December 2019 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Microsoft Teams for Linux - it's a thing
by Roger Oberholtzer 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

It is the first part of Office365 for Linux. Teams will replace Skype for Business, which will be defunct in about a year. As my company has swallowed the MS line, hook and sinker, this is interesting to me. Unfortunately... It actually seems to work. As much as I have tried it. https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/ms-teams/ There is a complaint about the repository signing. But I plodded past that. I am guessing that one should encourage this activity. You know, in the real world. I was looking around in https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/ and there seems to be a bit of openSUSE/SUSE activity. Teams seems to be distro-neutral. -- 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] SymLink bug in tcsh
by Wolfgang Mueller 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

I use tcsh under Leap 15.1. When I type "ln -s" followed by some characters and hit the tab key for getting a completion, the tcsh answers "<link_name>" instead of completing the file name. Without the parameter "-s", i.e. for a hard link, the completion works correctly. When a new patch comes, I always hope there is a correction of this boring bug, but in vain. Since the tcsh users are a neglectable minority compared to the large bash user community, I am perhaps the only one that observes it. Best regards, Wolfgang -- 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] Trouble with samba, may be related to Windows 10 ?
by Per Jessen 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

At home, I run samba for sharing e.g. photos and printers with my wife who works mostly on Windows or Mac. Also for my son on Windows, for printers. This has worked very well for years, but has recently (in the last year or so) begun to wobble. My son can't access the printer, can't even see it. The printer is run via cups on a central print server, then shared out via samba. I run a samba locally on my workstation, for sharing photos. My wife can't see it anymore. Machines involved - File&print server - samba 3.6.12 - seen by my wife's Win10, not seen by Mac. (need to double check that). Not seen by my son's Win10. My workstation - samba 3.0.26a. Shares not seen anywhere, anymore. New fileserver - samba 4.9.5+git.176.375e1f05788. Not seen anywhere. Clients - Windows10, macOS, a couple of Linux laptops (no problem with them). Last night I started doing some research, but didn't make it very far. Some issue about which smb protocol version to use? Does that mean anything to anyone? "min protocol", "max protocol" ? I feel very reluctant to start debugging this, it'll only take hours and hours, and leave me with less hair than ever. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.6°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] SSD disks
by Dave Howorth 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

I've just bought my first SSD disks (Crucial MX500). I plan to install one on my desktop, replacing the DVD player which I'll move to USB, and use one with an RPi I have. With the one on my desktop I plan to install 15.1, probably as a fresh install, and then make some links to connect it to my existing data on the rotating rust. That way I'll still hopefully be able to boot the existing 15.0 off the rust if necessary. Does that sound like a reasonable plan? I'm currently stuck at the first step (well actually the second, I've managed to put one of the SSD into a USB enclosure and connect to it) - namely how should I format it? My 15.0 system has BtrFS with lots of subvolumes, which is another reason to do a new install. Are there any reasons to prefer particular filesystems on SSDs, like with SD cards, or do I just treat it the same as HDD? What do people use? A final question. Crucial have a Windows-only program for updating the firmware on the drive. Anybody know the Linux way? TIA, Dave -- 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] FF aboutTabCrashed
by Dave Howorth 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Does anybody know what this means? I just upgraded 15.0 to its final state (modulo kernel since I have an out-of-tree driver I want to deal with separately) and part of that included an FF update. I have an existing FF session running that I don't want to close 60.8.0esr (64-bit) and whatever I do, including searching for this error message :( results in a window saying: XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: about:preferences Line Number 225, Column 39: <label class="header-name" flex="1">&paneSearchResults.title;</label> --------------------------------------^ including e.g. about:preferences Does anybody have any idea what's going on? TIA, Dave -- 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] Leap 15.2 coming soon?
by Wolfgang Mueller 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

I have a computer that still works with SuSE 13.2. But I hesitate to install Leap 15.1 now because, if 15.2 were /ante portas/, that would be a waste of time. Has anyone an idea of when 15.2 can be expected to become available. Best regards, Wolfgang -- 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] Remarkable error trying to start
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

Hello, I'm getting this error. This was working on Leap 42.3. I just did a fresh install of Leap 15.1 and received the normal upper/lower case issue when installing. When I try to star remarkable I'm getting this error. I haven't been able to find anything on Google Here is what I'm seeing emarkable Error processing line 3 of /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/XStatic-1.0.2-py3.6-nspkg.pth: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site.py", line 168, in addpackage exec(line) File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 568, in module_from_spec AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'loader' Remainder of file ignored Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/remarkable", line 65, in <module> import remarkable File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/remarkable/__init__.py", line 30, in <module> from remarkable import RemarkableWindow File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/remarkable/RemarkableWindow.py", line 27, in <module> gi.require_version('WebKit', '3.0') File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 130, in require_version raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace) ValueError: Namespace WebKit not available Thanks for any ideas on getting this running on Leap 15.1 -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -- 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] Missing device for /boot/efi ???
by Dave Howorth 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

I created a %0 GB btrfs partition on one of my new SSDs, in preparation for a test install of 15.1. I used YaST and it said: "Warning "The system might not be able to boot: "Missing device for /boot/efi with size equal or bigger than 256 MiB and filesystem vfat Do you want to continue?" It's just said it again as I'm preparing to reformat a Windows data partition the machine came with so I can make use of the space. What is this all about? The machine has /dev/sda1 vfat 96M 56M 41M 58% /boot/efi and has previously booted well. Why should creating a partition on a new disk or indeed reformatting a previously unused partition on an existing disk cause trouble for booting? A quick search turned up something on the factory list during 15.0 beta, but I didn't read because presumably whatever the issue was it was fixed? -- 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] Upgrade 42.3 to 15.0 woes
by Anton Aylward 07 Dec '19

07 Dec '19

Yes, I now I'm late doing this and it is full of woes. The start-up into X11 has the hourglass spinning for a couple of minutes before the login prompt, and that fails repeatedly. The clue is that in /var/log/messages is 2019-12-01T10:12:52.850103-05:00 MainBox checkproc: checkproc: can not get session id for process 2266! 2019-12-01T10:12:52.851602-05:00 MainBox checkproc: checkproc: can not get session id for process 2266! I don't know what that is. This happens with all possible desktops: KDE, XFCE, Gnome ... ======================================== Logging in with an VT @ F3 and then running xstart I get my KDE to come up, but the system is still crippled. Yes, KDE's bottom bar appears, all the items are in the slots, but mouseover+click does nothing. I can't switch application, can't fire up the gecko menu. Nothing. No clues ==== Of course I've had forceful upgrades of Tbird and FF and lot all my pluings! Oh what an annoyance. Please pardon mis-spelligns and typeos. =================== Mysteriously I get this error message Unable to create io-slave. klauncher said: Error loading '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/trash.so'. And it does exist # ls -l /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/trash.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 160176 Jul 16 08:02 /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/trash.so # file /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/trash.so /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/trash.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=f54a37c61b9baf204c9ee7ef09b270b0b7543e11, stripped And trhere is also this Unable to create io-slave. klauncher said: Error loading '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so'. which means that Dolphin doesn't work, so I can't click on my movies, music document to launch them. ===================================== Finally, before giving me advice that might invovle using zypper ... # zypper refresh zypper: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libproxy.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN9libmodman14module_manager8load_dirENSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEEb I'm dumbfounded and perplexed. =================== # cat /etc/os-release NAME="openSUSE Leap" VERSION="15.0" ID=opensuse ID_LIKE="suse" VERSION_ID="15.0" PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.0" ANSI_COLOR="0;32" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:15.0" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org" HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/" # uname -a Linux main.HOME.SystemI.ca 5.2.14-2.g7f85414-default #1 SMP Fri Sep 13 11:31:46 UTC 2019 (7f85414) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thunderbird Version 68.2.2 which means ALL my plugins are now incompatible! ================================= I'm going to set out on the adventure of finding out what other applications I have, my banking, databases, multi-media, all are not 'broken' in terms of what I had crafted and configured for 42.3 -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

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[opensuse] https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:SSD_performance
by Dave Howorth 07 Dec '19

07 Dec '19

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:SSD_performance says "create TMPFS filesystems "It is highly recommended to put the most volatile parts of your data on a TMPFS - this especially includes the /tmp directory. ... Hmm, FF downloads files to /tmp initially. I just deleted 1 GB of pdf files that FF has downloaded over the past however long and not bothered deleting! So how would one size a /tmpfs system to allow that? The largest download file has to fit in it apart from whatever really temporary files and temporary sockets etc are regularly created there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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