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[opensuse] TW : DOSEMU will not start : LOWRAM mmap: Invalid argument
by ellanios82 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

TW : - after this morning's "zypper dup" , dosemu refuses to start , and leaves error message: /usr/bin/dosemu LOWRAM mmap: Invalid argument ..... - any ideas please how to fix thanks .... -- 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] Linux desktop and enterprise virus and such security
by Roger Oberholtzer 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

I have been trying to get my openSUSE desktops to play nice in our company's increasingly draconian security system. Every time I think I have made progress, there is another obstacle. Case in point. Our company has decided that Cisco will be the security provider. This includes using Cisco routers and Cisco software. In software, they are using Cicso's ICE, Umbrella, and AMP. I have been working with IT to see how our openSUSE desktops can play along with this. Things looked hopeful. Until they provided me with the AMP package. It is a RPM designed for use on Red Hat systems. Of course, I had a peek around to see what was really Red Hat specific. With a hope that it was standard and could be run on openSUSE. So close. But there were two obstacles: 1. It likes to keep the virus database up-to-date. That is, of course, needed. Unfortunately, it uses a very old RPM version/library to manage installed packages. That version is not compatible with the newer version openSUSE uses. I think it could be possible to get around that. Not sure. But maybe. 2. It installs some drivers. This requires that the drivers match the operating system version. AMP only supports a very old kernel (3.10.0 in RHEL 7, which Red Hat seems to patch with security fixes). This is unfortunate. And it need not be done this way (NVIDIA also installs drivers - but their method supports more OS versions by install-time linking of modules for the current kernel). This is the show stopper. I see no way to get around this incompatibility. Also RHEL is not really a desktop release. It was originally released in Oct of 2015. I have no interest in working in an old desktop. I guess I don't have a real question. Other than why Linux is still being marginalized by major companies? Surely I'm not the only user in a corporate environment where the security tools are mandated company-wide. It's not enough to claim that you have installed something at least equivalent. They only trust what they have selected. AMP, as it turns out, seems to use ClamAV. But it adds an interface that allows corporate monitoring that all is working as expected. With almost 40000 people, I cannot blame the security guys for wanting this kind of information. I guess it would take convincing from companies like SUSE (or a consortium of Linux companies working as a single entity) to get Cisco to consider proper Linux desktop support (maintained by Cisco in their own OBS environment to allow packages for multiple distros?). The humorous thing is that with Red Hat's acquisition by IBM, I think IBM's security stuff will be the preferred solution for Red Hat users. Cisco will surely see a decrease in Red Hat sales. And from that decide that Linux is not worth the effort. Some days I just feel too old for all this... -- 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] openSUSE Project Name Change voted down 225 - 42
by David C. Rankin 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Democracy works! (at least here -- Thank God) -- 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] 15.0 kernel after zypper dup from 42.3 has flaky usb-controller problems.
by David C. Rankin 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

All, I've watched this for the past couple of days since I updated to 15.0 from 42.3 with zypper dup. My usb controller has lost its mind and will just disconnect the mouse randomly -- then sometimes is reconnects moments later.... It's totally bizarre watching the mouse turn off, then suddenly turn back on (or other times require a manual disconnect and plug back in), e.g. below the mouse disconnects and then reconnects twice within 17 minutes of each other?? Nov 08 01:37:26 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: USB disconnect, device number 14 Nov 08 01:37:27 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: new low-speed USB device number 15 using xhci_hcd Nov 08 01:37:27 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=0040 Nov 08 01:37:27 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=0 Nov 08 01:37:27 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: Product: Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) Nov 08 01:37:27 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Microsoft Nov 08 01:37:27 wizard kernel: input: Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.7/0000:26:00.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/0003:045E:0040.000E/input/input37 Nov 08 01:37:27 wizard kernel: hid-generic 0003:045E:0040.000E: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:26:00.0-2/input0 Nov 08 01:37:27 wizard mtp-probe[22767]: checking bus 2, device 15: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.7/0000:26:00.0/usb2/2-2" Nov 08 01:37:27 wizard mtp-probe[22767]: bus: 2, device: 15 was not an MTP device Nov 08 01:54:25 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: USB disconnect, device number 15 Nov 08 01:54:26 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: new low-speed USB device number 16 using xhci_hcd Nov 08 01:54:26 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=0040 Nov 08 01:54:26 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=0 Nov 08 01:54:26 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: Product: Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) Nov 08 01:54:26 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Microsoft Nov 08 01:54:26 wizard mtp-probe[22946]: checking bus 2, device 16: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.7/0000:26:00.0/usb2/2-2" Nov 08 01:54:26 wizard kernel: input: Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.7/0000:26:00.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/0003:045E:0040.000F/input/input38 Nov 08 01:54:26 wizard kernel: hid-generic 0003:045E:0040.000F: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:26:00.0-2/input0 Nov 08 01:54:26 wizard mtp-probe[22946]: bus: 2, device: 16 was not an MTP device With 42.3 same box, same mouse, same port, this mouse would stay connected for weeks at a time without a hiccup. Within 30 minutes of upgrade to 15.0 via zypper dup, the mouse was doing tricks... Those are the complete log entries above. There is nothing in the journal between: Nov 08 01:37:27 wizard mtp-probe[22767]: bus: 2, device: 15 was not an MTP device Nov 08 01:54:25 wizard kernel: usb 2-2: USB disconnect, device number 15 (I just put a blank line in between to show the two separate events) The last journal entry before the 1:37.26 disconnect above was 7-minutes prior with: Nov 08 01:30:11 wizard systemd[1]: Started Backup RPM database. (definitely not related) Any ideas what to check? Anything that could have been on in 42.3 that now has a conflict with the 15.0 packages? ModemManager? upower? wicked? -- 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] 15.0 Font Selection? What are teh defaults supposed to be?
by David C. Rankin 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

All, Among other changes from 42.3 to 15.0 was freetype version and default font selection. It appears there is some scheme that is choosing the first-available true-type for fc-match? What should the defaults be for: fc-match sans-serif fc-match serif fc-match monospace ?? (I get windows fonts for some strange reason and Yast->Fonts is using the defaults (no preferred families set)) Patching freetype-2.9 restored excellent lcdfilter rendering, so no complaints there, but what fonts should be the defaults? (It is driving FF nuts and I can't seem to hit on the right font to make things look like they did in 42.3) -- 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] Thunderbird fails to GPG sign S/MIME messages
by Carlos E. R. 10 Nov '19

10 Nov '19

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I suddenly have a problem signing messages on Thunderbird. It pops a message box that says: unable to (save or send) You specified that this message should be digitally signed, but the application either failed to find the signing certificate specified in your Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings, or the certificate has expired which is not true. However, I noticed that if in account settings, where it says: If both, Enigmail and S/MIME encryption are possible, then (*)Prefer S/MIME ( )Prefer Enigmail(OpenPGP) it fails with S/MIME and works with OpenPGP. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXbLXNxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVx44AoIE9H+5EChAbz9WhwvPu OZGVYwoJAJ4onLFwft0Sz3WQ/obugiqct6gpmg== =3IBI -----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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Re: [opensuse] Firefox throwing network wobblies
by stakanov 10 Nov '19

10 Nov '19

In data domenica 10 novembre 2019 11:06:38 CET, hai scritto: > In data sabato 9 novembre 2019 21:33:48 CET, gumb ha scritto: > > On 07/11/2019 19:52, stakanov wrote: > > > I experienced a problem like that recently, but a start of a new tab > > > with > > > loading data from any page fixes it. My wlan is also no so stable as > > > before > > > (an usb dongle: ASUSTek Computer, Inc. N10 Nano 802.11n Network Adapter > > > [Realtek RTL8192CU]) however I thought it would be related with my > > > provider > > > and with the fact that maybe the fritzbox I am using has precise dns > > > providers set. > > > It would be nice to know if you changed the settings for dns in > > > about:config Also if you are using a particular DNS provider as some > > > have > > > issues from time to time. > > > You should also make sure to load FF without any extension. I had an > > > issue > > > with an extension for anonymization. > > > I experience since some weeks severe slow downs during page loading and > > > very often after this, a breakage for disconnect of wlan. > > > Did you look at journalctl or dmesg to see if there are wlan problems? > > > I could also be that the firmware of the wlan makes trouble. Which > > > chipset > > > do you use for wlan? > > > > I received an off-list reply with a link to an unresolved bug that seems > > > > likely to be the same issue: > > > Hi there > > > > > > You probably experience an old bug: > > > > > > https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1108163 > > > > > > Since there has not been any progress so far, it would be nice if you > > > could add your experience. > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Frank > > > > I'll hold back a little before adding to the bug because I'm still not > > back up and running permanently on that machine so can't test it in any > > greater depth. > > > > I've not changed DNS settings. As far as I'm aware my DNS provider is my > > French ISP, one of the country's largest. They may not be the best, I've > > seen one or two occasions that DNS has gone down, but the workaround for > > the behaviour I'm seeing is reproducible just by restarting the browser > > normally, so it's unlikely to be a DNS issue. I've not checked logs or > > tried disabling extensions. Might look into that when I'm on the machine > > again full-time. > > > > The wireless is Intel AC 9260. Prior to the hard drive failure, whilst I > > didn't have this particular issue, there were a couple of other things. > > After I bought a cheap-ish USB dock with ethernet, the wired connection > > through there crapped out two or three times in a week. And some > > annoying page-caching quirk has started developing on Firefox in recent > > months, whereby it keeps pulling an out-of-date cached version of a page > > despite me having refreshed and updated it many times. But I'm seeing > > that on other systems running other OS's too. > > > > gumb > > Oh, I deactivated caching (as I think it is of no use for me). So I cannot > ad on that specific aspect. > But there must be an issue on the lates kernel updates too. I have a Lenovo > X201 and as the old wlan card was not viable with the kernel any more I did > get an ASUSTek Computer, Inc. N10 Nano 802.11n > This was working for a while flawlessly but since a month I am getting > sudden wlan connection drops without any apparent reason. Sometimes I get > in the logs that the adapter received a "disconnect" command (which is an > open broadcom DOS) so it may be a neighbor kid does experiment with hacking > on surrounding devices. But today again it "just drops". What I see in FF > (which is when it happens all the time) it takes a lifetime to load a > page...and then nothing. When you go then on the user that is handling the > connections (a separate account on my setup) then you see that the system > did drop the wlan. I would suspect some wrong energysaving command or an > issue with dns but I am not sure as I did not find pertinent really errors > on dmesg or journalctl about it. > > Just a note: a but of 2018/12 is recent for opensuse speed. I had much > worse. At least it is confirmed, that means somebody did look on it. _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Ihre E-Mail-Postf�cher sicher & zentral an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und alte E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://www.eclipso.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] Firefox throwing network wobblies
by gumb 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

Leap 15.1. FF 68.1.0esr from the update repo. Firefox has started behaving rather dumb with regards to the available Internet connection. This is on my laptop, so if I haven't plugged in the ethernet cable, and since I don't have any wifi connection set to connect automatically, I'll open Firefox and most pinned tabs produce server not found errors, as would be expected. But then I connect the wifi and try refreshing the tabs, and it fails to recognize there is now a connection. I have to close and reopen the browser to get it to connect. Sometimes the behaviour is more weird and esoteric. I'll be watching a YouTube video in one tab with a wifi connection active. The video will continue streaming to the end and I can continue to navigate within that tab, but all the other tabs have given up and won't search for the network. A restart is again required. I suspect this may be a missing configuration somewhere in my user home directory, because this is following on from the problem I had on this system with a defunct hard drive. I kept the root configuration but replaced the disk that had /home on it, then copied the skeleton to each user home. Though I'm in the process of copying bits and bobs of data over from backups, I'm not copying an entire /home backup and have started a new profile in Firefox. It's possible there's some network configuration in my home directory which was lost and isn't hence informing Firefox correctly of the current network state. I can't be sure yet if other applications are doing the same because I've not yet really started using any others to any great degree. Firefox had no such problem switching between wired and wireless networks before the hard disk failure. Network Manager is running and configured via the Plasma nm applet. All the network entries were retained somewhere in root so I didn't need to redo them under the new user home. But is there another missing network config file that ought to be in my home directory? gumb -- 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] Strange message from log, would like to understand what it actually says: quoted printable codec lies about it's ....
by stakanov 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

kontact [3814] quoted printable lies about it's mEncodedSizeFor () Which means? An error of the program? And why does it appear in the logs of the machine? Actually on F10 terminal. No, I am not worried at all, but curious what the message does say. Quoted printable: could it be abused by some spammer to try to place malware or to perform else? _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Ihre E-Mail-Postf�cher sicher & zentral an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und alte E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://www.eclipso.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] How can I force a firmware to be reloaded after every suspend to ram or to disc
by stakanov 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

Rational: Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Express card to USB3.0 Works well from the start but after suspend to RAM does not wake up: Normal: nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb3: SerialNumber: 0000:05:00.0 nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 4.12.14- lp151.28.25-default xhci-hcd nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb3: Product: xHCI Host Controller nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb3: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0003 nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb3: We don't know the algorithms for LPM for this host, disabling > nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: xHCI Host Controller nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:05:00.0 nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 4.12.14- lp151.28.25-default xhci-hcd nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb2: Product: xHCI Host Controller nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002 nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: hcc params 0x200071e1 hci version 0x100 quirks 0x> nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: xHCI Host Controller nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: BAR 4: assigned [mem 0xf0011000-0xf0011fff 64bit] nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: BAR 2: assigned [mem 0xf0010000-0xf0010fff 64bit] nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xf0000000-0xf000ffff 64bit] nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D3hot nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: supports D1 nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: reg 0x20: [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff 64bit] nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff 64bit] nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x0000ffff 64bit] nov 08 16:58:32 roadrunner.suse kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: [1b73:1100] type 00 class 0x0c0330 this is how it is when it works. And this happens after Suspend: nov 08 16:57:51 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: USB bus 2 deregistered nov 08 16:57:51 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: Host not accessible, reset failed. nov 08 16:57:51 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: Host halt failed, -19 nov 08 16:57:51 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb2: USB disconnect, device number 1 nov 08 16:57:51 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: remove, state 4 nov 08 16:57:51 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: xHCI host controller not responding, assume dead nov 08 16:57:51 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: USB bus 3 deregistered nov 08 16:57:51 roadrunner.suse kernel: usb usb3: USB disconnect, device number 1 nov 08 16:57:51 roadrunner.suse kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: remove, state 4 It is possible to reregister it when you pull it out for 30 seconds. Short off in does not do the trick. So it is the controller that does not capture the wake up call (or does not load the firmware). Any suggestion? _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Ihre E-Mail-Postf�cher sicher & zentral an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und alte E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://www.eclipso.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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