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[opensuse] Project management software question for project managers
by Ted Byers 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '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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[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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[oS-en] iotop complains of missing feature in kernel
by Carlos E. R. 18 Feb '24

18 Feb '24

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 cer@Telcontar:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iotop -o -d 3.3333 Total DISK READ : 1169.77 K/s | Total DISK WRITE : 12.79 K/s Actual DISK READ: 1168.61 K/s | Actual DISK WRITE: 48.84 K/s TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND 2041 be/4 news 490.70 K/s 0.00 B/s ?unavailable? texpire 9622 be/4 cer 0.00 B/s 6.98 K/s ?unavailable? firefox --sm-client-id 27~-9abbeba61260 [LS Thread] 8039 idle cer 679.07 K/s 0.00 B/s ?unavailable? tracker-miner-fs-3 12912 be/4 cer 0.00 B/s 5.81 K/s ?unavailable? firefox --sm-client-id 27~beba61260 [IndexedDB #45] * * ... CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT not enabled in kernel, cannot determine SWAPIN and IO % cer@Telcontar:~> uname -a Linux Telcontar 5.14.21-150400.24.33-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Nov 4 13:55:06 UTC 2022 (76cfe60) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux cer@Telcontar:~> - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY850Sxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVjxsAnREQY/RUTyYZuN8ZczMy KHE36e4GAJ9E6Pia/flb5Of5gQuYU1S9i0oirA== =W0vq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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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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[oS-en] Suddenly, mouse wheel doesn't work.
by Carlos E. R. 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Suddenly, mouse wheel doesn't work. It was working, and suddenly it stopped working. I was seeing strange messages in log related to usb, so I unplugged/replugged the mouse, no effect. I downgraded the kernel several versions, no effect. Middle button, which shares the wheel, works. Leap 15.4. XFCE. What can I do to diagnose? This one is a trackball. I connected at the same time a second mouse, cheapo, and it works fine. Telcontar:~ # hwinfo --mouse 59: USB 00.1: 10503 USB Mouse [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: PsRb.FBtr+tYVKV1 Parent ID: k4bc.029GFTetOb3 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.3/0000:03:00.0/usb1/1-13/1-13:1.1 SysFS BusID: 1-13:1.1 Hardware Class: mouse Model: "Holtek USB Keyboard" Hotplug: USB Vendor: usb 0x04d9 "Holtek Semiconductor, Inc." Device: usb 0x2020 "USB Keyboard" Revision: "1.01" Compatible to: int 0x0200 0x0001 "Generic USB Mouse" <=== WTF? No such thing. Driver: "usbhid" Driver Modules: "usbhid" Device File: /dev/input/event3 Device Files: /dev/input/event3, /dev/input/by-id/usb-CYKB13_USB_Keyboard-event-if01, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:03:00.0-usb-0:13:1.1-event Device Number: char 13:67 Speed: 1.5 Mbps Module Alias: "usb:v04D9p2020d0101dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc01ip02in01" Driver Info #0: XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2 GPM Protocol: exps2 Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #62 (Hub) 61: USB 00.0: 10503 USB Mouse [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: Mwf_.z_8Swe_nwg5 Parent ID: 2XnU.BpLUUanApo2 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:29:00.3/usb5/5-3/5-3:1.0 SysFS BusID: 5-3:1.0 Hardware Class: mouse Model: "Logitech TrackMan Wheel" <========= Hotplug: USB Vendor: usb 0x046d "Logitech, Inc." Device: usb 0xc404 "TrackMan Wheel" Revision: "2.20" Compatible to: int 0x0210 0x0023 Driver: "usbhid" Driver Modules: "usbhid" Device File: /dev/input/mice (/dev/input/mouse0) Device Files: /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/input/event0, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:29:00.3-usb-0:3:1.0-event-mouse, /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_Trackball-event-mouse, /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_Trackball-mouse, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:29:00.3-usb-0:3:1.0-mouse Device Number: char 13:63 (char 13:32) Speed: 1.5 Mbps Module Alias: "usb:v046DpC404d0220dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc01ip02in00" Driver Info #0: Buttons: 3 Wheels: 1 XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2 GPM Protocol: exps2 Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #64 (Hub) Telcontar:~ # - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY9gjZRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV/vAAmwYh1wv5utPK0ta/zdr5 cu6bp5ThAJ9nYxhbeAvQzSu6GWB0joUYDysLsg== =TWyg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [oS-EN] Trying to listen to internet radio stations
by Carlos E. R. 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

Hum. Your mail software handles quoting incorrectly. On 2022-12-29 08:41, Fred wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:14:15 +0100 >>> Carlos E. R. wrote: >>> >>>> Can you suggest some other software that actually works? >> > Hey, Carlos - why beat yourself up trying to get some program to run when you can use your browser and run: > https://www.radio.net/ and let them do all the work? Well, I did not know about it. It has a search of stations near me, but it distributes the 60 stations in 3 pages, which makes search by name impossible. And the station I want, a major national network, is not listed. And apparently, it doesn't have a button to search by text, just in case it is not considered to be near me. Clicking at random, the strange symbol at the top left is clickable and offers to do a search, and does find the network I want, but not the station in my region. I can not search inside the results, because it distributes them in 10 pages. Yes, the one I want is in the second page, I was lucky. Well, it works, once I know its quirks. I will have to try this page in the laptop, find out how much CPU it uses. [...] On my puny laptop, it uses 100% CPU on its two cores, using a new Firefox profile. I will have to kill adds and retry. [...] Add blockplus added. CPU load reduced to 50..60% on two cores. Well, that's the main reason I do not use the station own web browser site, either. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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sound issue (was: Dropping yast2-sound)
by Per Jessen 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 2023-01-26 19:31, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >>> >>>> Many people have been doing that, uninstall-reinstall for years and >>>> years. >>> >>> Can't say I'm one of them. >> >> but you have heard of many people uninstall/reinstall as a solutin? Not exactly, but maybe I'm not moving in the right circles :-) Overall, I don't subscribe to such band-aid "solutions", especially not when it ought to be easy to diagnose the problem. (sound is hardly black magic any more). > Google it. That presumes I am interested :-) > Examples: > ><https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/339562-sound-only-works-after-restarti…> SuSE 9.3, from 2005 ... almost twenty years old. Seriously? ><https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/165696/restarting-all-sound-servic…> openSUSE 12.3 - 8 years old? Instead of trawling through the archives of time, maybe post some config data and some dmesg output (related to your sound module). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-0.4°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes

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Tumbleweed: after reinstall of system: creation of connection KVM fails with error message.
by Stakanov 02 Feb '23

02 Feb '23

particularity: I have the /var/lib/libvirt installed on a RAID 1 on separate hardware. entropy@linux:~> lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS sda 8:0 0 119,2G 0 disk └─md126 9:126 0 119,2G 0 raid1 └─md126p1 259:0 0 119G 0 part /boot/efi sdb 8:16 0 119,2G 0 disk └─md126 9:126 0 119,2G 0 raid1 └─md126p1 259:0 0 119G 0 part /boot/efi sdc 8:32 0 3,6T 0 disk └─sdc1 8:33 0 3,6T 0 part └─md0 9:0 0 3,6T 0 raid1 /var/lib/libvirt sdd 8:48 0 7,3T 0 disk └─sdd1 8:49 0 7,3T 0 part └─md1 9:1 0 7,3T 0 raid1 └─md1p1 259:1 0 7,3T 0 part /home sde 8:64 0 7,3T 0 disk └─sde1 8:65 0 7,3T 0 part └─md1 9:1 0 7,3T 0 raid1 └─md1p1 259:1 0 7,3T 0 part /home sdf 8:80 0 232,9G 0 disk └─sdf1 8:81 0 232,9G 0 part └─md127 9:127 0 232,9G 0 raid1 /var /usr/local /root /srv /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi /boot/grub2/i386-pc /opt / sdg 8:96 0 3,6T 0 disk └─sdg1 8:97 0 3,6T 0 part └─md0 9:0 0 3,6T 0 raid1 /var/lib/libvirt sdh 8:112 1 0B 0 disk sdi 8:128 1 0B 0 disk sdj 8:144 1 0B 0 disk sdk 8:160 1 0B 0 disk sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom normally I did not have any problem in setting up a new system after a reinstall. But now I get: Socket creation for '/var/run/libvirt/virtqemud-sock' failed: No such file or directory Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 925, in _do_open self._backend.open(cb, data) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py", line 171, in open conn = libvirt.openAuth(self._open_uri, File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 147, in openAuth raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') libvirt.libvirtError: Socket creation for '/var/run/libvirt/virtqemud-sock' failed: No such file or directory I am puzzled. Has there been a change in directories of KVM, between var and run? What do I have to do to recover my images that are currently in /var/lib/ libvirt?

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caching DNS
by joe a 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

Looking into installing a "caching DNS" server on openSUSE Leap 15.3, mainly to play nice with the anti SPAM "black list" providers, which are currently rejecting requests "blocked due to usage of an open resolver". Rumor has it that installing a "properly configured caching DNS server" is the fix du jour. Never done this. Never. Honest. Is "BIND" still they way to go?

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opensuse Leap 15.4 parallel / multiple PHP versions possible?
by Admin Beckspaced 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Dear users, I'm running opensuse Leap 15.4 currently with PHP version 7.4.x as PHP-FPM with apache event Is it possible to run multiple PHP versions with opensuse? e.g. PHP version 7.x and 8.x in parallel You define the sethandler in vhost config for the PHP version needed Is something like this possible with opensuse leap 15.4? I see this a lot for ubuntu, debian. Can anyone provide some links to tutorials, howtos for opensuse? thanks & greetings Becki

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Mesa in packman repos
by Stakanov 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Stupid question of today: why is there a MESA version in the packman repos if opensuse provides one too? To be clear I am talking about the Tumbleweed repos. I recall some graphic card reason, but it is a recall that comes remotely and long time ago. So since this recently caused me some trouble because of shifting repo here and there I wanted to understand. Someone can maybe educate me on this. I do not think that patent rights can be an issue here. Thank you in advance.

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[oS-en] Hibernation failure: what means this:
by Carlos E. R. 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jan 30 11:30:35 Telcontar kernel: OOM killer enabled. Jan 30 11:30:35 Telcontar kernel: Restarting tasks ... done. Jan 30 11:30:35 Telcontar kernel: PM: hibernation: resume failed (-16) <=== ? (Leap 15.4) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY9euHRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV+QYAn2BNz8gdjl3RlP3Jxk/F SGdEcBZeAKCKbIbcbQC24bT1DQgYqig/jLEuog== =vWby -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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MS Teams
by Roger Oberholtzer 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

I know that Teams for Linux is EOL and is now a web app. (Sigh.) But after a recent Tumbleweed upgrade, Teams is no linger working. I have tried the suggestions here: https://en.opensuse.org/Microsoft_Teams, which worked in the past. But no success. Anyone running Teams on an up-to-date Tumbleweed? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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Re: Video Borked
by Mark Misulich 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Hi, that's the answer. I took out the Nvidia packages described and rebooted, and now things work again. lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' shows that nouveau is once again the video driver. I'm not sure why those Nvidia packages were installed while doing an update, but now that they are gone everything is back to normal. I tend to two computers that had the same issue after updating, this remedy fixed them both. Many thanks, Mark Mark Misulich <munguanaweza(a)gmail.com> 12:22 PM (1 hour ago) to users On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:22 PM Mark Misulich <munguanaweza(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > Masaru Nomiya came up with the answer. I took out the Nvidia packages > he described and rebooted, and now things work again. lspci -k | grep > -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' shows that nouveau is once again the video > driver. I'm not sure why those Nvidia packages were installed while > doing an update but now that they are gone everything is back to > normal. I tend to two computers that had the same issue after > updating, this remedy fixed them both. > Many thanks, > Mark > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 11:29 PM Masaru Nomiya <nomiya(a)galaxy.dti.ne.jp> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > In the Message; > > > > Subject : Video Borked > > Message-ID : <55b6f665b830665c601141e13b4d5e0200de09ee.camel(a)gmail.com> > > Date & Time: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:15:08 -0500 > > > > [MM] == lxmark <munguanaweza(a)gmail.com> has written: > > > > MM> Hi, > > MM> I'm running Tumbleweed on my desktop computer, and after I did an > > MM> update I've lost ability to boot up to graphics mode. The computer > > MM> boots to a text prompt mark@localhost:~> only. > > [...] > > > > Finally, I am able to boot up to graphics mode under the　nouveau. > > > > The ponit was to uninstall thesefiles; > > > > kernel-firmware-nvidia > > kernel-firmware-nvidia-gsp-G06 > > > > These seem to be files required by Nvidia driver 525.85.05, but I > > don't know exactly what they are. > > > > Regards. > > > > --- > > ┏━━┓彡野宮賢 mail-to: m.nomiya+suse @ gmail.com > > ┃＼／彡 > > ┗━━┛ "Three young men died for Rationalization. > > Yet, Margaret Bloody Thatcher LIVES!" > > 'Brassed Off'

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Re: hardware
by Chuck Davis 29 Jan '23

29 Jan '23

I wanted to see what cpu a box had in it this a.m. and am distressed to discover the nice hardware profile we used to have (in YaST) is gone. What are we supposed to do now to find out what hardware is in a box? Thanks for direction....

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Re: hardware
by David C. Rankin 29 Jan '23

29 Jan '23

On 1/28/23 11:28, Chuck Davis wrote: > I wanted to see what cpu a box had in it this a.m. and am distressed to > discover the nice hardware profile we used to have (in YaST) is gone. What > are we supposed to do now to find out what hardware is in a box? > > Thanks for direction.... Gah... Just: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Video Borked
by lxmark 29 Jan '23

29 Jan '23

Hi, I'm running Tumbleweed on my desktop computer, and after I did an update I've lost ability to boot up to graphics mode. The computer boots to a text prompt mark@localhost:~> only. It won't boot to graphics if I wait, nor will it go to graphics if I input startx. It will boot to graphics if I switch to root (su), then input startx, but it only goes to a black screen with a cursor arrow visible that I can move with the mouse, and never boots to full graphics. If I try to boot the current kernel (6.1.8.1) in recovery mode it won't boot to graphics. If I boot the previous kernel it will only boot to the user@localhost prompt. If I boot the previous kernel (6.1.7.1) in recovery mode it will boot to graphics desktop, but I think that it might be using a driver such as vesa because the rendering is not sharp nor in the right adjustment to the size of the screen. If I type lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' in konsole I get the output 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] (rev a2) Subsystem: PNY Device 0719 Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia 03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB368 IDE controller Comparing that output to the output I get on another computer that booted normally, also running Tumbleweed, I got: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] (rev a2) Subsystem: PNY Device 0719 Kernel Driver: Nouveau Kernel modules: noveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia From what little I understand about this, I gather that opensuse is supposed to autoload nouveau during boot because something went wrong during a routine update. It seems that isn't happening, but maybe my understanding is incorrect. In any event, I need help to fix this. Thanks, Mark

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[oS-en] Black firefox.
by Carlos E. R. 28 Jan '23

28 Jan '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It happened to me 3 or 4 times. Suddenly, when I switch to Firefox, the window is black. All firefox windows of the same profile (another profile that was running stays unaffected), in all the workspaces. I could go and close windows one by one, but on restart it would be impossible to restart all of them. I have to close all of them at one go so that restore previous sesion works. So the only thing to do is "killall firefox". And not always works. I did: cer@Telcontar:~> kill 6793 cer@Telcontar:~> kill 6793 bash: kill: (6793) - No such process <=== the parent process of all of them - no dice cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found <=== but I could see it was still running. cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found cer@Telcontar:~> killall /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox cer@Telcontar:~> killall /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox: no process found <=== now it worked. cer@Telcontar:~> Of course, this also killed my other running profile (or instance, if you will). Is there a better way? Maybe a kill command that automatically finds and kill all siblings at a single go? Anybody has seen this problem? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY9QZ5Rwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVdC0AnR5NKeo6LI7ZjBrzVxgp lIgw5K0GAJ0da7bTrsOmkuzj1yz94gpyB0MkWw== =c1NF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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update repository
by Michael Spartana 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Hi, I'm on tumbleweed, and it's seems like a long that Update Repository has had any updates.....are we still using it? using zypper....the other repositories seem fine... mike

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[oS-EN] Rebellious mouse
by Carlos E. R. 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hi, At this secondary location I have a rebellious mouse. It is a Logitech M90. A simple thing, a red LED pointing to the table and some sensor that decodes movement directly. No ball. With cable. It doesn't work well on the table (smooth white PVC), so I put it on a paper. One of those with millilitre lines for science graphs. Well, sometimes it moves and then stops, like if the ghost ball would be dirty and not moving well the ancient wheels inside, stuck. So I bang the mouse against the table as if to dislodge the dirt (there is none) from the non existing ball and wheels, and the funny thing is, it works again. What could be really be causing this? Leap 15.4, XFCE. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.4)

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[oS-EN] New monitor when sent to sleep doesn't awake
by Carlos E. R. 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hi, I have a new monitor on this old machine at a secondary location. Got it cheap, a returned item to a shop. An LG 22MP410, connected to my old machine with Nvidia graphics. The problem is that (apparently) when the desktop sends the display to sleep for inactivity, pressing a key doesn't wake it up. Nor disconnecting both cables. What works is pressing the menu key of the monitor. I am using XFCE desktop on Leap 15.4. Screensaver is disabled. Power Manager / Display is set to - Blank after 10 minutes - put to sleep after 10 minutes - Switch off after 30 minutes. But it is all deactivated! (I had it deactivated for the previous display, decades old hardware, that would hang the machine on sleep. I will try to activate it and see). Hum... Now that I write this, I'm suspecting that it was "powered off". But this thing doesn't have a power on/off switch! It has a... tiny "joystick" in a recess under the bottom edge. It can be pressed, which activates the menu, and moved to the sides as a cursor key. I found it by blind touching everywhere this morning. The papers don't mention it. Maybe it went to sleep because the monitor, not the computer, decided so... no, that is set to 4 hours. It was the computer. Elesar:~ # hwinfo --gfxcard 18: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.386] Unique ID: VCu0.on6Ysc6JyT1 Parent ID: H0_h.3kPMz12AcD0 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:01:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "nVidia G96C [GeForce 9500 GT]" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x0640 "G96C [GeForce 9500 GT]" SubVendor: pci 0x1462 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI]" SubDevice: pci 0x1573 Revision: 0xa1 Driver: "nouveau" Driver Modules: "nouveau" Memory Range: 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xfa000000-0xfbffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0x9c00-0x9c7f (rw) Memory Range: 0x000c0000-0x000dffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 32 (2267233 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000640sv00001462sd00001573bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: nouveau is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #30 (PCI bridge) Primary display adapter: #18 Elesar:~ # hwinfo --monitor 31: None 00.0: 10002 LCD Monitor [Created at monitor.125] Unique ID: rdCR.uluPkDjUuA7 Parent ID: VCu0.on6Ysc6JyT1 Hardware Class: monitor Model: "LG ELECTRONICS LG FULL HD" Vendor: GSM "LG ELECTRONICS" Device: eisa 0x5bfb "LG FULL HD" Serial ID: "" Resolution: 720x400@70Hz Resolution: 640x480@60Hz Resolution: 640x480@75Hz Resolution: 800x600@60Hz Resolution: 800x600@75Hz Resolution: 1024x768@60Hz Resolution: 1024x768@75Hz Resolution: 1280x1024@75Hz Resolution: 1152x864@75Hz Resolution: 1280x1024@60Hz Resolution: 1920x1080@60Hz Size: 480x270 mm Year of Manufacture: 2016 Week of Manufacture: 1 Detailed Timings #0: Resolution: 1920x1080 Horizontal: 1920 2008 2052 2200 (+88 +132 +280) +hsync Vertical: 1080 1084 1089 1125 (+4 +9 +45) +vsync Frequencies: 148.50 MHz, 67.50 kHz, 60.00 Hz Driver Info #0: Max. Resolution: 1920x1080 Vert. Sync Range: 56-75 Hz Hor. Sync Range: 30-85 kHz Bandwidth: 148 MHz Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #11 (VGA compatible controller) Elesar:~ # Elesar:~ # inxi -G Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA G96C [GeForce 9500 GT] driver: nouveau v: kernel Display: server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: loaded: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: NV96 v: 3.3 Mesa 21.2.4 Elesar:~ # inxi CPU: Quad Core Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 (-MCP-) speed: 2841 MHz Kernel: 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default x86_64 Up: 4h 47m Mem: 4667.4/7942.3 MiB (58.8%) Storage: 232.89 GiB (14.7% used) Procs: 301 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.07 Elesar:~ # -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.4)

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Brasero showing twice in gnome software (Installed)
by Pete Thorsen Jr. 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hi, I've installed Brasero from the gnome software application, which said that it was installed from the opensuse repo. When I click on the “Installed” tab of the gnome software application, it indicates that Brasero is installed twice. Originally, I wrote to the Brasero folks about this. They said that they couldn't do anything about it. I wrote to the Gnome folks, I never heard back from anyone. Now I am writing here hoping to clean up this bug. One of the Brasero devs replied to me and said, “Your distro provides the PackageKit back-end from which the information comes.” Hopefully, someone here can pass along this information to get it looked at and fix it so that only one instance appears in the Installed software tab of the gnome software application. Thanks in advance, Pete

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Cut and paste
by Marc Chamberlin 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

I have noticed an intermittent problem on my OpenSuSE 15.3 and 15.4 x64 systems running KDE/Plasma desktop and I wonder if others are seeing it also and what can be done to fix it. Cut/Copy and Paste does not always work. Particularly noticeable in Firefox and Thunderbird, though Kate, Emacs, LibreOffice and other apps as well, display the problem. I select a string of characters from somewhere, even within an app itself, like Thunderbird, right click the mouse to Copy or Cut the selection, then try an paste it either somewhere back in the app itself, or in some other app, and the paste operation fails. It acts and if there is nothing to paste and the paste menu item remains grayed out and unusable. Sometime Ctrl V works and sometimes not. I usually double check what's in the the Clipboard KDE/Plasma to make sure that what I tried to Copy or Cut is at the top of the clipboard app, and it always is. Kinda annoying and sometimes it is impossible to get the Cut/Copy and Paste to work at all. Sometimes it does work and I have no idea why or what causes the Cut/Copy and Paste to work in some cases and not in others. Any ideas? Thanks in advance as always.... Marc...

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KDE bug fix inquiry
by Marc Chamberlin 24 Jan '23

24 Jan '23

This is probably the wrong group to ask, but I will start here and then follow any pointers to where I should ask my question... I am running Leap 15.4 with the KDE/Plasma desktop. There is a bug, reported and fixed/resolved - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453280 which is bugging me now. This was resolved last year (June) and I am wondering when this fix will show up in an update for my system? It is annoying to have to log out and log back in whenever this problem shows up on my systems, so I thought I would ask and hopefully get an update soon that fixes it. 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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[oS-en] new syslog noise about usb
by Carlos E. R. 23 Jan '23

23 Jan '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Leap 15.4 Today, I was getting a lot of these new messages in the log (I did an update yesterday): <1.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:34.810643+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 12239 - - Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale <3.6> 2023-01-23T12:24:34.810796+01:00 Telcontar dbus-daemon 6603 - - [session uid=1000 pid=6603] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Extract' <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:39.931135+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1419.750050][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:40.439134+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1420.262039][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:40.471128+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1420.294034][ C11] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring sdma0 <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:40.951290+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1420.774202][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:40.986395+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1420.806033][ C11] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring sdma0 <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:41.467291+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1421.286047][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:41.979281+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1421.798197][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:42.491121+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1422.310037][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:42.651117+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1422.470030][ C5] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring sdma1 <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:43.003273+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1422.822197][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:43.511303+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1423.334196][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:43.916745+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1423.739516][ T395] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:49.891122+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1429.710009][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:50.399123+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1430.218010][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:50.427147+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1430.250010][ C11] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring sdma0 <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:50.955118+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1430.774008][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:53.755131+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1433.574774][ T395] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.3> 2023-01-23T12:24:53.963281+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1433.782006][ T395] usb 3-2: device not accepting address 32, error -71 <0.6> 2023-01-23T12:24:54.159124+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1433.978002][ T395] usb 3-2: new low-speed USB device number 33 using xhci_hcd <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:24:59.935122+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1439.753975][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:25:03.783959+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1443.606710][ T395] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:25:09.623152+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1449.445966][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:25:09.623170+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1449.445968][ C5] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring sdma0 <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:25:10.143119+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1449.961947][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:25:10.175409+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1449.993945][ C5] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring sdma0 <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:25:13.624717+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1453.446974][ T395] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.3> 2023-01-23T12:25:13.835118+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1453.653946][ T395] usb 3-2: device not accepting address 33, error -71 <0.3> 2023-01-23T12:25:13.835132+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1453.654249][ T395] usb usb3-port2: unable to enumerate USB device usb trouble, and drm trouble. The only things connected to the usb now are in the back of the computer, thus the keyboard, mouse, and other things that should be disconnected. In fact, response at the keyboard stalled, but now seems normal and messages have stopped. Ideas? No, keyboard stalling again, new messages: <1.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:19.882428+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 12711 - - Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale <3.6> 2023-01-23T12:30:19.882531+01:00 Telcontar dbus-daemon 6603 - - [session uid=1000 pid=6603] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Extract' <0.3> 2023-01-23T12:30:29.799125+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1769.617886][ T395] usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 <0.6> 2023-01-23T12:30:29.911120+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1769.730163][ T395] usb usb3-port2: attempt power cycle <0.6> 2023-01-23T12:30:30.399127+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1770.217854][ T395] usb 3-2: new low-speed USB device number 36 using xhci_hcd <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:36.059120+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1775.877858][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:36.571120+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1776.389858][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:36.855129+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1776.677862][ C5] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring sdma0 <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:37.083124+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1776.901858][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:37.599121+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1777.417864][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:38.107212+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1777.926139][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:38.619390+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1778.438142][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:39.127407+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1778.950135][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:39.643394+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1779.462155][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:40.024784+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1779.847416][ T395] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:46.015303+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1785.833890][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:46.527119+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1786.345877][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:47.043303+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1786.862061][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:49.860021+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1789.682597][ T395] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.3> 2023-01-23T12:30:50.070655+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1789.889885][ T395] usb 3-2: device not accepting address 36, error -71 <0.6> 2023-01-23T12:30:50.275127+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1790.093893][ T395] usb 3-2: new low-speed USB device number 37 using xhci_hcd <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:56.031128+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1795.849892][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:56.535353+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1796.358114][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:57.047311+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1796.870071][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:57.559295+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1797.382062][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:58.079114+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1797.897895][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:30:59.903115+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1799.722583][ T395] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:05.791119+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1805.609906][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:06.303299+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1806.121910][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:06.335293+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1806.153908][ C5] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring sdma0 <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:06.815304+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1806.633908][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:06.847122+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1806.665906][ C5] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring sdma0 <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:07.327297+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1807.145928][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:07.359280+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1807.177907][ C5] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring sdma0 <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:07.839119+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1807.658088][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:08.350096+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1808.169912][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:08.863136+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1808.681913][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:09.371133+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1809.189930][ C10] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring gfx <0.4> 2023-01-23T12:31:09.743116+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1809.562870][ T395] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.3> 2023-01-23T12:31:09.951127+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1809.769916][ T395] usb 3-2: device not accepting address 37, error -71 <0.3> 2023-01-23T12:31:09.951142+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 1809.770222][ T395] usb usb3-port2: unable to enumerate USB device I'll probably try booting an older kernel. [...] Did so. Another problem: system stalled at the "reached boot target" message, but did not power off nor reboot. Now using: cer@Telcontar:~> uname -a Linux Telcontar 5.14.21-150400.24.33-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Nov 4 13:55:06 UTC 2022 (76cfe60) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I don't see noise in the log, the keyboard responds normally. cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -q kernel-default kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.33.2.x86_64 kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.38.1.x86_64 cer@Telcontar:~> - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY85y2Bwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVuEYAn2nir8ELdOju4kibZ6yI cKW8jQ9zAJ0a4l7tDhMORxCsxMKVdlJ4q+eH7g== =uAXm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Technical question: does the current grub in Tumbleweed (the current boot loader) understand md/v1.x metadata?
by Stakanov 22 Jan '23

22 Jan '23

Or do I have to create my boot raid with --metadata 0.90 as setting? Thank you.

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Re: Mdadm: can I resize the partition of a mdam if I have only one primary partition per disk and RAID 1? In yast?
by David C. Rankin 22 Jan '23

22 Jan '23

On 1/19/23 14:19, Stratos Zolotas wrote: > I suppose something like > > mdadm --grow --size max /dev/md0 I would not grow to max, but "max - 300M". A replacement 8T drive may not have exactly the same "max" size preventing syncing to the new drive. It is always recommended to leave 1/4 to 1G unused for this reason. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[heroes] what changed today that I can't use SeaMonkey 2.53.14 for the forums?
by Felix Miata 21 Jan '23

21 Jan '23

Now the site is headed by: [quote] Unfortunately, your browser is unsupported. Please switch to a supported browser to view rich content, log in and reply.[/quote] It won't let me login. I can't switch to 2.53.15 yet, because Buc's alternate version[1] that supports iso 8601 is not yet available. [1] https://buc.fedorapeople.org/seamonkey/download/ -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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Mdadm: can I resize the partition of a mdam if I have only one primary partition per disk and RAID 1? In yast?
by Stakanov 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

I have a mdam md0 with two hdd 4 TB. They are in use as /home I now have two HDD with 8TB. I normally work with mdam in CLI. I did up to now a planed degrading of the secondary disk of the md0. Then a hot remove. Then I added the first 8TB. with other words: silversurfer:~ # mdadm --manage --set-faulty /dev/md0 /dev/sde1 mdadm: set /dev/sde1 faulty in /dev/md0 silversurfer:~ # mdadm --manage /dev/md0 -r /dev/sde1 mdadm: hot removed /dev/sde1 from /dev/md0 You have new mail in /var/mail/root silversurfer:~ # mdadm --manage /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdg1 mdadm: added /dev/sdg1 It does now sync the data with the 4 TB (hence creating a 4TB on a 8TB disc. Rest of the disk is empty, no other partitions. I will then declare failed the first 4 TB disk, hence hot remove and add 8TB. (here md0 /dev/sdb1) This will again sync 4TB on 8TB disk. Now, one the sync is done, is it possible to expand (e.g. in yast partition manager) the 4TB to the max capacity of the disc, although it is a Raid? How would I proceed and if it is not possible, how would I manage to expand a RAID1? Current status: entropy@silversurfer:~> lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS sda 8:0 0 232,9G 0 disk └─sda1 8:1 0 232,9G 0 part └─md127 9:127 0 232,9G 0 raid1 /usr/local /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi /srv /opt /var /root /boot/grub2/i386-pc /.snapshots / sdb 8:16 0 3,6T 0 disk └─sdb1 8:17 0 3,6T 0 part └─md0 9:0 0 3,6T 0 raid1 /home sdc 8:32 0 298,1G 0 disk ├─sdc1 8:33 0 1K 0 part └─sdc5 8:37 0 298,1G 0 part /boot/efi sdd 8:48 0 447,1G 0 disk ├─sdd1 8:49 0 232,9G 0 part │ └─md127 9:127 0 232,9G 0 raid1 /usr/local │ /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi │ /srv │ /opt │ /var │ /root │ /boot/grub2/i386-pc │ /.snapshots │ / ├─sdd2 8:50 0 100G 0 part /var/tmp ├─sdd3 8:51 0 50G 0 part /tmp └─sdd4 8:52 0 64,2G 0 part [SWAP] sde 8:64 0 3,6T 0 disk └─sde1 8:65 0 3,6T 0 part sdf 8:80 0 1,8T 0 disk └─sdf1 8:81 0 1,8T 0 part └─md126 9:126 0 1,8T 0 raid1 ├─md126p1 259:0 0 200G 0 part └─md126p2 259:1 0 1,6T 0 part /var/lib/libvirt sdg 8:96 0 7,3T 0 disk └─sdg1 8:97 0 7,3T 0 part └─md0 9:0 0 3,6T 0 raid1 /home sdh 8:112 0 7,3T 0 disk └─sdh1 8:113 0 1,8T 0 part └─md126 9:126 0 1,8T 0 raid1 ├─md126p1 259:0 0 200G 0 part └─md126p2 259:1 0 1,6T 0 part /var/lib/libvirt sdi 8:128 1 0B 0 disk sdj 8:144 1 0B 0 disk sdk 8:160 1 0B 0 disk sdl 8:176 1 0B 0 disk sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom Thanks in advance

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It seems that I need a 6.1.x kernel, Leap 15.4
by Darryl Gregorash 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

Are the kernels at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/ suitable for use in Leap 15.4? Background: It seems that ASUS removed all WMI support from its motherboards with the X570/B550/TRX40 chipset (apparently as a result of AMD doing so so for the X670/B650 chips (?) ), and that broke temperature/fan speed monitoring on those boards. The lack of WMI support means the NCT6775 module is loaded on these systems, but previously, that driver attempted to read/write directly to the ACPI table, which according to this discussion: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204807# (see especially comment 37) is rather bad thing to allow. The patch to NCT6775 was only accepted into the kernel beginning with ver 6.1.2, and has not yet been backported to the 5.14 kernel. Therefore, to regain temp/fan speed monitoring, I need to install that kernel or later (ver 6.1.7 was just released on download.o.o today).

7 17

Tumbleweed in Microsoft Store
by Roger Oberholtzer 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

When installing WSL on Windows, one has a choice to install a Linux distro. SLED15 and an earlier one are amongst the distros available. But no openSUSE distros are available at that level. They are available in the Store. But not direct in Windows at the command line. I'm curious why SLED is the only one available directly. Political? Tumbleweed is available via the store. Here's where it gets interesting: on a company managed Windows PC, they can control what you can get from the Store. In my company at least, Tumbleweed is not on the list. I bet this is the case for many corporate users. So they select a distro from those that are immediately available. For SUSE I guess it is good if an SLED is selected. I get that. But from a openSUSE perspective, the situation is less good. -- Roger Oberholtzer

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rename files
by Simon Becherer 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

Hi, i have to rename hunderts of files: 792041_100029699.mi 792090_100029501.mi . . . to 792041.mi 792090.mi . . . i tried: rename ??????_*.mi ??????.mi *.mi rename: ??????_.mi: kein Zugriff: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden as you see, no sucess. (first file is gone, all others stay as they are) is there a easy way to do this (without writing a script)? simoN -- www.becherer.de ----------------------------------------------- - Das ist die vorlaeufig endgueltige Version! - Herbert C. Maier Dipl.-Ing. (FH) -----------------------------------------------

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Does openSUSE package perl-rename anywhere?
by David C. Rankin 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

All, Simon's question brought up another -- the substitution he wanted to do would be trivial with perl-rename using a regex substitution. However after using zypper to search for "perl-rename", "rename", etc.. nothing but gprename appears. Does opensuse package perl-rename? If so where? Both the rename from util-linux and perl-rename can be installed side-by-side, simply using "perl-rename" as the executable name for it to prevent name collision (or better letting the user choose under the alternatives structure) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[oO-en] Restarting ntpd on return from hibernation.
by Carlos E. R. 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to restart ntpd on return from hibernation. Main reason is to make sure that the pool of servers is correct (can be days later than the previous time), and to ensure correct time, not knowing what ntpd does on hibernation (nothing is logged, so it probably does nothing). So I wonder what is the correct way of achieving this. I'm doing it via a script in "/etc/pm/sleep.d/07time": +++······················· !/bin/bash . /usr/lib/pm-utils/functions . /root/ThingsNeededForBoot/MyScriptDefinitions DATE=`date --rfc-3339=seconds` case "$1" in thaw|resume) $LOGGER -t pm-utils -p daemon.notice "restarting remote clock syncing after hibernating/suspend." systemctl restart ntpd.service ;; *) ;; esac exit $? ·······················++- It works. But I wonder if there is a better way using systemd "somehow". - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHYEARECADYWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY78iPhgcY2FybG9zLmUu ckBvcGVuc3VzZS5vcmcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Vz3gCdEbmrJaAYsluBLdTc6WbkxVy/ nsQAn1RUTUx1b83Ihb6il0frpCAPQ7l/ =YAY8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Firewalld and port knocks
by Marc Chamberlin 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

Hi - I am running an OpenSuSE 15.4 x64 using Firewalld with iptables as the backend. firewall-cmd -V 0.9.3 I also use Knockd and port knocks to open and close various ports on this system. (and yes I understand the drawbacks of using port knocking!) The trouble is, Firewalld is blocking the knocks and preventing the knockd.service daemon from hearing them. Looking through log files, the only thing I see of serious interest is this error message, I get when I turn debug on, in the firewalld.log file - 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Applying policy (zone_ANY_public) derived from zone 'public' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Applying policy (zone_public_ANY) derived from zone 'public' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Applying used policies 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Applying policy 'allow-host-ipv6' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: modprobe: FATAL: Module nf_nat_netbios_ns not found in directory /lib/modules/5.14.21-150400.24.38-default 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Setting policy to 'ACCEPT' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: GetAll('org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1') 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: config.icmptype.0.GetAll('org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1.config.icmptype') Google provides zero results when I use it to search for "nf_nat_netbios_ns" and YaST2 does not come up with anything either. I don't know if these two issues are related or not, but I need to get Firewalld to allow the knockd.service daemon to hear the knocks. If I stop the Firewalld service, then all works well as far as the knockd.service daemon is concerned and it does hear the knocks then. There is one other thing I see in the firewalld.log file that "looks" ominous, but I have no idea what it means to Overload a zone and whether that is a good thing or a bad thing - 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/drop.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/external.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/home.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/internal.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/nm-shared.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/public.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/trusted.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/work.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/etc/firewalld/zones/block.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Overloads zone 'block' ('/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/block.xml') 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Setting zone of interface 'eth2' to 'block' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/etc/firewalld/zones/cameras.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Setting zone of interface 'eth3' to 'cameras' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/etc/firewalld/zones/dmz.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Overloads zone 'dmz' ('/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/dmz.xml') 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/etc/firewalld/zones/docker.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Overloads zone 'docker' ('/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/docker.xml') 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Setting zone of interface 'docker0' to 'docker' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/etc/firewalld/zones/drop.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Overloads zone 'drop' ('/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/drop.xml') 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/etc/firewalld/zones/external.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Overloads zone 'external' ('/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/external.xml') 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Setting zone of interface 'eth1' to 'external' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/etc/firewalld/zones/home.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Overloads zone 'home' ('/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/home.xml') 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/etc/firewalld/zones/internal.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Overloads zone 'internal' ('/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/internal.xml') 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Setting zone of interface 'eth0' to 'internal' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Loading zone file '/etc/firewalld/zones/nm-shared.xml' 2023-01-09 13:24:28 DEBUG1: Overloads zone 'nm-shared' ('/usr/lib/firewalld/zones/nm-shared.xml') Thanks in advance for helping me with these questions/issues! 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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[oS-en] Strange networking problem.
by Carlos E. R. 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hii, Mi ISP has replaced my router, and suddenly, all the machines behind the switches do not work. I power cycled router and switches. hgu router | \--------------- laptop (with full connection) | Switch 8 ports |\ | -- chromecast (without internet connection, does not work) || Switch 16 ports | | | | \ ---- desktop computer (partial connectivity) | | | | | | | Several computers, printer, etc. - From the laptop, when connected directly to the router, I have full connectivity. If I connect the laptop to the first switch: - I get IP from the router via DHCP. - I can't ping the router or connect to its web at 192.168.1.1 or outside. - I can connect to the desktop computer On the desktop computer: - I cannot ping the router nor connect to router config web at 192.168.1.1 or outside. - I can connect to the laptop and any other machine, except the router. On the router, I can see the map of all computers. On the switches, all LEDs are green. Since I can connect from the laptop to the desktop (and vice versa) via ssh, it means that all cabling and switches are working perfectly. There is connection from the computers to the router, as they get IP address by DHCP. - From the laptop, connected directly to the router, I can ping the switches. But I can't connect to the router configuration through the switch, ping 192.168.1.1, or connect to the internet. The router is blocking these connections, somehow. laptop: cer@Legolas:~> ip addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 1c:83:41:1b:d8:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff altname enp3s0 inet 192.168.1.127/16 brd 192.168.255.255 scope global noprefixroute eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::f8a0:12a3:7a65:18ab/64 scope link noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 86:8e:bd:76:ea:47 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr a0:d3:7a:a5:1d:4c altname wlp2s0 cer@Legolas:~> ip route default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static metric 100 192.168.0.0/16 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.127 metric 100 cer@Legolas:~> cer@Legolas:~> route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default router.valinor 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 100 0 0 eth0 cer@Legolas:~> Desktop: cer@Telcontar:~> ip addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:d8:61:a1:5a:bd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff altname enp34s0 inet 192.168.1.14/16 brd 192.168.255.255 scope global eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::2d8:61ff:fea1:5abd/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever cer@Telcontar:~> ip route default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 192.168.0.0/16 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.14 cer@Telcontar:~> cer@Telcontar:~> route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default router.valinor 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 cer@Telcontar:~> When I connect the laptop via dhcp, I get: Legolas:~ # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default router.valinor 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 100 0 0 eth0 Legolas:~ # ip addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 1c:83:41:1b:d8:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff altname enp3s0 inet 192.168.2.6/16 brd 192.168.255.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute eth0 valid_lft 43170sec preferred_lft 43170sec inet6 fe80::830d:8dec:3a05:4af3/64 scope link noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 86:8e:bd:76:ea:47 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr a0:d3:7a:a5:1d:4c altname wlp2s0 Legolas:~ # - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE Leap 15.3 at Legolas) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY8GVExwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVn04AnRIp+0JMrp+zmqKEVqph AgKqY6gSAKCNrmaNOrJ/sEHENzVVFRCzvkyh8Q== =MZdT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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stop team restarting
by jdd＠dodin.org 14 Jan '23

14 Jan '23

Hello, I have every month to attend a meeting using microsoft team. I do so by clicking on a link provided. For this I had to install the team linux client. I use 15.3/kde it works without problem, but... at any session login team start again: at start it adds itself to the autologin system of kde, I can see it in the kde setup. I can also remove it fir there, but it come back each time I use team... is there a way to forgive team to write it's autoload system? thanks jdd -- mon serveur usenet: dodin.fr.nf c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

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Upgrading motherboard
by Marc Chamberlin 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

Hi - I am about to embark on a new adventure and am going to install/upgrade a new motherboard, with new processor, on-board graphics, and memory. (The old one is about 15 years old, dating back to the Pentium 2 core processor days.) I want to keep my OpenSuSE 15.4 x64 system and all the custom application configurations as is. Is there any hiccups or other roadblocks I should prep my system for, before doing this massive hardware change-over? I just want to make this adventure go as smooth as possible and looking for advice from the schools of hard knocks! Thanks as always, in advance... 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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VirtualBox Quits
by Robin Klitscher 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

openSUSE Leap 15.4 KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0 Qt Version: 5.15.7 Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (64-bit) VirtualBox 7.0.4. I'd been running Windows 10 as guest for several years, successful and solid. Recently upgraded to Windows 11 as guest, also successfully. Now, all of a sudden and for no reason I can account for, VBox flatly refuses to run. I can't even start it to re-install guest(s). Calling it from a commandline produces this (sorry about the line wrap): Qt WARNING: QObject::connect: No such signal UITabBar::currentChanged(int) Qt WARNING: QObject::connect: No such signal UITabBar::tabMoved(int,int) Qt WARNING: QObject::connect: No such signal UITabBar::tabBarClicked(int) Qt WARNING: QObject::connect: No such signal UITabBar::tabBarDoubleClicked(int) /usr/bin/VirtualBox: line 70: 15387 Segmentation fault (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/virtualbox${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox6 $@ Is there anything (simple!) I can do about that? -- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand

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Lost KDE network manager after update
by James Knott 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Last night, several packages were updated on my ThinkPad E520. Today, I see I no longer have a network manager nor WiFi. Was there a package that might have caused this? Any idea on how I can restore network manager? tnx jk BTW, WiFi still works in Windows 10, so it's not a hardware issue.

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Multiple Instances of Linux Malware Distributed via PyPi in Last 30 Days
by David C. Rankin 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

All, I'm not sure how openSUSE looks at packages or libraries obtained from PyPi, but I've followed a couple of fairly shocking stories in the past two weeks alone related to python malware distributed via packages obtained from PyPi. The Register summarizes in: https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/09/pypi_aws_malware_key/?utm_source=dai… with PyTorch story on Jan 5: https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/04/pypi_pytorch_dependency_attack/?utm_… I don't do a lot with python, other than keep up with it and marvel at how the includes and libraries have grown like weeds in a vacant lot for Python3. I know enough to know that pulling libraries via PyPi is an often used and convenient way to handle dependencies. That raises the question - is there anything specific, or any tool openSUSE has looked at that may help prevent pulling in bad dependencies that are infected? (other than discourage this manner of obtaining python code?) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

3 3

SpamAssassin problem
by Carlos E. R. 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2023-01-07 a las 14:54 +0100, Carlos E. R. escribió: > El 2023-01-07 a las 13:01 +0100, Per Jessen escribió: >> Carlos E. R. wrote: ... > Anyway, grepping on /var/log/mail-202301*.xz doesn't find "spamhaus" or > "open resolver", so that is not my problem. But it is! I just looked in my spam folder, which contains only 8 emails after that long processing, and one of them has: Date: 30 Nov 2022 02:40:30 -0800 From: opensuse.org <no-reply(a)opensuse.org> To: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org Subject: (8) Incoming mails are pending ... Content analysis details: (7.4 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description - ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.0 RCVD_IN_ZEN_BLOCKED_OPENDNS RBL: ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to zen.spamhaus.org was blocked due to usage of an open resolver. See https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/ [195.135.221.145 listed in zen.spamhaus.org] - -0.4 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at https://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [195.135.221.145 listed in list.dnswl.org] - -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] - -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 0.0 SPF_HELO_NONE SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record 0.5 URI_NOVOWEL URI: URI hostname has long non-vowel sequence 0.5 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts 0.2 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 0.1 RCVD_IN_SBL RBL: Received via a relay in Spamhaus SBL [84.21.172.201 listed in zen.spamhaus.org] 3.3 RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS RBL: Received via a relay in Spamhaus SBL-CSS 0.8 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS - -1.0 MAILING_LIST_MULTI Multiple indicators imply a widely-seen list manager 2.7 GOOG_REDIR_NORDNS Google redirect to obscure spamvertised website + no rDNS 2.5 URIBL_DBL_SPAM Contains a spam URL listed in the Spamhaus DBL blocklist [URIs: w3s.link] 0.0 URIBL_ZEN_BLOCKED_OPENDNS ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to zen.spamhaus.org was blocked due to usage of an open resolver. See https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/ [URIs: ipfs.io, w3s.link] 0.0 URIBL_BLOCKED ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to URIBL was blocked. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block for more information. [URIs: w3s.link] Ok, so the score is zero, which in a way does not affect me, but I'm wasting time doing such queries. spamhaus and URIBL. This must be affecting any openSUSE user that uses SA in default configuration. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY7l8HRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVtcgAoIYeW78zX5Zv89hreiG0 7Q1R5UThAJ4xVKEUrzagvvWWbczk9SPLZNMMNA== =ypOx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Does anybody experience time out when retriving POP3 via Akonadi recently?
by Stakanov 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

I have a problem with a provider were I am using POP3 with Kontact/Akonadi. Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230105 KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0 Qt Version: 5.15.7 Kernel Version: 6.1.2-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Pro W5500 Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Akonadi and Kontact are 5.22.0 The issue presents one day yes, one day no. I contacted also the provider but I would like to know if anybody experience the "POP3 server socket timeout during operation" problem too. Thank you.

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Fancy climbing into ALP over New Year's? Fresh preview versions of SUSE's distro and NetBSD 10 are here
by J Leslie Turriff 08 Jan '23

08 Jan '23

This may or may not clarify the direction that SuSE is taking: https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/23/new_preview_versions_of_suses/ Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64

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[oS-en] Question about dnsmasq + bind
by Carlos E. R. 08 Jan '23

08 Jan '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I wrote in /etc/dnsmasq.conf server=/valinor/192.168.1.16 with the intention that queries on that domain are sent to another local machine. When using dig, the output doesn't show the query going out: cer@Telcontar:~> dig minas-tirith.valinor ; <<>> DiG 9.16.33 <<>> minas-tirith.valinor ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52223 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ; COOKIE: 6e6f1dc5bde493460100000063bb05c29c04986062a34595 (good) ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;minas-tirith.valinor. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: minas-tirith.valinor. 86400 IN A 192.168.1.129 ;; Query time: 3 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Sun Jan 08 19:04:50 CET 2023 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 93 cer@Telcontar:~> However, if I comment out the line: #server=/valinor/192.168.1.16 then the host is not found: cer@Telcontar:~> host -v minas-tirith.valinor Trying "minas-tirith.valinor" Host minas-tirith.valinor not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Received 38 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53 in 0 ms Received 38 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53 in 0 ms cer@Telcontar:~> dig minas-tirith.valinor ; <<>> DiG 9.16.33 <<>> minas-tirith.valinor ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 649 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;minas-tirith.valinor. IN A ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Sun Jan 08 19:04:15 CET 2023 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 49 cer@Telcontar:~> So it is working, but dig doesn't show the query being done to another machine in my LAN. Why? What have I misunderstood? Is there a command or method that will trace where the question is being sent? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY7sHvhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVFw8AniZFLj6kXQZe0KzbEoRg 6hk7w85bAJ4tFXmctxx2hk0fU+rvMAmZkVtgQw== =0poo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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gui program can't resolve hostname
by Istvan Gabor 07 Jan '23

07 Jan '23

Hello: I have an openSUSE Leap 15.1 system where the VoIP program IHU (I hear you) works.I also have another Leap 15.1 installation where the program doesn't work, it exits with error, it can't resolve any hostame. It can't resolve either localhost or any valid hostname in the network. It works if I use direct IP address. Command line tools ping and host can resolve hostnames. How could I trace what causes the error? It must be some difference in some configuration or the installed packages between the two 15.1 systems. The IHU program is:ihu-0.6.0-lp151.2.6.x86_64. I use networkmanager for networking.This is how the program runs:1. using IP address:> ihu --nogui --call 127.0.0.1Starting IHU without GUI...Press CTRL-C to terminateMon Dec 26 19:11:48 2022 - Contacting 127.0.0.1...Warning: Mon Dec 26 19:11:48 2022 - CALL to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1)Mon Dec 26 19:11:48 2022 - Closing communication...Mon Dec 26 19:11:50 2022 - 127.0.0.1 rejected the call.Warning: Mon Dec 26 19:11:50 2022 - HANG UP with 127.0.0.1: 0 bytes received, 6 bytes sent2. using localhost> ihu --nogui --call localhostStarting IHU without GUI...Press CTRL-C to terminateError: can't resolve localhostABORTED.Error: can't resolve localhost> ping localhostPING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.042 ms64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.051 ms64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.035 ms> host localhostlocalhost has address 127.0.0.1localhost has IPv6 address ::1localhost mail is handled by 1 localhost.Any suggestion would be appreciated.Thanks,Istvan

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Note - Pico/embedded builders: cross-arm-none-eabi-binutils-2.39 new warning RWX LOAD section warning
by David C. Rankin 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

All, and those that use cross-arm-none-eabi-binutils to build for Raspberry Pico, etc. The new version of ld in binutils will emit a warning about a LOAD segment with RWX permissions, e.g. /usr/lib64/gcc/arm-none-eabi/10/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld: warning: rtos-blink.elf has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions This is a known issue, see: https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk/issues/1029 The warning can be disabled as specified in the thread: # in pico-sdk/src/rp2_common/pico_standard_link/CMakeLists.txt target_link_options(pico_standard_link INTERFACE "LINKER:--no-warn-rwx-segments") # or for a specific executable in a local CMakeLists.txt target_link_options(hello_world PRIVATE "LINKER:--no-warn-rwx-segments") Updates tonight from the current user builds for cross-arm-none-eabi-binutils finally brought it in for openSUSE. I doubt many will see this, just thought I would pass it along for those tinkering with embedded systems using openSUSE as the build platform to save you a few minutes searching. (and if you haven't played with the $4 pico, this little thing with the dual-core RP2040 processor running at 133MHz, 2M flash memory, 26 GPIO pins, etc -- it's a whole lot of fun if you like that kind of thing... For $2 more you can get the Pico_w with Wifi :) (and no, I have no involvement with the company, just an openSUSE tinkerer...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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wicked ifup -> device-not-running <>- ip up -> working
by Simon Becherer 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Hi, i updated a not so often used laptop (last update done 01/2022 to the actual tumbleweed 20221228 after restarting i have no network adapters UP if it is working, it looks like this: ================================================ wicked ifstatus all lo up link: #1, state up type: loopback config: compat:suse:/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-lo leases: ipv4 static granted leases: ipv6 static granted addr: ipv4 127.0.0.1/8 [static] addr: ipv6 ::1/128 [static] enp3s0 enslaved link: #2, state up, mtu 1500, master bond0 type: ethernet, hwaddr 18:67:b0:b9:a6:58 config: compat:suse:/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-enp3s0 wlp2s0 up link: #3, state up, mtu 1500 type: wireless, state established, ssid XAuaLiwaru9835, WPA2-PSK+WPA-PSK config: compat:suse:/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlp2s0 bond0 up link: #4, state up, mtu 1500 type: bond, mode active-backup, hwaddr 18:67:b0:b9:a6:58 config: compat:suse:/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-bond0 leases: ipv4 static granted addr: ipv4 192.168.0.23/24 [static] route: ipv4 default via 192.168.0.99 [static] ==================================== it is configured that if cable (enp3s0) is plugged in, it will use cable, and if not plugged in it will switch to whireless (wlp2s0) ==================================== if its not working (before starting manually) it has the status: "device-not-running" for enp3s0 wlp2s0 and bond0 ==================================== after playing around i found out that the command: ip link set enp3s0 up ip link set wlp2s0 up will bring the network cards UP, but this i have to enter manually, AND wicked ifup enp3s0 wicked ifup wlp2s0 will NOT bring the network cards UP. (therefore wicked will during boot hang and run out of time, then boot continues ========================================== here from boot: Dez 29 21:54:08 becherer7 systemd[1]: Starting wicked AutoIPv4 supplicant service... Dez 29 21:54:08 becherer7 systemd[1]: Starting wicked DHCPv4 supplicant service... Dez 29 21:54:08 becherer7 systemd[1]: Starting wicked DHCPv6 supplicant service... Dez 29 21:54:08 becherer7 systemd[1]: Started wicked DHCPv6 supplicant service. Dez 29 21:54:08 becherer7 systemd[1]: Started wicked DHCPv4 supplicant service. Dez 29 21:54:08 becherer7 systemd[1]: Started wicked AutoIPv4 supplicant service. Dez 29 21:54:08 becherer7 systemd[1]: Starting wicked network management service daemon... Dez 29 21:54:08 becherer7 systemd[1]: Started wicked network management service daemon. Dez 29 21:54:08 becherer7 systemd[1]: Starting wicked network nanny service... Dez 29 21:54:08 becherer7 systemd[1]: Started wicked network nanny service. Dez 29 21:54:08 becherer7 systemd[1]: Starting wicked managed network interfaces... Dez 29 21:54:38 becherer7 wicked[1227]: lo up Dez 29 21:54:38 becherer7 wicked[1227]: enp3s0 device-not-running Dez 29 21:54:38 becherer7 wicked[1227]: wlp2s0 device-not-running Dez 29 21:54:38 becherer7 wicked[1227]: bond0 device-not-running Dez 29 21:54:38 becherer7 systemd[1]: Finished wicked managed network interfaces. ================================================= and here when i try manually using wicked: Dez 29 22:19:14 becherer7 wickedd-nanny[1226]: device wlp2s0: call to org.opensuse.Network.Interface.waitLinkUp() failed: General failure Dez 29 22:19:14 becherer7 wickedd-nanny[1226]: wlp2s0: failed to bring up device, still continuing Dez 29 22:19:19 becherer7 wickedd-nanny[1226]: device enp3s0: call to org.opensuse.Network.Interface.waitLinkUp() failed: General failure Dez 29 22:19:19 becherer7 wickedd-nanny[1226]: enp3s0: failed to bring up device, still continuing =================================================== what is wrong here? before update, always the network was running after boot. NOW its only running after i hack in the "ip link....." command. did anybody have me an info how i could start the network again, during boot, AND why did the "wicked ifup..." will not work?? is this a bug? or a configuration problem? some other systems i have updated did not show this problem. they are also running wicked. but did not have a wifi inside (using a bridge and an enslaved network-adapter). regards, simoN -- www.becherer.de

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No directory ownership on CIFS mount
by gumb 02 Jan '23

02 Jan '23

I have some directories that seem to be missing ownership. The files within them are all attributed to an owner but some (not all) of the directories themselves have an 'empty' owner, at least when viewed within Dolphin file manager. I've already run this command, as root, from the top-level directory: > chown -R 4242:fbox_cifs media/ but this doesn't enforce user 4242 as the owner of all the directories, only the files within them. How can I correct this? I'll send more detail if necessary but maybe there's a simple solution without me having to post several more paragraphs. gumb

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