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[opensuse] LABEL : using tune2fs to create swap partition label
by ellanios82 10 Jul '24

10 Jul '24

Hello List . what please is correct syntax to create label for swap partition : - am getting error : " tune2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open swap Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock " .............. thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Project management software question for project managers
by Ted Byers 29 May '24

29 May '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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Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 17 May '24

17 May '24

I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say about the free SuSE "Installation support". The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as /media/recorder11. I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and longer, and not leave the problems to the customers. I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has fitted the limited rules for the free installation support. Terje J. Hanssen

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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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How to set default window manager for auto login?
by Siard 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

I have Tumbleweed with the MATE desktop and autologin enabled, and also installed the Openbox WM. Now how could I autologin into Openbox instead of MATE? In YaST's /etc/sysconfig editor, in Desktop > Window manager > DEFAULT_WM, the possible values are: default, gnome, plasma5, lxde, xfce, twm, icewm, enlightenment or 'any value'. So openbox is not among the options, and if I enter 'openbox', it has no effect. I also tried 'update-alternatives --config default-xsession.desktop' as suggested in the sysconfig editor, but then I can only opt for mate.desktop or icewm-session.desktop.

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Updating glibc and filesystem on Tumbleweed
by Roger Oberholtzer 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

I have a server running Tumbleweed. It is a bit behind in terms of updates for reasons that are not relevant to my question (a Python 2-based server I don't dare mess up). I want to update a library with a package from OBS. That package has been built with a newer version of glibc. So zypper wants to update glibc as well. And a couple others like filesystem. My Tumbleweed is before the lib move. I guess glibc usually contains support for older versions. I have 2.30, it wants to update to 2.35. An update such as this seems plausible. But the filesystem update seems odd in that I would have expected many more things to need to be updated when the move happened. I know that there are links in place that should help. Still... I have snapper enabled. So maybe I can try and see what happens. But I'm not sure about this one. Any thoughts? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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fix scope problem with variable in bash script
by kf 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Obviously I've reduced and rewitten it to better point out the problem in this script. The question is, how should the variable "count" be declared so that it isn't treated as two, completely different variables (with exactly the same name)? If you want to try to run it, it takes a filename as an commandline argument. ======================== #!/bin/bash #How to declare the variable "count"??? count=0 cat $1 | while read line do count=$((count+1)) echo -n "$count " done echo echo File $1 has $count lines. ======================== Thanks.

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The future of OpenSUSE Leap (rant)
by Nicolas Kovacs 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Hi, I'm the manager of a small IT firm with a focus on Linux and Open Source software. On my servers I'm running a mix of various RHEL clones like CentOS, Oracle Linux and Rocky Linux. On the desktop side, I've been using OpenSUSE Leap with KDE since version 15.0. Leap is powering all the desktop clients in our local school, and everybody (school staff, teachers, students) is very happy with it. I just finished polishing up my bone-headed post-install configuration script for Leap 15.4: https://gitlab.com/kikinovak/opensuse-lp154/-/blob/main/setup.sh And I just learned that SUSE will phase out Leap after the 15.5 release. So here's a few thoughts I want to share with the distribution maintainers. 1. Perennity anyone ? Duh ? 2. After the CentOS debacle in 2020, it looks like distribution maintainers love pissing off their userbase by pulling the rug from under their feet. Hint: we hate it. 3. Some official SUSE guy on Twitter who shall remain unnamed likes to explain on a regular basis that rolling releases are the future and folks who rely on releases are utterly clueless. As someone who tried to maintain a dozen production client desktops based on Arch Linux as far back as 2006 and failed miserably after a udev update broke everything, here's a thought from my professional experience. My Number One Fight Club rule: YOU DO NOT USE ROLLING RELEASES IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. Yes, I shouted that out loud. 4. Yes, I have Tumbleweed running on a spare sandbox PC. Yes, it works nicely. No, I will never (ever) use it in production. 5. Stop reinventing the wheel please. You young punks remind me of myself when I was three years old and tried to "repair" my parent's perfectly functional alarm clock. Cheers from the blazing hot South of France, Niki Kovacs (https://tinyurl.com/2p8tk495) -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info(a)microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12

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Bacula installation fails
by Marc Chamberlin 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Hi - I am running OpenSuSE 15.4 and I tried to install Bacula from both of the Community Repositories set up with YaST 1-click installers - > https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=bacula&project=home%… > https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=bacula&project=home%… and both of these gave me a whole lot of error messages such as - > An error occurred while initializing the software repository. > Details: > https-download.opensuse.org-ecf8b775: > [https-download.opensuse.org-ecf8b775|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP1:/GA/pool/] > Valid metadata not found at specified URL > History: > - > [https-download.opensuse.org-ecf8b775|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP1:/GA/pool/] > Repository type can't be determined. > > Try again? I don't know what protocols I should be following if/when I want to use a Community Repository to get a package from, nor do I grok how to submit a bug report against them. (to my untrained eyes this error message doesn't look like something I can handle from my end either!) So.... how do I download and install bacula on my system? As always, thanks in advance for helping me with this problem! Marc C -- *"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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