July 2017 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] update repo very slow
by George from the tribe 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

This morning trying to refresh my repositories, the refresh was getting hung up on updating the repo at http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.2/oss/repodata/. I switched from zypper to yast, and started monitoring the update, and it turns out this file was the one that was going very slow, in the repodata subdirectory. http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.2/oss/repodata/cfa171ff1eeec497… So why would that be? The file is listed at a size of 13M, and another file listed at 9.2M seemed to take only the normal time of a few seconds to download. Is there some problem with the update repo? -- George Box: 42.2 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 42.2 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 42.2 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- 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] Impressions
by Xen 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

I am unsubscribing again, but just wanted to say 2 or three things. I mean, I am happy to see that the OpenSUSE mailing list is at least a lot more busy than the Ubuntu one. OpenSUSE always seemed to have a much larger following strangely enough but maybe that is also because it more a community thing of a real community instead of one artificially created by a company. One the other hand -- well and I could also say that in the past of course OpenSUSE had a great community wiki that really felt like a collection of random people feeling welcome and doing their thing. However, participation is now a commodity. But anyway, back to topic. It troubles me to see that... Basic computer problems such as attaining an IP address or being able to log in, having graphical log in errors, ... I mean to say that if you cannot cover the basics in life, you will never get to the higher things. If you spend your every day hunting, you will never get to some writing, know what I'm saying? The recent debate apparently with dear Linda about rescue environments not being usable by the average person. If you cannot cover the basics then what good can come of the higher level functions? I wish the time would one day come for Linux where support requests were for applications or more advanced stuff. For how to modify the system... ...instead of getting it running ... When I use Windows I do not frequent Windows mailing lists or forums. The thing just works and keeps working most of the time. There are some forums were very mundane problems are voiced; I stay away from these forums. It would be the equivalent of constantly having to deal with people complaining their electricity doesn't work, just because you own a house. Of course Microsoft is trying to render itself extinct by forcing people in due time to pay monthly fees for everything. And I don't know much about Apple but it also sees fans leaving. Due to exorbitant prices in that case, but anyway. Microsoft is in fact in the process of making Linux (or a free, community-owned system) the only possibility. To think that it would suicide. But anyway. Even so it upsets me that the daily things people on Linux mailing lists deal with are so basic and mundane, troubleshooting the lowest cores of the system. Sorry to insult here but to me it is the equivalent of endless worry. Basic stuff should just work. I personally feel the same way I think Linda does. The problem space is getting bigger, not smaller. There are more things that can go wrong now, than in the past. I used OpenSUSE from about 2001 I believe and then later again from about 2009 for a while. I long for the days when stuff was simple and overseeable. When software had the equivalent feeling of the cartoons of the 80s: slow and sane. And now: everything a hyper panic. People these days cannot stand watching these cartoons. Of the 80s. Don't have the patience for it. Everything is so slow-paced we can't believe it. But it also means sanity. Peace and tranquility. I hope this for Linux. But I notice that the underbelly is rumbling and maybe we ate something wrong. That's all I wanted to say: I am a bit shocked by the kinds of troubleshooting that comes by. That's all. See you. -- 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] cannot start samba nmbd
by Istvan Gabor 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Hello: I have this problem in openSUSE Leap 42.2 with its default samba version (4.4.2). nmbd service is not started at boot and I cannot start it manually. # systemctl start nmb.service Job for nmb.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status nmb.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. # systemctl status nmb.service ● nmb.service - Samba NMB Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nmb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2017-07-30 11:37:52 CEST; 5min ago Main PID: 4235 Status: "nmbd: No local IPv4 non-loopback interfaces available, waiting for interface ..." Tasks: 0 (limit: 512) CGroup: /system.slice/nmb.service Jul 30 11:37:37 linux nmbd[4235]: [2017/07/30 11:37:37.475899, 0] ../source3/lib/interface.c:652(load_interfaces) Jul 30 11:37:37 linux nmbd[4235]: WARNING: no network interfaces found Jul 30 11:37:42 linux nmbd[4235]: [2017/07/30 11:37:42.504127, 0] ../source3/lib/interface.c:652(load_interfaces) Jul 30 11:37:42 linux nmbd[4235]: WARNING: no network interfaces found Jul 30 11:37:47 linux nmbd[4235]: [2017/07/30 11:37:47.531053, 0] ../source3/lib/interface.c:652(load_interfaces) Jul 30 11:37:47 linux nmbd[4235]: WARNING: no network interfaces found Jul 30 11:37:52 linux systemd[1]: nmb.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating. Jul 30 11:37:52 linux systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba NMB Daemon. Jul 30 11:37:52 linux systemd[1]: nmb.service: Unit entered failed state. Jul 30 11:37:52 linux systemd[1]: nmb.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. According to this the problem is that I don't have a IPv4 non-localhost network insterface, which is true according to ifconfig: # ifconfig eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxxxx inet6 addr: abcd::abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:24766 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:20994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:22671550 (21.6 Mb) TX bytes:3075937 (2.9 Mb) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:xx.x.xxx.xxx P-t-P:xx.xxx.xxx.xx Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:24466 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:20666 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:22115202 (21.0 Mb) TX bytes:2606771 (2.4 Mb) I have a DSL connection configured in network manager. Why does not eth2 get an IPv4 addres? How can I fix this? Thanks, Istvan -- 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] 42.3 GRUB error: /boot/grub2/i386-pc/normal.mod not found
by Roger Price 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

I installed 42.3 on a Dell Precision T7500, in /dev/sda3, ext4, taking all the default Grub options, without UEFI. It has 13.1 and 42.2 already installed in the other partitions. After the installation, 42.3 booted correctly. In /etc/defaults/grub I set GRUB_TIMEOUT=300 and removed options quiet and splash from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. I then ran grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg On reboot I see Welcome to Grub! error: file `boot/grub2/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found Entering rescue mode.. grub rescue > Googling shows that this is a known problem in other distributions, but with no crisp simple solution. After reading https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/70538/grub-error-file-grub-i386-pc… I wondered if the simplest approach is to copy the file from /usr/lib/grub2/ ? But how do I do this? Grub rescue is crippled. No help command, no cp command, no command completion, all that "ls (hd0,msdos3)" reports is "File system is ext2". (It's ext4.) I am not an expert in this area - am I looking at a grub2-mkconfig bug? Any hint would be appreciated. Roger -- 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] zypper and mirror: maximum redirects
by Roger Oberholtzer 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

I have been getting this error sometimes when running zypper (on Leap 42.3): Error code: Curl error 47 Error message: Maximum (6) redirects followed If I tell zypper to retry, it usually works. So, when running zypper interactively, this only a curiosity. The problem is that I am using kiwi to try to build some OEM images of Leap 42.3, and that fails when this happens. So in that context it is a problem. It seems to happen for any repo. All my repos are http://download.opensuse.org, it is doing the redirection to mirrors. Any ideas? -- 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] No Tumbleweed mirrors?
by Christopher Myers 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

I'm trying to download the latest Tumbleweed ISO, and it's saying that it'll take about 2 days. Checking the http://mirrors.opensuse.org/ site, there aren't any mirrors listed. Is something going on with the system out of curiosity? Chris -- 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 manual?
by Dave Howorth 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

The latest updates to the system want to install two Noto emoji fonts. That annoys me because I can't see ever wanting any emoji font, let alone a google one, let alone two of the bl**d things. So YaST updater tells me that the fonts are 'recommended' by a 'security' update to chromium. WTF! So I would like to tell YaST not to install those recommendations, but I can't figure out how to do it. Why does YaST not tell me those fonts are recommendations rather than real dependencies? Why does it not give me the opportunity to choose whether to install them? The online help says to refer to the manual for details but doesn't provide a link. https://en.opensuse.org/System_Updates says to refer to YaST Online Update = http://doc.opensuse.org/products/opensuse/openSUSE/opensuse-reference/cha.o… but when I click on that link it takes me to https://doc.opensuse.org/ and when I select the HTML version of the Reference Guide it seems there is no such chapter - the word Update apears only once in the contents - 'Dynamic Update of Zone Data' and none of the occurences of the word YaST appear relevant. Google helpfully shows me the page https://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Online_Update but that says nothing either. -- 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] Bug in Kmail around 2017-6-26 in parsing the field "Reply to" in Default Identity
by Patrick Shanahan 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

* Lívio Cipriano <livio.cipriano(a)gmail.com> [07-31-17 17:38]: > On segunda-feira, 31 de julho de 2017 22:23:22 WEST Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > what is the bugreport number? > Hi Patrick, > > I've not filed a bug report I do read the list. that is why I saw your report. no need for duplicate mails. you are going to file a bug report? -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- 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] No xfce in 42.3
by Roger Price 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

For some years I have been using lxde and later xfce with openSUSE versions up to 42.2. I am now doing a net install of 42.3 with, I had hoped, xfce. Previously this was a simple choice on the User Interface page, but this choice has disappeared with 42.3. All I see is User Interface Please select a user interface * Desktop with KDE Plasma * Desktop with Gnome * Server (Text Mode) * Custom Why has xfce been removed? Is there some way of getting an xfce desktop on openSUSE 42.3 as I had with 42.2? Roger -- 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] 42.3: NET install via WiFi :-)
by Roger Price 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

I installed 42.3 via a TP-Link TL-WN722N (Atheros AR9271) which was detected automatically. This is the first time in my experience that a NET install has succeeded via WiFi. Well done! Roger -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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