December 2023 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

15.6" HP ProBook Laptop PC: Radeon R5! 16GB RAM! 256GB SSD!
by Carl Spitzer 27 Dec '23

27 Dec '23

Any issues with this laptop?? https://www.ebay.com/itm/115985099581?hash=item1b01402b3d:g:K1EAAOSwX-NleII… CWSIV

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Latest Suse (FOSS) supporting 32 bit?
by joe a 27 Dec '23

27 Dec '23

Would that be Tumblweed, from what I read?

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OT - older ASUS M4A78T-E not booting DVD
by joe a 26 Dec '23

26 Dec '23

Trying to salvage/repurpose former VMware host, to see if a useful iSCSI target can be built on LEAP 15.5. Dr. Frankenstein has granted me license to use some of his techniques. Call me Igor. Creeping along, gathering bits from various Cyber crypts in the "Laboratory", I find the beastie will not boot from DVD or the Floppy, but willingly boots the former VMware drive. The HD's are all "SATA" type, the DVD is IDE and the Floppy is, well, floppy. Well, the cable is anyway. The boot priority is DVD first, FD second, HD third. Upon boot, it acts as if the DVD and FD are not installed. I tried another physical DVD, and cables for DVD and FD. Not a hint of activity on the drives, except during power on and POST. If I remove the HD's from the boot sequence, leaving only the DVD and FD, there is still no observable activity on the drives (seeking sounds, LED blinks, NADA) and the process halts with F1, no boot found, press a key. This used to work fine, I know, as I installed VMWARE via DVD, oh, so long ago. Gasp, I wax nostalgic. Which is quite different than waxing Brazilian. So I'm told TIA. In advance. joe a.

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A little help with named needed
by Marc Chamberlin 25 Dec '23

25 Dec '23

Hi OpenSuSE, Can any expert on named (bind) tell me why I am getting the following warnings whenever I restart my named.service, and how to fix? Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.4 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150400.24.100-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 12 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50GHz Memory: 62.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Quadro K420/PCIe/SSE2 Dec 23 10:46:39 quasar named[29164]: 23-Dec-2023 10:46:39.150 general: warning: checkhints: view external: b.root-servers.net/A (170.247.170.2) missing from hints Dec 23 10:46:39 quasar named[29164]: 23-Dec-2023 10:46:39.150 general: warning: checkhints: view external: b.root-servers.net/A (199.9.14.201) extra record in hints Dec 23 10:46:39 quasar named[29164]: 23-Dec-2023 10:46:39.150 general: warning: checkhints: view external: b.root-servers.net/AAAA (2801:1b8:10::b) missing from hints Dec 23 10:46:39 quasar named[29164]: 23-Dec-2023 10:46:39.150 general: warning: checkhints: view external: b.root-servers.net/AAAA (2001:500:200::b) extra record in hints Dec 23 10:46:39 quasar named[29164]: 23-Dec-2023 10:46:39.526 general: warning: checkhints: view internal: b.root-servers.net/A (170.247.170.2) missing from hints Dec 23 10:46:39 quasar named[29164]: 23-Dec-2023 10:46:39.526 general: warning: checkhints: view internal: b.root-servers.net/A (199.9.14.201) extra record in hints Dec 23 10:46:39 quasar named[29164]: 23-Dec-2023 10:46:39.526 general: warning: checkhints: view internal: b.root-servers.net/AAAA (2801:1b8:10::b) missing from hints Dec 23 10:46:39 quasar named[29164]: 23-Dec-2023 10:46:39.526 general: warning: checkhints: view internal: b.root-servers.net/AAAA (2001:500:200::b) extra record in hints Thanks as always, in advance, for helping me solve this puzzle... Marc... -- --... ...-- .----. ... -.. . .-- .- --... .--. -..- .-- -- .- .-. -.-. 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!

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plasma "recent files" missing from "applications menu"
by mh＠mike.franken.de 25 Dec '23

25 Dec '23

Hi *, for a few snapshots now the contents of "recent files" are missing from the plasma "applications menu", same for recent applications. There are a few folders and files in my home directory: /.local/share/recently-used.xbel ./.local/share/RecentDocuments but no entries from these fiolders/files are showing up in the menu. This is a Tumbleweed system with latest snapshots installed. Any idea? TIA. Bye. Michael.

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[oS-EN] Can a bad connection in HDMI cable lock a computer?
by Carlos E. R. 24 Dec '23

24 Dec '23

Can a bad connection in HDMI cable lock a computer? Machine runs Leap 15.5 at the moment. Video is old nvidia card. I had a hard lock after some hours or running, and then it was impossible to boot, it crashed (locked) at several places. After disconnect/reconnect hdmi cable both ends, it booted as is working. I also banged the cabinet, a known remedy for all things ;-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

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Can you help with rename files? (a bit offtopic, sorry)
by Daniel Bauer 24 Dec '23

24 Dec '23

Hi, I have lots of files named like 07X55c_IMG_0155.png where 07X55c is a random text of varable lengths which I want to cut so that the file will be renamed to IMG_0155.png In my simple-mindedness I just opened mc, selected all the files and typed in the rename dialog replace *IMG* by IMG* The result though, as you for sure knew (but me only now) were files named like IMG07X55c_ - not what I expected :-( No need to say, but anyway: I have not the slightest idea of regular expressions and such sophisticated things, so that I kindly ask you for your help: how can I rename all files in a directory, cutting off the variable length part before "IMG" and keeping all the rest on the right side of IMG unchanged. Thanks for making me a little bit more enlightened! 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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Backup/restore question
by Fred 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

Internet search is going nowhere on this: I have a backup of my home dir from OS 15.0 and am going to do a fresh install of 15.5, with the idea that I can restore the home backup. Not having done this before, what issues do you see me having? I have a crapload of stuff on this system that, although dated, is working. I would hate to break it. Obviously all the documents are no prob, ditto the pictures (I started to say images but that would conjure up a different "image"). The shared dir with VirtualBox is ok but I think that I would have to install the latest VB, which has its own problem with finding the product codes of the win systems there. I seem to remember looking in the registry for that info. Maybe things like browser history or bookmarks or saved passwords (not sure where they are stored, maybe not in /home) I am not sure what else is going to blindside me, which is the reason for the shout out. Thanks

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Mongodb
by Roger Oberholtzer 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

Hi all, I am exploring using a Google image database ( https://storage.googleapis.com/openimages/web/index.html) to train a local YOLO/Darknet neural network. As it contains 1.9 million images, I obviously need to be selective about the things I want to train for. So I was looking at the suggested FiftyOne application (https://docs.voxel51.com/index.html) Looks promising. Except I cannot run it. I get an error that mongod (which I guess is a MongoDB access daemon) cannot be found. I recognize the name. But I have not used it. I searched on OBS to see if it is available. All I see are some user packages that are all failing. This surprised me as I would have thought MongoDB was a big thing in the Python world. And SUSE do support Python. My questions are: Is anyone using MongoDB on openSUSE, especially Tumbleweed? If so, where did you find it? I looked at building MongoDB and saw this odd requirement ( https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/docs/building.md) "About 13 GB of free disk space for the core binaries (mongod, mongos, and mongo) and about 600 GB for the install-all target." A typo? They meant MB instead of GB? BTW, it is specifically mongod that FiftyOne complains about. There is no populated database when building and installing it. So what on earth can require 600GB? As an aside, I was just introduced to the Python 3.11 feature that does not like one to mix using zypper and pip. I prefer zypper as it maintains things as part of my regular updating. And so that method is enabled by default. The complaint is about an 'externally-managed-environment'. To be honest it makes sense. I have always wondered how mixing zypper and pip would work. My solution was to make a Python virtual environment for this. And that uses pip because FiftyOne seems only available via pip. TIA for any pointers. -- Roger Oberholtzer

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iSCSI . . OOO! fuzzy! or eeewww! scuzzy!
by joe a 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

Any experience with iScsi on LEAP 15.5 or the like? Making nice with VmWare ESXi 6.5 and maybe above? I may want to spend some cold dark winter days making use of a few excess 64 bit machines I have laying about.

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