March 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Knurpht's Board election platform
by Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

Hi all, Posting intentionally on these lists, to reach as much of an audience as possible: https://en.opensuse.org/ openSUSE:Board_election_2018_platform_Knurpht -- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Forums Team Linux user #548252 -- 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] windows question
by George from the tribe 18 Mar '18

18 Mar '18

Since I know many of you are system administrators and have to know about Windows as well as linux, I thought I would ask this simple windows question. On my dell laptop which is dual boot, there is a partition with the label 'WINRETOOLS' that is about 450 mb in size. There is also a partition with the label 'Image' that is about 12 gb in size. They both have the ntfs file system. I have a bash procedure I have written for making daily/weekly backups of my hard drive, and I use rsync to clone my ext4 partitions. I use 'ntfsclone' to clone the windows partition, so that if my hard drive fails I can swap out the backup and be back up and running, complete with dual boot. I do use windows on occasion with this computer, so I want to keep the windows backup current. However, I haven't done anything to set up backing up windows images or anything like that. I haven't wanted to get too into the windows side of things which results in microsoft logging your life on their servers. But my question is, does windows automatically keep the 'WINRETOOLS' partition and/or the 'Image' partition updated when windows is being used? If so, I will need to clone those partitions also. Thanks in advance. -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | 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] sudden problems with firefox address bar
by stakanov 18 Mar '18

18 Mar '18

This touches all user accounts, whether plugins present or not. You cannot open an address via the address bar. You can open all bookmarks without problems. You cannot search (and the search selection is shown empty) You can search on default search page of opensuse. What ever you get as result you can open it by clicking on it. Anybody else has the problem and what could be the reason? _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Ihre E-Mail-Postf�cher sicher & zentral an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und alte E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://www.eclipso.de -- 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] Connect to psSense - OpenVPN
by James Knott 17 Mar '18

17 Mar '18

On 03/17/2018 05:12 PM, Chris wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 14:50:42 -0400 > James Knott wrote: > >> I got it going, but whenever I start the VPN in network manager, I'm >> prompted for the Password and Key Password, even though I had >> configured them to be saved. Any idea how to stop the prompts? > It's probably easier to use the native OpenVPN client instead of > network manager. Then, you can also store the password in a textfile. I > don't know if it's also possible to store the key password but you > should be able to remove the password from the certificate key. > > When I set up OpenVPN, I was able to get around that. IIRC, on the General configuration tab, I selected "All users may connect to this network". -- 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] windows question
by George from the tribe 17 Mar '18

17 Mar '18

On 03/17/2018 05:53 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > On 17/03/18 08:12, George from the tribe wrote: >> >> But my question is, does windows automatically keep the 'WINRETOOLS' >> partition and/or the 'Image' partition updated when windows is being >> used? If so, I will need to clone those partitions also. > > Having re-imaged a couple of machines, I would guess not. The winretools > partition contains the programs needed to re-image or repair, I believe, > and the image partition contains the system image. When I've done a > "wipe and re-image" the machine has been set back to "as new", and I've > had to re-download and re-install all the updates. > > And this is almost certainly what ends up on the recovery DVD set, > should you make one ... > > Cheers, > Wol > Ok, thanks. I won't worry about copying those partitions. -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | 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] Re: [opensuse-factory] Phoronix has done some network tests windows vs a few distros (incl TW)
by nicholas cunliffe 17 Mar '18

17 Mar '18

to discuss sloppiness of tests (or at least an unwillingness to clarify test assumptions) (its a while ago, but i believe this is the outline). in 2016 he did comparisons of different distros, testing read write speed using a database. After pointing out in the comments that in fact opensuse, btrfs guides and (i think) the authors of the database recommend using nodatacow for such applications the comment was 'set upon' by michaels fanboys using lame, handy wavy arguments, saying the test had to be done 'out of the box' and that turning off nodatacow introduced 'issues of data integrity'. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=eoy16-ws-server&num=1 would i assume phoronix tests are authoritative without investigation? - not likely. -- 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] vncviewer and fonts
by Roger Oberholtzer 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

I am trying to use vncviewer from a Leap 42.3 system to connect to a Windows display. I have done this in the past. Now I am trying from a Leap 42.3 install. I get this from the vcnviewer: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found It does this after accepting the password. In fact, I have many fonts installed (it's a KDE desktop). I have seen this reported over 15 years ago. But I don't see much now. And the solutions were typically to install some fonts. These vnc RPMs are installed. The vncviewer is from tightvnc x11vnc-0.9.13-18.2.x86_64 libXvnc1-1.6.0-21.1.x86_64 xorg-x11-Xvnc-1.6.0-21.1.x86_64 tightvnc-1.3.10-123.10.x86_64 These font packages are installed: xorg-x11-fonts-core-7.6-34.16.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-7.6-34.16.noarch gnu-unifont-bitmap-fonts-20080123-88.3.noarch noto-sans-fonts-20151215-4.13.noarch google-noto-fonts-doc-20151215-4.13.noarch liberation-fonts-1.07.2-6.3.noarch hack-fonts-2.020-3.3.noarch ghostscript-fonts-std-9.06-29.5.noarch Other X applications seen to run (e.g., xterm). I'm not sure why vncviewer is unhappy. -- 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] Scanner Setup
by Paul Groves 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Hi, I have dug out my old scanner. A Tiny FU318D. The scanner powers up fine. It was last used with Windows 98SE in 2006 I have plugged it in and is does not show in SimpleScan scanimage -L does not find any scanners lsusb shows it as: Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0461:0340 Primax Electronics, Ltd Colorado 9600 Scanner This is the first scanner I have come across that doesn't 'Just work' in Linux. Does anyone know how I can go about diagnosing the problem and getting the scanner to work? I wouldn't know where to start on this one. Thanks Paul -- 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 YAST able to configure and administrate a mailrelay?
by Jonathan Sélea 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Hi, I am exploring the option to set up a mail relay with SuSE/SLES. I have always done it Debian before and now I wanted to try another approach (mainly because of YAST so other people admin it too) Is it possible to set up a mail relay that does DKIM (and possible ARC) signing with YAST only? Ofc there is alot of different domains that is going to use that relay. Let me know if I am unclear! Thanks!

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[opensuse] Ethernet and onboot/oncable
by Roger Oberholtzer 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

The configuring Ethernet ports in openSUSE, it is possible to say when the port should be configured. This is the STARTMODE= value in the port configuration file. Has there been a deliberate change in the 'onboot' mode? In previous openSUSE releases, this would cause the port to be configured when the system is booted, independent of whether there is a cable attached. If one want to require that there be a cable, STARTMODE can bet set to 'oncable'. In Leap 42,3, it seems that when one selects On Boot in YAST, STARTMODE is set to 'auto'. If there is no cable attached, the port does not get an address. It acts like 'on cable connect'. I am not running Network Manager. The ports are managed in the traditional way (or whatever fills that role these days). The network and related services are all running before anyone logs in. This is a problem in systems that boot along with other hardware. If, say, the Leap machine starts it's network before some other system, the port on Leap will not get an address. This is bad. While plugging in cable (or the remote system turning on) will cause the port to get an address, services that use that port are not restarted. For example, dhcpd will ignore ports without an address - and it will never try again until you actively restart it. Is there any way to get the previous on boot functionality so that ports with fixed address are assigned them on boot, no matter what may or may not be connected to them? -- 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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