June 2023 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[oS-EN] 15.5 Upgrade thoughts.
by Carlos E. R. 18 Jun '23

18 Jun '23

Hi, I have upgraded two machines to 15.5, using the DVD image on usb stick, choosing upgrade. On a modern laptop, I noticed that it erased "GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=" in "/etc/default/grub". This can cause crashes (collisions) on machines with multiboots. On an old desktop (classic BIOS) I noticed two things. It did not recognize the partition to upgrade, maybe because this machine uses a separate /usr partition. I managed to reboot and restart the procedure, and it seems to be working. I'm typing on it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.5)

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Unable to log in to bugzilla
by Marc Chamberlin 18 Jun '23

18 Jun '23

Hello OpenSuSE list - In trying to solve one problem I encountered yet another problem! (Sigh story of my life!) I have a profile/account on https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/ and when I try to log in I am getting a bizarre error response - > "There is already an account with the login name > marc(a)marcchamberlin.com." Of course there is already an account for me, and I am trying to log in with it! WTF! I cannot find any link that would allow me to report this issue to the maintainers of the bugzilla web site (no feedback link). So I turn to this list hoping some kind guru can help me solve this Catch 22. One other anomaly I observed, when making a change to my profile I got told - "Login to profile is not available for employees yet." Since I am not an employee I simply ignore it, but this message does keep popping up. Thanks as always, in advance, for any help or ideas offered. 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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Problem with dhclient
by Marc Chamberlin 18 Jun '23

18 Jun '23

Hi OpenSuSE List, I have encounter an anomaly that from Google searches seems to be specific to OpenSuSE. There has been a couple of discussions dating back to 2014-2016 about this or perhaps something related, just Google for the error message like I did to find them. I dunno if those reports were fixed or not. I am running OpenSuSE15.4 x64 and having some issues with routes (perhaps) on my dhcpd server. When I make changes in the configuration of my dhcpd server, and then try to release and renew a dhcp lease on a client system, using the following commands - dhclient -r -v; dhclient -v, nothing happens/changes. (particularly with routes that I am working on, which are deployed by the dhcpd service.) So what are these error messages from the dhclient-script about and are they serious and the culprit behind what appears to be an apparent failure? Is this the same error as was reported back in 2014-2016? and if so why hasn't it been fixed yet? It appears that there might have been a patch provided but I neither know how or whether it can even be applied to the dhclient-script in OpenSuSE 15.4. Log files were unhelpful and didn't report anything new. Inquiring minds need to know, lol, and as always many thanks for any and all suggestions/help offered, in advance. Marc... Here is the command and the output I got - # dhclient -r -v; dhclient -v Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.6-P1 Copyright 2004-2018 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/00:13:3b:4a:59:8a Sending on LPF/eth0/00:13:3b:4a:59:8a Listening on LPF/eth1/00:13:3b:4a:59:89 Sending on LPF/eth1/00:13:3b:4a:59:89 Listening on LPF/eth2/00:1b:21:a1:21:1c Sending on LPF/eth2/00:1b:21:a1:21:1c Listening on LPF/eth3/40:8d:5c:e3:98:0b Sending on LPF/eth3/40:8d:5c:e3:98:0b Sending on Socket/fallback Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.6-P1 Copyright 2004-2018 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ /sbin/dhclient-script: unable to pre-init requested interface eth0 /sbin/dhclient-script: unable to pre-init requested interface eth1 /sbin/dhclient-script: unable to pre-init requested interface eth2 /sbin/dhclient-script: unable to pre-init requested interface eth3 /sbin/dhclient-script: unable to pre-init requested interfaces -- see log messages If you think you have received this message due to a bug rather than a configuration issue please read the section on submitting bugs on either our web page at www.isc.org or in the README file before submitting a bug. These pages explain the proper process and the information we find helpful for debugging. exiting. -- --... ...-- .----. ... -.. . .-- .- --... .--. -..- .-- -- .- .-. -.-. 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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Microsoft Secure Boot Bug
by J Leslie Turriff 17 Jun '23

17 Jun '23

How (if at all) will this affect installation of non-Microsoft OSs? From Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram newsletter: Microsoft Secure Boot Bug [2023.05.17] Microsoft is currently patching a zero-day Secure-Boot bug. The BlackLotus bootkit is the first-known real-world malware that can bypass Secure Boot protections, allowing for the execution of malicious code before your PC begins loading Windows and its many security protections. Secure Boot has been enabled by default for over a decade on most Windows PCs sold by companies like Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer, and others. PCs running Windows 11 must have it enabled to meet the software’s system requirements. Microsoft says that the vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker with either physical access to a system or administrator rights on a system. It can affect physical PCs and virtual machines with Secure Boot enabled. That’s important. This is a nasty vulnerability, but it takes some work to exploit it. The problem with the patch is that it breaks backwards compatibility: “...once the fixes have been enabled, your PC will no longer be able to boot from older bootable media that doesn’t include the fixes.” And: Not wanting to suddenly render any users’ systems unbootable, Microsoft will be rolling the update out in phases over the next few months. The initial version of the patch requires substantial user intervention to enable -- you first need to install May’s security updates, then use a five-step process to manually apply and verify a pair of “revocation files” that update your system’s hidden EFI boot partition and your registry. These will make it so that older, vulnerable versions of the bootloader will no longer be trusted by PCs. A second update will follow in July that won’t enable the patch by default but will make it easier to enable. A third update in “first quarter 2024” will enable the fix by default and render older boot media unbootable on all patched Windows PCs. Microsoft says it is “looking for opportunities to accelerate this schedule,” though it’s unclear what that would entail. So it’ll be almost a year before this is completely fixed. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

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Another take on Flatpack and Snap packages
by J Leslie Turriff 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/09/will_flatpak_and_snap_replace/ Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

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15.5 Vagrant box
by Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Hello List, there is a bunch of boxes available at https://app.vagrantup.com/opensuse, but 15.5 is not among them. Does anyone know if/when it will be added? Thanks, A. -- Ansgar Esztermann Sysadmin Dep. Theoretical and Computational Biophysics https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/person/11315/3883774

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problem with a new install Tumbleweed and starting a new KVM connection
by Stakanov 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

KVM installed and qemu (via packages). Libvirt is there, the virtual machine manager tries to start the connection, but ...fails. The machines are stored on a separate disk mounted as /var/lib/ libvirt. I am puzzled, why does the connection not start? User is member of: entropy@localhost:~> groups entropy kvm qemu libvirt I am not seeing why it should have any problem, something I am missing. I checked app armor and there might be some clue when trying to see the status of libvirt (but there are strangely no complaints form AA itself): localhost:~ # systemctl status libvirtd ○ libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2023-06-13 16:39:51 CEST; 6min ago Duration: 34.794s TriggeredBy: ● libvirtd.socket ● libvirtd-admin.socket ● libvirtd-ro.socket Docs: man:libvirtd(8) https://libvirt.org Process: 27017 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/libvirtd $LIBVIRTD_ARGS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 27017 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 193ms Jun 13 16:39:16 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Virtualization daemon... Jun 13 16:39:17 localhost systemd[1]: Started Virtualization daemon. Jun 13 16:39:17 localhost libvirtd[27017]: libvirt version: 9.4.0 Jun 13 16:39:17 localhost libvirtd[27017]: hostname: localhost Jun 13 16:39:17 localhost libvirtd[27017]: internal error: template '/etc/ apparmor.d/libvirt/TEMPLATE.lxc' does not exist Jun 13 16:39:17 localhost libvirtd[27017]: no connection driver available for lxc:/// Jun 13 16:39:17 localhost libvirtd[27017]: End of file while reading data: Errore di input/output Jun 13 16:39:51 localhost systemd[1]: Stopping Virtualization daemon... Jun 13 16:39:51 localhost systemd[1]: libvirtd.service: Deactivated successfully. Jun 13 16:39:51 localhost systemd[1]: Stopped Virtualization daemon. What is missing? Thank you in advance.

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15.5 kde lock screen desgin - looks like glitch in the matrix or video mem errors?
by cagsm 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Users, was briefly startled when 15.5 booted up after the upgrade on some 15.4 kde machine, first i had thought the reboot of the bare metal has had left some graphics memory in a deranged state or something. those lines, and blurred, from the background of new 15.5 kde, look odd to me, when being seen blurry or in the clear on the logon screen or when you enter your password there. later i figured that ought to be the new 15.5 kde desktop background picture design or something. those horizontal lines, always feel odd when they come into view, show desktop et al ty.

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Tablet mode with kde, tumbleweed, yoga 530
by jdd＠dodin.org 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Hello, I have a Lenovo yoga 530, bough second hand some month ago and around 3 years old. I run on it tumbleweed with no real problem. However, when going out of hibernation, It comes in tablet mode and I don’t know how to go out of it. I have to kill the session (ctl Alt and two backspaces) I almost never use tablet mode. All hits from google don’t give me hints. I didn’t find any “tabletpc” thing from YaST. Any doc about openSUSE Tablet mode on Kde (updated one hour ago) by the way, tablet mode shows as there is no more any multi-windows,only one app at a time and no way I find to close the application. thanks jdd -- c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

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alternative for yast2-online-update-configuration
by vani jindam 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

I am running tumbleweed on proot-distro.[ 1 ] Primary reason about installing delta updates. To my surprise, i cant use yast2 on proot, it complains about missing /sys link.[ 2 ] Is there alternative method to install delta rpms for all packages? [ 1 ] https://github.com/termux/proot-distro [ 2 ] https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/issues/313 Regards, jindam

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