July 2019 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Clone disk
by Roger Oberholtzer 02 Aug '19

02 Aug '19

I have a user (openSUSE 12.3 - I know...) that wants to clone the root disk. In fact, long ago, they did this. But apparently both they and I have forgotten exactly what we did... The disk copy went ok. dd the entire thing from one disk to another of the same type. We always mount by_id since there may be multiple disks. So, after the dd, one needs to mount the new disk and edit /etc/fstab with the new disk's ID. This has been done. The boot seems to then be looking for the correct disk. However, the boot does not happen. It just hangs. The kernel command line is the only thing printed. I do not have the disk in my possession (it's on a different continent). So, before I tell them to send it to me, I just want to be sure that I have not missed another step. Could there be a need to remake the initial ram disk? Is the disk id in there as well? If one has to do mkinitrd, how can one do that on a mounted disk (not the system's root disk)? Or maybe it is something else? -- 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] Trying to create a compressed (and encrypted) btrfs filesystem
by Carlos E. R. 01 Aug '19

01 Aug '19

Leap 15.0 /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/cr_my_book_tlcntr /mnt/BookTelcontar btrfs lazytime,compress=zlib:1 1 3 This is per instructions on the wiki (and man): <https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression> But yields error: Isengard:~ # mount -v /mnt/BookTelcontar/ mount: /mnt/BookTelcontar: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/cr_my_book_tlcntr, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. I have to use: /dev/mapper/cr_my_book_tlcntr /mnt/BookTelcontar btrfs lazytime,compress 1 3 which yields: mount: /dev/mapper/cr_my_book_tlcntr on /mnt/BookTelcontar type btrfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,compress=zlib,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/) Is this a bug? Is the syntax different? man: compress, compress=type, compress-force, compress-force=type (default: off) Control BTRFS file data compression. Type may be specified as zlib, lzo, zstd or no (for no compression, used for remounting). If no type is specified, zlib is used. If compress-force is specified, then compression will always be attempted, but the data may end up uncompressed if the compression would make them larger. Otherwise some simple heuristics are applied to detect an incompressible file. If the first blocks written to a file are not compressible, the whole file is permanently marked to skip compression. As this is too simple, the compress-force is a workaround that will compress most of the files at the cost of some wasted CPU cycles on failed attempts. The heuristics of compress will improve in the future so this will not be necessary. Note If compression is enabled, nodatacow and nodatasum are disabled. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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[opensuse] Di Donato - First female to get her hands on the SuSE Lizard (Gecko....)
by David C. Rankin 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

Good for you SuSE: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/22/suse_poaches_sap_executive_melissa… -- 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] email weirdness
by Dave Howorth 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

I just received a mail delivery failure notice. It was to rschweikert(a)suse.com which is not somebody I ever remembering addressing an email to, but is somebody who I have seen on this email list in the past. What I found a bit concerning is that the notice included many statements like: Received: from INET-RELAY2-MTA by relay2.provo.novell.com with Novell_GroupWise Received: from M9W0068.microfocus.com (m9w0068.houston.softwaregrp.net I thought SUSE was now independent? -- 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] Iconifying an app's display makes it disappear even from the task bar
by JD 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

Running Leap 15.1-1 and mate-desktop-1.22.1-lp151.1.2.x86_64 When I iconify an app, it no longer has an icon on the task bar, so I am not able to re-display the running app. Any info on how to solve this problem? -- 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] please help me with rpmbuild
by Daniel Bauer 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

Hi, I am trying to compile kuickshow for 15.1, but I fail. Here's the complete output of my rpmbuild command: https://www.daniel-bauer.com/div/kuickshow_rpmbuild.txt what I did: - downloaded kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.src.rpm from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mad_soft/openSUSE_Leap_42.3… (tried to install it directly instead of downloading it, but nothing was installed, tried again to install the downloaded package with Yast, but again nothing was installed) - unpacked the files and copied to /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/kuickshow-0.9.2-fix-composite-menu.patch /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/kuickshow-0.9.2-fix-imlib-init.patch /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/kuickshow-0.9.2.tar.bz2 /usr/src/packages/SPECS/kuickshow.spec - run rpmbuild -bc /usr/src/packages/SPECS/kuickshow.spec but it said it couldn't find files in /home/daniel/rpmbuild... so I copied the files to the appropriate directories in /home/daniel/rpmbuild/ after running it again, it said that it was missing libkde4-devel (installed it with Yast) imlib-nogdk-devel-1.9.15 (installed it from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mad_soft/openSUSE_Leap_15.1… ) - after running again the rpmbuild command it looked good, but it terminated with RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.In3X4c (%build) (complete output in the link above) Well, that's where I am. Can anybody bring me a step forward? Please note: I have no idea about compiling, rpm and such, I just give it a try because I /need/ this program... Thanks for your help! Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.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] Leap 15.0 Midstream Major Ver. Update from Vbox 5.x to 6.x drivers makes 5.x headless installs S L O W?
by David C. Rankin 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

All, Why has openSUSE jumped major version in the virtualbox kernel drivers mid-release while the 5.28 branch continues to be supported through 2020. The update tonight was from: from: virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-5.2.24_k4.12.14_lp150.12.61-lp150.4.33.1.x86_64.rpm to virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-6.0.10_k4.12.14_lp150.12.67-lp150.4.36.1.x86_64.rpm This causes horrific slowness for those servers serving headless clients from the supported 5X branch of vbox. Most things work, but window moves and directory listing are much slower on Linux guests, and almost unusable on windows guests. On windows guests it can take more than 60 sec just to display a 300 file listing with 'dir'. I thought these major version jumps were NOT supposed to happen mid-release -- for just this very reason. What gives?? -- 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] signed messages
by Dave Howorth 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

I know some people on here sign their messages and I understand why at least some of them do it. What I don't understand is how to make use of those signatures. Taking just one recent signed message as an example, I tried to check the signature on one of Carlos' recent messages. When I clicked on the icon to verify it my MUA (Claws) said: Key 0xB533181C6D8D47D5 not available to verify this signature and when I look at a more detailed explanation, it says: Importing key ID B533181C6D8D47D5: This key couldn't be imported to your keyring. Key servers are sometimes slow. You can try to import it manually with the command: "/usr/bin/gpg2" --batch --no-tty --recv-keys B533181C6D8D47D5 When I try to run that command (and I have no idea why it quotes the command - what's that all about?): $ "/usr/bin/gpg2" --batch --no-tty --recv-keys B533181C6D8D47D5 gpg: keyserver receive failed: Cannot assign requested address Searching hasn't provided me with any enlightenment and the man page doesn't list or explain the error messages. So can anybody point me to an idiot's guide to what's supposed to happen and how to make it so? -- 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 with mate-terminal
by JD 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

After updating mate desktop, for a while mate-terminal was working (for about 3 days). This morning it was working too. Now (almost 5 pm) it fails like this: $ mate-terminal mate-terminal: symbol lookup error: mate-terminal: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_set_bold_is_bright Which library is missing that would contain this missing symbol? And why would it suddenly go missing? Thanx -- 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] Certain videos do not play on Tumbleweed from July 6th, 2019
by Markus Egg 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

Hello, some time ago I was trying SuSE Tumbleweed version from July 6th,2019 on an older laptop. It does have the same problem as an older OpenSuSE 13.1 on a desktop PC which I want to update. E.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyC3CWDlEzY plays without problems on Opera and Firefox 68.0.1 ESR whereas https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/Wetter-Panorama/7268748/Wetter-Panorama-und-P… does not play on Opera 62.0.3331.66 or Firefox 68.0.1 ESR. Since this is a problem on this newer Tumbleweed version _and_ on the older SuSE 13.1 I am somehow stuck now and I want to clarify this before updating the older 13.1 machine. What am I missing? Thanks in advance ME -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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