December 2023 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 17 May '24

17 May '24

I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say about the free SuSE "Installation support". The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as /media/recorder11. I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and longer, and not leave the problems to the customers. I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has fitted the limited rules for the free installation support. Terje J. Hanssen

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[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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cups 2 printersetup for one printer
by Simon Becherer 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

Hi, since years i use 2 (or more) printer setups in cups to use one printer. -> for different "standard" settings lets say its a color printer, but to save money often i like to print black and white. so i define a printer with the a ppd file and same printer adress twice, one with color settings one with settings black and white. so i have not to click and search all the printer settings to set up this 2 main settings. instead if i like to print color, i use the "color printer, or the foto-setting-printer or the black-and-white printer. since years i have used this with different printers "hp" and "qms" was working. since about a year i own a "sharp mx3060" i do not know if cups has changed anything or if its the printer. but it did not work any more. i have 2 stored ppd's inside etc/cups/ppd/... "sharp_mx-306N-sw" (black and white) "sharp_mx-306N" (colorsettings) but after i print something in one or the other, it changed settings for both. not inside the ppd file (it has always the same timestamp and is not changed since setup the printer), but somwhere else. the etc/cups/printers.conf show the "2" printers </Printer> <Printer SHARP_MX-3060N> PrinterId 6 UUID urn:uuid:959c4210-b868-3eea-7a36-b457b2df28a9 AuthInfoRequired none Info SHARP MX-3060NPCL_PS Location oben MakeModel Sharp MX-3060N PS, 1.2 DeviceURI ipp://192.168.0.11/ipp State Idle StateTime 1700126750 ConfigTime 1656701711 Type 8401116 Accepting Yes Shared No JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer Attribute marker-colors \#00FFFF,#FF00FF,#FFFF00,#000000 Attribute marker-levels 50,91,27,96,0,53,53,53,87,77,77,77,66,-1 Attribute marker-low-levels 1,1,1,1 Attribute marker-high-levels 100,100,100,100 Attribute marker-names cyan,magenta,yellow,black Attribute marker-types toner,toner,toner,toner Attribute marker-change-time 1700126750 </Printer> <DefaultPrinter SHARP_MX-3060N-sw> PrinterId 7 UUID urn:uuid:2ab5b068-ec17-3277-58a9-b8c1a50cbfa9 AuthInfoRequired none Info SHARP MX-3060NPCL_PS Location oben MakeModel Sharp MX-3060N PS, 1.2 DeviceURI ipp://192.168.0.11/ipp State Idle StateTime 1700201877 ConfigTime 1656710353 Type 8401116 Accepting Yes Shared No JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer Attribute marker-colors \#00FFFF,#FF00FF,#FFFF00,#000000 Attribute marker-levels 50,91,27,96,0,53,53,53,87,77,77,77,66,-1 Attribute marker-low-levels 1,1,1,1 Attribute marker-high-levels 100,100,100,100 Attribute marker-names cyan,magenta,yellow,black Attribute marker-types toner,toner,toner,toner Attribute marker-change-time 1700201877 </DefaultPrinter> so the question ist, where is cups storing actual printer settings, (color or bw, duplex or singele page......) (somewhere in the home directroy?) and why did this 2 printerques interfer each other? simoN -- www.becherer.de

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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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OT- semi and demi - Old and Older hardware - iso DVD active partition not found
by joe a 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

ASUS A7V733-c. Created DVD's from ISO images (Tumbleweed, a few days old) and get "active partition not found". Round and round . . . tried some older Knoppix, Mint, Windows rescue DVD's (R) and they boot fine. Thinking "These new DVD, Staples labled, are, umm, less than good", burned another on an older SONY blank. Same error. Seems no ISO images of recent vintage want to boot. Tried USB bootables, but the BIOS only knows USB FDD and USB ZIP, so, no boot either, just blinking cursor upper left corner.

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Missing library 'libicui18n.so.73()(64bit)'
by Carl Spitzer 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

nothing provides 'libicui18n.so.73()(64bit)' needed by the to be installed libqt5-qtwebengine-5.15.10-bp155.2.2.1.x86_64 its also needed to upgrade seamonkey. Has anyone an alternative repo for this library?? CWSIV

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[oS-en] Problem with dovecot certificates
by Carlos E. R. 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am seeing these in the mail log, after a recent update (the machine is using Leap 15.4, but I have seen them in a 15.5 machine too (did not study those)): <2.6> 2023-12-27T19:48:49.449784+01:00 Telcontar dovecot - - - imap-login: Disconnected: Connection closed: SSL_accept() failed: error:14094412:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert bad certificate: SSL alert number 42 (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=192.168.2.19, lip=192.168.1.14, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:14094412:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert bad certificate: SSL alert number 42, session=<7qHpP4INzunAqAIT> <2.6> 2023-12-27T19:48:49.459538+01:00 Telcontar dovecot - - - imap-login: Disconnected: Connection closed: SSL_accept() failed: error:14094412:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert bad certificate: SSL alert number 42 (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=192.168.2.19, lip=192.168.1.14, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:14094412:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert bad certificate: SSL alert number 42, session=<aqPpP4INwunAqAIT> And Thunderbird can not open some folders. I have this in my notes from the previous time it happened (in July): Regenerate certificates. +++.................... cd /etc/dovecot rm /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem rm /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.crt bash mkcert.sh time openssl dhparam -out /etc/dovecot/dh.pem 4096 Delete certificate in Thunderbird (settings, search for "cert"), Manage Certificates, Servers tab. Then "Get messages / "cer", authorize cert. ....................++- "mkcert.sh" is the one from /usr/share/dovecot/, as well as "dovecot-openssl.cnf" (edited, of course). The certificates are recent: Telcontar:/etc/dovecot # ls -l /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.* /etc/dovecot/dh.pem - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 769 Jul 2 15:01 /etc/dovecot/dh.pem - -rw------- 1 root root 1066 Jul 2 14:41 /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.crt - -rw------- 1 root root 912 Jul 2 14:41 /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem Telcontar:/etc/dovecot # So they can't be expired. The dovecot config is correct, AFAICS: Telcontar:/etc/dovecot # egrep -v "^[[:space:]]*$|^#" /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf ssl_dh = </etc/dovecot/dh.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!3DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4:!ADH:!LOW@STRENGTH ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes ssl_options = no_compression Telcontar:/etc/dovecot # In Thunderbird, I have deleted the certificate, per my notes. The intention is that Thunderbird will now complain about the certificate, and I can add an exception, but it is not asking. I also restarted TB. What can I do? (Google is not helping) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCZYx3IRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfViecAn2mf+iXezQMraoR6HRPz GknrZ/gYAJ0aoSZ5AVYXptI12pVcnfThv0ipJw== =tyO5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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U.S. International keyboard - Leap 15.5 KDE
by James Knott 29 Dec '23

29 Dec '23

I have long used the U.S. International keyboard layout as described in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#US-International However, I can't seem to find it in 15.5, even though there are 4 different U.S. International layouts I've tried so far. Any idea where I can find it? tnx jk

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what's wrong with my script?
by Daniel Bauer 29 Dec '23

29 Dec '23

Hello, I have a script that does some imageMagick stuff in a for-loop and save the results in sub-directories. Normally it works perfect, but in a certain condition it produces a strange result I cannot explain. I start the script in my /home/daniel/digikam folder with ./scriptname.sh It cd's to the directory containing the files that should be transformed and the for-loop searches for all *.png files, like: cd to png-directory for bild in *.png do resize $bild, add text, save ${bild%.png}.jpg as JPEG-image in sub-directory ./4000 add color profile to ./4000/"${bild%.png}.jpg" done (The original script resizes to 2 sizes into 2 sub-directories, adds a color-profile and then converts to new color-profile to both versions, it is here: https://www.daniel-bauer.com/div/strange_script.txt) Now when I have NO png-files (but jpg-files) in the "png-directory", in my opinion the script should do just nothing, because there is nothing to process in the for-loop. But what happens is: All files that already have been in the sub-directories before are copied to a file with the name of the last file that already was in that sub-directory, plus a number. [to explain: there are already 3 files A.jpg, B.jpg, C.jpg in the sub-directory before I start the script. After the script executed I have there addditional: C-0.jpg, C-1.jpg, C-3.jpg ... ... C-32.jpg ... ... where those C-n-files are copies of A, B and C.jpg ] Where is my error? Why does the script do anything, when the condition for the for-loop isn't met (there are no *.png-files to process)? Thanks for your help! Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga Twitter: @Marsfotografo (often explicit nudes) https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com (nudes)

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