December 2021 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How to connect via WiFi
by Wolfgang Mueller 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

My new computer is an HP 15s-eq2147 FHD RYZ5-5 16GB 512 SSD DOS It has no cable connection to the internet, but only access via WiFi. Installing Leap 15.3 was no problem, but so far I did not manage to establish a WiFi connection. Using Yast, I set up a wicked service with fixed address, getting this list: Device Name: wlan0 Configured with address 192.168.2.16/24 (acer.ariannuccia.zz) Starting automatically on cable connection I find it somewhat absurd that a cable connection is required even for WiFi. Since I have no cable connection, I am looking for a work around. Any idea? The "Authentication Mode" offers these 5 options: No Encryption WEP - Open WEP - Shared Key WPA-EAP ("enterprise") WPA-PSK ("home") On my router (192.168.2.1) there are these "Encryption type": Unencrypted (not recommended) WPA2 (very secure) WPA / WPA2 (secure) WPA (secure) For avoiding problems with the correspondence of these methods, I have selected "No Encryption" on my computer and "Unencrypted (not recommended)" on my router. But the connection does not work. Any attempt to ping the router from the new computer is rejected with the reply: connect: Network is unreachable Any help would be welcome. Thank you in advance and best regards, Wolfgang

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[oS-en] disk imaging code question
by Carlos E. R. 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I use this bash code (script) to image partitions - I arrived there with help here: function hacer() { echo echo "Doing partition $1 ($2) on $3" echo "copying, compressing, and calculating md5..." mkfifo mdpipe dd if=/dev/$1 status=progress bs=16M | tee mdpipe | pigz > $3.gz & # Try using "--fast" next time md5sum -b mdpipe | tee -a md5checksum_expanded wait rm mdpipe echo "$3" >> md5checksum_expanded echo "Verifying..." pigz --test $3.gz echo echo "·········" } Used this way: time hacer sda1 "5S" "sda1_WINBOOT" time hacer sda2 "250M" "sda2_WINDOWS" (the current directory is on the destination disk, external rotating rust via USB2) This works fine. Now, I noticed something. On gkrellmn I observe, as the script runs, that the reads on the source disk (ssd, in this case) and the writes to the destination disk alternate, are not simultaneous. And it took 5 hours to image perhaps 300gigs; of course, the destination is on USB2, and the CPU is old, but that alternation doesn't help. Could that be improved somehow? Short of writing my own binary code to implement it all... Never coded with parallelization, so that would not be trivial. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYccnxxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV+DEAn0qKBQv/D0k/pGQFYl6a w5+FjD23AJ0fsJs7A+zehwK0a5S/nHEJuP3bMw== =+rL4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Troubles installing OpenSuSE 15.3 on a HP Spectre laptop
by Marc Chamberlin 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Hello - I have an HP Spectre laptop that came with Windows 10 installed on it. It has a 1Tb SSD drive with almost 800Gb of unallocated space. I want to install OpenSuSE 15.3 x64 on this laptop as part of a dual boot system. I have done this many times in the past on other desktops and laptops but this time I am running into a couple of unexpected problems that is preventing the installation. I created an UEFI USB installation disk from the ISO file that I downloaded from the OpenSuSE downloads website. In the BIOS I turned off "Secure Boot" and set the boot order to allow booting first from USB devices. I did not have to choose whether to use "Legacy Booting" as there is no option in the BIOS for it. The installation of OpenSuSE starts off OK and I had no apparent problem with setting up the network WiFi connection. The installation process does not allow me to manually test and/or check to see if the network really got set up OK. The first problem occurs when the installation process gets to where it is attempting to read the list of Online Repositories. Here I get a warning message "Unable to download list of repositories or no repositories defined." No reason why is given and all I can do about it is to click the OK button and move on. Maybe the WiFi network connection is not working after all? I dunno how to check it at this point in the installation process. Sigh... Next I select for a System Role to use "Desktop with KDE Plasma" and when I click on Next I get a far more serious error message - "An error was found in one of the devices in the system. The information displayed may not be accurate and the installation may fail if you continue." The "Details..." button shows - "cannot delete MdContainer" and again I can only choose "OK" to dismiss this rather useless error message. I got no idea what an MdContainer" is! Google searches suggests it has to do with docker containers but that doesn't help me either as I don't grok much about docker and have never use it. The best discussion about this error, that I found, was at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/523095/opensuse-leap-15-1-install-… But the solution appears to be to delete and remove Windows 10 and the partitions it resides in. NOT what I want to do, I want a dual boot system with both OS's. Another suggestion was to contact HP Support which I have done but they seem to be taking a very long time to respond, so I am turning to this forum to see if anyone here can provide and/or guide me to a solution. FYI If I continue on, with the installation process, I reach a dead-end at the point where one is suppose to set up the disk partitions for OpenSuSE. The partitioner does not allow me to access or change anything within the SSD drive. Any attempt to do so, I get told the device is busy. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or solutions offered, much appreciated as always... Marc... -- *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/This email is digitally signed and the electronic signature is attached. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like./)

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When/How to update tumbleweed
by Payam Firouztala 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

For the longest time I was depending on https://review.tumbleweed.boombatower.com to figure out when it was safe to update tumbleweed and which release to update to. That site has not been updated due to an issue with the mailing list where the site got its information. So for people who use tumbleweed, how do you know when is a good time to update? What command do you use? I know there is snap and that I can roll back if something breaks, but obviously would rather not go through that. Thanks and Happy New Year!

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no more usb keyboard and mouse
by jdd＠dodin.org 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

Hello, since the very last update with "zypper up --recommand", my openSUSE Leap 15.3 do not anymore accept external keyboard or mouse. however, booting windows 10 (!!!), and rebooting immediately (no need to login) restore the mouse/keyboard usual working the usb keyboard works as expected in grub menu booting the previous snapshot do not makes any better this was since 48 hours and right now still no new update may I fill a bug report? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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file manager used to save in chrome
by George from the tribe 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

In the latest update in 15.2, something changed in the way I save files downloaded from the internet when in Chrome, or a Chrome based browser like Brave. It used to use Dolphin file manager, and that is much more convenient, because it requires less clicks to change the file name. Now it switched to the file manager that Gnome uses - I guess its Nautilus. I don't use Gnome very much, but I have it installed and sometimes go into it if there is something I need it for, so I have to keep the gnome base packages on my system. So how do you set Chrome so that it opens up the Dolphin file manager when you want to save a file from the internet? -- George Box: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: TW | Plasma 5 | Core i7 | 64 | 16GB

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badblocks replacement successor for huge disks?
by cagsm 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

just figured that badblocks tool was having 32bit value issues for sector numbers of sata hdd disks. just what is the replacement or successor for badblocks? apparently people been discussing this even some upstream bugreport at redhat, but the information give was, that badblocks been actually invented for like floppy disks. have never heard of anything else than badblocks so far. how to check largeish huge hdd media? any quick resolution of this problem? did i miss a tool ever since badblocks? ty. <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1306522> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764636> <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/152171/badblocks-only-takes-32-bit…>

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Installing 15.3
by Dave Howorth 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

I'd like to [finally] install 15.3. I want to install it separate to my existing system so I can revert to my existing system in the event of problems. I'm having trouble finding a clear set of instructions. I've found https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book-startup/art-o… and https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book-startup/cha-i… but they both start with the assumption that I've already got an installation image. I don't! So searching elsewhere I've found https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Download_help and that suggests (among many other suggestions just to confuse me!) https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.3/iso/ but that seems to have an enormous number of possibilities. I can figure out some of it: DVD vs NET and x86_64 vs other architectures and .iso vs .iso.sha256 but I'm lost about other aspects. What's Media vs Current all about? And what's 15.3 vs 15.3-2? And what's Build24.5? Is there a single place that actually documents how to install 15.3 from start to end?

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Opera has lost ability to print to pdf
by Carl Spitzer 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

Version:81.0.4196.31 Opera is up to date Update stream:Stable System:openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64; MATE) This is sudden. Weeks ago I was able to print to pdf my work schedule. Yesterday no. I just ran update this morning after some issues with the main repository being down. According to Opera the latest is version 82 but only in Debian or DEB. Not sure why it has lost ability when print to pdf works in other browsers. A Bug report has been reported. CWSIV

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Help! chroot seems to have changed, I can't recover my system Solved
by Dave Plater 30 Dec '21

30 Dec '21

Hi my problem was caused by a system that was only half updated from 15.2 to 15.3. I was eventually able to chroot into my hard drives root from a tty console in the installation system after I had failed to update for the third time. Then I was able to do a zypper dup, force reinstall the kernel and I was able to boot by boot installed system and hunt down the remaining Leap 15.2 packages. Thanks Dave P

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