August 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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