May 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] ifconfig et al vanished from leap 15.0
by cagsm 25 May '18

25 May '18

Just wondering, I have observed that there is no oldschool ifconfig (package net-tools or what it was called) any more. I have never grown accustomed to ip and other tools just yet ;( ip a ip li and so comes to my mind as replacements to ifconfig, but i liked the counters and some stuff of ifconfig as a brief overview. there is ss and some other tools as replacements for netstat arp and more. Maybe time to learn new things daily. -- 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] What is the meaning of the lp150 part of the packages names in leap 15.0?
by cagsm 25 May '18

25 May '18

Lot of packages have some suffix or part of their name named lp150. What does this mean and why? Zypper dup showed me 600+ packages 'downgraded' probably due to alphabetical ordering or something for many packages when coming from leap 42.3. Tia. -- 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] change gnome drag direction for docs, menus, etc.
by ken 24 May '18

24 May '18

On a laptop with a touch pad: It's recently happened somehow that, when I'm In Firefox and want to scroll a long document down (e.g., to read more toward the bottom of the doc), I have to drag on the touchpad *upwards*. This is also true of all apps and widgets, e.g., to scroll down through a long menu, I have to drag *up*. Of course this is totally counter-intuitive. I've looked around quite a bit in the various configuration apps and settings, but haven't found a way to change this back to normal. Does anyone know how/where this is done? tnx much. -- 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 bug in Thunderbird?
by DennisG 24 May '18

24 May '18

Thunderbird by default blocks remote content in messages. The user has the option to whitelist exceptions to that rule, which should be retained by T'bird after it is closed. However, my T'bird is flushing the list every time it is closed. Checking prefs.js, the permissions are correct and the file is being saved after Preference changes. I did check prefs.js after manually entering/saving an exception in Preferences, but found nothing. The file is being saved upon doing a save in Preferences or upon closing the app. Googling the problem I found this on the Mozilla support site: "Thunderbird no longer saves remote content exceptions after program close." https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1204666 According to the OP who uses Tumbleweed, this is only happening for users of SUSE versions, including the SUSE Mozilla repo. Another poster indicated that s/he had corrected the problem by installing directly from the Mozilla site. I am running 52.8-63.1 which was just updated from 52.8-1.1 where I discovered the problem; the update did not correct it. Anyone else seeing this problem? Suggestions? Thanks! --dg -- 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 forgetting remote content preferences
by gumb 24 May '18

24 May '18

This might be an upstream bug but perhaps others here can confirm if they've seen the same. Not sure when it started but it might have coincided with my recent update to TB 52.8.0ESR in the official Leap 42.3 updates a few days ago. I don't allow remote content in messages by default. But there's a bunch of things I get regularly where at some point in the past I have clicked the Preferences above the message and opted to explicitly allow remote content from whatever domain or address. The last few days, this is continually forgotten, I have to do it for every message even if the content is from the same origin. gumb -- 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] Thunderbird forgetting remote content preferences
by DennisG 23 May '18

23 May '18

On 05/23/2018 05:58 PM, gumb wrote: > This might be an upstream bug but perhaps others here can confirm if they've seen the same. Not sure when it started but it might have coincided with my recent update to TB 52.8.0ESR in the official Leap 42.3 updates a few days ago. > > I don't allow remote content in messages by default. But there's a bunch of things I get regularly where at some point in the past I have clicked the Preferences above the message and opted to explicitly allow remote content from whatever domain or address. The last few days, this is continually forgotten, I have to do it for every message even if the content is from the same origin. > > gumb > As you can see, I posted the same question when you did. The problem exists in both the recent 52.8063.1 update and the updated 52.8-1.1. Can't say how many versions back this goes, I just migrated my mail to T'bird a couple weeks ago. --dg -- 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] History repeats itself: disk cache
by Roger Oberholtzer 23 May '18

23 May '18

A couple of years ago I had a problem where a program was streaming data to a file. Unfortunately, the OS cached the contents in RAM and only dealt with it occasionally. The problem was that this would cause periodic delays of a long time while the cache was dealt with. Write calls would have to wait until this task was completed. See the following for the original discussion: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2013-06/msg00069.html The solution that worked was to have something like the following running: while [ 1 ]; do sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; sleep 60; done & This really did solve the problem. We have now updated the OS for this system to Leap 42.3. It does not seem that this is having the same effect. One difference I see is that the sync command seems to take a very long time. Like over a minute each time. The fwrite() calls change from taking 1 msec to write a buffer (which is actually cached in ram by the kernel fs driver until later), to 20 secs or a minute. While we do buffer data, these long write delays are a problem. I have looked to see if there is anything different about /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches since we had originally used it. I think it was openSUSE 13.1 where we last saw that it seemed to be working as expected. Anyone have a clue about this? Maybe there is a better way to do this now? We are using ext4. IIRC, we tried other file systems at the time, but this was a general feature of all file systems. -- 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] What are the "opensuse-current" and "opensuse-stable" repositories?
by Fábio Mallaco Moreira 23 May '18

23 May '18

So, I was getting ready for Leap 15 release and updating my repository files and I noticed these other directories on the server. What are those? It seems to me the packages in them are tha same as in the 42.3 repo, are they just logic links to the most recent leap version repos? OSS > download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/oss/ > download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-current/repo/oss/ > download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-stable/repo/oss/ non-OSS > download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/non-oss/ > download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-current/repo/non-oss/ > download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-stable/repo/non-oss/ Update OSS > download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.0/oss/ > download.opensuse.org/update/openSUSE-current/ > download.opensuse.org/update/openSUSE-stable/ Update non-OSS > download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.0/non-oss/ > download.opensuse.org/update/openSUSE-non-oss-current/ > No stable version for this? I found "current" versions of the source and debug repos also. Could these possiply be used to keep a system runing the latest leap repease without changing the repositories? Thx in advance, Fábio Mallaco Moreira -- 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] libreoffice help
by don fisher 23 May '18

23 May '18

I am unable to get the F1 key to generate anything except a "not installed on your computer" message. I cannot find either under Yast or Google where to get the appropriate package to add the help files. Thanks Don -- 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] Q: btrfs setting in openSUSE LEAP 15.0
by Hideki Yamane 23 May '18

23 May '18

Hi, I have a question about btrfs setting in openSUSE LEAP 15.0. Default btrfs subvolume setting is below. > sudo btrfs subvolume list / ID 257 gen 193 top level 5 path @ ID 258 gen 227 top level 257 path @/var ID 259 gen 193 top level 257 path @/usr/local ID 260 gen 227 top level 257 path @/tmp ID 261 gen 193 top level 257 path @/srv ID 262 gen 213 top level 257 path @/root ID 263 gen 193 top level 257 path @/opt ID 264 gen 193 top level 257 path @/boot/grub2/x86_64-efi ID 265 gen 193 top level 257 path @/boot/grub2/i386-pc ID 266 gen 108 top level 257 path @/.snapshots Top subvolume is @ and several nested subvolumes. And /etc/fstab is here. UUID=9e8ed1d6-38bd-4ba0-91b1-d1f6d151aa85 / btrfs defaults 0 0 UUID=9e8ed1d6-38bd-4ba0-91b1-d1f6d151aa85 /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi btrfs subvol=/@/boot/grub2/x86_64-efi 0 0 UUID=9e8ed1d6-38bd-4ba0-91b1-d1f6d151aa85 /boot/grub2/i386-pc btrfs subvol=/@/boot/grub2/i386-pc 0 0 UUID=9e8ed1d6-38bd-4ba0-91b1-d1f6d151aa85 /.snapshots btrfs subvol=/(a)/.snapshots 0 0 UUID=9e8ed1d6-38bd-4ba0-91b1-d1f6d151aa85 /var btrfs subvol=/@/var 0 0 UUID=9e8ed1d6-38bd-4ba0-91b1-d1f6d151aa85 /usr/local btrfs subvol=/@/usr/local 0 0 UUID=9e8ed1d6-38bd-4ba0-91b1-d1f6d151aa85 /tmp btrfs subvol=/@/tmp 0 0 UUID=9e8ed1d6-38bd-4ba0-91b1-d1f6d151aa85 /srv btrfs subvol=/@/srv 0 0 UUID=9e8ed1d6-38bd-4ba0-91b1-d1f6d151aa85 /root btrfs subvol=/@/root 0 0 UUID=9e8ed1d6-38bd-4ba0-91b1-d1f6d151aa85 /opt btrfs subvol=/@/opt 0 0 UUID=342cc6c9-4729-4dc4-8ecd-ba51693136fb /home xfs defaults 0 0 UUID=f1001e72-21dd-4a58-8885-ea838704359a swap swap defaults 0 0 It mounts / without subvol option, so I expected I can see "/@" at root (/). However, > ls / bin dev home lib64 mnt proc run selinux sys usr boot etc lib media opt root sbin srv tmp var My question is - Why there is no /@? Any tricks with it? - Why it doesn't mount @ as / ? If so, we don't need to write multiple lines for /etc/fstab, IMHO. - There are /boot/grub2/* subvolumes, why it doesn't set "chattr+C", instead of subvolume? -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ iijmio-mail.jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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