February 2024 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

See size of composed email message?
by -pj 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Hi, my question for you is if it is possible for me to see the size of an email message, that I am composing while using Thunderbird? I just sent a message to the linux-btrfs(a)vger.kernel.org mailing list and am hoping it was not larger than 100k in size. -Thanks

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Lazy-Tumbleweed VS Slowroll
by Ben T. Fender 28 Feb '24

28 Feb '24

What's the difference between a Tumbleweed that I update only every so often and Slowroll? Instead of setting up a bunch of dedicated Slowroll repos I could just run two TW's with differenet update periods? -- “Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first.” Stephen King, The Dark Tower

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ssh on LAN 1st steps
by Ben T. Fender 28 Feb '24

28 Feb '24

I'm trying to get my feet wet for file transfers between home computers on my router, windows and mac later, for now only tw and slowroll. from desktop: ~ ping laptop-IP good ping from both ~ ssh localhost ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused on laptop: # firewall-cmd --add-port=22/tcp success from desktop: ~ ssh laptop-IP ssh: connect to host laptop-IP port 22: Connection refused I guess there's no pint in IP's while even localhost is refusing BTW, if w=and when I get going what kind of trasfer speeds can I expect? TIA

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Recommendations for firewall/router hardware?
by Bob Rogers 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

I need to configure a firewall/router box for a medium-sized office/factory, projected to grow up to 50 people over the next 5 years. The last time I did this I built a small rack-mount server box, small enough not to need case fans, with extra RAM (for the day), an onboard NIC for the external network and a 4-port 10/100 NIC for the internal subnets. But that was 14 years ago, and I imagine there are better options these days. Any suggestions? TIA, -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/

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HP PS/2 style keyboard preventing suspend:
by -pj 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

I have openSUSE Tumbleweed running on this machine. I had attached a USB wireless HP keyboard to the machine and suspend worked well from what I could tell (the machine went to sleep and resumed when asked). The issue is the keyboard is/was not taking keystrokes correctly, quite alot of the time. It became very very frustrating for me to use. It seems sometimes freshly charged Panasonic Eneloop batteries may help a little but is unknown for certain still. When an older HP PS/2 style keyboard is attached to the machine. It’s solid and never misses a keystroke. :~> /usr/sbin/hwinfo --keyboard 25: PS/2 00.0: 10800 Keyboard [Created at input.226] Unique ID: nLyy.+49ps10DtUF Hardware Class: keyboard Model: "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" Vendor: 0x0001 Device: 0x0001 "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" Compatible to: int 0x0211 0x0001 Device File: /dev/input/event0 Device Files: /dev/input/event0, /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd Device Number: char 13:64 Driver Info #0: XkbRules: xfree86 XkbModel: pc104 Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown :~> This keyboard now is preventing suspend from working fully. Yes, suspend does shut off the monitor but it leaves the machine in a running state (power supply fan still spinning). I have investigated the bios settings and can not find anything pertaining to the PS/2 style keyboard in there. There is a feature option in the machines bios for PS/2 style mouse though. What can I do to try to get the sleep/suspend feature to work correctly with the PS/2 style keyboard attached now? Suspend working normally on this setup is machine goes into a sleep state, quiet, with flashing power button. Resume activates by pressing the power button. As I do not have hibernation configured. Is this somehow related something 'udevadm' would help track down at all? -Best Wishes

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X Authority files not always installed or updated apparently
by Marc Chamberlin 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

Hello - I am trying to grok how two X authority files get created and who/what is responsible for creating them. I have a script for starting up the x11vnc service and it needs to find the X authority file and looks for it in one of two places. The first location it looks for it is at /run/user/1000/xauth_* and if my script finds it there then my script assumes it is running on an OpenSuSE 15.4 or later system and I use it for/via the -auth parameter of x11vnc command and the x11vnc service can be started up OK. If my script does not find the X authority file at this first location then it assumes that it is running on OpenSuSE 15.3 or earlier and looks for the X authority file at ~/.Xauthority. And again (ASSUMING my script is running on an OpenSuSE 15.3 or earlier system) if my script finds it there it passes the location of the .Xauthority file to x11vnc via the -auth parameter and the xvncserver will start up an run OK. The trouble is that on about half of my OpenSuSE 15.4 systems, the X authority file is not being created at /run/user/1000/ This causes my script to fall through to looking for the X authority file in the users home directory at ~/.Xauthority but using that for x11vnc via it's -auth parameter results in getting error messages such as this - in > 23/02/2024 10:06:40 x11vnc version: 0.9.16 lastmod: 2019-01-05 pid: > 23287 > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyNo protocol specified > 23/02/2024 10:06:40 XOpenDisplay(":0") failed. > 23/02/2024 10:06:40 Trying again with XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=localhost ... > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > 23/02/2024 10:06:40 *************************************** > 23/02/2024 10:06:40 *** XOpenDisplay failed (:0) > > *** x11vnc was unable to open the X DISPLAY: ":0", it cannot continue. > *** There may be "Xlib:" error messages above with details about the > failure. I believe the ~/.Xauthority file in my home directory may be a left-over file from when I was running previous versions of OpenSuSE? I get that feeling because if I delete the .Xauthority file (as some internet searches suggested) it is not recreated when I rebooted or log out, log back in. So I am guessing that ~/Xauthority files have been deprecated/removed from OpenSuSE 15.4 and later systems? additional info - OpenSuSE 15.4 x64 kf5-config --version Qt: 5.15.2 KDE Frameworks: 5.90.0 kf5-config: 1.0 plasmashell --version qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Crud! don't know how to solve this, maybe "plasmashell ---version" does not work over SSH? Let me know what other info is needed. Please let me know how to create the /run/user/1000/xauth_* X authority file on those systems that are not doing so and thanks as always in advance.... Marc... (please forgive me if my font size is bad, I have a horrible time getting font sizes set correctly on OpenSuSE! There are no guidelines and choosing what tool to use is just guesswork. I have set Thunderbird to send this as plain text. HTHs)

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USB as "second nic"
by Michael Fischer 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

Hi all, may be in the situation where I'd want to create a "second nic" via usb->ethernet. 1. Is this insane/impossible? 2. If the answer to (1) is no, how would one tell e.g. yast to configure such a thing? If the answer involves "Add line to 70-persistent-net.rules", how does one figure out the Mac addr for a usb connection? TIA, Michael -- Michael Fischer michael(a)visv.net

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[oS-en] iotop complains of missing feature in kernel
by Carlos E. R. 18 Feb '24

18 Feb '24

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 cer@Telcontar:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iotop -o -d 3.3333 Total DISK READ : 1169.77 K/s | Total DISK WRITE : 12.79 K/s Actual DISK READ: 1168.61 K/s | Actual DISK WRITE: 48.84 K/s TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND 2041 be/4 news 490.70 K/s 0.00 B/s ?unavailable? texpire 9622 be/4 cer 0.00 B/s 6.98 K/s ?unavailable? firefox --sm-client-id 27~-9abbeba61260 [LS Thread] 8039 idle cer 679.07 K/s 0.00 B/s ?unavailable? tracker-miner-fs-3 12912 be/4 cer 0.00 B/s 5.81 K/s ?unavailable? firefox --sm-client-id 27~beba61260 [IndexedDB #45] * * ... CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT not enabled in kernel, cannot determine SWAPIN and IO % cer@Telcontar:~> uname -a Linux Telcontar 5.14.21-150400.24.33-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Nov 4 13:55:06 UTC 2022 (76cfe60) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux cer@Telcontar:~> - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY850Sxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVjxsAnREQY/RUTyYZuN8ZczMy KHE36e4GAJ9E6Pia/flb5Of5gQuYU1S9i0oirA== =W0vq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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NetworkManager problem in TW
by Ben T. Fender 17 Feb '24

17 Feb '24

While using Slowroll I set up NetworkManager to connect to my smartphone hot-spot (my ONLY internet connection for the next 2-3 months!). Everything works as expected and I'm posting thois from Slowroll, with these settings (all else being defaults): General config tab: "Connect automatically with priority 0" Wifi tab: shows SSID name with padlock WiFi Security tab: Wpa2 personal password shows on clicking eye "Store pwd for all users (not encrypted) But using the same settings in TW all I get is "Connected but unable to reach the internet" or words to that effect. That's a relatively recent install and there is no other internet connection so I need to fix *it* first. Which files does this dialog edit? Maybe I should compare them. What else can I look at?

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Making a backup of config files rpmconfigcheck output (was: Viewing rpmconfigcheck output:)
by Carlos E. R. 17 Feb '24

17 Feb '24

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2024-02-11 at 17:05 -0600, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote: > Hi, I was reading a post here (if interested): > https://forums.opensuse.org/t/do-i-have-to-babysit-updates-and-other-questi… > > I decided to then pass rpmconfigcheck in Konsole. For those interested, I have a script that makes a backup of the files listed by rpmconfigcheck. I have a directory named ~/Upgrades. Inside, I create a directory named, for example, "From_154_to_155". I cd there and run the script "rpmconfigcheck_make_copy": #!/bin/bash echo "Will make a backup copy of files listed in /var/adm/rpmconfigcheck into the current directory." echo "Make sure we are in an appropriate directory and press enter, else ^C" read while read FILES ; do DEST=`echo "$FILES" | tr '[/]' '_'` base=`basename "$FILES"` stem=${base%.*} extension=${base##*.} dirname=`dirname "$FILES"` ORIG=$dirname/$stem DEST2=`echo "$ORIG" | tr '[/]' '_'` #echo "$FILES" "--\>" "$DEST === $dirname % $base % $stem % $extension" "--\>" $ORIG echo "$FILES" "--\>" "$DEST === $ORIG" "--\>" $DEST2 #/etc/zypp/zypp.conf.rpmnew --\> _etc_zypp_zypp.conf.rpmnew === /etc/zypp/zypp.conf --\> _etc_zypp_zypp.conf #/usr/share/info/dir.rpmnew --\> _usr_share_info_dir.rpmnew === /usr/share/info/dir --\> _usr_share_info_dir #/var/lib/scpm/active_groups.rpmsave --\> _var_lib_scpm_active_groups.rpmsave === /var/lib/scpm/active_groups --\> _var_lib_scpm_active_groups if [ -f "$ORIG" ]; then cp "$ORIG" "$DEST2" else echo "ORIGINAL: $FILES does not exist or is not regular file" ls -l "$FILES" fi if [ -f "$FILES" ]; then cp "$FILES" "$DEST" else echo "RPM: $FILES does not exist or is not regular file" ls -l "$FILES" fi done < /var/adm/rpmconfigcheck - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCZcp/8Rwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVzPUAnjEQLMuap6EBJY82fva8 bSSL2VuAAJ9wPHLqaVaSlnW3uFZ/gPvRJ60wgA== =kQs1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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