November 2020 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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[opensuse] I like: MirrorCache with MirrorBrain
by cagsm 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

There has been that post on the project list at <https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/…> <https://github.com/andrii-suse/MirrorCache> and I like this new MirrorCache approach. Although as a name a brain sounds more sophisticated than a cache. Anyways, looking forward to how this evolves. Wondering if it would be useful to make use of such things as torrent addresses of all the files a.k.a. objects in the repositories and huge distributed caching architectures instead of old central servers. Thanks to the developers and people involved.

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[opensuse] Need help with setting up routes.
by Marc Chamberlin 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

Hello - I am not aware of any forum where it would be more appropriate to ask my questions about setting up routes for what I want to accomplish for my network of computers, so guess I will ask here and hopefully either get an answer or get directed to a better forum. Internet searches and Googling have not helped much. I have a small network of computers interconnected on a private 192.168.10.* net. Each of these computers run various services, and all connected to different specialized hardware devices and/or acting as gateways to a specialized subnet(s) of devices. One of these computers is also acting as a gateway to the internet. The internet gateway computer has 2 NICs and I have assigned a set of public IP addresses to the external NIC (eth0) the internal facing NIC has a private IP address of 192.168.10.10. What I want to do is to have all these computers to be able to interacted with each other over the private network, just like any normal network, and I want to be able to route each public IP address to a particular IP address on the internal network. Therefore each internal computer's NIC card will be assigned 2 different IP addresses assigned to it, one for normal internal network operations, and the second handling traffic to/from one of the public IP addresses. This makes each internal computer effectively have it's own external public IP address, for running public accessible services, and it's own private IP address running private accessible services as well. SO to put this in a table the network needs to support something like this- Computer 1 (The internet gateway computer) NIC1 eth0 IPs - 200.200.200.1, 200.200.200.2, 200.200.200.3, ... NIC2 eth1 IP - 192.168.10.10 This computer is running an Apache web server for the main domain and an DHCP, NAMED/Bind and other services for the internal network. Computer 2 (Security and other cameras) NIC1 eth0 IPs - 192.168.10.20, 192.168.10.21 NIC2 eth1 IP - 10.10.10.1 This computer is a gateway to a subnet (10.10.10.*) of security cameras. It is also running 2 Apache web servers, each listening to one of the IP addresses assigned to eth0 and serving of information that is appropriate for users making a connection via one of the IP addresses on eth0. The routes set up for IP address of 192.168.10.20 are the normal internal network routes. Traffic too and from the internal 192.168.10.* is handled via this IP and the gateway to the internet is also handled by routing unknown IP addresses to the gateway address of 192.168.10.10 What I need to know, is how to I set up the routes for 192.168.10.21 and 200.200.200.2, which I want to be "virtually" connected so incoming traffic on 200.200.200.2 is routed to 192.168.10.21 and outgoing traffic from 192.168.10.21 is routed to/through 200.200.200.2? It doesn't appear that I can do this using the YaST Network Settings app because it wrongly makes assumptions about routing rules when an IP address is assigned to a NIC. When a new IP address is assigned to a NIC, a routing rule is also defined that allows connections to all addresses on the network to which that IP address is a part of. But that provides multiple/different paths to other systems on the internal network and that breaks some of the services which expects packets to be sent back through the same IP address to which the original packet was sent. Also I don't know how to assign an IP address to a NIC without using YaST, so could use a pointer/example. For Computer 1, do I need to assign additional internal IP addresses to my NIC 2 interface to handle the "virtual" connections between the external IP addresses and the internal IP address of the computer, and if so how do I set up the route rules using them? Other internal computers are set up in a similar way as Computer 2 and need similar appropriate routing rules.. For example - Computer 3 (Radio controller) NIC1 wlan0 IPs - 192.168.10.30, 192.168.10.31 Again IP 192.168.10.30 is used for the normal internal network routes. Traffic too and from the internal 192.168.10.* is handled via this IP and the gateway to the internet is also handled by routing unknown IP addresses to the gateway address of 192.168.10.10. The IP address of 192.168.10.31 needs to have a virtual connection/route with the public IP address of 200.200.200.3 I have been and will continue to fool around with this, but so far when I examine the routes created, after using YaST to define the routes, nothing makes sense. I have also been using the ROUTE ADD and DEL commands to directly manipulate the route tables of rules, but still no joy getting what I need. Another question I have is - will I have to use the DHCP server to distribute routing information about these "virtual" routes and if so, how? I am also looking for a solution that does not involve putting in new cables or wireless bridges, that would be extremely challenging at this point, especially since some of these computers are in remote locations. Thanks in advance as always, for helping me with this, routes and network setup has always been a difficult area for me to grok. Marc... -- *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/Attached is my public key to be used for encryption and sending encrypted email to marc(a)marcchamberlin.com. Don't worry about opening unless you know how and can send encrypted email./)

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[opensuse] skype
by Doug McGarrett 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

I'd appreciate directions to install skype on TW. Thanx! --doug

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[opensuse] opensuse@opensuse.org > users@lists.opensuse.org change question
by Istvan Gabor 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Hello: I tried to send messages to the list as before, using the address opensuse(a)opensuse.org. The messages did not get to the list. I had to do internet search to find out what could be the problem and found that the address has been changed to users(a)lists.opensuse.org. Could someone please point me to the message in this mailing list that announced this change? Also, it seems that the list's webpage (https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/) is not updated anymore. Is there a new address for that too? Usually I just check the list on the web and use my mail program only to send messages. Thanks, Istvan

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