I just upgrade my box from 42.3 to 15. Just one heart-stopping period.
I used zypper dup and the good news is that it performed the upgrade
apparently successfully and didn't complain about my reiserfs
filesystems, which still work.
The heart-stopping moment came when I rebooted. I saw the h/w start up,
and then grub, and the opensuse stuff* and then it switched to X (or at
least an X-style arrow mouse pointer appeared. But it then just sat
there with a black screen. Initially it didn't seem I could do anything
at all, but after rebooting again with nomodeset I was able to select
text-mode tty2. After a lot of faffing around and getting frustrated I
started yast in text mode and went to update-alternatives and switched
from sddm to lightdm. After I rebooted, everything worked.
I have no idea why sddm wasn't working, but then I have no idea why it
chose sddm when I was previously using lightdm.
* I also have no idea why the stuff I saw at bootup included plymouth,
since it wasn't installed before the upgrade. I've deleted and
tabooed it.
One thing that wasted my time was that during the upgrade I was asked
to approve a licence - something about nvidia video. Now my box doesn't
have an nvidia hardware; it uses Intel 915 video. So one of the things
I tried to fix my problem was to remove some packages with nvidia in
their name, on the offchance it was a driver issue. But I couldn't
remove them because of lots of dependencies. What's going on there? Why
do I need a whole bunch of packages with nvidia in their names even
with no nvidia hardware? And why do I have to agree some special
licence?
I wonder what other gotchas await? Hopefully none.
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Point of interest,
After recent discussion, and after reading
https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.0/
5.2 Use update-alternatives to Set Login Manager and Desktop Session
the question of "Why use update-alternatives?" for this configuration
functionality instead of "Standardizing around systemd service?"
What benefit does a suse-specific 'yast2-alternatives' package have over
standardizing with systemd?
(nit/note: release notes html format should be tweaked to allow selecting
heading lines without "\nReport Bug\n#" getting tagged on)
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I had the following indication from Knurpth:
Install postgresql 9.6 ( not 10, if that's installed use update-alternatives
--config postgresql )
Stop akonadi, move ~/.local/share/akonadi so that you can go back
Change ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc like this
==============
[Debug]
Tracer=null
[%General]
Driver=QPSQL
[QPSQL]
Host=/tmp/akonadi-YOURUSERNAME.SOMEHASH
InitDbPath=/usr/bin/initdb
Name=akonadi
Options=
ServerPath=/usr/bin/pg_ctl
StartServer=true
==============
Start akonadi and the database will be rebuilt. Took about 20 minutes for 7
IMAP, 1 POP account, total of ~150.000 emails.
On Leap you may need some extra KDE Framework lib, but AFAIK that's no longer
needed.
Now my question was:
Referring to:
>Install postgresql 9.6 ( not 10, if that's installed use update-alternatives
>--config postgresql )
I do not understand this, I do run postgres --config postgresql after having
it installed from the terminal?
Postgres96 client or server? I suppose client. Or is it like mythtv that you
have to install both on the same machine?
I have seen it does draw in
forcefully(!) also postgressql10 and and postgresql (version 10 also).
>Stop akonadi, move ~/.local/share/akonadi so that you can go back
So is it sufficient to rename it? Or what do you mean with move?
BTW why not version 10? Is it known to have problems?
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My story: A few days ago we were greeted with a beeping ups when we
awakened Determined finally that the power supply for my desktop
(OS13.1) had failed and took the motherboard with it. Fortunately the
hdd was ok. Being between paychecks and having already committed to a
different project, repair or replace wasn't an option at this time so I
cast a covetous look at the webserver which is running Ubuntu 16.04.
Simple, right? Wrong. Apache will run on about any linux platform and
Ubuntu is the newest thing I had on dvd at the time so that's why.
HOWEVER, when I started trying to move my desktop operations over to it,
I discovered what others may already know: Ubuntu 16.04 with its Unity
desktop is a piece of sh_t. Software installation and changes? Forget
the gui. Duckduckgo has been a real help.
Today I have the final major piece of the desktop (thunderbird email) up
and running so there is some degree of normalcy here again. I am
anticipating the time when I have the funds to replace mobo + cpu + mem
in my blown puter and drop OS15.1 in it.
The real plus to the move is that website admin is now much easier with
me and it in the same box.
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Hello
I can not install Leap 15.0 (openSUSE-Leap-15.0-DVD-x86_64.iso downloaded today) on a friend's old Asus X53S laptop.
This was a bit unexpected because the machine was running a dual boot setup Win7 / openSUSE-42.1 that I installed a few years ago.
A sticker on the laptop sayes that it has a "GEFORCE GT540M CUDA 2GB" card.
The installation of Leap 15.0 stops abruptly at boot menu right after I select "Leap 15.0" to initiate the installation :
Loading initial kernel...
Loading initial ramdisk...
I tried hitting 'e' at the boot menu screen at the beginning of the Leap 15.0 installation and then scrolling down to the line that begins "linuxefi" and adding "nomodeset" at
the end..
Existing line was : linuxefi /boot/x86_64/loader/linux splash=silent
I added nomodeset like this : linuxefi /boot/x86_64/loader/linux splash=silent nomodeset
After which I hit Ctrl + X or F10 to contine booting.
This changed nothing. The installation of Leap 15.0 stops abruptly as before.
I also had the same problem trying to install Leap-15.0 with the openSUSE-Leap-15.0-NET-x86_64.iso
I downloaded TW (openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Current.iso) and it installed fine. :)
The Asus X53S video details on TW setup follow :
linux-ws6z:~ # lspci -nnk | grep -A3 VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:15f2]
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 540M] [10de:0df4] (rev a1)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:15f2]
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau
I also dug out an old usb key which had Leap-42.3. When I tried installing it, I had same problem - that is the installation of Leap-42.3 stoped abruptly at boot menu with the
same info :
Loading initial kernel...
Loading initial ramdisk...
Any and all help to install Leap-15.0 and/or comments are appreciated.
TIA
Regards
James
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I start a new thread to not mix up things.
I have an Asus GL552V laptop, i7 6700, optimus graphics intel/nvidia
running opensuse leap 42.3, KDE
The nvidia drivers are installed, but they are not loaded. I have no
idea why.
I completely removed everything nvidia, disabling the opensuse.nvidia
repository. Then booted in init 3 and installed those drivers again
using yast. I hoped this fresh istall would make them appear loaded, but no.
It is possible that due to the many things I tried to get this optimus
stuff running again (it worked under 13.x using suse-prime) that there
is some mess in the things installed or not installed. But I don't know
what is needed and what not and where to begin to search....
By the way the is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file on my system and yast said
something about that when installing the nvidia drivers.
I have a xorg.conf.bak and a xorg.conf.install, furthermore a
xorg.conf.nvidia-post and xorg.conf.nvidia-xconfig-original.
I copied xorg.conf.bak (and later xorg.conf.install) to xorg.conf, but
with this I could not reach the graphical kde login anymore. So I
deleted it again. An here I am.
So, if you think there is any hope that I can use the nvidia card on
this optimus laptop, please help!
I guess the first thing is to have those nvidia drivers loaded. And then
go further from there...
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Hello,
I still suffer from my expensive useless laptop. Besides that the nvidia
card is not running no way, even the intel graphics makes problems:
sometimes (often!) one window or one message (like the alert when mails
arrive) flickers.
In text windows like this email or in kwrite or in console sometimes the
text hops up and down some lines, sometimes freshly written text appears
and disappears and the former text lines reformat. Sometimes a website
in firefox (or any other browser) flickers, hops up and down for maybe
50 pixels, sometimes in digikam the album tree appears and disappears.
It happens always just in one window, sometimes one in the background
(so the visible part flickers), sometimes the active one.
If text flickers (moves up and down etc.) sometimes I can solve it if I
scroll a bit and it keeps quiet for a while...
All /really/ annoying.
So: still the question: is there any way to make the nvidia graphics run
on Linux?
and: how can I accomplish that at least the weak intel graphics do the
normal work? I already accepted that on this laptop I cannot view high
res videos, but at least that flickering should go away, somehow...
This is opensuse 42.3, KDE
on a Asus GL552V laptop, i7 6700, optimus graphics
(intel graphics cannot be disabled in BIOS, I checked)
Any new ideas more than welcome!
Daniel
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Is it possible to upgrade KDE in Leap?
Does this require also an upgrade of QT?
Does this upgrade also akonadi? (as akonadi/kontact in Leap 15 is getting a
serious problem - system overheat, memory leak, crash on restart of Kontact).
If somebody has experience with the procedure I would appreciate a trace of:
- what repos
- what zypper command
- experiences with the current kde version regarding kontact/akonadi
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So I just tried to build the current video4linux (266752) for opensuse
Leap 42.3 and it fails.
It starts by issuing a bunch of warnings and finally an error because
openSUSE has backported a changed kernel API for get_user_pages that
doesn't match its stated kernel version, which v4l uses to try to
compile against a variety of kernels.
Does anybody know what that is all about?
Also, would upgrading to Leap 15 solve the problem and let me compile
v4l, or would it just leave me even more frustrated?
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What's the best/easiest way to stop a program accessing the net?
I want to run a program (actually 'make') that may in turn run other
programs and some of which might try to access the net. I'd like the
access to be stopped and me given a meaningful error message (i.e. what
part of what program tried to access what net resource). Ideally, I'd
then have the choice of aborting or allowing it to continue.
Searching throws up various possibilities, some of which are not in the
standard repositories, and I'm not sure what the best approach is.
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