March 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

alternative to rpm package groups
by Istvan Gabor 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hello: Previously I asked what happened to rpm package groups in yast package manager. The answer was that is had been removed. What alternative can I use to find packages that belong to a certain category, for example network/ftp or graphics/viewers etc? I copy here part of my previous question to make it clear what I am talking about: In previous openSUSE/SuSE versions (eg in 13.1) there was an rpm group list option in yast package manager/view tab pulldown menu. It showed a list of rpm groups in a very detailed manner where I could show/hide groups and subgroups like directories and files in a file manager. For example: +Amusement +Games +3D Other Race Shoot Simulation +Action Arcade Breakout First Person Shootes Other Race Shoot +Board ... ... Applications +Arciving +Client etc. Thanks, Istvan

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How to repair OpenSuSE?
by Marc Chamberlin 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hello, I have an openSuSE 15.2 x64 system which somehow managed to lose it's boot directory and perhaps a few other system files, I dunno. So it no longer boots up. I managed to restore it, using a live USB stick, a bit to the point where I could get it to boot to a command prompt but not to the point where I could use the network. Something about firewalld and dbus not starting was keeping me from getting any further. So I decided to try an repair the installation from a regular installation USB stick. I thought OpenSuSE used to supply a repair option but was unable to find it on either the live or the installation USB sticks. So I tried to use the upgrade option instead, but that did not repair or replace any existing files on my system, it just installed files that were needing to be upgraded from what was already installed. (just a few files were touched) And that actually made the system worse, I cannot even boot up to the command prompt for a single shell. Instead now the system goes into an endless cycle of error messages and will not boot up at all. So how does one repair OpenSuSE these days? Can I do it from a live CD? If so how? Thanks in advance, for all offers of help and advice! 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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Live USB stick and partitioner
by Marc Chamberlin 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hello - I keep encountering a problem that has occurred on all the 15.* version of OpenSuSE Live USB sticks, which I think may actually be a bug, but perhaps there is a workaround or a solution that I cannot find by Google. When I run a Live version of OpenSuSE I often want to use the YaST2 partitioner to mount partitions from an installed version of OpenSuSE that is on my hard drives. (I usually am trying to fix a problem that is preventing the disk installation from booting up) Trouble is, the YaST version of the partitioner (on the Live USB stick) complains that there is nothing mounted for the root directory "/" I don't grok this at all because the Live version does have something "mounted" for "/" but whatever is mounted does not show up in the YaST partitioner. Nor does fdisk - l show anything mounted for "/". I have tried mounting some other partition, including the root dir/partition for the disk installation of OpenSuSE, to satisfy this requirement but then I get into trouble because the live version thinks there are two mount points for "/" and often crashes. So my question is, how do I mount partitions from my disk drives when I am using a Live version of OpenSuSE? How do I handle the requirement that the YaST partitioner wants for mounting something as "/"? Thanks in advances for your time and help, 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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Re: Tumbleweed rescue upgrade: Product problem during update initialisation
by Knurpht-openSUSE 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Op dinsdag 15 maart 2022 19:20:29 CET schreef Peter Fodrek: > There seems not to be problem with repository but with removing product > Tumblewwed 20210523 I was to mention if there are corresponding files for > products as they exists for repositories Think I got it: the old entry for the install USB is still present. Look at the setup with zypper lr -d and you will see the repo index number. Do sudo zypper rr $repo index number -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team

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[oS-en] hp printers
by Carlos E. R. 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I noticed I have installed a long list of hp utilities: cer@Telcontar:~> hp-[TAB][TAB] hp-align hp-pkservice hp-check hp-plugin hp-clean hp-pqdiag hp-colorcal hp-print hp-config_usb_printer hp-printsettings hp-devicesettings hp-probe hp-diagnose_plugin hp-query hp-diagnose_queues hp-sendfax hp-doctor hp-setup hp-fab hp-systray hp-faxsetup hp-testpage hp-firmware hp-timedate hp-info hp-toolbox hp-levels hp-uninstall hp-linefeedcal hp-unload hp-logcapture hp-upgrade hp-makecopies hp-wificonfig hp-makeuri cer@Telcontar:~> hp- But they all fail: cer@Telcontar:~> hp-info HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.21.10) Device Information Utility ver. 5.2 Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. error: No device found that support this feature. cer@Telcontar:~> hp-toolbox gives some information as to why. It opens a GUI, then a popup says "no Installed HP Devices Found" - see photo: <https://susepaste.org/21567804> Now, I don't want to install a new printer, mine is installed and working. but notice what it says at the bottom: Note: Only devices installed with the hp: or hpfac: CUPS backend will appear in the HP Device Manager. What I have in CUPS is: Description: HP Color LaserJet CP1510 Series Postscript (recommended) Location: Red local Driver: HP Color LaserJet CP1510 Series Postscript (recommended) (color) Connection: socket://bilbo.valinor:9100 Defaults: job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm sides=one-sided Indeed, if I allow hp-toolbox to create a printer ((after dropping the firewall), it does so and it appears in all tools. And cups shows a new printer: Description: Created using hptoolbox Location: Driver: HP Color LaserJet CP1510 Series Postscript (recommended) (color) Connection: hp:/net/HP_Color_LaserJet_CP1515n?ip=192.168.1.3 Defaults: job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=one-sided Curious. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYih3Phwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVaZgAn0uOqQTj7HGV49ZZsfJB B5tWX7TUAJ0eXD+7GCV1CatpdE/h+lB/R0v03A== =/KhL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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HP 1109W printer not working OpenSuSE 15.2
by Carl Spitzer 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Though recognized and powered up it seems to be disabled. I have gone into Yast to delete it rerun detest and checked enabled. NOt sure what log to check for the error. CWSIV

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Gimp scripting - seeking help/scripter
by Daniel Bauer 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hello, it might be a bit off-topic, please excuse... I am looking for somebody who can write a small Gimp-Script for me (I'll pay for it, within reason). Ideally the script could also be called from bash. After looking in the Gimp scripting documentation and more pages I see that I'd need so much time to learn it that I rather continue to do the steps manually... I work everyday with Gimp on OpenSuse, and there are some simple basic steps I have to do with almost every image to retouch with what I believe is called "frequency-separation". There is a gmic filter that more or less does it, but it takes extremely long, I must set the parameters each time, and some I can't change, not even find out to what value they are set... The script should: 1. Open png-image 2: Duplicate layer twice (to have 3 identical layers) 3: Turn off visibility of bottom layer 4: Apply Gaussian blur on the middle layer with value 15 5: Set top layer to grain extract mode ("faser extrahieren") 6: Create new layer from visible 7: Delete the layer set to grain extract before 8: Set the new top layer to grain extract mode 9: Put top and middle layer in a new layers group, visible 10: Turn on visibility of bottom layer 11: Make blurred layer (second/bottom in layers group) active 12: Save as xcf with same file name in same folder I would like to have this script available to click within Gimp, but it would be fantastic when I could use it also from bash, so that I can let it run on all files in a folder, for example. Can anybody help - or point me to a place where I could find it? Thanks! Daniel -- -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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Howto make the switch to OpenSuSE on the desktop as a primary system?
by cagsm 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hello list, non-desktop user of Linux here. How to best switch over to OpenSuSE on the desktop for daily normal gui life on the desktop? So far only on windows. I have a physical windows machine, I run gui and applications on it. The machine stays running. I lock the screen desktop. I return to the machine physically and have all my stuff running or available. Being remotely, what I often do in Windows ist tunnel to the windows machine via SSH means, and then remote desktop (microsoft rdp client) or VNC to the machine as a secondary means if needed. How do I make the switch over for this primary windows system into the linux desktop world? Occasionally I ssh to remote linux machines and use x11vnc and a vnc client to grab the real display:0 kind of physical screen pixel output of the linux machine and make it visible at my local place (also mostly being windows machines currently). X11vnc is often really sluggish on some targets even though the round trip time and the bandwidth allows plenty, I have not fugured out why the huge delays on certain x11vnc sessions happen. Anyways. How would I switch over from so far working on windows (normal firefox, mails/thunderbird, office documents related stuff) to a linux opensuse main machine. Reaching the windows or linux machine network wise via ssh tunnel is okay and dealt with i guess. How do I get my pixels to my off-site physical machine the best ways? I remember x11-servers and names of some such tools on windows from days back when hummingbird exceed or similar stuff. What would be the best practices to simply be able to access the screen of a linux machine from nearly anywhere from remotely in safe and sound means? That x11vnc attempt doesnt seem right to me. I read about newer concepts such as x2go, nomachines' nx and other stuff. . I also know about such stuff as teamviewer, anydesk and various vnc types and dialects. Also I read about that one can add some rdp (microsoft kind-of rdp server to the linux machine) and use normal rdp clients to connect to. Maybe I am going down the wrong road or doing things not in a fancy way. Thanks for insight.

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PostgreSQL 14.2
by Simon Connah 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Hi, I've just started a project using PostgreSQL and have noticed that the latest version in Tumbleweed is 14.1, but there was a patch to 14.2 on the 10th of February. Is there a reason why PostgreSQL has not been updated to the latest version at all? Is there anything I can do to help if there is a problem? Simon.

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HP 1109W printer not working OpenSuSE 15.2
by Carl Spitzer {L Juno} 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

Though recognized and powered up it seems to be disabled. I have gone into Yast to delete it rerun detest and checked enabled. NOt sure what log to check for the error. CWSIV

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