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Re: [opensuse] ZFS on SuSE-anyone, Distributed File System...
by Verner Kjærsgaard 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Michael Folsom skrev: > Hi: > > Quick question - what are the advantages of ZFS over XFS? > > I'm not trying to start a flame war but as a happy XFS user wonder > what ZFS has to offer> > > Later - > > > Mike > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Verner Kjærsgaard <vk(a)os-academy.dk> wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> - has anyone tried SUN's ZFS on SuSE? Can it be done, is it at all feasible? >> >> - or another Distributed file system. I may need a file system, that will allow me to add storage ad hoc. >> >> Any hints, links? >> >> As always, thanks! >> >> -- >> -------------------------------------------- >> Med venlig hilsen/best regards >> Verner Kjærsgaard >> Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 >> www.os-academy.dk +45 56964223 >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org >> > I really don't know, if any? Are they not two different beasts? I tried looking for info about XFS, any good links, homepage? -- -------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] boot32.efi for 64 bits processor and Leap
by jdd 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Hello, We see more and more often very small but powerfull computers, atom multicore 64 bits, but with UEFI 32 bits firmware. I have one now ("It Works TW891" paid 129€ - 32Gb ssd + 2Gb ram, runs almost perfectly windows 10 32bits or Debian 64bits). these computers can be installed with 64 bits distros, but they need absolutely a 32 bits loader. Right now I on ly know of the hybrid debian 32/64bits dvd to be able to install. Notice that *only the loader* have to be 32bits, the generic name being boot32.efi copying a generic loader to the Leap EFI folder allows booting, and probably installing (I couldn't make all the tests), but the generic one gives only a grub prompt, not handy. Could it be possible to add to the Leap isos this 32 bits loader? only this one have to be 32bits, AFAIK nothing else have to be changed. thanks jdd -- 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] How to make sure that each vNIC in guest is always associated with a correct VLAN?
by Martin T 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

Hi, I have six virtual bridges in xen host machine and following virtual machine configuration file section defining the vifs: vif = [ 'bridge=br10', 'bridge=br20', 'bridge=br30', 'bridge=br40', 'bridge=br50', 'bridge=br60' ] This means that in the guest(openSUSE Leap 42.1) I have six vNICs(eth0 - eth5). Can I be sure that eth0 is always connected to br10, eth1 to br20, etc? Or should I specify a MAC address for each vNIC created like this: vif = [ 'bridge=br10, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F1', 'bridge=br20, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F2', 'bridge=br30, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F3', 'bridge=br40, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F4', 'bridge=br50, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F5', 'bridge=br60, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F6' ] .. and then configure udev rules which make sure that interface associated with MAC 00:14:5E:11:C6:F1 and br10 is always named eth0, interface associated with MAC 00:14:5E:11:C6:F2 and br20 is always named eth1, etc? Or maybe there is a better way using /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-* files? thanks, Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Bad blocks on a ReiserFS volume. How to retrieve files?
by Silviu Marin-Caea 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

I have a large hard-disk (120 GB) on which some blocks went bad. Now, it cannot be mounted. Attached is what debugreiserfs says. What can I do; I'm newbie to reiserfs architecture. I thought that ReiserFS keeps copies of the superblock or something, like ext2/3 does. reiserfsck says "error occured looks like hardware problem. bread cannot read block 13271040". That's the actual number it displays. PS I have asked the same question on the reiserfs-list, but it's extremely low traffic. Maybe someone here knows more. Thank you Filesystem state: consistency is not checked after last mounting Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x1642 of format 3.6 with standard journal Count of blocks on the device: 29945160 Number of bitmaps: 914 Blocksize: 4096 Free blocks (count of blocks - used [journal, bitmaps, data, reserved] blocks): 29154954 Root block: 14969 Filesystem is NOT clean Tree height: 4 Hash function used to sort names: "r5" Objectid map size 10, max 972 Journal parameters: Device [0x0] Magic [0x34ae2c74] Size 8193 blocks (including 1 for journal header) (first block 18) Max transaction length 1024 blocks Max batch size 900 blocks Max commit age 30 Blocks reserved by journal: 0 Fs state field: 0x0 sb_version: 2 inode generation number: 35482 UUID: 48d29ced-fe37-4c68-adf8-32ace9f2be45 LABEL: Set flags in SB: ATTRIBUTES CLEAN

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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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Leap 15.4 - GDM won't start
by Linux Kamarada 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Hi, everyone! I upgraded from Leap 15.3 to Leap 15.4 yesterday (actually, from Linux Kamarada 15.3, which is Leap-based, to Leap 15.4) following the same upgrade procedure I'm used to years now: https://linuxkamarada.com/en/2021/12/23/linux-kamarada-and-opensuse-leap-ho… (of course, I replaced 15.3 by 15.4, for it to work) https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade Now I'm not able to log in to the graphical interface as usual. Plymouth stops spinning, GDM should appear next, but it doesn't. The only thing I'm able to do is switch to the first terminal (Ctrl + Alt + F1) and reboot using Ctrl + Alt + Del. I'm not even able to log in to the terminal, if I don't change the kernel. Back to GRUB, if I enter the advanced options and select the recovery mode of the 5.14.21-150400.22-default kernel (the one from the Main repo, not the Update repo), at least I'm able to switch to the first terminal (Ctrl + Alt + F1), log in to the terminal and do: $ startx Then I have a fully functional GNOME desktop. Inspecting /var/log/messages, I found the following that caught my attention, I'm not sure it is related to the problem: 2022-08-18T00:53:01.675443-03:00 kamarada-pc /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[4082]: #011(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. 2022-08-18T00:53:01.794755-03:00 kamarada-pc /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[4153]: > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86WWAN 2022-08-18T00:53:01.794810-03:00 kamarada-pc /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[4153]: > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86RFKill 2022-08-18T00:53:01.837606-03:00 kamarada-pc /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[4183]: > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86WWAN 2022-08-18T00:53:01.837667-03:00 kamarada-pc /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[4183]: > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86RFKill 2022-08-18T00:53:02.122276-03:00 kamarada-pc gnome-session[4211]: gnome-session-binary[4211]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed 2022-08-18T00:53:02.122366-03:00 kamarada-pc gnome-session[4211]: gnome-session-binary[4211]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed 2022-08-18T00:53:02.122442-03:00 kamarada-pc gnome-session-binary[4211]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed 2022-08-18T00:53:02.122491-03:00 kamarada-pc gnome-session-binary[4211]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed Does anyone have any idea on what's going on and/or how it can be solved? Thanks! Antonio The Linux Kamarada Project https://linuxkamarada.com/

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[oS-en]
by Carlos E. R. 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I get an unknown GPG key warning, twice, when zypper or yast tries to check for updates. I did this: wget https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub sudo rpm --import linux_signing_key.pub And now I get one warning, so there is another key that is missing: Unknown GnuPG Key The file repomd.xml (http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64) is digitally signed with the following unknown GnuPG key: ID: 4EB27DB2A3B88B8B. This means that a trust relationship to the creator of the file cannot be established. Using the file may put the integrity of your system at risk. Use it anyway? [ ] Do not show this message again. Where can I download that missing key from? Or is the command secuence I run incomplete or incorrect? (Leap 15.3) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYvKibxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVaJEAoInpGLur54g7iTRWFj6F SrwlFwsfAJ0YFvwAKKzpAe8rTX5jXVzlPqKD9A== =5ups -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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15.4 needs cross-arm-none-eabi
by David C. Rankin 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

This is both a shout-out and a question by doesn't openSUSE provide the package? gcc provides the cross-arm-none-eabi toolchain used to program microcontrollers (TI, Raspberry, etc..) A build service user provides the packages is reasonable shape: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/wkazubski/15.4/ But why doesn't openSUSE also provide the packages. The devel:/gcc repo provides the cross-arm-none full packages, but not the eabi sub-packages. This is the difference between as 26M install and an a 1.8G install. For example with the Pi-Pico, there is no need for 1.75G of the devel:/gcc packages. Why not provide the eabi subpackages? The wkazubski packages work fine, just need a bit of maintenance. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Make Kwallet behave ?
by Nicolas Kovacs 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

Hi, I've been a KDE user since version 2.x on Slackware more than 20 years ago. I really like it for my daily work, but some details are a bit of a PITA. Kwallet is one of them. Here's a few scenarios that happen erratically on my Tumbleweed installations. 1. KDE starts, Kwallet pops up immediately and leaves me about ten seconds to type in my very long GPG password. In the background, applications that need a password to connect (like OwnCloud) fail and have to be restarted. 2. KDE starts, Wi-Fi tries to connect but fails, OwnCloud asks me for the connection password, and after about a minute or so, Kwallet decides to pop up too late to the show. 3. KDE starts, Kwallet pops up, I type in my password fast enough, Wi-Fi connects but OwnCloud asks me for the connection password even though Kwallet has been opened successfully. Any idea how I can make Kwallet behave ? Cheers from the sunny 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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tumbleweed setfacl on sddm login mystery
by Michael Hamilton 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

I noticed on my existing tumbleweed desktop, when I login a setfacl appears to be setting permissions on /dev/i2c-1 and they are reassigned to sddm on logout. % getfacl /dev/i2c-1 getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: dev/i2c-1 # owner: root # group: root user::rw- user:michael:rw- group::--- mask::rw- other::--- This appears to happen for all users. But on a recently installed tumbleweed I don't see this behavior - no users have access to the i2c devices, no ACL's are assign on login. There is no i2c related group on either the old or new machine. Both machines are on the latest tumbleweed, both run Nvidia's driver. So I would expect the same behaviour on both. I do see that the nvidia devices have ACL's set on login (so perhaps this is X11 or nvidia related): getfacl /dev/nvidia0 getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: dev/nvidia0 # owner: root # group: video user::rw- user:michael:rw- group::rw- mask::rw- other::--- It's possible I setup something years ago and have forgotten about it. I think I have used i2c in the past for sensors. More recently I've started using it with ddcutil and vdu_controls (which I wrote) - I was puzzled that they work with no permission changes required on my desktop, but not on this new machine. I'm looking for clues that might throw some light on the situation. Michael

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Desktop search on Tumbleweed : Recoll or similar applications
by Nicolas Kovacs 27 Aug '22

27 Aug '22

Hi, A few weeks ago I decided to move all my desktop installations from OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed, since it looks like the latter gets more love from the developers. So far things look good. I only have a small number of details to tackle. Under Leap I've been using Recoll, a nifty desktop search application that's quite powerful, though it's also a bit of a resource hog. https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ Under Leap the Recoll package was provided by the KDE:Extra repository. Now I have a few questions. 1) If I want to use Recoll under Tumbleweed, what's the recommended way to install it ? 2) Can you guys recommend a similar desktop search application ? Recoll is great for finding the proverbial needle in the haystack, like for example a single sentence in gigabytes of mail archives, or even a character string in a PDF or even a Word document. But maybe there are other applications out there that do the job well ? Thanks & cheers from rainy Austria, 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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Tensorflow
by Roger Oberholtzer 24 Aug '22

24 Aug '22

Is anyone using tensorflow/tensorflow2 on Leap 15.3? I can only find tensorflow-lite, which is a scaled down version for things like mobile devices. Has it dropped off the radar? In OBS, it seems to be locked for all targets, and I don't see any previous builds anywhere. I thought maybe it was only available for SLE15. But I don't see those packages. Perhaps I don't know where to look for SLE15 packages that might be compatible with 15.3. IIRC, on a recent Leap release (15.0?), tensorflow and such tools were listed as a big part of what the release added. Is that no longer the case? I have looked at contacting the maintainer (https://build.opensuse.org/package/users/openSUSE:Leap:15.3/tensorflow) but last time I contacted someone listed as a maintainer, I got a surprisingly rude response that they were in fact not the maintainer. Despite what was listed in the project. So I'm asking here first... -- Roger Oberholtzer

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Tumbleweed: prevent SSH client from sending environment variables
by Nicolas Kovacs 22 Aug '22

22 Aug '22

Hi, Up until a few weeks ago, I ran OpenSUSE Leap as my daily driver. I only recently moved to Tumbleweed, which seems to get more attention by the OpenSUSE developers. One of the things I did on my Leap system was reconfigure the SSH client in order to *not* send any environment variables. To do this, I opened /etc/ssh/ssh_config and found the relevant stanza: SendEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES SendEnv LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT SendEnv LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL I simply commented this out and reloaded SSH: # systemctl reload sshd I tried to do this with Tumbleweed, but I don't have an /etc/ssh/ssh_config file. Instead, I only have an empty /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d directory. So I guess my SSH client has all default values defined at build time. What would be an orthodox approach to prevent it from sending any environment variables ? Thanks & cheers from Austria, 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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TW: boot problem kernel 5.18.9-2 and higher
by Martin /Nightowl/ Byttebier 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

Hardware: Dell XPS 8940 11th Gen Intel i7-11700 (16) @ 4.800GHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti I'm using latest TW-release with kernel 5.19.0-1-default and NVIDIA driver 515.65.01 installed the hard way. kernel 5.18.9-2 or higher seems to give a (plymouth) problem. The problem doesn't occur with kernel 5.18.9-1-default or lower. Booting up with one of these kernels the plymouth boot screen stops displaying after this line: I915 0000:00:02.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) Eventually I get to the KDE login screen. The problem is that I'm using the hard way to install NVIDIA. This makes I can't boot when a new kernel is installed as the boot process ends up with a black screen. Luckely I can access the faulty pc from another pc and install the driver from there. journalctl show me this: Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Initializing... Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Starting... Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Logind interface found Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Adding new display on vt 7 ... Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Loading theme configuration from "" Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Display server starting... Aug 12 18:17:32 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /run/sddm/{765f2352-11a7-428b-9a7a-55f8fef85402} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7 Aug 12 18:17:33 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Failed to read display number from pipe Aug 12 18:17:33 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Attempt 1 starting the Display server on vt 7 failed Aug 12 18:17:35 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Display server starting... Aug 12 18:17:35 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /run/sddm/{765f2352-11a7-428b-9a7a-55f8fef85402} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7 Aug 12 18:17:35 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Failed to read display number from pipe Aug 12 18:17:35 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Attempt 2 starting the Display server on vt 7 failed Aug 12 18:17:37 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Display server starting... Aug 12 18:17:37 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /run/sddm/{765f2352-11a7-428b-9a7a-55f8fef85402} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7 Aug 12 18:17:37 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Failed to read display number from pipe Aug 12 18:17:37 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Attempt 3 starting the Display server on vt 7 failed Aug 12 18:17:37 dell-desk sddm[1381]: Could not start Display server on vt 7 Any idea how I can fix this? Martin

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VirtualBox Puel Crashes After Latest Updates on 15.4 Qt related.
by David C. Rankin 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

All, I am running Virtualbox 6.1.36 PUEL version (I need the USB). It has run fine for years and years (since version 3.X). Today I went to start it and it would not load. Starting from the command line as my user, I get: VirtualBox Qt FATAL: FATAL: The application binary appears to be running setuid, this is a security hole. Aborted Huh? WTF? Obviously it is unhappy with Qt or vice versa. This worked fine a couple of weeks ago. What to check to narrow down the issue? I can su and then VirtualBox runs, but since it is running under root, none of my VM's are found. Running with sudo -E I receive: No protocol specified No protocol specified Qt CRITICAL: This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, xcb. Now running su'ed to root, Virtualbox starts and the dialog appears, but no vms are shown. The following warning is shown on the command line: Qt WARNING: QStandardPaths: runtime directory '/run/user/1000' is not owned by UID 0, but a directory permissions 0700 owned by UID 1000 GID 1060 What has changed with Qt these past two weeks that is causing VirtualBox to freak out? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Permissions of /usr/local/bin
by Siard 17 Aug '22

17 Aug '22

/usr/local/bin is owned by root with permissions 755, so as a user I cannot put a script in there. I can change the ownership, but every time after a reboot it is owned by root again, with permissions 755. Does anyone know where this is set, and/or how I can make /usr/local/bin permanently make writable for a user?

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missing kernel source for 5.18.12-lp154.5-default
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Hello, I'm trying to get my VM Workstation 16 Pro working. I need the source to compile vmware-host-modules-workstation-16.2.4. I booted this kernel. Where may I get the source? All I have is 5.14.21-150400.24.18-default Regards, -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047

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NetworkManager
by Wolfgang Mueller 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

I have to computers, - "hewpac" with Leap 15.2 installed and - "azure" with Leap 15.4, both working under KDE and connected to the router via WiFi. For a long time, both worked under the so-called Wicked connection. But yesterday in the morning, this type of connection failed. Consequently I had to select NetworkManager for having them connected. After an hour, the NetworkManager connection of "azure" (Leap 15.4) failed, and since then it cannot be re-established any more. When i click the "Networks" mini-icon in the panel, four routers in the neighborhood are listed under "Available connections", but mine is not. What can I do for making it find my router again? Thank you in advance for your help. Best regards, Wolfgang

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Build libheif to support heif-convert of Apple .heic files to .jpg/.png (and enable open by Gimp)
by David C. Rankin 12 Aug '22

12 Aug '22

All, If you have ever been stuck with a native iPhone .heic file on Linux it is a pain in the .... However, you can simply rebuild the current source package for 15.4 (or 15.3, etc..): http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/15.4/repo/oss/src/lib… using rpmbuild and the "--with x265" option to enable building with libde265-0 and libx265-199 (both from packman) which will build the heif-examples package that provides: /usr/bin/heif-convert /usr/bin/heif-enc /usr/bin/heif-info /usr/bin/heif-thumbnailer You will also need to install the corresponding -devel packages as well along with librav1e0 and rav1e-devel, and libaom3 and libaom-devel. The list of subpackages created using the x265 option are: gdk-pixbuf-loader-libheif heif-examples libheif-devel libheif1 The available gimp-plugin-heif, allows Gimp to open .heic files directly after you have build and installed the updated version. You will also need to create a *.heic *.HEIC file association for whatever desktop you are using in order to enable the rt-click context menu "Open with Gimp". Primary use I have is simply to convert the same .heic files I get sent. After the updated package is installed, it's as simple as: $ heif-convert file.heic file.jpg I hacked a spec together which worked swimmingly, to ask on the packaging list about handing a couple of conflicts only to find the conditional build in the current openSUSE srpm already provided a path. Hopefully this will save some other soul the same grief. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[oS-en] Recovering dead text file
by Carlos E. R. 11 Aug '22

11 Aug '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Yesterday I powered down the computer (not hibernated as usual). I was editing a text file with jstar (aka joe) and told it to save the file. But I failed somehow, because yesterday edit is not there, is lost. Not a big deal, I know what it was and can redo. If I try to edit the file again, it knows: Locked by cer(a)Telcontar.403. (S)teal lock, (I) edit anyway, (Q) cancel edit? I could just steal lock, but I'm curious whether I might recover the lost edit. Where is it, if it is somewhere? The edit command line is called: jstar howto I see in the last files of the home dir: lrwxrwxrwx 1 cer users 17 Aug 9 19:55 .#howto -> cer(a)Telcontar.403 - -rw------- 1 cer users 4707 Aug 10 12:01 .joe_state But those are not the edited file copy. And "cer(a)Telcontar.403" does not exist. It is not in tmp: cer@Telcontar:~> ls /tmp/j* ls: cannot access '/tmp/j*': No such file or directory cer@Telcontar:~> So, does jstar, aka joe, save a temporary file with the edit somewhere? There is a "JOE" file in home dir with old aborted edits, but it is dated 2007. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYvOF4Rwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV18oAnAxanSh2BLy7rvV009og iZ/apGGZAJ9qDr/ZMjfGIOgBqn7YFZlBbwWBZg== =ik6S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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logrotate, systemd, stopped rotating a log
by joe a 11 Aug '22

11 Aug '22

Leap 15.3. Some time back got logrotate working to rotate fetchmail logs. Found that it seems to be no longer rotating that file. I noticed the logrotate.conf file is empty. Before delving any further I wanted to assure or disabuse myself of the notion that it matters not, as long as the proper configurations are in /etc/logrotate.d/def_for_my_log.

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skype unusable after latest update
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

Using Skype for a very long time but this is the first time that it only shows two big frame of me and my contact. Not very nice and every effort to get it working with the big frame with my contact and myself in a small picture in the right side of the screen was unsuccessful. How to get a useful Skype back

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Re: skype unusable after latest update
by Adam Majer 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

Hi, This I don't know. I'm not sure what is the problem, but I think I've had similar thing few years ago when we had Skype. The solution was to use the web version with Google Chrome. You *may* get some additional diagnostic info what is going on if you try to launch it from command line and see what is printed there. - Adam PS. Please reply to list so that others can see and help you. I'm not an expert on Skype :-) On 8/10/22 14:21, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > TW, yes that what I am running. What causes the problem? Would an older > version of Skype be a solution >> https://web.skype.com/ >> >> And they support Google Chrome as browser, not Firefox or Chromium.

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upgrading *and* migrating
by David T-G 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

Hi, all -- It's long past time diskfarm:~ # cat /etc/os-release NAME="openSUSE Leap" VERSION="15.2" ID="opensuse-leap" ID_LIKE="suse opensuse" VERSION_ID="15.2" PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.2" ANSI_COLOR="0;32" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:15.2" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org" HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/" to upgrade diskfarm. It is also, coincidentally, time to add a mirror drive, which of course one can't do on the running system. Soooo ... Can I *upgrade* my system to another partition, like one on the new mirror? Or how (rsync? cp -a? cpio? tar? ...) can I copy the old partition content to a new slice of slightly different size (around the RAID metadata) to then boot from it instead, and then update? [I actually have two identical slices on the drive and use dd to copy over as a backup before upgrading, but dd won't work here.] I am, of course, seeking the simplicity of an upgrade while retaining the security of falling back to the old installation if needed, all in the same timeframe as adding the mirror because, well, duh :-) TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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ntfs-3g versus ntfs3
by Simon Becherer 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

Hi, only for the record, sitting here for about a half day to figure out a problem using systemrescuecd version 9.0.2 and 9.0.4 making backup of a ntfs (windows 10 embeddend) drive: command is: mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 tar -c -v -j --ignore-failed-read -f /mnt/nfs/simon/Dokumente/sda2-lind-NEU.tar.bz2 sda2 2>/mnt/nfs/simon/Dokumente/sda2-lind-NEU-tar-error.txt will stop about 6.2gb with drop of iptables and other error messages / stuck of complete system. ================== ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 tar -c -v -j --ignore-failed-read -f /mnt/nfs/simon/Dokumente/sda2-lind-NEU.tar.bz2 sda2 2>/mnt/nfs/simon/Dokumente/sda2-lind-NEU-tar-error.txt this will work. ============ so in my opinion, the "new" kernel ntfs driver is not ready to use. i do not know if this problems is known at linux kernel developer. have made about 10-20 tests, always same result. simoN -- www.becherer.de ----------------------------------------------- - Das ist die vorlaeufig endgueltige Version! - Herbert C. Maier Dipl.-Ing. (FH) -----------------------------------------------

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viewing local shtml pages in browser
by gumb 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Once upon a time, in a land not far away, I created an Intranet site for my former company. This was back in the 2000s. It was a relatively simple static HTML site but certain page elements were pulled via Server Side Includes. I keep copies of that and other static HTML sites I created in local directories on my PC, not in a local server like /srv/www, there's no need, just in my home directory. I can still view all my other sites from there no problem in Firefox. I haven't looked at that Intranet site for a year or two, but now it doesn't work. Only the initial index.html page is plain HTML with no SSI, and fully viewable. All the other pages have an .shtml extension, so in the past I would have to forgo seeing certain non-loaded page elements in menus and title bars, and just navigate using the links in the main part of the view, which was good enough to still access all the main content. Now, clicking a link in Firefox from the index to any other page brings up a dialog box requesting which program I want to use to open the file. Firefox itself is the only suggestion and hence default option, so if I click OK it opens a new blank tab and throws up the dialog box again, and again, for eternity, without showing the page. The only two browsers I have installed on 15.4 are Firefox and Konqueror. I tried copying and pasting the URL into Konqueror, but when I hit Enter it just switches back to Firefox and presents the same dialog box. Indeed, I note that now Konqueror will only show pages on the web and doesn't want to show any local page, always directing me back to Firefox. This wasn't the case in the past. I've looked in Konqueror's settings and tried using the different view modes, e.g. KHTML, WebKit, but can't find a workaround there. I assume there's some security-based rationale for not showing these pages but I don't know at what level and whether I can override it. I've checked in Dolphin that shtml files are associated by default to open with Firefox. Anybody know a config option or other way to view such pages, or a browser which definitely still displays them? gumb

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PHP on my PC
by Siard 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

To test a website on my PC before uploading it to the webhoster, I can simply open the html files with a browser. But if the site contains PHP code, a local web server is needed. So I installed apache2 and php8. But what do I need to do further? The browser cannot find 'localhost' yet, and /var/www does not exist yet.

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File system check question
by Marc Chamberlin 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Hi, As some of you may recognize, I have been calling on the fine gurus that lurk on this newsgroup for help with issues that come up with my attempts to upgrade/install OpenSuSE15.4 on one of my systems. I was in the middle of doing some detective work on a problem I am having, when the computer I was working on, froze up and forced me to reboot the system. Upon rebooting, the system decided to run a file system check on one of my drives. Unfortunately, this file system check has now been running for over 3 days and the message on the screen only shows 2 bits of information, one the UUID of the disk drive being checked, and second, the amount of time that has passed since the file system check started. Both of these tidbits of information are rather useless IMHO. Without stopping the check I have no idea which drive corresponds to that UUID and would need something like the YaST partitioner on a Live USB stick to identify which drive it is (by comparing disk labels, names of partitions, disk sizes, with UUIDs). But that is not my main concern, the other really important bit of info needed is an estimate of how long it will take to complete the file system check! I have 6 drives on this system (mostly used for backing up other systems on my SOHO network) and these drives range in size from 500Gb to 8Tb. My conundrum is this - do I continue to wait for the file system check to complete, not knowing how much longer it will take, or do I bag it, put in a new drive and install a new OpenSuSE 15.4 system? If I install a new OS on a new drive, I could get my backup services and other services I need running on this system, back up and running in 2 to 5 days (based on my previous experiences with installing a new system). I could then also run the file system check on the drive, which apparently has a problem, as a background task. Any suggestions on how to proceed or make a choice? Since this missed/needed user requirement, that of providing an estimated time till completion for doing file system checks, is a new feature request now, would it be worth it to submit a bug report (knowing from past experience that bug fixes and feature updates often take years to resolve) or is this simply some unmaintained old low-priority software that no one really supports anymore? As always, an educated guess will be much appreciated, I don't have the kind of experience with the file system checking software, or understand what it does exactly, to make a good guess myself. Is it safe to abort, by reboot or power cycle, a file system check that is in process? Marc... -- *"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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What happened to ZFS?
by David C. Rankin 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

All, Where did the ZFS package go? License change? zfs-dkms an option like debian does? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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OT - filter test
by Stevens 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

test

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Shade/Unshade issues
by Peter Suetterlin 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

Hi list, I wonder if someone has seen similar problems, and/or has an idea what might be causing it. Since many weeks my Tumbleweed laptop shows an embarassing behavior: If I shade a window, and unshade again, the window height is reduced to 1 character height for text windows, or one pixel for graphical ones. It's the same whether I use the mouse wheel or the window menu for shading. The irritating part is: My desktop at home, also running TW, does not show this. So I assume it is some setting - I just don't have the foggiest idea where to look. I've tried to recursively grep for 'shade' in ~/.config, but that didn't reveal anything. I had opened a bugreport (boo#1200007), but without any response, so I thought I ask here, maybe someone knows where to look... :( I'm running plasma/kwin

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ax25 package files missing.
by Marc Chamberlin 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

I am in the process of installing the ax25.tools package on my OpenSuSE 15.4 x64 system and am discovering a few files that seem to be missing. /usr/local/etc was missing wl3k.conf and wl2k.conf.dist /usr/local/etc/ax25/ entire directory is missing which includes ax25-down, ax25-up, and links for axports and Lanparms. /etc/ax25/Lanparms file missing I know this is an obscure package used by crazy ham radio operators wanting to communicate via packet radio. Was there a reason these files were removed, nothing in the release note mention these files AFAIK, or maybe a packaging screw up? For now I am scarfing these files from OpenSuSE 15.3 and hoping that will be a good enough workaround. 73's Marc WA7PXW... -- *"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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OT - another mail test
by Stevens 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

test

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KDE NetworkManager
by Roger Oberholtzer 05 Aug '22

05 Aug '22

I have been using NetworkManager in KDE for a long time. It has been working great. Until now. I was helping a friend so I disabled NetworkManager in yast. All went fine. I could do what I needed to do in the network to sort out his thing. I then selected NetworkManager in yast again. I get nothing. I cannot even get the plasma widget back. Nada. I know about KDE's rather fragile state when it comes to plasmoid widgets. I just cannot see what is confusing things. I don't even see NetworkManager as a widget I can add. Shouldn't I be able to do so if it is no longer showing up automatically? I've googled this and see lots from a while back when this was all less stable- I don't see much recently. Wicked works. But I don't want to use yast to control wireless. I'm rather mobile with this computer. Pointers and suggestions welcome. It's a Tumbleweed system that is rather up-to-date. -- Roger Oberholtzer

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