July 2024 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How to extract a file from a package for comparison purposes?
by Marc Chamberlin 27 Jul '24

27 Jul '24

Is there a way to extract a single file, or set of files from a package in one of he OpenSuSE repositories? I simply want to compare a file that I have configured/made changes to, with the original version of that file as it was installed on my system. My head is hurting from attempting DuckDuckGo research (found no joy looking at documentation for Yast, RPM, and Zypper. Maybe, NOT certain, YUM but dunno if usable) and figure I will just ask the gurus in this forum... I am running OpenSuSE 15.4 and 15.5 with the KDE/Plasma desktop if that is helpful. Thanks in advance as always, Marc....

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Chromium unresponsive 15.6 KDE
by James Knott 27 Jul '24

27 Jul '24

I believe there was a recent update to Chromium update and since then, I frequently get messages that the page is unresponsive and there's a button to exit page, which causes a reload. I have seen this with a couple of sites that have worked fine for years. Has anyone else seen this? tnx jk

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Tumbleweed (probably others) mozilla repo firefox-esr and thunderbird create 1 zombie each on start?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jul '24

26 Jul '24

All, This is a curiosity that I'd like to understand. When thunderbird or firefox-esr start, then create a defunct process. I don't recall what the type was on 15.4, but now 'ps afx` list the processes as zombies: 2521 ? Z 0:00 | \_ [firefox-esr] <defunct> 4046 ? Z 0:00 | \_ [thunderbird-bin] <defunct> The apps are running fine, but what is this defunct process that is created? Is it a startup wrapper that dies after it's done leaving the child process running and nothing to reap the parent/wrapper? Both are installs from the mozilla repo and on Tumbleweed that is: $ rq firefox-esr MozillaThunderbird firefox-esr-128.0-4.1.x86_64 MozillaThunderbird-115.13.0-2.1.x86_64 What say the wizards - crystal balls firing on all 8 tonight? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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26 Jul '24

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Ispell Issues
by Lew Wolfgang 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

Hi Folks, One of my users complained that ispell wasn't installed on his Leap 15.5 system. So I ran "zypper in ispell" for him using the default ispell-american dictionary. But when run it complains: "Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/english.hash" The hashes are apparently built with the "buildhash" program. Apparently this wasn't run as part of the zypper process. When run manually it prompts for paths/files and things. Rather than start guessing what it needs I thought I run the question by the experts here. Note that ispell works okay on Leap 15.5 systems upgraded from 15.4. It only fails on 15.5 installed from scratch. But it works on a Leap 15.6 system upgraded from 15.5, 15.4, 15.3... Go figure. Regards, Lew

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gpg: SQL library used incorrectly
by lst7cqtfws＠ol1y.com 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

My GPG is throwing errors. Any idea what's going on? "SQL library used incorrectly" Shall I open a bug report against gpg? $ gpg --import contact%40zerotier.com.gpg gpg: Note: database_open 134217901 waiting for lock (held by 3126) ... gpg: Note: database_open 134217901 waiting for lock (held by 3126) ... gpg: Note: database_open 134217901 waiting for lock (held by 3126) ... gpg: Note: database_open 134217901 waiting for lock (held by 3126) ... gpg: Note: database_open 134217901 waiting for lock (held by 3126) ... gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: Value not found gpg: error writing keyring '[keyboxd]': SQL library used incorrectly gpg: error reading 'contact%40zerotier.com.gpg': SQL library used incorrectly gpg: import from 'contact%40zerotier.com.gpg' failed: SQL library used incorrectly gpg: Total number processed: 0 Thanks!

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TW Dependency Issues for texlive-pdfjam
by David C. Rankin 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

Devs, Installing texlive-pdfjam fails to produce a working pdfjam install due to missing dependencies of: texlive-pdflatexpicscale texlive-geometry The dependencies that were pulled in were: Selecting 'texlive-pdfjam-2024.216.3.10svn68597-54.1.noarch' from repository 'repo-oss' for installation. Resolving package dependencies... Force resolution: No The following 29 NEW packages are going to be installed: texlive-amsmath 2024.216.svn68720-57.1 texlive-carlisle 2024.216.svn59577-55.1 texlive-colortbl 2024.216.1.0gsvn70019-56.1 texlive-currfile 2024.216.0.0.8svn64673-57.1 texlive-eso-pic 2024.216.3.0csvn67001-55.1 texlive-everyshi 2024.216.4.00svn57001-55.1 texlive-filehook 2024.216.0.0.8bsvn64822-55.1 texlive-fp 2024.216.2.1dsvn49719-56.1 texlive-grffile 2024.217.2.1svn52756-56.1 texlive-hologo 2024.217.1.15svn61719-56.1 texlive-index 2024.216.4.1betasvn24099-56.1 texlive-lm-math 2024.216.1.959svn67718-57.1 texlive-lm-math-fonts 2024.216.1.959svn67718-57.1 texlive-lualatex-math 2024.216.1.12svn61464-55.1 texlive-makerobust 2024.216.2.0svn52811-55.1 texlive-ms 2024.216.svn57473-57.1 texlive-oberdiek 2024.216.svn69038-57.1 texlive-parallel 2024.216.svn15878-54.1 texlive-pdfcol 2024.216.1.7svn64469-54.1 texlive-pdfcolmk 2024.216.2.0svn52912-54.1 texlive-pdfjam 2024.216.3.10svn68597-54.1 texlive-pdfjam-bin 2024.20240311.svn52858-98.4 texlive-pdflscape 2024.216.0.0.13svn64851-54.1 texlive-pdfpages 2024.216.0.0.5ysvn69524-54.1 texlive-pgf 2024.216.3.1.10svn65553-54.1 texlive-sauerj 2024.216.svn15878-56.1 texlive-unicode-math 2024.216.0.0.8rsvn67919-56.1 texlive-xcolor 2024.216.3.01svn68864-55.1 texlive-zref 2024.216.2.35svn68278-55.1 However, without texlive-pdflatexpicscale and texlive-geometry running pdfjam results in, e.g. $ pdfjam --outfile nvidia-backlight.pdf nv-backlight-00.png nv-backlight-05.png nv-backlight-10.png nv-backlight-15.png nv-backlight-20.png ---- pdfjam: This is pdfjam version 3.10. pdfjam: Reading any site-wide or user-specific defaults... (none found) pdfjam: Effective call for this run of pdfjam: /usr/bin/pdfjam --outfile nvidia-backlight.pdf -- nv-backlight-00.png - nv-backlight-05.png - nv-backlight-10.png - nv-backlight-15.png - nv-backlight-20.png - pdfjam: Calling /usr/bin/pdflatex... pdfjam: FAILED. The call to /usr/bin/pdflatex resulted in an error. If '--no-tidy' was used, you can examine the log file at /tmp/pdfjam-EeU7Bd/a.log to try to diagnose the problem. pdfjam ERROR: Run 1: Output file not written After manually reading the log and installing the missing dependencies, all is well. Let me know if you think this needs a bug report, or if someone can just tweak the .spec from here. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Run part of Qt program as root? (setting ACPI_video0)
by David C. Rankin 24 Jul '24

24 Jul '24

All, I wrote a small Qt app to adjust the display backlight on my laptop: https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/a67b89db433f It will be a systray app like kmix. As part of the program I write to /sys/class/backlight/ACPI_video0/brightness which is owned by root with 0644 permissions. I have a bash script that does it, but simply using sudo is enough, but how to do the same thing in Qt? I guess I could wrap the write in a system() call using sudo -- but is there a better way to do this? I'd rather not make the executable setuid-root, or something wonky like that. Is there a way to configure the /sys/class/backlight/... file to be owned by the video or wheel group and make users a member of that group? Maybe a new backlight group? If I run it as root, all is well, but if I run as me, it fails, e.g. root: # ./nvidia-bl-qt3 setting backlight: 5 setting backlight: 4 setting backlight: 3 setting backlight: 2 setting backlight: 1 setting backlight: 2 setting backlight: 3 setting backlight: 4 setting backlight: 5 setting backlight: 6 setting backlight: 7 setting backlight: 8 setting backlight: 9 setting backlight: 10 me: $ ./nvidia-bl-qt3 setting backlight: 8 error: file open failed '/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness' setting backlight: 9 error: file open failed '/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness' setting backlight: 10 error: file open failed '/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness' setting backlight: 11 error: file open failed '/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness' setting backlight: 12 error: file open failed '/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness' setting backlight: 11 error: file open failed '/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness' setting backlight: 10 error: file open failed '/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness' This is Qt3 (as you could guess from the name), but if you have a way in the current Qt(5/6), I'll dig backwards and find out what the prior equivalent was. Or I could just rewrite in Qt5. === I can't susepaste from TW with my nick and key from 15.4? === Also, why can't I susepaste from TW with my key anymore? I can do it anonymous, but if I pass my nick (-n) and key (-k) copied from 15.4 it always fails? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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opensuse.org down?
by Roger Oberholtzer 24 Jul '24

24 Jul '24

For the past couple hours I cannot even ping opensuse.org (195.135.223.50) Anyone else? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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23 Jul '24

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