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email of bugzilla of opensuse
by Stakanov 26 May '21

26 May '21

I am receiving my bugzilla reply mail on a historical freenet account that recently does not work well anymore (freenet causes me dns problems, no idea why). I tried to change the email to this one (disroot) but no luck up to now, even in my account settings no way to change the original historical email to something valid and new. Does anybody know a procedure to have this done? I have seen not further indication.

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Why can't the process "sync" be killed?
by Carlos E. R. 25 May '21

25 May '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is just a fact, it can not. Situation. The system is running the process "texpire", which is part of leafnode package, an nntp proxy server. texpire simply looks at every posts and deletes those that are old according to certain rules. This is very intensive on the disk, looking at 1.2 million files. It runs for half an hour. If during that process I issue a "sync", it does not succeed till texpire ends. It can not be killed. Telcontar:~ # time sync ^C^C^C On another terminal: Telcontar:~ # killall sync Telcontar:~ # killall sync Telcontar:~ # killall -9 sync Telcontar:~ # killall -9 sync Telcontar:~ # It has to run till completion. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYHN4lRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV1sMAn2cBZmEwd/2LPAIbwlZA xOYqhSPeAJ9JEDEbDbVTBxs9Ec7oK20KZpqWkQ== =Rcb3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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named - writeable file 'master/2001.db8.1234.1': already in use: /etc/named.d/enidan-reverse.conf:40
by Per Jessen 24 May '21

24 May '21

I run a named with multiple views (four) - in such a setup, you cannot have independent / out-of-view zones so each view includes common zones, such as 'enidan-reverse' (just reverse zones). For the reverse ipv6 zone, we want to do dynamic updates - hence we have 'allow-update { localhost; };' for that zone. Previously, named or named-checkconf did not complain, but I am attempting an upgrade to 15.2 and the new named-checkconf complains. Plenty of hits with google, but no solutions other than disabling the checkconf. Some people suggest adding 'DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING=yes' to /etc/sysconfig/named, but that variable is not supported in our named setup. For now, I need the named update more than the dynamic ipv6 updates, so I'll probably just disable it, but surely there is a way out of this? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland.

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Automatically install debuginfo/debugsource packages?
by Niklas Haas 24 May '21

24 May '21

Hello, I do a lot of debugging, and I generally find it annoying to have to wait for debuginfo to become available. I'm used to distros such as Gentoo where I can globally enable debuginfo for all packages, and never have this problem ever again. I know that in recent times, openSuSE has started shipping gdb with the annoying `libdebuginfod` which attempts solving this problem but fails spectacularly. As such, I don't consider it a solution, for a number of reasons that are besides the point. (To anybody finding this email via google: comment out /etc/profile.d/debuginfod.sh to disable it) What I _want_ to have happen is for `zypper in <package>` to automatically pull in `<package>-debuginfo` where available. Is there any way at all to accomplish this? Thanks, Niklas P.s.: It's possible with some parsing of the `zypper packages -i` output to construct a command line that installs `<package>-debuginfo` for all installed packages. However, this still has annoying shortcomings: 1. Uninstalling packages doesn't auto-clean the (no longer needed) debuginfo packages, thus causing them to continue littering the system over time. 2. This has to be re-run periodically in order to keep up with newly installed packages.

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Leap 15.2 repositories down?
by Bruce Ferrell 24 May '21

24 May '21

I'm seeing timeout problems with the installation and update repositories Anyone know what's going on?

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bluetooth with Nokia N9 smartphone
by Peter Münster 23 May '21

23 May '21

Hi, I would like to connect my N9 to my desktop for making phone calls and listening to music coming from the N9. How could I achieve this please? Sometimes after pairing I get music but no phone, and sometimes phone but no music. It seems to be related to these messages: kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: SCO packet for unknown connection handle 0 TIA for any help, -- Peter

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unsubscribe opensuse users
by Hans-Peter Heubach 22 May '21

22 May '21

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Leap 15.1 repositories
by Jeffrey Taylor 22 May '21

22 May '21

Before I update to 15.2, I'd like my 15.1 installation to be up to date. Two of the repositories warn they are out of date. I've tried switching from http to https, and several other suggestions. Could someone with a 15.1 installation post here or e-mail me off list with URIs for their official repositories, i.e.: Main Repository (OSS) Main Repository (NON-OSS) Main Update Repository Main Update Repository (NON-OSS) Thank you, Jeffrey

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Re: The most non destructive way to prepare a SSD for openSUSE
by L A Walsh 21 May '21

21 May '21

On 2021/05/16 18:57, -pj wrote: > I was recently informed that using dd (dubbed - data-destroyer) can > seriously shorten a SSD devices lifespan. ---- dd is not a data-destroyer. It is a very useful tool in many circumstances. Of course many tools can be mis-used. Maybe sudo find / -type f -delete or a dos/win fav: format C: Not sure what happens with sudo cat /dev/zero >/dev/rootfs It is handy to have the rootfs so readily identified...*cough* > > 1. What is the most effective non destructive way to erase or prepare a > SSD drive for an openSUSE (LEAP or TDE) installation? ---- Just put it in your drive and create a new partition table. No unnecessary writes. > > I am wondering now about USB flash drive devices. > > 2. Does the use of "dd" on USB flash drives kill the limited lives on > these devices in a similar manner also? ---- ???!!... Depends on what you do with "dd". Why would you need or want to use 'dd' unless you want to transfer a disk image. Usually you want to xfer files so 'dd' wouldn't even come into the picture. > > 3. Does the use of "dd" on a mechanical drive have less of a negative > lifespan effect than that of it's effects on SSD or USB devices? --- Um...less of a negative effect? Well, since magnetic media isn't known to be very degraded by multiple r/w ops, it would probably generate less wear. But if you use 'dd' to copy a boot-disk-img which you want to use on a flash-drive, 'dd' could be less harmful, than formatting the flash drive, then copying all the files from some mounted source to the target media. Just don't do unnecessary R/W's on media not designed for it (maybe some flash drives). FWIW, I would tell you I've not had any flash drives/ssd's fail, but to do so might invite unnecessary risk due to some carelessness -- like removing the wrong data disk from a RAID5. I don't know where you got the idea that 'dd' was more dangerous than other i/o, but if you are using to zero out or write other test patterns then you are doing unnecessary I/O -- and that's not the fault of 'dd'. FWIW, dd with the right parameters will give you the fastest r/w speeds. I often use it to test my network R/W speeds with CIFS/SMB... I do frequent i/o speed testing reading + writing on Win from/to two files in my linux home directory. Writing to the devices avoids any physical disk-speed interactions so I just get the protocol transport speed. It varies alot based on how the ethernet connection is tuned. Ishtar:law> /bin/ls -lgG ~/{null,zero} crwxrwxrwx 1 1, 3 Dec 24 2018 /home/law/null crwxrwxrwx 1 1, 5 Jun 15 2015 /home/law/zero which is drive 'H:' on my Win machine: /h> /bin/ls -lgG /h/{null,zero} -rwxrwxrwx 1 0 Dec 24 2018 /h/null -rwxrwxrwx 1 0 Jun 15 2015 /h/zero /h> bin/iotest Using bs=16.0M, count=64, iosize=1.0G R:1073741824 bytes (1.0GB) copied, 2.27302 s, 451MB/s W:1073741824 bytes (1.0GB) copied, 3.02209 s, 339MB/s

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Mailing list Web archive barely usable any more - nginx backend timeout error
by cagsm 21 May '21

21 May '21

Hello suse infrastructure staff, the webpages for the mailing list archives are often not loading at all and nginx backend timeout being shown. is this due to hello kitty system or lack of capacity or higher load with the newer web archive technology putting load onto the whole system? ty

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