April 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Tumbleweed update
by Roger Oberholtzer 14 Apr '22

14 Apr '22

I have a Tumbleweed system that was last updated Oct 2019. I am running Trac (https://trac.edgewall.org/), which has been slow to move to Python 3 - and it is just about there now. I did not want to chance messing up the Python 2 setup that has been working fine. So, I abstained from updating until the dust settled. Given the amount of time that has passed, is it reasonable to expect that an update in the near future would work? I worry about things like the /usr/lib64 move. And probably other things that have been rather big. All done at once. Has anyone else left such a big time between Tumbleweed updates? I do not generally do that with my other Tumbleweed systems. This was a special case. I am using this system in production. So I know, do a backup. Everything of interest is on a separate (from the OS) RAID volume. I might disconnect that during the update. I have generally been lucky. I am running snapper. Aside from a couple small installs of some packages, thee main snapshot is from Oct 2019. I do not want it to be removed. It is rather old. I guess I need to check the rules for this to be sure it won't be removed as part of a cleanup. Anything else to think of? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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Tumbleweed update
by Roger Oberholtzer 14 Apr '22

14 Apr '22

I have a Tumbleweed system that was last updated Oct 2019. I am running Trac (https://trac.edgewall.org/), which has been slow to move to Python 3 - and it is just about there now. I did not want to chance messing up the Python 2 setup that has been working fine. So, I abstained from updating until the dust settled. Given the amount of time that has passed, is it reasonable to expect that an update in the near future would work? I worry about things like the /usr/lib64 move. And probably other things that have been rather big. All done at once. Has anyone else left such a big time between Tumbleweed updates? I do not generally do that with my other Tumbleweed systems. This was a special case. I am using this system in production. So I know, do a backup. Everything of interest is on a separate (from the OS) RAID volume. I might disconnect that during the update. I have generally been lucky. I am running snapper. Aside from a couple small installs of some packages, thee main snapshot is from Oct 2019. I do not want it to be removed. It is rather old. I guess I need to check the rules for this to be sure it won't be removed as part of a cleanup. Anything else to think of? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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[a little OT] old cal sunday-first-day behavior
by David T-G 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, all -- I just found on my LEAP 15.{1,2} boxes that cal(1) defaults to Monday as the first day of the week. While this can be changed with -s (Sunday), it is inconvenient. There is also a -m (Monday) flag to set the current behavior. Without getting into flame wars of which is "right", does anyone know of an environment variable that will set Sunday as the default, or (short of writing a wrapper, which is stupid) is there another way to accomplish the original behavior, or is there an alternate RPM install that sets it, or ... do I just have to rebuild from scratch? TIA :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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Best place to ask for help with current mailing list account?
by -pj 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, this past week on Friday I sent a message to support(a)lists.opensuse.org regarding an issue I am having with my mailing list account after I removed my OpenID from within (which I should not have done). I have not heard a response back as of yet. So I decided to ask here as to the best place to resend the message if possible. I would prefer not to create yet another account on openSUSE mailing lists with yet another username. After reading Per Jessens mailing Re: List switched to "reject posts from non-subscribers" I was looking over my mailing list account etc.... Thanks for all your work with openSUSE also.

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Re: how to prevent /etc/profile.d/ files from returning
by David T-G 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, all! My, how time flies ... It's been a year since I last wrestled with this! ...and then davidtg-robot(a)justpickone.org said... % % ...and then L A Walsh said... % % % % On 2021/03/14 18:34, David T-G wrote: % % >Is there any way to keep them from being dropped again so that I don't % % >have to deal with this over and over? *sigh* % ... % % % % So...I set the immutable bit on the problematic files. % % So far, that's kept them intact. % [snip] % ... % % Time to go learn something :-) So I went and learned and played and eventually played davidtg@jpo:~> lsattr /etc/profile.d/ls.bash ----i-------------- /etc/profile.d/ls.bash with some of these keep-coming-back files. They were empty and stayed that way; yay. Except that I actually stood at the keyboard in the closet and paid attention to updates one day and found that various ones threw failures because they couldn't tweak these files. Dang it! No, I don't want failing updates; it's hard enough to make sure things stay current. I guess we're back to adding ls.bash.off that figures out what's in the original file and undoes it as part of the login process *sigh* There really oughta be a better way. Maybe in Leap 16, I heard in the old thread ... Have a great day! :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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how to read reiserfs on 15.3? What to do with "old" backups?
by Daniel Bauer 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

I know reiserfs was removed from 15.3. Still I have many TB external disks with Reiserfs (encrypted). I can't read them right now. First question: How can I read those backups? libreiserfscore0 and reiserfs are installed, but plugging such a disk leads to a message "unknown file system". What else do I need to install? Second question: What do I do with those encrypted Reiserfs backups? Do I really have to copy all that tremendous amount of data to other disks, newly format the original one, and copy back? (I have a laptop with 15.2 where I still can read them) Is there another way? Copying all those TB would take me about a week, I guess... Thanks for any ideas. Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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KWallet & PAM?
by James Knott 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

I have KWallet storing some passwords and every time it's called, I have to enter the wallet password. I believe that the login password can be used automatically, using PAM. How is this set up? I'm running Leap 15.3 & KDE. tnx jk

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is open-suse 15.1 firefox 78.7 really outdated?
by Daniel Bauer 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Using Firefox 78.7.0esr (64 bit) on Opensuse 15.1 on several websites (tumblr, a bank, some others) I get a message like "You are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge." Are the programmers of those sites stupid or is my OS 15.1 so very outdated? (I restrain from updating/upgrading because of the huge amount of work that a new install brings with it [direct upgrades haven't worked for me in the past, left a lot of confusion in /home in app properties of changed versions etc., and because of some missing programs in the new versions, like support for my many reiserfs backup disks) -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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