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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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"This video cannot be played"
by Douglas McGarrett 27 May '22

27 May '22

I have received a number of messages from various sources with a video attached, but across the face of what must be the first screen, is the message, "This video cannot be played." I'm curious--what kind of video is being sent that cannot be player, and why? --doug

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[opensuse] Memtest & UEFI
by James Knott 26 May '22

26 May '22

In openSUSE 15.1, memtest, as installed, would not work with UEFI. Has this been fixed in 15.2? There is a version on the memtest website that will work with it. tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[oS-en] Very slow update download.
by Carlos E. R. 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 200K/S, of the kernel. 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp-core] PathInfo.cc(hardlinkCopy):916 hardlinkCopy /var/tmp/AP_0xbwLBVf/noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm -> /var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update/noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher++] MediaSetAccess.cc(releaseFile):92 Going to release file ./noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm from media number 1 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp-core] PathInfo.cc(unlink):706 unlink /var/tmp/AP_0xbwLBVf/noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [Progress++] progressdata.cc(report):70 {#104|} START 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [Progress++] progressdata.cc(report):89 {#104|} END 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media] RepoProvideFile.cc(provideFile):307 provideFile at /var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update/noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [Ruby] modules/PackageCallbacks.rb(DoneProvide):245 DoneProvide: 0, , firewall-macros 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <2> Elesar(20671) [Ruby] modules/PackageCallbacks.rb(DoneProvide):273 DoneProvide: unknown error '0' 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp] PackageProvider.cc(providePackage):513 provided Package (114846)firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch(repo-sle-update) at /var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update/noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp] PackageProvider.cc(providePackage):412 provide Package (118443)kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch(repo-sle-update) 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp++] DeltaCandidates.cc(deltaRpms):82 package: (118443)kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch(repo-sle-update) 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media] RepoProvideFile.cc(provideFile):241 [1]./noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm{243.3 MiB|sha256-d846a4a491b5f086ad331e8509681819bc080a9564ac18925218a9a5e5234638|} 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher++] Fetcher.cc(addCachePath):331 Adding fetcher cache: '/var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update'. 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media] RepoProvideFile.cc(provideFile):260 Added cache path /var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media] RepoProvideFile.cc(provideFile):294 Providing file of repo 'repo-sle-update' fromhttp://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/ 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] RepoProvideFile.cc(setVerifierForRepo):203 No media verifier for repo 'repo-sle-update' media.1/media does not exist in '/var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-sle-update' 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher] Fetcher.cc(downloadAndReadIndexList):705 No indexes to read. 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher] Fetcher.cc(locateInCache):362 start fetcher with 1 cache directories. 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher] Fetcher.cc(provideToDest):533 Not found in cache, retrieving... 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher++] MediaSetAccess.cc(provide):278 Going to try to provide file ./noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm from media number 1 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaManager.cc(checkDesired):155 checkDesired(30): desired (cached) 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1336 dest: /var/tmp/AP_0xbwLBVf/noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1337 temp: /var/tmp/AP_0xbwLBVf/noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm.new.zypp.6waHyf 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1177 ./noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1187 URL: http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/noarch/kernel-firmware-20… 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1375 HTTP response: 200 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <5> Elesar(20671) [zypp-core] Exception.cc(log):186 MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1433 THROW: Multicurl enabled but not enough mirrors provided 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1177 ./noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1187 URL: http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/noarch/kernel-firmware-20… 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp-curl++] curlhelper.cc(log_redirects_curl):117 redirecting to Location: https://rsync.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/noarch/kernel-firmware-2021… Now it is going at normal speeds. - -- Cheers Carlos E. 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Unplanned reboot fried sound card?
by Michael Fischer 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Today I had the pleasure of my computer shutting down without warning. It came back up mostly fine, except that my sound card no longer seems to work. It is recognized in Yast, and thinks it is the primary card, yet the (amp, speakers) do not seem to get a signal from it. `aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav` or a video from a browser now send sound to a small builtin speaker on the computer. Is it possible to determine if the card itself is destroyed? Clearly yast, etc. still recognize it. OpenSuSe 15.2 $ hwinfo --sound 06: PCI 300.0: 0403 Audio device [Created at pci.386] Unique ID: svHJ.aI0zRHBQWr8 Parent ID: 1GTX.zL18kkxawk9 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0 Hardware Class: sound Model: "Creative SB1570 SB Audigy Fx" Vendor: pci 0x1102 "Creative Labs" Device: pci 0x0012 "Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-Series]" SubVendor: pci 0x1102 "Creative Labs" SubDevice: pci 0x0010 "SB1570 SB Audigy Fx" Revision: 0x01 Driver: "snd_hda_intel" Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel" Memory Range: 0x91104000-0x91107fff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0x91100000-0x91103fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (4676 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00001102d00000012sv00001102sd00000010bc04sc03i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel" Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #21 (PCI bridge) Thanks. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael(a)visv.net

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thunderbird not forwarding messages with yahoo mail
by George from the tribe 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Howdy, I have some email that comes in through a yahoo email account that I want to set up automatic forwarding to a different email account. Can't do that on yahoo anymore, as they removed that feature for free accounts. So I wanted to do that in thunderbird by setting up a filter that automatically forwards certain emails coming into that account. Problem is, when it tries to forward the emails, it tries to login to yahoo separately and something goes wrong... there is no problem with me manually forwarding all of those emails, but I can't get it to work on the automatic forward. It says that it fails to login, so I have to click that to acknowledge the failure, then it asks me for a new password, even though the old password works for regular email us. Any ideas? -- George Box: TW | Plasma 5 | AMD Ryzen 9 | 64 | 32GB Laptop: TW | Plasma 5 | Intel EVO | 64 | 32GB

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Need a new hard disk.
by Carlos E. R. 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Hi, One of my 4TB disks in my miniserver is failing. Unrecoverable errors, says smartctl, and growing. I have disconnected it till I get a replacement. And here are my doubts. Looking at Seagate at my local supplier, 4 to 6 TB, I see a variety and higher prices than I remember. <https://www.pccomponentes.com/discos-duros/3-5-pulgadas/4-tb/5-tb/6-tb/hdd-…> Seagate Exos 7E8 3.5" 6TB SATA 3/SAS 258,69€ Seagate IronWolf NAS 6TB 3.5" SATA3 172,26€ Seagate IronWolf Pro NAS 3.5" 6TB SATA3 250,62€ Seagate SkyHawk 6TB 3.5" SATA3 (svlnc) 151,38€ Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 6TB SATA 3 144,84€ 24€/TB Seagate Exos 7E8 3.5" 4TB SATA3 199,87€ Seagate IronWolf NAS 4TB SATA3 104,05€ Seagate IronWolf Pro 4TB NAS 144,09€ Seagate SkyHawk 4TB 3.5" SATA3 (svlnc) 96,93€ Seagate BarraCuda 3.5" 4TB SATA3 81,53€ 20.3€/TB * I believe I have the last one (model ST4000DM000) - it is powered off, can't look details except on the logs. The 6TB version of such disk is quite more expensive per gigabyte. The questions is, what advantages or disadvantages has each family? It is confusing. (If you know of a link with a comparison of them, that would be wonderful ;-) ) Western Digital: WD Purple 3.5" 6TB SATA3, surveillance 150,91€ WD NAS Red 6TB SATA3 159,01€ Western Digital Blue 6TB 3.5" SATA3 167,06€ WD Red Plus 3.5" 6TB NAS SATA 3 172,19€ WD Purple 3.5" 6 TB SATA3, surveill. 190,49€ WD Purple 3.5" 6TB SATA 3, surveill. 191,83€ I guess I don't want a surveillance unit. A NAS unit? :-? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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optional updates in Leap
by gumb 20 Mar '22

20 Mar '22

I see in YaST Online Update (Leap 15.3) currently three items in the Optional category with similar descriptions, e.g. openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-781 - Optional update for SUSE Package Hub This optional update provides the following changes: - Provide binaries for non x86_64 architectures directly to SUSE Package Hub. - There are no visible changes for the final user. - Affected source packages: MozillaThunderbird, enigmail References: MSC-303 (jira) : https://jira.suse.com/browse/MSC-303 --------- I don't really understand what the implication is here. I'm on x86_64, so is it suggesting that other non-x86_64 packages have been added that weren't there before, and there's some minor version numbering difference or something that forces my existing installed packages to see some kind of upgrade, even though it isn't a real upgrade? I don't know what to make of it otherwise. gumb

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