September 2020 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] A (probably totally ignorant) DNS question
by Ralph 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Hello! [os Leap 15.2, xfce, Network Manager, Firefox 78.3.0esr, IPV4 only] A (probably totally ignorant) DNS question: which resolver(s) will this system be actually using? A system has an Arris SURFboard cable modem, SBG7400AC2. This is a AC2350Mbps combined router/modem. Though it's owned, the ISP can and does change the firmware not so infrequently (docsis 3). This modem has a firmware option to turn off the ISP's two resolvers and enter my own resolvers (up to three) but doing so is flakey: change it, save/reload, and the ISP's resolver addresses return to the display. In frustration I removed it from the power line. I got busy with something else and didn't get back to this for about 6 hours. Plugged in the power and, hello, my own resolver addresses were now displayed in the 'change resolver' section as the current running set. Good. But the section of the router/modem firmware that displays the current 'System Information' still displays the ISP's resolvers. Network Manager's gui (right-click) 'Connection Information' displays my chosen resolvers in the order I set them in the modem/router firmware. In dhclient.conf I have a 'prepend domain-name-servers' with the wanted resolvers (in reverse order so I can tell effect if any) but it appears this isn't being imposed. In Network Manager's gui 'Edit Connection / Editing ... / IPV4 Settings / Additional DNS servers' I have not added anything, but here's another place to set resolvers. Finally, I have set Firefox's 'DNS over HTTPS' option which says it will use Cloudflare for resolver. SO... there are apparently way too many ways to set a resolver, all seemingly independent of each other. Which one overrules the others? I'm thinking it's the Mozilla/Cloudflare thing for any DNS queries going through Firefox browser. But which resolver gets used for queries not going through Firefox browser? I'm wondering if the ISP's docsis tinkering may be the final overriding one (he who controls the firmware controls the world...) Thanks for a clue :) Ralph -- 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 15.2 KDE Dolphin question
by Mark Hounschell 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

How does one configure Dolphin such that when I click on a file with extension xxx that it opens the file with pgm zzz? I need to make up my own extensions that are opened by my own programs. 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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Re: [opensuse] printing problems--again
by DennisG 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

On 9/21/20 8:36 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > >>snip > > (As a reminder to the reader, I have the Epson WP4530 all-in-one and > the HP LaserJet m201, both on the LAN. They both print > > perfectly from other Linux computers, set up about 2015. I was > fortunate to have someone to write the instructions for both > > printers, nothing automatic. [PCLOS].) > > And it very probably will print fine if properly set up on openSUSE. I posted the solution some days ago, again last night, and you were given it in the Forums thread a month ago: Install the epson inkjet package (epson-inkjet-printer-escpr) with YaST/Software Management. That package includes a large number of drivers provided by Epson, including your WP-4530. How to find that package? The Search function in YaST/Software Mgmt. Type in "epson". Description: "The ESC/P-R driver works as a filter program used with CUPS. It offers high quality printing with Seiko Epson color inkjet printers. This driver can only be used with printers that support the Epson ESC/P-R language." That would be your printer. This is confirmed by looking in the package file list with YaST. Once this package is installed, YaST/Printer will see these drivers and should offer Epson-WP-4530_Series-epson-escpr-en.ppd.gz, your driver installation file. Doug, given the mess, I offer this editorial (which I'll likely be scolded for by the list): You are gonna have a lot of frustration if you continue to do so much directly from inside the guts with arcane commands that many if not most on this list have worked with for decades. For many here, this stuff is second nature. What we don't know, we know how to find out, and usually quickly. We know how to fix things w/o breaking them (well, most of the time). But you don't really have a handle on the theory-of-operation. You don't know the tools. You try to follow advice by rote but w/o really understanding what you're doing, so errors are frequent. This makes things much more difficult than necessary. Tools like YaST - for my money, the best Linux admin toolset - were created not just to make life easier for old farts like me (40 yrs with system hw/sw) but to enable folks like you to get the same benefits w/o having to actually be a nerd. Finally, re PCLOS: Tex put together a nice little distro using various pieces he likes and he controls that tightly; more power to him. I can see why that might have been a good fit for you. Or possibly Ubuntu/Kubuntu, where users commonly use the command line to do things they don't understand. But openSUSE, like cousin Fedora, is a very different animal. Yet you are down in the openSUSE bowels before having learned the basics. And so consequently - notwithstanding your request re no lecture - please reconsider and do yourself (and others) a favor and move to Leap; you can still get most of the latest & greatest if you just learn what the add-on repo's and OBS are about. Why on earth do you care about the newest kernel and the like? For now, give Leap a try. Learn YaST. Learn your DE. You can always move to TW later if you discover a real need. Occam's razor. Good luck. --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] dual boot leap 15.2 ans win-10 issues
by Mark Hounschell 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

This box has a 3 bay Sata rack. I can put the 15.2 SSD in any of the 3 bays and boot/run just fine. I have a windows 10 disk built on said box, with it and only it, installed in the normal slot. IE, the BIOS denotes it as "P0". The windows disk will only boot up in that "P0" bay. Not any of the other 2 bays. Some sort of disk I/O error is shown. No other disks installed. With the win 10 disk installed in the second bay, it is detected by "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg". And an entry in there in the boot menu. But I get the same I/O error as when it was the only disk installed. I know this is not a windows forum but why can't I boot this win-10 disk in any other sata bay other than the one the bios says is "P0"? 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] can't put app on desktop
by Doug McGarrett 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

Some applications seem to be only placeable on the panel, even tho I want them on the desktop. One I'm thinking of right now is ConvertAll. Is there a way to change this behavior? Thanx--doug -- 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] What's up with build.opensuse.org downloads? Redirect to some page - No download?
by David C. Rankin 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

openSUSE folks, What is up with the "download" button on a buildservice page. You click download, say at: https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/home:MihailJP/prename/openSUSE_… No download occurs and you are taken to the basic buildservice home page: https://build.opensuse.org/ WTF?? I know where the home repos are on download.o.o, but someone unfamiliar with how download.o.o is laid out would just be redirected to the home page without any download wondering what went wrong. I do not recall this ever happening before. As soon as the user clicks the "download" button, the file should immediately download? No? -- 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] logrotate redis issue
by Dave Howorth 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

I've just noticed that logrotate has a problem with redis on my machine. # journalctl -u logrotate -- Logs begin at Fri 2020-07-03 18:45:01 BST, end at Sun 2020-09-27 16:01:02 BST. -- Jul 16 00:08:13 acer-suse systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files... Jul 16 00:08:16 acer-suse systemd[1]: Started Rotate log files. Jul 17 00:00:00 acer-suse systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files... Jul 17 00:00:00 acer-suse systemd[1]: Started Rotate log files. Jul 18 00:00:03 acer-suse systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files... Jul 18 00:00:03 acer-suse systemd[1]: Started Rotate log files. Jul 19 00:00:09 acer-suse systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files... Jul 19 00:00:09 acer-suse logrotate[23820]: error: error setting owner of /var/log/redis/default.log-20200719 to uid 460 and gid 0: Operation not permitted Jul 19 00:00:09 acer-suse systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jul 19 00:00:09 acer-suse systemd[1]: Failed to start Rotate log files. Jul 19 00:00:09 acer-suse systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Unit entered failed state. Jul 19 00:00:09 acer-suse systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jul 20 00:00:00 acer-suse systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files... Jul 20 00:00:01 acer-suse systemd[1]: Started Rotate log files. When I look at /var/log/redis: # ls -l /var/log/redis/ total 176 -rw-r--r-- 1 redis root 136161 Mar 17 2019 default.log -rw------- 1 redis redis 32 Jul 19 00:00 default.log-20200719.xz -rw------- 1 redis redis 32 Jul 26 00:00 default.log-20200726.xz -rw------- 1 redis redis 32 Aug 2 00:00 default.log-20200802.xz -rw------- 1 redis redis 32 Aug 9 00:00 default.log-20200809.xz -rw------- 1 redis redis 32 Aug 16 00:00 default.log-20200816.xz -rw------- 1 redis redis 32 Aug 23 00:00 default.log-20200823.xz -rw------- 1 redis redis 32 Aug 30 00:00 default.log-20200830.xz -rw------- 1 redis redis 32 Sep 6 00:00 default.log-20200906.xz -rw------- 1 redis redis 32 Sep 13 00:00 default.log-20200913.xz -rw------- 1 redis redis 32 Sep 20 00:00 default.log-20200920.xz -rw------- 1 redis redis 0 Sep 27 00:00 default.log-20200927 and in /etc/logrotate.d/redis $ less /etc/logrotate.d/redis /var/log/redis/*.log { weekly rotate 10 copytruncate delaycompress compress notifempty missingok su redis redis } I don't understand why logrotate is trying to set the files to a gid of 0? Nor why it's failing for that matter. Does anybody understand what's going on? Thanks, Dave -- 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] Can't connect to eduroam with script Hi,
by Wes James 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

I'm trying to connect to eduroam wifi with opensuse (I've tried tw and leap), but when I run the script we are provided, it says: Could not continue with credentials collection. On other distros, it pops up a browser so I can authenticate on our sso web page, then sets up the wifi connection. Any idea what that error means or how I can get connected to eduroam with the institution provided script? There are no manual setup instructions for wifi settings here, so I can't do that. Thanks, -Wes -- 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] printing problems--again
by Doug McGarrett 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

OpenSuse TW. No lectures, please, I'm committed to this. I have been trying to install at least my epson all-mode printer, but things seem to be getting worse, not better. I finally got it to print, but it is printing code, not what it should print. It prints probably the entire driver routine, I don't know what it is! I had to turn off the printer to get it to stop wasting paper. And the error log is about the size of a book. I'd like to de-install this printer, and start from scratch, but I don't know just where to begin. As I mentioned once before, if I can only have one printer working, it has to be this one, so that I can have color and I can scan. iow, IF I can get this to work, I will then try to install the HP laserjet. (That worked, once, until I "installed" the epson--then nothing worked. T IA--doug -- 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] "Server Not Found - Mozilla"
by ken 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

Firefox was working without problem, but then, for no reason I can discern, I started getting an error page in Firefox when I went to a website: "Server Not Found". At first it was just one website and I could refresh a few times and the page would eventually come up. But the problem became worse. Now I can't get to *any* website at all. Indeed I can't get to internet sites from the CLI. $ ping google.com ping: connect: Cannot assign requested address $ dig google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.16.6 <<>> google.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 40037 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;google.com. IN A ;; Query time: 44 msec ;; SERVER: 66.219.156.2#53(66.219.156.2) ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 17:02:34 EDT 2020 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 39 But I can get to the DNS: $ ping 66.219.156.2 PING 66.219.156.2 (66.219.156.2) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 66.219.156.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=43.4 ms 64 bytes from 66.219.156.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=45.5 ms 64 bytes from 66.219.156.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=43.2 ms 64 bytes from 66.219.156.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=45.7 ms ^C --- 66.219.156.2 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 43.211/44.461/45.704/1.147 ms I'm having no such problems on my phone which is using the same ISP. Anyone know what's going on...? or how to diagnose this further? tnx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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