July 2023 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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Copy and Paste does not work while installing programs
by Per Inge Oestmoen 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Hello all! I have four machines here, all with openSUSE Leap 15.4. With three of them there are no particular problems, but with the one I am using now there is a consistent, reproducible error: When I am installing a number of programs, I normally copy my password when installing the first in the row. Then, it is easy to paste in the same password for each successive installation. However, with this machine that is impossible. I copy the password, but after I have exited the dialog box the copied password is erased from memory and I have to type the password each time when doing the subsequent installations. Further; as long as I have the dialog box open the password copied is kept in memory and can be pasted into a document I made to test this, but when I close the dialog box in order to go to Yast2 the password is evidently erased since it then cannot be pasted into the document. It is gone, but on my other machines it is kept in memory and can be pasted into the dialog box. See the attached screen shot; that is where it happens. What configuration error have I inadvertently made, since the password is not kept in memory on this one machine? Sincerely, Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway

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keyboard becomes extremely slow
by mh＠mike.franken.de 26 Nov '23

26 Nov '23

Hi *, for some time now I have a problem with the keyboard on my notebook. It becomes extremely slow, i.e. only one or two keypresses are shown every 10 seconds. Special keyboard shortcuts like Alt-F4 or Ctrl-F5 are working as expected. Switching to a Linux console with Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] is still working, too. In the Linux console typing works without any problems then. Switching back to KDE again/still shows the problem. The only "solution" I found is to logout and login. For a while the keyboard then works as expected, until the same problem reoccurs. The intervals the problem shows up vary between once an evening to every 10 minutes. It happens in all programs one can type anything, i.e. OO Writer, graphical terminals or even dialog boxes of any kind. It happens with the internal notebook keyboard and also with an external USB keyboard. Machine: Type: Convertible System: Dell product: XPS 13 9310 2-in-1 v: N/A ´ openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230509 Any idea, what the reason might be and what to do against it? TIA. Bye. Michael.

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[oS-EN] Question on full disk encription
by Carlos E. R. 02 Sep '23

02 Sep '23

Hi, new laptop here, and I decided to install Leap 15.4 with full disk encryption, no LVM (a feature I wanted to have for years, so I'm happy). It asks for the password twice (contrary to my customs, I'm using plymouth). It asks once before grub loads. Well, ok, there is no separate /boot, so it has to read "/" which is encrypted. Nice. But after selecting the boot entry in grub, it asks again. Once, despite being 3 partitions ("/", "/boot" and swap). Ok. Is there some way to make it ask only once? I guess not, but perhaps I'm wrong. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.4)

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Kudos to Devs on 15.5 and the sane decision for a 15.6!
by David C. Rankin 22 Aug '23

22 Aug '23

Just a shout-out to the SUSE/openSUSE devs for making 15.5 and a future 15.6 a reality. SUSE, then openSUSE, now something in between has always put out solid releases that provide user-choice to the greatest extent possible. User-choice has always been the corner-stone of Linux. While microOS Aeon and Kalpa may make sense for enterprise, it to a large extent eliminates user-choice in favor of the immutable OS craze of loop-mounted everything. A traditional release preserves the hard won community that openSUSE enjoys and 15.6 will just ensure that continues into the future. Good job devs! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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rsync details
by jdd＠dodin.org 13 Aug '23

13 Aug '23

Hello, I try to use rsunc to make two folders in sync, one on local computer, the other on remote one. I use (from stackexchange) rsync -rv --delete -e ssh source/ destination but I get the same file list if I do this again. first run 2000-2009/2007/20070512-palace/Piste_01.mp3 2000-2009/2007/20070512-palace/Piste_02.mp3 2000-2009/2007/20070512-palace/Piste_03.mp3 and exact same for the second run. how can it be? thanks jdd -- c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

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wkhtmltopdf issues in TW
by bent fender 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

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Corrupted root
by Carl Spitzer {L Juno} 03 Aug '23

03 Aug '23

IN OpenSuse 15.2 I need to umount the / partition but I am getting device busy errors which block umount. Its Ext4 so I should be able to fsck this problem once unmounted. Then I can finish backing up the /home and proceed to upgrade to 15.5. How do I correct this device busy problem? The system crashed and shut off during a Firefox secession I think I had too many tabs open. CWSIV

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Let's use ZRAM!
by Masaru Nomiya 03 Aug '23

03 Aug '23

Hello, Please have a look; https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/mfs53x/tip_enable_zram_easily/ it is written as follows; Zram uses your CPU to compress swap which makes your PC faster ( People say it boosts the performance even though it uses your CPU ) Using Zram can reduce the read/write cycles on an SSD and increases its durability. In adsdition from https://haydenjames.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-swap-part2-zram/ [...] What is ZRAM? ZRAM creates a block device in RAM where pages that would otherwise be written to swap (disk/SSD) are instead first compressed, then stored. This allows for a much faster I/O of swap, and also, the data compression provides a significant amount of memory savings. A downside of ZRAM is that it uses some CPU for compression, but this is usually negated by the gains achieved from avoiding disk swap and the overall memory savings of compression. So keep those things in mind per your usage. In my case; 1. before installation of zram $ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 96297 4831 65144 84 26321 90403 Swap: 4095 0 4095 2. after installtion $ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 96297 5383 64598 77 26315 89857 Swap: 100393 0 100393 where; # zramctl --output-all NAME DISKSIZE DATA COMPR ALGORITHM STREAMS ZERO-PAGES TOTAL MEM-LIMIT MEM-USED MIGRATED MOUNTPOINT /dev/zram0 94G 4K 62B zstd 16 0 20K 0B 20K 0B [SWAP] You will soon see the effect of ZRAM implementation. The dramatic improvement in sound quality is very pleasing, as well as the crisp running of applications. Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡野宮賢 mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Maddox hopes that empowering users to pick their own algorithms will get them to think more about what’s involved in making them. " -- Bluesky's Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media --

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wonders of open source [showimage ]
by Daniel Bauer 01 Aug '23

01 Aug '23

Sometimes wonderful things happen and I want to share this with you. User gumb hinted me on this list to showimage as the successor of the abandoned kuickshow, that I urgently need for my daily work. But showimage lacked a feature I need [resizing window without zooming image]. gump provided me the email address of the developper, Martin Koller. Last Sunday I wrote an email to Martin describing my problem. Tuesday he sent me an executable with a new version and asked me to test it! Already this version did what I needed. I sent my report and added some suggestions of features he'd maybe liked to add for future releases. The same evening I received a new version that included those additional features (settings to turn off hover-menu, change background color; change brightness/contrast/gamma). Now I have a perfect showimage that is even better than kuickshow was (it also can display RAW files, Filename is showed better [at the beginning of the title, so it remains readable in small windows], mouse wheel can be used for zooming, all windows can be closed with one click/shortcut, brightness/contrast/gamma-changes can be undone...) Honestly I didn't expect such a fast and perfect solution for my problem and I know that even in open-source one cannot expect this. But it shows how helpful this mailing list often is, and that in the linux world things can happen that are absolutely unthinkable in Win/Mac surroundings. So sorry for taking your time for my sentimental post, but I just had to share my gratefulness! -- 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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