March 2025 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

how can I find a package responsible for drawing in texlife (very stubbornly)
by Stakanov 27 Apr '25

27 Apr '25

I had to ban 9095 packages of texlive. If I don't they draw in monster updates and loads for a program that I currently do not use. How can I find out which of the installed programs is responsible for this (and eventually get rid of it)? Thank you.

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Automatic login fails,
by Marc Chamberlin 06 Apr '25

06 Apr '25

Hello Team SuSE Users, I am running OpenSuSE 15.6 on a number of systems with the X11 KDE Plasma desktop. I have reported and sought help for a login issue that you can find in the thread named "Re: X11 login failure was Re: xsession-errors" In this thread I reported that I can no longer log in directly with the X11 desktop manager (I can with Wayland, but I can't use Wayland for other reasons) Instead of logging in directly with X11, at the KDE login prompt I have to exit out of the graphical mode with the Cntl-Alt-F3 keys to get to a shell, log in from there, and start up the X11 KDE Plasma desktop with the startx command. I now have discovered a new additional problem that I strongly suspect is related to the above problem. I tried to use YaST to allow me to login automatically, i.e. with no requirement for either entering my name or password. No workie! I am still getting prompted for my user name and password. Maybe some kind guru will help me get to the bottom of these issues? I would like to be able to set these systems up to run in a remote location without human intervention required, in case they are rebooted or power cycled. Thanks as always for any help offered, again. Marc... P.S. I am no longer receiving list messages, via email, for this group - users(a)lists.opensuse.org. I sent an email to users-owner(a)lists.opensuse.org but so far only gotten crickets. If someone can help me recover getting emails for this list I would much much much appreciate it!

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I messed up Yast on TW
by bent fender 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

After inadvertantly removing Yast I'm now unable to fix what I did! When I call Yast2 from the menu tree I get a part gui with veryu little in it. If as root I do # yast2 I get: "QStandardPaths: runtime directory '/run/user/1003' is not owned by UID 0, but a directory permissions 0700 owned by UID 1003 GID 1000" Uninstalling/reinstalling with zypper is no cure :-( In KDE Menu-Editor at Yast I see: Name: Yast Sudo Description: Sudo Comment: Configure sudo Program: xdg-su Args: -c '/sbin/yast2 sudo' I didn't set that up there.

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Qt settings outside of KDE
by Siard 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

When using GTK programs outside of Gnome (I use the Openbox WM), font and font size, as well of many other things, can be set in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 for GTK2 and in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/ for GTK3. Is there something similar for Qt programs outside of KDE? When I start Akregator, for example, the fonts are way too small. But how to adjust them?

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macbook 2017
by jean-daniel dodin 31 Mar '25

31 Mar '25

This is just "a message in a bottle"... I bough recently a very nice macbook 2017 (Ventura). I do not find any PC with same size factor (0.9kg!) and battery life ( still 4 hours) and second hand makes it at a reasonable price (new ones are not in my price tag :-(). I doubled mac os with Tumbleweed and it almost works. But I have too non working things that makes me wonder if there is a real support for linux on this machine :-(. * The Mac os part uses apfs, seemingly early one, not read by the fs-apfs linux driver, so if I want to copy anything from mac to openSUSE, I have to rely on usb pen (or a specially setup partition). I fear this to have no solution, I'm completely unable to manage file system driver :-(. * the sound almost works, except that no sound go through the speakers! vu-meters are ok. Alsa shows hdmi audio, headphones works on minijack... This one I may help. I made the very same (from terminal documentation) hardware to work on a macbook *pro* of similar age and openSUSE. I guess the solution is some steps far only, but witch ones? Linux Mint and Elementary os do not makes better than Tumbleweed. So the question: do somebody here have the same computer and made it's audio work? Is there a chance the apfs driver can be fixed? Of course all this works on mac os side. If instructed, I can help, including compiling stuff. I try not to disturb developers if possible, so my post here. The openSUSE forum couldn't help. Is it wise to post on factory list? directly to drivers authors? thanks jdd

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Any changes to the XDG menu spec or jpeg handling or libraries in the past 30 days or so?
by David C Rankin 31 Mar '25

31 Mar '25

Let's see if I'm smart enough to send to the list I think I'm sending to... Reason: Sent to factory first but was informed it wasn't appropriate for factory, so I'll put it out to the good folks here on the general list. Result: Edited and then sent this message back to factory -- duh... Thanks Carlos and Felix for letting me know. 3rd time is a charm: All, I'm trying to figure out a couple of strange issues seen lately in KDE3. I know it's not KDE that is changing, so I'm trying to find out if there have been changes to dependent libraries or specs that are impacting the XDG menu categorization and .jpeg handling (such as for konqueror image tooltip preview, kpatience card-game background loading, and moodin handling of .jpg images). Specifically I see: 1) all apps categorized as: Categories=Qt;KDE;Graphics;X-KDE-More; have moved in kmenu from Utilities->Desktop to Graphics->'More Programs', etc., see: KDE3 - kmenu - > Graphics -> More Programs https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/0fa3a2684860 where before they were: KDE3 - kmenu -> kruler (prior location) https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/bf97fdb358b9 2) jpeg (.jpg) images: - are no longer shown in konqueror tooltip image previews. Kde image apps like kview or the embedded image viewer can still read them, it's just the tooltip previews, and kspash theme previews, that no longer show the images. - will no longer load as backgrounds to kdm themes, - will no longer load as background to ksplash themes using the moodin engine. All of this has surfaced in Tumbleweed updates over the past 30 days or so in the last 5 or 6 point-releases to qt3/kde3 packages. My current install uses the following base libraries for jpeg handling: libheif-jpeg-1.19.7-1.3.x86_64 libheif-openjpeg-1.19.7-1.3.x86_64 libjpeg-turbo-3.0.4-81.4.x86_64 libjpeg62-62.4.0-81.3.x86_64 libjpeg62-devel-62.4.0-81.3.x86_64 libjpeg8-8.3.2-81.4.x86_64 libjpeg8-x86-64-v3-8.3.2-81.4.x86_64 libturbojpeg0-8.3.2-81.4.x86_64 libturbojpeg0-x86-64-v3-8.3.2-81.4.x86_64 With the current libjpeg.so -> libjpeg.so.8. Has this changed in the recent past? (I don't think so, but I'm not sure how to check backwards in history to seen when library symlinks were updated) These small issues are of the obscure type issues that I find tough to figure out. If anybody has any thoughts on the xdg menu category change or a guess at what could be causing the .jpeg strangeness, I'd welcome your thoughts. Even suggestions for test I can run that I'm not smart enough to know about would also be helpful. I've ldd'ed myself blind to no avail. So it feels like I'm trying to diagnose a subtle change in some dependent package has me spinning my wheels at the moment. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Central User authentication for family laptops
by Cyrus 30 Mar '25

30 Mar '25

Hello!, For "family fleet", I'm looking for centralizing user authentication (4 laptops). The idea is to have be able login with the same credentials in any laptop. I've been thinking about FreeIPA+SSSD+Zerotier. Now, in server environments I've seen SSSD refusing to recognize users from time to time, troubleshooting pending (meanwhile a co-worker decided to restart sssd each 10 min via cron ¬¬). I don't want my usecase to be labor intensive in troubleshooting. I've also found that Ubuntu has something going on with OIDC (probably mimicking Windows+Office 365): https://ubuntu.com/blog/authd-oidc-authentication-for-ubuntu-desktop-server What's everyone using for this use case? Regards, Cyrus

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How can this be?
by J Leslie Turriff 29 Mar '25

29 Mar '25

Trying to see if pipewire is running, per Masaru Nomiya's post re macbook 2017, but I get this strangeness: @21:02:11 leslie@pinto wd=~ $ systemctl --user status pipewire pager: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory rc=141 @21:46:06 root@pinto wd=~ ● zypper se libncurses Refreshing service 'NVIDIA'. Refreshing service 'openSUSE'. Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Summary | Type ---+-------------------+--------------------------+-------- i+ | libncurses5 | Terminal control library | package | libncurses5-32bit | Terminal control library | package i | libncurses6 | Terminal control library | package | libncurses6-32bit | Terminal control library | package rc=0 @03:10:37 root@pinto wd=~ ● rpm -q libncurses5 --filesbypkg libncurses5 /lib64/libncurses.so.5 libncurses5 /lib64/libncurses.so.5.9 libncurses5 /lib64/libncursesw.so.5 libncurses5 /lib64/libncursesw.so.5.9 libncurses5 /lib64/libtic.so.5 libncurses5 /lib64/libtic.so.5.9 libncurses5 /lib64/libticw.so.5 libncurses5 /lib64/libticw.so.5.9 libncurses5 /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 libncurses5 /lib64/libtinfo.so.5.9 libncurses5 /lib64/libtinfow.so.5.9 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libform.so.5 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libform.so.5.9 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libformw.so.5 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libformw.so.5.9 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libmenu.so.5 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libmenu.so.5.9 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libmenuw.so.5 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libmenuw.so.5.9 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libncurses++.so.5 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libncurses++.so.5.9 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libncurses++w.so.5 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libncurses++w.so.5.9 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libpanel.so.5 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libpanel.so.5.9 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libpanelw.so.5 libncurses5 /usr/lib64/libpanelw.so.5.9 rc=0 Adding --no-pager to the systemctl command lets it run, but ? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64

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motd & KDE
by Cyrus 28 Mar '25

28 Mar '25

Hello!, How do you handle MOTD and KDE desktops?, I would like to print a disclaimer for the user each time he/she logins to a KDE desktops (Leap 15.6). Regards.

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[oS-EN] raid and btrfs
by Carlos E. R. 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

<https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs> says: 2.2 Multi-device file system Warning: * The RAID 5 and RAID 6 modes of Btrfs are fatally flawed, and should not be used for "anything but testing with throw-away data." List of known problems and partial workarounds. See btrfs(5) § RAID56 STATUS AND RECOMMENDED PRACTICES for status updates. Is this still true (on Leap)? I'm considering creating a large raid for storage on my miniserver, using software raid 5. But googling, some say use zfs or btrfs instead. But then I find the above paragraph. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Telcontar, using openSUSE Leap 15.6)

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