April 2020 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: Download error on home:/plater/Tumbleweed
by Dave Plater 12 Apr '20

12 Apr '20

On 11/04/2020 04:31, Constant wrote: > Since some time I saw a error message on my zypper.dup with the > following content. > > No idea why this error shows up and it does not seem to cause a problem. > > --------------------------- > > Download (curl) error for > 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/plater/Tumbleweed/repodata/…': > Error code: Curl error 56 > Error message: Recv failure: Connection reset by peer > > --------------------------- > > Could Dave platter please look into this problem? > Must have been temporary, it's working with today's zypper dup or it could be a failing mirror. Dave P -- 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] FF 68.6+ tweaks
by David C. Rankin 12 Apr '20

12 Apr '20

All, After updating a box to the 5.6.3 kernel, I decided to update FF from 60.8esr to 68.6esr. (yes, I know 68.7esr is out, one release back was intentional) As with any new version jump in FF, it took about 45 minutes to chase down and disable all the crapola I don't want or need. Hopefully this will save someone else the 45 minutes. This isn't new version related, but I don't want search suggestion cluttering up my search results, so set the following to `false` in about:config browser.search.suggest.enabled browser.urlbar.suggest.openpage I can't stand ads or other junk cluttering up the addons page trying to tell me what they think are good addons. If I need a feature, I'm smart enough to search for it myself. about:config set to `false` extensions.htmlaboutaddons.discover.enabled extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled I don't want an mozilla firefox account and I don't want a dopey smiley face on my toolbar. about:config set to `false` identity.fxaccounts.enabled identity.fxaccounts.toolbar.enabled I do not want software that attempts to download and install a new version of itself and I don't need a 50M download waiting to be installed. Nor do I want a green up-arrow over the hamburger as a nag reminder. Only now, mozilla has taken away the ability to use about:config to disable automatic download of updates and mozilla took away the setting in preferences where you could tell firefox not to check for updates (annoying) Now you have to hack together a json file of policies which for 68.6 requires you create a 'distribution' directory in the firefox install location, e.g. for a mozilla tarball that is: /opt/firefox/distribution/policies.json (I'm not sure where that would be for the rpm -- Wolfgang?) The contents to disable updates and the green nag is: { "policies": { "AppAutoUpdate": false } } (which of course will need to be wrapped in the policies-template for 68.7...) Good news is after removing the cruft, firefox is just as good in this esr version as the last. -- 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] how to not apply a patch
by Werner Flamme 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi Folks, I have a question about zypper or libzypp. I found out that on SLES 15 SP1 the package openswan has been updated from 5.6.0 to 5.8.2 via patch:SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-743-1. That's bad because the update breaks my connection via IPsec to SAP. So I reverted to the old packages. The connection runs again. But how can I make sure that this patch is never applied again? I tried "zypper al 'strongsw*'". "zypper al" shows that, and "zypper up" does not show any package with "strongsw" at the beginning in the list of packages to be updated. That's OK. But "zypper patch" still annoys me by showing 2 "Solutions": No 1 being to remove the lock, No 2 "do not install patch:SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-743-1.noarch. So I used "zypper al" to add this patch. It shows with "zypper ll", but it is ignored, "zypper patch" still shows 2 solutions. Since there is a "zypper -n patch" running daily, and it exits with Errorlevel 4, I'd love to have a way so that this patch does not show up for "zypper patch", which works fine with "zypper up". "zypper patch" should see that there is a patch in the zypper lock list and should ignore this patch for its action. Can I get this to work? Regards, Werner -- -- 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] Firefox
by Wolfgang Mueller 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Until this morning I ran "Firefox 68.6.1esr (64-bit)" on openSuSE Leap 15.1. After a software update yesterday night performed by typing "zypper patch", all tabs appeared with this text: Gah. Your tab just crashed. We can help! ... (complete text at http://ariannuccia.de/images.tmp/tab_crashed.pdf) It did not help opening a new tab or trying a different URL. Whatever I tried to open, always the same nonsense described above appeared. So, I downloaded firefox-74.0.1.tar.bz2 to /opt, installed it by typing "tar xjvf firefox-74.0.1.tar.bz2" and replaced /usr/bin/firefox by a symbolic link to /opt/firefox/firefox. This was very simple and has the advantage that I can now run "Firefox 74.0.1 (64-bit)" instead of the prehistoric version 68.6.1esr supplied by openSuSE. Best regards, Wolfgang -- 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] Plasma problem: energy saving not activated
by Alex Bihlmaier 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi, with TW and Plasma i experience currently the problem that the display does not turn off after the configured period of time (in system settings). Anybody else with the same problem? thal -- 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] Konqeror with side bar available for testing
by Dave Plater 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi, the KDE crowd, have produced a konqueror with the old side bar. I had to build it in my packman build service account to test it because atm openSUSE's home:plater/konqueror is firmly stuck. It works on Leap:15.1 and I'm sure it will work with my Tumbleweed laptop. When the build service unsticks itself you can find the finished product at: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/plater/Leap_15.1 and https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/plater/Tumbleweed If you find any problems please cc davejplater(a)gmail.com as my visits to this list are infrequent nowadays. I'll find a suitable place to submit it to later. Best regards Dave P -- 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] Re: Firefox
by Wolfgang Mueller 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 16:28:49 +0200, Holger Sickenberg wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > if you did update Firefox while running it? If so this might have been > the reason. Did you restart the browser completely and retry? I even uninstalled and then reinstalled it. > Firefox 68.6.1esr (64-bit) running fine here on openSUSE Leap 15.1 When the update patch came, I installed it on all of my three computers, only one of them with Firefox open. But that did not matter. Firefox 68.6.1esr (64-bit) does no more work on any of these three computers. But I am grateful to SuSE, because otherwise I would not have detected Firefox 74.0.1 (64-bit) and how easy it is to be installed. Best regards, Wolfgang -- 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] Virtualbox Problem
by Mark Misulich 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

Hi, I'm having a problem installing Virtualbox on Opensuse 15.1 with KDE Plasma Version 5.12.8 KDE Frameworks Ver 5.55.0 Qt Version 5.9.7 Kernel Version 5.6.0-rc7-1.g0801cd7-default I installed Virtualbox using Yast. When I try to start Virtualbox I get the following message: Failed to open a session for the virutal machine. Then, in a seperate popup window I get the following message: Kernel driver not installed (rc=1908) The VirtualBox LInux dernel driver is either not loaded or not set up correctly. Pleast try setting it up again by executing '/sbin/bvoxconfig' as root. When I run /sbin/vboxconfig as root, I get this message: Building kernel modules... Build of VirtualBox host kernel modules failed. Look at /var/log/virtualbox.log to find reasons In /var/log/virtualbox.log this message appears: === Building 'vboxdrv' module === make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernel- modules/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv' /usr/src/kernel-modules/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv/Makefile-header.gmk:193: *** Error: unable to find the headers of the Linux kernel to build against (KERN_DIR=/lib/modules/5.6.0-rc7-1.g0801cd7-default/build). Specify KERN_VER=<version> (currently 5.6.0-rc7-1.g0801cd7-default) and run Make again. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernel- modules/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv' make: *** [Makefile:58: vboxdrv] Error 2 None of the remedies that I have tried have produced a solution to the problem. I imagine that this is something easily fixed, but I will need some help to resolve it. Thanks, Mark -- 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] script question
by Istvan Gabor 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

Hello: I have a program that can send its output to a script. I can setup the script command in the program as: <script-name> option1 option2 ..., eg: myscript.sh name time. I know that I can get the options in the script using $1 and $2 etc. But how can I get the program's output that is sent to the script? I would like to write to output to a file. I also would like to use the program's output to different purposes. Can I store it in a variable and use it later, or do I have to save it in a temporary file? Thanks in advance, Istvan -- 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] modifying postscript file (with pstops or other tool)
by Istvan Gabor 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

Hello: My program produces a postsctipt file which has a text block vertically in the middle of an A4 page. The text block fits A5 size in landscape mode. I would like to convert the ps file from A4 size portrait mode to A5 size landscape mode by shifting and/or rotating the text. I tried to use pstops tool: pstops -w14.8cm -h10.5cm 0$0cm,-7.5cm$ file0.ps out1.ps or pstops -pa5 0L$25.3cm,0cm$ file0.ps out2.ps but they did not work. It seems that pstops crops the original A4 size to A5, and only after cropping it shifts/rotates the page. Therefore the original text block is cut and only part of it goes to the new ps file. Is there any way I can solve this? Need not to be pstops. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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