January 2019 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] What is this problem and how to solve it?
by Basil Chupin 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

I am trying to update my wife's Leap 15.0 system and get this error when using either zypper or Yast2. I am using the kernel from the ../Kernel:/stable/standard/ repository on my Leap 15.0 as well as hers but I am not having this hassle. When using zypper to update I get this error msg (pls see attached zypper_error-31.png) and when using Yast I get the error msg in the attached Yast_error-31.png. Yesterday when I tried to do same, the 'zypper up' got a lot further in the installation - pls see attached zypper_error.png. I have run 'zypper clean -a' and 'zypper refresh -fdb' but this hasn't helped. Anyone please suggest what is causing this problem and how to how to get rid of the cause of this problem? BC -- 'When I use a word', Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean.' Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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[opensuse] how to play MP4 files on Firefox
by don fisher 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

I am running Firefox 60.4 under 42.3. In the past I was able to play .mp4 files using my browser. A recent trial failed. What am I doing wrong and how can I view these files? 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] /var/adm/backup/rpmdb
by Felix Miata 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

The cron script cron.daily makes daily copies of the database (packed with gzip) and stores them in /var/adm/backup/rpmdb. The number of copies is controlled by the variable MAX_RPMDB_BACKUPS (default: 5) in /etc/sysconfig/backup. The size of a single backup is approximately 1 MB for 1 GB in /usr. 1-Why 5? 2-What do I loose if if I keep 1 or 2 instead of 5? 3-What do they offer that rpm --rebuilddb doesn't? 4-Why isn't rebuilddb in the rpm manual? 5-Why 30,000k per backup file? (My /usr is typically <3G total, including /usr/local/ which is on a separate filesystem.) >From TW20181124: /var/adm/backup/rpmdb# ls -Ggh total 134M -rw-r--r-- 1 27M Jul 29 06:24 Packages-20180729.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 27M Aug 2 03:50 Packages-20180802.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 27M Sep 30 13:48 Packages-20180930.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 27M Dec 1 20:38 Packages-20181201.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 27M Dec 2 00:04 Packages-20181202.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 36 Dec 2 00:04 rpmdb_recent_md5 -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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] Update trouble
by A. den Oudsten 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

After updates since 20180115 in Tumbleweed I get Removal of (56408)plasma5-addons-lang-5.14.4-1.1.noarch(@System) failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: package plasma5-addons-lang-5.14.4-1.1.noarch is not installed and now updates! What can be the solution? Tia André den Oudsten -- 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] KDE and recent locations
by Roger Oberholtzer 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

We have an interesting issue that I think is caused by KDE and recent locations. I think that when you start KDE, something is attempting to access directories that you have recently been in, for example in Dolphin. Sounds innocent. However, if you: 1. Turn on two computers. One is your openSUSE with KDE (the mount client), and the other shares a drive. 2. Mount a remote drive during one login session. Perhaps visit the mounted drive with dolphin. As one does. 3. Exit all programs in KDE and then log out. Turn off the computers. 4. Turn on only your linux computer and log in to the desktop. What happens is that the desktop is very unresponsive. The mouse moves, but nothing else. For a very long time. Turn on the remote computer and suddenly all works. The system startup and getting to the login is quick as usual. It is after the KDE login that the fun starts. We also see that if the remote computer is turned off at any time, the entire KDE desktop suddenly gets unresponsive. Until the remote computer comes back. We are using automount (defined fully in /etc/fstab) for this because having the mounts not be automount is a problem when the remote system is not available. Which, in the real world, can be the case. All of this only happens in KDE. If the system is turned on and one logs in via ssh (no desktop), the system works as expected. It is interesting that as soon as one starts KDE - even if one is not accessing a remote drive in any open application - suddenly the last places that were visited are being automounted. Until KDE is started, the mounts are not done. It is KDE that is making this happen. Originally we thought this might be because we had the drives mounted in the user's $HOME. We changed that so they are automounted in /media. No difference. It looks like KDE wants, somewhere, to keep accessing recent places you have visited. So the automount option to unmount drives not accessed in some time has no effect. KDE will keep accessing them. Even if no open program is doing so. If this only effected accessing these remote drives, we could survive. But for the entire desktop to be unresponsive is a problem. It has been reported that ATL-CTRL-DEL in the KDE desktop gets you to the logout screen directly, and then the system is responsive. This is openSUSE 42.3, and what ever KDE is had. I realize that this is perhaps older and not interesting. I have not been able to test this on a newer openSUSE release. Which is too bad. Is there any way to tell KDE to not try to access these locations? Or to not freeze the whole desktop when a mount is not available? -- 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] printing to cups from macos ?
by Per Jessen 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

I'll throw this out here - just in case. We have a new Mac in the office, sort of BYOD style - as in, "I don't mind, but you're on your own for support". Well, I should have known better :-( Printing to our printers over cups seems to be an issue from the Mac. It looks like print jobs are queued, but they never print. Given that CUPS is Apple software, this is difficult to accept ... We have googled a lot, but I know very little about Macs, so it's like groping in the dark. Does anyone have any hints they want to share? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-3.7°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, 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] Is paste.opensuse.org on the fritz - language not selectable
by David C. Rankin 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

All, I tried to paste to paste.opensuse.org as I've done many times before, but I get the error "The Language field must have a value.", but the Language drop-down is inoperative. You click it and it sort-of depresses, but not listbox is displayed. Is this paste.opensuse on the fritz, or is if FF 60.4.0esr that is hosed? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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] About mail filtering with procmail.
by Carlos E. R. 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Suppose that I'm to sort an mbox folder into several others using procmail. I do that with this command: formail -s procmail ./.procmail_rules < mbox_initial_folder (pipes every single mail in "mbox_initial_folder" through procmail Now, assume this rule in .procmail_rules: :0 c: $backup This rule works perfect. Every post from "mbox_initial_folder" goes in to "backup" folder, and keeps its attributes. Now, assume this other rule: :0 w: $HOME/Mail/.D-locks/output_folder.lock | /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -m output_folder Why the change to do the delivery using "dovecot-lda" instead of the native (to procmail) system? Because of this feature (man dovecot-lda): Main features of the dovecot-lda are: * Mailbox indexing during mail delivery, providing faster mailbox access later The problem I have discovered now is that, if a mail was marked read (or any other mark) on "mbox_initial_folder", it is lost on "output_folder". dovecot-lda destroys, resets or whatever the marks on copy. This is nasty. I have looked up the manual, but I don't see how to change that. Except reverting to procmail internal delivery agent, and somehow trigger dovecot to reindex changed folders at the end (I don't know how). Something I'd hate to do, after having edited my procmail filters to use dovecot-lda few years ago. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXE4VbBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVE7YAoJJ1WnSqXSComlEj8pcp G4rGiv7xAKCXDcNtbGRpCwk6Z8GGRHD7KIYGNA== =wjcy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] Problem encountered, Community help needed
by Fraser_Bell 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

As you all may be aware, an IRC debate is usually held during the campaign phase of the openSUSE Board Elections. While we would like to have at least one during this campaign, we are having a bit of a problem finding someone to organize and Moderate the debate. Part of the problem is that the Moderator needs to be fluent in English. Also, we on the Elections Team are already loaded with work. So, we need a qualified openSUSE Member to step up and take care of this for us. It will take a few days, most likely, because it requires using e-mail to co-ordinate a day and a time -- across time zones -- where all Candidates can attend. It also requires preparing questions for the Candidates. Do we have any offers of help? It needs to begin right away, as the debates must be held within the next week, before February 4th. Thank you, -- -Gerry Makaro openSUSE Board Elections Committee (election-officials **at** openSUSE.org) openSUSE Member openSUSE Global Moderator openSUSE Contributor YaST Contributor aka Fraser_Bell on the Forums, OBS, IRC, and mail at openSUSE.org Fraser-Bell on Github -- 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] An Impossible Task: Are You Prepared?
by Fraser_Bell 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

IMPORTANT: DO NOT REPLY ON THIS LIST!!! IMPORTANT: DO NOT REPLY ON THIS LIST!!! Replies or comments should be made on the openSUSE Project Mailing List. ================ With only 8 days left to get your openSUSE Membership approved so you can vote in the openSUSE Board Elections, our "Meet the Candidates" series of openSUSE News Articles comes to an end with this final installment. Now it is up to you: Begin the almost impossible task of choosing between these Quality openSUSE Board Candidates. Good luck. Here is the 7th and final installment in the "Meet Your openSUSE Board Elections Candidates" series at openSUSE News. Meet Marina Latini aka deneb_alpha <url>https://news.opensuse.org/2019/01/26/2018-2019-opensuse-board-elections-mee…</url> You can find out more about the Elections here: <url>https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election</url> -- -Gerry Makaro openSUSE Board Elections Committee (election-officials **at** openSUSE.org) openSUSE Member openSUSE Global Moderator openSUSE Contributor YaST Contributor aka Fraser_Bell on the Forums, OBS, IRC, and mail at openSUSE.org Fraser-Bell on Github -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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