February 2020 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] OS LEAP on a USB stick
by David T-G 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Hi, all -- I have a media server stuffed full of hard drives, and I have to date been using Knoppix with a Casper partition on a USB drive to run it. The idea was that 1) replacing the boot media should be easy (and I clone the stick to another every once in a while) and 2) upgrading should be easy (by just whipping up a fresh stick with the latest version and comparing my persistence partition files with the new fresh versions) while 3) maintenance should be simple. It's worked well enough so far, but ... I'm about to bring another server in-house, and I maybe want just a bit more than Knoppix, although I still won't have disk slots to spare. I need the simple stability of LEAP, which will of course get updates regularly anyway, and wonder about running on a thumb drive in the same way. This one will run MySQL/Maria, probably run a web server, and will handle email and need at least a basic forwarding MTA if not the real thing. I imagine that I'd want to run without swap (*gasp* yes, that discussion again ;-) and figure I'm stuck with content changes right in the live OS rather than in an overlay volume. Does that sound right, or is there a LEAP live image (no, I haven't gone looking yet) that can UNIONFS on top in the same way? TIA & HANW :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] LEap with root on nfs share
by Daniel Spannbauer 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Hello, anybody got sorted out how to start a Leap system with the root filesystem on a nfs share? How did you bild the initrd? 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Housekeeping functions
by Ianseeks 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

Hi For ordinary lazy users like me who are not interested in or capable of system admin as a daily chore, should there not be the possibility of a section in Yast2 or Systemsettings where some standard user friendly housekeeping functions (e.g. flushing tmp folders, vacuuming journals etc) could be activated/configured to run at startup/shutdown rather than have to scour the net for solutions. For many like me, the computer should be doing more work with stuff that could be automated. I've just hit the "system disk full" message when running "zypper", it would have been better if a "disk getting full" message was displayed at login so i could have dealt with it. Any thoughts? regards Ian -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20200214 Qt: 5.14.1 KDE Frameworks: 5.67.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.18.0 - kwin 5.18.0 kmail2 5.13.2 (19.12.2) - akonadiserver 5.13.2 (19.12.2) - Kernel: 5.5.2-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.15 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] paste.opensuse TITSUP? cli paste reports OK, but site says 404
by David C. Rankin 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

All, Is paste.opensuse on the fritz? Pasting from the CLI reports success: https://paste.opensuse.org/16156664 https://susepaste.org/ is up, but trying to use the site to post results in 404 when you press [Create] Something is rotten in Denmark... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] freezes on 15.1/KDE
by Daniel Bauer 29 Feb '20

29 Feb '20

Hi, since yesterday I have some freezes of approx. 20 seconds: the mouse pointer disappears or stays unmovable, the keyboard doesn't react. The rest of the computer seems to run normally (gkrellm shows movement, radio continues playing). This began yesterday. Today I updated the system and rebooted, same problem. As I don't know much about systems I typed "dmesg" and what fell into my eyes are the following messages: [ 1561.359808] perf: interrupt took too long (2502 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 79750 [ 2054.192856] perf: interrupt took too long (3446 > 3127), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 58000 [ 3561.599163] perf: interrupt took too long (4317 > 4307), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 46250 [ 7297.201895] perf: interrupt took too long (5417 > 5396), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 36750 Where can I search, and for what? Any hints? Thank you! Daniel openSuse 15.1 KDE-Plasma 5.12.8 KDE-Fameworks: 5.55.0 Qt: 5.9.7 Kernel: 4.12.14-lp151.28.36-default Inten I7, 24GB Ram -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] setup delay on network and browsers problem
by jdd＠dodin.org 29 Feb '20

29 Feb '20

I have no idea of the reason of the problem, but since some weeks, my Leap 15.1 computer (three of them, actually) get a long time to connect to the net. same with wifi or ethernet. Looks like a dhcp problem (all are setup as dhcp, but they IP never changes) like 20-30s after I can type on the keyboard. In the mean time, all my applications launch, Firefox, Chromium, Falkon, Thunderbird. then all send error messages "server not found". I have to stop them and relaunch them to get the web. this "problem" with Firefox is very old, but since recently I had rarely to launch it before connection. any idea? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Housekeeping functions
by PGNet Dev 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

On 2/20/20 1:05 PM, Anton Aylward wrote: > Not on my system it doens't. > Read what it says: > > # This unit gets pulled automatically into multi-user.target by > # systemd-rc-local-generator if /etc/init.d/boot.local is executable. > > So > ... mount openSUSE-Leap-15.1-DVD-x86_64.iso /mnt/ISO/ rpm2cpio /mnt/ISO/x86_64/systemd-234-lp151.25.7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv cat ./usr/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service # This file is part of systemd. # # systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This unit gets pulled automatically into multi-user.target by # systemd-rc-local-generator if /etc/init.d/boot.local is executable. [Unit] Description=/etc/init.d/boot.local Compatibility ConditionFileIsExecutable=/etc/init.d/boot.local >> After=basic.target [Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/etc/init.d/boot.local start TimeoutSec=0 RemainAfterExit=yes GuessMainPID=no that it's possibly got different deps on different installs is irrelevant. the point is that it's available &/or easily added, is usable, and can be further supplemented by additional "after.local", etc invoked in service units regardless of the release -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Leap 15.1 - Nvidia Graphics driver = grub2 does not boot anymore - help very appreciated
by stakanov 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

I have the problem of a machine with a broken Grub post Nivida driver update. This is nothing new that Nvidia is crap, but I find myself in the situation that I will have to coach over the phone how to repair the grub to a user with limited knowledge (no way to go down to Italy right now, for obvious reason) and honestly: never did the procedure and have no idea about it. The error message: after booting into the /sda1/gub-efi fat partition the system stalls with: Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions. So, what do I have to do and what do I need? Thank you. (The user currently should have only a installation DVD. So I suppose - without knowing it - that this shall be a case for live usb or for a rescue disc? Else?) _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Ihre E-Mail-Postf�cher sicher & zentral an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und alte E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://www.eclipso.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Microsoft Brings Defender Antivirus for Linux
by Roger Oberholtzer 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/windows-defender-atp-linux-android.html Does anyone know if this will be available for openSUSE? Before everyone screams at me "Are you mad?", recall that I work in a hostile Windows-centric environment where the IT guys have banned all machines that cannot run the Cisco software suite. So if I could offer a Windows-warm-and-fuzzy alternative, perhaps my openSUSE machines can become full citizens again. -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Generating tar.gz file from kubic iso
by Sven Marquardt 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Hello I'm trying for the first time to install opensuse on an lend dedicated root server from hetzner. I want to install opensuse-kubic but they need a tar, tar.gz, tar.bz, tar.bz2, tar.xz, tgz, tbz or txz. But I don't know how to get the iso into one of this formats. Is there a dedicated download for one of this formats or can i convert the iso into one of this formats?

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