August 2020 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] booting 15.1 or 15.2 installer in xen guest - just refuses to work
by Per Jessen 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

I have a 15.0 guest "oc2" that refuses to boot under xen (4.4.2). It has the latest kernel for 15.0 - 4.12.14-12.82. After "xl create", I see it run (xentop) for a little bit, then it dies/disappears. There is no log, no output. So I started installing older kernels - 12.28 does not work, and I skipped to 12.4 - which works! I guess I need to look at the changelogs to figure what is happening. However, I really wanted to upgrade to 15.1 or even 15.2, but I cannot boot a system with the loader kernel+initrd ?? Same issue, just dies, no log, no output. Any hints? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.1°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted in Switzerland. -- 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] Linux administration tutorial for OpenSUSE?
by Mikhail Ramendik 13 Aug '20

13 Aug '20

Hello, I have a son age 15 who really needs to learn how to understand and administer Linux. The machine he uses runs OpenSUSE (currently Leap 15.1). I know stuff but I am not sure I'm a good teacher, so I tried to find a tutorial. However, while I saw a few, I don't see any that would use OpenSUSE for examples. Of course the concepts are similar everywhere but I'd rather have him able to follow. Could anyone please recommend good tutorials for OpenSUSE? English language. Text or video is fine. -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- 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] KDE ark vulnerability
by David C. Rankin 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

All kde'ers, This one looks a bit nasty if you use ark: Ark: maliciously crafted archive can install files outside the extraction directory. https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200730-1.txt Hopefully it is patched. -- 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] extremely weird mono problem - app desn't launch unless tunneled through ssh
by Mathias Homann 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

hi all, I'm experiencing an extremely strange mono problem... I've downloaded libopenmetaverse 0.9.3 (sources) and rebuilt it on Leap 15.2 with the mono version that's included with leap. Now, I'm trying to launch any of the demos, and as soon as I try one that brings in a GUI )for example Dashboard.exe) it crashes at startup. ... unless I run t through a ssh-tunneled X11 !!!! to be clear: "mono /home/mathias/Documents/Downloads/libopenmetaverse-0.9.3/ bin/Dashboard.exe" crashes with the errors shown in https://susepaste.org/16242955 but "ssh localhost mono /home/mathias/Documents/Downloads/ libopenmetaverse-0.9.3/bin/Dashboard.exe" works... Anyone got any ideas? Cheers MH -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann(a)openSUSE.org OBS: lemmy04 Jabber (XMPP): lemmy(a)tuxonline.tech IRC: [Lemmy] on freenode and ircnet (bouncer active) telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98 keybase: https://keybase.io/lemmy gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102

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[opensuse] Installing new tabs in KSysGuard
by James Knott 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

I've downloaded a couple of new tabs for KSysguard, but I don't see any way to add them. When I click on New Tab, I'm presented with a box for entering info, but nothing about the downloaded tabs. Any ideas? tnx jk -- 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] Grub crashes just after update (15.1)
by Carlos E. R. 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grub crashes just after update (Leap 15.1), that included grub and kernel: Telcontar:~ # rpm -qa --last grub2-x86_64-efi-2.02-lp151.21.21.4.noarch Sun Aug 9 21:48:42 2020 grub2-systemd-sleep-plugin-2.02-lp151.21.21.4.noarch Sun Aug 9 21:48:42 2020 grub2-snapper-plugin-2.02-lp151.21.21.4.noarch Sun Aug 9 21:48:42 2020 grub2-i386-pc-2.02-lp151.21.21.4.noarch Sun Aug 9 21:48:41 2020 kernel-default-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1.x86_64 Sun Aug 9 21:50:24 2020 I get this message on boot (hand copied): Welcome to GRUB! error: symbol `grub_calloc` not found Entering rescue mode grub rescue> _ Also, the entry in EFI menu for the other Leap in this machine is lost. Telcontar:~ # efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 0000 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: 0004,0000 Boot0000* main_opensuse-secureboot HD(1,GPT,800b649f-a2e3-4dad-b2bf-b7ecc5ef11d8,0x800,0xfa000)/File(\EFI\MAIN_OPENSUSE\SHIM.EFI) Boot0004* opensuse HD(1,GPT,800b649f-a2e3-4dad-b2bf-b7ecc5ef11d8,0x800,0xfa000)/File(\EFI\OPENSUSE\GRUBX64.EFI)..BO Telcontar:~ # Notice the different paths. One of them booted, I forget which. This one is recent: Telcontar:~ # l /boot/efi/EFI/main_opensuse/ total 3528 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Apr 1 23:15 ./ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 8192 Mar 22 00:46 ../ - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1158688 Aug 9 21:51 MokManager.efi* - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68 Aug 9 21:51 boot.csv* - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 150 Aug 9 21:51 grub.cfg* - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1066864 Aug 9 21:51 grub.efi* - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 124416 Aug 9 21:51 grubx64.efi* - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1208968 Aug 9 21:51 shim.efi* Telcontar:~ # This is older: Telcontar:~ # l /boot/efi/EFI/opensuse/ total 3520 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Mar 17 04:18 ./ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 8192 Mar 22 00:46 ../ - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1158688 Mar 17 04:18 MokManager.efi* - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 58 Mar 17 04:18 boot.csv* - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 155 Mar 17 04:18 grub.cfg* - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1062752 Mar 17 04:18 grub.efi* - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 124416 Mar 20 23:57 grubx64.efi* - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1208968 Mar 17 04:18 shim.efi* Telcontar:~ # Telcontar:~ # grep GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR /etc/default/grub GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Main_openSUSE" Telcontar:~ # What can I do? revert to an older grub, perhaps? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXzBdKRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVIFwAnR3r39jkRTWJawgI5/A2 P+hH3u0gAJ46GCSfd9/oY/nV/y6TkKiscKrOOw== =SxCb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] New HTML-ized mirror listing bloats listing size making it awkward to read
by David C. Rankin 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

>From the opensuse.org mailing list thread: [opensuse] How to turn OFF new html-ized directory listings at http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/ and [opensuse] download.opensuse.org html listing format - get rid of horizontal lines... (please see both threads for user comments) Original post: All, Just going through source listings at http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/ there is some kind of new "Pretty Print" html-ized format being used that underlines the entire row containing the srpm instead of the normal raw directory listing that only underlines the package. This (1) doubles the height of the listing you have to scroll and (2) makes scanning the listing awkward. Is there some way, or switch, that will revert to the simple listing? Follow Up Consensus: Most mirrors have historically provided much faster listing loads, some 30X or more because of the HTML tables doo was using. Large tables are inefficient HTML code to display, besides being much larger in bytes than typical mirror listing content. e.g. http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/source/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/src/ saves as 1,827,714 bytes http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/src/ saves as 5,213,482, or 285% of gwdg listing size. bug report: https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/62255 Looks like the new styles may be an attempt to incorporate improved efficiency, and the added margins and/or padding amounts to a regression. Previous list thread: https://lists.opensuse.org/heroes/2020-01/msg00023.html Next Comment in Thread Ouch! The D.O.O page is horrible. I don't see anything underlined, what I see is a double-spaced music paper background (i.e. alternate backgrounds coloured). There's also a massive gap between the rpm name and the last modified date and at some browser widths the last column shows 'Deta' instead of 'Details'. In very narrow widths it just shows the filename and a lot of space to the right. In all widths it keeps wide empty margins that are completely unnecessary for a directory listing. There's a strange icon at the top right, with four small squares arranged in a square (looks like a cooker hob). I've no idea what that means and there's no tooltip. At narrow browser widths there's another icon next to it with three horizontal lines. I might expect that to be a menu but again there's no tooltip and nothing happens when I click on either of them. (Note that I have script disabled and I'm using FF). If I click on a 'Details' link, I'm taken to a page listing mirrors. If I click on 'Map showing the closest mirrors' I'm shown: 'The Google Maps Platform server rejected your request. You must use an API key to authenticate each request to Google Maps Platform APIs. For additional information, please refer to http://g.co/dev/maps-no-account'. In short it's a disaster at many levels. It's a design disaster and a functional disaster. The simple listing from GWDG is far better IMHO. ================ Request Can we remove this HTML/CSS-ized addition to the download mirrors. It is bloating the download listing by 5X and causing the display of the listing to grow in scrolling height by 3X -- no good. Just give us the plain text listings back with links. ================ Additional posts on opensuse(a)o.o Since someone changed the basic listing format from download.opensuse.org/repositories to some unwanted html format, the biggest problem is the damn horizontal lines drawn between every directory and they are drawn in a bright-white over a dark background -- it's like looking into a floodlight trying to pick out details behind it. Take a look at: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/ Where I see: https://paste.opensuse.org/61684564 It is enough to drive you blind. Can we at least remove the horizontal lines? I could live with cyan folder names on a dark background if there wasn't a bright white line in between every folder. Personally, I'd prefer the raw folder listing that reduces the bandwidth by 500%, but I understand it's hard to gore somebody's new ox. The package listing is even worse. Try and pick out i3-gaps... quickly: https://paste.opensuse.org/40948260 -- 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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Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Grub crashes just after update (15.1) - something is reverting my changes to EFI BIOS order
by DennisG 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

On 8/10/20 1:55 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 10/08/2020 15.16, JJM de Faber wrote: >> >> On 10-08-2020 15:06, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>> On 10/08/2020 14.02, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>>> On Monday, 2020-08-10 at 13:37 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>>> >>> ... > > >> long snip > > Thanks, but that doesn't solve the issue that something is changing > what I write there, and trying to boot something else instead of > openSUSE. > > Just a wild guess . . . is it possible that device.map is the cuprit? If the grub install is incorrectly determining the boot order from its bios guess (when there is no device.map file) or there is an incorrect device.map file present, it is possible that the wrong location will be called. Or possibly grub2-mkconfig put an error in the grub.cfg file? --dg -- 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] Performance issues since update to Leap 15.2
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

Hi, I was watching the issue for a few weeks now and it's bad enough to post here finally because I'm not sure if I have enough information for a bugreport. I was running Leap 15.1 on my system - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz (4 core) - 16GiB RAM - builtin Intel graphics (i915) - SSD - Xfce 15.1 was running quite smooth for me. Since the upgrade to 15.2 it pretty quickly (under some sort of load) gets into a state where the desktop is stuttering with everything: - mouse movement gets stuck - windows do not appear instantly - switching desktops is delayed, rerendering takes quite long The point is that I cannot even tell which type of load exactly is causing this behaviour but it is not a lot. As I'm writing this mail my load average in top shows 0,27 but still when moving my mouse it stutters. Another example: When I upload a larger amount of data to the internet my UI also seems to be affected. I really have no idea how to track that down more but it's annoying and it started exactly after update to 15.2. Any ideas, hints, feedback? Thanks, 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] Tumbleweed updated - lilo was deleted, system not longer boots
by Per Jessen 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

Why was lilo removed from Tumbleweed ? It is really annoying that someone is hellbent on screwing up my system. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.6°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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