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[opensuse] How to trigger a user-level process (e.g. script) on shutdown?
by cagsm 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hello list, i have some process running in a user context. It came via crontab entry in the users crontab. I see it via crontab -l @reboot "/home/username/path/scriptfile" parameter This spawns a process running after a reboot of the machine. This is perfectly fine. I created that user and disabled its interactive logon means, I guess. The user has no password methinks, and the etc/shadow file has the exclamation mark right after the username:! at the beginning. So this script needs to be called again during a shutdown of the machine, automagically, with a different parameter, to make that running application terminate gracefully, not mess up the disk and system and for the machine be happy and reboot, shutdown et al normally. Right now, I only su - into root, then su username and then execute that process or script with parameter to make it shutdown. The user needs to wait for the process to return back to the shell with its result that it shut down normally, or to generate its own error codes or whatnot. So if this would be automated, the actual shutting down needs to wait for this process to terminate. it always terminates. at least thats what i experienced. anyways. so how would I put this into a very simple on-shutdown concept? I have looked at crontab, but that only knows such stuff as that @reboot alias or means according to manpages. The opensuse leap machine has systemd running fine I guess, although the machine is an older upgraded machine and probably has seen many previous opensuse releases. systemctl runs fine though. As far as I have figured by now, is maybe, that the user login effectively being disabled (! mark in shadow...) the command systemctl --user status ran from inside the user (su - first, then: su username , then executed from there) does not work, it always comes up with an error message about files or access stuff? systemctl --user status Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory the user is a normal member of gid=100(users) and groups=100(users) I am trying to follow along this thread for example on the opensuse forums: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/538796-How-to-start-appimaged-vi… > https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/538796-How-to-start-appimaged-vi… as an example to begin with. as a different user, which can log-in to that machine, via ssh for example, the systemctl --user status shows results and proper output. So my gut feeling was that this is gonna be a show stopper further along the road when following that thread and means to execute a simple stuff via systemd in a user context. The thing is, I want to keep this as simple as possible, if possible. the inverse thing of crontab @reboot would suffice for me I say, but apparently there is no such thing. and I dont have a systemd user level service/config file for this application made, as it created this crontab and @reboot itself etc. any best practices for this? maybe I am using this deactivated local user on the linux machine in wrong ways? the user doesnt need to be used for anything else but to run its script and app it is creating, it only needs disk and network resources, no gui stuff, except for shell output if at all. well. then again I am not an expert in this stuff. just simply trying to run a certain command properly at shutdown time, in that users context. thats all. TY.

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[opensuse] RETR command
by Doug McGarrett 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Opened up Thunderbird and got the message, "The RETR command did not succeed. Error receiving a message. Mail server pop.online.net responded: Message expunged." This happened twice today; I have never seen it before. Where is the problem, and is this something I should be concerned about, and if so, what should be done? Thanx for your interest--doug

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[opensuse] Nvidia driver 340.108 (G03) support?
by DennisG 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

I just upgraded a machine to Leap 15.2 only to discover that apparently openSUSE has dropped support for the nvidia 340 driver; it is not in the 15.2 nvidia repo. Yet according to nvidia, the driver supports the 5.3 kernel. The card is a 9800GTX+ - yes it's old but it still works quite well on 15.1. Can anyone confirm that dropping support for this driver version is intentional, although it is still available for download from nvidia? Since it is not in the repo, I suspect that the download (aka "hard way") version will have the same issue, too. (And besides, I really really don't want to get on the re-installation merry-go-round.) I'd like to know before just assuming nouveau is my best (only) option with this card. TIA, --dg

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[opensuse] Ubiquiti Controller Software for Linux - DEB only?
by James Knott 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

I was planning on downloading the controller software, but see the Linux version is for Debian, etc. only. Does anyone know if this can be installed on openSUSE? tnx jk https://www.ui.com/download/unifi/

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[opensuse] decent suse users list viewer on the web
by Istvan Gabor 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

Hello: Since I started to post/read suse users list I always checked new messages on the list's website. I only login to my webmail to write mails and search for specific mails. I don't read mailing list messages in it. I read all mailing list messages at their web sites/archives. It is very inconvenient to use the webmail for reading mails. And I don't want to install local mail clients, because I read the messages from several locations. Unfortunately the new suse-users mailing list website is almost useless for me. Especially in contrast the old mailing list website which was the best one among mailing archive websites. Can someone please suggest an archive site which shows opensuse users list mails in threaded mode with previous/next message links as all conventional mail archive sites do? Thanks, Istvan

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[opensuse] Thunderbird 78.4.0 and PGP - doesn't work for me.
by Carlos E. R. 21 Nov '20

21 Nov '20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have updated today to that version in subj, but no wizard triggered to import things. What do I do? I see no enigmail helper. I see nothing in preferences labeled PGP or GPG. I have now set "mail.openpgp.allow_external_gnupg = true" and restarted Th. I try to write a message, but I can not sign it. I go to mail account settings, and under "ent-to.end encription, I can add a key and choose "use external key". I have to type the secret key id, which is a nuisance, it doesn't do search. I fire up Kleopatra, I see my key and the ID, but I'm not allowed to copypaste it. I open instead "seahorse". I see the short ID, I can select it and paste to thunderbird, but on "write message" it says it can not find my key. I see in seahorse the fingerprint. I try pasting that. Same error, can not sign. I try removing the spaces in the fingerprint, no go. If I go to an email of mine and try to find the public keys, it fails. It tries to "Import {$name} (B533181C6D8D47D5)?" which yes, it is the fingerprint of my key. And yes, it is of course published. If I go to Th/OpenPGP Key Manager, and try Keyserver/Discover keys online, and type either the fingerprint, the ID, or the mail address, it claims it can not find a key with that criteria. Which is false: cer@Telcontar:~> gpg --recv-keys 6D8D47D5 gpg: key B533181C6D8D47D5: "Carlos E. R. (cer) <robin.listas(a)telefonica.net>" 5 new signatures gpg: key B533181C6D8D47D5: "Carlos E. R. (cer) <robin.listas(a)telefonica.net>" 5 signatures cleaned gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: new signatures: 5 gpg: signatures cleaned: 5 cer@Telcontar:~> How do you do it? (mail sent with Alpine) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCX6qPcxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVReIAn23Krjbyldln9M5PbyIa BA1aowVvAJ46zrybhLE45IBKlhAVHtXjgmoMrg== =QEIL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] opensuse web sites down or extremely slow for me
by Patrick Shanahan 21 Nov '20

21 Nov '20

anyone notice extremely slow access to opensuse sites? or just my central Indiana USA location... -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode

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[opensuse] installing 15.1 or 15.2 as a xen guest keeps failing, but 42.3 works ?
by Per Jessen 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

I'm trying to install Leap 15.[12] in a xen DomU, but the creation of the installation keeps failing. This is just booting a guest with the loader kernel and initrd. Absolutely nothing unusual. After a few attempts and having enabled more and more unintelligible debug output, in desperation I thought I would try Leap 42.3 instead, and it worked! Does this ring a bell with anyone? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (5.8°C)

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[opensuse] fast rsync mirror for repositories
by Istvan Gabor 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

Hello: I would like to make a local copy of Leap 15.1 repositories before it disappears. Because of the structure of the repositories directory I use rsync with filters to download only 15.1 related stuff. Unfortunately I can't find a fast rsync mirror which has repositories. Earlier I used ftp.gwdg.de site but now when I start rsync on it I only get a "receiving file list ..." message and nothing else for more than an hour (until now). It is stuck or very slow I don't know. This is the command I run (dry-run only to test site): rsync -av -n --include-from=filters.txt --prune-empty-dirs rsync://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/ opensuse/repositories Welcome to ftp.gwdg.de receiving file list ... Can someone suggest a fast working rsync mirror that has repositories? Thanks, Istvan

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[opensuse] os-prober script corrupts btrfs
by Holger Jakob 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

Hi - I ran into an issue with the script /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/50mounted-tests (os-prober package) mounting an already mounted btrfs volume and effectively corrupting that volume. This occurred automatically during a "zypper update" on a Leap 15.2 system. /var/log/message outputs indicate the volume was actually mounted. At that time the volume was already in used by a XEN VM. The volume is part of a LVM Volume Group and lvdisplay indicated the volume was already in use. 1. Why is this script needed when dracut/grub is updating the initrd files and why does it touch (rw mount) volumes unrelated to the boot process? 2. Why did the btrfs partition not rejecting any further mount attempts (as it was already opened elsewhere)? 3. In order to prevent this from happening in the future is it safe to remove "os-prober" or can the script be modified to leave certain volumes untouched? Thanks Holger --

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