September 2017 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Install Leap 42.3 on a USB booted disk?
by Markus Egg 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

Hello, my old trusted laptop from 2007 is capable of booting from a USB disk. I first build in the disk and made the first installation of Leap 42.3 (dual boot with Windows). Then I moved the HDD to a USB case and let the laptop boot to that USB connected disk. Everything looks fine. Question: if I go on with installation on the USB booted disk are there any caveats/bugs/peculiarities I have to pay attention to? Any no go's? After completion I want to move the USB booted HDD back to the laptop as main HDD . Is it possible to do that with a SSD (which is running as main disk in the laptop now) also? Thanks in advance. Markus -- 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] Google Earth on Leap 42.3
by Roger Oberholtzer 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

Is anyone running Google Earth on Leap 42.3? I have installed it from http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/rpm/stable/x86_64 When I run it, the bit that should show the earth is in a small section in a corner of the app window. Maybe it is a display driver issue? I am using nouveau. I had initial difficulties with the Nvidia driver (installed from RPMs via the Nvidia repo) and had to uninstall it. I have not tried the latest version. But if others still have google-earth-ec issues with other drivers, then it may be a Google-earth issue. -- 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] DOO is much better today. Just curious about ...
by Roger Oberholtzer 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

When I access the following: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rogeroberholtzer/openSUSE_L… I get this:: Resource is no longer available! The requested URL is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. If you followed a link from a foreign page, please contact the author of this page. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 404 download.opensuse.org Thu Sep 7 17:18:01 2017 Apache/2.2.34 (Linux/SUSE) This is my repo. Do I need to do anything to revive it? Or is it something that will soon resolve itself? -- 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] 42.3 Yast User and Group Management doesn't work.
by James Knott 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

I just tried to create a group in 42.3. When I start User and Group Management, the progress bar stops at 80%, step "Read users and groups" and stays there. This makes it impossible to manage groups & users. This is happening on 2 different computers. Any idea how to get past this? tnx jk -- 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 download.opensuse.org down?
by Dave Plater 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

Hi, I just tried to refresh my repositories and all the openSUSE ones failed so I tried to ping download.opensuse.org and no response. Is it unreachable for anyone else? 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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[opensuse] Disabled multimedia apps and libs Publishing
by Dave Plater 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

Hi, I've disabled publishing for the two main multimedia projects as per request on https://status.opensuse.org/incidents/18#update-20 This may make installation from these repos unreliable. Maybe other project maintainers should do the same. 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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[opensuse] DOO mirror trouble debilitating
by Felix Miata 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

https://status.opensuse.org/ continues to report major outage. :-( Can someone on 42.3 who is able to make zypper behave as expected using any specific mirror rather than DOO post the content of their OSS and Non-OSS .repo files from /etc/zypp/repos.d/ please? I started an upgrade from 42.1 to 42.3 on my main system late yesterday. It got almost done, then the mirrors went haywire. NAICT, the immediate problem has its roots in the "type" line in each .repo file. I saw something about this subject recently on one of the opensuse mailing lists, but have no idea which list or what the context was, and can't remember enough info for a search to find between zero and an infinite number of hits on lists.opensuse.org. Examining the content of these files, these are the possible types: yast2 rpm-md none For some inexplicable reason, the OSS and Non-OSS repos seem to require a different type than update or optional BS or Packman repos. All other repos host a valid .repo file, but not OSS or Non-OSS. RPM reports no package owns these files, so there's no way to find out what belongs in them. When after getting timeouts trying to use DOO, I try to change to use a specific mirror, I get these messages: Retrieving repository 'NonOSS' metadata .........................................................................[error] Repository 'NonOSS' is invalid. [NonOSS|http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/leap/42.3/repo/oss/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Skipping repository 'NonOSS' because of the above error. Retrieving repository 'OSS' metadata ............................................................................[error] Repository 'OSS' is invalid. [OSS|http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/leap/42.3/repo/oss/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Skipping repository 'OSS' because of the above error. :~( -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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] Leap 42.3
by Robert Schweikert 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

On 09/06/2017 05:51 PM, Tyler McClanahan wrote: > Robert, > > You could be running into this bug here: > > https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017652 > > If you are running GNOME, Running XFCE > I have this same issue. The indexer hangs on certain files. Do you see anything in your message logs that shows > "tracker" errors? Nothing with tracker: journalctl --all | grep tracker Anyway I killed the running tracker-* processes and do not appear to return, lets see if anything changes. Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Distinguished Architect LINUX Team Lead Public Cloud rjschwei(a)suse.com IRC: robjo

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[opensuse] Problem installing openSUSE Leap 42.3 on Acer Aspire ES 15 in dual boot with Windows
by Freek de Kruijf 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

At first I tried to install openSUSE Leap 42.3 with UEFI enabled in the BIOS. I was able to boot from an USB stick and installed it on the disk. However this system when booting only used the Windows boot system, so I never saw GRUB2. The Boot page in BIOS shows a list of devices to boot from, first the USB HDD, second the disk, third Windows Boot System, but with the USB device removed only Windows Boot System is used. Choosing Boot from Disk using the USB stick gives an error message, which I searched for with Google, but I did find, discussions, however not a solution. After that I went for Legacy BIOS and now I get the GRUB2 boot screen, however without the possibility to boot Windows. Changing back to UEFI in the BIOS gives me only Windows again. Changing to Legacy in BIOS gives me GRUB2 and only Leap. It is some kind of dual boot, but not the desired one. Any suggestions? -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf -- 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] Checking /
by Roger Oberholtzer 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

If one needs to have / checked, does openSUSE (13.1...) support making a file called /forcefsck so it happens on reboot? We have a user with a system that is reporting an I/O error on /var/log/messages. And the system is slow. At least KDE is slow. Having eliminated the obvious (no or little disk space), and seeing no process eating CPU time, and getting an I/O error when accessing the end of /var/log/messages, I am considering checking if the root fs has issues. -- 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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