openSUSE Users September 2018

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by Peter Suetterlin

Hi list, I noticed strange version numbers for (at least two) Tumbleweed packages on software.opensuse.org. E.g., for GIMP it lists 2.6.12 as official release (actually in the repo is 2.10.4), for kstars it reports 4.8.2 (no idea where that even comes from - recent is 2.9.8). I'd expect there are more of them. Where are those numbers coming from? If I go to the kstars project page in openSUSE:Factory it lists 2.9.8. Should this be bug-reported? (where?). (and the blocking config window permanently popping up is a PITA....) -- 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] prevent kernel wake up a sata drive from sleep "hdparm -B 1 -Y /dev/sda1"

by Simon Becherer

Hi, tumbleweed desktopcomputer, kde: i have a harddrive only for use as backup, it is not mounted. i like to let it spin down "sleep mode" working fine: hdparm -B 1 -Y /dev/sda but after some minutes its started rotating again and going into "idle" mode. journalctl gave me: kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 kernel: ata1.00: waking up from sleep kernel: ata1: hard resetting link kernel: ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300) kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 kernel: ata1: EH complete what must i do to tell the system (kernel?) to "forget" the drive, not touching it, let it in sleep mode? (removing in some way /dev/sda ???????) simoN -- www.becherer.de -- 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] Firefox: is this a possible security problem?

by Basil Chupin

I am running Leap 15.0 but with 2 "non-standard" files: #1 - kernel-4.18.0-1, which comes from repo. '.../stable/standard/'; and #2 - Firefox v62.0b1x, which I download directly from Mozilla. I have no problems re the kernel but I mention it here to show that there is at least this file which is not 'standard' in my installation of Leap 15.0. However, I have just experienced something regarding the version of Firefox which I did not expect and something which didn't happen in the past (as in many moons ago when I last used a Nightly version of either Firefox or Thunderbird). And what happened raised in my mind whether this is a security problem for a Linux system (ie, openSUSE). Let me explain. Since 28 July I have been downloading and using Firefox downloaded from Mozilla site -- the file is a *.tar.bz2 file which I then unarchive (using the F2 option in Midnight Commander (mc)); I then copy the '/firefox' directory resulting from this un-archiving to my /home directory. To use this [new] version of Firefox I then edit the Firefox entry in the Applications menu and edit the Command to read '~/firefox/firefox %u'. When I began doing this I started with Firefox v61.0.1, but on 5 August I downloaded and started to use FF v62.0b14, followed by v62.0b15 on 10 August. For all of the (3) preceding files I downloaded the files myself, unarchived them, deleted/renamed the '/firefox' directory in '/home', and copied across the new version of FF to my '/home'. Until today. What occurred today is something which I did not expect on a Linux system: Firefox *UPGRADED* *ITSELF* to version 62.0b17. As I did in the past to download the latest version of FF, I clicked on HELP and when the box-menu appeared there was the message, normally seen on a Windows installation, "Restart Firefox to <something>' and the version number showing was 62.0b17. === Now that I have written the above, I just now looked inside the '/firefox' directory in my '/home' and found to my surprise 2 files: 'updater' (156, 296 bytes big), and 'updater.ini' (681 bytes big). The contents of *.ini' is attached. The only conclusion I can come to is that Firefox updated itself -- similarly to what it does in Windows! But how is this allowed in openSUSE/Linux? I do understand that I manually installed Firefox in my /home directory and that it wasn't installed in the directory /usr/lib64/firefox accessed only by root but I certainly do not expect a program to self-update/upgrade without my manual intervention. If openSUSE now allows the execution of the 'installer' in Firefox what is there to stop that 'installer' being modified to cause damage to the system? (BTW, the same 'installer' is present in Thunderbird downloadable from Mozilla -- and I am using TB v60.0 [created 1 Aug].) Is this ability in Firefox, and Thunderbird, acceptable behaviour or am I being paranoid? 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

2 years, 7 months

[opensuse] firefox screenshot haywire?

by Dave Howorth

I just tried to take a snapshot of a web page and got a popup that says: Whoa! Firefox Screenshots wnet haywire. We're not sure what just happened. Care to try again or take a shot of a different page? But that's it. There are no buttons to choose 'try again' or 'shot of another page', just an X in the upper-right corner. The page itself is darkened with a blue 'kitt car' line in the middle. That stays there even after I close the popup, but disappears if I try to take an FF snapshot of it. Anybody else seen anything like this? The page I was trying to snapshot was https://www.bbc.co.uk/news which has been redesigned to be unusable without Javascript. -- 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 Users September 2018