June 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Leap 15 and rhythmbox
by don fisher 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

I am having troubles with rhythmbox. The application opens, and I can select a track to play. But none of the buttons work. I receive an error message: Unable to grab media player keys: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Dbus.Error.ServiceUnKnown: The name org.gnome.SettingsDaemon was not provided by any .service files I do not have Gnome installed. And I do not know what this means. Please help. 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] dd to copy a partition?
by Lew Wolfgang 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Hi Folks, One of my acolytes reported that she used dd to copy one disk partition to another partition on the same disk, as in: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda2 She said it failed, but was a little fuzzy about exactly what happened (I wasn't there), just that the destination partition appeared to be "empty" after the operation. I don't know how she made that determination. I've been doing UNIX stuff for a long time but I never would have thought to use dd in this fashion. Maybe instinct? But assuming that the two partitions are exactly the same size, what could possibly go wrong? I think she was using 42.3, probably with ext4. Definitely not btrfs, if that matters. Regards, Lew -- 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] kde4 policykit: authentication required
by Istvan Gabor 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Hello: This occurs in openSUSE 13.1 with KDE4 Platform Version 4.11.5. I have a disk partition in the fstab file like this: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-......-part8 /mnt/partition8 ext3 noauto,users 1 2 According to this normal users should be able to mount the partition. It works if I mount the partition in konsole by "mount /mnt/partition8". If I try to mount the partition in krusader file manager by right click/mount I get a window with an error message: "Authentication is required to mount ............ (/dev/sda8) An application is attempting to perform an action that requires privileges. Authentication is required to perform this action. Password for root: " In dolphin there is no option to mount the partiton. It seems KDE4 or krusader ignores what is set in fstab and requires root password. Why is this and how to fix? I know openSUSE 13.1 is old and but it still should work. 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] Leap 15.0: how to get the penguin boot screen
by Darryl Gregorash 15 Jun '18

15 Jun '18

I followed the steps at https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Animated_penguin_GRUB_splash_screen (first it was necessary to install gfxboot which wasn't installed at installation), and verified that /boot/message does indeed show "penguin=100". Clearly, there is something I still need to do that isn't mentioned in that URL, because I still see the default boot screen. This is the first time I've ever played with anything to do with the boot process, so any help is greatly appreciated. -- 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] 15.0 KDE desktop goes wonkey
by James Knott 15 Jun '18

15 Jun '18

One thing I've noticed since upgrading to 15.0 is the KDE desktop goes wonkey (please pardon the technical jargon) where the icon images on the task bar seem to enlarge the image, within the same size icon. Text also gets bigger. Sometimes it also affects the desktop icons. The only way to clear it is to log out. Has anyone else seen 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] Connection to forums refused (NNTP)
by Ken Schneider - openSUSE 15 Jun '18

15 Jun '18

Is anyone else having problems connecting to the forums via NNTP? -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- 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] Failed upgrade to 15.0
by Carlos E. R. 15 Jun '18

15 Jun '18

Hi, I failed to upgrade a test partition with Leap 42.3 to 15.0, using the DVD method. First it aborted because it found reiserfs partitions in fstab, even though they were references to quite old openSUSE installs on other partitions. Like 13.1. Obviously I can not change them. This is absurd. I had to comment them out. :-/ I rebooted and tried again, and after it started probing the target partition, yast crashed. I got logs and photos, will write a bugzilla later, time permitting. This is the first failed DVD upgrade I get since 1998 :-/ I don't even know why. <http://paste.opensuse.org/7824651> <http://paste.opensuse.org/84936112> -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE Malachite, Leap 42.3 x86_64 (ssd-test)) -- 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] If this Mailing List gets closed
by Peter Welles 15 Jun '18

15 Jun '18

Hello, I want to thank all the volunteers who help on this list. I am also grateful to the users who ask the questions. I learn a lot by reading the replies. I use this list as my extra "eyes and ears" because the number of applications and documentation pages can be overwhelming. I am more of a corner case type of guy so to me the new support list is not appealing. Thank you again, Peter Welles -- 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] Mailinglist changes going forward
by Simon Lees 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Hello everyone, Firstly I am cross posting this across a number of mailinglists because this post affects several, but I would ask that you keep your replies / feedback on the openSUSE project list as not to fragment discussion. It has been raised with the board by several members of the community that some of our mailinglists have not been working as effectively as we would like. As such and as raised in our annual discussion with the community during the conference, the board has decided to take a couple of steps that we hope will resolve these issues or that will at least be a starting point in resolving these issues. Firstly we have created a new opensuse-support(a)o.o mailing list, we as the board felt that in the transition from factory -> tumbleweed in particular the change in role for opensuse(a)o.o did not work well and in many cases there was an attitude that factory/tumbleweed issues should still be posted on the factory mailing list. As such we have created the support mailing list to help clarify these changes in policy that we don't believe worked when we tried to change them last time. In short we would like you to use opensuse-support(a)o.o whenever you require support whether it is for Tumbleweed, Leap (regardless of whether you are using a Leap beta or not) or any other project under the openSUSE umbrella. This brings us to the next issue, posting bugs / bug reports on mailing lists rather then bugzilla. This is a practice we would like to see stopped and we will be gently reminding people if they continue posting bugs on mailinglists, this especially includes if a package / application breaks when updating tumbleweed / leap (including beta's). We would ask that you search for your issue prior to reporting but in case you accidentally report a duplicate bug its easy for us to mark it as such, also if you report something that is intentional and not a bug it doesn't take long to mark it as such, so if in doubt file a bug rather then posting to a mailing list, there is useful information for filing bugs at the following links [1][2]. But if you are really stuck with trying to file your bug the friendly people at opensuse-support(a)o.o can support you through the process. The board hopes that with the changes outlined above the contents of the opensuse-factory(a)o.o will go back to just being general distro development discussion so if your post to openSUSE factory is something other then that think twice about where the more appropriate place to post is. The new tumbleweed snapshots will continue to be posted to factory but we would ask you do not reply to them in order to report issues / bugs. If a bug is reported that a package maintainer believes will cause significant issues for most tumbleweed users ie not being able to boot / login or severe data loss we still invite the maintainer to post a warning to opensuse-factory but such issues happen very rarely and as such we don't expect to see many such posts. The board has decided that it would like to see how well these changes work before deciding to add / remove / change openSUSE's mailing lists further. Although we have discussed several other possibilities that we could also try in the future. 1. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_reporting_FAQ 2. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B

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[opensuse] one single problem upgrading Leap 42.3->15.0
by Paul Neuwirth 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Hello, upgrade using zypper runs very smoothly, in all cases (3 so far) I got a perfect working system (after reboot). But: directly after the installation I have hundred(s) of zombie processes. systemd seams to be dead.. there are dozens of error messages during upgrade because of that. shutdown does not work.. In all cases I needed to use magic sysrequest to sync and reboot. Is it a known issue? Or where do I find the errors in logs - I do not see these messages (from rpm scripts) in zypper.log? Thank you, and great work this 15.0 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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