November 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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raid on hpz230
by jdd＠dodin.org 24 Nov '22

24 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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nVidia rollback?
by Robin Klitscher 24 Nov '22

24 Nov '22

Leap 15.4; Plasma 5.26.3; Frameworks 5.100.0; Qt 5.15.7 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650; desktop X11 not Wayland. I have a serious problem after an update that included the G06 nvidia drivers, from 525.53-15.1 to 525.53-16.1. The Plasma desktop comes up, but among several other things the windows have no titlebar or borders with all that that entails, click-to-focus doesn't work, and the four virtual desktops I normally use are absent. Overall the system is barely usable, and then only with difficulty. An attempt to re-instate the virtual desktops results in an error message that there was a problem requesting information from the compositor, and it's tempting to think that the problem might lie with the G06 driver update, though I guess it could be many other things beyond my ken. But I can't find a way of testing this by rolling back the nvidia packages. Is there one, or am I cast until there's another update??? -- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand

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Leap 15.4 jpg png tiff trouble
by Jos van Kan 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

Yesterday I upgraded from 15.3 to 15.4 from a usb stick. That went smoothly enough, but there is something strange afoot wrt the handling of some graphics files, in particular jp(e)g, png and tiff files. They are displayed as empty folders in the file manager (tested in Plasma X11, Icewm and Gnome) and gwenview cannot open them. They can be opened by Okular and Gimp and properly processed, so it is only a minor nuisance. Yet I would like to know what could possibly cause this and repair this. They are properly recognized by the CLI command "file". Any suggestions are welcome. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

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Replacing Nvidia with AMD Radeon (decided to start Radeon config)
by Ianseeks 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

Hi I removed the nvidia board and installed my new old HD6570 and booted up but it just drops to a cli login with an error about SP5100-tco (nvidia also displays this message so i've assumed its not important). It first blew out with an error to say i had to enable a BIOS setting for Virtualisation which I did and it cleared that error. I've also put "radeon.cik_support=1 radeon.si_support=1" on the kernel parameters via yast but still no joy. The Radeon software is installed and running according to the logs, i've checked journalctl for Radeon errors but no joy. What simple thing have I missed as I'm a bit out of my depth here? regards and thanks Ian -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20221119 Qt: 5.15.7 KDE Frameworks: 5.100.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.26.3 - kwin 5.26.3 kmail2 5.21.3 (22.08.3) - akonadiserver 5.21.3 (22.08.3) - Kernel: 6.0.8-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.17

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Moving Home
by Mark Misulich 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

Hi, I recently bought a 1TB hard drive to add in to my computer. My drives will be dev/sda, a SSD which presently contains Leap 15.4 / and /home. dev/sdb is a standard drive, which contains Win 10 and Win XP. The third drive will be /dev/sdc, which will be the new 1TB drive. I want to move the Leap 15.4 /home from the SSD drive (dev/sda) to the 1TB drive (dev/sdc). I think the way to do this is as follows, but I'm asking the list to check this out to make sure I've got it correct. #fdisk -l (to identify the disks and make sure I've got the correct discs planned out) Then I will create a partition on /dev/sdc and format it. #mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt (Once I've made and formatted the partition on the new drive, I will need to mount it.) #cd /mnt (to see if I can change directories to the new filesystem) #ls -ahl (to see what is in the new filesystem) #rm -rf lost+found (remove the lost+found directory) #cp -rp /home/* /mnt (copy the home directory to the new filesystem on the new harddrive) #ls (to find out that everything is copied) #mv /home /home.orig (rename old home directory) #mkdir /home (make a new home directory) #cd / #umount /dev/sdc1 #mount /dev/sdc1 /home/ (to mount the new home directory) #cd / #cd ~ #pwd #ls #cd /home #ls #cd (my home name) #ls #ls -a (to make sure everything that is supposed to be in /home is there) #cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.org #gedit /etc/fstab Add a line at the bottom of the file to mount the new /home directory Type the name of the partition at the start of the line, and then press Tab. (dev/sdc1) Type the mount point, /home, and press Tab. Type the filesystem description ext4, and press Tab. Type defaults for the mount options, and press Tab. Type the digit 0 for the filesystem dump option, and press Tab. Type the digit 0 for the filesystem check option. It should look like this when done: /dev/sdc1 /home ext4 defaults 0 0 Then save the file. Then #reboot now Then once rebooted #df /dev/sdc1 (check that it's mounted on /home) If everything is good, then: #cd / #rm -rf home.org/ Look good? Thanks Mark

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