August 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Okular - Please put Adobe Reader back in
by James Knott 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Since switching to Leap 15.0, I have been forced to use Okular, as Adobe Reader no longer works. Is it possible to please PLEASE put it back in there? I find Okular is a very poor replacement for Adobe. For example, I often get some bills online, open them and then save. While I can open them, saving them is a real pain, compared to Adobe. For example, when I select Save as, it wants to put the file in some directory that has nothing to do with where I save documents. I can only assume it's a directory for temp files. There isn't even an easy selection for my home directory. I have to click on a button to take me to /, where I then have to select home, then my ID and only then, am I anywhere near where I want to save the file. With Adobe, it had no problem automatically selecting the folder where I wanted to save the file. Why isn't there something as simple as a home directory button, so I don't have to go through all that nonsense? Please put Adobe Reader back in, so that we have a PDF app that works properly!!! -- 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 would be the proper command to swtich off wlan?
by Carlos E. R. 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Hi, I have a small laptop that doesn't have a separate switch for the WiFi, and when I plug in the ethernet cable I get both wlan and eth connections, which cause some problems (it should not, but it does). The laptop has a "airplane button" on F7 special keys which is ignored. Other keys do work, like the volume. The command "rcnetwork stop wlan1" does stop wlan, but "rcnetwork restart eth0" starts again the wifi (both, eth and wlan). How can I stop the wlan, so that NM doesn't reactivate it again? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)

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[opensuse] Proper way to install ruby gems in leap?
by Josef Wolf 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

Hello, what is the proper way to install ruby gems in opensuse leap? I see there are lots of gems installable as rpm packages. I guess, those should be installed via zypper instead of gem? then, there is the gem program to install from rubygem.org. Should this one be run as root or as user? Google reveals lots of problems with this tool both ways. Then, there exists ruby-bundler. How do this one fit into the picture? Any help? -- Josef Wolf jw(a)raven.inka.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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[opensuse] Kernel Stable on leap-15.0
by Mark Hounschell 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

I'm sure I am not the only one that does not use the Dist. kernel. Has anyone noticed that the stable kernel change from 4.18 to 4.18.1 causes the mkinitrd process to take over 10-15 minutes as opposed to 1-2? And it seems to be the i915 drm driver that causes this crazy thing? If it is removed from the config, all is normal. Could this be a Dracut bug? I suspect the kernel, but who am I to say. For the 10 minutes or so it appears to be hung up, ps shows: 2626 pts/8 S+ 0:00 make -f ./scripts/Makefile.build obj=arch/x86/boot install 2627 pts/8 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/installkernel 4.18.1 arch/x86/boot/bzImage System.map /boot 2642 pts/11 Ss 0:00 /bin/bash 2659 pts/8 S+ 0:00 /bin/bash --norc /usr/bin/dracut --hostonly --force /boot/initrd-4.18.1 4.18.1 4581 pts/1 Ss 0:00 /bin/bash 4620 pts/8 S+ 0:00 /bin/bash --norc /usr/bin/dracut --hostonly --force /boot/initrd-4.18.1 4.18.1 4622 pts/8 S+ 0:00 /bin/bash --norc /usr/bin/dracut --hostonly --force /boot/initrd-4.18.1 4.18.1 4623 pts/8 S+ 0:00 /bin/bash --norc /usr/bin/dracut --hostonly --force /boot/initrd-4.18.1 4.18.1 4624 pts/8 S+ 0:00 /bin/bash --norc /usr/bin/dracut --hostonly --force /boot/initrd-4.18.1 4.18.1 4625 pts/8 S+ 0:09 /bin/bash --norc /usr/bin/dracut --hostonly --force /boot/initrd-4.18.1 4.18.1 4627 pts/8 R+ 1:47 /bin/bash --norc /usr/bin/dracut --hostonly --force /boot/initrd-4.18.1 4.18.1 4682 pts/8 S+ 0:00 /bin/bash --norc /usr/bin/dracut --hostonly --force /boot/initrd-4.18.1 4.18.1 4683 pts/8 S+ 0:00 cat /lib/modules/4.18.1//kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko 4684 pts/8 S+ 0:00 tr -cd [:print:] Regards Mark -- 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] Leap15 - how to run acrobat reader.
by Per Jessen 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

Per Jessen wrote: > Maybe you just stuck your head out at the wrong time? > Nothing wrong with your posting, Don. Nice success report, > accompanied by clear instructions on how to reproduce. FWIW, this is what I just did on Leap15 - a plain desktop machine, 'office38'. remove the older acroread package, (I had played with that previously) download and install the one acroread package from https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home%3AXimi1970%3AopenSUSE%3AExtra/… I copied over the libpcre and libxcb libraries into /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/ Starting acroread still caused an assert() failure. Looking at the libraries which were open on my Leap423 machine, it looks like I needed glibc-locale-32bit, so I installed that and acroread started up. Wrt Okular - for my usage patterns, it actually works fine most of the time. I have one open issue, printing A5 pages. The newer Okular on Leap15 does not recognise the page size from the PDF, but an older one (openSUSE 13.1) does. Occasionally, this makes office work slightly awkward, but manageable, as long as we still have that old machine running :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made 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] multi-distro-release compatibilty (was Re: Okular - Please put Adobe Reader back in)
by L A Walsh 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

Knurpht-openSUSE wrote: > Anyway, this definitely is not an openSUSE problem**, > the project has no way to change this, unless Adobe open > sources the code, which is, given their > statements in the past, not going to happen ---- ** MS adopted this problem and decided it was their responsibility. At first they worked on solving 'DLL-hell' in XP, and by Vista+Win7, they'd pretty much solved that with side-by-side libraries (keeping old dynamic libs and loading the correct one for each app loaded). Later they added a special daemon ("Application Experience") to create a load-time environment around apps to support more complex cases. Distros and linux-run-time(gnu) is mostly going the other direction -- specifically adding features that are more likely to disallow apps not built specifically for a specific distribution. To support these apps, it would simply be a matter of saving their dependency-libs and not deleting old libs when adding new ones. It would also involve bumping the 'so#' on libraries when interfaces change, and not distributing files of the same name with different internal apis (internal symbol versioning). Basically linux is moving away from the model that has allowed MS to dominate the market and that will marginalize and eventually kill off any chance of linux being a competing platform. -- 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] install leap 15.0 in 10Gb
by jdd＠dodin.org 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

Hello :-) I have on a computera 10Gb partition with at start 42.1 then 42.3 that is used mostly for rescue use. I try to upgrade to leap 15.0 and it works, but I'm very short on disk space. I had around 1.5Gb free and I fight to have 300Mb free now. I use icewm as windows manager what can I do to reclaim some disk space? (I can't give more disk space, this partition is a remain from history :-) 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] FF 60.1.0esr (64-bit), Flash, & vCenter
by Adam Tauno Williams 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

I manage a hosted cloud through the vCenter (vmware) web "portal". Since updating to Firefox 60.1.0esr accessing this site - which is a giant flash app - crashes with a segfault of the plugin-container (error 14). Anyone else experience this, or have any tips to try? [ 438.134172] plugin-containe[25160]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007f8111c98208 error 14 [ 438.304504] plugin-containe[25179]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007f8ca0498208 error 14 [ 438.515155] plugin-containe[25206]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007fcc52e98208 error 14 Linux 4.4.143-65-defaul MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-45-14.1.x86_64 MozillaFirefox-60.1.0-106.1.x86_64 flash-player-ppapi-30.0.0.154-1.1.x86_64 -- Meetings Coordinator, Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers 537 Shirley St NE Grand Rapids, MI 49503-1754 Phone: 616.581.8010 E-mail: awilliam(a)whitemice.org GPG#D95ED383 Web: http://www.marp.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] why embedded versions for everything?
by L A Walsh 28 Aug '18

28 Aug '18

I compiled a new version some of the linux utils for some specific bug fix or feature, and with libsmartcols.so.1 getting recompiled. Afterwards, several programs would no longer run and I got messages like: /bin/findmnt: /lib64/libsmartcols.so.1: version `SMARTCOLS_2.25' not found (required by /bin/findmnt). The first thing I noted, was libsmartcols.so.1 had 3 versions: 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2, with version '1' pointing at '1.2'. None of those were version 2.25 -- the version number of the release of the linux utils. So why does findmnt look for a bogus version number when the version number is given in the file name? Second, what benefit does this provide to the end user? Why are these bogus version numbers being added to libraries and programs that run perfectly fine with out them (unless something requires them and failed when it can't fined them). I fail to see the benefit w/o unless a specific lib is messed up. Is there an easy util to run to strip all these out -- from libs and the programs that require them? -- 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] mt setblk command in leap-15.0
by Mark Hounschell 28 Aug '18

28 Aug '18

Can anyone explain why mt on leap-15 no longer allows the setblk command. It works fine on leap-42.3 and on back. Not on Leap-15. This is not good. Regards Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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