November 2020 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] cleaning keyboard
by Bob Rea 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

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

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[opensuse] Remove old message in opensuse mailing list?
by Roger Oberholtzer 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

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

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[opensuse] minidlna fails
by oszko＠chem.u-szeged.hu 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

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.

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[opensuse] Any current wireguard on openSuSE 15.2?
by cagsm 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

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.

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[opensuse] hyperkitty is gross, over the top nonsense (from: Clickable web links...)
by Felix Miata 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

[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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[opensuse] nvidia 450.80 plus Google Chrome 87 plus hibernate = crash
by Aaron Digulla 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hello, Since about a month, my Xfce4 desktop crashes when I resume from hibernate (to disk) overnight. On good days, the browser window is just black. Killing the chrome process with --type=gpu-process fixes this. Anyone else with the same problems? Any suggestions how to proceed? I tried to enable debug logging for Chrome but I can't see any obvious problems in the output (see attachment). Involved versions: Name : nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default Version : 450.80.02_k5.3.18_lp152.19 Release : lp152.37.1 Architecture: x86_64 Name : google-chrome-stable Version : 87.0.4280.66 Release : 1 Architecture: x86_64 Name : xfce4-panel Version : 4.14.4 Release : lp152.1.3 Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/

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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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