November 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 17 May '24

17 May '24

I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say about the free SuSE "Installation support". The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as /media/recorder11. I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and longer, and not leave the problems to the customers. I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has fitted the limited rules for the free installation support. Terje J. Hanssen

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[opensuse] Project management software question for project managers
by Ted Byers 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

I am looking for project management software I can install on my Suse box. Alas, there are quite a number of prducts that claim to be suitable project management products, but I am hoping to obtain a little help separating the wheat from the chaffe. Basically, when I open the project management software, I want to be able to choose from among a number of projects that are under way, and then see the relation between a client's wish list and the functional requirements specs, and then how these specs relate to the UML diagrams that have been created, and from there, what tasks have been defined for each requirement and the identity of all persons involved, the developers and their managers, and the person who designed the code that supports the requirement. And with that, I want to be able to see the project's timeline, the related bugs, &c. I would even want to be able to open the source code files and examine the code that was actually written. Here is my wish list: 1) a web application that stores data in either PostgreSQL or MySQL. 2) easy integration with UML tool (or has it's own UML tool that supports round trip engineering) 3) resource management (e.g. computers, and development tools, that can be used, personelle assigned to each task) 4) documentation of relation between functional requirements specs to specific tasks and specific unit and integration tests. 5) time/effort tracking 6) bug tracking, including data relating the existance of the bug, and effort required to fix it, to the person who wrote the original code, the person who supervised him or her, and the person who designed the 'feature' in question, the time taken to complete the original task, and the technologies used (to imprrove accountability as well as to determine retraining and continuing education needs (people aren't disposable, so instead of taking a harsh aproach to problems identified, I prefer to use education as a corrective, but I can't design corrective instruction without knowing precisely what the need is). I also need to know if a developer has a higher than normal bug rate simply because he doesn't take enough time to ensure the job is done right, or because I haven't adequately trained him, or because of a poor choice of tools, or somethng else that may be my fault. 7) use of task effort tracking history to generate provisional effort/cost estimates from new project's functional requirements 8) easy integration with open source ERP products like OFBiz (which may make trakcing resources and manpower easier, as well as connect real production data to the enterprise's accounting systems) 9) easy integration with CMS products, like Wordpress (especally for production documentation, includng degin documentation and user guides and reference manuals) 10) easy integration with verion control systems such as subversion. If there is a decent product that supports all of this, great (and language used to implement it doesn't matter), but if I have to write code to add missing requirements, then I am limited to those implemented using Perl or Java (and running on Tomcat). I don't know PHP well enough, and I don't know Ruby at all; and I really don't want to think about implementing this sort of thing in C++ (though I could if absolutely necessary). If you have project management experience, and use tools that are available for Suse Linux, what software product(s) did you use, and with what result? While I await relies, I will continue to review web documentation for those products I have found so far, to see if any of them are a) suitable for use in production and b) to see to what extent they support the features I am after. I have seen a number of products so far in my search, that deserve to be nameless, because they provide no way to relate cost estimates to one's team's track record, or to the details of the design, and seem satisfied with production of a pretty gantt chart (which is why I have formed the view that there is a whole lots of chaffe in the set of applications that call themselves project menement software - I have yet to find anything that really has the potential of being labelled wheat). Thanks Ted -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Creating a new user for a deamon
by Rowan Reid 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

I'm setting up a cron job for a analysis tool, I'm trying to use the SuSE tools where possible but YAST doent' allow you to create new user without a home I tried /dev/null is there a proper way to do this ? Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect()
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 30 Dec '22

30 Dec '22

Hello, OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 PHP 8.0.10, I needed to upgrade to PHP 8 becuase on my wordpress sites I needed php 7.2.30 or greater. PHP 7.4.25 is was installed. In my /etc/php7/apache2/php.ini files I had extension=mysqli extension=pdo_mysql All my wordpress sites worked and phpinfo displayed mysqli Sadly after upgrading to PHP 8 It isn't found. Pastebin will not allow the contents of In my https://www.zenez.com/cgi-bin/phpinfo.php Pastebin’s SMART filters have detected potentially offensive or questionable content in your Paste. The content you are trying to publish has been deemed potentially offensive or questionable by our filters, because of this you’re receiving this warning. This Paste can only be published with the visibility set to "Private". I have in my /etc/php8/apache2/php.ini extension=mysqli extension=pdo_mysql Just as before but in the php7 directory. My system has /usr/lib64/php8/extensions/mysqli.so But all my wordpress sites which haven't changed are getting this erro. PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in ... Obvioulsy, my system isn't loading the extiontion. Note one my apache2handler php8 isn't found, but in /etc/sysconfig/apache2, I have APACHE_MODULES="suexec authz_host actions alias auth_basic authn_file authz_groupfile authz_user autoindex cgi dir env include log_config mime negotiation setenvif status userdir asis cache headers imagemap logio proxy proxy_http rewrite ssl perl wsgi-python3 itidy socache_shmcb wsgi wordpress proxy_wstunnel authn_core version authz_core mailman reqtimeout php8-fpm apache2-mod_php proxy_fcgi php php8" PHP Additional files parsed does have /etc/php8/conf.d/mysqli.ini which has ; comment out next line to disable mysqli extension in php extension=mysqli.so So it should be loaded. Any ideas on how to resolve the issue? Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047

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remote desktop between machines with private IP addresses
by Roger Oberholtzer 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

I have a situation where a user has a computer that they only have a private IP address for (ISP assigned). My computer is at work and also has a private IP address. Using TeamViewer, I can access the remote computer's desktop. My question is: is there an open source program that can accomplish the same thing? I suspect that TeamViewer works because it has a server that can be contacted and, I assume, set up a tunnel or whatever it does. I don't have such a server with a public IP address. This is something that I only do occasionally. So I don't want to buy a bunch of TeamViewer licenses if I do not need to. Any ideas? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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phishing?
by jdd＠dodin.org 03 Dec '22

03 Dec '22

Hello, I just received a mail stating: "Your 8 important incoming emails are stuck on the opensuse.org Email server." a link sent me to the "https://ipfs.io" server that asked me for credentials, see screenshot https://www.cjoint.com/doc/22_11/LKEldUzfzvk_Screenshot-20221130-115948.png I find this very suspect what do you think? (source of the mail available) thanks jdd -- mon serveur usenet: dodin.fr.nf c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

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Thunderbird - New Address Book Missing Most Admin Functionality, No Export
by David C. Rankin 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

All, Does anyone have a solution for exporting your thunderbird address book from tbird 102+? I've used thunderbird 102 with 15.4 and didn't really have many complaints at all -- until I tried using the addressbook. The new web-ish interface lacks the ability to copy an e-mail with name and lacks any ability to backup or export your addressbook to any usable format. I have 20 years of contact information in the addressbook -- that I presume was converted from Mork format to the new address book format when it changed sometime around ver. 79. Today I had reason to copy a few e-mail from it, and then went to export/backup as I've done in the past. However, addressbook is no longer a stand-alone UI and is now implemented as a web-page style tab in tbird. So I open it and right-click the address seeking to bring up the context menu with "copy" and "copy with name" entries. The first would copy the raw e-mail address, the latter would copy the formal e-mail with, e.g. "John Q. Public" <jpublic(a)domain.tld>. The context menu contains no ability to copy any e-mail address or anything else for that matter. Moreover, it is difficult to manually copy the raw e-mail due to attempts to select the address dragging it instead of allowing selection. Only by carefully moving the mouse while watching for the cursor change from pointer to I-beam can you even select the e-mail to manually copy it. Then I wanted to export my address book (to ldif at least as in the past), but the new and improved address book has no export function at all. In fact this prompted a search of all of thunderbird to find out where the export feature was and to my great disappointment the only option that exists is to export the entire profile as a .zip file... WTF?? Hell, if I wanted to that I'd just tar --zstd the profile. So if you rely on the tbird addressbook be aware it is now nothing but a crippled rewrite lacking most of the administrative, or backup features it has traditionally had since version 1.X 20 years ago. That said, does anyone know how to manually export backup from the new .sqlite mess? What was a very efficient and concise Mork address book format, e.g. -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 163980 May 13 2022 abook.mab (I'm guessing this last save was immediately before my 15.4 install) is now an unholy sqlite mess: -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1048576 Nov 24 03:21 abook-1.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 196784 Nov 29 12:48 abook-1.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1048576 Sep 17 04:05 abook-1.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 589824 Nov 29 00:47 abook-2.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook-2.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 589824 Sep 17 04:05 abook-2.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 786432 Nov 18 22:16 abook-3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook-3.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 786432 Sep 17 04:05 abook-3.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 262144 Sep 20 04:36 abook-4.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook-4.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 262144 Sep 17 04:05 abook-4.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 327680 Oct 30 04:18 abook-5.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook-5.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 327680 Sep 17 04:05 abook-5.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 851968 Nov 24 03:21 abook-6.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook-6.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 851968 Sep 17 04:05 abook-6.v3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 262144 Sep 20 04:36 abook.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Nov 29 00:53 abook.sqlite-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 262144 Sep 17 04:05 abook.v3.sqlite (total sqlite size 8454320 bytes, as 5055% increase) All of the different sqlite file seem to be actively used as they are all saved recently. Apparently the is one sqlite file for each category of e-mail address now (reply-to saved, any group of addresses, by account, etc..). So even a manual sqlite query is unlikely without knowing which sqlite file has what you want or looping over each sqlite file -- are you kidding me? Anybody run across a solution for this Mozilla created cluster-fsck? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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raid on hpz230
by jdd＠dodin.org 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

Hello, A visitor asked me last week how to install linux as double boot on a windows 10 *raid* hpz230. the raid is a firmware raid, not a software one, present on the motherboard. on the spot I was not able to make openSUSE to see the raid 1 two disks presents on the system. YaST-install sees two disks, but can't configure the free space (locked obviously by the raid software). However, these computers are SLES/SLED compatible http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04487632.pdf however, I don't see any suse/linux specific data on the raid config page https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02815117 any clue? (I don't have the computer at hand, but I expect the user to come again soon) thanks jdd -- mon serveur usenet: dodin.fr.nf c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

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[oS-en] I get hundreds of these error messages in the log
by Carlos E. R. 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I upgraded my small laptop to 15.4 (DVD offline upgrade method). Soon after, I noticed hundreds of these messages: <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:04 Legolas tlp 22942 - - >>> Invoke 'systemctl mask systemd-rfkill.socket' to correct this. <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:05 Legolas tlp 22972 - - Warning: systemd-rfkill.socket is not masked, radio device switching may not work as configured. <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:05 Legolas tlp 22972 - - >>> Invoke 'systemctl mask systemd-rfkill.socket' to correct this. <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:15 Legolas tlp 23005 - - Warning: systemd-rfkill.socket is not masked, radio device switching may not work as configured. <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:15 Legolas tlp 23005 - - >>> Invoke 'systemctl mask systemd-rfkill.socket' to correct this. <1.4> 2022-11-27 20:25:16 Legolas tlp 23037 - - Warning: systemd-rfkill.socket is not masked, radio device switching may not work as configured. I read <https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/522060-I-don-t-know-if-TLP-is-wo…>, but I do not have tlp enabled: Legolas:~ # systemctl status tlp.service ○ tlp.service - TLP system startup/shutdown Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tlp.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) Docs: https://linrunner.de/tlp Legolas:~ # I also read <https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/issues/552> So, what are those messages about? Desktop is XFCE. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY4O9uBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVca8AmwaGZcbMnInw3gK7ii9r qId2xPnIAKCCLUyjlSTtVtdFV0YnvW/sCONt0A== =fN5L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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