openSUSE Users April 2022

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28 discussions

Upgrade of 15.3 to 15.4 (beta? rc?) went fine

by cagsm

Users, upgrading online some 15.3 to 15.4 just today (beta? rc?) via zypper and golbal parameter --releasever=15.4 went fine over here with a rather simple test system. Too bad 15.4 is very conservative and old in various software versions and so on. Is a tumbleweed more suited when not wanting to risk stability and not opting in for data loss? ty

2 days, 18 hours

TW fish filesystem bug in Dolphin.

by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE

TW fish filesystem bug in dolphin. Dolphin tries to open directories such as conf.d as a regular file when clicked on. Navigating via the address bar works fine. The underlying sshfs fused filesystem is working fine i.e. F4 open terminal in Dolphin and changing directory works fine. How to reproduce: 1. Open fish://server.com/some-dir/ 2. Open directory with .d extension by clicking Expected result; directory opens in dolphin Observed result; dolphin tries to open the directory as a regular file. Regards, Ariez ajv(a)opensuse.org

1 week

Perl modules install with RPM versus CPAN

by Bill Merriam

When something I am installing requires a list of perl modules I have to figure out how to install them. I first have to search the rpm repositories for the module. If the module is available in rpm repositories I can use zypper to install it. Other times I have to use CPAN to install it. Does anyone know of a script that will install a list of modules by searching for it and installing from the necessary location? Bill

1 week, 5 days

[opensuse] Memtest & UEFI

by James Knott

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

2 weeks

External USB disks not recognized - Leap 15.3

by Per Inge Oestmoen

Hello. I use openSUSE Leap 15.3. Trouble is, when I attach USB sticks from 16-128 GB there are no problems. They are mounted and read immediately upon being attached. When I attach large external USB disks, there is a different story. The disks most often do not show up. Sometimes they do, but most times I must read the disks (formatted with EXT4, FAT32 and EXFAT) on a Mac laptop in order to access them. Which, admittedly, makes me ashamed. The question is why this happens. To elucidate the problem, I have typed fdisk -l and dmesg, and the results are in the links below. I shall be extremely thankful if you can have a look at these outputs and see if you can spot the source of my problem. If these files do not provide a clue, please tell me what commands I should try next. In both cases, an external disk was attached. However, the system failed to see it. The fdisk -l output: http://www.coldsiberia.net/technics/fdisk_l_21042022.txt The dmesg output: http://www.coldsiberia.net/technics/dmesg_21042022.txt Sincerely, Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway

3 weeks, 3 days

Zoom on Tumbleweed

by Peter Suetterlin

Hi list, is anyone else having issues with the latest zoom (5.10.0-2450) on Tumbleweed? It keeps crashing on me, directly at start, even the crash report form doesn't stay on screen, but vanishes before I can type in anything.

3 weeks, 6 days

TW: mutt no longer showing special characters

by Peter Suetterlin

Hi list, Since one of the latest updates of my TW computers(*) mutt (running in XTerm, but it's the same in konsole) no longer is showing special characters (like accented ones). Are others seeing that, too? Any hints what to look for? I didn't change any of my settings... (*) one is running TW20220421/mutt 2.2.3, the other one TW20220419/mutt 2.1.5 With LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 I get, e.g., "ZurÃ¼ck", LANG=en_DE.UTF-8 displays it as two questionmarks, "Zur??ck"

3 weeks, 6 days

on 15.4: any new fancy additional or differings repos?

by cagsm

I remember making the switch from 15.2 to 15.3, it was very messy in the early days in the rc stages or something, or at least me, I was not aware that there were those brand new backports and sle-update repos coming in additionally to those standard repos ever since until 15.2 days. so here is the question, are we getting another set of new additional or completely differing repo addresses on 15.4? anything to be aware of? where can one find such elementary changes and stuff if such stuff happens except for going for a clean install on clean new hardware and first observing and looking through all sorts of things there, and then manually "backporting" such stuff as addl repo urls to other existing but aged opensuse installs? ty.

4 weeks

[oS-en] patch:openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-1273-1.noarch conflicts with 'libSDL-devel.x86_64

by Carlos E. R.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 #### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2022-04-22 22:07:07 #### the to be installed patch:openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-1273-1.noarch conflicts with 'libSDL-devel.x86_64 < 1.2.15-150000.3.19.1' provided by the installed libSDL-devel-1.2.15-lp153.93.2.x86_64 [ ] Following actions will be done: install libSDL-devel-1.2.15-150000.3.19.1.x86_64 from vendor SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/> replacing libSDL-devel-1.2.15-lp153.93.2.x86_64 from vendor obs://build.opensuse.org/games install libSDL-1_2-0-1.2.15-150000.3.19.1.x86_64 from vendor SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/> replacing libSDL-1_2-0-1.2.15-lp153.97.1.x86_64 from vendor obs://build.opensuse.org/games [ ] do not install patch:openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-1273-1.noarch #### YaST2 conflicts list END ### What is this, in plain language? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYmMPCRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVw9IAn3Uk2Dkxu8hXs4KVbFjI WYRO8ZTaAJ44PBYGjGKSpellmXUkQryvnhsPzw== =i3EC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

1 month

autofs mounts don't show symlinks

by Marc Chamberlin

Hi - If I mount a filesystem, from a different computer system on my local network, on my laptop using autofs (automount actually), where samba exported cifs shares from the other remote system, I run into a snag. How do I get ls -al or the abbreviated for - ll to show me both a link name and the file/dir being pointed at, in the same way of using ls -al or ll on a local file system shows me symlinks? For example if I use ll (or ls -al) to show me the contents of directory on my laptop - marcslaptop:/srv/bacula #ll total 32 drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Aug 16 2020 etc_bacula5.2 drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Aug 16 2020 etc_bacula7.4 drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Jun 23 2021 etc_bacula9.0.3 drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Apr 4 16:41 etc_bacula9.6.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bacula 15 Apr 3 18:21 etc_SYMLINK-> etc_bacula9.6.6 drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Apr 4 16:43 etc_systemd_system lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bacula 56 Aug 16 2020 README-> /home/marc/Documents/System Notes/Linux/Bacula_notes.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bacula 41 Apr 3 20:11 usr_lib_systemd_system_bacula-fd.service_SYMLINK-> /usr/lib/systemd/system/bacula-fd.service drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Apr 4 16:44 usr_lib_tmpfiles.d drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Apr 3 20:26 usr_sbin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bacula 17 Oct 4 2020 var_spool_bacula_SYMLINK-> /var/spool/bacula drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Aug 16 2020 working_bacula5.0 Note that all the entries in this directory, that are symlinks, the ll or ls -al commands show both the name of the symlink and the path that the symlink follows to the target of the symlink. I use autofs to mount various samba (cifs) file systems under /mnt/samba/SuSE/<system name>/<remote file system> My autofs automounter maps, on my laptop, look something like this for mounting shares from a remote system named bigbang - rootdir -fstype=cifs,rw,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,credentials=/etc/smb.auth ://bigbang/rootdir srv -fstype=cifs,rw,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,credentials=/etc/smb.auth ://bigbang/srv But if I show this same directory, by following an automount to another system (named bigbang here) and then follow an automount path back to my laptop to show the above /srv/bacula directory, I get the following display that does not show the symlinked paths - marcslaptop:/srv/bacula #ll /mnt/samba/SuSE/bigbang/rootdir/mnt/samba/SuSE/marcslaptop/srv/bacula total 20 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Aug 16 2020 etc_bacula5.2 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Aug 16 2020 etc_bacula7.4 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Jun 23 2021 etc_bacula9.0.3 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 4 16:41 etc_bacula9.6.6 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 4 16:41 etc_SYMLINK drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 4 16:43 etc_systemd_system -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13616 Mar 1 20:52 README -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1411 Apr 3 21:33 usr_lib_systemd_system_bacula-fd.service_SYMLINK drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 4 16:44 usr_lib_tmpfiles.d drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 3 20:26 usr_sbin drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 5 02:20 var_spool_bacula_SYMLINK drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Aug 16 2020 working_bacula5.0 I used this example to somewhat dramatically illustrate the problem, but following a single automount point and displaying a remote directory also does not show symlink paths. Where I am really having problems is when I use Beyond Compare to compare files and directories on both a local filesystem and a remote filesystem accessed via an automount point. It is critical to know when I am working with a symlink on a remote filesystem, otherwise Beyond Compare is blind to them and can easily clobber and ruin a remote system by overwriting a symlink. AFAIK Beyond Compare is being blinded by the automount system dropping the symlink information. Hope I have been clear and hopefully some nice guru with have a magic incantation I can use to solve this issue. Google has not been my friend on this issue! Thanks as always in advance for helping me... 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 OpenPGP electronic signature is added as an attachment. 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 OpenPGP 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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