August 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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Tumbleweed Doesn't Always Shut Down
by Mark Misulich 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

Hi, I've had a problem with my desktop computer for some months, in that it doesn't always shut down completely with opensuse. That is, it's an intermittent problem. The computer is set up as a multiboot, and does always shut down when I shut down Windows. Here are the specs for opensuse and the computer. I'm running: opensuse Tumbleweed 20230819 KDE Plasma Version 5.27.7 KDE Frameworks Version 5.109.0 Qt Version 5.15.10 Kernel Version 6.4.11-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform X11 Hardware Processors 8 x Intel Core i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz Memory 62.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor Nvidia GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2 Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Product Name B250M-DS3H I tried to run this by the forum to get some answers, and you can see that they haven't been able to figure it out. Here's the hyperlink to the thread: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/tumbleweed-wont-shut-down/166098/31 I would appreciate the list's help to try and resolve this issue. Thanks, Mark

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imagemagick: I/O error : buffer full - what does this mean?
by Daniel Bauer 12 Sep '23

12 Sep '23

Hi, since my upgrade to OS 15.5, when running a command line job for imagemagick I get I/O error : buffer full The task is finished anyway, as much as I can see, perfect. But on 15.3 I have never seen this message and I wonder what it could mean and how, if so, I could avoid it. Thanks for hints! 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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2FA - Tools that work if you unfortunately need to use them
by David C. Rankin 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

All, Github is forcing 2FA (two factor authentication) beginning Oct 12 for accounts that make contributions to other repositories or otherwise contribute. Why a goofy algorithm from my computer is better than my 2048 byte RSA key doesn't make much sense. (though likely a way to dupe users into providing a mobile phone number that can be monetized) If you find yourself having to come up with 2FA codes, then there are a few apps that do it without involving your phone. Commandline: The "oath-toolkit" package provides the oathtool command line utility to generate the timed one time passwords given the secret key you are assigned from the site: $ oathtool --totp --base32 KEY (the options needed depend on the key format) where KEY is the secret key you were given. If you have a number of sites, you can create a short script to read the key from a file which is fairly convenient. With a little thought you can have the function accept a filename or key. GUI App: keepassxc has a totp function and allows assigning the secret key to each entry in your password database. (rather odd interface done though the context menu - Right-click -> TOTP -> Set up TOTP, add your key, then you can open a window to see the timed one time password to use) After you configure it, you can just double-click the little timer icon next to the entry to copy to the clipboard (nice touch, somebody had their thinking cap on...) Phone: It kills me, but the google-authenticator is about a well recommended as anything else. You can use it without a google-account. Just add your key and it spits out the timed one time password. Summary: Another solution just looking for a problem to solve, but at least there are tools to combat the latest unwanted "feature" of the web. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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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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[oS-EN] I found out a new trick on Thunderbird
by Carlos E. R. 01 Sep '23

01 Sep '23

Hi, I get a bunch of commercial email that pollutes one of my inboxes, as does everybody. I found a new trick: Create a filter that matches on the From address and "age > 3 days", with an action that can be delete, but I simply move to a folder in the same imap server, so that the mail is still accessible in any of my computers. I'm happy :-) I could also use this age trick to purge/archive the mail list folder, after 90 days. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

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thunderbird html.part on desktop
by Simon Becherer 31 Aug '23

31 Aug '23

Hi, because here is some diskussion about thunderbird, i have also a thunderbird question: since about end of last year tumbleweed update, i notice, if i move an attachment from one mail to another SOMETIMES i see for a short time on my desktop something like: qegbhjj.html.part. on my machine it's automatically removed. on another machine, i did not personally use, from thunderbird, or maybe from firefox after a day of work one or two of this files are still on the desktop. so my question is, did anybody know why this happens and where i could switch the behavior to do the temporary file not on desktop, better place would be tmp file directory? simoN -- www.becherer.de

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problem with seamonkey on 15.5
by Daniel Bauer 31 Aug '23

31 Aug '23

Hi, I upgraded successfully from 15.3 (via 15.4) to 15.5 - thanks for the input in the other thread! It went easy and it seems it worked :-) There is a little problem with seamonkey. On a radio page it crashes with /usr/bin/seamonkey: Zeile 140: 18389 Speicherzugriffsfehler (Speicherabzug geschrieben) $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@" Other pages seem to work. It is the page https://www.srf.ch/audio/radio-srf-3-live-hoeren that causes this crash. This page works in firefox, and it worked before in seamonkey on OS 15.3. Is there something I can do to make this page work again in seamonkey? -- 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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