January 2021 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

opensuse mailing lists mirror
by Istvan Gabor 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

Hello: Does anybody know of a decent opensuse users mailing list mirror instead of the useless https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse.org crap? Googling for "opensuse mailing lists mirrors" doesn't find anything useful. Thanks,

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Partition proposals in 15.2 installation
by Jon Cosby 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

Yast is making some absurd proposals for the root partition installing Leap 15.2. Initially, it defaults to using all of an existing 732 GB partition, with /home on that partition as well. In a guided setup, with a /home partition, it proposes 256 GB, and doesn't allow me to shrink it. Snapshots don't grow that large. Why would this be so excessive? Thanks, Jon Cosby

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opencl problems
by Michael Spartana 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

Hello, I have some questions about opencl for tumbleweed. What and where is opencl-index?? Where can I get ocl-icd for tumbleweed ? The links I got from searching on the web were broken, I have the source package. It is for Folding@Home. I had to reinstall tumbleweed as the ssd was unreadable (my computer tends to crash to often-looking for the cure). OpenCl is working, version 1.1, but the startup complains- WARNING:FS01:Guessing ambiguous GPU to OpenCL device mapping for 01: gpu:10:0 Ellesmere XT [Radeon RX 470/480/570/580/590]. Consider upgrading your graphics driver or manually setting ''opencl-index'' in this slot's configuration. WARNING:FS01:No CUDA or OpenCL 1.2+ support detected for GPU slot 01: gpu:10:0 Ellesmere XT [Radeon RX 470/480/570/580/590]. Disabling

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Forums login does not work
by Andrei Borzenkov 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Anybody knows what's going on? The login is correct as it works for bugzilla/buildservice/idp. Looks like forums lost connection to IDP. The only way to contact forums stuff suggested on help pages is "Contact us" link that allegedly is present on every page but it does not exist. It would be amusing id link were visible only to authenticated users ... :)

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sudo **BUG** (Mother of All sudo BUGS) -- rebuild if you are using old release
by David C. Rankin 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

All, A sudo bug allowing privilege escalation for ANY user was posted today: https://go.reg.cx/tdml/dfd67/60398b7f/fbd30834/3Yn1 (Thank you El Reg -- you should check the comments that have poured in on the github page for the commit link listed in the article -- it's bad) openSUSE has already patched for current releases. If you are using an older release that no longer gets updates (and have more than you using your box) -- rebuild from an srpm (the 15.1 package works fine for 15.0, just edit the .spec and update the version number (suggest checking the current version and adding +1 to the minor release no. so zypper remains happy) Then make sure you have rpmbuild installed and: rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/sudo.spec (let it fail and just take note of the dependency packages you need to install -- install them) Then: rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/sudo.spec (for real) Install the update. If I have time I'll do a buildservice package. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[Leap 15] Anybody using Microsoft Teams? Any issues?
by Bob Williams 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Hi, Is anyone using Microsoft Teams? I see there are .deb and .rpm packages available. I'm asking as some of my correspondents can't/won't use other means of communicating, which means I risk excluding myself. Thanks Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 5.3.18-lp152.50-default Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.71.0, Qt: 5.12.7 and Plasma: 5.18.5 https://useplaintext.email/

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why is external disk written to crypttab?
by Daniel Bauer 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Hi, when booting I have a message a start ob is running for de-disk-by\... It takes one and half a minute until it gives up. After googling I found that this is because of an entry in crypttab for an encrypted disk that is not available at boot time. Actually it is a external back-up disk that I only mount when needed and then remove again. So I removed that entry from crypttab and next boot was fine, but because of some magic the entry in crypttab appeares again and the boot delay also happens again, of course. That external disk isn't in fstab. I just plug it, wait for the notifier to see it, click to attach it, enter the passphrase. Later I remove it with that same notifier. Why is an entry written to crypttab? Can I avoid that somehow? Thanks for hints. Daniel Opensuse 15.1, KDE, all updated to current -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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turn off autoplay in chromium
by Patrick Shanahan 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

how does one turn off "autoplay" of videos in chromium? the solutions/paths provided via search on google do not seem available on chromium. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode

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kubernetes options on vanilla tumbleweed (btrfs)
by Ralf Lang 24 Jan '21

24 Jan '21

Hi, I am looking for a simple kubernetes distribution which will run on vanilla tumbleweed with btrfs and will not require a VM. I intend to edit live container/pod code via vscode's docker integration. Seems like minikube does not like btrfs and would require a VM which I don't like on a dev laptop. In Windows and Mac scenarios I just run the kubernetes options of Docker Desktop. This is obviously nothing to expose to the internet or run live workloads, just an easy dev setup. Which option would you suggest? Regards Ralf -- Ralf Lang Linux Consultant / Developer Tel.: +49-170-6381563 Mail: lang(a)b1-systems.de B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537

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KDE woes
by Roger Oberholtzer 24 Jan '21

24 Jan '21

On an up-to-date Tumbleweed computer, my daughter now has trouble with things like the clock in the KDE status bar. She suspected that it was not updating properly so she turned on showing seconds. And she sees that it is very uneven about when time is updated. We have looked at the processes running and the memory and swap usage. I cannot see anything that would explain such delays. The clock update is useful when she is taking remote exams (at the University). Also, after the update, programs like zoom have become unstable. Zoom itself was not updated. But all else has been as part of the usual Tumbleweed updates. My own system (different laptop so not the same hardware) with basically the same versions of all software does not exhibit this behavior. I'm not sure where to start looking. X is whatever the default would be as the result of a Tumbleweed install. My daughter's install is a couple years old. It has been fine up to the update done in late December. All updates since then are also installed, but they have not helped. Any suggestions where to look? As I seldom have trouble, I confess that I'm a bit rusty at this type of thing. I googled the clock thing but I did not find much. Of course, it may not even be the clock part that is the real problem... -- Roger Oberholtzer

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