July 2021 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Mount Windows NT(NTFS) drive as drive Z: for all users
by Keith Jacobs 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

We have an winNT server and need to auto mount a shared folder as if it were a windose mapped drive Z: on SuSE8 Could someone please explain how to do this and how to make sure it is set-up for every user everytime the system is booted. Thanks Regards Keith Jacobs New to Linux

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Problem with software raid and Tumbleweed
by Markus Egg 15 Sep '21

15 Sep '21

Hello, I got Tumbleweed Snapshot20210115 and wanted to install it on a rather old machine with a software raid1 (UEFI raid). On this raid some Windows 10 is already existing. The installer of Tumbleweed Snapshot20210115 does not recognize this software raid1. It only shows single harddiscs and no raid volume. An older snapshot 20190704 is able to see that software raid1 but I cannot do any zypper dup with that one (this version was running previously before some hardware crash). Any help for that - either a snapshot which can handle software raid1 or some way to set zypper dup running again with the older snapshot? BR and thanks in advance Markus

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goodbye
by mcgarrett 27 Aug '21

27 Aug '21

After the lightning bolixed up all the computers, I bought a cheap refurb that had Windows10 Home on it. I decided to make a partition for OpenSUSE Leap 15.3. I used gparted to shrink windows and make a partition for Leap 15.3. I downloaded the latest version and installed it. It seems to have wiped out Windows and created for itself something that must be related to hell. Most of the apps that I could download and install on a version from last Fall are gone and unfindable, When I placed the few that I could find on the desktop, when I rebooted they were gone. So was Windows.The only thing I could do that remained was to get rid of the ugly stock desktop and replace it with something pleasant. I have used Linux for almost 20 years, and I really don't understand Windows, on a partially working machine, or want to, but I'm having to use it until I find a new Linux. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? It's like KDE is GONE! The folks here on the mailing lists have been more than helpful to me, and I am grateful to them, but now I will have to find something--probably Mint with a KDE overlay--that I can live with. I will really miss the root version of Dolphin. Written from a badly damaged Windows computer (that has a usable Leap 15 on it) but still reads and sends mail on an ugly app from optimum.net. (Claws mail I never got to work.) --doug

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KDE3 ARK displaying messed up timestamp for files in ZIP archive.
by Alec Destry 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

Unzip, some years ago, when listing files in an archive, showed the timestamp for those files in the format of MM-DD-YY. Now, unzip, when listing files in an archive, shows the timestamp for those files in the format of YYYY-MM-DD. This change in how unzip shows timestamps has caused KDE3 ARK to show a messed up timestamp when viewing a ZIP archive. Are there any plans to fix this? Has this already been fixed in some version of kdeutils3-*x86_64.rpm that I haven't been able to find, even though I've checked many kdeutils3-*x86_64.rpm packages going up to opensuse 15.3? Alternatively, since one fix is simply adding statements to the C source for ARK to convert unzip's new timestamp of YYYY-MM-DD to the old format of MM-DD-YY before letting the rest of ARK's C source process that, but also keeping in mind that I have no clue where to find that C source code for ARK since I've had zero involvement in any KDE3 development and therefore have no familiarity with how anything is structured or what the labels mean, could someone point me to the exact C source for ARK where it processes the unzip timestamps, so that I can fix ARK myself.

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old HP printer
by mcgarrett 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

With great difficulty, I think I've found one or more ppd files for an HP Laser 2200D. They're all for various old versions of Windows. Will any of them work in Leap? Trying to get some kind of printer going until I recover from the lightning strike, and I'm pretty sure this boat anchor still works. One example is this: LaserJet USB (DOT4) communication driver for HP LaserJet 2200d This driver only solution provides DOT4 USB bi-directional communication functionality on Windows 8 and higher operating systems. Thanx--doug

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lastlog permissions
by Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Hello List, for quite some time, I've noticed that the permissions and group of /var/log/lastlog (and sometimes a few others, like [bw]tmp) differ from what chkstat expects. This is, of course, easily fixed with chmod and chown, but the old permissions tend to re-appear after zypper updates. It's probably not really a problem, but does anyone know where the diffence comes from? Thanks, A. -- Ansgar Esztermann Sysadmin Dep. Theoretical and Computational Biophysics http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/grubmueller/esztermann

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Trouble with the touchpad while typing
by Carlos E. R. 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hi, I have Trouble with the touchpad while I type, almost since ever, currently with XFCE in Leap 15.2. The touchpad activates randomly, apparently touched by my hand and destroys what I typed. I have in settings "Disable touch pad while typing" set to 2 seconds. Type "SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad". Edge scrolling. This is supposed to impede the trouble I have, but it does not. If I type and I try to move the mouse pointer it doesn't respond till two seconds have passed, which is a nuisance I would accept if it worked. There are two types of incidents. One, the cursor location suddenly moves several paragraphs up in the middle of typing a word, thus within centiseconds. Certainly inside the 2 seconds protection. Two, a large portion of the text I'm typing suddenly gets selected, again in the middle of typing a word (I type fast), so that on the next letter I type the entire highlight gets replaced with that next letter, erasing at times all my work. In the first case, I can select the offending text and move it to the correct location, or hit undo. In the second case, I have to use undo, so I don't actually lose my work. Almost always it happens inside Thunderbird. At least, i don't remember it happening in other apps. It is possible that the protection I need is from accidental tap, not accidental move. minas-tirith:~ # hwinfo --mouse 40: PS/2 00.0: 10500 PS/2 Mouse [Created at input.249] Unique ID: AH6Q.ZHI3OT7LsxA Hardware Class: mouse Model: "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" Vendor: 0x0002 Device: 0x0007 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" Compatible to: int 0x0210 0x0002 Device File: /dev/input/mice (/dev/input/mouse0) Device Files: /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/input/event1 Device Number: char 13:63 (char 13:32) Driver Info #0: Buttons: 2 Wheels: 0 XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2 GPM Protocol: exps2 Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown minas-tirith:~ # -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))

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burning flash drive with dd--fails
by mcgarrett 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Why doesn't this work: dd bs=4M if=/home/doug/Downloads/Win10_21H1_English_x64 of=/dev/sda Here is the downloaded file in /home/doug/Downloads: -rw-r--r-- 1 doug users 5824122880 Jul 22 22:20 Win10_21H1_English_x64.iso Here is the fail message: dd: failed to open '/home/doug/Downloads/Win10_21H1_English_x64': No such file or directory (Since I am IN that directory, I first tried without specifying the directory, but got the same failure.) Confused as usual--doug

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Evergreen, where has the Long Term Support gone...
by Chuck Payne 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

Good morning, So, question. We use to have Evergreen which was going to be our LTS version, so that when a distro reached the magical .3 in the release, we could switch to Evergreen. I haven't seen anything on it in while, has Evergreen stopped? Do we not have any LTS version? I am switching a lot of systems from openSUSE 42.3 to 15.3, and I am saddened by the number of software packages that seem to have been removed. One of the reasons I started using SuSE back in the day was, it had the most packages, which was awesome. Here is an example, Nginx has a log of module packages that are no longer there. Oh, please don't tell me to go too software.opensuse.org, is great only if people keep their software up-to-date. I don't know how many packages I have found only to get that it going to do break major things. Even Tumbleweed seems to be losing packages. Did I miss something? By the way, I did try to sent this to opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org, but got a bonus back fromn election-official-ower(a)list.opensuse.org, so not sure what is up with that. -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 openSUSE Community Member since 2008. -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 openSUSE Community Member since 2008.

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urgent: how to write to reiserfs on 15.3?
by Daniel Bauer 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

Hi, all my encrypted external disks are with reiserfs. No I want to read/write to one of them on my new pad and it says "unkonwn filesystem type 'reiserfs'. What do I have to install so that 15.3 remembers the forgotten system? I installed reiserfs-kmp-default and libreiser4-1_2-1 and libaal-1_0-7 it can read the disks but not write to them. What else do I need? Need urgent help please, thanks! Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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