May 2023 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

"background idle" syncing of filesystems
by Paul Neuwirth 24 May '23

24 May '23

Hello, I recently upgraded RAM on my Desktop computer (running openSUSE Leap 15.4) to 512GiB ECC DDR5. It's a great speed up, as I do a lot of disk I/O (home filesystem). But if it comes to syncing filesystes, it takes up to twenty minutes to sync them. Hence shutdown/reboot takes ages. (Hardware is a SAS Hardware RAID 1 (megaraid_sas with 2 2TB SAS HDDs)). is it possible to do a regular sync of the filesystem in idle I/O class, e.g. a crontab "ionice -c 3 sync", or would it cause performance issues or some sort of locks? I do not want to loose the speedup by async mounts and buffer/caching. But also worried about possible data loss, e.g. on AC fail. Thank you, regards Paul

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tw, kernel-6.3.1-2.2 log-in, no gui
by bent fender 21 May '23

21 May '23

Whether I click the grub (for some reason unversioned) default entry or the alternative 6.3.1-2.2 kernel entry, the boot only gets as far as a log-in prompt, which would be just fine with me. But at this point I want to log in as root or as userMe, but how do I get from either of these logins to a running KDE/XCFCE desktop, or lightdm (for chosing DT and re log-in)? As root neither of these work: systemctl isolate graphical.target lightdm Starx probably would As userMe: startx does not work M prefred method would be to first log in as root and then start lightdm or other DM, or to log in as userMe and start X with desktop of choice.

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KDE Printer duplex weirdness
by Klaus Vink Slott 19 May '23

19 May '23

Hi I posted this yesterday on the KDE mailing list, but received no opinions. So I'll try to repost here: I have a weird problem in KDE's printing dialog: My printer is shared via a printserver on a OpenSUSE running as NAS/server/host whatever, using CUPS and Avahi. After configuring cups and avahi on the client machine it picks up any printer announcement and makes the printer available locally. I have verified that Avahi announces the printer capabilities as Duplex True. klaus@msien:~> avahi-browse -c _ipp._tcp --resolve | grep -i duplex txt = ["printer-type=0x901E" "Duplex=T" "Color=T" ... Firefox and LibreOffice picks up this, and I can select Duplex Long or Short edge as expected. But trying to print from Konqueror or Okular any duplex option is grayed out and selection is stuck on Off. However: If I open the Firefox printing dialog, select Long edge and press Cancel, then immediately enter the print dialog in Okular (or Konqueror), I can now select Long or Short edge print (and it the printer does duplex as requested) I am runnning KDE Frameworks Version 5.105.0, Qt Version 5.15.9 (built against 5.15.9), cups-2.4.2 on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Any opinion if this bug is in OpenSUSE, KDE, or maybee CUPS? -- Thanks Klaus

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Run multiple X sessions on the same machine?
by Michael Fischer 17 May '23

17 May '23

I could *swear* I'd seen this was possible, but.... Already running lightdm->fvwm on vt7 (my usual setup). I would like to experiment with another windowmananger without having to drop my normal setup. I *thought* it was something like 1. Get into another vt, log in. 2. `startx -- :1` However when I tried that it trashed the X session on vt7. Or do I need to reformulate this as "run multiple displaymanager on multiple VTs"? If so, how does one do that on SuSE? FWIW: PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.2" TIA, Michael -- Michael Fischer michael(a)visv.net

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[oS-en] Thunderbird: calendar doesn't sync well with gmail
by Carlos E. R. 16 May '23

16 May '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I noticed recently, twice, that events in the calendar do not sync completely with the Android calendar, even when clicking on sync. I have to restart Thunderbird to make the events fully appear in the phone. The edit I do in Thunderbird is usually find an old event, select it, copy, go to "today", hit paste, then modify it. After save, check the event in the phone. Well, I changed the tittle, the modified tittle did not appear. And a second event with the same name on another date did not appear at all. Is this known? Using Thunderbird 102.9.1 (64-bit) on Leap 15.4 - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCZGNWQhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVKxkAnAkGyd69wKldbb0CLV+A O8WG/NDiAJwNtQQC3JSoigMU2Su3IGLQj1qcFQ== =BiUt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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pidof ?
by Per Jessen 16 May '23

16 May '23

On my leap155 box, I don't have any 'pidof'. It seems to be part of sysvinit-tools. Looking at the contents of that, at least pidof and usleep seem to be quite useful - I wonder if they ought to be moved to some other package. There is nothing else in sysvinit-tools that I am missing. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.6°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes

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Rosegarden segfaults in Leap-15.4
by bent fender 15 May '23

15 May '23

Leap-15.4 Regardless of whether I start qjackctl before or not, launching rosegarden fails with this ~ # rosegarden Cannot lock down 86611866 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory) Cannot use real-time scheduling (RR/5)(1: Operation not permitted) JackClient::AcquireSelfRealTime error Segmentation fault (core dumped) This kind of error shows up REGULARLY in suse (mostly in Leaps) i.e. it gets fixed and then it's only a matter of time before it start again, been watching the yoyo for years.

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tried out wayland with TW. Still a fail with my usecases.
by Stakanov 15 May '23

15 May '23

Logging in, well promising looks like a normal desktop, not the disaster I would have expected. Trying out Chinese character, wow, hope rises, the program fcitx5 does a lot of progress and is now usable. I want to change the system layout by downloading a new stile, a new icon ecc. Fail unfortunately, the system settings crashes reliably. No possibility to download anything and segfault. Bug reported. Well, now change in style, let us watch sat-TV with kaffeine. But I get a detached VLC window and crashes with segfault after 10 seconds. Bug reported. Shifting now back to X-server. A long way to go still. But visible progress. Good. Will try again in a few months.

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Game no longer starts after dup to TW 20230512
by Pit Suetterlin 15 May '23

15 May '23

Hi list, after the last update of my Tumbleweed laptop to 20230512 one of my games no longer wants to start. The affected game is "Hexcells Infinite", a Mono game. After it didn't start via the application menu I started it manually from an xterm. It produces a segfault :( I tried running through strace, and the last lines there are access("/proc/self/maps", F_OK) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fb59022c000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fb59022b000 mprotect(0x7fb59022b000, 4096, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(NULL, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_32BIT, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/zero", O_RDONLY) = 3 mmap(NULL, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_32BIT, 3, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) close(3) = 0 --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0x5} --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++ Memory it surely has enough (32GB), so might that be a permission issue? The game itself is installed since six or seven years, and I run it regularly. Any ideas what to look for / change?

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KDE keyboard layout not starting on login
by Stratos Zolotas 15 May '23

15 May '23

Hello, I have a strange issue that appears in two systems. One Tumbleweed and one 15.4. I use en and gr keyboard layouts configured from the KDE settings. Although the setting is valid and as soon as I apply it the keyboard layout indicator appears in the system tray, after reboot it disappears and I have to go and re-apply the settings (it is not deleted just not "executed") to make it visible and working again. I usually use keep last session on KDE but I also tried to start with a clean session or with a manual saved session. Nothing seems to affect the keyboard layout indicator, it is always disappearing after reboot. Both systems were working as expected before. The only difference is that the issue on 15.4 appeared just after dist-upgrading from 15.3. Any ideas on how to debug it? Regards Stratos

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