January 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

size of firefox sqlite database files
by Istvan Gabor 09 Jan '22

09 Jan '22

Hello: Currently I use firefox 91.4.1esr in openSUSE 15.3. I noticed that in the profile directory the size of some sqlite database files does not change after deleting history. Namely, places.sqlite, favicons.sqlite, cookies.sqlite files' size remains the same after deleting history. Why don't the file sizes decrease after deleting their content by deleting history? I have many profiles and want to decrease the profiles' size. I thought bu deleting history I can do it but not. Can someone explain this? Thanks, Istvan

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KDE Connect - Too many notifications.
by James Knott 09 Jan '22

09 Jan '22

A couple of months ago, I got a new Google Pixel 6 phone. Since then, I've been getting an excessive amount of email notifications from KDE Connect on my computer. Sometimes I have a stack of them reaching almost the top of my screen. I have checked both the phone and computer KDE Connect settings and I can't see anything that would cause this. Is there any way to stop all these notifications, short of uninstalling KDE Connect? KDE on Leap 15.3 Previously used a Pixel 2. tnx jk

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how could this happen? accidental mass file deletion
by Daniel Bauer 08 Jan '22

08 Jan '22

Hi, I am with OS 15.2/KDE and a very strange thing happened to me: all files (not the sub-folders, but the files in them) of my desktop folder were deleted without that I know why... what I did (in case it gives a hint) : Started SimpleScreenRecorder to record the complete screen in an mp4 in the desktop folder (this file vanished also). I paused/continued the screen recorder several times. Started Win10 in Virtual-Box, did some photo editing, shut down Win10, and when I saw my desktop again there were no icons, only some folders. I got aware of heavy disk use and shut down the computer. After booting again I saw that all files (several hundreds) in this folder and its subfolders were gone, but not the folders themselves. It only affected the Desktop folder and its subfolders, no others as much as I can see. To do this deliberately I would have to enter an rm with options, but I didn't... I know that during this session my mouse began to be defective, a right click produced a double-click, but that shouldn't be able to produce such a command, isn't it? Is there a way I can find out what happened exactly? Search (for what?) in what log? It seems mysterious to me and disquiets me although since then everything seems to work normally. (Luckily I am a back-up-freak, so no damage, but still...) (the desktop folder isn't shared with windows, the shared folder is on another partition and wasn't affected) Any thoughts? Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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[oS-en] Anchor image to page in LO disapeared?
by Carlos E. R. 07 Jan '22

07 Jan '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm creating a Write document in libre office, one I do often, which worked a month ago. Tonight, there is a feature that is gone. I'm simply inserted images from another application (same as I do every month, from Foxit), and anchor to page is gone. I can anchor "to paragraph", "as character", and "to character". But "to page" is gone. Is this known? Feature? Bug? This is LO 7.1.4.2, on Leap 15.2. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYddqDxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVL1oAn0vXHzch74u0z2gjaGSn pCtB8xDZAJoDPkLSNqaq+zVCDjU7RrBHbvC2cA== =rpm5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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backup of root
by jdd＠dodin.org 07 Jan '22

07 Jan '22

Hello, I use for some years a rsync line in cron to make a backup from a server to an other server. btrfs on source, ext4 on target. Right now I have to be run from root on the receiving part # rsync -azv -e ssh -x --exclude=/tmp --exclude=*cache* --exclude=*.Trash* --exclude=/sys --exclude=/proc --exclude=/dev --delete root@<source domain>:/* <local folder> I checked that -x do *not* exclude /proc. But it may be also useful to exclude /run? isn't this one dynamic (ie removed at boot time). I don't remember also is proc, sys, dev a recreated at boot, no need to make them by hand at restore time? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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puleaudio testing microphone GUI
by Istvan Gabor 07 Jan '22

07 Jan '22

Hello: I would like to test my microphone in pulseaudio. All info I found say that I have to load manually the loopback module in a terminal to hear the microphone, and after testing unload the module. Isn't there a GUI tool which has button for testing/hearing the microphone? I don't even understand why this option is not part of pavucontrol of some other pulseaudio GUI program. Thanks, Istvan

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mailutil program in openSUSE Leap 15.3
by Istvan Gabor 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Hello: I've been using mailutil program to backup my imap mailboxex. It seems that openSUSE Leap 15.3 doesn't have this program. It is part of alpine package and it is there in Leap 15.1 alpine. But not in Leap 15.3 alpine package. I checked two alpine packages, the official OSS package, and alpine from repositories/server:/mail/ repo. None has mailutils. Does anyone know why, and if its remove was announced? Thanks, Istvan

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Troubles installing OpenSuSE 15.3 on a HP Spectre laptop
by Marc Chamberlin 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Hello - I have an HP Spectre laptop that came with Windows 10 installed on it. It has a 1Tb SSD drive with almost 800Gb of unallocated space. I want to install OpenSuSE 15.3 x64 on this laptop as part of a dual boot system. I have done this many times in the past on other desktops and laptops but this time I am running into a couple of unexpected problems that is preventing the installation. I created an UEFI USB installation disk from the ISO file that I downloaded from the OpenSuSE downloads website. In the BIOS I turned off "Secure Boot" and set the boot order to allow booting first from USB devices. I did not have to choose whether to use "Legacy Booting" as there is no option in the BIOS for it. The installation of OpenSuSE starts off OK and I had no apparent problem with setting up the network WiFi connection. The installation process does not allow me to manually test and/or check to see if the network really got set up OK. The first problem occurs when the installation process gets to where it is attempting to read the list of Online Repositories. Here I get a warning message "Unable to download list of repositories or no repositories defined." No reason why is given and all I can do about it is to click the OK button and move on. Maybe the WiFi network connection is not working after all? I dunno how to check it at this point in the installation process. Sigh... Next I select for a System Role to use "Desktop with KDE Plasma" and when I click on Next I get a far more serious error message - "An error was found in one of the devices in the system. The information displayed may not be accurate and the installation may fail if you continue." The "Details..." button shows - "cannot delete MdContainer" and again I can only choose "OK" to dismiss this rather useless error message. I got no idea what an MdContainer" is! Google searches suggests it has to do with docker containers but that doesn't help me either as I don't grok much about docker and have never use it. The best discussion about this error, that I found, was at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/523095/opensuse-leap-15-1-install-… But the solution appears to be to delete and remove Windows 10 and the partitions it resides in. NOT what I want to do, I want a dual boot system with both OS's. Another suggestion was to contact HP Support which I have done but they seem to be taking a very long time to respond, so I am turning to this forum to see if anyone here can provide and/or guide me to a solution. FYI If I continue on, with the installation process, I reach a dead-end at the point where one is suppose to set up the disk partitions for OpenSuSE. The partitioner does not allow me to access or change anything within the SSD drive. Any attempt to do so, I get told the device is busy. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or solutions offered, much appreciated as always... Marc... -- *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/This email is digitally signed and the electronic signature is attached. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like./)

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When/How to update tumbleweed
by Payam Firouztala 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

For the longest time I was depending on https://review.tumbleweed.boombatower.com to figure out when it was safe to update tumbleweed and which release to update to. That site has not been updated due to an issue with the mailing list where the site got its information. So for people who use tumbleweed, how do you know when is a good time to update? What command do you use? I know there is snap and that I can roll back if something breaks, but obviously would rather not go through that. Thanks and Happy New Year!

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no more usb keyboard and mouse
by jdd＠dodin.org 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

Hello, since the very last update with "zypper up --recommand", my openSUSE Leap 15.3 do not anymore accept external keyboard or mouse. however, booting windows 10 (!!!), and rebooting immediately (no need to login) restore the mouse/keyboard usual working the usb keyboard works as expected in grub menu booting the previous snapshot do not makes any better this was since 48 hours and right now still no new update may I fill a bug report? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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reiserfs
by Young, John E. (LARC-D312)[TEAMS3] 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

I know. Reiserfs is deprecated and is no longer supported, but some things that I have seen on the network lead me to believe that it may be possible to download the necessary files and (at least temporarily) enable it, at least long enough to copy the files off. This would be a big help in recovering some old filesystems. Does anyone have documentation on exactly how to do this? JY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John E. Young NASA LaRC B1148/R216 Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. "speaking ONLY for myself"

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file manager used to save in chrome
by George from the tribe 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

In the latest update in 15.2, something changed in the way I save files downloaded from the internet when in Chrome, or a Chrome based browser like Brave. It used to use Dolphin file manager, and that is much more convenient, because it requires less clicks to change the file name. Now it switched to the file manager that Gnome uses - I guess its Nautilus. I don't use Gnome very much, but I have it installed and sometimes go into it if there is something I need it for, so I have to keep the gnome base packages on my system. So how do you set Chrome so that it opens up the Dolphin file manager when you want to save a file from the internet? -- George Box: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: TW | Plasma 5 | Core i7 | 64 | 16GB

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zypper, which repo provides package
by Istvan Gabor 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Hello: How can I find with zypper which configured repos provide a given package? For example I would like to get a list of repos that have aaa_base package. I couldn't find this in zypper manual. Thanks, Istvan

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printing pdf file
by Istvan Gabor 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Hello: Up to openSUSE Leap 15.1 I could install Adobe Reader 9.5.5 (acroread) and I used it frequently to print documents. In Leap 15.3 I could not Adobe Reader make work. What program can I use for printing pdf documents, which has such options as "Fit to Printable Area" and "Shrink to Printable Area" in Adobe Reader? For example when I printed letter sized document on A4 paper I could use the Shrink to Printable Area option to make sure the whole page is printed (though with little bit smaller scale). Thanks, Istvan

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badblocks replacement successor for huge disks?
by cagsm 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

just figured that badblocks tool was having 32bit value issues for sector numbers of sata hdd disks. just what is the replacement or successor for badblocks? apparently people been discussing this even some upstream bugreport at redhat, but the information give was, that badblocks been actually invented for like floppy disks. have never heard of anything else than badblocks so far. how to check largeish huge hdd media? any quick resolution of this problem? did i miss a tool ever since badblocks? ty. <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1306522> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764636> <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/152171/badblocks-only-takes-32-bit…>

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Suggestions for simple digital asset management
by Togan Muftuoglu 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Hi, I am looking suggestions for a simple DAM digital asset management system. For example phrasenet is great but overkill for the job. tag and grade pictures for easy searching No picture editing sqllite as database Thanks

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