September 2017 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Hard disk migration
by Carlos E. R. 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Hi, I'm going to migrate my laptop rotating hard disk (500 GB) to an SSD. I hope to give new life to it this way. The machine is double boot Windows 10 / Leap 42.2, so I'm going to do image replication (dd_rescue), because otherwise Windows will not boot. So identical partition table. Caveats you can think of? What about sector size, 4K issues? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)

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[opensuse] kernel version
by ken 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

This seems to be a state secret... because I've been unable to find the info: What is the current version number of opensuse stable? tnx -- 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] Is opensuse.org down again?
by Dave Plater 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

I've just finished fixing a bug and wanted to submit the package and 1) build.opensuse.org is unreachable 2) api.opensuse.org is unreachable 3) status.opensuse.org is unreachable 4) download.opensuse.org is unreachable Can anyone shed some light on what's happened this time? Thanks Dave P -- 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] Actual opensuse news
by Per Jessen 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote: > Op donderdag 21 september 2017 19:39:27 CEST schreef ellanios82: >> On 21/09/17 19:06, Wols Lists wrote: >> > www.opensuse.org should be a thriving hub of useful information >> > (even if it is only links pointing elsewhere), and not the >> > non-interactive marketing billboard it looks like it is to me. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Wol >> >> +1 >> >> >> regards >> >> ... > OK, I guess that's volunteers to keep news.opensuse.org into a better > state than agreed upon ??? No programming involved, no knowledge of C. Gertjan, you guess wrong, I think. I have no idea what was "agreed upon", but if anything "openSUSE news" needs to be channelled first, not spread about in arbitrary blogs where only interested zeal... parties will read it. Douglas DeMaio is busy updating news.o.o: 20/9 - New Repository Caters to Tumbleweed’s Nvidia Users 14/9 - New KDE Applications, PulseAudio Arrive in Tumbleweed 13/9 - Design Selected for openSUSE.Asia Summit 13/9 - Are Governments Held Hostage? Why openSUSE Supports Public ... 24/8 - Catching up with Tumbleweed Snapshots 22/8 - Cast your Vote — openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 Logo 22/8 - openSUSE Leap 42.3 Cloud Images Become Available It would have been good had someone posted "openSUSE to cease support for reiserfs in openSUSE 15", with appropriately detailed information. I didn't have the patience to look for the entry that announces the new openSUSE version numbering scheme, but I'm sure there is one. > What's keeping people from stepping away from critisizing the > community members that work their Q@##ses off and instead come up with > questions in the "Hey, can I help to improve this or that," . What is keeping people? As has been the case for years, finding someone to address such questions to is far from easy. Not to mention finding a list of things that need doing. Yes, a list is needed at first - until we can get people to commit and invest. Now, if someone were to volunteer to update news.o.o with the long overdue entry "openSUSE to cease support for reiserfs in openSUSE 15", where does she turn and where she get the pertinent information? Btw, there is an openSUSE news mailing list, with a total of 19 subscribers. I think the last non-spam posting was from Douglas in Feb 2015. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.5°C) -- 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] Actual opensuse news
by Richard Brown 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

On 21 September 2017 at 21:28, Roger Price <roger(a)rogerprice.org> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote: > >> OK, I guess that's volunteers to keep news.opensuse.org into a better >> state >> than agreed upon ??? No programming involved, no knowledge of C. > > > Please, we are talking about www.opensuse.org, not news.opensuse.org. > > Roger Anyone who wants to suggest changes to www.opensuse.org can send pull requests to https://github.com/openSUSE/landing-page Anyone who wants to suggest changes to https://www.opensuse.org/searchPage/ (which would make more sense as an information portal for existing users, as it is the default homepage on every opensUSE machine) can send pull requests to https://github.com/openSUSE/searchPage Anyone who doesn't do either of the above and continues to whine on an inappropriate mailingilst where the people responsible for the above aren't listening, are free to do so but should realise the futility of such an exercise. It is probably worth also considering that futile "discussions" (aka long threads with a preponderance of complaints with little benefit to anyone) do the reputation of this mailinglist as a support channel any favours. A negative reputation is likely to be factored in when the projects leadership and sysadmins next do their a regular infrastructure review. We all have a responsibility to ensure this mailniglist serves its intended purpose for the openSUSE Project. And in that ilk, this will be the last post I will be making to this list to provide information about ongoing developments or how to contribute something within openSUSE. This is not the appropriate venue for these discussions, the Projects have better established venues for such discussions. I will be keeping my posts on this list now strictly providing direct support for specific user questions (ie. not developer, tester, contributor questions) regarding the current openSUSE distributions. Regards, Richard -- 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] SEC_ERROR_INVALID_KEY FIREFOX and THUNDERBIRD 52.3 (64bit) issues
by Jide Ogunmekan 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Hello all, I recently upgraded to Firefox 52.3 (and thunderbird too). Whenever I try to use google.com <http://google.com>, I get a "Secure Connection Failed -SEC_ERROR_INVALID_KEY". I would appreciate an insight or help to resolve this. I can reach google.com <http://google.com> and bing.com <http://bing.com> from other browsers, namely Opera and Chromium, but my primary browser is Firefox. I had to downgrade FF and TB to 49 to be able to use. Jide Ogunmekan -- 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] RIP ReiserFS thread
by Stevens 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

After reading (at times with great amusement) the thread on ReiserFS which has encompassed many subjects and made myriad valid points, I have decided that I will make no change here for a while. Actually, that is more due to my economic situation than the state of ReiserFS acceptance/rejection by future versions of whatever this distro will be called. Yes, I read all the posts and no, there has been no definitive answer to Anton's question about the future inclusion of reiserfs.ko and mkfs.reiser. There was a tonne of Facebook-ish crap slung back and forth and the exposure of the fact that ReiserFS ain't as dead as some would have like for it to be but there was also a tonne of very useful information so the thread was, IMHO, a net plus. I want to thank everyone who joined into the fray because that thread has been one of the most informative and, potentially beneficial, to me in a long time on this forum. So, with the exception of Anton's question, it seems that all the issues have been settled and this thread can finally be put to rest. Thanks, all. Fred -- 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] How to protect Wine from opening malware?
by Bjoern Voigt 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

Today I got a malware mail with an *.7z attachment. I saved the attachment and opened the 7z archive with Ark for further investigation. The attachment contained a *.vbs Visual Basic Script file. It is mostly a downloader script which downloads malware from a Russian server. The problem: If I click on the file (instead of choosing "Preview" in context menu), Ark opens Wine with the malware VBS script. My Sophos on-access scanner blocked the attachment. My question: How I can configure KDE or Ark so, that it does not open some problematic file types, especially not with Wine? I also wonder about the insecure default settings. 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] Thunderbird and my ISP problem
by Carlos E. R. 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

Hi, I have a bad nuisance problem with Thunderbird and one of my accounts at my ISP, the one I use for this list. I'm reading email, and suddenly the entire inbox becomes empty. After a while, when a new email arrives, I click on it and the inbox repopulates with the entire list. Knowing this, I send an email to myself from my phone. I have done this 64 times. When the inbox goes empty, it is also empty to tools like fetchmail. There are also milder occurrences of the problem, when the inbox "blinks" and Thunderbird looses track of where it was reading. I have contacted my ISP, and they blame Thunderbird. They said (translated (with google, then hand corrected)): +++...................... We have been reviewing the behavior of the account and after analyzing it we have reached the following conclusion: At times when there is a massive access to the account, the connections are not performing correctly, the state is inconsistent, producing errors in the indexes that in turn cause the mail to not display correctly. According to standard RFC-2177 mail clients must send the IDLE command to the server when they are ready to accept new mail. However we observe that when many connections are opened at the same time, this does not happen. We also notice that connections are opened with the account "robin.lists" and "robin.lists2" at the same time, when "robin.lists" is an alias of "robin.lists2" and therefore the content to display is the same . If possible, change the maximum number of connections to the server to 1 in the configuration of your client (Thunderbird). ......................++- I have done the suggested change in account settings / Server Settings / Advanced: "maximum number of server connections to cache" to 1 (it was 5). But the problem is still happening, several times today. It is a royal nuisance. This account is under the name "robin.listas2@...", and has an alias "robin.listas@...". All authentication must be done with the former, I have no idea why Thunderbird may use the second as they say. I have no logs from them, of course (I asked). About this alias thing I can do nothing, unless it is a bug in Th that can be reported... :-? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)

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[opensuse] Starting at 08:00, we're electing a new member for the Swiss federal council. (Bundesrat)
by Per Jessen 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

Members of the federal council are elected by the combined parliament, ie. the Ständerat (46 members, elected by the states) and the Nationalrat (200 members, elected by the people). This is one of the few events that require the presence of the combined parliament. In June, Didier Burkhalter announced he would be stepping down by the end of October, slightly early. To replace him, we have three candidates: Isabelle Moret, kt. Vaud, age 46, lawyer, MP. Ignazio Cassis, kt. Tessin, age 56, dr.med., MP. Surrendered his Italian citizenship to be eligible. Former field surgeon of 9th Mountain Rangers. Pierre Maudet, kt. Genf, age 39, lawyer, former Mayor of Geneva, currently Director of Police and Minister of Trade in Geneva. Cassis is tipped as a winner, but he's a little too right-wing for my taste. I think Pierre Maudet would be a good choice. Experienced in government and young. All three speak fluent German. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (10.3°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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