openSUSE Users November 2020

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[opensuse] Raid, Raid6, what file system for good fault tolerance?

by cagsm

Hi list, speaking about software raid, not hardware controller based. I am trying to go for some local OpenSuse machine and adding some storage to it. Was considering Raid6, and now reading about a bit and people left and right scaremongering about the larger the disks these days in the double digit terabyte capacities even, the more likely it is that during a reconstruction of a raid subsequent errors would occur. I would absolutely like to keep my data consistent, and I am not thinking about double digit terabytes either, would stick to 2TB or 4TB disks, with Raid6 thats at least 4 physical drives. Now I am wondering if it possible to use a good robust file system that can add some more parity or check blocks or redundancy on top of the hardware disks, to absolutely be able to always read my data. I can't add multiple machines or like those high availability stuff like clusters and what not I read about DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device), or maybe I am just too scared by those technical terms or consider myself to be just a simpleton and wanting to keep it rather simple. My use case here is also not constant availablity, when a disk needs to be replaced, so be it, but I don't want to lose my data that I can not ever read certain parts of it again or such stuff. The thing that came to my mind was, if there is some file systems that would add redundancy and robustness onto the mdraid system of the linux kernel? Anyone with some useful insights? Roughly speaking, I was considering some simple pcie esata interfaced controller card and an external case enclosure with esata port and portmulitplier stuff inside, that can present at least 4 physical disks as JBOD, just a bunch of disks, so that the Linux can seem them all separately. Speed and rebuild times are not my concern, but data persistence and data integrity. Not even number of physical disks, I could live with even one of those 8 bay device enclosures and cases that are out there on the market. Thanks for any help and hints. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

2 months

[opensuse] Droidcam with iphone as a webcam, with google duo

by Richmond

I've been using droidcam with an iphone so it can be used with zoom, skype, duo as a camera. It was working until recently, but now with google duo it says something has gone wrong, cannot access camera microphone. Access is allowed in the settings though. This also applies to chromium. It still works with zoom, and skype. I suspected a kernel update, so I booted an old installation of 15.1, which was running kernel 5.4.10, installed the latest google chrome and that worked. I have tried updating my kernel to 5.9 but droidcam would not install. Currenly 5.3.18-lp152.50-default opensuse 15.2 What can I do? I have spend 3.5 hours!

2 months, 2 weeks

[opensuse] Re: Ubiquiti Controller Software for Linux - DEB only?

by James Knott

On 2020-11-20 5:45 p.m., Herbert Graeber wrote: >>> You need a certificate and key and add them in /etc/sysconfig/unifi. >> Where would I find those? > You shall generate your own. > How do I do that? tnx jk

2 months, 2 weeks

[opensuse] Clickable web links on the new HyperKitty web interface of the lists server?

by cagsm

Hi users @ list opensuse, maybe I am old school, but from old days of mails and usenet, I always came from the concept to post URLs, web-addresses and clickable links into like angle-brackets < > and make various mail clients and places be able to fully recognize and respect especially very long URLs URIs and more. Maybe I never fully grasped the concept, or had some misunderstanding of them to begin with. As far as I can now tell, the new HyperKitty (?) mechanism on https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/ apparently does not render clickable html links when browsing list posts e.g. on the new archives areas > https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse.org/ vs > <https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse.org/> Now I was wondering how one should post long links and more safely. I am writing via google gmail web interface. But also how about other inbound delivery means e.g. smtp clients etc? What are the exact technical details about how stuff becomes rendered on this HyperKitty thingy? Also, some while ago, I tried to attempt to log-in or register on the web interface of the lists.opensuse.org server, but it then denied or spoke about not having implemented accounts yet or something. These days, it seems that one could log in to it with all sorts of credential providers, opensuse id, open id, github, gitlab, stack exchange, google log on. <https://lists.opensuse.org/accounts/login/> Registering apparently is still blocked. <https://lists.opensuse.org/accounts/signup/> Does this mean we can somehow claim our own account that we already use (email address as sender) to be able to log into the web interface as well and post there instead of our own mail clients or mail concepts? or when will this be available? TY

2 months, 3 weeks

[opensuse] REgistering file/mime type system wide

by Daniel Spannbauer

Hello, we have a filetype with ending "fsp" ,which should be opened with a special application. I created a xml-file and registered the type "application/x-fsp" with "xdg-mime install" I also created a Desktop-file /usr/share/applications/mmview.desktop , which has an entry "MimeType=application/x-fsp" When I call "xdg-mime query default application/x-fsp" as my user, I get "which: no mmviews in (/usr/uti)" If I call it as root, I get "mmview.desktop". How do I configure a mime type for alle users under opensuse Leap? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München

2 months, 3 weeks

[opensuse] cleaning keyboard

by Bob Rea

So I spilled some hot chocolate on my keyboard It sticks What's your best advice on cleaning it? -- Bob Rea www.petard.us www.petard.us/blog America, it was a wonderful country Til they took it private and made it a theme park of itself

2 months, 3 weeks

[opensuse] Remove old message in opensuse mailing list?

by Roger Oberholtzer

Our IT security guys just asked me to remove/sanitize a message that I posted on the openSUSE mailing list back in 2017. How they came across this message is mysterious. But I did post some stuff about the company ADS that I was trying to access from openSUSE/samba. I don't remember the specific details of the problem, and I do not think it was ever solved. No matter. I thought I was usually pretty careful about sensitive details in posts. Seems not always... Is it possible to remove messages that were posted? As it provides no solution and is rather old, I cannot see that it is especially useful anyway. -- Roger Oberholtzer

2 months, 3 weeks

[opensuse] minidlna fails

by oszko＠chem.u-szeged.hu

Hi all, I would like to use on Tumbleweed/KDE minidlna to stream multimedia/pictures to the TV . I installed it from snap, and made some modifications to the minidlna.config file in /etc. However, I am not able to use it. When I ask its status, I get: berci@linux-h9qy:~> systemctl status minidlna ? minidlna.service - MiniDLNA is a DLNA/UPnP-AV server software Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/minidlna.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2020-11-24 19:48:53 CET; 42s ago Process: 15219 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/minidlnad -S (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION) Main PID: 15219 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION) Could you help what could go wrong? Thanks: Albert ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

3 months

[opensuse] Any current wireguard on openSuSE 15.2?

by cagsm

Hello users-list @ opensuse anyone using current wireguard on current opensuse leap 15.2? I see very few posts on the list server archives. I read about some new version 0.3.1 windows client. I suppose wireguard on the server side is linux only? How current and up-to-date is wireguard server side on opensuse leap 15.2? I like the archlinux documentation pages for a lot of topics <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WireGuard> I fail to find some version number or understanding of the linux side wireguard in terms of release or version numbers. does 0.3.1 on the windows client side has got to do anything with the server side version? Also wondering why <https://software.opensuse.org/package/wireguard> apparently leap 15.1 has some official wireguard package that has a higher version string or date string that leap 15.2 or even tumbleweed? I am also trying to dig into site-to-site (both linux) connections. TY.

3 months

[opensuse] hyperkitty is gross, over the top nonsense (from: Clickable web links...)

by Felix Miata

[new thread] Dave Howorth composed on 2020-11-25 15:03 (UTC): > I think most people have opinions more like mine which is that > hyperkitty is gross, over the top nonsense. I warned various openSUSE list readers at least once each in 2017, 2018 & 2019 about the horror of HyperKitty. I don't see any way to post direct links on any HyperKitty page, nor include even the date of the post, or even find a way to capture the datestamp to include here, which the old archive smartly includes as part of the URL: <https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/…> <https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2019-12/msg00047.html> <https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2018-07/msg00231.html> <https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-06/msg00550.html> The 54k attachment is a 'convert -quality 20' of a .png screenshot of the inane presentation of my 2019 warning (the first URL above). If the attachment gets scrubbed, see it at <http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/osHyperKitty202011.jpg> (if Zito hasn't broken my website again}. Same post (second link above) in the old archive can be see at <http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/osMailman202011.jpg>. Since all the old list archives apparently haven't been switched yet, I hope we can keep them. They're completely usable, diametrically opposite of HyperKitty. -- Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion, is based on faith, not on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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