April 2021 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Paraview v5.6.3 compilation issue VTK
by Ram Kumar 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hi all, I am Ramkumar, an OpenSUSE Tumbleweed user.. i started to use tumbleweed as it is both a rolling distro and has official support for OpenFOAM, which is one of the main applications that i work on daily. I tried to install OpenFOAM from the science repository "openfoam2012-default" but i got dissatisfied in following points 1. i have to use system's paraview as the native paraview of openfoam2012 is not installed. 2. i got moved to a different shell environment when i source the openfoam resources (i.e. openfoam's bashrc) which i feel uncomfortable so i decided to compile entire openfoam from source by following the instructions given in the official site https://develop.openfoam.com/Development/openfoam/blob/develop/doc/Build.md i have successfully compiled OpenFOAM part and can access all the applications like, icoFoam, blockMesh etc... and then switched to ThirdParty directory and started to compile paraview v5.6.3, but it failed throwing lot of "undefined reference" issues related to VTK files. i have attached the log entry during compilation along with this mail. i have asked this in the forums but couldnt get a solid solution https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/552344-OpenFOAM-s-Paraview-Compi… i tried installing vtk packages and all the dependencies but unable to get rid of this error. could u plz help me in figuring out what the issue is? P.S i need to compile the paraview that comes with OpenFOAM package as it has the support of OpenFOAM's plugins which are quite useful. Thank you and be safe! Ramkumar

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Re: Firefox problem
by paka 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

* mcgarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> [04-10-21 22:53]: > System: OpenSUSE-tumbleweed. Was using Firefox for many months. Icon on desktop disappeared. Can get to and use > > Firefox by selecting the icon from the Application Menu, and it works OK. However, if I drag the Firefox icon onto the desktop > > and then select it, I get a message "Unknown error code 100. You are not authorized to execute this file." And the advice to > > make a bug report, which is what this is. Please respond to but this is definitely not a bug report. you need to go to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/enter_bug.cgi?classification=openSUSE to report a bug. dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net mailto:dmcgarrett@optonline.net . Thank you. and to have mail directly posted to you, you need to set "Reply-To:" header when posting. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net

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How to connect TW bugzilla to commits?
by Michael Hamilton 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

I've been sent a promising update to something I logged in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183148#c6 (nmbd nmb.service startup delays multi-user.target by 5 seconds) Comment # 6 on bug 1183148 from Samuel Cabrero We have released the update for the systemd unit files. Please reopen if you continue having the problem. Just out of curiosity: is there an procedure for looking up what has been changed? For example, is there a way to connect bug 1183148 to any commits at github or elsewhere? Michael

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Re: acroread doesn't see printers
by Michael Hamilton 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

On Tuesday 13 April 2021, Lew Wolfgang wrote: > On 4/12/21 7:23 PM, Michael Hamilton wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 April 2021, Istvan Gabor wrote: > >> Hello: > >> > >> For a while I could not upgrade to Leap 15.1 because I could not > >> make acroread (adobe reader) work. I did not see the cups configured > >> printers. The print window of acroread only offered "custom" printer. > >> > >> ... > >> > >> Istvan > >> > > Acroread for linux has been abandoned by Adobe for quite some time > > It's probably best to switch to something that is being actively > > maintained such as okular. If acroread is a must-have, I guess Wine > > or a VM (running Windows or an old version of Linux) might be the best > > way to continue with it. > > The problem is that okular can't handle newer pdf's with forms. An > alternative is Master PDF Editor. The full version costs $70-US, but > the free demo version is usable. I use okular until it doesn't work, > then switch to Master PDF Editor when necessary. I should buy > the full version, they deserve it. > > Regards, > Lew > The latest okular (20.12) can handle forms. Whether it can handle all possible forms I don't know, but it's certainly able to handle the forms my accountant sends me. Some browsers can also handle PDF's with forms - chrome can open a PDF with a form via file:/blah/blah.pdf Cheers, Michael

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Apcusd output difference
by James Knott 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

I just experienced a 2 hour power failure, which was long enough for my APC UPSs to power down. However, I have one UPS on my Linux computer and the other on my pfSense firewall. I noticed that the firewall one, which runs on FreeBSD, provided more info that the one on Linux. Any idea why that may be? Both UPSs are the same model and age. Linux - This is the entire apcupsd.events file 2021-04-09 21:06:00 -0400 Power failure. 2021-04-09 21:06:00 -0400 Power is back. UPS running on mains. 2021-04-09 21:06:00 -0400 Power failure. 2021-04-09 21:06:00 -0400 Power is back. UPS running on mains. 2021-04-09 21:06:01 -0400 Power failure. 2021-04-09 21:06:07 -0400 Running on UPS batteries. 2021-04-09 23:00:05 -0400 apcupsd 3.14.14 (31 May 2016) suse startup succeeded pfSense - This is the last several lines of the apcupsd.events file, which goes back to Feb. 22. 2021-04-06 05:56:40 -0400 UPS Self Test switch to battery. 2021-04-06 05:56:49 -0400 UPS Self Test completed: Battery OK 2021-04-09 21:05:59 -0400 Power failure. 2021-04-09 21:06:05 -0400 Running on UPS batteries. 2021-04-09 22:01:59 -0400 Battery charge below low limit. 2021-04-09 22:01:59 -0400 Initiating system shutdown! 2021-04-09 22:01:59 -0400 User logins prohibited 2021-04-09 22:01:59 -0400 apcupsd exiting, signal 15 2021-04-09 22:02:00 -0400 apcupsd shutdown succeeded 2021-04-09 23:00:43 -0400 apcupsd 3.14.14 (31 May 2016) freebsd startup succeeded This one shows not only more info about the shutdown, but also a self test 3 days ago. Why the difference with the Linux system.?

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Two more desktop features compared: scroll buttons & drawers
by kf 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

Scroll buttons have been on windows in linux since the early '90s (in FVWM/X they were, at any rate) and they still are in other apps. But it seems that gnome, like too much else, has abandoned them. (For those who might not know of them, they're the up & down arrows which move the contents of a window a small bit, like just one line of text.) I searched about and played around with gnome for a week before I finally found a way to bring the scroll buttons back. but it was a huge PITA, they don't appear everywhere they should, and there's no telling if some software update will wipe them out again. So does the desktop you're using have scroll buttons? Second: drawyers. Another nice widget in FVWM back in the '90s was drawers. They were much like a menu that you could build yourself. You started with an icon which resided on the topbar. FVWM had a big library of icons if you didn't want to create one yourself. When you clicked on that icon a line would pop down containing other icons. Clicking on any of those icons would lauch whatever app you assigned to it. Or the icon could pop open (horizontally) another drawyer with more apps in it. The "app" you would assign to an icon in the drawyer was really anything which could be invoked with some command line, so an app, a script, a webpage, a document... anything. I loved drawyers, had (built) a couple of them, one of which was a collection of all the apps I used with my camera and manipulating and managing digital photos. I used drawyers as much as the main menu. They were also great for projects and/or for collecting documents of different formats. Gnome used to have drawers, but it seems they too have been phased out. Does KDE or Mate or xfce have drawyers? Thanks again for the enlightenment.

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Re: Desktop Environment Features Compared: terminal and tabs
by paka 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> [04-10-21 20:34]: > On 2021-04-09 20:00:31 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > |* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> [04-09-21 20:59]: > > |> On 2021-04-09 19:51:29 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > |> > |* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> [04-09-21 20:49]: > > |> > |> Really, the only think that one might wish for is the ability to > > |> > |> split the window to view more than one terminal at a time (but one > > |> > |> can, of course, just open additional Konsole instances to do that). > > |> > | > > |> > |which is possible in konsole, both vertical and horizontal and more > > |> > | than one time. > > |> > | > > |> > |so now konsole satisfies *all* of your wishes/needs. :) > > |> > > |> Which KDE would that be? > > | > > |afaik, most of them in the last several years. but the current > > |definitely. > > Ah. Apparently not in (too old?) KDE 3, I guess. well, current is plasma5/kde5 5.21 no reason to worry about kde 3. and if you prefer kde3, then you will also have to do w/o features added to later versions. your choice. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net

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Re: Apcusd output difference
by Roger Price 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

> On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, James Knott wrote: > > > On 2021-04-10 3:02 a.m., Roger Price wrote: > > > The "low limit" is not detected on the Linux box. Did it crash? > How are you viewing that? I didn't see much in dmesg and I don't see any > files that refer to system log. Even doing a google search doesn't turn up > much. I used the command journalctl -b -1 -n 14 but I was sitting in front of a Debian box. On my opensuse boxes, with that command, I get a similar but more laborious logging since opensuse seems to have more stuff running. Roger

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Firefox problem
by mcgarrett 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

System: OpenSUSE-tumbleweed. Was using Firefox for many months. Icon on desktop disappeared. Can get to and use Firefox by selecting the icon from the Application Menu, and it works OK. However, if I drag the Firefox icon onto the desktop and then select it, I get a message "Unknown error code 100. You are not authorized to execute this file." And the advice to make a bug report, which is what this is. Please respond to dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net mailto:dmcgarrett@optonline.net . Thank you.

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Desktop Environment Features Compared: terminal and tabs
by kf 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

There are a couple of terminal programs available in gnome. The one which I like best is gnome-terminal. It can, within a single window, have a number of tabs, each functioning separately from the others. i.e., like a separate terminal window. They are automatically numbered, and (after remapping) I access them with Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-9, or however many tabs I have. All that is nice. However, in a new session (upon startup or after reboot), after I move the gnome-terminal where I want it (where I always put it), and after I resize it to how I want it (also pretty much the same in every session), then I need to open up all the other tabs... that is, it would be nicer if that app would remember that it should have eight tabs open and present itself that way upon invocation (i.e.. upon startup or after reboot). But AFAIK there is no such capability. How do these functionalities compare with the terminal app in other desktop environments (Mate, KDE, or others)? Thanks.

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