August 2021 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: nmap fails?
by James Knott 07 Aug '21

07 Aug '21

On 2021-08-04 5:39 p.m., Douglas McGarrett wrote: > I don't know what the ip address of this machine At the command prompt: ip addr show Or, if you prefer: ifconfig

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Discount Electronics
by Douglas McGarrett 07 Aug '21

07 Aug '21

I had initiated what became a long series of messages re failure of nmap, and failure of other basic system commands on a refurb Dell Optiplex 780 computer obtained from Discount Electronics. It turns out that this computer--maybe all Dells of that 8-year-old vintage--contains a setup system which defines the way that the computer can be used, regarding bootup source, and various things, some of which are not visible, having been deliberately hidden by that very same setup function. This was probably a reasonable approach for the commercial office use it was refurbed from. It is designed to keep a user from messing with the way the computer performed. A lot of features which are visible during boot are not reachable by any means, at least by me, and apparently by a man named Joe at Discount Electronics. The computer even has a means of applying a padlock so that it cannot be opened up by a user! During an interchange with Joe, I told him that unless he can tell me how to remove the nanny functions, I would return the computer for refund. He told me that the company does not take back units for refund, only for the sale of a newer computer. This was to be only an interim machine, since all my computers were damaged by lightning. Now I will return it to Windows and donate it. I am fortunately financially able to do that. But I am writing to warn anyone contemplating a purchase from Discount Electronics, DON'T! If you intend to run Linux--as I'm sure all readers here do--then don't purchase from Discount Electronics. And make sure you get a written promise that you will be allowed to return for refund if the machine you purchase (somewhere else!) is not suitable. (For myself, I have come up with an HP laptop on which I will try and run Linux--HP says no problem, but I haven't tried it yet. I have to say that for a machine that originally ran Windows 7, it is impressive with Win 10 on it.) --doug

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Re: Discount Electronics
by Anton Aylward 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

On 2021-08-05 10:19 p.m., Chuck Payne wrote: > > Doug, > > So most of my hardware is Dell, with a few SuperMicro. I have no issues. Most my > servers are running openSUSE Tumbleweed. My hardware is old donated. Not sure why > you having issues, but I recommend Dells. > > My main WebApp front end Nginx running openSUSE 15.3 on a SFF Dell optiplex 755, > very good luck. I am running Dell Hardware that older than my 17 year son, running > 64-Bit TumbleWeed with great success. No issue with NMap, no Nanny program > blocking. I also have a few Dell PowerConnect Switches. > > Sorry you had issues, but it strange. I have some newer optiplex 7xxx seriers I > bought off ebay for a $100 that are great Linux Desktops. My desktop is a Optiplex 755 tower. It was just over C$100 from a local discount vendor with delivery, so in the same price range as yours. Yes it has that extensive setup menus, but being used to Sony camera setup menus this was a no-brainer for me, but I find it perfectly adequate. This model has no provision for external locks. Yes it runs openSUSE. The 755 was recommended to me by a friend who has five of them and a 780 as well. (I don't ask what he does with them!) > I can't stand HPE or Lenovo Hardware. I have mixed feelings. While Doug may depreciate a store of that name I have no problems with discount refurbished electronics in general. -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg

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Cannot start apache2 on 15.3 (Unit tmp.mount is masked)
by Stratos Zolotas 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

Hello, After a hdd failure, I started to rebuild my home server with 15.3 from scratch. I have only enabled ssh and tried to start apache2 after installing it with zypper in apache2 When I try to do systemctl start apache2, I'm getting the following message: Failed to start apache2.service: Unit tmp.mount is masked. This is a clean install no configuration change, just first start of apache after installation. The only catch is that /srv is on an lvm volume (with ext4), everything else in on single disk with btrfs (default install) If I try to run systemctl unmask tmp.mount on the next try to start apache I get Failed to start apache2.service: Unit var.mount is masked. Unmasking var.mount also doesn't work because on next try I get again the tmp.mount masked error. On 15.2 I didnd't had that issue. Am I missing something? Kind regards Stratos

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nmap fails?
by Douglas McGarrett 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

This doesn't make sense: localhost:~ # nmap -sP 192.168.1.* Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-08-03 20:11 EDT Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (0 hosts up) scanned in 206.30 seconds It should have at least found the Epson printer and the router. I was hoping it would find the old HP printer, so I would know what its IP is. --doug

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15.3, ddclient ancient, older than the latest release from january 2020
by cagsm 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

with leap 15.3, the ddclient package is also quite older than the lastet upstream release on github which is still from only january 2020. <https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient> can we please have proper and recent releases from oss upstream creators and not have ancient stuff in brand new opensuse releases? :( ty

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even 15.3 comes with ancient aria2, downloading leap isos via metalink files throws TLS errors and weird stuff
by cagsm 04 Aug '21

04 Aug '21

hello list, even a current 15.3 apparently comes with ancient aria2 stuff, i tried to fetch some leap isos, 15.2 and 15.3 just recently and the aria2 instlled for this 15.3 ------------- aria2c -v aria2 version 1.33.1 Copyright (C) 2006, 2017 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. ** Configuration ** Enabled Features: Async DNS, BitTorrent, Firefox3 Cookie, GZip, HTTPS, Message Digest, Metalink, XML-RPC, SFTP Hash Algorithms: sha-1, sha-224, sha-256, sha-384, sha-512, md5, adler32 Libraries: zlib/1.2.11 libxml2/2.9.7 sqlite3/3.28.0 GnuTLS/3.6.7 nettle GMP/6.1.2 c-ares/1.17.0 libssh2/1.9.0 Compiler: gcc 7.5.0 built by x86_64-suse-linux-gnu on Jan 9 2019 13:47 System: Linux 5.3.18-59.16-default #1 SMP Thu Jul 15 11:28:57 UTC 2021 (0b62bdb) x86_64 Report bugs to https://github.com/aria2/aria2/issues Visit https://aria2.github.io/ ------------- throws tons of errors when (probably?) hitting mirrors on the maybe new or different mirrorcache infrastructure instead of the mirrorbrain infrastructure and there speaking about unknown TLS and maybe compromise of servers and downloads and what not. I suppose or can only guess this maybe has got to do with recent TLS 1.3 on select mirror servers or something? then i went into research aria2 version and turns out TLS 1.3 has been added like 2019 and the leap 15.3 aria version 1.33 is like ancient or so? This aria2 release being from 2017! why are we not even getting the latest, that still being from 2019? <https://github.com/aria2/aria2> why? :(

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unsinged sha256 hashsum files for leap 15.3? why?
by cagsm 04 Aug '21

04 Aug '21

hello list, just came across when trying to download leap 15.3 iso bits, that the most or all of the .sha256 files are unsigned simple text files only. i still remember these sha256 files being some kind of pgp gpg wrapped textfiles with the suse project signing them for legitimacy. am i mistaken? also the main opensuse.org download page and area speaks exactly about verifying the bits and the full length pgp gpg fingerprint for that signing key one should be verifying. <https://get.opensuse.org/leap#download> ----------------- Verify Your Download Before Use Many applications can verify the checksum of a download. To verify your download can be important as it verifies you really have got the ISO file you wanted to download and not some broken version. For each ISO, we offer a checksum file with the corresponding SHA256 sum. For extra security, you can use GPG to verify who signed those .sha256 files. It should be 22C0 7BA5 3417 8CD0 2EFE 22AA B88B 2FD4 3DBD C284 ----------------- then i went to download.opensuse.org and the leap 15.2 area and tried there, and the or some .sha256 files for the e.g. x64 iso on that leap level and release are actually signed what happen? :( --------------- cat openSUSE-Leap-15.3-NET-x86_64-Current.iso.sha256 54fb3a488e0fececf45cdaeefaccfb64437745da4b1ca444662e3aac20cf37b5 openSUSE-Leap-15.3-NET-x86_64.iso cat openSUSE-Leap-15.3-DVD-x86_64-Current.iso.sha256 0deae0b74953acd951150ae9567e098d450f2ae91b2d0c0a610b9d934f91c7b1 openSUSE-Leap-15.3-DVD-x86_64.iso cat openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso.sha256 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 0fd2d4e630b6579b933b5cb4930a8100acca6b4e29cd2738c4b7a9b2f76d80e4 openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBXv36criLL9Q9vcKEAQLo7AgAheoPUyw1dN3VlqN4m2icdonUUTiHvZ5b 4vDv1hcZxYNzh76HJudvRVODyx5SAytLRXsUfAnffLUqWTIg2p50nkIR0FZoY5y/ 0BaVKe2SY+W35iLxZkBO5sszFz+mhtWwir8Vsi4Tq/u3/IO98BBO319c877SIKCt JrJ//sajA2XXQrKgu9hxiVgWOl5Y2EOWllq9fBaGr3Rd4EdLbHhfDQ7IaWN7PW0U hAqv9WDkTxRVSksUP/y/C9c8kZ4VXF4YXGMdZX9+5hKoz/iBWaRVMwsez13h8Eif bNpN69bQCLBx2LMH1T3gknu1faD5xb808iWeZXi2jgs3vWXUWdRg3w== =DTcJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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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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