February 2023 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Nvidia 390x driver users - glibc 2.37 will bring bad news
by David C. Rankin 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

Nvidia 390x driver users, Hopefully the opensuse dev wizards can pull a rabbit out of their proverbial hats before glibc 2.37 drops. Otherwise things look very grim for all cards that rely on the driver. Short version - Nvidia only provided updates for the 390x driver through the end of 2022. The issue is the binary parts supplied with the nvidia driver and the parts you manually compile must be build with the same glibc versions. With Nvidia no longer providing updates to the binary parts -- glibc version drift is a foregone eventuality. See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=283327 for the demise of the old cards on Arch -- which may also provide a heads-up for the creative devs here :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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PHP-FPM and php.ini include_path mystery
by Admin Beckspaced 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Dear opensuse list users, I already sent this email to the horde users mailing list. But I just thought that opensuse list might for sure also be a good place to perhaps receive some hints or insights on this topic. I'm running an opensuse 15.4 box with PHP-FPM 7.4.33 (yes I know it's EOL) Horde is 5.2.23 with IMP 6.2.27 PEAR Horde is installed at /usr/share/php7/PEAR/ php.ini sets the include path = ".:/usr/share/php7:/usr/share/php7/PEAR" as far as I know the delimiter : separates the different include paths so I have 3 paths . the current directoy /usr/share/php7 /usr/share/php7/PEAR and from what I remember PHP automatically tries to look for included files in all those 3 include paths. PHP looks first in the current directory for the file. Then the second path /usr/share/php7 and after that the third path /usr/share/php7/PEAR If I run Horde & IMP with the default php.ini include path I receive a Fatal Error Class 'PEAR_Config' not found If I then set a different path order via php-fpm pool configuration the fatal error is gone I move the PEAR path before the php7 path php_value[include_path] = ".:/usr/share/php7/PEAR:/usr/share/php7" But I still don't get it. Isn't PHP supposed to look at all given include_path one after the other? If anyone could share some insights I would be more than grateful 😄 thanks & greeetings Becki

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Mesa in the packman repos vs. mesa in tumbleweed
by Stakanov 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Problem with zypper dup that sometimes have hick-ups with two conflicting Mesa versions available. 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. I just have to decide which Mesa should I use and I do not have any base for discrimination between the two. Thank you in advance. P.S. this is a re-invoice of the very message. The first and second vanished, possibly due to a spam filter.

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test
by Stakanov 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

test because my messages are not getting through on this list

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[oS-EN] M$ has a cross-platform PowerShell
by Carlos E. R. 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

Can be installed on Windows, Linux, and macOS. <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/overview?view=powers…> Interesting move. Can be used over ssh. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Telcontar, using openSUSE Leap 15.4)

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missing font ??
by Michael Spartana 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

HI, ok well I'm getting this error when starting xemacs Missing charsets in String to Fontset conversion google shows many errors of this variety and either a missing font or an xlib error..... so I was hoping someone here would know..... mike

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transmission quits
by Albert Oszkó 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Hi all, I use Transmission to handle torrent files (in KDE, TW). Today I had a big "zypper dup", nearly 500 items were downloaded. After restart Transmission unexpectedly quits after a few seconds. Ktorrent is dead, I cannot even import an existing torrent file into it. I tried it also in Xfce, with the same result. Interestingly, in IceWM Transmission does not exit. Please help me identify the reason . I saw during dup some files were removed. So I uninstalled and reinstalled Transmission, without any positive result. Thanks for your help, Albert

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[oS-EN] [rant] Wasting time.
by Carlos E. R. 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Hi, as is my routine for years, but today on a secondary computer (alternate location), I open a folder of documents in "mc", select the february.odt file, hit enter, and start editing. Damn! They have changed how to position photos, no anchor to page. Must be a new Libre Office Writer version. After wasting a quarter of an hour fighting how the thing thinks it should place the images, instead of simply obeying me, I decide to ask here. What version am I using... go to help, look about... it is Abiword! Why the heck is 'mc' opening a LO file with Abiword when LO is installed? I look in 'mc', do not find .odt in the extension file... so unininstall Abiword. Get out of my way. But now on open the document it Maximizes to the entire display, and refuses to unmaximize and resize. I can do so with Calc, but not with Writer. The word "resize" is greyed out even after "unmaximize". How the heck can I unmaximize the document? I can not work this way! Ok, go to XFCE settings, change the theme to some other one, and now it works again. But a while later, I open another document with Write, and again it is stuck on maximize, and theme change does not work this time. A new manner occurs to me. Click and hold on the tittle bar and drag down... and it is gone. I can not find the window. I right-click on the "thing" on the display panel, and manage to tell it to move to an empty workspace. Now I see the window: 2 mm wide, 30 mm high rectangle. WTF!? After fiddling with it for a minute or two, I manage to resize it to something sensible and move back to my workspace. Has my computer being possessed by some ghost? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.4)

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I cursor
by Marc Chamberlin 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Hi, I am running OpenSuSE 15.3 and 15.4 with the KDE/Plasma desktop. My eyes are not as good as they once were, and one of the things that bugs me a lot is the I bar cursor (also called the I beam cursor I think) Is there any way to get rid of it and substitute the regular arrow cursor for it? I don't see the I cursor very well and am constantly losing track of it, requiring lots of mouse movements before I find it again. Marc...

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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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