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[opensuse] Which distros for ReiserFS?
by Stevens 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

On the odd chance that I was ignored for possibly hijacking a thread, I shall start a new one but copy and paste my comments in hope of an answer: (re: Killing ReiserFS) I have been following this thread with some interest because of having been running ReiserFS since before he turned homicidal. I have had zero, count that ZERO, problems in all that time so I read with some dismay the effort to actively kill its usage in this whatever-you-call-it distro. I think that the more relevant question to ask is not "can we keep this file system around, pretty please" but "what distros are allowing its use by not actively trying to kill it"? I have used opensuse since before Mandrake went away, which has been a while and, although I don't really want to change distros, I am not married to suse (or leap, or whatever). I feel that what we have here with opensuse/leap is an example of the classic "swing" cartoon which shows the stages of project development from sales, engineering, installation and what the customer actually wanted. My need is not as complex as some and for that ReiserFS works quite well. So, my question remains, "If not suse/leap, then who"? Hopefully someone will know what distros allow the freedom to use whichever FS one wishes without running afoul of the FS nazis. -- 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] Package search web page does not work for me
by Carlos E. R. 15 Feb '18

15 Feb '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I go to: <https://software.opensuse.org/search> and search for any package, say "meld". I get a list of hits. I click on one: meld Visual diff and merge tool Show 1 Development packages and I get this error: <https://software.opensuse.org/package/meld> Error :codecs is not a valid locale I have been getting that error for some days. However, on a new user I don't get any error, it works. I do not have "codecs" as locale: cer@Telcontar:~> set | grep codec __git_mergetools_common=$'diffuse diffmerge ecmerge emerge kdiff3 meld opendiff\n\t\t\ttkdiff vimdiff gvimdiff xxdiff araxis p4merge bc codecompare\n' cer@Telcontar:~> locale | grep codec cer@Telcontar:~> - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAln06z8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U3lgCgjdg/rLggwxeTlT1Dh2qaCp03 bocAn3DlEbzUMiMOhh0uvItf/j6c/7Z7 =vPYi -----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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[opensuse] IPv6 Rogue Router Security Issue
by Lew Wolfgang 30 Dec '17

30 Dec '17

Hi Folks, There seems to be a flurry of IPv6 talk going on, maybe this is time for me to bring up the rogue router problem again? I asked about this a couple of times over the years but could never find anyone to comment on it. First, here's the RFC that describes the problem: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6104 Rogue routers have affected me personally at a customer's site. This is a large, professionally managed, dual-stacked network with a number of v4 class B addresses and thousands of hosts. Subnets seem to be /20 CIDR in size, so there are plenty of "neighbors" on any given subnet. I've encountered the situation where misconfigured Windows systems will advertise themselves as an IPv6 router. They then happily accept traffic and drop it all silently on the floor. This problem doesn't seem to bother other Windows boxes too much, but it absolutely kills SSH connections. SSH preferentially tries IPv6 port 22, which when sent to a dumb Windows box results in very long hangups and connection failures. My workaround for my cohort of Linux desktops and servers was to disable IPv6 for both ssh and sshd. This will work for as long as the host network supports dual stacks, but eventually? Then there's the issue of intentional MITM attacks using this vector. If a bad actor has physical access to a subnet, or has compromised a host on that subnet, your goose is cooked. This link mentions some mitigations, but they're quite technical and may require hardware support. https://community.infoblox.com/t5/IPv6-Center-of-Excellence/Holding-IPv6-Ne… So, what is the threat to a home IPv6 user who has WiFi and an Internet of Things with minimal/non-existent security? I personally feel safer behind a nice natted IPv4 firewall with ACL rules between my copper and WiFi subnets. I just feel that I have more control of the situation with a simpler network. Has SUSE addressed this issue? Tell me I don't have to worry about it! Regards, Lew -- 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] "su -" problem.
by Carlos E. R. 23 Dec '17

23 Dec '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is a problem I hit on some computers only. I "su -" from my normal user on a terminal under xfce. Then I try to start any graphical tool, and it fails: ~# xeyes Error: can't open display ~# If I instead use "ssh -X root@localhost" it usually works. This has happened to me on several computers along several years - but not all of them. Ideas? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlogj6sACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W+eQCePRN8ptUoc5at81qylidoR24J jhQAn0WnS3dm/5NxStrZJ+xnR+6YxlV3 =ZTC2 -----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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[opensuse] Get an SSD just for swap?
by Mikhail Ramendik 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

Hello, I have a 8Gb Pengium G2120 system with a normal WD Red 3 TB hard drive. Most of the time it actually does what I want just fine. Unfortunately, sometimes it starts to swap and then becomes very slow immediately. I tried reducing swappiness to 10, now it starts to swap in less cases - but when it does it basically hangs for a few minutes. I can't afford a full upgrade (CPU. Mobo, RAM), especially with current RAM prices. And I am not sure I should spend money on more DDR3 RAM now, especially since I am not exactly sure if what I have is DDR3 or DDR3L and how new additional RAM will affect the system. So I wonder - would it help to get a small (16-32G) SATA SSD and use it just for swapping? As this is for swap only, I can get a cheap SSD (if it breaks I just lose one session). I can get a 32Gb SSD for about 25 Euro, while an extra 8GB of RAM would apparently set me back more like 50 Euro. But will this work? -- 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] Big memory footprint: clamd
by Carlos E. R. 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When I built my computer I put as much RAM as the board would allow, 8GiB. Today that is too little, but I can't add more. Telling 'mc' to sort by Resident memory, it shows: top - 22:44:32 up 28 days, 4:37, 4 users, load average: 0,26, 0,55, 1,02 Tasks: 521 total, 2 running, 517 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie %Cpu(s): 1,2 us, 0,6 sy, 0,0 ni, 97,3 id, 0,8 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem: 8174408 total, 7511580 used, 662828 free, 546440 buffers KiB Swap: 43744244 total, 1921984 used, 41822260 free. 3837656 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 20581 cer 20 0 3553104 1,266g 263636 0 R 4,088 16,24 3:52.94 firefox 3493 vscan 20 0 1376180 536972 10364 14548 S 0,000 6,569 11:27.15 clamd 19773 cer 20 0 1452508 309508 141740 0 S 0,000 3,786 0:05.72 soffice.bin 3874 root 20 0 1090892 226564 154380 217968 S 0,798 2,772 182:22.08 X 31344 cer 20 0 206044 87728 7404 1664 S 0,000 1,073 1:55.04 alpine 4176 cer 20 0 748016 56796 21004 17136 S 0,000 0,695 2:56.67 xfdesktop 20088 cer 20 0 829220 53820 4596 0 S 0,000 0,658 0:02.04 gnome-software 9835 cer 20 0 784100 40604 17784 36520 S 0,100 0,497 1:46.40 gnote 4207 cer 20 0 891040 38988 22504 18136 S 0,000 0,477 0:32.57 keepassxc ... The worst offender this moment is Firefox (Thunderbird is closed now). But the next is clamd (clamav, antivirus mail scanner daemon)! It is using more than LibreOffice! How can that be? It is iddle at the moment, doing nothing. What can be done to reduce its footprint? Instead of the daemon, I could call it from amavis, one process per mail. But this impacts scan speed. Could the daemon be started "on demand", and be killed a minute after the last email goes through? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlmGMxIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UeCgCeNA+LGMhfhjS84U4h7EeEwlbT RhkAoIldf2vOQVms3CwHLc87ybN7vVDs =KoWk -----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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[opensuse] preempt rt and Leap 42.3 kernel
by Roger Oberholtzer 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

I think there was a discussion about this a while back. But I'm just checking the current consensus. The Leap 42.3 kernel seems not to have the PREEMPT_RT patches applied. Or at least I do not see it in uname -a. Is this correct? I recall that there was some discussion that concluded that the default Linux kernel has most of this as standard, so the patch was no longer needed. Is that the case? -- Roger Oberholtzer -- 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] Again, trying to find a suitable video editor.
by Carlos E. R. 02 Dec '17

02 Dec '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I simply can't find a suitable video editor that works. My goal is to extract the interesting parts of a TV recording. Ie, mark the start of the movie, the end, the commercials inside, and dump all that into a single file, perhaps recoding. One limitation is that movies here have two sound tracks, one in Spanish, and the other one in the original language, typically English. I want to keep both, obviously. I don't need any transition or effect, just a simple editor that allows me to remove unwanted sections. I have tried: pitivi - crashes on start LiVES - works for an hour at 100% CPU and can't load the file. dvbcut - says my mpeg file is not a video (and it certainly is!) tragtor - can convert, but not edit. openshot - almost. My video has two sound tracks, and this tool ignores the second track. cinelerra-cv - I can't make head or tails of it. I tell it to load a video file, it does, but then I don't see how to do anything. It doesn't even display the video. I may have to read the manual, but I dislike having to read a manual for a GUI. Still... kdenlive - Well... crashes too often. I can mark the cuts, but it does not display what I'm cutting. And only one sound track. HandBrake - no edit. Avidemux - one sound track only. Kino - abandonware. Lightworks ?? Shotcut - Segmentation fault on start. cer@Telcontar:~/Videos/Fusion/trabajo> shotcut QSqlDatabase: QSQLITE driver not loaded QSqlDatabase: available drivers: QMYSQL QMYSQL3 QSqlQuery::exec: database not open QSqlQuery::exec: database not open Database::Database(QObject*) Failed to get version. QSqlQuery::exec: database not open bool Database::upgradeVersion1() Failed to create thumbnails table. Database version is 0 Segmentation fault cer@Telcontar:~/Videos/Fusion/trabajo> Flowblade ?? I don't understand the tool. May need some reading. At least it runs. I would like something that would produce a command line to ffmpeg in a GUI. Then I could modify further the options. This would be ideal. tragtor works this way, but has no editor. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbbJ80ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UmagCeK8UbAAz5/lAjBvscdhzBuxtb WUQAn2jmzoy7810hldN4WwVWQktgVp2g =muqW -----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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[opensuse] conflict between nut and apcupsd - really?
by Peter Suetterlin 02 Dec '17

02 Dec '17

Hi list, it seems nut and apcupsd refuse to be installed at the same time. The nut package lists a conflict with apcupsd, apcupsd itself seems not to care. This is strange, as I cannot find a real collision between the two packages? Digging into this 'conflict' I found a notice on the debian list that nut needs to conflict with apcupsd because both use /etc/init.d/ups-monitor. Now that is somewhat ridiculous in itself (rather rename init scripts or use alternatives I'd say), but for recent OS systems the file isn't there at all and all systemd stuff seems to use 'personalized' commands. So is - as I assume - this collision only a historical one that should be removed? I really want both installed, not for monitoring, but for maintainance of UPSes (we have many, of various brands, and nut does not support all commands on APC units...) Still googling around to find out how to override that conflict. Is there one, or do I have to unpack the rpm manually and install it without knowledge of the packet manager? Pit -- 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] systemctl stop graphical.target
by Richmond 02 Dec '17

02 Dec '17

If I can start X with: systemctl start graphical.target should I not also be able to stop it again with: systemctl stop graphical.target ? I have found this leaves the system unusable with no virtual console or graphical interface, so I have to reboot. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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