September 2017 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] NVidia driver and Plymouth splash screen
by Bjarne Örn Hansen 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

Hi All, I've bumped into the fact, that Plymouth doesn't work with NVidia's driver. And before anyone asks me why I don't use nouvou ... then, it's too slow and occasionally I like to play a game or two. Isn't there a tweak to use, to get Plymouth working? // Bjarne -- 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] C++ Question
by Paul Groves 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

Hi All, Probably not the right place to ask but one of you may know the answer. I am learning C++ and my program uses system('program --arg1 --arg2'); to run a proprietary program. My question is how can I make this program a dependency so that it has to be installed before my program? I have noticed that ldd shows that some dependencies have already been added as dependencies to the binary once it is compiled. Thanks -- 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] Do you know what is this bay in my laptop?
by Carlos E. R. 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

Hi, Do you know what is this bay in my laptop? http://susepaste.org/24703726 I see the word "MDC", perhaps it is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_daughter_card but there are no photos there to compare. (The photo is a bit out of focus, I should have used a tripod) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)

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[opensuse] 42.3 install; python / pip gripe
by Michael Fischer 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

Well, just did the install, and overall, it went rather well. I was doing a fresh install, retaining /home over top of 42.1. One gripe, on which my notes from the 42.1 install saved me another hour of headache: If you're going to set python to version 2.7.13 (fine by me), you should follow the principle of least surprise and install python-pip (along with the obvious easy_install dependency) and set etc-alternatives to use that pip (version 7.1.2). Other than that, so far so good guys, and thanks. (since 6.2) Michael -- Michael Fischer michael(a)visv.net -- 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] How to protect Wine from opening malware?
by Bjoern Voigt 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Doug wrote: > This is a bit OT for this list, but Björn seems to be the expert on > this. I'm using > PCLinuxOS, and I have two files called x-wine-extension-vbs.xml. One > is in a > subdirectory called /packages and one in a subdirectory called > /application. > > /application: > a note says "This XML file does not appear to have any style > information associated with it. The document tree is shown below." > > -<mime-type type="application/x-wine-extension-vbs"> > -<! > --Created automatically by update-mime-database. DO NOT EDIT! > !--> > <glob pattern="*.vbs"/> > <comment>VBScript Script File</comment> > </mime-type> > > > /packages: > a note says "This XML file does not appear to have any style > information associated with it. The document tree is shown below." > > > -<mime-info> > -<mime-type type="application/x-wine-extension-vbs"> > <glob pattern="*.vbs"/> > <comment>VBScript Script File</comment> > </mime-type> > </mime-info> > > If your system is like mine, please clarify just what you did to one > or both of these files. Do you found these two files in your HOME directory or in system directories? I found the two files application-x-wine-extension-vbs.xml and x-wine-extension-vbs.xml in my HOME directory. Personally I edited the file type x-wine-extension-vbs within the KDE settings tool systemsettings5 and deleted the *.vbs extension and the list of opening programs. As an alternative you can remove the two files in your HOME directory. If the files are stored in system's directories, removing them may not help, because updates with restore them. In this case you probably have to copy it to a specified location in your HOME directory and edit them. But the location is highly dependent on your system and I don't know the correct location. The error message "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below." comes from a browser or something similar. Please edit the files in a text edit. As the name *wine* says, Wine has probably created the files together with the MS Office installer. 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] 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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