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[opensuse] A start job is running for dev-sda9.device
by Istvan Gabor 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Hello: I have the following problem in my openSUSE Leap 42.3 system. I have an old IDE drive but I don't have IDE connector on my motherboard. I have inserted a PCI-IDE card into the motherboard. The card is recognized when I turn on the computer and the IDE drive attached to the card is also recognized. Grub is started correctly and it starts booting the OS. But soon booting stops with the following few lines at the end of message stream: [OK] Reached target Remote File Systems (Pre). [OK] Reached target Remote File Systems. [OK] Reached target System Initialization. [OK] Reached target Basic System. [..] A start job is running for dev-sda9.device (...min ..s / no limit) sda9 is the root partition of the OS and it seems the boot cannot find it and stops. In my fstab sda9 is defined as: UUID=97b17a79-12e8-4222-8702-972d121b9c9b / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1 I suppose the culprit might be the initrd, maybe sda9 is hard coded into it, but I am not sure. Anyway, how could I trace what the problem is and fix it? If I remove the IDE hard drive attached to the PCI-IDE card, the system boots normal. Some additional questions regarding the boot message stream: How can I read the lines scrolled up, that is scrolling the screen? Which is the point (what message) in the message stream where the booted OS takes the job from initrd? Another queston regarding initrd/initramsfs: How can I uncompress the initramfs to a temporary directory in Leap 42.3? None of the answers I found for linux general worked (gzip -dc, cpio -i). 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] opensuse sending email as my domain
by Darin Perusich 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

I was reviewing the weekly DMARC digest for my domain, and over the course of the past week some 600+ messages were sent from openSUSE/SUSE servers as my domain. Can someone from openSUSE/SUSE explain why such email was be originating from your mail servers? opensuse.org * 2001:67c:2178:8::18 = 440 messages * 195.135.221.145 = 159 messages suse.de * 195.135.220.2 = 5 * 195.135.220.15 = 3 -- Later, Darin -- 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] Anyone in Xemacs interested?
by Dr. Werner Fink 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hi, as Xemacs do not get into a final version for several years I'd like to drop it. Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr

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[opensuse] Login weirdness
by Michael Fischer 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Leap 42.3 Haven't encountered this on previous installations, nor prior to a few weeks ago on this box. On a reboot, where it wold normally prompt for login, login: <typing anything here is not echoed back to the screen> Give Root Password for Maintenance (or press Control-D to continue) trying to log in normally just keeps having the terminal behave strangely, re-outputing some version of the above. hitting CTRL-D just sends it into a shutdown sequence. Hitting ENTER many times eventually produces "Welcome To OpenSuse".... and a login prompt which works normally. I find the following in journalctl: Oct 30 15:19:42 blinkenlights login[946]: gkr-pam: error looking up user information Oct 30 15:19:43 blinkenlights login[946]: pam_unix(login:auth): check pass; user unknown which I think comes from the botched efforts while it was saying """ Give Root Password for Maintenance (or press Control-D to continue) """ I recall seeing an error message about tty1 on the screen when I was in the midst of the failed logins and reboots, but I do not find it in journalctl. Suggestions for fixing/debugging, etc.?? journalctl _does_ show: Oct 30 16:50:25 blinkenlights smartd[929]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 16 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Oct 30 16:50:25 blinkenlights smartd[929]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 16 Offline uncorrectable sectors Not sure if that is pertainent. TIA 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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[opensuse] 3D PDF
by Roger Oberholtzer 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Has anyone played with viewing 3D PDF's on Linux? A sample file is http://www.3dpdfmaker.com/index.php/download_file/force/339/ Okular opens the file. But it does not support the 3D parts. There is a claim that Acroread on all platforms supports 3D. I have not used that in ages. Just curious. -- 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] missing fonts on upgrade to TW
by George from the tribe 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

So on my laptop that I had Leap 15 installed on, I decided to try upgrading to tumbleweed by means of zypper dup. It worked well on my other laptop, so I tried it on this one. After I replaced all the repositories with TW repositories, I ran the zypper dup and it downloaded everything just fine. Then in the middle of the installation, it lost internet connection, and then could not run the script from fetchmsttfonts to download microsoft fonts available on sourceforge. The following command failed: fetchmsttfonts-11.4-22.3-fetchmsttfonts.sh.txt I had to hit "ignore" to keep the installation going. I am now in the new system with fixed internet, but I don't know how to actually run the script from this package. This shows the package that is installed, but how do I figure out what to do next? I can't find anywhere that tells me how to run the script manually when it is not being run by zypper. # rpm -qa | grep fetchmsttfonts fetchmsttfonts-11.4-22.3.noarch Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: TW | Plasma 5.13 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 15.0 | 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] Thunderbird v60 date format
by Carlos E. R. 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hi, I just noticed that Thunderbird now writes the hour in the dates (index view) as "HH. MM", instead of "HH:MM" My locale is: cer@Legolas:~> locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY=es_ES@euro LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE=es_ES@euro LC_MEASUREMENT=es_ES@euro LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= cer@Legolas:~> And I'm on 15.0 -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas)) -- 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] apcupsd Configuration
by Paul Groves 10 Nov '18

10 Nov '18

Hi everyone I have 3 servers. Let's call them A B and C Server A has an APC BR1500GI connected via the APC RJ50 to USB cable. I wish to set up apcupsd so that when the power goes off, Server A tells server B and C to shut down. Once they have shut down then server A should shut down. So effectively Server A is the 'master' and B/C are 'slaves' I understand this is possible but I have never had to do this before. Has anyone got a similar setup? I also understand that it is possible to have the UPS shut down automatically after the apcupsd 'master' shuts off and then the UPS will turn back on automatically when the mains power is restored. If so this would be ideal because then I can just set the BIOS on the servers to turn on after power is connected and have everything come back on automatically too. -- 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] texstudio freezes KDE3 desktop
by Istvan Gabor 10 Nov '18

10 Nov '18

Hello: I installed texstudio in openSUSE Leap 42.3 with KDE 3.5 desktop. I downloaded the rpm packages from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsundermeyer/openSUSE_Leap_… and http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsundermeyer/openSUSE_Leap_… Both versions (qt4 and qt5) freezes KDE 3.5 desktop. There is no any error or other message in the terminal window when I run the program in konsole. I still can switch to other terminal windows by ctrl+alt+F(1-6). How could I fix this or at least find out what the problem is? 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] ghostscript + gv / epstopdf problems after recent update
by Boris Gaensicke 10 Nov '18

10 Nov '18

Hi, I'm on LEAP 15.0, and a recent update of ghostscript (gs) to version 9.25 broke some functionality in the interplay between gv / epstopdf and ghostscript. The attached simple eps file displays find in gs, but loading it in gv, or trying to convert it to pdf reports the error listed below. Maybe it's some incompatibility between the new version of gs, and gv / epstopdf which call gs, but I'm not sure how to test this on my system. Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Boris Error: /nocurrentpoint in --currentpoint--GPL Ghostscript 9.25: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Operand stack: Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1999 1 3 %oparray_pop 1998 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- 1982 1 3 %oparray_pop 1868 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:965/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:82/200(L)-- --dict:12/20(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 661

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