August 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] openSUSE LEAP 42.3 on Lenovo S21e laptop
by Adam Tauno Williams 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

Updated from LEAD 42.1 to 42.3 and lost the wireless (BroadComm BC43142) Previously I got the wireless working by installing the broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-kmp-default packages from Pacman. I did that (transferring the files via USB thumb drive). However - still no wireless. While the device appears in lspci output I can't seem to find any evidence of the device attempting to be initialized. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA

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[opensuse] Problems loading opensuse on 4TB USB drive on 42.3
by don fisher 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

I purchased a 4TB Seagate Backup Plus hard drive. I have experienced problems with reliable booting on other of my USB drives, so attempted to palace an opensuse system on the new 4TB drive as an experiment. I used a 42.3 cdrom installation media. It created partition 1 without my input, BIOS boot. I realize that the MBR boot cannot exceed 2TB, so was not surprised at this. I usually have swap in partition 1, so for this drive I place swap at the end of the dis after the XFS /home partition. After the installation I booted and received: error: unknown filesystem entering rescue mpode Grub rescue I examined the partitions from my running system: Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 16382 14335 7M BIOS boot /dev/sda2 16384 104871934 104855551 50G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3 104871936 7792859134 7687987199 3.6T Microsoft basic data /dev/sda4 7792897920 7814000189 21102270 10.1G Microsoft basic data Why do you think this USB file system is loaded as sda. My other USB drives come up sdc, after my two installed hard drives sda and sdb. Is there something I need to write into the BIOS boot partition, and why didn't the 42.3 system installer do it? Any assistance would be appreciated. I hope these questions are not too simple. Sometimes I miss a switch in the GUI, or something equally as trivial. Thanks, Don -- 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] Buildservice Comments - 404 page not found - https://build.opensuse.org/comments?
by David C. Rankin 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

All, A gtk+2 bug of mine was fixed yesterday https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779605 and committed upstream https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?h=gtk-2-24&id=491d79d54083044a5de…. I branched the package and have applied the patch. https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:drankinatty/gtk2_patch_491d79d5 When I try and 'Add Comment' to document the fix and the what I did to the package, clicking on 'Add Comment' results in 404 - Page Not Found? Huh? Are comments broken in buildservice? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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] Re: Problems loading opensuse on 4TB USB drive on 42.3
by don fisher 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

On 08/06/2017 02:56 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > don fisher wrote: >> >> As I recall, linux now uses 4k sectors by default. Does that imply >> that "512e" is a required capability for the drive to boot? > --- Hitachi called it 512e ('e' for 'emulation'), vs. the alternative > of 512n ('n' for native). > > I 1st saw it in a doc from them like this one: > > https://www.hgst.com/sites/default/files/resources/AFtechbrief.pdf > > Which is similar to the one James mentioned @ seagate. > > > As for **"required to boot"** -- depends on your OS. > > 512e simply means that OS's that don't grok 4K-sectors can still > see and use it as a 512-byte sector drive. > > HOWEVER, as the docs mention, those drives that perform 512 > byte emulation do so in hardware by using 2 passes over the data > to write a sector -- 1st to read the rest of the 4K sector and > 2nd to write the merged data back to disk. > > If you don't have the emulated 512-byte capability, your OS > may or may not work (w/MS OS's anything before Win7 may have > problems). With Linux, will depend on your distro. My boot > disk(s) are still booting off a 3-disk RAID5 using short-stroked > 15K SAS drives (short-stroked, meaning only using the 'fast' half > (or first part) of the disk for lower overall latency). > > -l I tried build a openSuse system on this disk using first the current 42.3 distribution disk, the in desperation I tried lo load the older 42.1 distribution. Neither worked. Just curious, with disks so cheap, why you do not employ SSDs if the seek is a big problem. 4TB SATA III Samsung is about $1500.00. The 4TB USB Seagate I am is about $100.00. I do not require the 4TB Seagate for my system. I have had problem getting reliable boots with my USB drives. I just posted so developers might be aware of a possible problem. Don -- 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: Problems loading opensuse on 4TB USB drive on 42.3
by don fisher 06 Aug '17

06 Aug '17

On 08/06/2017 12:15 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > don fisher wrote: >> I purchased a 4TB Seagate Backup Plus hard drive. > FWIW, the backup+ drives have 4K sectors and no "512e" (emulated) > compatibility. MS OS's before Win8 don't recognize it for many > purposes, including boot and MS-backup+restore (great feature for > a backup+ drive!). > > They were "designed"[?] for backup only. > > Note -- some larger drives, especially ones sold for backing > surveillance camera's are not designed to work as general purpose > disks because they take 2x as long to write as normal disks (they > need to write 2 tracks in order to store 1). I haven't heard > of any backup disks like that, but I wouldn't be surprised if > some were sold where only the fine print indicated additional > write costs. > > > Since the only 4T disks I have are 512e, I can't really test it out. > > FWIW -- the term "miscrosoft basic data" with a GUID of > EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7. > > Linux used to use that same GUID to describe any "Basic Data Parition" > until MS took it over. Since then linux uses a Linux Specific Data > Partition GUID of 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4. > > -l As I recall, linux now uses 4k sectors by default. Does that imply that "512e" is a required capability for the drive to boot? Thanks for the insight:-) Don -- 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] systemd/cryptsetup problem after partition changes
by Bjoern Voigt 06 Aug '17

06 Aug '17

I reinstalled Windows 10 on a dual boot notebook. Windows is now using one partition less, because I combined two Windows partitions. As the result all Linux partition numbers changed: e.g. /boot from /dev/sda6 to /dev/sda5; LVM with / and swap from /dev/sda8 to /dev/sda7. Partition numbers should not matter anyway, because I use UUIDs in /etc/fstab: /dev/system/swap swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/system/root / ext4 defaults 1 1 UUID=5aaaa284-fcbe-4db7-a746-ae0f94f0bb64 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=C0F5-E9B0 /boot/efi vfat umask=0002,utf8=true,ro 0 3 After Windows setup finished I booted a USB key (Leap 42.3 rescue), mounted the partitions (e.g. cryptsetup open /dev/sda7 rootfs; vgscan; mount /dev/system/root /mnt; mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev; same with /proc and /sys; chroot /mnt) checked filesystems in Yast and installed grub2 in Yast. I also tried manuell commands: mkinitrd; grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Unfortunately the notebook still does not boot Leap 42.3. The Initramfs somehow does not try to open the encrypted LVM device /dev/sda7. Any ideas? [...] dracut-initqueue[346]: systemd-escape: invalid option -- '5' dracut-initqueue[346]: Warning: Failed to start systemd-cryptsetup(a)luks.service: Unit systemd-cryptsetup(a)luks.service failed to load: No such file or directory [...] dracut-initqueue[346]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts dracut-initqueue[346]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts dracut-initqueue[346]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts [...] dracut-initqueue[346]: Warning: Could not boot dracut-initqueue[346]: Warning: /dev/mapper/system-root does not exist dracut-initqueue[346]: Warning: /dev/system/root does not exist Requested transaction contradicts existing jobs: Transaction is destructive. dracut-initqueue[346]: Failed to start dracut-emergency.service: Transaction is destructive dracut-initqueue[346]: Not all disks have been found dracut-initqueue[346]: You might want to regenerate your initramfs Greetings, Björn -- 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: Problems loading opensuse on 4TB USB drive on 42.3
by Carlos E. R. 06 Aug '17

06 Aug '17

On 2017-08-06 21:15, L A Walsh wrote: > don fisher wrote: >> I purchased a 4TB Seagate Backup Plus hard drive. > FWIW, the backup+ drives have 4K sectors and no "512e" (emulated) > compatibility. MS OS's before Win8 don't recognize it for many > purposes, including boot and MS-backup+restore (great feature for > a backup+ drive!). > > They were "designed"[?] for backup only. > > Note -- some larger drives, especially ones sold for backing > surveillance camera's are not designed to work as general purpose > disks because they take 2x as long to write as normal disks (they > need to write 2 tracks in order to store 1). I haven't heard > of any backup disks like that, but I wouldn't be surprised if > some were sold where only the fine print indicated additional > write costs. Ah... And you think this is a backup drive? There is a very peculiar info in fdisk output: Disk /dev/sda: 3.7 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 7814037167 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 33553920 bytes <======= Disklabel type: gpt My "normal" disks have (the only line that is different): I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Maybe that indicates it is a data only disk. Write in 33MB chunks... But it does have 512 bytes emulated sectors. > > > Since the only 4T disks I have are 512e, I can't really test it out. > > FWIW -- the term "miscrosoft basic data" with a GUID of > EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7. > > Linux used to use that same GUID to describe any "Basic Data Parition" > until MS took it over. Since then linux uses a Linux Specific Data > Partition GUID of 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4. But not all Linuxes; openSUSE, at least till leap 42.2, doesn't. I have disks partitioned by gparted or yast that show that "microsoft basic data" label. > > -l > > > *permission to quote in full on any list is granted by the author* -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)

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[opensuse] Quick one about network settings
by don fisher 06 Aug '17

06 Aug '17

I must be missing the obvious, but when I ran network settings it came up with both wlan0 and eth0 disabled. The only thing I saw missing was the device "Module Name under Hardware". I tried to insert the module name but the GUI would not accept it. Don't know why. I deleted these two adapters and edited the disabled line to reinsert exactly what had previously been in the lines it said were deactivated. So now the system works, but eth0 has turned into eth1, and wlan0 has turned into wlan1. How can I change the eth1 back to eth0, and the same for wlan1. If I do ifup or ifdown, I would like the interfaces the same on all of my machines. Thanks, hope this is simple:-) Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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