June 2019 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Epson Inkjet Printer can't connect
by Doug McGarrett 13 Aug '19

13 Aug '19

Re: Tumbleweed: I have an Epson WP-4530 all-in-one printer/copier/scanner. The Driver is available in /usr/etcetera, and Yast claims to have installed it, and if I try to print something, the Epson is shown as a choice, but nothing happens. If I try to use XSane, a message tells me it can't find a device. Meanwhile, an HP LaserJet Pro is found and prints perfectly. But it can't scan or print in color. I've gotten used to Tumbleweed and I like it, but why won't it print? All help appreciated! --doug -- 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] oS 13.1 : "gnome keyring socket is not owned with the same credentials as the user"
by ellanios82 11 Aug '19

11 Aug '19

Hello List am using Xfce : - in /var/log/warn : i see warning " The gnome keyring socket is not owned with the same credentials as the user login: /run/user/1000/keyring-4i77r7/control 2013-11-27T13:27:17.434100+02:00 su: gkr-pam: couldn't unlock the login keyring " ............... - any ideas 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] 15.1 LXQt - what camera app/picture viewer
by Felix Miata 14 Jul '19

14 Jul '19

PhotoQT opens to black screen with a very generic looking panel icon, and no discernable way to open any images or camera. LXImage seems too simple, no apparent way to get pix from a Camera. YaST2 doesn't make it too easy to find a Camera app, at least, not a non-GTK-based one. KDE's Digikam requires KF5Contacts, which seems like an address book thingie I shouldn't need to have cluttering this simple installation. Any suggestions? -- 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] systemd - spamd.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
by Per Jessen 06 Jul '19

06 Jul '19

I'm trying to start spamd on Leap 15.1 - somehow systemd does not recognise it has been started and then kills it. # systemctl cat spamd [snip] [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/var/run/spamd.pid ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c "sa-update || true" EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/spamd ExecStart=/usr/sbin/spamd $SPAMD_ARGS -r /var/run/spamd.pid ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID Seems to me the pidfile is fine ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (29.0°C) -- 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 + Tumbleweed + boot partition
by Stephen Berman 06 Jul '19

06 Jul '19

I bought a computer with Leap 15.0 preinstalled on an SSD, and I also wanted to install Tumbleweed on the disk. For reasons detailed below, I did this without installing a bootloader for Tumbleweed, but since Tumbleweed is frequently updated, including grub2, I think it would be better to install the bootloader in Tumbleweed. Due to my lack of knowledge, I would be grateful for advice on how to do that safely. Some specifics follow about the disk and what I did to install Tumbleweed. The SSD had three partitions: /boot, / (root) and swap. I shrank the root partition (formatted as ext4) and added a btrfs partition for Tumbleweed. I first left /boot and swap as is, but the Tumbleweed installer said there was no bootable partition (I don't remember the exact wording, something like no BIOS boot table). I then tried deleting the /boot partition and adding it again, selecting "BIOS Boot" as the partition ID, but the installer still said there was no bootable partition. I also tried different file systems to format /boot -- originally it was FAT and I also tried XFS and ext3 -- but that made no difference. So finally, I left the /boot partition unchanged but unmounted it and proceeded with the installation. At the summary I then changed the boot setup to prevent any boot loader being installed and any changes made to the MBR. The installer said I might end up with an unbootable system, but I went ahead anyway. The installation completed and on rebooting the boot screen showed only Leap 15.0 as before, but after running grub2-mkconfig in Leap, Tumbleweed was found and I could boot it and it seems to be fine. The disk has GPT with protective MBR. As noted the /boot partition is formatted as FAT and also contains a directory efi, which is populated in the running Leap, which mounts /boot/efi, but in the running Tumbleweed, where /boot is not a separate partition, after mounting the partition Leap sees as /boot/efi, the efi directory is empty (in the running Tumbleweed). I do not plan to install any MS-Windows system, but I do plan to install other Linux-based systems besides Tumbleweed, and possibly a *BSD system. How can I install the bootloader in Tumbleweed -- either from the currently installed Tumbleweed or by reinstalling it -- without risking making both Tumbleweed and Leap unbootable? If that requires deleting the existing /boot partition and add it anew, is it necessary, given the systems I plan to install, to have the efi directory, and if so, do I just have to make /boot/efi a mountpoint, and if not, what else to I need to do to make sure it exists and gets populated as required (if it's required)? And if the efi directory is not needed, what would be the recommended file system for the boot partition? I also have a question concerning having a separate /boot partition shared by Leap, Tumbleweed and any other systems I install: in each system the directory /boot contains versioned files of the kernel, config, etc., but there are also symlinks vmlinuz and initrd pointing to the latest version installed in the system; if Leap and Tumbleweed (and other Linux-based systems) populate the same /boot directory, the last one installed would override existing symlinks, so I don't see how this can work. Is it possible for different systems to use the same /boot directory, installed on a separate partition, and if not, where do the files used for booting different systems need to go, when a separate /boot partition is used? Thanks, Steve Berman -- 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] Mouse middle button
by sysek 01 Jul '19

01 Jul '19

Hello to everyone again. Dunno if I can write here with problems, but I didn't find any solutions anywhere. I have openSuSE 15.1 with xfce4 but I have no idea why the middle button doesn't work in Linux. I tested mouse with work laptop (Windows 10) and works. On my personal PC doesn't. I know that maybe silly but for me is very annoying. Maybe some met with that problem and can help? -- Cheers, MM -- 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] Blender git builds for TW
by Hans-Peter Jansen 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

Hi, just in case, you care, as my son does, I'm building the current git version of Blender here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:frispete:blender/blender-git It's updated every few days, as time permits. Cheers, Pete -- 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] save installed packages for reinstall
by Patrick Shanahan 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

I am considering wiping my main system drive and reinstalling Tw clean but would like to have the same packages on the new system. I will backup home and replace the new home contents with the backedup data. is this feasible? how to save the currently installed pkgs for reinstall? and yes, btrfs for entire system. thoughts? tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- 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] ZoneMinder
by Dave Howorth 25 Jun '19

25 Jun '19

Does anybody use ZoneMinder? I'm thinking of buying some cameras for security and using ZM to control and monitor them. I'm hoping that is a sane idea. I'm planning to store motion-activated video clips locally at the camera and on disks somewhere in my and my friends' networks. I see there is an experimental release for Tumbleweed but only community releases for Leap. There are a couple of home repositories, and one (monex) seems to have conflicting ideas about what is stable vs unstable depending on what version of openSUSE you are running. Do either monex or ecos read this list? Or am I better downloading the source and building it myself? -- 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] Annoying "feature"
by James Knott 25 Jun '19

25 Jun '19

OpenSUSE has a very annoying "feature" where sometimes when I move the mouse, I see a bunch of little windows scattered around the screen. It there anyway to turn this off? tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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