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How to disable Green screen with 3-squares on boot? Remove all plymouth? (nvidia driver)

by David C. Rankin

All, How do I get rid the the green boot screen with the three little squares that light a bit? I have the nvidia driver installed, so I think that kills anything useful the screen does. On 15.0 it was something like rpm -e all of plymouth. Will that still work or is there an easier way just to disable it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

19 hours, 9 minutes

With Beta do we 'zypper up' or 'zypper dup' to update packages? (growing list of NOT installed)

by David C. Rankin

All, I don't know why, but I seem to recall that with a Beta release, we should 'zypper dup' to update packages instead of 'zypper up'. I've been doing 'zypper up' out of habit and I have a growing list of The following 22 package updates will NOT be installed: Is this due to using 'up' instead of 'dup' on a Beta or is this just newer versions blocked due to "vendor change" not being automatically allowed? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

20 hours, 29 minutes

15.4 Beta - Hangs on shutdown (will not turn off - stops with unresponsive text login shown)

by David C. Rankin

All, 15.4 hangs on shutdown. It can reboot, but doesn't release drive making the 15.4 drive unavailable for subsequent boot until a full shutdown is performed. Several releases ago this was also an issue. I'm on 15.0 now, but will shutdown and reboot into 15.4 and check journal and follow-up. Is there a known issue or list of things to check if the journal doesn't provide anything conclusive. (if I recall from last time it wasn't much help) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

1 day, 3 hours

15.4 Beta - Update or patch keepassxc for bug 7813 (natural sort)

by David C. Rankin

Devs, keepassxc is currently ver 2.6.6. This is an older keepassxc that doesn't provide a natural sort of the entries: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/7813 In the current version for 15.4, entries sort: A B ... Y Z a b ... y z For large collections of entries, this makes it impossible to find the key you are looking for unless you can remember whether you started the Title with an uppercase or lowercase letter. This is fixed in current version 2.7.1 and you get a natural case-insensitive sort for the entries. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

1 day, 3 hours

[oS-en] XFCE problem: when there is no internet, xfce fails to restore the session

by Carlos E. R.

XFCE problem: when there is no internet, xfce fails to restore the session On boot, I have to login, make sure the network manager connection activates (the connection is slow, via tethering), and when it connects, i have to kill the X session with ctrl-alt-backspace twice, so that session is not saved. When it restarts, then it recovers the per-pre-session, the correct one. I have been experiencing this on two computers, but only now identified to origin. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.3)

1 day, 5 hours

Thunderbird (and now Firefox) intermittently causing high CPU load

by gumb

I'm on Leap 15.3. Held off the update from Thunderbird 78esr to 91esr for quite a long time because I'd read of one or two issues and knew it might be best to wait a while. Now, let me state that I've been using Thunderbird since pre-1.0 days about twenty years ago. It's always been rock solid stable, sometimes a bit old and clunky but absolutely reliable, more so than just about any other software I use. I also understand that open source developers don't get enthused by criticism and they give their free time and energy and we should all do our best to show appreciation and be constructive in our conversations and hug trees. With that said, all current Thunderbird developers must die! Okay, I'll back off a bit. After twenty years of rock solid stability I upgraded to 91esr and have run into a catalogue of irritations, some of which I should have actually catalogued because I've now forgotten for a moment what they are, but I'm sure they'll come back to haunt me some more. In the v91 release notes I see lots of happy-clapping for spangly new features that are of no relevance to me. I just want the continued stability. Somebody already remarked on here some time ago that scrolling in the TB message preview pane is now horked. I either have to click or move the mouse about erratically in the pane to get it to scroll. Sometimes it scrolls immediately, other times not, and seems worse when there's images in the mail but no consistency or logic to it. Tried turning on hardware acceleration and for an hour or so thought that had cured it, only for the problem to return many times since. One or two other smaller annoyances I'll just have to put up with for the time being, but I'd like to know if anybody else has witnessed high CPU usage, specifically in Thunderbird 91esr on Leap 15.3? I wondered if it was continually reindexing my twenty years' archive of folders, and at first it seemed to do it fairly routinely once a day in early evening. But then it became more frequent, and now it spins up several times a day. This laptop has been ultra quiet for three years. 8 cores, 32gb of RAM, all of which I barely use. Bought it secondhand-like-new and it's way overspec'd for the mostly mundane tasks I require of it. Only very rarely does a CPU intensive task spin up the fan and make any noise noticeable, briefly. But now Thunderbird is doing this consistently. At this rate, it's going to wipe two years off the lifetime of this machine. I do NOT have the global search and indexer feature enabled. I tried deselecting and reselecting it as OFF just to make sure. If I look in Plasma's System Activity when the high load occurs, I see Thunderbird showing typically between 6 and 22% CPU load whilst most other processes are rarely pushing more than 1 or 2%. There may be subprocesses amongst the bazillion other kworker and whatever garbage things further down the list, but I can't pick out anything for sure. Nothing that nudges more than a percent or two. It's also not the Compact Folders process, because I still only do that manually after a prompt. It just prompted me for the first time in a long while (I have it set to only act with over ~200mb wasted space), and after that ran for a few seconds, my system just went into some kind of hyperdrive like never before witnessed, whilst Baloo reindexed for a few minutes and half the neighbourhood lost power to the centrale nucléaire whilst Mr Linux plays with his email client. And now Firefox has decided to join in the fun and games. Again, the standard latest ESR version for 15.3. Most particularly when I start playing anything in YouTube, but not uniquely that. System Activity usually shows a process 'RDD' consuming one core, and my fan starts going into warp speed again. Never happened before this last week or two. In both Thunderbird and Firefox I've turned off all studies, data collection, error reporting and whatnot to eliminate that. It could be that others have these symptoms but don't notice on their desktop fanless or soundproofed machines. What could be the cause? No I haven't yet filed any bug reports. I'm unsure if it could be openSUSE-specific, perhaps some other dependency like a graphics update that has nothing to do with Mozilla. Too many vague things to know where to even start. And no I haven't tried creating a blank profile because I can be almost certain nothing will go goofy in such an empty profile, and I don't want the inconvenience of setting up and receiving pop mail in a fresh instance and then having to merge it all back into my main mail at a later date. gumb

1 day, 6 hours

X virtual frame buffer

by Roger Oberholtzer

I have a headless 15.3 system that I would like to access remotely. I need access to the desktop (i.e. X). When there is no display attached, X does not start. I wanted to install xf86-video-dummy, but it complains: error: Failed dependencies: X11_ABI_VIDEODRV = 25.2 is needed by xf86-video-dummy-0.4.0-lp153.24.1.x86_64 So I am guessing that X on 15.3 has recently changed the ABI. The installed xf86-video-* were built on May 2019. Note that these were still the ones that eventually were installed on Feb 2022. Unfortunately I did not install the dummy driver at that time. The change seems recent. As an alternative, I see that one could add some config to X for this. I read mixed things about how that works in terms of systems not booting. I also was considering xrand (xrandr --fb 1280x1024 -display :0). Seems starting that via ssh can be iffy depending on how it is handling X. So I have not been able to test it. If I make it start when the system boots, could it do anything to keep the system from booting? -- Roger Oberholtzer

1 day, 13 hours

Unnecessary .spec entry: Obsoletes: keepassx < 2.0.4 (prevents install of non-conflicting package)

by David C. Rankin

Devs, I just spent 30 minutes rebuilding keepassxc to remove the unneeded line in the .spec of Obsoletes: keepassx < 2.0.4 keepassxc does not conflict with keepassx in any way. All the Obsoletes does is prevent someone from building and installing both at the same time. Linux is about choice, and if I choose to install both so I can edit my older keepassx files before import into keepassxc -- then I should be able to do so. The changelog states this was done because keepassx depends on Qt4 and at some point that dependency will no longer be available. I get that. But while it is -- don't put Obsoletes in the keepassxc file, because the Qt4 files are still available. In fact there are Qt6 packages that specifically provide the Qt6 & Qt4 dependencies because Qt4 isn't completely gone yet. Even when it isn't packages by openSUSE any longer, if I'm creative enough to provide the dependency on my own, the keepassxc package shouldn't be so arrogant as to tell me it's either one or the other, but I can't have both installed. That's just categorically false. I'd expect something like this on Windows, but not Linux. I would certainly vote to remove this line from the .spec before the actual 15.4 release. (not to mention the keepassxc package is a full 68X larger than keepassx and takes about that many times longer to build), e.g. -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 773248 May 17 00:33 keepassx-0.4.3-9.1.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 51992192 May 17 01:19 keepassxc-2.6.6-bp154.2.59.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 998640 May 17 01:19 keepassxc-lang-2.6.6-bp154.2.59.noarch.rpm Poor laptop thought it was building PHP again...... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

1 day, 18 hours

Re: X virtual frame buffer

by Roger Oberholtzer

Auto-login makes no difference here. I wish I had access to the system now, but it is not currently available. The X log ends saying that as no display was found, X will not be started. I need to find a way to not have the X server do that. Those were the three options I was considering. On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 5:43 PM Bill Swisher <bill(a)luddites.org> wrote: > > On 5/16/22 04:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > Hmmmm...what I do is let the remote computer boot with my profile doing an > auto-login, available in yast/user/advanced. I have 'alias ssh="ssh -X"', I > haven't found many things that won't work from a xterm. I just need to know how > to get to them, I spend a lot of my time in a xterm. They run really slow over > the internet, slowly over the WiFi and better over a 1Gbs switch, but they do > seem to work. I just tested LibreOffice, which I have 'alias > oo="/usr/bin/libreoffice"', the oo is a relic from OpenOffice. vlc useless and > complains about the audio when I screw up and try to run it at 1Gbs. Hope this > helps, if not then sorry to have taken up your time. -- Roger Oberholtzer

1 day, 22 hours

TW fish filesystem bug in Dolphin.

by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE

TW fish filesystem bug in dolphin. Dolphin tries to open directories such as conf.d as a regular file when clicked on. Navigating via the address bar works fine. The underlying sshfs fused filesystem is working fine i.e. F4 open terminal in Dolphin and changing directory works fine. How to reproduce: 1. Open fish://server.com/some-dir/ 2. Open directory with .d extension by clicking Expected result; directory opens in dolphin Observed result; dolphin tries to open the directory as a regular file. Regards, Ariez ajv(a)opensuse.org

1 day, 23 hours

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