September 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Yes, I'm alive app? Or "dead man button app"
by Carlos E. R. 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

Hi, Somebody is asking an interesting question on usenet, and I'll ask it here in his stead. He needs a "dead man button" application or script. If someone press the button, nothing is done. If not pressed for, say, 10 hours, send an email. Maybe send another periodically to confirm it is running. Does somebody know of one such? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas)) -- 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] Vivaldi snapshot v2.0.1296.4 -
by Ianseeks 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

If you are thinking of upgrading to this snapshot version - don't. Its tabs keep crashing, looks like a bit more work is needed. -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20180905 Qt: 5.11.1 KDE Frameworks: 5.49.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.13.4 - kwin 5.13.4 kmail2 5.9.0 - akonadiserver 5.9.0 - Kernel: 4.18.5-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.15 -- 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] Password prompt for whole disk encryption changed keyboard layout
by Bjoern Voigt 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

Since the updates from beginning of this week I have to use the English keyboard layout to type in my encryption password for the whole disk encryption (openSUSE standard: encryption with LUKS and LVM, openSUSE 15.0). The password prompt is now in English regardless if I use the graphical Plymouth prompt or the console prompt. It was in German before the updates. The password input for GDM display manager later is in German. Does anyone else saw this behavior? Where can I reset the keyboard setting for the initial encryption password prompt? Greetings, Björn -- 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] Latest Thunderbird v60 for Leap -- a word of caution
by Basil Chupin 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

Just a word of caution re the latest version (version 60) of Thunderbird which will be installed when you update Leap 15.0: you will lose most, if not all, of your existing Extensions and Theme -- by this I mean that they will become 'Incompatible with...'. I don't have the time at the moment to try and find replacements (if any) for all of my 'lost' Extensions, and my favourite Theme, so I simply uninstalled v60 and re-installed version 52.9. (BTW, I saw that zypper was going to update TB (and Firefox) so the first thing I did before executing the new TB was to backup my '~/.thunderbird' directory to be on the safe side.) BC -- "Truth isn't truth." Rudy Guiliani, Donald Trump's lawyer, 20 August 2018 -- 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] Removing BTRFS from system
by don fisher 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

Is there a way to remove BTRFS from a running opensuse system and convert to another file system, such as ext4? I did not see anything on line. 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] any reason for not using /etc/sysconfig/network/routes ?
by Per Jessen 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

Leap15 - I noticed today that yast prefers writing route configs to 'ifroute-ethx' instead of just 'routes'. I prefer using 'routes' - any reason I shouldn't ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.6°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] Q: How to set min battery voltage on laptop
by Andrei Verovski 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

Hi ! I have reconditioned Lenovo Thinkpad laptop battery with new high-capacity 18650 cells from Samsung. However, even after battery stats reset with Lenovo Power Management software, battery capacity and remaining time are being displayed incorrectly, data is based on old 2200 mAh cells, now new 3500 mAh ones. Since I did not found a way to reset battery EPROM chip, the only way is to set minimum battery voltage is to hack parameters of either kernel/acpi or upower. Battery voltage seem to be displayed correctly yet capacity and remaining time are not. Laptop shuts down prematurely with battery still holding enough charge. How to correctly do this ? I’m using MATE desktop, it deploys standard Gnome utilities for power management. Thanks in advance Andrei -- 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: How to change values in /sys/class/power_supply ?
by Andrei Verovski 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Hi, How to change values in /sys/class/power_supply, making them permanent between reboots ? This doesn’t work when executed as root, get permission error. echo 68000000 > /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity_full_design May be is possible to set it in? /etc/sysctl.conf Thanks in advance for any help. Andrei -- 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] devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_Leap_42.3
by Roger Oberholtzer 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

I'm sure I must just have missed any discussion, but what happened to devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_Leap_42.3 I see only these: openSUSE_Factory_ARM/ openSUSE_Factory_PowerPC openSUSE_Factory_zSystems openSUSE_Tumbleweed Should we be using openSUSE_Tumbleweed on a Leap_42.3 system? I wouldn't think so. Or is the intention that we stick to the original packages for 42.3? What to do if we have already been using devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_Leap_42.3? -- 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] Issues with Susefirewall - Opensuse 15.0
by James Knott 09 Sep '18

09 Sep '18

I am trying to set up the firewall for a very specific and perhaps unusual situation. First thing I noticed, when trying to set up the firewall was that the Yast firewall-config package was not installed. Even after installing, I find that when I try to configure the firewall, I get a message firewalld is not running. I can go into Services Manager, to enable and start it. However, after rebooting, while still enabled, firewalld is not starting. Seems to me there's a bit of a problem here. Next, is there anyway to filter outgoing packets? I don't see it in the firewall configuration. I'm trying to block the MAC address from the Ethernet port on my notebook from going out onto the network. This is the unusual situation I referred to. I have a small managed switch, which I configured for port mirroring, so that I can use Wireshark to monitor traffic to other computers. This involves inserting what's commonly referred to as a "data tap" between the two devices. I am using the managed switch in that roll. However, unlike switches from Cisco, Adtran etc., this TP-Link switch allows traffic from the monitor port to pass through the other switch ports. In a network, where a switch is configured for port security, this may cause problems, in that the port may be shut down, if an unauthorized MAC address appears on that port. Since this switch I'm using to monitor the connection allows frame from the mirror port out, this might actually cause a failure. My goal is to block any frame with the Ethernet port MAC address from leaving the computer. While I could write the appropriate IPTables commands to do this, I would prefer to do it in the firewall configuration, as the network manager supports loading specific zones, but I don't see a way to call a script. I am trying to use the "drop" zone and filtering on source MAC address. Suggestions? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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