openSUSE Users September 2018

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[opensuse] Q: How to set min battery voltage on laptop

by Andrei Verovski

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

2 years, 7 months

[opensuse] Q: How to change values in /sys/class/power_supply ?

by Andrei Verovski

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

2 years, 7 months

[opensuse] devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_Leap_42.3

by Roger Oberholtzer

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

2 years, 7 months

[opensuse] Issues with Susefirewall - Opensuse 15.0

by James Knott

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

2 years, 7 months

[opensuse] Solaar Opensuse Leap 15

by Joerg Kuehne

Solaar is a Linux device manager for Logitech’s Unifying Receiver peripherals. It is able to pair/unpair devices to the receiver, and for most devices read battery status. Under Opensuse Leap 15 you may get following error: solaar: error: GObject.__init__() takes exactly 0 arguments (4 given) The solution is to install the package python2-gobject-Gdk This package should be included in the dependencies of solaar. Maybe this helps someone. Jörg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

2 years, 7 months

[opensuse] Using e2fsck in, eg, Leap 15.0

by Basil Chupin

Many moons ago, when nobody ever walked into a lamp post while staring into a smartphone, one could check the status of the ext4 file system where oS was installed (as a for instance, /dev/hda3). To do this, one first issued (as root) the command: init 1 followed by mount -o remount, ro /dev/hdXY and then issuing: e2fsck /dev/hdXY (preferably) without any parameters. Now, I see that 'e2fsck /dev/hdXY' (man e2fsck) this command is still available and effective but the 'mount -o...' command does not 'work' anymore. What is the new way, please if anyone knows, to check the status of the ext4 file system? BC -- There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and face the situation. W C Fields -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

2 years, 7 months

[opensuse] liberation-fonts update problem

by ken

Quite vaguely I recall this problem's possibly being mentioned on this list some months ago, but a search didn't find me the thread. In trying to perform updates, I'm getting this error message: suse-xsl-stylesheets-2.0.7.2-5.3.1.noarch requires liberation-fonts, but this requirement cannot be provided A web search on that error message return null hits. Anyone know the resolution? tnx++ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

2 years, 7 months

[opensuse] USB stick is not writeable after playing content on smart TV

by Albert Oszkó

Hi all, My problem is shown in the subject. I just wanted to try whether our not too young, not too smart TV can play mkv files. So I copied two videos on a 8G FAT 32 USB stick. The TV could play both files, with sound. I waned to add some more files from my laptop, but the drive is not writeable any more. Not as superuser. I see the content and can play the two video files on the laptop. I noticed that a new directory, called DVR was created. What can I do besides reformatting? Thanks, Albert

2 years, 7 months

[opensuse] UEFI, dual boot, and shrinking Windows partition

by Mikhail Ramendik

Hello, So I have this Lenovo AMD A6 laptop with 4 Gb of RAM and an HDD (not SSD). And under Windows 10 it is s-l-o-w, but my wife uses it and she has one indispensable Windows application. I would like to make this a dual-boot machine, so that if Linux proves much faster, we could try that application under WINE, or try VirtualBox with some very old Windows in it, or, finally, see if an open source replacement can be made to work for her. But it's a recent laptop so it has UEFI and Secure Boot and all that. Also, no optical drive at all, of course. So what can I do to make this into a dual-boot machine with OpenSUSE?.. -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

2 years, 7 months

[opensuse] What fills root if not snapshots

by Albert Oszkó

Hi all, This Asus laptop (with TW and KDE) was not used for ten days. Yesterday evening I switched it on and saw I have >800 updates. I tried tio install them with zypper dup. I failed, because root got full. This was with 4.18.0 kernel. I managed to boot into 4.17.14 kernel (got some complaints, but none showstopper) and manually remove all downloaded rpm packages from /var/cache/zypp/packages with mc. Dolphin did not start in superuser mode. All these deleted and having only the 0 and 1 snapshots, I have less than 600 M in root from 40 G. And I have no idea where is the rest of the space? Can I get any help? Albert

2 years, 7 months

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