December 2020 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

grub boot from raid1 question
by Istvan Gabor 02 Jan '21

02 Jan '21

Hello: I would like to set up a Leap 15.1 system that boots from a md raid1 array. I have a sample configuration from a working debian system that boots from raid1 array. However there are 2 things in the sample configuration I don't understand. The working debian grub.cfg has this: ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { load_video insmod gzio insmod raid insmod mdraid1x insmod part_msdos insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(mduuid/4245........a8)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 68b........26e echo 'Loading Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae ...' linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae root=UUID=68b........26e ro nomodeset quiet echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae } My questions: 1. It seems that grub sets the root device using the array's uuid (mduuid). Than it searches for file-system id, and sets the root to that file system. Isn't it enough to set the root using only one of these methods? Either by mduuid or by fs-uuid? Is it necessary to use both? What occurs if the the fs-uuid of the mduuid device's file system is not equal to the one given in the search command? 2. insmod part_msdos command is given 2 times. I guess it would be OK to use only once. Is this correct? Thanks, Istvan

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TW license only in French, German, Greek, Persian, Russian and Spanish - but not in English ??
by Per Jessen 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Due to a user report about failing checksums, I was just testing one of our mirrors and wanted to compare to my own - on http://opensuse.c3sl.ufbr.br, I was only offered the license in Russian. on my own copy (http://mirror.hostsuisse.com/opensuse) I am offered French, German, Greek, Persian, Russian and Spanish - but not English ?? Also, I don't recall having had to accept the license by ticking a box ? Although that might be my memory failing. I am not a regular TW user, hence my perplexion. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.6°C)

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Request: Add driver r8125 to the kernel
by Aaron Digulla 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Hello, I'm interested in support for the r8125 driver in the official kernel. What are the plans for this? Currently, I'm using the package found here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:Sauerland/r8125 I just unpacked the module and copied it to /lib/modules/*/weak-updates/updates/, ran depmod -a and it worked since Nov, 24th. But I'm a bit wary for how long :-) 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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To whom it might concern ...
by Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza 26 Dec '20

26 Dec '20

Dear listmembers, after having struggeled for quite a while with unstable bluetooth connections / missing possibility to set the audio mode to a2dp I finally upgraded to 15.2. I had tested the "live" version of it beforehand and there it seemed to work. But after completion of the upgrade - no a2dp profile again. Searching on the net suggests many different solutions, I tested them, it failed. Finally it came to my mind what is different between the "live" system booted from a stick and my "regular" installation: - I have two KDE - session in parallel, one on tty7, the other one on tty8, - the "live" system has only one KDE - session. after not logging in to the second session - whops, a2dp is there, flawlessly, just like someone would expect. Now I am asking myself what is going wrong here, apparently two instances of the same KDE - bluetooth - configurations are "fighting" each other causing performance issues (and stability problems ...). As I would think that having two sessions in parallel on one server is nothing "out of scope" I wonder whether or not I should rise a bug report pointing to this - any opinions? Thank you for thinking that over - and, by the way, Merry Christmas to everyone out there. Best Dieter -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza 76131 Karlsruhe

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Carlos - You good with Tbird 78 and PGP/(gpg) - All working?
by David C. Rankin 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

Carlos, Just a follow up to the long thread earlier where you moved from Tbird 68 - 78 and went through the enigmail loss and migration to GPG. Did it all work out? Are you using a master-password to prevent your private keys from being stored unencrypted under your ~/.thunderbird directory? Do you have to enter the master password for every message? Still on 68 and will have time over the break to be tormented with it. Any pointers not in the last thread you found -- would be welcomed :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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location of yast saved rpm files
by Istvan Gabor 24 Dec '20

24 Dec '20

Hello: Most I use yast software manager to install/remove packages. I always set software manager to keep downloaded/installed packages. Currently I use openSUSE Leap 15.1. I found that the downloaded rpm files are installed in /var/cache/zypp/packages/<dir> where <dir> is one of openSUSE_Leap_15.1 openSUSE_Leap_15.1_1 openSUSE-Leap-15.1-1 openSUSE_Leap_15.1_10 openSUSE_Leap_15.1_11 openSUSE_Leap_15.1_2 openSUSE_Leap_15.1_3 openSUSE_Leap_15.1_4 openSUSE_Leap_15.1_5 openSUSE_Leap_15.1_6 openSUSE_Leap_15.1_7 openSUSE_Leap_15.1_8 repo-non-oss repo-oss repo-update In previous openSUSE versions these dirs were named as the repo name I gave. For example the dirs from my openSUSE 13.1 system are: arj_Sauerland devel-tools-ide_codeblocks Education Emulators KDE3 madsoft_kuickshow multimedia-apps_cdrecord openSUSE-13.1-1.10 PACKMAN Publishing QT5 repo-oss repo-update security_ike server-database For me this approach is much more logical, because I can find a given file much easier, and I know which package comes from which repo. In current 15.1 I don't know how can I find a package that comes from a given repo. Questions: - What was the rationale behind changing the name scheme? - How can I find which package comes from which repo, and in which <dir> it is saved? - Is it possible to change the configuration to set back the old behavior? Thanks, Istvan

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Nginx and GeoIP
by Chuck Payne 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

Hi, So I need to ask a question. I been looking online for how to block countries using GeoIP with my Nginx installed, I keep seeing geoip-database. If I install the geoipupdate, will that install the database I need? Or do I need to download the geolite tar ball from Maxmind? -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 openSUSE Community Member since 2008.

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[opensuse] Raid, Raid6, what file system for good fault tolerance?
by cagsm 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

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

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Mutt stops showing mail body (maybe https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179461)
by Josef Wolf 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

Hello, since a couple of weeks I experience a problem with mutt. At some point in time, mutt stops showing mail bodies. Once this happens, the only way to stop mutt from mis-behavong is to quit and start a new instance. I started a thread for this problem on the mutt mailing list: http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/Week-of-Mon-20201214/002262.html http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/Week-of-Mon-20201221/002282.html and the people over there deduced that my problem might be related to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179461 But for me, the symptomps see to be somwhat different: - In the bug, the problem seems to be related to search, while for me, simply displaying some mail triggers the problem. - In the bug, the problem seems to be reproducible. There exists even an archive of the gcc mailing list to reproduce. For me, the problem is triggered ramdomly in pretty much every folder. No matter whether mbox or maildir or whatever. - In the bug, the problem seems to be triggered only when attachments are present in the mail. For me, the bug is triggered even if there are no attachments at all in the displayed messages. I just confirmed that by alternately showing http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/Week-of-Mon-20201214/002273.html http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/Week-of-Mon-20201214/002274.html jumping back and forth between those two messages, which both do not have any attachments. This way I could trigger the problem by not touching any attachments at all. So I am curious: is it really the same bug? Or should I file a new one? -- Josef Wolf jw(a)raven.inka.de

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HP 1109W printer
by Carl Spitzer {L Juno} 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

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