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[opensuse] Project management software question for project managers
by Ted Byers 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

I am looking for project management software I can install on my Suse box. Alas, there are quite a number of prducts that claim to be suitable project management products, but I am hoping to obtain a little help separating the wheat from the chaffe. Basically, when I open the project management software, I want to be able to choose from among a number of projects that are under way, and then see the relation between a client's wish list and the functional requirements specs, and then how these specs relate to the UML diagrams that have been created, and from there, what tasks have been defined for each requirement and the identity of all persons involved, the developers and their managers, and the person who designed the code that supports the requirement. And with that, I want to be able to see the project's timeline, the related bugs, &c. I would even want to be able to open the source code files and examine the code that was actually written. Here is my wish list: 1) a web application that stores data in either PostgreSQL or MySQL. 2) easy integration with UML tool (or has it's own UML tool that supports round trip engineering) 3) resource management (e.g. computers, and development tools, that can be used, personelle assigned to each task) 4) documentation of relation between functional requirements specs to specific tasks and specific unit and integration tests. 5) time/effort tracking 6) bug tracking, including data relating the existance of the bug, and effort required to fix it, to the person who wrote the original code, the person who supervised him or her, and the person who designed the 'feature' in question, the time taken to complete the original task, and the technologies used (to imprrove accountability as well as to determine retraining and continuing education needs (people aren't disposable, so instead of taking a harsh aproach to problems identified, I prefer to use education as a corrective, but I can't design corrective instruction without knowing precisely what the need is). I also need to know if a developer has a higher than normal bug rate simply because he doesn't take enough time to ensure the job is done right, or because I haven't adequately trained him, or because of a poor choice of tools, or somethng else that may be my fault. 7) use of task effort tracking history to generate provisional effort/cost estimates from new project's functional requirements 8) easy integration with open source ERP products like OFBiz (which may make trakcing resources and manpower easier, as well as connect real production data to the enterprise's accounting systems) 9) easy integration with CMS products, like Wordpress (especally for production documentation, includng degin documentation and user guides and reference manuals) 10) easy integration with verion control systems such as subversion. If there is a decent product that supports all of this, great (and language used to implement it doesn't matter), but if I have to write code to add missing requirements, then I am limited to those implemented using Perl or Java (and running on Tomcat). I don't know PHP well enough, and I don't know Ruby at all; and I really don't want to think about implementing this sort of thing in C++ (though I could if absolutely necessary). If you have project management experience, and use tools that are available for Suse Linux, what software product(s) did you use, and with what result? While I await relies, I will continue to review web documentation for those products I have found so far, to see if any of them are a) suitable for use in production and b) to see to what extent they support the features I am after. I have seen a number of products so far in my search, that deserve to be nameless, because they provide no way to relate cost estimates to one's team's track record, or to the details of the design, and seem satisfied with production of a pretty gantt chart (which is why I have formed the view that there is a whole lots of chaffe in the set of applications that call themselves project menement software - I have yet to find anything that really has the potential of being labelled wheat). Thanks Ted -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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No Login, no Graphics after update to Tumbleweed 20230211-0
by Peter Maffter 30 Mar '24

30 Mar '24

Hello, after the update the screen only shows a '-'. All the usual other tty screens that you get with e.g. STRG-ALT-F1 are also gone. I can connect to the PC via ssh from my Ubuntu Laptop and check what is going on. I am using an old GTX 570 on that PC. Previously when the G06 stuff was installed instead of updating the needed G04 stuff, I was able to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.157.run manually and the login and XFCE worked. But now even that fails. :-( Any pointers? Is that the beginning of the things that are named in Subject "Nvidia 390x driver users - glibc 2.37 will bring bad news" ? I do have strange output about signature and verification: 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628957+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.411047][ T527] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628957+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.411690][ T527] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628958+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.412304][ T527] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628958+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.418769][ T527] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628963+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.426827][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM57781) rev 57785100] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:25:22:e6:5d:d3 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628964+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.427483][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: attached PHY is 57765 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[1]) 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628964+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.428122][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1] 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628965+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.428740][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: dma_rwctrl[00000001] dma_mask[64-bit] 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628965+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.482616][ T527] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 241 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628966+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.488784][ T527] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628971+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.489637][ T527] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 390.157 Wed Oct 12 09:19:07 UTC 2022 (using threaded interrupts) 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628972+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.499362][ T527] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 390.157 Wed Oct 12 09:15:25 UTC 2022 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628972+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.505733][ T527] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628973+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.506428][ T527] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1 Update openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230211-0 -> 20230212-0 did not help either. Boot to the recover modes of 6.1.10-1 or 6.1.8-1 does not help . 6.1.8-1 recovery at least says that "Failed to start X Display Manager" and gives the F1,F2,...ttys. but when I install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.157.run the F1,F2, ttys are also gone. Please help. Thanks in advance BR Pete

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chromium and h.264 codec in 15.5
by Frank Steiner 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

Hi, I'm a little confused about the h.264 codec and chromium in 15.5. I can play the video from https://html5videoplayer.net/html5video/mp4-h-264-video-test/ in both chromium-119.0.6045.199-bp155.1917.5.x86_64 and firefox-esr-115.6.0-lp155.1.1.x86_64. But when I try to join a webex meeting with chromium, it tells me "Video and shared content not supported by browser settings Activate the H.264 video codec in your browser settings so people can see your video and shared content and you can see other videos and shared content." Firefox works fine. chromium also says "not supported" on https://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/pc_test_no_h264.html while Firefox says "supported". I've installed chromium-ffmpeg-extra from packman and added rpms from http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Leap/x86_64/ but it doesn't change anything. Is there anything else I can try to get webex running in chromium? Thanks! cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *

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Slowroll repos and updating
by Ben T. Fender 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

I load a fresh Tumbleweed, go into Yast and delete every single repo. Then I 'begin' the routine linked here and quoted below... https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll rm /etc/zypp/repos.d/* ...which in essence dumps any existing repo but when I reload Yast they're all back there! If I then continue with the ritual I end up with 14 mostly TW repos and trying to do 'zyopper up' get me a warning about tumbleweed needing 'zypper dup'. As for 'zypper up', it will use 14 repos, mostly Tumbleweed! Not sure if this was the intent :-) ----------------------------------------- zypper ar --refresh http://cdn.opensuse.org/slowroll/repo/oss/ base-oss zypper ar --refresh http://cdn.opensuse.org/slowroll/repo/non-oss/ base-non-oss zypper ar --refresh -p 80 http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/slowroll/repo/oss/ update zypper ar --refresh --disable http://cdn.opensuse.org/slowroll/repo/src-oss/ base-src-oss zypper ar --refresh --disable https://download.opensuse.org/debug/slowroll/repo/oss/ base-oss-debug zypper ar --refresh http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ h264 zypper ar --refresh -p 70 http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Slowroll/Essentials/ packman

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cups 2 printersetup for one printer
by Simon Becherer 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

Hi, since years i use 2 (or more) printer setups in cups to use one printer. -> for different "standard" settings lets say its a color printer, but to save money often i like to print black and white. so i define a printer with the a ppd file and same printer adress twice, one with color settings one with settings black and white. so i have not to click and search all the printer settings to set up this 2 main settings. instead if i like to print color, i use the "color printer, or the foto-setting-printer or the black-and-white printer. since years i have used this with different printers "hp" and "qms" was working. since about a year i own a "sharp mx3060" i do not know if cups has changed anything or if its the printer. but it did not work any more. i have 2 stored ppd's inside etc/cups/ppd/... "sharp_mx-306N-sw" (black and white) "sharp_mx-306N" (colorsettings) but after i print something in one or the other, it changed settings for both. not inside the ppd file (it has always the same timestamp and is not changed since setup the printer), but somwhere else. the etc/cups/printers.conf show the "2" printers </Printer> <Printer SHARP_MX-3060N> PrinterId 6 UUID urn:uuid:959c4210-b868-3eea-7a36-b457b2df28a9 AuthInfoRequired none Info SHARP MX-3060NPCL_PS Location oben MakeModel Sharp MX-3060N PS, 1.2 DeviceURI ipp://192.168.0.11/ipp State Idle StateTime 1700126750 ConfigTime 1656701711 Type 8401116 Accepting Yes Shared No JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer Attribute marker-colors \#00FFFF,#FF00FF,#FFFF00,#000000 Attribute marker-levels 50,91,27,96,0,53,53,53,87,77,77,77,66,-1 Attribute marker-low-levels 1,1,1,1 Attribute marker-high-levels 100,100,100,100 Attribute marker-names cyan,magenta,yellow,black Attribute marker-types toner,toner,toner,toner Attribute marker-change-time 1700126750 </Printer> <DefaultPrinter SHARP_MX-3060N-sw> PrinterId 7 UUID urn:uuid:2ab5b068-ec17-3277-58a9-b8c1a50cbfa9 AuthInfoRequired none Info SHARP MX-3060NPCL_PS Location oben MakeModel Sharp MX-3060N PS, 1.2 DeviceURI ipp://192.168.0.11/ipp State Idle StateTime 1700201877 ConfigTime 1656710353 Type 8401116 Accepting Yes Shared No JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer Attribute marker-colors \#00FFFF,#FF00FF,#FFFF00,#000000 Attribute marker-levels 50,91,27,96,0,53,53,53,87,77,77,77,66,-1 Attribute marker-low-levels 1,1,1,1 Attribute marker-high-levels 100,100,100,100 Attribute marker-names cyan,magenta,yellow,black Attribute marker-types toner,toner,toner,toner Attribute marker-change-time 1700201877 </DefaultPrinter> so the question ist, where is cups storing actual printer settings, (color or bw, duplex or singele page......) (somewhere in the home directroy?) and why did this 2 printerques interfer each other? simoN -- www.becherer.de

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Attempting to Hibernate, powercycles machine instead::
by -pj 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

Hello, A question for you is that currently attempting to 'Hibernate' (tried twice), the machine goes through the process...halts/poweroff *completely* for about a second. All signs of PSU and display features turn off.... then suddenly powers up at bios menu. After entering the LUKS passphrase some boot information is displayed. pertaining to the prior "Hibernate" attempt (I believe). Here is some journalctl output on this: Thinkcentre-M57p:/> journalctl -b -1 | grep "hibernate" Feb 17 13:15:48 Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1]: systemd-hibernate-resume.service: Deactivated successfully. - I recently created a PS2.Keyboard.service to try allow for 'suspend' to work with my PS/2 connector style keyboard in an attempt to mitigate the i8042 controller bug. The machine seems to work well now when suspend is envoked. - I have increased the swap partition and swap on the system to 15.5G . # swapon NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO /dev/dm-1 partition 15.5G 2.3G -2 Thinkcentre-M57p:/> lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS fd0 2:0 1 4K 0 disk sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 8M 0 part └─sda2 8:2 0 931.5G 0 part └─Lenovo_M57p-openSUSE_Tumbleweed 254:0 0 931.5G 0 crypt ├─system-swap 254:1 0 15.5G 0 lvm [SWAP] └─system-root 254:2 0 916G 0 lvm /var /usr/local /srv /root /opt /home /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi /boot/grub2/i386-pc /.snapshots / sdb 8:16 1 1.9G 0 disk └─luks-fd28e551-c765-461e-aab0-a2c49bb786b9 254:3 0 1.9G 0 crypt /run/media/paul/WORLDWIDE1 sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom - Do you know what is going on here by preventing "hibernate' feature from functioning completely? -Regards

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strange problem with BT in KDE Plasma: bluez claims "file transfer succeded" but does not save, now does not even connect. Seems broken.
by Stakanov 03 Mar '24

03 Mar '24

Connecting from my smartphone with BT to bluez, I can send files with "share", the BT bluez of my PC says transfer running, transfer succeeded, but the it claims "cannot save files" and now file is saved indeed. I have no explanation, the directory is the home directory of the user with a dedicated BT download directory, I checked permissions and did chmod on it to make sure all files and the directory have the correct permissions. That was yesterday, now it is even worse (yesterday I detached and reattached the BT dongle) so it shows connected, even the battery remaining on the smartphone but.... the sending process remains 0 and no notice in KDE appears. After a while it interrupts. No idea why it did not save yesterday, why it does not receive the files today...... Does anybody has and Android smartphone and tried to use BT file transfer on KDE Plasma to tell me if it is known to be broken?

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Missing window frames on XFCE after update
by Robert Schweikert 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

Hi, I had to shutdown my machine due to impending power outage. Clever me I figured I'd update before shutdown to pick up whatever was new. Well, whatever is new since my last update on openSUSE Leap 15.5 messed up my XFCE settings. When I start a new application there are no window frames and everything starts in the upper left hand corner. Alt-Tab is not working to switch between apps Since there are no window frames I cannot move windows around. And there is only 1 workspace, albeit the workspace settings dialog shows that there should be 4, which is what I had setup prior to system shutdown. Any ideas? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Distinguished Engineer LINUX rjschwei(a)suse.com IRC: robjo

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KDE - kwin.sh modification:
by -pj 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Hi, this machine is running openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Verison: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.76.6-1-pae Graphics Platform: X11 Graphics Processor: i915 Having some shading issues with KDE Plasma so I created file kwin.sh in /etc/profile.d Permissions are --> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26 FEB 29 13:54 kwin.sh I added 'QT_QUICK_BACKEND=software' in order to attempt to software render QT Quick because OpenGL backend uses complex shaders which do not fit into i915 hardware specifications. There is no luck with this modification as of yet. Is it a security issue to add 'x/execute' permission to the file? None of the other files in profile.d have execute permissions set as of now default. Any thoughts on what is going on here with this?

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