July 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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Custom default configuration for KDE : Taskbar vs. Kickoff
by Nicolas Kovacs 16 Jul '22

16 Jul '22

Hi, I'm currently experimenting with an OpenSUSE Tumbleweed VM. I'd like to slightly customize the default KDE configuration to eventually install it in our local school. No Ansible here, I just put everything in a bone-headed shell script with a handful of nifty functions: https://gitlab.com/kikinovak/opensuse/-/blob/master/setup.sh 1. Customize the taskbar ------------------------ The icons displayed in the taskbar are defined in /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/config/main.xml. I changed that configuration with a series of sed one-liners, and here's what I have now: <default>applications:org.kde.dolphin.desktop, applications:firefox.desktop, applications:thunderbird.desktop, applications:libreoffice-startcenter.desktop </default> Now when my existing user logs out and logs back in, he or she gets to see this new default layout, with icons for Dolphin, Firefox, Thunderbird and LibreOffice in the taskbar on the lower left side of the screen. So far so good. 2. Customize the Kickoff menu ----------------------------- Now I'm trying to do the same with the Kickoff menu, which sports a whole series of icons in the favorite apps section. The default Kickoff menu is defined in /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/config/main.xml. Here's what my custom version looks like in the edited section of this file: <default>firefox.desktop,thunderbird.desktop,libreoffice-startcenter.desktop,org.kde.dolphin.desktop</default> Now here's the thing. This new customized default configuration is applied as expected for every *newly created* user. But only for those. Unfortunately *existing users* keep their initial configuration. I tried to figure out what configuration files keep the configuration of every user's Kickoff menu in ~/.config and/or ~/.local, but I think you have to be a member of some Secret Plasma Customization Cult to have access to this information. :o) Question: how do I apply my custom Kickoff menu configuration to existing users ? Any suggestions ? 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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[oS-en] Huh? Failed to parse address 'fe80::1%wlan1'
by Carlos E. R. 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I see in the warning log (15.3): <3.4> 2022-07-15 07:49:05 Legolas avahi-daemon 1259 - - Failed to parse address 'fe80::1%wlan1', ignoring. I don't know where it is getting that address from, nor if it is correct syntax. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE Leap 15.2 at Legolas) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYtECChwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVpjcAn3CUm3HyP6I9A9Fz+7Yi 1Ijs0ie7AJ9nZH4Iz8CJ6bHNSaT9/KxcWVDX9A== =kAU9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Where do I create a bugzilla feature request?
by J Leslie Turriff 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

In order to allow a virtual machine guest exclusive access to a device (e.g. a GPU card), there is a long, involved process for configuring the system to exempt it from being connected to the kernel. I would like to create a feature request for something like a YaST module to do this, but what part of the system would it belong to? Two possibilities come to mind: YaST Boot Loader Which of these would be the right place to make the request? Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity

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15.4 - install dconf-editor to fix gtk3 file-chooser not sorting dirs first
by David C. Rankin 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

All, One annoying wrinkle with gtk apps in 15.4 is the default file-chooser does not sort directories first leaving an alphabetical sorting with directories and files jumbled together. There is a fix (regardless of the desktop you use), install dconf-editor and then set: org->gtk->settings->file-chooser sort-directories-first True Now things look normal in the gtk file-chooser. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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TW 20220710: ibus applet is not autostarting anymore
by Mathias Homann 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

Hi, I just noticed that the ibus panel applet isn't autostarting anymore - even though the're is a valid(?) desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart. and of course - nothing obvious in the logs or the journal , and manually starting "ibus-autostart" from a commandline works without errors... All the other stuff that is set up in /etc/xdg/autostart seems to work fine so any help would be appreciated :) Cheers Mathias -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann(a)openSUSE.org OBS: lemmy04 Jabber (XMPP): lemmy(a)tuxonline.tech Matrix: @mathias:eregion.de IRC: [Lemmy] on liberachat and ircnet (bouncer active) keybase: https://keybase.io/lemmy gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102

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Why are packages in 15.4 OSS repository NOT receiving SUPPORT?
by David C. Rankin 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

What is going on? FreeCAD in the main OSS 15.4 repository is BROKEN. (It segfaults) I file a bug to have this package in OSS fixed and I get a response: <quote> Comment # 3 on bug 1200583 from Stefan Brüns FreeCAD works fine on TW, and thats the only thing I will support. For 15.4, you are on your own. You are receiving this mail because: You reported the bug. </quote> 15.4 is a new release and it has a broken package in OSS -- Why isn't that going to be fixed??? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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