignore it? -- Michael Hirmke -- 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] leap42.3 as xen host - wants to install gtk3 ?
by Per Jessen 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

I'm installing leap423 for testing as a xen host. I get gtk3 stuff installed?? For instance: gtk3-immodule-amharic gtk3-immodule-inuktitut gtk3-immodule-thai gtk3-immodule-vietnamese more gtk3 stuff Trying to remove gtk3-data tells me: libgtk-3-0-3.20.10-9.1.x86_64 is needed, trying to remove that: qemu-x86-2.9.0-32.4.x86_64 needs libgtk ?? I guess the latter is fine, but overall the installation drags a few unneeded gtk3 packages along too. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.1°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, 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] LTFS [was Re: Large Data Backups?]
by Greg Freemyer 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:36 AM, Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang(a)sweet-haven.com> wrote: > On 10/30/2017 01:30 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: >> >> Are you familiar with LTFS which LTO has supported since 2010 or so: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_File_System#Nature > > > Thanks for the pointer, Greg. I don't recall hearing about LTFS I've never used, but I know a world class tape expert. He is using it for data archiving, but not daily backups. If you have 10 thousand plus tapes you want to retire from your enterprise, watch this video: http://www.sullivanstrickler.com/invenire.html One thing he does is migrate the data from legacy tapes to new generation LTO. LTFS is part of his solution. I did some reading/questioning. >> >> You use your library to make a full copy of the filesystem, then as >> files change, you write them to the tape via LTFS. >> >> Unfortunately, that's all I know about LTFS. Questions you need to >> answer: >> >> - Does openSUSE (or your OS of choice) have support > > > Looks like its available on SLES. It also looks easy to compile youself. >> >> - Does it provide point in time recovery. Or are you stuck with only >> the latest version of files. > > > I think you're stuck with the latest versions. Agreed, but surprised. >> >> - What happens when a file in primary storage is deleted? > > > The blocks are marked "unavailable" and the space not reclaimed. Deletion indeed seems to make the file inaccessible. Strange to me for what I assumed was part of a backup solution. > > I've been using rdiff-backup for years. It works well for on-line > backups. It maintains a complete current image of the source filesystem, > and calculates past point-restores as diffs. I run it on a daily basis > and couldn't do without it now. I can restore with one day granularity > going back for as many days as I've allowed. I usually trim it at 30-days. > but it could archive for years. But I don't know how to use it with tape. [I used to use rdiff-backup years ago. Replaced it with spideroak.] That seems to be the point of LTFS. It allows solutions like rdiff-backup to write to tape without modification. It presents a filesystem interface to rdiff-backup and translates that into tape commands on the backend. LTFS seems to work best with large files. rdiff-backup makes no effort to consolidate small files, but if your files being backed up, it should perform well. Next question: With a large dataset will a single LTFS filesystem span a tapeset? Are libraries supported? > Regards, > Lew I may have to buy an older generation LTO (5? 6?) and library myself if the tape library aspect works. I have 50 TB of large files I archive to a NAS. The NAS is awkward at times. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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