November 2017 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] network change, name resolving and nscd
by Peter Suetterlin 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Hi list, I noticed a really weird behavior of my laptop, running TW: I regularly switch it between work and home network, I suspend the laptop, move to home/work, wand resume there in the new network. In both cases I use the wired eth0 interface, in both networks address and routers/nameservers are assigned via dhcp. Now, especially when I get to work after having run at home for a while, I experience a delay in name resolving. If I ping a machine, even in the same network as the laptop, it takes 2-3s before the pigs start. It is not a slow nameserver - a nslookup host immediately gives me the correct answer. Still just using the hostname for commands like ping (but also ssh) results in the mentioned delay. The culprit seems nscd, because if I restart it, name resolving is immediately OK again. I tried to figure out *what* nscd is doing in theis few seconds, but didn't get anywhere. While I can of course restart nscd manually each time, I wonder if this is a bug I should report, or if I'm doing something wrong (but what?)... Has someone seen similar hangs after a network change? 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] SOT: fetchmail and AOL's SSL mail
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

While I was on vacation, my wife's AOL account switched to mandatory SSL e-mail. It's taken me several hours of Googling and fiddling to find something that works. The non-obvious key was to specify SSL, not SSLPROTO. The first few lines of .fetchmailrc needs to look something like this: poll pop.aol.com with proto POP3 service pop3s user 'AOL_username' there with password 'AOL_PASSWORD' ssl is I'm posting here because it is the only place I have OT access to that Google and probably other search engines will index. SSLPROTO 'TLS1' does not work. Perhaps another SSL protocol would. I see no reason to override AOL's first choice. Jeffrey -- 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 42.3 with 3 media plus 3 media Addon?
by Markus Egg 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Hello, from https://software.opensuse.org/find I came to https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Leap:/42.3/images/repo/ and there I see: [DIR] openSUSE-42.3-x86_64-Build0065-Media1/ 08-Feb-2017 17:32 [DIR] openSUSE-42.3-x86_64-Build0065-Media2/ 08-Feb-2017 17:32 [DIR] openSUSE-42.3-x86_64-Build0065-Media3/ 08-Feb-2017 17:33 [DIR] openSUSE-Addon-NonOss-FTP-x86_64-Build0082-Media1/ 17-Jul-2017 16:11 [DIR] openSUSE-Addon-NonOss-FTP-x86_64-Build0082-Media2/ 17-Jul-2017 16:11 [DIR] openSUSE-Addon-NonOss-FTP-x86_64-Build0082-Media3/ 17-Jul-2017 16:11 Are the 3 media containing all of SuSE 42.3 so that I never have to connect to internet for installing various repos which are not on the official single DVD? Also the 3 media for the Addon stuff? 6 DVDs -to get it all- would be very nice. ;-) BR -- 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 42.3 suddenly doesnt assign ipv4 default route via dhcpv4 any more?
by cagsm 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

Hi there, today I was called to figure out what network trouble there was going on. Turns out that a 42.3 leap installation configured for dhcp v4, was getting its address but wasnt getting a default route at all. route -n shows only the local lan ipv6 route is there The only stuff I can think of right now is this recent yast network update. I have rebooted the leap machine several times and I even checked # wicked check dhcp4 eth0 or that command it fetches the dhcp information nicely and in there are the gateways and route shown, but the network stack from the actual wicked stack running doesnt assign or use this gateway info What happened? Is anyone else having trouble with dhcp4 on a simple lan? this is like very basic stuff, wondering if its again me messing stuff up, although I cant remember anything :( Thanks for helping. -- 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] OT: Strange Idea Proof of Concept
by Paul Groves 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

Someone said to me the other day that it is possible to convert a linux install ISO, such as openSUSE, Fedora or Ubuntu and put it on floppy disks to install from directly with no CD. Of course it would be very impractical and also would use many floppies. But then perhaps it could be useful for some uses (although I could not imagine any). Now personally I have a few floppies with PLOP bootloader on them. I haven't used them for a while but occasionally I will come across a computer with a botched CD drive or the USB ports will not work in the BIOS so it is useful to boot to PLOP then choose the linux USB or CD. However, I was quite intrigued by this floppy idea and thought it would be a good proof of concept. What ways are there that one would could use to achieve 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] MythTV
by Carlos E. R. 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, How does one go about installing mytthv in a single machine? I set to install: mythtv-0_27-frontend - Client component of mythtv (a DVR) Then: mythtv-backend - Server component of mythtv (a DVR) and it wants to remove the front end... What packages are really needed? I want to see already existing files in that computer, there is not TV card. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlocCbcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Xj9QCfUwPoXjHaQAmMhhDO4M/ya71g eiIAn3NBIdcumpp/Q4vKbhl0lY5tEM8S =9Hqz -----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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Re: [opensuse] Get an SSD just for swap?
by Anton Aylward 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

On 26/11/17 10:34 PM, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > On 27 November 2017 at 01:48, Anton Aylward <opensuse(a)antonaylward.com> > wrote: >> In those circumstances I'd go for more memory first. late model Linux >> doesn't have a hard boundary between buffer space and program space any >> more, so it figures out where best to use the memory according to >> circumstances. > > Well, the issue is that DDR3 SDRAM is still pretty expensive. Trust me: It is a good deal cheaper than DDR2 (which is cheaper than DDR which is cheaper than PC-100 that is in my under-desk HP appliance firewall running IPCop). > And then I will have to get rid of it in a year or three when I finally have > to upgrade the CPU, as newer CPUs all use DDR4. So? Then grit your teeth and save the money for that day. (What is it with this younger generation that won't face austerity in the now for a better life in the future: see various articles in New Yorker, The Atlantic and Walrus bemoaning this.) I mean, heck, it's not as if you're like Grandma, saving for a rainy day that never comes. You have a definite plan in mind, a definite objective. And DDR4 memory is going to be cheaper than DDR3 (which is .... etc etc) > You describe the causes correctly, Web content in Firefox or Chrome eats RAM > quickly, and if I add some other heavy app the swap-fest starts. According > to top, all of RAM and just a couple gigabytes of swap are used, so, yes, an > extra 8Gb would resolve the issue, but I am reluctant to spend this money. What I'm doing is working on aggressively reducing the number of tabs in Firefox and organizing my bookmarks. I realise this doesn't help with some of the enormous spreadsheets, perhaps I can find a strategy there. Documents can be "chapter-ized", so to speak. Mind maps, Freeplane, well for a start there's the Java interrupter. But the developer says he's working on a library that makes better use of multi-core capability. I don't know if that will be more or less memory hungry. Ultimately, I suppose, it is the interpreter from Oracle that is the limiting feature and they tend to be a memory hungry bunch of <deleted>. >> I don't know how to track this kind of problem for bug reporting. > > Seeing as it happens in both Firefox and Chrome for me, I am not sure it can > even be accepted as a valid bug. When it gets to hang the machine to a point where the mouse doesn't respond, where you can't even hot-key into a TTY, then I think it is a bit more than memory consumption and a high load factor. I have a very large swap area, thank you LVM, and have gone off for a coffee break and read the news on my phone and come back and the machine is still hung. It if was just memory and swap it would, eventually, wind down. That level of incapacity gets back to the kernel. Faster swap won't help in that situation. all faster swap does is compress time, and as I've seen, time is not a fix. I suspect that memory won't be a fix for whatever it is that is stretching the kernel to its capacity in this situation; all more memory does is push that limit out further, needing 1,000 tabs instead of just 450. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- 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] Weird automount behavior
by Scott Simpson 25 Nov '17

25 Nov '17

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (latest code) I have some automounts I'm using with ypbind. Some of the automounts work on my local machine and some of them don't (the ones accessed during boot work but the automounts not accessed during boot don't work after the machine is up). Here are my automounts: ssimpson@madhatter:~$ ypcat -k auto.master /people auto.people /apps auto.apps ssimpson@madhatter:~$ ypcat -k auto.apps build 192.168.2.1:/home/mounts/& software 192.168.2.1:/& multimedia 192.168.2.1:/& win 192.168.2.1:/home/mounts/& local 192.168.2.1:/home/mounts/& ssimpson@madhatter:~$ On my local machine 192.168.2.1, /apps/local works (since it was accessed on boot) but /apps/multimedia doesn't! ssimpson@madhatter:~$ ls /apps/local bacula bin gorilla krb5kdc lib sbin share shellenv zm ssimpson@madhatter:~$ ls /apps/multimedia ls: cannot access '/apps/multimedia': No such file or directory ssimpson@madhatter:~$ If I go to another machine on my network, both work: ssimpson@mythtv:~$ ls /apps/local bacula bin gorilla krb5kdc lib sbin share shellenv zm ssimpson@mythtv:~$ ls /apps/multimedia Family.mpg ssimpson@mythtv:~$ This only broke recently (in the last few months). The /etc/exports file is good otherwise the mythtv machine wouldn't be able to see the NFS mounts. Any idea? -- 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] NFS filesystem size
by Rejaine Monteiro 24 Nov '17

24 Nov '17

Hello, Could anyone tell me if there is any max NFS mounted filesystem size ? I'm noticing some strange DBUS bugs in Evolution and Thunderbird when the user's HOMEDIR is mounted when server exporting a 1.5TB disk/partition. The same server exporting the same HOMEDIR with a smaller disk, problems do not occur (the only variable is the size of the exported partitions) -- 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] where do X/xrandr store config for user
by jdd＠dodin.org 24 Nov '17

24 Nov '17

Y try to list where xorg/xrandr store it's config http://dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Doc.AddXResolution#toc1 and specially where it stores the user's config. Because I used Unigine_Superposition-1.0 to benchmark my computer, *as user* and it borke my "almost" working config. specially it broke the "virtual" xrandr config I could only restore the system uninstalling Unigine with the supplied script that have: rm -f ~/.local/share/applications/Superposition.desktop rm -f ~/Desktop/Superposition.desktop are any of these "desktop" autoexec?? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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