May 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

had thought 15.4 was rc in end of april 2022 already, today I read lck post on factory
by cagsm 15 May '22

15 May '22

Users, was wondering when comparing opensuse roadmap article on opensuse wiki <https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap> with todays lck post on factory list <https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/…> that they are still > Waiting for RC build of Leap 15.4 goldmaster code submission was yesterday or something. ty

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15.4 Beta - libreoffice-calc opens maximized, crashes when maximize removed, writer - okay
by David C. Rankin 15 May '22

15 May '22

All, Fresh install of 15.4 Beta and libreoffice. All apps, writer, calc, etc.. open full-screen on first run. Writer can be un-maximized (restored) without any issue, but attempting to restore calc crashes. The crash occurs regardless of whether you use the restore button (top-right titlebar next to close) or use the window menu (top-left titlebar and uncheck the "maximize" options) Before I write a bug on it, can somebody else confirm the behavior? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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15.4 Beta - /dev/sda and /dev/sdb swap drives (drive persistence problem)
by David C. Rankin 14 May '22

14 May '22

All, Looking for help or suggestions on this one. I have run 2 drives in my laptop for 4+ years. Drive persistence has never been an issue. Regardless of whether sda was Windows and sdb opensuse or sda Arch and sdb opensuse. However, after an install of 15.4 Beta to /dev/sda with 15.0 still in /dev/sdb, the drives swap on rebooting 15.4. This is really, really weird. I install 15.4 on /dev/sda and then after reboot, 15.4 pops up mounted on /dev/sdb and 15.0 has been swapped to /dev/sda. The system doesn't care as all drive ID is by uuid for the system, but for short mount scripts I have that use sda/sdb, I'm having to rewrite those to use uuid as well. I've never had a BIOS Boot partition on anything other than 15.4 before, so I don't know if that contributes (I can see why it would). Is there anything anyone can think of that would make 15.4 more prone to cause drive label persistence problems more than any release before? While the 15.4 install didn't modify the 15.0 on sdb, it did include a chainload for it in grub installed for 15.4. What makes little sense is after running with swapped drives and a shutdown, the drives will pop up in the right order on power-on (but not always). Any body have any idea on this one? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Dell Precision 7560 With Tumbleweed
by Sean Marlow 13 May '22

13 May '22

Hi, I have a Dell Precision 7560 machine that is running Tumbleweed. It has an Nvidia GPU but I've had no luck getting drivers to load. Curious if anyone else has a similar machine and has found a solution here. I've tried both the Nvidia proprietary drivers and also nouveau both with no luck. Initally I had the system setup using secure boot. When the drivers installed they were not creating the MOK keypair and thus on reboot there's no way to add the keypair to the MOK database. Since then I've disabled secure boot and tried reinstalling both drivers (separately) and still the drivers do load at boot. Any ideas how to get the drivers to load. For now I have an unusable GPU and thus an unusable HDMI port. I have already changed the boot mode to (slow) to load all drivers. This was required to get the openSUSE installer to boot. And I'm following the steps according to [1]. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers Thanks, Sean

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15.4 install to 2nd Drive - How to Insure YAST does NOT mess with Windows on /dev/sda?
by David C. Rankin 12 May '22

12 May '22

All, This really asks -- what is the default behavior for YAST if it sees Windows on sda with os_prober? I do NOT want YAST to touch the window drive, I don't want the boot sector modified, I don't want grub put there, I don't want chainloaded options for dual-boot, etc... With either 423 or 15.0 I have YAST think it was okay to modify the windows install and put grub there with options to chainload windows (which was hell finding out how to restore the boot loader on Windows (I don't want to be thrown into that briar-patch again -- ouch) So if I'm installing to sdb, and windows is sda, what do I need to do to tell YAST not to touch sda? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Perl modules install with RPM versus CPAN
by Bill Merriam 12 May '22

12 May '22

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

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HELP please
by Stevens 12 May '22

12 May '22

System: Ryzen 7 2700X, 32GB RAM, GTX-1060 w/3GB, KDE Plasma 3.12.8, Kernel 4.12.14 I have a GP106 sound device (actually, I have a video card which has HDMI output) and I assume the GP106 is the way to send audio via the HDMI. Whatever the case may be, my problem is that some time earlier this year the $#@!& system started defaulting to HDMI-2 instead of HDMI-1, which kills the sound to my speakers. I can go to Configure Desktop in the Settings menu, Audio Volume, Advanced and change the device profile from Digital Stereo (HDMI2) to Digital Stereo (HDMI1) and it starts working and will until the desktop changes, then it changes back to HDMI2 profile. I cannot find where the default profile is stored and there is no option to apply the change when I make it. I have spent a lot of time looking and now I am down to asking for help. Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks in advance. Fred

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NEW 15.4 Beta - Why is GCC 7.5 so OLD?
by David C. Rankin 12 May '22

12 May '22

All, Installed 15.4 beta and was surprised to find gcc at --version 7.5 (gcc 12.0 is current), 8.3 came on my RaspberryPi 3B+ a couple of years ago. The problem is this, 15.0 has 7.2, barely has full C++17 support, C++20 is current and 23 is just around the corner. There is virtually no C++20 support in the gcc 7 release: https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html Before I installed 15.4, I browsed the repo and there was gcc-7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 available, but Yast during 15.4 install only shows 7.5 and does not show any alternative versions. I really do not want to have two differing versions of gcc installed (no good comes from that), but don't see getting much mileage out of gcc 7.5 when C++20 is needed. Any chance gcc will get an update before the 15.4 release (gcc 11 is fine, no need to jump on the bleeding edge of 12). If not, is there a safe way to have a non-conflicting gcc install generally available in a 15.4 install? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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15.3 KDE network manager -- no persistent IPv6 address
by James Knott 11 May '22

11 May '22

I run OpenSUSE 15.3 on a notebook computer, with network manager for configuring IP. One thing I've noticed is there do not appear to be any persistent IPv6 addresses. Normally, with SLAAC, there is 1 persistent address, based on either the MAC address or a random number. There can then be up to 7 privacy addresses, depending on how long the computer has been running. Without a persistent address, DNS can't be used to reach it. Is it possible to enable a persistent address with the network manager? tnx jk

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vncserver or: how to make a useful tool useless
by Peter Suetterlin 09 May '22

09 May '22

Hi, I have a script that starts a vncserver session on a remote machine, sets up a ssh port redirect and connects to that with vncviewer. It no longer works :( (on Tumbleweed) The reason I found is speedy:~% rpm -q --changelog xorg-x11-Xvnc * Thu Feb 17 2022 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch(a)suse.com> - n_vncserver.patch * fix location of Xsession script - vncserver usage has radically changed; please check this: https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/blob/master/unix/vncserver/HOWTO.md In short, instead of creating sessions on the fly, everything has to be pre-defined, restricted to *one* session per user, and launched via systemctl. Of course only as root..... Sorry, but I find this "improvement" a complete desaster in userfriendliness :(((

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