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rbind mount problem
by Marc Chamberlin 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Hello - I am running OpenSuSE Leap 15.2 and am encountering a problem with doing an rbind mount on the root / directory that I cannot find a solution to. I run a SOHO network and only my wife and I are users. (She is NOT Linux savoy so not a threat! LOL) In my /etc/fstab file I mount the root / directory at /slash using the following configuration - > /slash none rbind,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=300 0 0 The trouble I am having occurs when I try to set up a relative link in a sub-directory that uses slash. So for example I have a directory at /srv/samba/etc as accessed and shown here - > marcslaptop:~ # cd /srv/samba/etc/ > marcslaptop:/srv/samba/etc # ll > total 20 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 11 09:17 dhcp.conf -> /etc/samba/dhcp.conf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jun 13 14:52 lmhosts -> > ../../../slash/etc/samba/lmhosts > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 12 22:21 smb.conf -> > ../../../slash/etc/samba/smb.conf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 13 15:34 smbusers -> > ../../../etc/samba/smbusers and all is fine and works as expected. However if I cd to this same directory via the /slash mount things go to pot! - > marcslaptop:/srv/samba/etc # cd /slash/srv/samba/etc/ > marcslaptop:/slash/srv/samba/etc # ll > total 20 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 11 09:17 dhcp.conf -> /etc/samba/dhcp.conf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jun 13 14:52 lmhosts -> > ../../../slash/etc/samba/lmhosts <-- Highlighted in red > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 12 22:21 smb.conf -> > ../../../slash/etc/samba/smb.conf <-- Highlighted in red > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 13 15:34 smbusers -> > ../../../etc/samba/smbusers > The color coding is missing but it shows that the links for lmhosts and smb.conf are broken. I can demonstrate this - > marcslaptop:/slash/srv/samba/etc # more smb.conf > more: stat of smb.conf failed: Too many levels of symbolic links > marcslaptop:/slash/srv/samba/etc # more lmhosts > more: stat of lmhosts failed: Too many levels of symbolic links I don't know if the relative links for lmhosts and smb.conf are broken because I cd via the /slash mount point or something else is haywired, but the error message telling me that there are "Too many levels of symbolic links" makes me think that an indefinite recursion loop is occurring somewhere. I can't grok why that would be the case, and after 5 days of Googling and reading man pages, I give up and hopefully a guru here has solved this or something similar and will be able to point me in the right direction and tell me how to get these links to work. I can't find any options for autofs, automount, cifs file systems etc that would solve this either. (Yes I am using cifs because there are Windoz systems on my SOHO network also and I want to be able to access the /slash share from them as well.) While this is NOT a complete or precise explanation for why I need these relative links to work via the /slash mount point, I want the /srv directory to contain all the links to various configuration files, for each service I run on each of my systems. This way I will be able to export a samba share for both /slash and /srv and use a tool like Beyond Compare to manage and maintain these files and keep them in sync when I update or make changes to a configuration file that should be propagated to each system on my network. Using relative links will allow me to access these configuration via the remote host's /slash mount and not via the local host's /slash mount. Thanks as always in advance for your time and efforts! Marc...

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please consider fixing update system thank you
by paolo brusasco 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Thank you for opensuse 15.3. Updating a brand new x64 opensuse install kde and gnome, as for now, fails and it's well known all over the internet. Zyppering and rezyppering updates something but doesn't fix. I'm sorry for the annoyance but I think this item should be on the top of the forum till the fix, and users should be openly informed of the fixing process on top of every official page of the project. Great, long lasting distribution, we wish and hope well. Thank you, best regards, Paolo Brusasco

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Every time I try to install the proprietry Nvidia drivers X11 KDE Plasma completely fails to start
by Simon Connah 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Hi, As the title really. I have no idea what is going on. It happened after the UsrMerge update and now I can't install the propriety drivers at all without completely killing my GUI. Is this a known issue at all? I don't want to try again because I haven't been able to fix it. Simon.

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Handbrake is broken for what is sound - how to report a bug to packman?
by Stakanov 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

Handbrake is a coversion program for movies. The current version is broken apparently for sound. It creates conversions without. Now, I tried to understand, but found not bugzilla for them, so I wondered where to report a bug with them?

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Update error - Leap 15.3 KDE
by James Knott 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

I'm getting update errors "patch:SUSE-2021-1526-1.noarch conflicts with readline-doc". When I try using online update it shows it wants to uninstall LibreOffice. If I allow it to do that, it leaves me without LibreOffice. The error still occurs after reinstalling it. Anyone else see this? tnx jk

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Leap 15.3 update issue
by Mark Hounschell 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

I have only one 15.3 box. The panel says I have updates. I click ok/update to update and I get this Update Error: the to be installed patch:SUSE-2021-46-1.noarch conflicts with 'gnu-compilers-hpc-devel Then aborts the update. ???? Regards Mark

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15.3 as well please, do send update mails to the update mailing list
by cagsm 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

for 15.3 as well please. There were already a few updates on 15.3 but the updates list archive shows only stuff about leap 15.2 updates. Please dont think so low and care so little for this hybrid kind of leap 15.3 with its SLES bastardisation. This whole leap 15.3 adventure more and more smells like considering it the unloved sibling of god knows whom or what. :(

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Old version of Firefox
by James Knott 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

When I try to run Firefox, I get an error message that it's an older version and might corrupt bookmarks etc. When will the current version be available? tnx jk

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15.3 anomalies
by Mark Hounschell 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Trying to compile an app from 15.2 and it fails. The simplest way to describe this is to take the sample code from the encrypt man page and try to build it on 15.2 and 15.3. It builds with no errors and works on 15.2 but here is what I get with 15.3. cc encrypt.c -o encrypt -lcrypt encrypt.c: In function ‘main’: encrypt.c:25:9: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘setkey’; did you mean ‘setgid’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] setkey(key); ^~~~~~ setgid encrypt.c:29:5: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘encrypt’; did you mean ‘crypt’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] encrypt(buf, 0); ^~~~~~~ crypt /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEYoHXm.o: in function `main': encrypt.c:(.text+0xa1): undefined reference to `setkey' /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: encrypt.c:(.text+0xda): undefined reference to `encrypt' /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: encrypt.c:(.text+0x188): undefined reference to `encrypt' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status So where have this set of functions gone? Regards mark

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Leap 15.3 upgrade from 15.2 , Thunderbird forget master password
by Peter McD 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Hi, I upgraded from Leap 15.2 to 15.3, as mentioned above, Thunderbird didn't accept its master password anymore (standard installation) Back to Backup, this mail sent from Leap 15.2. Peter

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