February 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] openSUSE on OpenVZ or Virtuozzo
by Bjoern Voigt 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

Some years ago some hosters offered openSUSE vServers based on the Virtuozzo virtualization platform. Now other distributions like Ubuntu LTS, Debian or CentOS are offered by such hosters. Even if someone tries to use openSUSE vServers for smaller setups based on Virtuozzo or the free OpenVZ project, this is not easy, because nobody created openSUSE templates more recent than openSUSE 13.2: https://help.virtuozzo.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2509591 https://openvz.org/Download/template/precreated Does anyone know the reasons for this development? 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] grub2 won't show me the menu..
by Peter Suetterlin 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

Hi list, (I'm running TW, but I assume the issue is more general) After some issues with the latest update, I wanted to boot the previous kernel to see if that helps. /etc/default/grub is set to GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 As there is only on main OS on anyhow. OK, so press SHIFT during boot and ..... nothing, it just boots the default entry without even showing the menu. Also tried 't' (which is sometimes requested to press, too). No luck either, so I eventually gave up. So I changed the two timeout values to 2, and ran the grub2-mkconfig program. It still doesn't show the menu and just boots the default entry! I start getting quite pissed, TBH. OK, change the default boot entry or use grub2-once. But to what!? There are 31 possible commands listed if you type grub2-<TAB><TAB> NONE of them seems to be useful to provide the boot numbers from the menu. Nor does the manpage of programs that need this number as input give you a clue where to get the right number from. Why is SHIFT not working? Why does it ignore TIMEOUT settings? Why are manpages close to useless? What kind of **** is this? (Sorry for bad words, it's the weakest I could find) OK, somewhat cooled down, I'll try googling a bit more. But if someone already knows (some of) the answers.... -- 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] Get PID of a process
by Carlos E. R. 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is it possible to get the PID of the previous command launched and finished? Example: fetchmail .... echo "Posible PID of fetchmail was: $!" Well, the value I get I know it was not the PID. The documentation says that "$!" gets the PID of the previously backgrounded process, so it is not what I want. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlp/ZCUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XnTQCdEx4nCiKSrlXp4nxex2ZZ40qT X68An3AzvKXwHgdSYUgyjvX+wOiJzpHn =fAsV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 add entry to grub with separate /boot partition?
by Kaigue7 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Hi, I have three OSs on /dev/nvme0n1, TW with a separate /boot partition, a Leap 15 installation and a Windows installation. After updating Leap 15 grub can't find TW anymore. os-prober does not work (only finds Windows installation). What do I have to do in order to add TW back to the grub menu? 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] feh & jpegtran - what is broken?
by Dave Howorth 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

I sometimes use 'feh' to browse images. I used it today but when I tried to rotate a picture (File/Edit in Place/Rotate 90 CW) the rotate didn't happen and I got a useful error message in the command terminal: $ feh WARNING: lossless rotate: Is 'jpegtran' installed? Failed to exec: No such file or directory feh WARNING: lossless rotate: Got exitcode 1 from jpegtran. Commandline was: jpegtran -copy all -rotate 90 -outfile P1020918.JPG P1020918.JPG This is on 42.3. The last time I used rotate was on 42.2 and I'm fairly sure it worked there. The current version of feh is 2.18.3-7.1-x86_64 from openSUSE-Leap-42.3-Oss. YaST doesn't show me any results when I search for jpegtran. rpmfind OTOH finds libjpeg-turbo-1.5.3-42.1 and says it contains jpegtran. And sure enough after I install libjpeg-turbo, rotation works in feh. But YaST still doesn't return any results for jpegtran. Something's clearly broken, but what? -- 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] File conflicts detected, while updating 42.3
by Carlos E. R. 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

File /usr/lib64/libgd.so.3 from install of libgd3-2.2.5-134.1.x86_64 (OBS: graphics) conflicts with file from package gd-2.1.0-24.1.x86_64 (@System) This one is new to me. I usually get conflicts between xine-ui and xine-skins, which I ignore. But the above seems more important. File /usr/share/xine/skins/CelomaChrome/MainDummy.png from install of xine-ui-0.99.10-57.8.x86_64 (EXT: Packman Repository) conflicts with file from package xine-skins-1.0.3-2.2.noarch (@System) File /usr/share/xine/skins/CelomaChrome/font_install.sh from install of xine-ui-0.99.10-57.8.x86_64 (EXT: Packman Repository) conflicts with file from package xine-skins-1.0.3-2.2.noarch (@System) File /usr/share/xine/skins/CelomaChrome/skinconfig from install of xine-ui-0.99.10-57.8.x86_64 (EXT: Packman Repository) conflicts with file from package xine-skins-1.0.3-2.2.noarch (@System) File /usr/share/xine/skins/caramel/dummy.png from install of xine-ui-0.99.10-57.8.x86_64 (EXT: Packman Repository) conflicts with file from package xine-skins-1.0.3-2.2.noarch (@System) File /usr/share/xine/skins/caramel/font_install.sh from install of xine-ui-0.99.10-57.8.x86_64 (EXT: Packman Repository) conflicts with file from package xine-skins-1.0.3-2.2.noarch (@System) File /usr/share/xine/skins/lcd/font_install.sh from install of xine-ui-0.99.10-57.8.x86_64 (EXT: Packman Repository) conflicts with file from package xine-skins-1.0.3-2.2.noarch (@System) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)

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[opensuse] raid 1 with btrfs
by jdd＠dodin.org 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

I said: * one ssd (450Gb) for main disk (30GB system, btrfs, 380GB data, xfs) I want to add some explanation. When I speak of "data" in the line above, I mean user data (home, for example), not data in the BTRFS meaning. I can manage to take some time to recover user data in case of crash. But if BTRFS/RAID have to be useful, I need a booting computer. If the crash is not that of the disk but the computer itself, I may not be able to rebuild a similar hardware, so the question: is the BTRFS raid 1 mirror single disk readable (better bootable) on an other computer? mdamdm disk are not, not without a small but non obvious change thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org -- 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] okular @ leap423 - is is getting worse?
by Per Jessen 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

After my somewhat problematic upgrade of 422 to 423 (desktop test system) last week, I have now done yet another reinstall - I was optimistically hoping okular might have been able to print properly now, but it looks like it's been getting worse. okular defaults to using inches (instead of millimetres) and A5 ?? Changes to those setting are not saved. Second, I can't set the printer options - type of paper, paper source, etc. The latter used to be available under a tab "Advanced": In okular, press Ctrl-P, then "Properties", now a windows with two tabs "Page" and "Advanced" (the latter has the options I'm looking for). With leap423, I don't get any "Advanced" tab, instead I get "Job Options". (which has very few options). The printing problem (scaled down to approx A5) remains the same. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.4°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted 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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[opensuse] raid 1 with btrfs
by jdd＠dodin.org 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

I just discover a BTRFS feature I heard of but never looked at, raid 1 https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices but this page is a bit hard to understand for me :-( I have on my laptop two disks. * one ssd (450Gb) for main disk (30GB system, btrfs, 380GB data, xfs) * one rotating drive 1Tb (in the dvd port) empty is it a good idea to build a raid 1 for the system? for the data? if I use BTRFS, I understand I can add the second device on the fly. Is BTRFS easier to recover in case one of the disk fail? are the two disks readable (bootable?) separately - if one fails hard? what about xfs? what about ssd sped? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org -- 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] You will love this printer/scanner issue
by Stevens 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

Yesterday the wife handed me a US legal size paper (8.5"x14") to scan, so I dutifully put it in our Brother mfc-j450dw multifunction printer but xsane's preview would only show a portion of the document. Then started about 45 minutes of fighting with printer drivers, different scan software, even something on Win7 in virtualbox, all to no avail. Finally, in disgust I reached over to the printer to remove the document to learn that the scan bed is maxed out at 8.5"x11" and that 3 inches of the paper was sticking out from under the lid. Those are the times for adult beverages. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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