October 2023 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[oS-EN] How do I define the compose key in Plasma-X11?
by Carlos E. R. 31 Oct '23

31 Oct '23

Hi, I'm trying out Plasma. I'm used to XFCE. There I have defined the compose key to be the left-win key. Press left-win, then 'oo' and I get the degree character. And many more combinations. In KDE, left win produces the global menu. I have gone to Settings, Keyboard, Advanced, [X] configure keyboard options. I go to "position of Compose key". Tick "Left Win", apply... and it still activates the global menu. Is this a bug? Something else? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

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Anybody running mail server notice increase in SASL login attempts (LATNIC originating)?
by David C. Rankin 31 Oct '23

31 Oct '23

All, Anybody running mail server noticing a large uptick in failed SASL login attempts? At times I'll just have the server journal displaying in an x-term. Past 24 hours or so there is a marked increase in SASL login attempts to postfix with most originating from LATNIC and Brazil in particular (with the normal smattering of RIPE critters) Or am I just lucky today? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[oS-EN] Where is the Meta key in my keyboard?
by Carlos E. R. 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

Hi, Plasma makes use of the meta key. <https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/khelpcenter/fundamentals/kbd.html> I don't have that key. My laptop is this (lenovo ThinkPad L14 Gen 3): <https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/l14_l15_gen3_ug_linux.pdf> keyboard photo is on page 7 (except that mine is customized for Spain). Or this: <https://www.lenovo.com/medias/?context=bWFzdGVyfHJvb3R8MTI0MzUzfGltYWdlL3Bu…> -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

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Can network manager change MTU?
by James Knott 28 Oct '23

28 Oct '23

I've been trying to experiment with jumbo frames. On my ThinkPad, with MTU set to Automatic, the MTU does not follow what the DHCP server provides. I have even tried manually setting the value, but that doesn't work either, even when set to something smaller, such as 1492. Is this an issue with the Network Manager? Or perhaps a hardware limitation? I can change MTU in Yast Network Setting on my desktop system. I'm running openSUSE 15.4 & KDE. tnx jk

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PC hard crash regularly: need some help to pinpoint the problem
by Martin /Nightowl/ Byttebier 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

Hello, Since a week ot two I've severe problems with the stability of my desktop pc (Dell XPS 8940). For some reason the pc hard crash several times a day. Sometimes it take 4 hours before the system crashes but there are times (like today) the pc crashes 3 times within 2 hours. One crash occured when I wakened up he pc, the other two crashes happened when I opened a programm (Zotero, Firefox) Most of the time I had only Amarok,Libreoffice, Firefoxa and Zotero running. With hard crash I mean that the system completley stops. No keyboard action, I can't remotely access the pc. If at the time of the crash music was playing I hear an endeless loop of the last second or so. I need to press the powerbuttom to stop the pc. The logfiles doesn't say much. Now and them I see something about the GPU is fallen of the socket. NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:02:00): 79, pid='<unknown>', name=<unknown>, GPU has fallen off the bus. The error code Xid 79 indicates that it can be a hardware problem but also a driver problem. It's a dual boot system windows 10 and Tumbleweed. Strange enough so far I haven't encounter the crash problem under W10. I suppose if it's a hardware problem I should happens under W10 too, isn't it? Any thought about this? Specs of Dell XPS 8940 Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231005 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.5.4-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11700 @ 2.50GHz Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 driver NVIDIA-SMI 535.113.01 Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: XPS 8940 Dual boot system Windows 10 / Tumbleweed NVMe SK hynix 512GB (only Wndows 10) sda 1,8 TiB Segate Barracuda sda1 /boot/efi (127,7 MB) sda2 /mnt/data (886,3 GB) NTFS sda3 / (100,2 GB) EXT4 sda4 /home (859,4 GB) EXT4 Regards, Martin -- Atari FTP-site: ftp://kurobox.serveftp.net:3021 Running openSUSE Tumbleweed / KDE 5.27.8

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Tumbleweed Doesn't Always Shut Down
by Mark Misulich 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

Hi, I've had a problem with my desktop computer for some months, in that it doesn't always shut down completely with opensuse. That is, it's an intermittent problem. The computer is set up as a multiboot, and does always shut down when I shut down Windows. Here are the specs for opensuse and the computer. I'm running: opensuse Tumbleweed 20230819 KDE Plasma Version 5.27.7 KDE Frameworks Version 5.109.0 Qt Version 5.15.10 Kernel Version 6.4.11-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform X11 Hardware Processors 8 x Intel Core i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz Memory 62.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor Nvidia GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2 Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Product Name B250M-DS3H I tried to run this by the forum to get some answers, and you can see that they haven't been able to figure it out. Here's the hyperlink to the thread: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/tumbleweed-wont-shut-down/166098/31 I would appreciate the list's help to try and resolve this issue. Thanks, Mark

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Bug report: Unable to install patch openSUSE-2023-320
by Aaron Digulla 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

Hello, I tried to to create a bug in Bugzilla but I can't because Bugzilla says "There is already an account with the login name digulla(a)hepe.com". I see no links or help how to contact the site admins to fix this, so I have to post the bug here. Can someone please create a bug report or let me know how to fix my account issues on Bugzilla? -------------- Bug: Unable to install patch openSUSE-2023-320 `zypper list-patches` reports the patch openSUSE-2023-320 "Recommended update for xfce4-notifyd". When I try to install it, it fails with: Problem: das zu installierende xfce4-notifyd-0.9.2-bp155.2.3.1.x86_64 erfordert 'xfce4-notifyd-branding = 0.9.2-bp155.2.3.1', aber diese Anforderung kann nicht bereitgestellt werden Nicht installierbare Anbieter: xfce4-notifyd-branding-upstream-0.9.2-bp155.2.3.1.noarch[repo-backports-update] Lösung 1: Deinstallation von xfce4-notifyd-0.8.2-bp155.1.5.x86_64 Lösung 2: Deinstallation von xfce4-notifyd-branding-openSUSE-4.18.0+git0.9a2f754-lp155.2.4.1.noarch Lösung 3: patch:openSUSE-2023-320-1.noarch nicht installieren Lösung 4: xfce4-notifyd-0.9.2-bp155.2.3.1.x86_64 durch Ignorieren einiger Abhängigkeiten brechen Translation: It can't install the patch because the mandatory dependency xfce4-notifyd-branding = 0.9.2-bp155.2.3.1 is missing. This looks like a similar problem as https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213299 (the branding package was changes but not released). -------------- Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/

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Securely formatting BTRFS
by Simon Heimbach 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

Hi everybody, does anyone know how to securely format a btrfs-partition[1]? I have an unused SSD with a former root partition that I have to return and I want to make sure that all data is erased before giving it back. Thank you in advance! Simon [1] Without physically destroying the SSD obviously

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[oS-EN] Would there be a program that...
by Carlos E. R. 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

Hi Would there be a program that seeks anywhere inside a partition, trying to find a file that is identical to a given one (or a list or a pattern), and hard link them? They have to be verified identical files content wise, irrelevant of names and other attributes. The link would have the name and attribute of the replaced file. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

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Weird behaviour dolphin (tumbleweed)
by Martin /Nightowl/ Byttebier 25 Oct '23

25 Oct '23

Hello, Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231022 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.111.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11 Kernel Version: 6.5.8-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11700 @ 2.50GHz Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NV174 Problem: I still using an old Atari dtp-program called Calamus for a montly magazine. It runs just fine under wine. I'm not quite sure but I believe when I save my work the program renames a previous version of the doc as whatever.bak and then save the current work under whatever.cdk Until recently dolphin displayed both whatever.cdk and whatever.bak. But now I noticed whatever.bak became invisible. It's marked as backup file. I wonder if this is a normal behaviour? Under Leap 15.4 and 15.5 this doesn't happen. Both files remains visible. Thanks, Martin -- Atari FTP-site: ftp://kurobox.serveftp.net:3021 Running openSUSE Tumbleweed / KDE 5.27.8

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