July 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Getting started with Wine
by Siard 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Having only a few 32-bit Windows applications, I installed wine-32bit in TW. But whatever I try with wine, I get these errors: $ wine ./<program>.exe err:environ:read_nls_file failed to load /usr/bin/../share/wine/nls/locale.nls err:environ:read_nls_file failed to load /usr/bin/../share/wine/nls/l_intl.nls wine: could not exec wineserver Has anybody succeeded in getting wine to work in TW?

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Tumbleweed + KDE: scripts for post-install configuration and upgrade
by Nicolas Kovacs 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Hi, I've been a happy user of OpenSUSE Leap since 15.1, but it looks like Tumbleweed gets all the love, so I decided to give it a spin. Here's my post-install configuration script to turn a vanilla Tumbleweed + KDE installation into a full-blown Linux desktop with all the bells and whistles: https://gitlab.com/kikinovak/opensuse I've also included a script to upgrade OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed, and I've tested it successfully on Leap 15.2, 15.3 and 15.4. Check out the detailed README on the page and post your requests and suggestions here. Cheers from the burning South of France, Niki -- 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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15.4 Gimp - Howto Open .heic files? Installed heif plugin -- still won't work?
by David C. Rankin 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

All, How do I open .heic files with gimp? The heif plugin is supposed to do it, but after installing, gimp doesn't recognize the format. All I really need to do is convert the damn things to .jpg, but openSUSE doesn't offer libheif-examples which contains heif-convert that does the job. I've built from github, but get an error: $ heif-convert IMG_6267.heic IMG_6267.jpg File contains 1 image Could not decode image: 0: Unsupported feature: Unsupported codec It is using the proper libheif: $ ldd ~/bin/heif-convert linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc2c8d5000) libheif.so.1 => /home/david/tmp/libheifbld/libheif/libheif.so.1 (0x00007fbb14ab1000) libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 (0x00007fbb1480a000) libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib64/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007fbb145c7000) libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007fbb143b0000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fbb13f9d000) libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fbb13c52000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fbb13a39000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fbb13644000) libaom.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libaom.so.3 (0x00007fbb12e80000) libdav1d.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libdav1d.so.5 (0x00007fbb12afd000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fbb14de5000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fbb128da000) libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fbb126d6000) Anybody have a way to either make gimp work of convert these files in 15.4? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Can't log into the forums
by Jon Cosby 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

I created a new account, but I can't log into the forums. I keep getting directed back to the idp portal. My credentials are accepted there, and I can log into the bug tracker. Who can I contact about this? Jon Cosby

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WiFi fails to authenticate several times.
by Jeffrey Taylor 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

I am using NetworkManager. When my laptop is opened after being suspended, it takes several minutes for the WiFi interface to come up. 'journalctl -f' reports several failed attempts to connect to the WiFi network: ul 17 08:48:27 viajero NetworkManager[1440]: <info> [1658065707.1758] device (wlan0): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Jul 17 08:48:27 viajero NetworkManager[1440]: <info> [1658065707.1762] device (wlan0): Activation: (wifi) access point 'Bearhouse' has security, but secrets are required. Jul 17 08:48:27 viajero NetworkManager[1440]: <info> [1658065707.1762] device (wlan0): state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Jul 17 08:48:27 viajero NetworkManager[1440]: <info> [1658065707.1765] sup-iface[0x55a80ad74130,wlan0]: wps: type pbc start... Jul 17 08:48:27 viajero NetworkManager[1440]: <info> [1658065707.2047] device (wlan0): supplicant interface state: ready -> disabled Jul 17 08:48:27 viajero NetworkManager[1440]: <warn> [1658065707.2060] device (wlan0): no secrets: No agents were available for this request. Jul 17 08:48:27 viajero NetworkManager[1440]: <info> [1658065707.2060] device (wlan0): state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Jul 17 08:48:27 viajero NetworkManager[1440]: <warn> [1658065707.2074] device (wlan0): Activation: failed for connection 'Bearhouse' Jul 17 08:48:27 viajero NetworkManager[1440]: <info> [1658065707.2077] device (wlan0): state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') I don't understand what is going on here, too many moving parts. What agent is missing? Sometimes the error message mentions authentication taking too long. Fixes and explanation is welcome, Jeffrey

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laptop battery charging stategy (Plasma)
by gumb 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

I've heard and read many a time over recent years that the way batteries should be charged has changed. I've always been someone who lets devices run right down as low as I can before charging them back up to 100%. With one or two exceptions, this strategy still seems to work remarkably well for me, regardless of what others say. My previous Nokia phone would run for days under each charge, my current Android one goes five days or more between charges (I'm a light phone user), but conscious of this continual hounding from random people who may or may not be tech-inclined, and having both a laptop and a phone that offer flexi-charging options, I decided maybe I should change that strategy. So following a similar setting I just made on the Android phone, I set the Flexi-charging option in my Clevo laptop BIOS. It only allows adjustments in increments of 10%, so I set the lower Start point to 50% and the upper Stop point to 90%. Though I have a laptop, I almost always use it sat at my desk with it plugged in and hooked up to a bigger monitor and other peripherals. I like the versatility of taking my main PC with me on the odd occasion I go and stay with friends or family, but I don't frequent cafés with wifi because I'm not a hipster, and I'm terribly uncomfortable having the laptop on my lap or anywhere else. So for most of its life, it is plugged in being constantly topped up to 100%. Once or month or so I try to unplug it and use it on battery to let the battery drain and refill. When I do that, the laptop invariably throws a fit and suddenly warns about critical battery level even though it's still at about 45%, and switches off within a few seconds. I get these weird messages in my notifications: Message from syslogd@linux at Jul 3 15:34:04 ... kernel:[ 87.166486][ C0] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 20 on CPU 0. Message from syslogd@linux at Jul 3 15:34:04 ... kernel:[ 87.166498][ C0] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? Message from syslogd@linux at Jul 3 15:34:04 ... kernel:[ 87.166500][ C0] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue I don't think there's anything strange about my power-saving settings, it seems more likely the continual charging fools something in the subsystem as regards the actual charge level. Using flexi-charging is supposed to make battery reporting LESS accurate, but it's clearly already problematic. And usually, once I plug the laptop back in, the charge level shows back at 45%. So now having changed the BIOS setting, I see in Plasma (5.24) that the battery icon shows permanently in the system tray, because it's being constantly topped up... to 90%. I thought maybe what would happen is that it would decharge to 50% and then the charging would kick in and bring it back to 90%. I don't know if that would be better or worse, I can't see as hundreds of charge cycles will help, and in any case there's no options to set it to behave any differently, that would require additional software. Some of you must have a similar setup. What have your results been like with whatever charging strategy you use? I've had this laptop three years now and according to the Plasma Info Centre the battery health is at 94%, so it hasn't weathered badly. Should I abandon this experiment and disable the flexi-charging? The battery is replaceable anyway so if I really needed maximum battery life one day on this machine I could get another one. gumb

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Anydesk not working on Tumbleweed
by Nicolas Kovacs 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

Hi, I'm currently experimenting extensively with Tumbleweed on a few VMs and a sandbox PC. So far, everything looks good, and I have a few details to work out. Anydesk works perfectly under Leap, but fails to install correctly under Tumbleweed, since it depends on some obscure legacy library which I don't happen to recall right now. So I decided to go for the Flatpak version. I configured the Flathub repository and installed com.anydesk.Anydesk. I restarted the PC (since it's my first use of a Flatpak app here), clicked on Anydesk in the main menu, clicked again on the Anydesk icon in the notification area, but unfortunately, the application doesn't seem to work. Has anyone had more luck with Anydesk under Tumbleweed ? Cheers, Niki -- 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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mouse problems OS 15.3, KDE 5.76, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
by Daniel Bauer 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

Hello, since two days (may since last updates?) I have strange problems with my mouse: it doesn't move smoothly, it's as it makes little pauses and then jumps to a next position. Or, when I resize a window dragging a corner, focus suddenly jumps to the window below. I changed the battery of my logitech wireless mouse, no change. So I changed mouse and USB-receiver for another mouse/receiver of the same model - same problems. All worked perfect until yesterday or the day before. It is not all the time, it started after some hours uptime, using gimp and digikam at the same time. I logged out and in again, but no change now. There is not much processor nor memory use according to gkrellm. temperatures are low. It's an intel i9 with 64mb memory. For what can I search (and where?) for hints for the problem, or does anybody have the same problem and knows what to do? -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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Kernel Security Update - RETBLEED - Can we turn mitigation On/Off?
by David C. Rankin 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

All, The kernel security update described on the announce-list listed the following, among other, problems addressed: The RETBLEED potential leak of info had been in the news the past week or so and a patch was anticipated. However, in discussing the fix, it can affect performance from 9 - 30%. Also discussed was it's "theoretical" use as an exploit to manipulate CPU branch prediction to glean information about kernel security details. - CVE-2022-29900, CVE-2022-29901: Fixed the RETBLEED attack, a new Spectre like Branch Target Buffer attack, that can leak arbitrary kernel information (bsc#1199657). My question here is depending on the impact to performance on any given setup, is there a kernel parameter we can pass at boot to turn it On/Off if the performance impact is severe? The second one is more of a chuckle and a wonder of just how long this bug may have existed - CVE-2022-33981: Fixed use-after-free in floppy driver (bsc#1200692) :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Update error
by James Knott 16 Jul '22

16 Jul '22

Since installing Leap 15.4, I've been getting an error "Failed to cache rpm database (1)" after Software Update on my notebook computer. I don't get this on my desktop system. Any idea what might be causing it? tnx jk

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