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forums.opensuse.org block user
by Andrei Cherniaev 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

My account on forums.opensuse.org was blocked ("Account suspended: Spam"). I absolutely not agree. How I can make complaint for moderator action?

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US Mirror Slowness Breaks TW dup Updates
by David C. Rankin 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

Devs, I know we have discussed US mirror slowness before, but just attempting a zypper dup on TW failed because packages were no longer available due to the time it took for the download to take place. It took well over 1 hour to download update packages. Most downloading between 25KiB/s and 60KiB/s on a 300MB/s connection. For example from oss and packman, the norm was: Retrieving: kernel-firmware-prestera-20240728-1.1.noarch (repo-oss) (264/567), 71.7 MiB Retrieving: kernel-firmware-prestera-20240728-1.1.noarch.rpm ...................<98%>=[\ (29.2 KiB/s)] Retrieving: libvlccore9-3.0.21-1699.6.pm.35.x86_64 (Packman) (297/567), 464.4 KiB Retrieving: libvlccore9-3.0.21-1699.6.pm.35.x86_64.rpm ...................<75%>=======[| (32.0 KiB/s)] Retrieving: libheif-dav1d-1.18.1-1699.4.pm.4.x86_64 (Packman) (341/567), 22.2 KiB Retrieving: libheif-dav1d-1.18.1-1699.4.pm.4.x86_64.rpm ...........................[done (16.0 KiB/s)] Retrieving: libheif-devel-1.18.1-1699.4.pm.4.x86_64 (Packman) (342/567), 59.3 KiB Retrieving: libheif-devel-1.18.1-1699.4.pm.4.x86_64.rpm ...........................[done (59.3 KiB/s)] Retrieving: libheif-jpeg-1.18.1-1699.4.pm.4.x86_64 (Packman) (343/567), 25.7 KiB Retrieving: libheif-jpeg-1.18.1-1699.4.pm.4.x86_64.rpm ............................[done (16.0 KiB/s)] Downloading a 77MiB file at 29.2 KiB/s takes forever. So long, packages had actually changed on other repositories before they could be downloaded, e.g. Retrieving: vlc-noX-3.0.21-1699.6.pm.35.x86_64 (Packman) (353/567), 3.7 MiB Retrieving: vlc-noX-3.0.21-1699.6.pm.35.x86_64.rpm ........................................[not found] File './Essentials/x86_64/vlc-noX-3.0.21-1699.6.pm.35.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'https://ftp.fau.de/packman//suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/' Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/...? shows all options] (a): Retrieving: vlc-codecs-3.0.21-1699.6.pm.35.x86_64 (Packman) (360/567), 55.6 KiB Retrieving: vlc-codecs-3.0.21-1699.6.pm.35.x86_64.rpm .....................................[not found] File './Essentials/x86_64/vlc-codecs-3.0.21-1699.6.pm.35.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'https://ftp.fau.de/packman//suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/' Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/...? shows all options] (a): This caused the whole dup transaction to fail. Running a 2nd time picked up the new versions of the packages and allowed the update to complete -- but that should never be required. Also, there seems like there is some algorithm in place that throttles download speed. Now this could just be the way it looked, but the algorithm appears to work something like: rpm-size < 5MiB => slow lane (20KiB/s to 100KiB/s) rpm-size > 5Mib => fast lane (~ 100KiB/s to 1MiB/s) Given the slowness of the US mirrors, if this is happening, any throttling needs to be removed. Also, I've had to use Patrick Shannahan's nvidia repo to be able to update to the 6.10 kernel using the G04 driver (thank you Patrick!). But we are nearly a month after the 6.10 kernel was released, so I would expect openSUSE NVidia repo to have updated drivers by now. The patch has been available for a month. Anyway, full TW dup did ultimately work, but the is room for improvement with the US mirrors. TW is up, fully functional on the 6.10 kernel and all is working well. dracut is damned amazing! It would also be nice to know when packages for gcc-14 will be available. I know that is a complete rebuild of the base for TW, so I suspect it is somewhere in the ringed build system in some testing corner. Just curious. There are many c++23 features not fully implemented in gcc-13. The TW rolling-release is rolling right along. Good Job! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Secure boot on raspberry pi
by Jonas Kvinge 12 Aug '24

12 Aug '24

Hi Has anyone set up secure boot on Raspberry pi (CM4)? According to https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot#secure-boot, a boot.img file needs to be created which contains the kernel, ramdisk, overlays, start.elf fixup.dat, etc files, which is signed and you then program the eeprom to only boot from that signature. There is buildroot here (https://github.com/raspberrypi/buildroot/blob/raspberrypi-signed-boot/READM…) which does build the boot.img file, but this will probably not work for opensuse since it uses the kernel and ramdisk, etc from raspberry pi os. Is there any guide for openSUSE on how to build a boot.img file for sue with secure boot on the rpi? Jonas

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Is this man8 link from createrepo to createrepo_c correct?
by David C. Rankin 11 Aug '24

11 Aug '24

Devs, Installed createrepo_c on TW and it provides a link for the old name "createrepo" man page to the new "createrepo_c" man page -- but it doesn't work. The contents of the createrepo.8.gz link are: $ zcat /usr/share/man/man8/createrepo.8.gz .so man8/createrepo\_c.8 But attempting to access the man page through "createrepo" fails, e.g. $ man createrepo man: can't resolve man8/createrepo\_c.8 No manual entry for createrepo Possibly, man page is not installed, try online at: https://manpages.opensuse.org/createrepo Is the content of the file correct? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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libncurses6_32bit
by Mark Hounschell 11 Aug '24

11 Aug '24

I am looking for the sources for the libncurses6-32bit-6.1-150000.5.24.1.x86_64 rpm. Is it the built from the normal ncurses src? I have a 3rd party software package that is looking for symbols that don't seem to be there. So I thought I would build it from src. But what source? ./util/tbosdt: /lib/libncursesw.so.6: version `NCURSESW6_5.3.20021019' not found (required by ./util/tbosdt) ./util/tbosdt: /lib/libncursesw.so.6: version `NCURSESW6_5.1.20000708' not found (required by ./util/tbosdt) Thanks Mark

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Screen Energy Saving time Leap 15.6 KDE
by James Knott 11 Aug '24

11 Aug '24

I have the screen energy saving timeout set to 15 minutes, but my screen shuts down after 5. Is there something else I should set. I have rebooted after changing the setting to ensure it would work. tnx jk

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Are TW srpms at http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/openSUSE-current/repo/oss/ ?
by David C. Rankin 11 Aug '24

11 Aug '24

Devs, Looking for Tumbleweed .srpms. Are they at http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/openSUSE-current/repo/oss/ ? I can't find a distribution/tumbleweed or the like. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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TW - estimate for download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed update for 6.10 kernel?
by David C. Rankin 10 Aug '24

10 Aug '24

Devs, Just checking in on if we have an estimate yet on when the Nvidia drivers will be updated for the 6.10 kernel for Tumbleweed? I've been watching the repo for change for the past several weeks expecting an update anytime. In the interim, I've set up a local repo with packages Patrick was kind enough to build with the 6.10 patch for G04 (390.xx) and G05 (470/535) drivers, but with Tumbleweed being a rolling release, I kind of expected the driver updates to at least be within a week of when the new kernel appears in the update repos. Any thought on when the official TW Nvidia repo will be updated with drivers for the current TW kernel? My intent is to keep my TW install as official as possible to prevent random rolling surprises along the way. That seems to be the best policy with rolling-releases. I've got Arch installs that have rolled along since July 2011 sticking to that principal. Anyway, this isn't a complaint, I'm just trying to get an idea when I can switch packages back to the official repo? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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TW kde-Live not booting into (nvidia) GUI
by bent fender 09 Aug '24

09 Aug '24

I burned a DVD from Tumbleweed Live iso: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-KDE-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20240807-Media.iso Mobo is Asus Crosshair-IV Formula (bios 3029, the last one). Video card is (temporarily) Nvidia Gk-107 (GeForec GT-640). Disconnected all media except the USB DVD drive. The DVD boots and I select the top entry "KDE Live". The kernel loads but there in so GUI display, i.e. there's NOTHING on the monitor after the text echo run. I thought the Nvidia driver issue had been fixed (IF that's what my problem is).

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Fwd: Fwd: Any word on 6.10 for TW?
by Luna Jernberg 07 Aug '24

07 Aug '24

---------- Forwarded message --------- Från: Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar(a)suse.de> Date: ons 31 juli 2024 08:17 Subject: Re: Fwd: Any word on 6.10 for TW? To: Luna Jernberg <droidbittin(a)gmail.com> It's a matter of hours - snapshot 0730 contains kernel 6.10 and is currently syncing out to mirrors. Cheers, Dominique On Wed, 2024-07-31 at 08:08 +0100, Luna Jernberg wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > Från: David C. Rankin <drankinatty(a)gmail.com> > Date: ons 31 juli 2024 kl 08:04 > Subject: Any word on 6.10 for TW? > To: suse <users(a)lists.opensuse.org> > > > Devs, all, > > Just curious what the outlook for the Tumbleweed update to Linux > 6.10 is > looking like? Are we looking at a couple weeks for testing to settle > down, > drivers to be updated, etc.? > > Not a complaint, just trying to get an idea when we may see the > kernel > update so I can set aside time to deal with the Nvidia G04 driver if > needed. > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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