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3 pairs of xeyes?
by bent fender 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

I have a line in ~/.profile that calls a script which in turn includes: if [ "$desktop" = "kde" ] then echo "it is kde" xeyes -geometry 70x50+36+420 & xeyes -geometry 70x50+1750+420 & else echo "No kde, no xeyes" fi Which 'used to' give me 2 pairs of xeyes nestled between the two deskbar panels on the sides. Lately however I've ben getting 3 of them: https://imgur.com/2M5Zbil.png In this image (made to brag about my not usb but SATA desktop external bay) you can see my monitor showing the KDE plasma desktop photographed as part of my IKEA pine desktop then reloaded as a desktop wallpaper before that desktop being snapped up to imgur. I 'suspect' SDDM which begins with a lo-res desktop (the two pairs of xeyes on the left) but then they get redrawn as the desktop rolls into high-res with the left one being repeated in the same place as the first time. I have NO CLUE really, just poking around. What gives?

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Sound setup failure in OpenSuSE 15.6
by Marc Chamberlin 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

I have a computer devoted to handling my media center and recently upgraded it from OpenSuSE 15.5.to 15..6 (KDE X-11 Plasma desktop) and now I am having troubles setting up the sound system. Whenever I right click on the small speaker icon in the kicker bar, to configure the audio devices, and select any one of the playback devices and try to test the speakers, I get the following error - Error trying to play a test sound. The system said: "System error" NOT very helpful IMHO! I have followed, and done what I could do, the suggestions outlined at - https://en.opensuse.org/Sound_troubleshooting but many of the steps ran into the above mentioned "System error". I have no idea how to go about debugging the openSuSE sound subsystem, there doesn't seem to be any log files associated with the sound system to study, nor does the general messages log file show anything about sound system failures. The following shows my sound system hardware components - > # inxi -Aa > Audio: > Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio > driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0c0c > class-ID: 0403 > Device-2: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte > driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8ca0 > class-ID: 0403 > Device-3: Creative Labs EMU10k2/CA0100/CA0102/CA10200 [Sound Blaster > Audigy Series] driver: snd_emu10k1 v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 > chip-ID: 1102:0004 class-ID: 0401 > Device-4: BEHRINGER GmbH UMC202HD 192k driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB > rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-11:6 > chip-ID: 1397:0507 class-ID: fe01 > Device-5: Texas Instruments PCM2900 Audio Codec > driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s > lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 08bb:2900 class-ID: 0300 > API: ALSA v: k6.4.0-150600.23.25-default status: kernel-api with: aoss > type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer > Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: off with: wireplumber status: active > tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl > Server-2: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active (root, process) > with: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl As always, all help and suggestions offered are much appreciated, thank you. Marc

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Bluetooth and sound system connection not working
by Marc Chamberlin 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

I have another issue that appears to be in the realm of the sound system, this time on my laptop. I am running OpenSuSE 15.6 with the KDE/Plasma desktop. I recently acquired a set of Bluetooth hearing aids and thought, wouldn't it be nice to be able to connect them to my laptop, so that I could listen to AudioBooks or music, without disturbing my wife while working on the laptop. After a bit of head scratching, cursing, etc I got the Bluetooth connection between my hearing aids and the laptop working. (At least according the the Bluetooth widget in the kicker bar) Trouble is, there is no device for my hearing aids showing up in the list of devices my sound system knows about. I installed pavucontrol to see if it saw anything related to a Bluetooth connection to my hearing aids in it's list of output devices, but no it doesn't, only shows my laptop's "Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS Pro" sound devices. So no joy getting sound directed to my hearing aids. From my internet searches I found a few suggestions saying don't use the Pulseaudio drivers with Bluetooth devices, but instead use the Pipewire drivers, so I have switched my laptop over to using Pipewire but still no joy. I checked the kernel messages for errors but nothing significant showed up there - > #dmesg | grep Bluetooth [ 6.616455] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22 [ > 6.616478] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized > [ 6.616482] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 6.616484] > Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 6.616485] Bluetooth: > SCO socket layer initialized [ 6.746371] Bluetooth: hci0: Device > revision is 0 [ 6.746383] Bluetooth: hci0: Secure boot is enabled [ > 6.746388] Bluetooth: hci0: OTP lock is enabled [ 6.746392] > Bluetooth: hci0: API lock is enabled [ 6.746396] Bluetooth: hci0: > Debug lock is disabled [ 6.746404] Bluetooth: hci0: Minimum > firmware build 1 week 10 2014 [ 6.746405] Bluetooth: hci0: > Bootloader timestamp 2019.40 buildtype 1 build 38 [ 6.747644] > Bluetooth: hci0: DSM reset method type: 0x00 [ 6.785281] Bluetooth: > hci0: Found device firmware: intel/ibt-0040-0041.sfi [ 6.785291] > Bluetooth: hci0: Boot Address: 0x100800 [ 6.785292] Bluetooth: > hci0: Firmware Version: 91-33.24 [ 8.264829] Bluetooth: hci0: > Waiting for firmware download to complete [ 8.265480] Bluetooth: > hci0: Firmware loaded in 1445503 usecs [ 8.265546] Bluetooth: hci0: > Waiting for device to boot [ 8.282317] Bluetooth: hci0: Device > booted in 16413 usecs [ 8.282318] Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT > vendor event: 0x02 [ 8.286451] Bluetooth: hci0: Found Intel DDC > parameters: intel/ibt-0040-0041.ddc [ 8.288321] Bluetooth: hci0: > Applying Intel DDC parameters completed [ 8.291344] Bluetooth: > hci0: Firmware timestamp 2024.33 buildtype 1 build 81755 [ > 94.927759] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ > 94.927762] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ > 94.927765] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized [ 94.928631] > Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.22 [ 125.869741] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer > initialized [ 125.869749] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized > [ 125.869753] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 My internet research says that the one anomaly showing up - Malformed MSFT vendor event: 0x02 is nothing to worry about. It is caused by a driver not clearing a normal event signal and wrongfully putting it on a stack where higher layers in the sound subsystem don't know what to do with it. There is a patch and write-ups about it at https://github.com/bluez/bluez/issues/877 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next.gi… I have installed the following packages, as suggested by my internet research - bluez bluez-auto-enable-devices (and all dependent packages) pipewire pipewire-pulseaudio (and all dependent packages) I read the wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Bluetooth but found it unhelpful. I suspect it's rather out of date. (seems to talk about stuff that does not apply or exist on my system) Does anyone have any ideas on why my Bluetooth hearing aids are not showing up as sound output capable devices? Got me stumped and as always my gratitude and thanks for helping me solve this little problem... Marc..

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Tumbleweed - Old Friend (man bashbuiltins) Not There ??
by David C. Rankin 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

Devs, Since I can remember, suse/opensuse has provided the convenience of collecting the bash builtin functions in a separate man page: $ man bashbuiltins On Tumbleweed, that results in: $ man bashbuiltins No manual entry for bashbuiltins Possibly, man page is not installed, try online at: https://manpages.opensuse.org/bashbuiltins It was there up though Leap 15.4. Anybody know what happened to it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Leave Nvidia:repo-non-free Enabled after switching to RX550 using AMDGPU?
by -pj 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

On 12-13-2024 12:30PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * -pj via openSUSE Users <users(a)lists.opensuse.org> [12-12-24 23:05]: >>> don't. If you are not using nvidia, remove the nvidia installs from your >>> system. The least effect is utilizing more disk space and download time >>> when duping. >>> >>> zypper -v rm "nvidia packages" >>> zypper -v rl "nvidia repos" >>> >>> w/o removing "nvidia*", you may experience problems which you will not >>> relate to nvidia. >>> >>> ps: I prefer nvidia whenever possible, for very many years. >>> >> Thank you for your response. I have a game that I play with wine. The >> Nvidia K600 Quadro (g05), seems the games resolution was not as good as >> the AMD RX550. Also exiting and entering wine seemed to work better. I >> do not have experience configuring wine. As per the commands you >> suggested above see output below > >> # zypper -v rm "nvidia packages" > > sorry for misleading you, "nvidia packages" = "zypper se -si nvidia" > which you have done below I appreciate your help, at this time the machine is working much better than prior. I am glad I asked this question!

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Where is Plasma (X11) ?
by Pit Suetterlin 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

Hi, I just updated one of my computers that had been dormant for > 7 months to the latest Tumbleweed. Now there is no more option for a Plasma X11 session, only for Wayland (which is unusable). How do I get the X11 session back as a login optio in sddm?

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Re: Leave Nvidia:repo-non-free Enabled after switching to RX550 using AMDGPU?
by -pj 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

> don't. If you are not using nvidia, remove the nvidia installs from your > system. The least effect is utilizing more disk space and download time > when duping. > > zypper -v rm "nvidia packages" > zypper -v rl "nvidia repos" > > w/o removing "nvidia*", you may experience problems which you will not > relate to nvidia. > > ps: I prefer nvidia whenever possible, for very many years. > Thank you for your response. I have a game that I play with wine. The Nvidia K600 Quadro (g05), seems the games resolution was not as good as the AMD RX550. Also exiting and entering wine seemed to work better. I do not have experience configuring wine. As per the commands you suggested above see output below > # zypper -v rm "nvidia packages" Verbosity: 2 Non-option program arguments: 'nvidia packages' Initializing Target Reading installed packages... 'nvidia packages' not found in package names. Trying capabilities. No provider of 'nvidia packages' found. Resolving package dependencies... Force resolution: Yes Nothing to do. # zypper -v rl "nvidia repos" Verbosity: 2 Non-option program arguments: 'nvidia repos' No lock has been removed. - # zypper se -si nvidia Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository ---+----------------------------------+---------+----------------------+--------+----------- i | kernel-firmware-nvidia | package | 20241128-1.1 | noarch | repo-oss i+ | libnvidia-egl-wayland1 | package | 1.1.16-5.1 | x86_64 | repo-oss i+ | openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed-NVIDIA | package | 20240712.dd8c2eb-2.1 | x86_64 | repo-oss - Can you please suggest the next step in *purging* the machine of nvidia?

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Has openSUSE considered RSS feed for TW updated packages? (saves resources)
by David C. Rankin 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

All, Devs, For Tumbleweed has openSUSE considered setting up an RSS feed for listing updated packages for each of the repos? (may work for Leap too). Arch provides a feed and it is very convenient, e.g. https://archlinux.org/feeds/ The benefit is users don't have to load the mirrors doing repo refreshes to find out what updates are waiting - they are simply listed in the RSS feed. There could be a feed per-repo and users could simply subscribe to the ones they have added. I don't know how much compute resource and bandwidth it would save, but over all user refreshes to check updates, I suspect it is a substantial amount. Serving the RSS feed would take a trivial amount by comparison. Just a stray thought that I thought I would pass on in case anybody wants to look into this. I have 4 feeds for Arch I monitor: - Recent Packages: - core-testing - extra-testing - AUR packages I only need to refresh and update when needed packages are ready. That's kind of nice. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Install Windows 7 on machine (allow for bios utility to work)?
by -pj 15 Dec '24

15 Dec '24

I am unable to update the bios when in developer mode and execute bios utility update run as 'administrator'... Do you know if I am able to freely obtain a copy of windows 7 for installation on the machine? If so where may this be located at? Thank you

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Gateway DX4850 bios update via Windows prior to Tumbleweed install:
by -pj 14 Dec '24

14 Dec '24

Hi, I have a question about updating the BIOS on a Gateway DX4850 machine with Windows 10 operating system installed. The installer here > https://www.acer.com/us-en/support/product-support/DX4850 Which I have placed and then (installed on win10 on the machines drive and once envoked), does not *offer* a bios update path from P01-A3 *to* P01-A410 . P01-A3 is current bios on Acer DX4850 ....hard to get BIOS to P01-A4...... your suggestions are very helpful due to bios utility run in Windows usually offer a more easy bios update road then say flashrom.... -Seasons Best🫥

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Search susepastes fastly for specific patterns, bugs etc:
by -pj 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Hi, what is the easiest way to search large susepaste paste outputs containing dmesg , journals for specific words while using Firefox? Copy output to text file and then open with Kate and search for errors, bugs and the likes? What are your thoughts on this? -Regards

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Tumbleweed: using Ethernet (bridge) and a Wlan on the same PC simultaneously?
by Stakanov 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

I am using KDE Networkmanager. I have at home a dlan magic2 standard as connecting eithernet standard interface. As the house is old and the electrical wiring (maybe some appliance, who knows) is prone to fall out of order from time to time, I have also a wlan router branched on dlan on another phase (line) (which is not disturbed) in order to backup. Now what I would like to achieve is, to be able to use the ethernet bridge toghether with the wlan, switching interface when the ethernet fails. But that does not seems to work as because of the metric (when Ethernet alone is active the metric is 600, when wlan is also active then Ethernet gets a metric of 425 and the precedence on wlan with 600 - which is intended, I know). Now this would be a logical case but,when the transfer of data on Ethernet dlan fails it is not that the Ethernet fails. Because the interface is still active, only the connection to the internet fails because the transmission of the data is too disturbed (has IP but does not transmit data). Is it possible to set up a fallback mechanism to have wlan stepping in, only in case the LAN is disturbed, put into practice using the Networkmanager (KDE)? How would be the steps to follow?

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Leave Nvidia:repo-non-free Enabled after switching to RX550 using AMDGPU?
by -pj 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Hi, openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE X11 snapshot 20241211 on machine here. What are the negatives experienced in userspace after switching GPU to AMD RX550 *and* leaving repository Enabled> NVIDIA:repo-non-free | repo-non-free | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed So far I have not detected any negative experiences. Can you point out some problems that may be undetected by me, yet machine performance may be experiencing? Are there some commands and trouble shooting for this? -Seasons Greetings🫥

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US Mirror Slowness SOLVED (goddamn squirrel)
by David C. Rankin 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

All, Devs, The horrendous mirror slowness I've had with TW upgrades is SOLVED. Cable co. was out this morning and strung a new 200 ft. cable from the drop to the house. Upper insulation near the drop was gone and outer COAX shielding was partially chewed. Odd thing is it effected some areas of the globe worse than others. For whatever reason, number of hops, different routes, etc.. it effected RIPE addresses worse than most others. Cable company had previously said "no problems on their end". Guy today said, "no, your connection is hosed, I can see that on the screen". Getting competent tech-support is like Russian-Roulette anymore... Good news is mirror-chooser from the US is now working fine, and has been. This was the 3rd cable they have replaced from the drop to the house. Tree-rats are hell on aerial-coax.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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libzypp _ Builtin repository variables:
by -pj 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Hi, reviewing libzypp > Repository Variables > Builtin repository variables located here > https://doc.opensuse.org/projects/libzypp/HEAD/zypp-repovars.html openSUSE Tumbleweed installed on machine, snapshot 20241211 passing the following commands below arch x86_64 - basearch basearch: command not found - releasever releasever: command not found - releasever_minor releasever_minor: command not found - releasever_major releasever_major: command not found - releasever and $releasever_minor is empty. - A majority of these builtin repository variables do not provide any information. Can you tell me why this is?

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thunderbird - reply - empty lines
by Simon Becherer 12 Dec '24

12 Dec '24

Hi, in thunderbird, i receive from most people most times emails shown as html. i do always reply as plain text - to save energy consumption on servers and to make my emails for other people more save to be sure inside plain text a virus is nearly impossible. (google for: energy consumption of emails ) but since maybe one or two years, when i have a html email and the text is shown: blablabla blabla blabla etc. next line and another line after pressing reply: > blablabla blabla > > blabla etc. > > next line > > and another line so there are most times additional empty lines inside. is there somehow something inside the configuration that i could get rid of this additional new lines? correct in my opinion would be: > blablabla blabla > blabla etc. > next line > and another line regards, simoN -- www.becherer.de

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Tumbleweed Updates Slowed? Or, just doing build out for 6.12?
by David C. Rankin 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

All, Devs, The past week or so has seen a significant drop in the updates prepared for Tumbleweed. Has there been a change in the update frequency for Tumbleweed, or are there just a significant number of packages waiting on rebuild for the 6.12 update? Just curious. Yasuhiko mentioned a change in the rebuilds for the kde3 repo and mentioned reducing the frequency to save compute resources. I don't know if this is related, but I am curious as to the seeming dearth of updates for TW. What's the scoop? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Virtual Box: Kernel 6.12 Tumbleweed, modules not signed
by GMX 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

Dear all, after upgrading to kernel 6.12.4- the Virtual Box stopped working and vboxconfig produces the following output: vboxconfig Building kernel modules... Kernel modules built correctly. They will now be installed. insmod /usr/lib/modules/6.12.4-1.g16f6531-default/updates/vboxdrv.ko modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxnetflt': Key was rejected by service insmod /usr/lib/modules/6.12.4-1.g16f6531-default/updates/vboxdrv.ko modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxnetadp': Key was rejected by service Kernel modules are installed and loaded. But the opensuse signing key is enrolled. Further information from modinfo shows vboxdrv not signed: modinfo vboxdrv filename: /usr/lib/modules/6.12.4-1.g16f6531- default/updates/vboxdrv.ko version: 7.1.4_SUSE r165100 (0x00340001) license: GPL description: Oracle VirtualBox Support Driver author: Oracle and/or its affiliates suserelease: openSUSE Tumbleweed srcversion: 1D640EFCE74255CFEC18A1C depends: name: vboxdrv retpoline: Y vermagic: 6.12.4-1.g16f6531-default SMP preempt mod_unload modversions parm: disabled:Disable automatic module loading (int) parm: force_async_tsc:force the asynchronous TSC mode (int) Is this intentional and does that mean I will have to sign the modules from now on by myself? Any help is really appreciated, thank you in advance! Br Niclaas

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cpupower-gui fails so set persistent 'performance governor mode':
by -pj 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

Hi, openSUSE Tumbleweed is installed and upgraded to version 20241208 . Using KDE with x11 on the machine. Code: zypper se -si cpupower Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository ---+--------------------------+---------+--------------------------+--------+------------------------------------------ i+ | cpupower | package | 6.11.8-9.11 | x86_64 | repo-oss i+ | cpupower-bash-completion | package | 6.11.8-9.11 | noarch | repo-oss i+ | cpupower-gui | package | 1.0.0+git.24.b44a198-2.7 | noarch | download.opensuse.org-multimedia-proaudio i+ | libcpupower1 | package | 6.11.8-9.11 | x86_64 | repo-oss cpupower-gui opens correctly and displays application in gui. After selecting 'performance mode', then applying settings. Powercycling, logging into DE environment the machine is reverted again to 'powersave mode'. Code: cpupower frequency-info analyzing CPU 2: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 2 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 2 maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 800 MHz - 3.90 GHz available cpufreq governors: performance powersave current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 3.90 GHz. The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware current CPU frequency: 800 MHz (asserted by call to kernel) boost state support: Supported: yes Active: yes I have also setup a systemd service for use with cpupower-gui (details available upon request). Code: journalctl -b | grep 'cpupower' Dec 09 15:33:13 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1]: Starting Apply cpupower-gui config at boot... Dec 09 15:33:13 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1]: Starting cpupower-gui system helper... Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1]: Started cpupower-gui system helper. Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Applying configuration... Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Setting CPU: 0 Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Minimum Frequency: 800.0 MHz, Maximum Frequency: 3900.0 MHz Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Governor: Powersave, Online: True Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Setting CPU: 1 Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Minimum Frequency: 800.0 MHz, Maximum Frequency: 3900.0 MHz Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Governor: Powersave, Online: True Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Setting CPU: 2 Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Minimum Frequency: 800.0 MHz, Maximum Frequency: 3900.0 MHz Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Governor: Powersave, Online: True Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Setting CPU: 3 Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Minimum Frequency: 800.0 MHz, Maximum Frequency: 3900.0 MHz Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1145]: Governor: Powersave, Online: True Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1]: cpupower-gui.service: Deactivated successfully. Dec 09 15:33:14 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1]: Finished Apply cpupower-gui config at boot. Dec 09 15:33:17 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1]: Starting Enable cpupower-performance-governor on this machine... Dec 09 15:33:17 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-performance-governor.sh[1746]: Enabling performance-cpu-governor Dec 09 15:33:17 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1]: Finished Enable cpupower-performance-governor on this machine. Dec 09 15:33:24 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1884]: Starting Apply cpupower-gui config at user login... Dec 09 15:33:24 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1901]: Applying configuration... Dec 09 15:33:24 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p cpupower-gui[1901]: User is not authorised. No changes applied. Dec 09 15:33:24 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1884]: Finished Apply cpupower-gui config at user login. Dec 09 15:33:27 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1884]: Started cpupower-gui. Dec 09 15:33:27 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1884]: Created slice Slice /app/dbus-:1.4-org.rnd2.cpupower_gui. Dec 09 15:33:27 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1884]: Started dbus-:1.4-org.rnd2.cpupower_gui@0.service. Dec 09 15:34:25 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1884]: dbus-:1.4-org.rnd2.cpupower_gui@0.service: Consumed 1.921s CPU time. Dec 09 16:40:36 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p sudo[6282]: paul : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/usr/share/applications ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/chmod ugo-x org.rnd2.cpupower_gui.desktop Dec 09 20:00:19 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1884]: Started dbus-:1.4-org.rnd2.cpupower_gui@1.service. Dec 09 20:00:42 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1884]: dbus-:1.4-org.rnd2.cpupower_gui@1.service: Consumed 1.395s CPU time. Dec 09 23:04:36 paul-Thinkcentre-M57p systemd[1884]: Started dbus-:1.4-org.rnd2.cpupower_gui@2.service. Is this following line here (displayed in above journal output) of a particular concern? > cpupower-gui[1901]: User is not authorised. No changes applied. If it is not a concern, can you see anything wrong with the journal output? Are there some other steps you may be aware of in order for the 'performance governor' to be used? -Thanks

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Linux 6.12 kernel Nvidia G04 - patch
by David C. Rankin 07 Dec '24

07 Dec '24

All, Devs, Nvidia G04 (390xx) and G05 (470) drivers will need to be patched for the 6.12 kernel due to removal of drm_mode_config_funcs.output_poll_changed See: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/708 I've prepared a patch for G04 for Arch: diff -ruNb a/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c b/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c --- a/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c 2024-07-19 05:21:27.848184261 -0500 +++ b/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c 2024-11-23 20:07:40.218031132 -0600 @@ -168,7 +168,9 @@ .atomic_check = nv_drm_atomic_check, .atomic_commit = nv_drm_atomic_commit, + #if defined(NV_DRM_OUTPUT_POLL_CHANGED_PRESENT) .output_poll_changed = nv_drm_output_poll_changed, + #endif }; static void nv_drm_event_callback(const struct NvKmsKapiEvent *event) Which can be adapted for openSUSE. The G05 patch will be similar, but I don't have that driver to determine if conftest.sh or nvidia-drm-sources.mk need patching as shown in the link above. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Lenovo laptop compatibility
by Jeffrey Taylor 06 Dec '24

06 Dec '24

I looking for a new laptop. I've had good luck with Lenovo ThinkPads. Costco has two IdeaPads, one with and AMD cpu and one with a Qualcomm Snapdragon Plus. Will OpenSUSE Leap 1.6 run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon? Anyone have experience with a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15.6" Touchscreen Laptop - AMD Ryzen 5 7530U - 1080p? TIA, Jeffrey

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I have "Remote" in my Network. A mac address is given but I cannot trace / track the device (Tumbleweed)
by Stakanov 05 Dec '24

05 Dec '24

I have an annoying issue in my network. My router shows (besides the devices I know) a "Remote" with access to internet and within the private IP range of the router I use. A mac address is given, could be some gimmick phoning home, malware or some other problem. But....how can I trace the culprit. Currently I blocked internet access of it. None of the devices I use seem to notice, so it would be good to understand how to understand who "Remote" is. I have the doubt it might be the outdated Loewe TV I have at home, running a stone age - Android (about 15-20 years old I guess). As it is branched via a d-Lan device like all the others, maybe that is it, however, how could I get the device more talkative or identify it better within my network? Any ways to track / trace with the IP and the MAC the actual device? What software would I use and how would I proceed. Thank you.

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Authentication program for Leap 15.5
by Jeffrey Taylor 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

Amazon Web Services is demanding I use an Authenticator app, hardware TOTP Token, Passkey or Security key to sign in. Is there an Authenticator program for Leap 15.5? TIA, Jeffrey

5 6

Found left-over process plymouth on boot
by mh＠mike.franken.de 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

Hi *, because of the recent problems with plymouth I checked my journal for plymouth messages more thoroughly and found: Nov 30 14:29:51 client systemd[1]: plymouth-switch-root.service: Deactivated successfully. Nov 30 14:29:52 client systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Found left- over process 463 (plymouthd) in control group while starting unit. Ignoring. Nov 30 14:29:52 client systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: This usually indicates unclean termination of a previous run, or service implementation deficiencies. Is that an expected behavior? It seems, that the plymouth process from the early boot phase remained running - correct? TIA. Bye. Michael.

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Mail Server - Huge increase in attempts to compromise dovecot auth as user[1-7]? Or am I just lucky?
by David C. Rankin 02 Dec '24

02 Dec '24

All, During the past 3 days, I've received over 1,278 attempts my bots, script-kiddies or other miscreants to compromise dovecot with ruser="user1@..." or ruser="user2@...", and so on for user1 to user7. These are distributed brute-force attempts coming for all different IPs. (not all differed, there are are last 121 that tried 3 times are fail2ban jailed). My jail overflows: Status for the jail: dovecot |- Filter | |- Currently failed: 4 | |- Total failed: 1405 | `- Journal matches: _SYSTEMD_UNIT=dovecot.service `- Actions |- Currently banned: 64 |- Total banned: 121 `- Banned IP list: 136.232.68.50 208.105.196.214 45.133.232.222 50.5.28.175 73.199.208.99 23.119.180.121 140.84.188.140 24.121.73.117 68.183.191.94 73.0.157.78 155.54.204.129 72.49.118.8 187.8.163.70 207.188.157.230 75.155.143.99 68.46.233.34 208.104.189.149 69.124.10.62 136.34.203.130 74.95.13.185 72.167.39.185 193.239.161.32 65.20.247.224 72.76.194.159 24.190.53.157 65.20.233.3 193.217.10.126 4.236.170.3 98.66.181.157 24.187.253.67 184.181.122.53 18.136.85.9 72.240.121.31 50.98.210.86 71.57.121.253 68.180.16.100 209.97.163.198 209.38.100.151 188.136.133.122 74.92.33.60 172.212.90.227 190.111.192.82 159.89.99.112 24.121.53.76 98.223.168.193 208.96.235.253 24.46.107.170 193.13.169.31 193.13.169.40 137.184.222.155 47.198.0.155 45.161.162.40 201.218.0.23 98.47.109.27 65.20.191.97 70.79.120.248 140.246.97.188 161.132.96.130 184.66.92.108 67.20.154.22 173.199.240.40 67.83.30.199 156.236.111.18 159.65.155.36 Is anybody else seeing this activity and is there anything significant about the user1 to user7 user? That's what creeps me out. I don't have any users like that, so they aren't getting in, but it got me thinking -- is there some bug I don't know about in dovecot or auth or something else that recognizes the names user1 to user7 even though there is no Unix account? (maybe I'm just paranoid...) I thought I would pass this activity along and check if anyone else is seeing the same thing -- or, if I'm just lucky? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Tumbleweed: video plays on "gpac" but not on vlc - trying to understand why
by Stakanov 01 Dec '24

01 Dec '24

I have here a video from youtube via yt-dlp that plays normally on gpac (normally but somewhat limit apparently for either graphics card or processor) but music runs well, and I do not know if gpac generally has good video quality or not, and that does play only music on vlc but with a black screen. Normally if a video is so big it cannot play it should be interlaced in vlc, isn't this the case? How can I understand what is the reason for it to play on one player and not on the other (but only music). Is there a log that could complain about something in vlc? Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241121 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0 Qt Version: 6.8.0 Kernel Version: 6.11.8-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics Memory: 125.2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Pro W5500 Product Name: X570 Phantom Gaming 4 VLC: RPM version 4.19.1.1 gpac: RPM version 4.19.1.1 video is webm size 279,7 mb dimension: 3840x2160 bitrate 13,5 Mbit/s freq: 23,98 fps poportions: 1,78:1 my screen is Lenovo T32H-20 resolution 2560x1440 which is, I belief, not hardware wise limited but Mesa Radeon graphics driver related (the Radeon Pro W5500 has 3840x2160 as maximum resolution although not for games. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-pro-w5500.c3479 are the details of the card. Shouldn't vlc downsize the video on a smaller resolution? were can I set this as automatic default. Thank you.

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Today zypper dup stalled
by Klaus Vink Slott 30 Nov '24

30 Nov '24

Hi - just a quick heads up I updated 2 machines this afternoon, and they both stalled in the posttrans phase. The first one has a generic Intel display card and the other some old Nvidia card with Nivdia compiled driver Running %posttrans(kernel-firmware-ath11k-20241125-1.1.noarch) script .....<4%>=======.. On the last machine I captured a little info: 2561 ? Ssl 0:35 \_ /usr/bin/konsole 2719 pts/1 Ss 0:00 | \_ /bin/bash 29106 pts/1 S+ 0:00 | | \_ sudo zypper dup 29110 pts/2 Ss 0:00 | | \_ sudo zypper dup 29111 pts/2 Sl+ 0:43 | | \_ zypper dup 29409 pts/2 S 0:00 | | \_ /usr/bin/systemd-inhibit --what=sleep:shutdown:idle --who=zypp --mode=block --why=Zypp commit running. /usr/bin/cat 29410 pts/2 S 0:00 | | | \_ /usr/bin/cat 47504 pts/2 S+ 0:00 | | \_ rpm --root / --dbpath /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm -vv --runposttrans /var/adm/update-scripts/posttranszUDZGy/dumpfileSk4KNh 55839 pts/2 S+ 0:00 | | \_ bash /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-update-helper system-reload-restart 55930 pts/2 S+ 0:00 | | \_ systemctl reload-or-restart --marked I tried a kill -1 55930 but that did not help, so I followed it up with a kill -9 dracut[I]: *** Creating initramfs image file '/boot/initrd-6.11.8-1-default' done *** Running %posttrans(kernel-firmware-ath11k-20241125-1.1.noarch) script .....<4%>=====================================================================================================================================[|]%posttrans(nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-default-550.135_k6.11.8_1-28.1.x86_64) script output: /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-update-helper: line 15: 55930 Killed systemctl reload-or-restart --marked Running post-transaction scripts ....... Not sure what went wrong but I'm definitely not doing more updates today 😒 -- Klaus

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Did solver.dupAllowVendorChange change? Dupe last night listed "Problems" for newer packages in alternate repositories?
by David C. Rankin 30 Nov '24

30 Nov '24

All, Devs, zypper dupe last night was really odd from a "problems" and chose a solution standpoint. It seemed like zypper dup was ignoring my setting in zypp.conf of solver.dupAllowVendorChange = false It was suggesting overwriting OSS packages with packages from the science and mingw repositories. There were multiple packages where I had to tell the chooser to keep the OSS package and not pull the package from some other repo. I thought that setting prevented that. It also wanted suggested switching Nvidia drivers from my current repo to the openSUSE repo with lower version (newer package but lower release count). I was fine with the change, but was surprised that it too seemed to ignore the dupAllowVendorChange setting. Did something change how that setting works? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Why do we have system-user-wwwrun? It conflict with nginx user:group and is NOT a real dependency of php.
by David C. Rankin 30 Nov '24

30 Nov '24

All, Devs, Why do we have the package system-user-wwwrun? Yes it creates the user/group for the webserver to run as, but it totally conflicts with the nginx webserver default nginx:nginx, and there is no requirement that a webserver run as www:wwwrun -- none at all. The downside to this type "nanny" package is it creates confusion on updates suggesting that php must be completely uninstalled if the package system-user-wwwrun or requiring the user to choose "break" php by ignoring some of its dependencies. Running php-fpm under user/group www:wwwrun is NOT a valid php dependency - period. After installing nginx, I configured the web server to run as nginx:nginx based on the default installed nginx user/group. It already creates the nginx user/group, so there is no reason for the system-user-wwwrun dependency on php trying to change that. Now every time I try and update Tumbleweed it tries to uninstall php and I'm forced to choose the false option to "break" php every update. These nanny packages should be optional and NOT a dependency. They can be "Recommended", but dependencies are supposed to be real dependencies not some made up user-preference masquerading as a dependency. Php-fpm does not care what user it runs as. That is a simple 2 line config issue: user = nginx group = nginx So why do we have system-user-wwwrun as a hard php dependency, and why is the user not capable of following the wealth of examples and tutorials out there to set up the server? It just seems this is a totally unnecessary package that causes more problems than it purportedly solves. It creates a circular-dependency hell that shouldn't exist in the first place and screws up updates. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Recent update
by Marc Chamberlin 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

Hello - I am running OpenSuSE 15.6 with the KDE/X11/Plasma desktop and the latest set of updates (looks like mostly nVidia stuff) gave me the following error message - Package nvidia-compute-G06-32bit;550.135-lp156.28.1;x86_64;NVIDIA:repo-non-free is not installed What does this mean and how do I resolve it? Marc...

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plocate updatedb failing to index files in $HOME ? (bug or idiot error?)
by David C. Rankin 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

All, I don't have to search for squirreled away files too often, but when I do, I rely on plocate (mlocate successor). However, tonight I was surprised it had not indexed by Readme-doxygen.txt and I can't figure out why. The file I wanted to find has been there since Jan 15: $ l /home/david/doc/linux/doxygen/Readme-doxygen.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 5067 Jan 15 2024 /home/david/doc/linux/doxygen/Readme-doxygen.txt My install has 3 partitons /boot, swap and / and /home is part of / and is mounted: /dev/sda3 / ext4 rw,relatime 0 0 My /etc/updatedb.conf does not exclude /home or ext4 filesystems, e.g. $ noc /etc/updatedb.conf PRUNEFS="9p afs anon_inodefs auto autofs bdev binfmt binfmt_misc ceph fuse.ceph cgroup cifs coda configfs cramfs cpuset debugfs devfs devpts devtmps ecryptfs eventpollfs exofs futexfs ftpfs fuse fusectl gfs gfs2 gpfs hostfs hugetlbfs inotifyfs iso9660 jffs2 lustre misc mqueue ncpfs nfs NFS nfs4 nfsd nnpfs ocfs ocfs2 pipefs proc ramfs rpc_pipefs securityfs selinuxfs sfs shfs smbfs sockfs spufs sshfs subfs supermount sysfs tmpfs ubifs udf usbfs vboxsf vperfctrfs" PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp /var/cache /var/lock /var/run /var/spool /mnt /cdrom /usr/tmp /proc /media /sys /.snapshots /var/run/media" PRUNENAMES = ".git .hg .svn .bzr .arch-ids {arch} CVS" PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS="no" My plocate-updatedb.timer just ran less than an hour ago: $ scs plocate-updatedb ○ plocate-updatedb.service - Update the locate database Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.service; static5:185m) Active: inactive (dead) since Sun 2024-11-24 00:33:56 CST; 14min ago Invocation: 633dc34e995a4a658e4d66f1f61a0622 TriggeredBy: ● plocate-updatedb.timer Docs: man:updatedb Process: 158324 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c chown -R ${RUN_UPDATEDB_AS}:root /var/lib/plocate && su --shell=/bin/sh ${RUN_UPDATEDB_AS} -c 'umask 0022; /usr/sbin/updatedb' (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 158324 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 53ms Nov 24 00:33:54 wizard systemd[1]: Starting Update the locate database... Nov 24 00:33:54 wizard su[158324]: (to nobody) root on none Nov 24 00:33:54 wizard su[158324]: pam_systemd(su:session): New sd-bus connection (system-bus-pam-systemd-158324) opened. Nov 24 00:33:54 wizard su[158324]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user nobody(uid=65534) by (uid=0) Nov 24 00:33:56 wizard systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service: Deactivated successfully. Nov 24 00:33:56 wizard systemd[1]: Finished Update the locate database. 'locate' is properly linked to 'plocate': $ l /usr/bin/locate lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 12 10:04 /usr/bin/locate -> plocate Yet running 'locate Readme' or 'locate doxygen' does not turn up my file. Why is this? What magic am I missing? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Can't install Virtual Box - 15.6 KDE
by James Knott 28 Nov '24

28 Nov '24

I'm trying to Virtual Box but I get this error: /usr/sbin/vboxconfig Building kernel modules... Kernel modules built correctly. They will now be installed. insmod /lib/modules/6.4.0-150600.23.25-default/extra/vboxdrv.ko modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxnetflt': Key was rejected by service insmod /lib/modules/6.4.0-150600.23.25-default/extra/vboxdrv.ko modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxnetadp': Key was rejected by service Kernel modules are installed and loaded. When I searched on the first error, it mentioned virtualbox-dkms package, but that does not seem to be available as something I can install. Suggestions? tnx jk

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Re: Leap 15.6 nvidia troubles again - cc instead of gcc?
by Paul Neuwirth 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

On Wednesday 2024-11-27 15:40, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:40:10 >From: Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri(a)gmail.com> >To: Paul Neuwirth <mail(a)paul-neuwirth.nl> >Cc: users(a)lists.opensuse.org >Subject: Re: Leap 15.6 nvidia troubles again - cc instead of gcc? > > * Paul Neuwirth via openSUSE Users <users(a)lists.opensuse.org> [11-27-24 09:36]: >> Hello together, >> >> after an update today (zypper patch && zypper up) parts of nvidia fail to >> build. >> noticable at start it mentions another compiler is being used than used for >> building the kernel. cc instead of gcc (both 7.5 thou). >> >> # warning: the compiler differs from the one used to build the kernel >> # The kernel was built by: gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0 >> # You are using: cc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0 >> >> subsequently, everything looks normal until: >> >> # make: command: Command not found >> # Makefile:63: WARNING: Unable to locate the compiler gcc from CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT in the kernel configuration. >> # rm -f -r conftest >> # make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.4.0-150600.23.17' >> # make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.4.0-150600.23.17-obj/x86_64/default' >> # CLEAN /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-550.135-default >> # CLEAN /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-550.135-default/Module.symvers >> # make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.4.0-150600.23.17-obj/x86_64/default' >> # make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.4.0-150600.23.17' >> # / >> # EFI variables are not supported on this system >> # # Modprobe blacklist files have been created at /etc/modprobe.d to prevent >> Nouveau from loading. This can be reverted by deleting >> /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-*.conf. >> # # *** Reboot your computer and verify that the NVIDIA graphics driver can >> be loaded. *** >> # # sort: write failed: 'standard output': Broken pipe >> # sort: write error >> # /usr/bin/lsinitrd: line 203: echo: write error: Broken pipe >> >> may it be caused by the other compiler? how to fix/change compiler? >> >> if you need full log, I can try. not an expert in vim (yet) - no X available >> on any computer now. >> >> Thank you, >> Regards >> >> Paul > > boot a prior kernel until you have an updated nvidia package > > -- > (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri > facebook/ptilopteri > Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc > yea, somehow it did work despite the errors!? don't know anymore - only trouble with the proprietary nvidia. after sending the e-mail I tried one more thing: rmmod all loaded nvidia- modules modprobe nvidia and it worked. Display froze at booting (forget to mention that) around mounting the root filesystem. Are there other, better supported (including computation and 3d acceleration, etc.) video cards, I could consider in the future? Thanks again, Paul. PS: # rpm -qa | grep "nvidia-" libva-nvidia-driver-0.0.12-lp155.2.1.x86_64 nvidia-video-G06-550.135-lp156.28.1.x86_64 pcp-pmda-nvidia-gpu-6.2.0-150600.3.9.1.x86_64 nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-default-550.135_k6.4.0_150600.21-lp156.28.1.x86_64 nvidia-gl-G06-550.135-lp156.28.1.x86_64 nvidia-compute-utils-G06-550.135-lp156.28.1.x86_64 nvidia-video-G06-32bit-550.135-lp156.28.1.x86_64 kernel-firmware-nvidia-20240728-150600.3.6.1.noarch nvidia-compute-G06-32bit-550.135-lp156.28.1.x86_64 nvidia-compute-G06-550.135-lp156.28.1.x86_64 nvidia-gl-G06-32bit-550.135-lp156.28.1.x86_64

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Leap 15.6 nvidia troubles again - cc instead of gcc?
by Paul Neuwirth 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Hello together, after an update today (zypper patch && zypper up) parts of nvidia fail to build. noticable at start it mentions another compiler is being used than used for building the kernel. cc instead of gcc (both 7.5 thou). # warning: the compiler differs from the one used to build the kernel # The kernel was built by: gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0 # You are using: cc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0 subsequently, everything looks normal until: # make: command: Command not found # Makefile:63: WARNING: Unable to locate the compiler gcc from CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT in the kernel configuration. # rm -f -r conftest # make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.4.0-150600.23.17' # make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-6.4.0-150600.23.17-obj/x86_64/default' # CLEAN /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-550.135-default # CLEAN /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-550.135-default/Module.symvers # make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.4.0-150600.23.17-obj/x86_64/default' # make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.4.0-150600.23.17' # / # EFI variables are not supported on this system # # Modprobe blacklist files have been created at /etc/modprobe.d to prevent Nouveau from loading. This can be reverted by deleting /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-*.conf. # # *** Reboot your computer and verify that the NVIDIA graphics driver can be loaded. *** # # sort: write failed: 'standard output': Broken pipe # sort: write error # /usr/bin/lsinitrd: line 203: echo: write error: Broken pipe may it be caused by the other compiler? how to fix/change compiler? if you need full log, I can try. not an expert in vim (yet) - no X available on any computer now. Thank you, Regards Paul

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openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2024-4060 conflicts with NVidia G06
by Darryl Gregorash 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

So what are we supposed to do with this thing? The patch description is rather cryptic: > This update for ocl-icd fixes the following issues: > > get rid of update-alternatives; it's no longer needed because with upcoming G06 production drivers, the nvidia packages will rely on this implementation (JIRA#PED-11444) > added conflicts to packages for legacy nvidia drivers (G04,G05) Does this mean that G06 is/will be obsolete?

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US Mirrors Down??
by David C. Rankin 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

All, Are all US mirrors down? I just tried to list updates for Tumbleweed and got: Retrieving repository 'Main Repository (OSS)' metadata .....................................................[error] Repository 'Main Repository (OSS)' is invalid. [download.opensuse.org-oss|http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/] Failed to retrieve new repository metadata. History: - [|] Error trying to read from 'http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/' - Location 'http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/content' is temporarily unaccessible. Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Warning: Skipping repository 'Main Repository (OSS)' because of the above error. Retrieving repository 'Main Update Repository' metadata ....................................................[error] Repository 'Main Update Repository' is invalid. [download.opensuse.org-tumbleweed|http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumble…] Failed to retrieve new repository metadata. History: - [|] Error trying to read from 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/' - Location 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/content' is temporarily unaccessible. Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Warning: Skipping repository 'Main Update Repository' because of the above error. Retrieving repository 'kde3' metadata ......................................................................[error] Repository 'kde3' is invalid. [kde3|http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_Tumblewee…] Failed to retrieve new repository metadata. History: - [|] Error trying to read from 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/' - Location 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/con…' is temporarily unaccessible. Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Warning: Skipping repository 'kde3' because of the above error. I'm hoping "temporarily unaccessible" means what it says despite the misspelling. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Live USB and partitioner
by Marc Chamberlin 23 Nov '24

23 Nov '24

I am using an OpenSuSE 15.6 live usb stick to help me debug a system that will not boot up. To gain access to the various drives and partitions, of the broken OpenSuSE system, I tried to use the YaST partitioner on the live version of OpenSuSE and was unsuccessful. The partitioner does allow me to edit/define mount points for all of the partitions that are part of the system I am trying to debug. The problem lies with the fact that there is some sort of magic going on with the definition for the root file system '/'. Somehow the live OpenSuSE system is able to mount something??? as the root system, but the YaST partitioner does not show any partition being mounted at the root '/' mount point. And the YaST partitioner will not allow me to exit or set up the mount points until the '/' mount point is defined. So I feel like I am caught in a Catch 22, somehow the '/' mount point is being defined and data from the live USB partitions is being mounted there, but the YaST partitioner doesn't see it and won't allow me to set any mount points until the '/' mount point is defined. The partitioner does show that 2 of the partitions on the live USB stick are defined and mounted. The first has a mount point for the disk label openSUSE_Leap_15.6_KDE_Live defined at /run/overlay/live. The second has a mount point for disk labeled cow defined at /run/overlay/overlay/overlayfs. Interesting also is that /etc/fstab is an empty file. So I am totally confused and don't grok Live USB sticks. How do I mount my own systems partitions on a live USB stick? Thanks, Marc.

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Why no/few MongoDB packages and PHP support?
by David C. Rankin 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

All, Devs, Why are there no PHP-mongo or MongoDB packages? Yes MongoDB has a Apache custom:SSPL1 license (which explains why there is no MongoDB in official repos), but the php package has a normal Apache license, as does mongosh and mongodb-tools has reasonably non-restrictive mixed (Apache-2.0 BSD-2-Clause BSD-3-Clause ISC MIT MPL-2.0) licensing. I ask because recently I ended up working with it on Arch. While it isn't a replacement for SQL (relational) databases, it as a noSQL database, fills a different role, and has advantages depending on what your data is. (it's a document database where it stores collections of records which are simply JSON (or binary JSON) documents. This makes adding/removing documents trivial, as you don't care what the individual fields are, you are just storing documents. Even in the same collection the documents need not have the same fields. Obviously, there is no where near the tight "relational" quality between records, but if you are just handling documents, that's a plus. (and also why SQL [relational] and noSQL [document oriented] databases won't replace one another, they just fill different data-handling roles) There are some packages in user-repositories, but no ver: 4.4 (older, but last to support non-AVX processors). Does anyone know why there is such a dearth of mongo support in openSUSE? Anyone interested in it? Given is popularity in the containerized world, I was surprised not to find more of a selection? More of a curiosity, than anything else, but if folks are interested, it may be worth writing a .spec and creating a package. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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'Alarming' security bugs lay low in Linux's needrestart server utility for 10 years (got my attention)
by David C. Rankin 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

All, kernel gurus, This article got my attention: 'Alarming' security bugs lay low in Linux's needrestart server utility for 10 years https://go.reg.cx/tdml/dfd67/6768a7ff/409363c0/4f7m Apparently the needsrestart server in the kernel can be exploited easily enough that the proof of concept isn't being released along with the announcement of the multiple CVE's. Primary culprits, python and ruby (something Rust can't fix this time) I don't know if this is in the default openSUSE kernel. Ubuntu is the lucky server distro in the article. How would you check to see if this is running in openSUSE? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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nginx php-fpm FastCGI sent in stderr: ... (Permission denied)??
by David C. Rankin 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

All, I'm an Apache shop, but thought I would explore nginx with php-fpm. So I've installed nginx and php-fpm on Tumbleweed. I've configured to use Unix sockets and tried with fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000 redirect, but I get the same error trying to process .php pages each time. The php install works fine from the cli, e.g. it processes <?php phpinnfo(); ?> fine. It's just serving php pages through nginx where things are not working. Serving html pages is fine. nginx runs as user:group nginx:nginx and php-fpm has been configured accordingly. The nginx.conf is: https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/4aa5986f180c The php-fpm pool (Default name www) [www] user = nginx group = nginx php_value[session.save_path] = /var/lib/php8/sessions listen = '/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock' listen.owner = nginx listen.group = nginx listen.mode = 0660 pm = dynamic pm.max_children = 5 pm.start_servers = 2 pm.min_spare_servers = 1 pm.max_spare_servers = 3 NOTE: I have uninstalled and blacklisted the system-user-wwwrun package because I do not run the servers as user:group www:wwwrun. The nginx user and group are created just fine by the install, e.g. user: nginx:x:461:461:User for nginx:/var/lib/nginx:/usr/sbin/nologin group: nginx:x:461:david The socket dir created is: # l /run/php-fpm/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Nov 20 18:15 . drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 1100 Nov 20 18:08 .. srw-rw---- 1 nginx nginx 0 Nov 20 18:15 php-fpm.sock The document root with simple test index.(html|php) and the phpinfo() test in tphp.php is: # l /srv/http/htdocs/ total 36 drwxrwxr-x 3 root david 4096 Nov 20 16:26 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 3 01:22 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 root david 4096 Sep 28 02:04 gif -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 3 01:22 50x.html -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 3262 Oct 10 2009 favicon.ico -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 522 Nov 20 16:26 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 510 Nov 20 15:58 index.php -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2356 Sep 28 02:04 info2html.css -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 20 May 21 2019 tphp.php The permissions on /var/lib/nginx are: # l /var/lib/nginx/ total 28 drwxr-x--- 7 nginx nginx 4096 Nov 18 04:59 . drwxr-xr-x 59 root root 4096 Nov 20 03:37 .. drwxr-x--- 2 nginx nginx 4096 Oct 3 01:22 fastcgi drwxr-x--- 2 nginx nginx 4096 Oct 3 01:22 proxy drwxr-x--- 2 nginx nginx 4096 Oct 3 01:22 scgi drwxr-x--- 2 nginx nginx 4096 Oct 3 01:22 tmp drwxr-x--- 2 nginx nginx 4096 Oct 3 01:22 uwsgi Both nginx and php-fpm services are happily running: # scs nginx ● nginx.service - The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; 5:185mdisabled; preset: 5:185mdisabled) Active: active (running) since Wed 2024-11-20 18:08:14 CST; 21min ago Invocation: a04be26ff80b4ec0b5b1748a8701d16c Process: 12485 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 12487 (nginx) Tasks: 5 (limit: 9439) CPU: 83ms CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service ├─12487 "nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon off;" ├─12488 "nginx: worker process" ├─12489 "nginx: worker process" ├─12490 "nginx: worker process" └─12491 "nginx: worker process" Nov 20 18:08:13 wizard systemd[1]: Starting The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server... Nov 20 18:08:14 wizard nginx[12485]: nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok Nov 20 18:08:14 wizard nginx[12485]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful Nov 20 18:08:14 wizard systemd[1]: Started The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server. # scs php-fpm ● php-fpm.service - The PHP FastCGI Process Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm.service; 5:185mdisabled; preset: 5:185mdisabled) Active: active (running) since Wed 2024-11-20 18:15:29 CST; 14min ago Invocation: cfbbc45ed51c486db553470af40609d7 Main PID: 12724 (php-fpm) Status: "Processes active: 0, idle: 2, Requests: 0, slow: 0, Traffic: 0.00req/sec" Tasks: 3 (limit: 9439) CPU: 174ms CGroup: /system.slice/php-fpm.service ├─12724 "php-fpm: master process (/etc/php8/fpm/php-fpm.conf)" ├─12725 "php-fpm: pool www" └─12726 "php-fpm: pool www" Nov 20 18:15:29 wizard systemd[1]: Starting The PHP FastCGI Process Manager... Nov 20 18:15:29 wizard systemd[1]: Started The PHP FastCGI Process Manager. The nginx and php-fpm worker processes and pools are all running as the correct user:group (nginx:nginx), e.g. # ps uafx | grep 'php\|nginx' ... root 12487 0.0 0.1 14912 10432 ? Ss 18:08 0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon off; nginx 12488 0.0 0.0 15360 4560 ? S 18:08 0:00 \_ nginx: worker process nginx 12489 0.0 0.0 15360 3832 ? S 18:08 0:00 \_ nginx: worker process nginx 12490 0.0 0.0 15360 3832 ? S 18:08 0:00 \_ nginx: worker process nginx 12491 0.0 0.0 15360 3652 ? S 18:08 0:00 \_ nginx: worker process root 12724 0.0 0.3 64692 31328 ? Ss 18:15 0:00 php-fpm: master process (/etc/php8/fpm/php-fpm.conf) nginx 12725 0.0 0.1 64692 11088 ? S 18:15 0:00 \_ php-fpm: pool www nginx 12726 0.0 0.1 64692 11088 ? S 18:15 0:00 \_ php-fpm: pool www Attempting to access a php file I get the following error regardless whether php-fpm is configured to use Unix sockets or 127.0.0.1:9000, e.g. one message from each configuration: 2024/11/20 18:01:31 [error] 12133#12133: *1 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Warning: PHP Request Startup: Failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0; Unable to open primary script: /srv/http/htdocs/index.php (Permission denied)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: wizard.3111skyline.com, request: "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "wizard.3111skyline.com" 2024/11/20 18:08:23 [error] 12488#12488: *1 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Warning: PHP Request Startup: Failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0; Unable to open primary script: /srv/http/htdocs/index.php (Permission denied)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: wizard.3111skyline.com, request: "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock:", host: "wizard.3111skyline.com" I've tried changing every possible permission on the source, the socket, recreating the socket with 0666 perms instead of 0660, loosening perms on /var/lib/nginx/... and any other insane guess I found on the internet regarding "nginx php permission denied", but nothing works. I have been working through https://nginx.org/en/docs/, but there doesn't seem to be anything I can find "wrong" with what I've done (obviously there is). Anybody good with the nginx config that wouldn't mind helping me figure out where I've screwed this up? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Machine lockups when suspend is envoked:
by -pj 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

Hi, openSUSE Tumbleweed here with KDE. I recently replaced the Nvidia Quadro K600 video card with an AMD RX550 video card in the machine. Issue is that when suspend is envoked there are lockups possibly 15 to 20 percent of the time. Then REISUB is used to complete the powercycle. For a couple weeks I had just left the Nvidia packages and Nvidia kernel boot parameters as they were after installing the rx550 and experienced a lockup during suspend 30 percent of the time. Now I purged the Nvidia packages and removed the Nvidia related kernel boot options and updated grub. Now I have been computing for about 3 weeks total with the RX550. inxi -Gayz output > https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/b87ed48936da - lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)" 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Lexa [Radeon 540X/550X/630 / RX 640 / E9171 MCM] (rev c1) Subsystem: Dell Device 1713 Kernel driver in use: amdgpu I have looked a bit into this for instance: passing eglinfo -B as user and not root gives a possible red herring error message > _amdgpu_device_initialize: amdgpu_query_info(ACCEL_WORKING) failed (-13) Really I do believe RX550 is creating the suspend issue somehow. As with the prior video card, suspend was still reliable. How can I troubleshoot this problem more correctly?

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openSUSE Firefox/Tbird builds break file-chooser by not listing xdg-desktop-portal as dependency
by David C. Rankin 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

All, Anyone running Firefox from the openSUSE builds, can you check with Ctrl+O and see if a file-open dialog appears? The problem is there was a change in settings in Firefox: widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker=1 Where: 0: never 1: always 2: auto This was apparently done because Plasma will only use native file dialogs if the widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker is set to 1. All of this "portal" crapola is courtesy of flatpak sandbox issue. However, for anyone running a desktop that doesn't have xdg-desktop-portal installed, your file-open chooser is now gone. No xdg-desktop-portal, no file-open dialog. Apparently when this use was set to "always", there wasn't also a corresponding dependency added to Firefox/Thrunderbird. So if you don't have the portal packages installed, no file-open anymore. If others have broken Firefox I'll write it up. (this also breaks vscode/vscodiaum, etc..) From the Flatpak documentation: Portals are the framework for securely accessing resources from outside an application sandbox. They provide a range of common features to applications, including: determining network status, opening a file with a file chooser, opening URIs, taking screenshots and screencasts ... They just overlooked the fact that people on Linux actually use software that isn't running in a damn container... Who would have thunk? Let me know if that caught you too. I'm happy to author the bug. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Recent Apache Update and problem with mod_http2
by Admin Beckspaced 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

Hello openSUSE users, installed the recent apache updates apache2-event-2.4.51-150400.6.40.1.x86_64 Sun Nov 10 08:59:57 2024 apache2-utils-2.4.51-150400.6.40.1.x86_64 Sun Nov 10 08:59:55 2024 apache2-2.4.51-150400.6.40.1.x86_64 Sun Nov 10 08:59:55 2024 after updating apache gives the following error on startup Nov 10 09:40:24 cx20 start_apache2[5895]: httpd-event: Syntax error in -C/-c directive: Syntax error on line 33 of /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/loadmodule.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib64/apache2-event/mod_http2.so into server: /usr/lib64/apache2-event/mod_http2.so: undefined symbol: ap_thread_create the file/symlink is there /usr/lib64/apache2-event/mod_http2.so -> /usr/lib64/apache2/mod_http2.so disabling mod_http2 via a2dismod http2 let's apache start again but the http2 feature is then missing the startup flag HTTP2 is also set in /etc/sysconfig/apache downgrading makes apache with mod_http2 working again apache2-event-2.4.51-150400.6.37.1.x86_64 Sun Nov 10 10:48:13 2024 apache2-utils-2.4.51-150400.6.37.1.x86_64 Sun Nov 10 10:48:11 2024 apache2-2.4.51-150400.6.37.1.x86_64 Sun Nov 10 10:48:11 2024 what is needed to make mod_http2 work with the most recent apache update? thanks & with best regards Becki

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tracker-extract is spamming the logs
by Carlos E. R. 17 Nov '24

17 Nov '24

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I see many messages like this on the messages log and the warning log: <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:45:54.674891+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:45:54.744840+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2c7.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:45:54.812149+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2d7.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:45:54.877219+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2e8.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. And it is repeating the same file again and again: grep "eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au" /var/log/messages > /tmp/p <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:00:06.272711+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:00:11.403987+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:00:16.664870+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:00:21.871947+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:00:27.337959+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:00:32.349507+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:00:37.355440+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:00:42.380116+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:00:54.385625+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:00:59.353612+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:01:04.450741+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:01:09.611565+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:01:14.697052+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:01:19.680449+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:01:24.892858+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:01:30.082488+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:01:35.215110+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:01:40.444906+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:01:45.632396+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:01:50.946503+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:01:56.264446+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:02:01.526946+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:02:06.830425+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:02:12.049987+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:02:17.401537+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:02:22.883163+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:02:28.283756+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:02:33.726513+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:02:39.218703+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:02:44.655908+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:02:50.053773+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:02:55.616987+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:03:01.128584+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T00:03:13.464666+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 16796 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. ... hundreds more <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:43:32.515882+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:43:46.276766+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:44:00.045061+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:44:13.801186+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:44:27.813855+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:44:41.631759+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:45:12.979155+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:45:26.869327+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:45:40.752092+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:45:54.674891+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:46:08.674967+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:46:22.959668+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:46:37.522577+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:46:51.474010+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:47:05.690070+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:47:19.689213+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:47:33.694242+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:47:47.748794+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:48:01.788478+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:48:15.796137+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:48:29.862950+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:48:43.857425+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:48:57.852802+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. <1.4> 2024-11-14T14:49:11.914998+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d1d/eff1d2b6.au) failed: The stream is in the wrong format. And that for the hundreds of files like that one in there. I don't know why I have that many files in the download directory, either. I donwloaded a single file, and FF apparently downlodaded hundreds of them. They are text, not audio, just 21 bytes: ID_VIDEO_ID=0 ID_EXIT=EOF Dated sept 21. But the spamming started 2024-11-13T20:46:41.187095+01:00, after maybe some update. Telcontar:~ # tail /var/log/zypp/history 2024-11-12 19:59:56|patch |openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2024-3914|1|noarch|repo-sle-update|moderate|recommended|needed|applied| I will delete the directory this evening, waiting for comments. Could audacity have created them? Ah, and the tracker extract process is using 99% CPU. [...] Nay, I just deleted them, after tarring them into an archive, just in case. Now it is spamming with a different error: <1.4> 2024-11-14T15:08:48.081666+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Task for 'file:///home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d0c/eff0cb56.au' finished with error: Error when getting information for file “/home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d0c/eff0cb56.au”: No such file or directory <1.4> 2024-11-14T15:08:48.105838+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 11538 - - Could not get mimetype, Error when getting information for file “/home/cer/Download/Firefox_downloads/cadenaser_hoyporhoy_20240919_100000_110000_data/eff/d0c/eff0cb57.au”: No such file or directory I had to kill the tracker-extract process. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCZzYE+hwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV5F4An1jwT4GPxUV44sVLHv1q iIguxvInAJ9dGySxj6Nwp86dukIWi5CLsLNZCg== =0RQ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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vscode/vscodium file-choose broken on Tumbleweed - No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser”
by David C. Rankin 17 Nov '24

17 Nov '24

All, vscode/vscodium has been broken on opensuse Tumbleweed since 1.90 (1.89 is last working version with fileChooser that opens). Testing the binary 1.95 release today, it's fine on Arch (in Fluxbox), but does not work in openSUSE Tumbleweed. The error when run from the command line looks like the problem: 02:32 wizard:~> /opt/vscodium-bin/codium [56965:1116/023333.000043:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get: object_path= /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser” [56965:1116/023333.000324:ERROR:select_file_dialog_linux_portal.cc(287)] Failed to read portal version property What is a org.freedesktop.portal and why doesn't Tumbleweed have a“org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser”? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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personal offsite backup
by Dave Howorth 16 Nov '24

16 Nov '24

I just read a newspaper article about house fires, and it struck me that one of the things that might well be lost in such a mishap would be my financial records etc that are stored on my computer. All carefully backed up to a local disk :) So I need to consider an offsite backup. What do people use and/or recommend? My initial thinking is to install some sort of disk and computer (pi?) in a nephew's house and install some automatic backup software. So I'm open to suggested implementation ideas or alternative ideas. I'd like to avoid solutions that involve subscriptions. TIA, Dave

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AMD video resolution too low
by bent fender 16 Nov '24

16 Nov '24

My temporary GPU card is: VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 5770] About a month ago the GUI desktop on my most often used linux installations went form high-res (1920x1080) to something rather very low-res. I've never had VoidLinux in GUI yet at all, and all but one of the others use one DM or another. In slackware I always did "startx" and now that too goes to a low-res desktop. Tumbleweed is different! If I carry on with SDDM in low-res to log-in then it too will bring up GUI is low-res BUT if I do it the slackware way (logging-in in terminal mode followed by startx) then I get the previously always successful 1920x1080 desktop ..as I should. So where is Tumbleweed getting this from while all the others have gone tango-uniform? And what's amiss in my other distros? What can I look at to TS?

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The Endless Journey to IPv6
by Lew Wolfgang 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Hi Folks, (Sorry for the long post. Please delete now if you're not interested in IPv6 adoption.) In a recent Security Now! podcast host Steve Gibson reported on a blog post by APNIC Labs about the state of IPv6 adoption. I hope this isn't considered off-topic here, after all, it affects all of us. While my work environment is dual-stack, my home network is still IPv4 only, and it may stay that way for as long as I'm around. APNIC Labs is a research division of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), focused on internet infrastructure and operational research, so they should know what they're talking about. They have developed a method to measure IPv6 compatibility from the user's perspective. Their measurements show that after more than 25 years of IPv6 only 41% of users are IPv6 enabled, on a global basis. They show a trend line where if the adoption rate is linear 100% will be reached about the year 2045. Yet they show that the adoption rate for the US hit about 51% in 2019 but has remain flat since then! (this is being written in Nov 2024) They note that the main driver for IPv6 was address starvation on v4. While v4 offers about 3,000,000,000 net address, there are currently about 20,000,000,000 devices on the Internet. Two technologies have enabled this Internet growth: NAT and SNI. NAT (Network Address Translation) allows IPv4 client address space to expand from 32-bits to 48-bits. SNI (Server Name Indication) is an extension to the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol that allows multiple SSL/TLS certificates to be associated with one IP address. So these two technologies have basically infinitely increased the effective address space of IPv4. So what is to be gained from IPv6 adoption? From my perspective it increases complexity while reducing security and reliability. This all implies that IPv4 will always be with us. IPv6 will increase globally to some point, but will level off as it has in the US. This of course is anathema to IP purists who claim that the Internet was designed on the principle that every device has a globally unique address. But in reality, is this really necessary? The point is made that DNS has replaced the router for presentation of web content. Interesting. Link to Security Now! podcast show notes. IPv6 notes begin on page 13. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-998-notes.pdf Here's a video of the podcast starting at the IPv6 part: https://youtu.be/PuqbdXGucH8 Regards, Lew

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Thunderbird issue
by Carlos E. R. 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

Hi, I use Thunderbird 128.3.1esr. The problem appeared after I have been away from home for a week (I updated when I switched off the computer). When I click on an email in the panel that holds the list of mails, it is interpreted often as a double click, and the email instead opens in a different tab. I have then to move the mouse to the right end and close that extra tab. Once TB complained and said opening some 50 mails would take some long time, was I sure? It wanted to open the entire thread into separate tabs. Instead of listing the thread in the top panel, it thought I had requested to open them all. Only happens with Thunderbird. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Telcontar, using openSUSE Leap 15.5)

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Leap 15.6 - dovecot and apparmor
by mh＠mike.franken.de 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

Hi *, today I migrated one of my servers from Leap 15.5 to 15.6. So far everything works ok, besides: map-login: Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied imap: Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied managesieve(<username>): Error: getpwnam(vmail) failed: Permission denied (from mail_uid setting) managesieve-login: Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats- writer) failed: Permission denied managesieve: Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied Any idea, what to configure to get rid of these errors? TIA. Bye. Michael.

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openSUSE/SUSE in this weeks LUP
by Luna Jernberg 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

https://linuxunplugged.com/588 Hey the main topic on this weeks Linux Unplugged Podcast is about SUSE and openSUSE this week: https://linuxunplugged.com/588

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Shaky YouTube videos
by James Knott 10 Nov '24

10 Nov '24

A while ago, I posted here about some YouTube videos that were shaky. I soon discovered they were shaky in Firefox, wouldn't play at all in Chromium and played smoothly on Edge. This was on a Gigabyte mom board and I was able to resolve the problem by installing Pacman. I have since moved on to a refurb Dell 7060 and the problem is back. However, this time, Pacman killed the video entirely and it took me a lot of effort to get it back. Is there some YouTube format that's causing this problem? It only happens on some videos and most play fine. Here is one example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cueTzJAW1kU&t=196s I'm running openSUSE 15.6 & KDE. tnx jk

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new backgrounds
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

Hi, in case I missed something I'm sorry but since Tumbleweed changed the default backgrounds, which I honestly do not like much but it's all about taste so please forgive me. Do we have a package collecting the old ones somewhere? Thanks, Wolfgang

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Thunderbird cant create mailinglist
by Carl Spitzer 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

This does not work. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-create-and-use-mailing-lists-thund… I open addressbook File / New / Mailing List except there is no opeion to create a mailing list. Thunderbird 128.3.1esr (64-bit) How do I correct this flaw?? CWSIV

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imagemagick module not found
by Daniel Bauer 01 Nov '24

01 Nov '24

Hi, I have a simple script, used uncountable times since years, and now it doesn't work anymore, because a module isn't found. The command executed is: magick "image.JPG" -quality 50 -verbose "image.png" The answer is: magick: unable to load module '/usr/lib64/ImageMagick-7.1.1/modules-7_Q16HDRI10/coders/jpeg.la': file not found @ error/module.c/OpenModule/1293. magick: no decode delegate for this image format `JPEG' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/746. I just checked: the not found jpeg.la is where it should be, the rights are set correct. Any hints what could be the reason and how I could correct it? Thanks for your help. Daniel OS 15.5, KDE just forced to update all imagemagick stuff via Yast, the error persists -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga Twitter: @Marsfotografo (often explicit nudes) https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com (nudes)

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Petro Canada and Cloudflare problem
by James Knott 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

Recently, while trying to access my Petro Points account I was blocked: "Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access petro-canada.ca Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. What can I do to resolve this? You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page." I get this with Firefox, Chromium and Edge on my desktop system and also with Firefox on my notebook computer, both running OpenSUSE 15.6 KDE. However, that site works with my notebook running Windows 10 & Firefox and also Chrome on Android. I tried the help desk, but they were useless. Any ideas? tnx jk

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No base modules for kernel-longterm
by Dennis R. 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

Hi - I've been playing with MicroOS and plan to use it as a base for my home servers. I've installed kernel-longterm and k3s. Then I wanted to add longhorn, so I installed the pre-requisites and ran the environment_check.sh script which threw an error regarding a missing kernel module iscsi_tcp. Modprobe returned an error that the module could not be found. Checking the available kernel packages I saw that for kernel-default there is kernel-default-base which holds base modules. After installing it I was able to load the module but the OS also booted into 6.11.5-1-default instead of 6.6.58-1-longterm. I wonder why the base modules don't exist for kernel-longterm or what's the suggested way of adding them. Thanks in advance!

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mouse pointer doesn't change on links in firefox 128.0esr
by Istvan Gabor 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

Hello:This occurs in openSUSE 15.5. I installed firefox 128.0esr. -------The mouse pointer doesn't change to a hand on hovering links in firefox 128 esr.-------I use the default X windows mouse theme (by setting no theme in KDE control center).-------I use KDE3 desktop.-------The mouse works normally with previous firefox 115 esr.-------What is the cause, and how could I fix?-------Thanks,-------Istvan-------ps: The -------s are for separating lines.

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Tumbleweed not booting: SDDM and kwallet crash
by Christoph G 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

Since yesterday I can no longer boot my Tumbleweed. I updated to yesterday's and today's snapshot. I only see a black screen with a movable mouse pointer from SDDM. I checked journalctl and saw a crash with a stacktrace from SDDM. I then removed SDDM and installed lightdm. I could enter my password, but when the plasma session (both Wayland and X11) started, kwallet crashed. I assume some Qt or KDE library is broken. What details do you need to investigate further?

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mbox mail viewer
by Istvan Gabor 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

Hello:I need an mbox file viewer GUI program for openSUSE. A program I can use for opening mbox email files in a local directory. Thunderbird, Evolution, Clawsmail all can open/import mbox files, but they require setting up an email account which I don't want. I only want to open local mbox files and possibly manipulate them (view, save, copy to other folder). Pine/alpine can do this nicely, but it is a terminal program. I need something similar that is GUI and can show attached images. Is there something like that for linux?Thanks in advance,Istvanps: I apologize if the message is garbled, it's the mail system I use.

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Suggested repo to install the libdvdcss library in Tumbleweed?
by John Magolske 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

Hi, I'm trying to play DVDs with vlc. My understanding is that the libdvdcss library needs to be installed for this to work. Could someone suggest the best repo to add for the purpose of installing libdvdcss? And also the `zypper` command to do so? I want to make sure adding an additional repo doesn't end up creating issues in conjunction with other repos. The repos I have installed at this point are: Education download.opensuse.org-non-oss download.opensuse.org-oss download.opensuse.org-tumbleweed home_HEBH packman repo-openh264 repo-oss server_mail Thanks for any help, John -- John Magolske http://b79.net/contact

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Is there a parser already written to output zypper.log entries in a nice format?
by David C. Rankin 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

All, I'm chasing problems in Thunderbird and wanted to parse zypper.log (yes I could use the rpmdb), and wanted to know if there was a parse already written or whether is just one for awk (and xzcat for the compressed files)? awk and xzcat work fine, but if there is already a tool, I'd rather not reinvent another wheel. For when installed, e.g., something ike: 2024-09-13 22:57:21 MozillaThunderbird-openpgp-librnp-115.15.0-1.1.x86_64 START 2024-09-13 22:57:21 MozillaThunderbird-openpgp-librnp-115.15.0-1.1.x86_64 END 2024-09-13 22:57:21 MozillaThunderbird-115.15.0-1.1.x86_64 START 2024-09-13 22:57:24 MozillaThunderbird-115.15.0-1.1.x86_64 END 2024-10-12 16:18:49 MozillaThunderbird-openpgp-librnp-128.3.1-1.1.x86_64 START 2024-10-12 16:18:49 MozillaThunderbird-openpgp-librnp-128.3.1-1.1.x86_64 END 2024-10-12 16:18:50 MozillaThunderbird-128.3.1-1.1.x86_64 START 2024-10-12 16:18:54 MozillaThunderbird-128.3.1-1.1.x86_64 END 2024-10-22 05:51:34 MozillaThunderbird-openpgp-librnp-128.3.2-1.1.x86_64 START 2024-10-22 05:51:34 MozillaThunderbird-openpgp-librnp-128.3.2-1.1.x86_64 END 2024-10-22 05:51:34 MozillaThunderbird-128.3.2-1.1.x86_64 START 2024-10-22 05:51:38 MozillaThunderbird-128.3.2-1.1.x86_64 END 2024-10-26 02:03:09 MozillaThunderbird-openpgp-librnp-128.3.3-1.1.x86_64 START 2024-10-26 02:03:09 MozillaThunderbird-openpgp-librnp-128.3.3-1.1.x86_64 END 2024-10-26 02:03:09 MozillaThunderbird-128.3.3-1.1.x86_64 START 2024-10-26 02:03:13 MozillaThunderbird-128.3.3-1.1.x86_64 END Which you can produce with, e.g. # xzcat /var/log/zypper.log-20240918.xz | awk '/[Tt]hunderbird/ && $5 == "[Progress++]" { p=sub(/}/,"",$(NF-1)); print $1, $2, $(NF-1), $NF }' -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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openSUSE's past lives on...
by David C. Rankin 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

All, I got a kick out of this, and some of you may too. To try and troubleshoot the problem I'm having with RSS newsfeeds hanging in Thunderbird 128.3.3esr, I launched akregator to try the feeds there and see if there was any difference in behavior. Launching akregator, the default feeds were from the time Novell owned openSUSE: https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/4cf4bf12d2f1 I should have got a shot before I deleted all the other Novell feeds and Planet SUSE feeds. It was a blast from the past. Akregator has no problem hanging, and handles the feeds just fine. Wireshark shows nothing odd when checking in Thunderbird, but the last transmission from the hanging feed is an ACK - why that causes a hang is still beyond me. Enjoy the trip down memory lane. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Tumbleweed, Clamd is spamming my journal with thousand of line of "path check failures" making it de facto unreadable
by Stakanov 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Hi, I need some input to understand what is wrong. I have some problems with my system (sddm during login on the main monitor, while all other monitors log in just fine) so I wanted to search my journal for some feedback. But I found it incredibly spammed, filled with millions of lines of these errors of clamd ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure for: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/e174b952f45c81266f2aa6ff2faf8204-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure on: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/7ef2298fde41cc6eeb7af42e48b7d293-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure for: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/7ef2298fde41cc6eeb7af42e48b7d293-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure on: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/fb8341411dac03919a6f30c61d3ee363-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure for: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/fb8341411dac03919a6f30c61d3ee363-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure on: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/31d258c26849b1f3b28618b43aef0df4-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure for: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/31d258c26849b1f3b28618b43aef0df4-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure on: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/8aefcdceaf7081f7a76e5c97af6ee8fa-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure for: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/8aefcdceaf7081f7a76e5c97af6ee8fa-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure on: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/712cd08b1ee090e27e4db4d38f098b5b-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure for: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/712cd08b1ee090e27e4db4d38f098b5b-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure on: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/4c50721ef3546eb2746d415117216e74-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure for: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/4c50721ef3546eb2746d415117216e74-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure on: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/b7c4333675e0ca84d9af12927db7f5e5-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure for: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/b7c4333675e0ca84d9af12927db7f5e5-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure on: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/b6565330f3cba832d0b61036a78e2648-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure for: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/b6565330f3cba832d0b61036a78e2648-x86_64.cache-9 ott 22 09:15:20 silversurfer clamd[2066]: File path check failure on: /home/ mercurio/.cache/fontconfig/c7065e1c7dd0f6b2e3062b6686e0f20f-x86_64.cache-9 and so on and so forth. What is happening here and how to fix it? Currently the journal (a part of ever growing size, because these are pages and pages, is useless because unreadable. Thank you.

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firewalld & wsdd
by Marc Chamberlin 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Hi, I have a system that was upgraded to OpenSuSE 15.6 x64 and now firewalld is whimpering about a service called wsdd. Whenever I try to make a change with firewall-command, such as adding or removing a service to be allowed/disallowed by the firewall, and then trying to update my permanent setting from my runtime settings, I get bitched at by firewall-config and get told to run the following command - > #firewall-offline-cmd --check-config > Configuration error: INVALID_SERVICE: Zone 'internal': 'wsdd' not > among existing services Any ideas why firewalld is belly-aching about "wsdd"? My Duck Duck Go searches tells me that wsdd is used to make shared files and directories visible to MS machines, which is a feature I want. Further research shows that there is no package in the repositories for wsdd for OpenSuSE 15.6, is this being dropped? If so, how do I fix this mess and retain the ability to share files with Windoz systems? As always, many thanks in advance for taking the time to help me out and guiding me back into the OpenSuSE light! Marc.. --

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It is possible run the amdgpu propietary driver with openSUSE Tumbleweed?
by Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez 27 Oct '24

27 Oct '24

Hello, In the AMD website, the "official" drivers for Linux are offered for SUSE Linux (ED & ES). But maybe it will work with Tumbleweed too?. Thanks, very much, in advance. Regards. Jose Luis. -- https://lordofunix.org/ Not Registered GNU/Hurd User. Registered BSD User 51101. Registered Linux User #213309. Memories..... You are talking about memories. Rick Deckard. Blade Runner.

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Tumbleweed - After 10/26 update, Thunderbird 128.3.3esr hangs on checking feeds, 146% CPU?
by David C. Rankin 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

All, After Tumbleweed update last night, Thunderbird has begun sticking when checking news feeds. (specifically the Archlinux new packages newsfeed) Thunderbird gets the information just fine, but the checking busy-icon in the folders-list keeps showing activity. This creates 146% CPU load continually (about 1/3 of a 4-core CPU) Has anyone else seen Tbird stick like it continually checking a newsfeed? If so, has anyone found a work-around? The only thing I can do is right-click and "pause" checking of the newsfeed and then Restart Thunderbird so it starts without checking the feed. There seems to be no way to "unstick" the newsfeed once it has been checked, it's just stuck on. This is Thunderbird 128.3.3esr from the main repository. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[OT] Several kernel developers "banned" or "purged"?..
by Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

Hello, what could mean this message from a kernel development chief: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2024101835-tiptop-blip-09ed@gregkh/ for the future of the development of our System and its Kernel?. Could someone who understands this matter explain it in simple terms?. Thanks in advance. Regards. Jose Luis. -- https://lordofunix.org/ Not Registered GNU/Hurd User. Registered BSD User 51101. Registered Linux User #213309. Memories..... You are talking about memories. Rick Deckard. Blade Runner.

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test
by Masaru Nomiya 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Please ignore

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Slowroll 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' update problem.
by Peter McD 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

For about one week Yast tells me of a bunch or updatable files which cannot be updated because of 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' missing. It started when I used a regular zypper dup for an update, which changed some packman packages to openSUSE. Did I miss something? Peter

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clipboard plasma wayland / wl-copy - filter out a hex 0c -
by Simon Becherer 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

I am trying to figure out whats going on here: opensusetumbleweed plasma wayland i have a text file, i like to have it inside my clipboard of kde/plasma. the line to copy it to the clipboards are: cat geht.txt | wl-copy cat geht.txt | wl-copy -p if the clipboard is empty (the small symbol on the right lower right of the screen) the symbol will appear and the text will be inside the clipboard. BUT if inside the file is a "hex 0C" (at the end or somewhere inside the text) it will not show up in the clipboard of plasma. (i am still able to read it with wl-paste) this hex number will be automatically generated at the end of the file when i make a .pdf file with libreoffice and pipe it to pdftotext here my small script for copying pdf-texts to the clipboard (the main advantage of this method is, the it looks like it should, not as if i copy it directly with mouse selection) ====pdf2clip============== #!/bin/bash if [[ $XDG_SESSION_TYPE = 'x11' ]] # bei x11: then pdftotext -layout "$1" - | xclip pdftotext -layout "$1" - | xclip -selection clipboard # bei wayland: else pdftotext -layout "$1" - | wl-copy pdftotext -layout "$1" - | wl-copy -p fi ============================= question 1: so i guess its a bug or a feature from wayland? question 2: did anybody who is familar with ark or sed or someting else know a filter i could put into the pipe to delete the "hex 0c" ? thanks in advance simoN -- www.becherer.de

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Fwd: Fwd: How to reach Bugzilla-admin? Not getting bug updates, e-mail cannot be changed?
by David C. Rankin 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

I can't post to the bugs list either How can I get this fixed? -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Fwd: How to reach Bugzilla-admin? Not getting bug updates, e-mail cannot be changed? Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:53:20 +0000 From: bugs-owner(a)lists.opensuse.org To: drankinatty(a)gmail.com Your message to the openSUSE Bugs mailing-list was rejected for the following reasons: The message comes from a moderated member The original message as received by Mailman is attached. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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How do you subscribe to a mailing list now? Wiki is wrong - both ways
by David C. Rankin 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

All, This would be comical if it wasn't serious. I'm attempting to subscribe to the bugs mailing list. Since kitty interface no longer has a subscribe option, I consulted the wiki: https://languages.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_lists It says: <quote> To subscribe to a mailing list, send e-mail to <LISTNAME>+subscribe(a)opensuse.org Choose <LISTNAME> from the list of available mailing lists. Nomail subscription The nomail version of a mailing list means that you are recognized as a subscriber, but will not get any messages from the list. This is useful when it's necessary to post from several email addresses to a subscribers-only list or if you read mails from the list elsewhere (gmane). Subscription works with the following address: <LISTNAME>+subscribe-nomail(a)opensuse.org </quote> **note** contradictory addresses: <LISTNAME>+subscribe(a)opensuse.org and <LISTNAME>+subscribe-nomail(a)opensuse.org **neither work** Both result in: <quote> Your message to the openSUSE Bugs mailing-list was rejected for the following reasons: The message is not from a list member </quote WTH? What in the heck is going on?? How do you subscribe now? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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How to reach Bugzilla-admin? Not getting bug updates, e-mail cannot be changed?
by David C. Rankin 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

openSUSE/SUSE members, How can I reach the bugzilla-admins? I have tried since July to have the drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com e-mail changed to drankinatty(a)gmail.com since the suddenlinkmail.com address does not exist anymore. I have sent 3 e-mails to bugzilla-admins(a)suse.com explaining the circumstance in detail and have not had a single response. The requests were on: July 19, 2024 August 27, 2024 October 6, 2024 I filed another bug last night against openssl, https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231817, and we are stuck in the same boat again. I can't get updates or Need Info requests from bugzilla. The UCS system does not have the ability to change a dead e-mail as it attempts to send the confirmation to the dead e-mail and fails. Is there any other way to contact the bugzilla admins? This just seems like something that should not take months to get fixed? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Fwd: Agama Github page seems to be broken? [Solved]
by Luna Jernberg 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

---------- Forwarded message --------- Från: J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> Date: tis 22 okt. 2024 kl 06:06 Subject: Re: Agama Github page seems to be broken? [Solved] To: Luna Jernberg <droidbittin(a)gmail.com> Hah. Apparently, now GitHub displays that weird page when one is not logged in. I don't remember seeing that before. Leslie On Monday 21 October 2024 23:40:21 you wrote: > Odd, it works as it should here > > Den tis 22 okt. 2024 kl 05:37 skrev J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com>: > > No. Look at https://get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0/#download, and > > below the download buttons you'll see > > > > | Choosing Which Media to Download > > | > > |_Agama_ is the new installer that can be used to install Leap 16 and > > |Tumbleweed. There is a plan to support offline installation in Agama. > > | Other installation media such as self-install image will be added > > | later. > > > > where _Agama_ is a link to the Agama GitHub page. But that page is not > > displaying Agama information. > > > > Leslie > > > > On Monday 21 October 2024 23:22:31 you wrote: > > > Hey > > > > > > https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/installer/iso/agam > > >a-in staller-Leap.x86_64-9.0.0-openSUSE-Build40.1.iso is what i think > > > you are looking for > > > > > > Den tis 22 okt. 2024 kl 04:40 skrev J Leslie Turriff via openSUSE > > > > > > Users <users(a)lists.opensuse.org>: > > > > When I follow the link from the Leap 16.0 Download page to > > > > the Agama GitHub page I don't see anything about Agama, just some > > > > sort of generic GitHub menu. A screenshot is attached. > > > > > > > > Leslie > > > > -- > > > > Platform: Linux > > > > Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64

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openSUSE-users
by J Leslie Turriff 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64

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Agama Github page seems to be broken?
by J Leslie Turriff 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

When I follow the link from the Leap 16.0 Download page to the Agama GitHub page I don't see anything about Agama, just some sort of generic GitHub menu. A screenshot is attached. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64

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MC bug - sourcing /usr/share/mc/mc-wrapper.sh no longer exits to cwd?
by David C. Rankin 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

All, On Tumbleweed, the current midnight commander no longer exits to the current working directory when sourcing /usr/share/mc/mc-wrapper.sh. This has worked .. forever, but for some reason setting the alias: mc='. /usr/share/mc/mc-wrapper.sh' and running mc and navigating to a new folder, exiting mc exits back to the original folder where mc was launched instead of the current working directory. Can someone confirm, and if so, I'll write the bug. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Why did the xauth file location changed in 15.6
by Marc Chamberlin 20 Oct '24

20 Oct '24

Hello SuSE gurus - I recently upgraded a few of my OpenSuSE 15.4 x64 systems to OpenSuSE 15.6 x64 (yes with an intermediate upgrade to 15.5) and a number of my custom scripts and software broke. FWIW I am using KDE with the X11/plasma desktop. I tracked the problem down to a change in location of the xauth_xxxx file that gets created. In 15.4 this file was located at /run/user/1000/xauth_xxxxx as shown below - > > env | grep XAUTH > XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=quasar > XAUTHORITY=/run/user/1000/xauth_VMlqlf In 15.6 this file got moved to /tmp as shown below - > > env | grep XAUTH > XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=wa7pxw > XAUTHORITY=/tmp/xauth_NrHHAf Why? Is it possible to change 15.6 back to use the previous /run/user/1000 location, and if so how? Or am I going to have to change all my scripts and rebuild software that depended on the old location? Marc... --

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Enabling 'Fortunes' on openSUSE Tumbleweed
by -pj 19 Oct '24

19 Oct '24

Hi, I would like to enable fortunes on openSUSE TW. There is a file and I do not have it in my head right now that has a few lines commented out by default in TW. I am not sure about LEAP being the same. Can you tell me what the file is? Is there a good document about fortunes in Tumbleweed also? -Best Regards

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Insert key
by gumb 17 Oct '24

17 Oct '24

Just a passing curiosity, rediscovering an old 80s/90s trait of overtyping using the Insert key, I thought it could be a nifty time-saver given the amount of text selection and editing I do in general daily computer usage, but it doesn't work in all apps. In Plasma I can use it for instance in KWrite, and it works within LibreOffice, but it won't work when renaming a file in Dolphin. It's also redundant in Thunderbird or Firefox. Is there a setting somewhere that enables this universally or is it a complex thorny issue? gumb

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Leap Micro 6.0 - 38 Recommended update for transactional-update
by Torsten Gruner 16 Oct '24

16 Oct '24

Hi, I try to install the patch "38 - Recommended update for transactional-update" with Cockpit and the button "Update and Reboot", but I got a new snapshot and this patch is still available to install. From terminal I got this output. Seems like the package is not present in the mirror of the repository. What could I do? microos:~ # transactional-update patch Checking for newer version. transactional-update 4.6.6 started Options: patch Separate /var detected. 2024-10-16 13:56:24 tukit 4.6.6 started 2024-10-16 13:56:24 Options: -c18 open 2024-10-16 13:56:24 Using snapshot 18 as base for new snapshot 20. 2024-10-16 13:56:24 /var/lib/overlay/18/etc 2024-10-16 13:56:24 Syncing /etc of previous snapshot 17 as base into new snapshot "/.snapshots/20/snapshot" 2024-10-16 13:56:24 SELinux is enabled. ID: 20 2024-10-16 13:56:25 Transaction completed. Calling zypper --non-interactive-include-reboot-patches patch 2024-10-16 13:56:26 tukit 4.6.6 started 2024-10-16 13:56:26 Options: callext 20 zypper -R {} --non-interactive-include-reboot-patches patch -y --auto-agree-with-product-licenses 2024-10-16 13:56:27 Executing `zypper -R /tmp/transactional-update-uL4nPJ --non-interactive-include-reboot-patches patch -y --auto-agree-with-product-licenses`: Refreshing service 'openSUSE'. Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... Problem: This request will break your system! the installed tukit-4.6.6-1.1.x86_64 requires 'libtukit4 = 4.6.6-1.1', but this requirement cannot be provided Solution 1: Following actions will be done: ignore the warning of a broken system (requires:transactional-update) deinstallation of tukit-4.6.6-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of dracut-transactional-update-4.6.6-1.1.noarch deinstallation of transactional-update-4.6.6-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of transactional-update-zypp-config-4.6.6-1.1.noarch Solution 2: do not install patch:38-1.noarch Solution 3: break tukit-4.6.6-1.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/c/d/?] (c): c 2024-10-16 13:56:28 Application returned with exit status 4. ERROR: zypper --non-interactive-include-reboot-patches patch on /.snapshots/20/snapshot failed with exit code 4! Use '--interactive' for manual problem resolution. Removing snapshot #20... 2024-10-16 13:56:28 tukit 4.6.6 started 2024-10-16 13:56:28 Options: abort 20 2024-10-16 13:56:29 Discarding snapshot 20. 2024-10-16 13:56:29 Transaction completed. transactional-update finished microos:~ # Kind Regards, Torsten

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thunderbird 128.3.esr tumbleweed 20241011
by Simon Becherer 16 Oct '24

16 Oct '24

Hi, because i am not good in find bugs on bugzilla, i like to ask first here: is there a know bug in thunderbird regarding opening attachments? all files attached at a email, ONLY when the email is OpenPGP encrypted are not possible to open. only right mouse-klick and "save as" is working. in tumbleweed 20240905 it was working. simoN -- HINWEIS: Wenn Sie diese "reintext" Mail mit Outlook oeffnen kann es sein, dass Outlook diese Mail nicht korrekt formatiert anzeigt. Das ist ein Fehler oder eine Misskonfiguration in Outlook. Informieren Sie ihren Systemadministrator. (von "Wenn... bis ... Systemadministrator." sind es 6 Zeilen.) (Zeilenumbruchzeichen ist HEX 0A) ========== B e c h e r e r GmbH Sondermaschinenbau Mauermattenstrasse 22 79183 Waldkirch Germany Tel.: (+49) (0)7681 3134 Fax: (+49) (0)7681 4378 Mail: info(a)becherer.de Web: www.becherer.de USt-ID-Nr.: DE 814912198 Registergericht: Freiburg HRB 701860 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Dipl.-Ing. (FH), EWE Simon H. Becherer Gerichtsstand / Sitz: Waldkirch Es gelten ausschliesslich unsere allgemeinen Liefer- und Zahlungsbedingungen / Einkaufsbedingungen: www.becherer.de/AGB

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TMP variable not set tumbleweed
by Simon Becherer 16 Oct '24

16 Oct '24

Hi, set |grep TMP printenv |grep TMP both show me nothing. is this normal? should it be set? if, where? TMP= TMPDIR= simoN -- www.becherer.de

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Strange problem with rendering and reaction of web page
by Freek de Kruijf 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

Some time ago, might be half a year all was OK. Some update in Leap 15.6 or the change to Leap 15.6 could have introduced the problem. I have a web page with a file index.html in which references are pointing to files, all in the same folder as index.html; a picture and a number of video files (.mp4). Css buttons either show the video or start a download. There is some css in index.html defining buttons with white characters and colored backgrounds. Also some text is indicated as white characters and colored backgrounds; different colors. When I use http:// to access this page, on a different apache server on a Tumbleweed server, all is displayed normal and the button used to play the video works as expected. I can position the location in the video from where to play the video. However using https:// to access the page the background of the characters is not colored and when I play one of the videos I am unable to select a position in the video to play from. It skips to the last position in the video. Some other videos give errors and do not play at all. The error shows something like: "No video with supported layout and MIME type found". In Firefox I used Page Source to download the content of the page, index.html. In both cases and apart from the obvious differences in the URLs pointing to the files they are the same. I should mention that I also used Microsoft Edge to access these pages and the same difference/problem is present. I am puzzled. Why is the rendering of the same content different and why is the reaction on playing the videos different. -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf

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TW - Strange Gtk App Behavior After Dup - Dark Themes Are Wonky
by David C. Rankin 13 Oct '24

13 Oct '24

All, On Tumbleweed, I've had problems with Gtk apps. Since install, some Gtk apps like Gnome-Sudoku do not see the initial mouse click on the app. You have to click twice for the app to see the mouse click (likely GDK not being able to figure out what window to route the click to so it is discarded). This may be related to the issue with the openSUSE builds of Firefox and Thunderbird not seeing the middle-mouse scroll inputs unless the FF/TB window is focused as the top-level window. (the binary download from Mozilla.org works fine and does not exhibit this behavior) The workaround for the openSUSE Firefox and Thunderbird builds is to set the environment variable GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1. This doesn't fix gnome-sudoku initial mouse click behavior. After zypper dup last night, the gnome-sudoku app using the Nordic-darker theme has flip-flopped which window it messes up. Before update, the playing board was fine, but the number-pad popup was fuzzed out. After update it is reversed, the playing board is washed out, cell lines gone, etc.., but magically the number-pad popup is now perfectly themed. (the Nordic-darker theme is current from 10/10, two days ago, from gnome-look.org. The prior version of the theme from September showed the same behavior before updating to the latest version. Here is a screenshot of gnome-sudoku showing the washed out playing board and the perfect popup (not really playable like this): https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/8e1f3bab400d Has anyone seen similar behavior from gtk apps? Any idea what change could have caused dark theme interpretation to change as shown in the screenshot? The gnome-sudoku package info is: Name : gnome-sudoku Version : 47.0 Release : 1.1 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Fri 11 Oct 2024 02:47:46 PM CDT Group : Amusements/Games/Logic Size : 474759 License : GPL-3.0-or-later Signature : RSA/SHA512, Tue 08 Oct 2024 10:51:12 AM CDT, Key ID 35a2f86e29b700a4 Source RPM : gnome-sudoku-47.0-1.1.src.rpm Build Date : Fri 13 Sep 2024 11:10:39 AM CDT Build Host : reproducible Packager : https://bugs.opensuse.org Vendor : openSUSE URL : https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Sudoku Summary : Sudoku Game for GNOME Description : Sudoku is a logic puzzle game, in which one must fill a 9 by 9 square with the correct digits. Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed The behavior of Gtk apps has been one of the only frustrating issues with Tumbleweed, which aside from those quirks has been near flawless and and exceptionally enjoyable distribution. All thoughts welcomed. I've chased this issue on and off for a couple of months and it looks like it could be one of about a dozen regressions in Gtk/GDK from the past 8 or so years. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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We pipewire users can EASILY get better sounds!
by Masaru Nomiya 13 Oct '24

13 Oct '24

Hello, I've been trying to make a filter for a few months now, in order to improve the sound I get from Pipewire, which has improved dramatically since version 1.0.0. Today, I thought I'd finally managed to get a sound I was satisfied with, so I took the filter off to check the quality of the sound I was getting from my own filter, and was astonished to hear the sound. The sound through my own filter was not so much different, and the only difference was that there was no reverbation in my own filter. So, I went to the doctor for my regular check-up, and while I was waiting to be seen, I suddenly had the idea that "pipewire was using the plugins I had installed to create my filter". When I got home and checked the source, as I had suspected, it had been. On the other hand, I also found that pulseaudio does not have this function. BTW, when I installed the lv2 (lv2-SmartAmp) plugin for guitar sounds, which I had only installed the vst3 plugin for, and played it, the sound quality clearly improved. What I don't understand is that I have installed plugins to improve the sound of string, wind and percussion instruments, but they are all vst3 plugins, and I have created my own filter using vst3 plugins. But there is no change in the sound without the filter... (_ _? Anyway, I created my own filter in the following way, and I used synthesize to incorporate filters that improve the sound quality of various instruments, along with filters that enhance the bass, but this seems to be the same as the sound source processing that pipewire does. synrthesize --> equalize --> 7.1 virtualize --> reveb So I think it would be good to install the lv2 plugins that matches each sink, but I have installed too many lv2 plugins, so I don't know which plug-in matches other than the guitar. However, I think it's worth a try, so please give it a go. By the way, when checking the effect of installing plugins, be sure to execute $ systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber. I think that people who like jazz and live performances will be fine with this setup (listening on the same floor as the performers), but I like the hall tone we get when listening in a concert hall or church, so I make and use a reverb filter. If there are any people who want it, I will upload the filter, so please let me know. Best Regards & Good Night. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "It's music that matters." -- "Brassed Off" 1996 British comedy-drama film --

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Uugg. Firefox CVE 9.8 Critical Vulnerability - Update Soon
by David C. Rankin 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

All, Critical Firefox Bug, CVE score of 9.8 https://go.reg.cx/tdml/dfd67/673148ff/e12715f4/4eDA -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Upgrade to 15.6 problem when uninstalling one package
by Marc Chamberlin 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

I just finished an attempt to UPGRADE my ASUS laptop from 15.5 to 15.6 and the result is a mess! During the installation process I did run into one problem (see below) where YaST was unable to remove one package and I had to choose the IGNORE option in order to proceed with the rest of the installation. This problem continues to persist. After installation and reboot the laptop was able to bring up the KDE Wayland desktop. During the installation, and afterwards when I use YaST to install additional software I get the following conflicts error message - #### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2024-10-09 13:00:05 #### the to be installed apache2-mod_php7-7.4.33-150400.4.37.1.x86_64 requires 'php = 7.4.33', but this requirement cannot be provided not installable providers: php7-7.4.33-150400.4.34.1.x86_64[openSUSE:repo-oss] php7-7.4.33-150400.4.37.1.x86_64[openSUSE:update-sle] [ ] deinstallation of apache2-mod_php7-7.4.33-150400.4.37.1.x86_64 [ ] break apache2-mod_php7-7.4.33-150400.4.37.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies [ ] Following actions will be done: deinstallation of php8-8.2.20-150600.3.3.1.x86_64 deinstallation of php8-cli-8.2.20-150600.3.3.1.x86_64 deinstallation of php8-xmlwriter-8.2.20-150600.3.3.1.x86_64 #### YaST2 conflicts list END ### When I choose the first option - deinstallation of apache2-mod_php7-7.4.33-150400.4.37.1.x86_64 I then get the following error message - Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command exited with status 1. History: - error: %preun(apache2-mod_php7-7.4.33-150400.4.37.1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 error: apache2-mod_php7-7.4.33-150400.4.37.1.x86_64: erase failed I am pretty sure YaST is trying to remove an old version of this apache2-mod_php7 ... file but for some unknown reason it can't Thanks in advance for any and all offers to help me. Marc C

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Thunderbird 131.0-1.1, -- Arch pulled it from its repos -- it is a TESTING release only
by David C. Rankin 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

All, Devs I see Thunderbird 131.0-1.1 is scheduled to install on TW. Just a few days ago we had a thread on Arch where that package was pulled from the repository because it is a Mozilla Testing Only release and wasn't intended to be generally distributed. See thread "thunderbird 131.0 pulled from testing" on 10/2/2024. The Arch packager was a bit surprised too. Just thought I would pass this along in case the same packaging a "testing" vs "full release" needs to be dealt with hear as well. If you update, your profile will be modified, but here you can downgrade to 130.x and start thunderbird --allow-downgrade to undo the changes to your profile (and pray it works...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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boinc-manager GUI no longer loads
by Darryl Gregorash 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

I am not sure if this is a Boinc problem or a Linux/QT problem. I suspect the latter, but who knows? Cross-posted on BOINC forums at UC Berkeley. OS: Linux openSUSE 15.6 Kernel version: 6.4.0 QT version: 5.15.12 BOINC-manager command line: kdesu -u boinc /usr/bin/boincmgr Boinc is running as a systemd service, username boinc. That commandline has been working properly until minutes ago, after a kernel update and reboot. Now, I get the following error in the system log: > 2024-10-09T10:39:04.596734-06:00 hadron systemd[15459]: Started BOINC Manager. > 2024-10-09T10:39:04.675709-06:00 hadron kdesu[21534]: Qt: Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication rejected > 2024-10-09T10:39:11.400889-06:00 hadron su[21576]: (to boinc) hadron on pts/6 > 2024-10-09T10:39:11.402261-06:00 hadron su[21576]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user boinc by (uid=1000) > 2024-10-09T10:39:11.404816-06:00 hadron su[21576]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user boinc > 2024-10-09T10:39:11.520236-06:00 hadron su[21579]: (to boinc) hadron on pts/6 > 2024-10-09T10:39:11.521441-06:00 hadron su[21579]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user boinc by (uid=1000) > 2024-10-09T10:39:11.550926-06:00 hadron su[21579]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user boinc

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For NVIDIA 5XX driver users
by Masaru Nomiya 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Hello, I strongly recommend that you upgrade to kernel 6.11.2 while leaving 6.11.0 in place. I think that kernel 6.11.2 is Linus's final ultimatum for nvidia users. There is no way out now..... Best Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past" -- Rupert Wingfield-Hayes (BBC) --

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android emulator
by Simon Becherer 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Hi, did anybody has experience in running a android emulator on tumbleweed/x11/kde? i especially like to run threema without the use of a mobile phone. simoN -- www.becherer.de

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MC on Tumbleweed doesn't check ~/.ssh/config for Host/Port or use public/private keys on first connect?
by David C. Rankin 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

All, Patrick was having issues with ssh/sftp in MC on TW so I was troubleshooting on my TW install. The F1 "help" says mc will check ~/.ssh/known_hosts and use public/private keys. However, on first connection with mc, the password dialog is shown and a password is required. This doesn't fly if sshd/PasswordAuthentication is set to No to disable password auth. However on second connect, or reconnecting, to the remote with sftp, no password dialog is displayed. (key agent or something must be allowing it or some internal mc process) Should using the Left/Right menu "SFTP Link ..." command or connecting from the command-line in mc with: cd sftp://user@host:port/path/to use host public/private key-pairs on first connection? If so, is this a bug? Can somebody confirm on TW the behavior they see with mc. Thanks. If it is a bug I'll file it. Currently: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=midnight%20commander&… doesn't show anything listed regarding this behavior. Though I can confirm behavior in: (mc-wrapper.sh does not exit to current dir any longer) https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203617 and (slow start on some boxes and not others) https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175930 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Migrating Thunderbird personalized settings to another machine:
by -pj 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Hi, machine here openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241002. I would like to migrate Thunderbirds personalized/settings and mail accounts to another machine. Instead of going through and manually setting things up from default on the other machine. Is this a fairly common and straightforward procedure? Can you tell me how preferred to do this? The other machine is same TW snapshot also. -Best Regards

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Tumbleweed - Where are SDL3_image, etc..
by David C. Rankin 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

Devs, all, Tumbleweed provides the SDL3-devel package but doesn't list any packages for SDL3_image, SDL3_ttf, etc.. I would expect them in the same main TW repo along with SDL3-devel and SDL2-devel, SDL2_image, SDL2_ttf, etc. which are all there. Are the supporting SDL3_xxx packages named something different that I'm just not finding? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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TW: is this a Packman or a distribution issue?? Problem: 1: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-7-mini-libs-7.0.2-2.1.x86_64
by Stakanov 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

entropy@silversurfer:~> sudo LC_ALL=C zypper dup Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command. Computing distribution upgrade... 13 Problems: Problem: 1: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-7-mini-libs-7.0.2-2.1.x86_64 Problem: 2: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-7-mini-libs-7.0.2-2.1.x86_64 Problem: 3: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-7-mini-libs-7.0.2-2.1.x86_64 Problem: 4: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-7-mini-libs-7.0.2-2.1.x86_64 Problem: 5: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-7-mini-libs-7.0.2-2.1.x86_64 Problem: 6: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-7-mini-libs-7.0.2-2.1.x86_64 Problem: 7: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-7-mini-libs-7.0.2-2.1.x86_64 Problem: 8: the to be installed libavdevice61-7.1-1699.2.pm.1.x86_64 requires 'libavcodec.so.61(LIBAVCODEC_61.19_SUSE)(64bit)', but this requirement cannot be provided not installable providers: libavcodec61-7.1-1699.2.pm.1.x86_64[ftp.gwdg.de-Essentials] libavcodec61-7.1-1699.2.pm.1.x86_64[ftp.gwdg.de-openSUSE_Tumbleweed] Problem: 9: the to be installed libheif-ffmpeg-1.18.2-1699.5.pm.10.x86_64 requires 'libavcodec.so.61(LIBAVCODEC_61.19_SUSE)(64bit)', but this requirement cannot be provided not installable providers: libavcodec61-7.1-1699.2.pm.1.x86_64[ftp.gwdg.de-Essentials] libavcodec61-7.1-1699.2.pm.1.x86_64[ftp.gwdg.de-openSUSE_Tumbleweed] Problem: 10: the installed wine-32bit-9.18-1.1.x86_64 requires 'libavcodec.so. 61(LIBAVCODEC_61.3_SUSE)', but this requirement cannot be provided deleted providers: libavcodec61-32bit-7.0.2-1699.3.pm.10.x86_64 not installable providers: libavcodec61-32bit-7.0.2-2.3.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss] Problem: 11: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-7-mini-libs-7.0.2-2.1.x86_64 Problem: 12: the installed libavcodec61-32bit-7.0.2-1699.3.pm.10.x86_64 requires 'libavutil.so.59(LIBAVUTIL_59.8_SUSE)', but this requirement cannot be provided deleted providers: libavutil59-32bit-7.0.2-1699.3.pm.10.x86_64 not installable providers: libavutil59-32bit-7.0.2-2.3.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss] Problem: 13: the installed libavcodec61-32bit-7.0.2-1699.3.pm.10.x86_64 requires 'libswresample.so.5(LIBSWRESAMPLE_5.1_SUSE)', but this requirement cannot be provided deleted providers: libswresample5-32bit-7.0.2-1699.3.pm.10.x86_64 not installable providers: libswresample5-32bit-7.0.2-2.3.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss] Problem: 1: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-7-mini-libs-7.0.2-2.1.x86_64 Solution 1: Following actions will be done: deinstallation of libQt6WebEngineCore6-6.7.2-2.1.x86_64 deinstallation of k3b-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libdigikamcore8_4_0-8.4.0-2.2.x86_64 deinstallation of libffmpegthumbnailer4-2.2.2-2.11.x86_64 deinstallation of libmediastreamer2-11-5.3.37-2.4.x86_64 deinstallation of libopencv_videoio410-4.10.0-1.3.x86_64 deinstallation of libqt5-qtwebengine-5.15.17-5.2.x86_64 deinstallation of pipewire-spa-plugins-0_2-1.2.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of wine-9.18-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kpipewire6-imports-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of liblinphone10-5.3.26-1.3.x86_64 deinstallation of liblinphone++10-5.3.26-1.3.x86_64 deinstallation of libmarblewidget-qt5-28-24.08.1-1.2.x86_64 deinstallation of pipewire-1.2.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libpipewire-0_3-0-1.2.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of q4wine-1.3.13-1.26.x86_64 deinstallation of k3b-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of digikam-8.4.0-2.2.x86_64 deinstallation of digikam-plugins-8.4.0-2.2.x86_64 deinstallation of showfoto-8.4.0-2.2.x86_64 deinstallation of ffmpegthumbnailer-2.2.2-2.11.x86_64 deinstallation of linphone-cli-5.3.26-1.3.x86_64 deinstallation of linphone-desktop-5.2.4-1.4.x86_64 deinstallation of mediastreamer2-5.3.37-2.4.x86_64 deinstallation of mediastreamer2-devel-5.3.37-2.4.x86_64 deinstallation of python311-opencv-4.10.0-1.3.x86_64 deinstallation of marble-24.08.1-1.2.x86_64 deinstallation of opensuse-welcome-0.1.9+git.55.08b0379-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of otter-browser-1.0.03-1.10.x86_64 deinstallation of wine-mono-9.3.0-1.1.noarch deinstallation of winetricks-20240105-1.4.x86_64 deinstallation of python311-PyQt6-WebEngine-6.7.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of plasma6-nm-openconnect-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of nextcloud-desktop-3.14.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of messagelib-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libksieve6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kontact-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kmail-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of khelpcenter-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kdeplasma6-addons-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kdepim-runtime-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kdepim-addons-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kaccounts-providers-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of akregator-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kf6-kfilemetadata-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kfilemetadata5-5.116.0-1.2.x86_64 deinstallation of digikam-lang-8.4.0-2.2.noarch deinstallation of pitivi-2023.03-1.5.x86_64 deinstallation of marble-data-24.08.1-1.2.noarch deinstallation of marble-doc-24.08.1-1.2.noarch deinstallation of marble-kde-24.08.1-1.2.x86_64 deinstallation of marble-lang-24.08.1-1.2.noarch deinstallation of otter-browser-lang-1.0.03-1.10.noarch deinstallation of libastro1-24.08.1-1.2.x86_64 deinstallation of pipewire-lang-1.2.5-1.1.noarch deinstallation of pipewire-pulseaudio-1.2.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of wireplumber-0.5.6-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPipeWire6-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libwireplumber-0_5-0-0.5.6-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of pipewire-alsa-1.2.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of pipewire-modules-0_3-1.2.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of pipewire-tools-1.2.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of xdg-desktop-portal-1.18.4-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of q4wine-lang-1.3.13-1.26.noarch deinstallation of cloudproviders-extension-nextcloud-3.14.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of nextcloud-desktop-dolphin-3.14.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of nextcloud-desktop-lang-3.14.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of akonadi-import-wizard-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6AkonadiCalendar6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6MailCommon6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of messagelib-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of pim-sieve-editor-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kontact-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of pim-data-exporter-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kmail-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of khelpcenter-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kdeplasma6-addons-lang-6.1.5-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kdepim-runtime-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of korganizer-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of ktnef-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kdepim-addons-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kaccounts-providers-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of akregator-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of signon-ui-0.17.20231016T221200~eef943f-1.3.x86_64 deinstallation of kaddressbook-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kf6-kfilemetadata-lang-6.6.0-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKF6FileMetaData3-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kfilemetadata5-lang-5.116.0-1.2.noarch deinstallation of qt6-texttospeech-6.7.2-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libreoffice-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKF6Prison6-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of konversation-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of konsole-part-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kmousetool-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of plasma6-theme- openSUSE-84.87~git20240313T170730~9c664b7-11.1.noarch deinstallation of plasma6-sddm-theme- openSUSE-84.87~git20240313T170730~9c664b7-11.1.noarch deinstallation of pitivi-lang-2023.03-1.5.noarch deinstallation of wireplumber-audio-0.5.6-1.1.noarch deinstallation of wireplumber-lang-0.5.6-1.1.noarch deinstallation of patterns-kde-kde_plasma-20240311-2.2.noarch deinstallation of xdg-desktop-portal-gtk-1.15.1-1.3.x86_64 deinstallation of xdg-desktop-portal-lang-1.18.4-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKPipeWire6-lang-6.1.5-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKPipeWireDmaBuf6-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of sddm-branding-openSUSE-0.21.0-4.1.noarch deinstallation of libKPim6ImportWizard6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of pim-sieve-editor-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of mbox-importer-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of akonadi-calendar-tools-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of akonadi-plugin-calendar-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kalendarac-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6AkonadiCalendar6-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKPim6CalendarSupport6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6EventViews6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6IncidenceEditor6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of akonadi-import-wizard-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of signon-plugin-oauth2-0.25git. 20231124T142245~fab6988-1.2.x86_64 deinstallation of pim-data-exporter-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of korganizer-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kaddressbook-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKF6Baloo6-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kf6-baloo-tools-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kf6-baloo-kioslaves-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kf6-baloo-file-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of baloo-widgets-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of itinerary-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libkerfuffle24-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of plasma6-browser-integration-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libreoffice-base-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libreoffice-calc-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libreoffice-draw-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libreoffice-impress-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libreoffice-l10n-en-24.8.2.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libreoffice-l10n-it-24.8.2.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libreoffice-math-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libreoffice-pyuno-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libreoffice-qt5-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libreoffice-qt6-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libreoffice-writer-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6AkonadiContactWidgets6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of konversation-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of konsole-part-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kmousetool-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKF6TextWidgets6-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKF6TextEditor6-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKF6TextAddons1-1.5.4-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kf6-prison-imports-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of konsole-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of plasma6-branding- openSUSE-84.87~git20240313T170730~9c664b7-11.1.noarch deinstallation of patterns-kde-kde-20240311-2.2.noarch deinstallation of xdg-desktop-portal-gtk-lang-1.15.1-1.3.noarch deinstallation of discover6-backend-flatpak-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of mbox-importer-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKPim6CalendarSupport6-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKPim6EventViews6-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKPim6IncidenceEditor6-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of akonadi-calendar-tools-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kf6-baloo-imports-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of ark-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of plasma6-browser-integration-lang-6.1.5-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKF6Baloo6-lang-6.6.0-1.1.noarch deinstallation of itinerary-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of baloo-widgets-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libreoffice-filters-optional-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libreoffice-mailmerge-24.8.2.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6PimCommonAkonadi6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kdialog-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKF6TextWidgets6-lang-6.6.0-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKPim6Gravatar6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKSaneWidgets6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of akonadi-search-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6AkonadiContactCore6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6IdentityManagementWidgets6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6PimCommon6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6TextEdit6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kmines-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kleopatra-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kio-extras-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kompare-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kf6-ktexteditor-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of ktextaddons-1.5.4-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kf6-purpose-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of plasma6-nm-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of drkonqi6-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of ark-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kinfocenter6-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6Gravatar6-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of skanlite-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6MailImporter6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6AddressbookImportExport6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of akonadi-plugin-contacts-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKPim6TextEdit6-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kmines-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kleopatra-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kio-extras-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kdialog-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kompare-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kf6-ktexteditor-lang-6.6.0-1.1.noarch deinstallation of ktextaddons-lang-1.5.4-1.1.noarch deinstallation of akonadi-search-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of plasma6-print-manager-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of plasma6-systemmonitor-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of kf6-purpose-lang-6.6.0-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKF6Purpose6-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of plasma6-nm-lang-6.1.5-1.1.noarch deinstallation of plasma6-nm-openvpn-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of plasma6-nm-pptp-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of drkonqi6-lang-6.1.5-1.1.noarch deinstallation of kinfocenter6-lang-6.1.5-1.1.noarch deinstallation of skanlite-lang-24.08.1-1.1.noarch deinstallation of libKPim6MailImporterAkonadi6-24.08.1-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of plasma6-systemmonitor-lang-6.1.5-1.1.noarch deinstallation of plasma6-print-manager-lang-6.1.5-1.1.noarch deinstallation of plasma6-pa-lang-6.1.5-1.1.noarch deinstallation of discover6-backend-fwupd-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of discover6-backend-packagekit-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of discover6-lang-6.1.5-1.1.noarch deinstallation of discover6-notifier-6.1.5-1.1.x86_64 deinstallation of libKF6PurposeWidgets6-6.6.0-1.1.x86_64 Solution 2: install libavcodec61-7.0.2-2.3.x86_64 from vendor openSUSE replacing libavcodec61-7.0.2-1699.3.pm.10.x86_64 from vendor http:// packman.links2linux.de Solution 3: keep obsolete libavcodec61-7.0.2-1699.3.pm.10.x86_64 Solution 4: break ffmpeg-7-mini-libs-7.0.2-2.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/3/4/s/r/c/ d/?] (c): If a user is new to linux he might think one (as the first solution) is appropriate.... and I think he will not be happy.

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TW - 6.11 kernel - Nvidia G04 build just fine :)
by David C. Rankin 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

All, The G03 (340), G04 (390) and G05 (470) Nvidia drivers build without further patching on the 6.11 kernel. Since starting the patch scramble last week, this looked to be the case, but had not tested since Arch has not yet put out the 6.11 kernel in its core repo. (openSUSE TW Beats Arch on 6.11 kernel -- should be the byline) The open-source driver for current cards and GPUs did need some patching and there was an open question whether changes to the fbdev header in the kernel would need a patch for the closed source drivers as well. Nope, all good! $ uname -r 6.11.0-1-default $ lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia_drm 65536 1 nvidia_modeset 1339392 3 nvidia_drm nvidia 19791872 83 nvidia_modeset ipmi_msghandler 94208 2 ipmi_devintf,nvidia video 81920 1 nvidia We haven't has a smooth minor version bump since 6.8 -> 6.9 (and none in memory before that for a long time). Small favors. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: fish://
by James Knott 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

On 10/6/24 21:31, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> I'm on 15.6 Leap & KDE. I get an error "Could not connect to host..." > dolphin is kde/plasma > > is host not allowing access? That's what the error message said. I can connect using ssh and scp, but not fish or sftp using Alt F2.

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fish://
by James Knott 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

I used to access files on other Linux computers by pressing Alt F2 and then entering fish://<host name>, which would open up a file manager window on the remote system. This doesn't seem to work anymore? Any idea why? Is there a substitute? tnx jk

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Re: Migrating Thunderbird personalized settings to another machine:
by -pj 05 Oct '24

05 Oct '24

Accident sent to Patrick's email. Sending to list now. There was no instance of Thunderbird open (only .thunderbird folder transfered) when this error dialog displayed. I had passed zypper in thunderbird ....waited for that to finish, went to start menu > Internet > Thunderbird ....error message. I think it has something to do with Thunderbird initial start context box not being not being completed. By renaming the .thunderbird folder and restarting Thunderbird there was no error dialog. Thunderbird started and presented the Name, email, password context (This is for Mozilla retaining information is case of possible abuse situations?). Once filled I closed Thunderbird, renamed .thunderbird.bak to .thunderbird , then restarted Thunderbird with accounts from migration in place. Thunderbird's first execution I think asks for this by default? Where is that data kept though? It is *not* kept in .thunderbird I believe.

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Nvidia G03 - G05 driver users - Get your patches ready - Linux 6.11 was released today...
by David C. Rankin 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

Devs, All, The 6.11 kernel was released today so it will soon show up in Tumbleweed. To avoid a repeat of the 6.10 Nvidia kernel driver update delay, it's time to start the patch scramble (if required). Very few minor version updates don't require patching of the Nvidia driver for the G03->G05 drivers. The only one in recent memory was the 6.8 -> 6.9 update. I'll start looking now, but would welcome any help. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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RCE bug in CUPS - No Patch Yet - OUCH
by David C. Rankin 01 Oct '24

01 Oct '24

All, There is a remote code execution bug in CUPS with no patch as of yet: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/cups_linux_rce_disclosed/ The article contains mitigation steps if you have a public facing (or untrusted local) CUPS server. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Unable to install multimedia codec files on OpenSuSE 15.5
by Marc Chamberlin 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

Hmm, When I tried to install the onc-click installation files, .ymp, for Multimedia Codecs like MP3, DVD, DivX, MP4 from https://www.opensuse-community.org/ for either KDE or GNOME I get the following error message - The install link or file you opened does not contain instructions for openSUSE Leap 15.5. from the YasT 1-Click installer. I am running OpenSuSE 15.5 x64 OS. What am I doing wrong? Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky _ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (This email is digitally signed and the OpenPGP electronic signature is added as an attachment. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the OpenPGP signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like.)

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Problem with new kernel 23.22 Leap 15.6
by James Knott 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

The kernel was updated today on my ThinkPad, which fails on bootup with the error: Kernel Offset: 0x17200000... end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS... I can revert to 23.17. Anyone else experience this? tnx jk

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SDDM Wayland
by Dean Martin 29 Sep '24

29 Sep '24

I'm using Leap 15.5 with the KDE Frameworks, Plasma, and Applications repos. I've recently tried launching SDDM as a Wayland client itself using the following config [General] DisplayServer=wayland Unfortunately, the login screen never appears, and the journal log reports Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 systemd[1]: Started Session 2 of User sddm. Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm-helper[1089]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm by (uid=0) Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm-helper[1089]: pam_kwallet5(sddm-greeter:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm-helper[1089]: pam_kwallet5(sddm-greeter:session): pam_kwallet5: open_session called without kwallet5_key Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm-helper[1174]: Jumping to VT 1 Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm-helper[1174]: VT mode didn't need to be fixed Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm[1034]: Greeter session started successfully Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm-helper[1089]: [PAM] Closing session Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm-helper[1089]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session closed for user sddm Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm-helper[1089]: [PAM] Ended. Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm-helper[1089]: pam_kwallet5(sddm-greeter:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_close_session Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm[1034]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 64 Sep 16 18:03:20 linux-lptp1 sddm[1034]: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HelperExitStatus(64) I'm not sure what is missing here, but I'm trying to determine if planned changes with /usr/lib/X11/display-manager need to be in place first. Further details explained here... https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:DisplayManagerRework For the record, I'm using ~> zypper se -si sddm Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository ---+-----------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------+--------+---------------- i | plasma6-sddm-theme-openSUSE | package | 84.87~git20240313T170730~9c664b7-kf.38.1 | noarch | KDE-Frameworks i | sddm-branding-openSUSE | package | 0.21.0-lp156.147.5 | noarch | KDE-Frameworks5 i+ | sddm-greeter-qt5 | package | 0.21.0-lp156.147.5 | x86_64 | KDE-Frameworks5 i | sddm-greeter-qt6 | package | 0.21.0-lp156.147.3 | x86_64 | KDE-Frameworks5 i+ | sddm-kcm6 | package | 6.1.5-kf.24.1 | x86_64 | KDE-Frameworks i | sddm-kcm6-lang | package | 6.1.5-kf.24.1 | noarch | KDE-Frameworks i+ | sddm-qt6 | package | 0.21.0-lp156.147.3 | x86_64 | KDE-Frameworks5 i | sddm-qt6-branding-openSUSE | package | 6.1.5-kf.37.2 | x86_64 | KDE-Frameworks I've tried masking display-manager.service, and explicitly enabling sddm.service, but have not been successful with this. Advice welcome.

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DVD player doesn't recognize DVD's
by Mark Misulich 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

Hi, I have built up a new computer and the DVD RW doesn't recognize DVDs. I have tried it with a commercially written DVD, and with a blank DVD +RW. The player spins and tries to recognize the DVD without success until it times out and stops spinning. The other player on this computer is a Blu-Ray RW player that I salvaged from a computer my neighbor threw out in the trash. When I put a commercially written DVD or a blank DVD in the Blu-ray player it is recognized, and a written disc is recognized as the source disc in K3b. But no disc is ever recognized in the DVD RW player as the destination. Here's some info to begin with as I tried to troubleshoot this: # dmesg | grep -E -i --color 'cdrom|dvd|cd/rw|writer' [ 1.846359] [ T732] ata5.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223L, SB02, max UDMA/100 [ 1.848860] [ T187] scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223L SB02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 2.152487] [ T584] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 2.152489] [ T584] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 2.324886] [ T584] sr 5:0:0:0: [sr1] scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray # more /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17 drive name: sr1 sr0 drive speed: 48 48 drive # of slots: 1 1 Can close tray: 1 1 Can open tray: 1 1 Can lock tray: 1 1 Can change speed: 1 1 Can select disk: 0 0 Can read multisession: 1 1 Can read MCN: 1 1 Reports media changed: 1 1 Can play audio: 1 1 Can write CD-R: 1 1 Can write CD-RW: 1 1 Can read DVD: 1 1 Can write DVD-R: 1 1 Can write DVD-RAM: 1 1 Can read MRW: 0 1 Can write MRW: 0 1 Can write RAM: 1 1 I pared this to just the players # lsblk sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom sr1 11:1 1 2.2G 0 rom I know only enough to check and see if the player is recognized by the system (Tumbleweed), I'll need some help to go farther. Thanks, Mark

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qemu help needed
by Frank McCormick 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

I hope there are some QEMU experts on this list. I am running QEMU under Tumbleweed and have 3 other distros installed. The one common thing among the three...if I leave their desktops untouched for 10 or 15 minutes, my keyboard gets forgotten by QEMU. When I come back to the virtual machine, the keyboard is completely unresponsive and the machine will have to be shutdown and re-run to get it back. The mouse however continues to work. All three other distros have the identical PROBLEM so it's to connected to them. I am running a wireless (USB) Logitech keyboard and mouse combo which, outside of QEMU never gives me problems. I have googled the problem several times recently but that proved fruitless. Hope someone here has a solution or a suggestion. Thanks

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Audio Issues When In-place Upgrading to Leap 15.6
by Lew Wolfgang 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

Hi Folks, I'm encountering audio issues after in-place upgrades from Leap 15.5 to 15.6. Out of three upgrades so far, I lost sound on a HP laptop and a Dell desktop. An MSI desktop is working okay. I have to admit I haven't had sound issues with openSUSE for decades, or so it seems, and I'm rusty a diagnosing what's going on. I vaguely recall a thread here about pulseaudio issues, could this be related? If I'm seeing this on two out of three upgrades this must be a common problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Lew

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KIM (Kde Image Management)
by jdd＠dodin.org 23 Sep '24

23 Sep '24

Hello, On the very last (since some time) Tumbleweed, the very usefull "Kim" menu management do not work anymore (no more right clic menu entries) it's from: https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=kim&project=home%3Ab… before disturbing Bruno, do you have the same problem, or is my install at fault? for people that don't know it, installing that package should add to the right clic menu of any image file options to change size, compress and some other useful actions thanks jdd -- https://dodin.org

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quit
by mao绵绵 21 Sep '24

21 Sep '24

发自我的 iPhone

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Nvidia: turing+ new open driver rpms versus?
by Michael Hamilton 20 Sep '24

20 Sep '24

I have a Turing card, so it's possible for me to switch from the "easy-way" to the new open driver. But I'm a little confused over the advantages and differences from the easy-way (or the hard-way for that matter). Is the new open driver in rpm-form in essence another "easy-way" option? Specifically, will automatically rebuild for kernel changes without a driver reinstall being necessary? The open driver rpms come from an opensuse repository, so does that mean that the newer 560 drivers might eventually be made an option - stepping around their unavailability via the old "easy-way"? If the new open driver rpms are installed, what is the OpenSUSE suggested way of obtaining the associated utilities, such as nvidia-settings? Do I specifically have to choose it, or will yast/zypper prefer the new open driver rpms for cards that support it? I think I read there might be some limitations with the new open driver - possibly it's better for wayland? Are there other questions I should be asking, but have overlooked? As a side note, I think the "hard-way" installer may choose the new open drivers if the card supports it - is that correct? If answers to the above are already written up somewhere, just point me to the link. Thanks, Michael

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Dell BIOS bombed OpenSuSE!
by Marc Chamberlin 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

I dunno why I am suddenly not able to send emails from my email server to this list, everything is bouncing back to me. So I am going to try from a different computer to see if that helps. Sorry if this turns into a duplicate post, not my intention! Hi, I have a Dell laptop that I had set up to dual boot OpenSuSE 15.5 and Windows 11. Recently, upon powering up my laptop, I got a notice saying the time had not been properly set up in the BIOS. So, for the first time, I figured out how to open up the BIOS settings, took a look at the time setting, and was puzzled to find it was OK. When I exited the BIOS setup the laptop then directly booted up the Windows 11 system. Powering off, then back on resulted in the same behavior, the GRUB menu that allowed me to select which system to boot up, no longer appears. Near as I can figure, something about bringing up the BIOS menu destroyed the Grub boot menu! Any ideas on what the heck is going on with Dell's Bios? I am trying to ask Dell this question, but so far no response. What is the best way for restoring GRUB and get back my ability to boot up OpenSuSE? Marc...

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buildservice - Why am I getting delete requests for my branched projects?
by David C. Rankin 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Devs, Since the Nvidia G05 drivers are not up to date, I branched and patched a community project to make sure that an updated driver for Tumbleweed was available. Now I'm receiving delete requests form some unknown "moderator" for the reason of saving space?? If the problem is the branched status, then how do I turn the branched project into a normal project under my account? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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firefox changed behavior "no video with supported mime-type"
by Simon Becherer 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hi, tumbleweed firefox 129.0.1 i know it was working about 1 to 2 years in past, some update has changed this. and yes, it could be that the file is not really correct at the server. i got this error also from other sources especially when i use different nitter instances. changing the nitter instance shows video's which has this error at other instances before. is there something i could configure at my computer/firefox that the mimetype will be set correct according to the ending of the filename and the video will be played? here a own movie where i am pretty sure it was working before. https://www.becherer.de/Homepage/Kloepper/cobot-schweissen.MOV it shows the error "no video with supported mime-type" off topic: yes, for the technicians here, the machine is not adjusted perfect, to many sparks. simoN -- www.becherer.de

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HP ProLiant G9 DL360 & SuSE 15.5 Video Problems
by Andrei Verovski 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hi, I have HP ProLiant G9 DL360 with 16TB of storage which I would like to retrofit as video surveillance server. Server have only 1 problem - slow display of live video. Even moving window around is not smooth, video playback in youtube (in firefox) is choppy. It affects only video display, not recording. Built-in video card (lshw -C display) is Matrox MGA G200EH, driver mgag200 resolution 1400x1050, depth=32 glxinfo | grep render tells direct rendering = yes with GLX_MESA_***. I installed older SuSE 15.5 since newer kernel in 15.6 have Matrox drivers removed (please correct if I’m wrong here). I tried Gnome and Mate, Wayland is disabled. Is there any way to fix it apart from installing another vide card with help of DL360 Gen9 750685-001 775421-001 HP Expansion Slot Riser Board ? Thanks in advance for any help. Andrei

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Zypper history: summarise rpm changes
by Michael Hamilton 17 Sep '24

17 Sep '24

I have a python script that can summarise RPM change-logs for anything install by zypper in the past N days. The idea being to work around the limitation that the Tumbleweed release announcements only lists the DVD changes, but the release almost always contains more than that. I recently gave it a spring-clean for python3, and have now shared it as a gist in case it may be of use to others: https://gist.github.com/digitaltrails/094cd5a5d08670560c8bb199041321a6 Usage is as follows: Usage: zypphist.py [options] Report change log entries for recent zypper installs. Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -i ZYP_INSTALL_DAYS, --installed-since=ZYP_INSTALL_DAYS Include anything zypper installed up to the specified days ago(default 1). -c RPM_CHANGE_ENTRIES, --change-entries=RPM_CHANGE_ENTRIES For matched zypper installs, report a given number of dated RPM change-log entries (default 1). Example: sudo python3 zypphist.py --installed-since=3 Sample output for one package: ================================================== +Package: 2024-09-14 09:02:57 nvidia-utils-G06 ------------------------------ * Tue Aug 13 2024 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch(a)suse.com> - Update to 550.107.02 * Fixed a race condition involving modeset ownership which could lead to flip event timeout errors when enabling the 'fbdev' kernel module parameter in nvidia-drm. * Fixed a regression that caused nvidia-powerd to exit when nvidia-dbus.conf was not present in the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ directory. * Fixed a bug that could cause memory corruption while handling ACPI events on some notebooks. * Fixed a bug that could cause external displays to become frozen until the next modeset when using PRIME Display Offloading with the NVIDIA dGPU acting as the display offload sink. The one limitation is that the script cannot work out how many rpm change log entries might apply to a release and defaults to one. Michael

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ShoutOUt to the devs! - Compiz + KDE3 + Tumbleweed - Simply Amazing
by David C. Rankin 15 Sep '24

15 Sep '24

All, Roughly 20 years ago (18 ish) compiz 6 or 7 came on the scene when KDE3 was reaching maturity and the combination was simply amazing. Then for years, due to versioning differences, python version changes, etc... it was more or less a broken mess. Having a bit of time today I put a bit of effort in resurrecting my favorite desktop combination from the X11/compiz repo using the 8.8 version -- and -- the magic is back. Still a few kinks to work out (seems to be a crash in scale addon), but on balance it works incredibly well! https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/2fdde52b55c1 Even the emerald window decorations are there and work well. (I've probably got 100 custom emerald themes squirreled away somewhere) Seems that the settings tools port to python3 is mature, and the compositor works brilliantly. Fusion-icon works as well allowing switching between compiz and kwin and emerald and gtk decorators. (current gtk decorators - blah..) It's probably been 10 years since I've seen it all work together well -- and this is on Tumbleweed! I'll see what I can do to debug the scale crash. Great job devs! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Nvidia G05 Drivers w/gcc-14 patch for TW available
by David C. Rankin 15 Sep '24

15 Sep '24

All, With the latest TW update, packages must build against gcc-14. I've added patches to the Nvdia 470 (G05) driver and built against current Tumbleweed. Updated packages should be trickling into the following repository if you need them: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/drankinatty:/branches:/hom… (drivers for 15.4-15.6 also included) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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By the Gods! The official NVidia repo has been updated! - Thank you!
by David C. Rankin 15 Sep '24

15 Sep '24

All, Checking this morning and the official NVidia repo has now been updated: https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/ (G04 - G06 available, if needed G03 are in the repo posted earlier) Many thanks to those working to keep the drivers updated. Hopefully going forward we can put a pin in this topic for TW and see if we can coordinate patches and updates for the driver to track kernel updates in TW a bit more closely. Otherwise, TW users risk updating into an unusable install. And nobody wants to rely on a lawyer that dabbles in tech to scrounge for patches and hope he can string them together correctly in buildservice :) Let's hope the 6.11 update requires little in the way of patching.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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No Login, no Graphics after update to Tumbleweed 20230211-0
by Peter Maffter 14 Sep '24

14 Sep '24

Hello, after the update the screen only shows a '-'. All the usual other tty screens that you get with e.g. STRG-ALT-F1 are also gone. I can connect to the PC via ssh from my Ubuntu Laptop and check what is going on. I am using an old GTX 570 on that PC. Previously when the G06 stuff was installed instead of updating the needed G04 stuff, I was able to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.157.run manually and the login and XFCE worked. But now even that fails. :-( Any pointers? Is that the beginning of the things that are named in Subject "Nvidia 390x driver users - glibc 2.37 will bring bad news" ? I do have strange output about signature and verification: 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628957+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.411047][ T527] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628957+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.411690][ T527] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628958+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.412304][ T527] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628958+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.418769][ T527] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628963+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.426827][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM57781) rev 57785100] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:25:22:e6:5d:d3 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628964+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.427483][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: attached PHY is 57765 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[1]) 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628964+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.428122][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1] 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628965+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.428740][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: dma_rwctrl[00000001] dma_mask[64-bit] 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628965+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.482616][ T527] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 241 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628966+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.488784][ T527] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628971+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.489637][ T527] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 390.157 Wed Oct 12 09:19:07 UTC 2022 (using threaded interrupts) 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628972+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.499362][ T527] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 390.157 Wed Oct 12 09:15:25 UTC 2022 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628972+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.505733][ T527] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628973+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.506428][ T527] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1 Update openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230211-0 -> 20230212-0 did not help either. Boot to the recover modes of 6.1.10-1 or 6.1.8-1 does not help . 6.1.8-1 recovery at least says that "Failed to start X Display Manager" and gives the F1,F2,...ttys. but when I install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.157.run the F1,F2, ttys are also gone. Please help. Thanks in advance BR Pete

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what zypper should adopt from pacman
by bent fender 14 Sep '24

14 Sep '24

- starting with the biggest downloads, psychologically therapeutic - showing the total done so far - showing the total time remaing -- "The true measure of a man's character, is how he treats those who can do nothing for him". Seen in a forum by OzDozer

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soundcards: asus vs soundblast & TW
by bent fender 14 Sep '24

14 Sep '24

I've had very good technical performance with Asus under Leap/Slowroll/Tumbleweed but would like to know if soundblaster cards are just as performing AND trouble-free. TIA

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What is the package openSUSE-release-ftp - why is it needed?
by David C. Rankin 14 Sep '24

14 Sep '24

Devs, There is a package "openSUSE-release-ftp" that contains nothing bug a README that contains: This package only exists for providing the product flavor 'ftp'. Why is this a package and why is it needed? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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installing of skype
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

Due to a complete breakdown of my computers I am now reinstalling Tumbleweed. One missing in my wish list is Skype. Where can I find the instructions and files for the setup of skype?

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KDE Right Mouse Pop up Incomplete
by Wolfgang Mueller 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

On my two computers, on which I have recently installed Leap 15.6, a right-mouse click in KDE makes appear a pop-up window containing the following items: Configure Desktop and Wallpaper... Configure Display settings ---------------------------------- Icons Paste Clipboard Contents... Undo Refresh Desktop ---------------------------------- Show KRunner Add Widgets Add Panel Show Activity Switcher Enter Edit Mode and additionally on one of my two computers only: ---------------------------------- Lock Screen Leave whereas on the other one these two items are missing, which I find very boring. What can I do to have these two items on both of my computers? Thank you in advance for your help and best regards, Wolfgang

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go - puts package repository under $HOME - should go under $HOME/.config
by David C. Rankin 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

Devs, Why does installing go add another entire directory under $HOME. Shouldn't this go under $HOME/.config? Moreover, why create it by default? After all the hard work that has been done to prevent the sprawl in $HOME and moving all config/support files to $HOME/.config, this seems like a step backwards. Can this go somewhere else (no pun intended...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Bonded ethernet network
by Roger Oberholtzer 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

If one bonds a number of NIC, is it a requirement that they be connected to the network via a switch? Say that you connect two computers to each other, with 4 NIC on one computer directly connected to 4 NIC on the other. On each these are bonded (called a Team on Windows). I know that if you do use a switch, it must support Static Link Aggregation. But is a switch required to make this work at all? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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[oS-EN] Screensaver problem
by Carlos E. R. 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Hi, I have been observing for weeks that the screensaver + sleep display feature in XFCE was not triggering. And I just noticed that after I closed all firefox windows, it triggers again. My hypothesis is that firefox, which has several opened tabs with youtube windows, is blocking the screensaver. Notice that they are videos not running currently: they are all finished or paused in mid play for continuing at another time. Yet they seem to inhibit the screensaver. (system is as per signature) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Telcontar, using openSUSE Leap 15.5)

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Build server repos times two
by Bill Merriam 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

I find https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/mail/openSUSE_Leap_15.6/ and I find https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/mail/15.6/ Both of them report "Valid metadata not found at specified URL". How much beer must I drink before I no longer have this problem?? bill

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Nvidia G04 driver - TW 6.10.8 kernel needs update.
by David C. Rankin 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

All G04 Nvidia Users, Before updating TW to the 6.10.8 kernel, don't forget to update the nvidia G04 driver (patched driver available in): https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/wkazubski:/G03/openSUSE_Tu… the driver itself hasn't change but needed to be rebuilt against current packages. Otherwise 640x480 looks really really bad... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[oS-EN] Found firefox feature tab unload
by Carlos E. R. 07 Sep '24

07 Sep '24

Hi, I just discovered a "new" firefox feature. I have a low power tiny computer which I use as server and to display videos. It often runs a firefox window with maybe five tabs, each on one youtube link that I follow, so to easily watch the next video in the series when I am on the mood. Problem: each tab eats a significant amount of CPU power. Solution: open a tab with "about:unloads" and click the "unload" button several times, to unload from memory the tabs using most resources. The computer went to maybe 5% instead of 25% cpu. Tabs that are "unloaded" by this are actually unloaded, they are blanked. So no cpu, and no ram. I assume that clicking on a tab awakes it again. Not tried yet. Yes, it does. But you have to click reload on "about:unloads" so that the awakened tab is listed again in the tab running the list And the reloaded tab remembers it was in mid-play, I mean, remembers the position. On my main computer releasing memory is not important. What interests me is freezing the cpu usage of tabs. Do you know something for that? Previously I tried this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-or-pause-tab-menu-item/ Doesn't quite work, it just pauses the play, but the tab still eats cpu. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Telcontar, using openSUSE Leap 15.5)

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Why do I have to repeatedly - zypper rm openSUSE-repos-MicroOS openSUSE-repos-MicroOS-NVIDIA ??
by David C. Rankin 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

Devs, I removed the cdn repos, but next time I check they are back?? Once I remove those packages they should not automatically reinstall themselves. What is going on? I just had to remove them again today and fix all the .rpmsave problems in /etc/zypp/repos.d/ I shouldn't have to blacklist these packages. Does this need a bug report? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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YaST .../wizard/style.qss - font-size: 10.5pt makes the interface much more readable (like installation.qss)
by David C. Rankin 05 Sep '24

05 Sep '24

All, YaST gui in TW for software management had fonts that made it look awkward. I picked around and found the .qss theme files and the installation.qss contains: * { font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans; font-size: 10.5pt } But the default style.qss has no font size and the fonts are much larger. I suspect if you have current KDE or have the Gtk version installed on a Gtk desktop then current desktop theming may provide a font size setting for YaST, but for other desktops, YaST Software Management just appears to have big fonts. If you are faced with the same issue, just edit the .qss file of your choosing in /usr/share/YaST2/theme/current/wizard/ and add the 4 lines above. I find the 10.5 font size about right. (you can try all themes by pressing [Shift + F3] and choosing from the list) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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nvidia g05 or nouveau in TW Live/Install?
by bent fender 05 Sep '24

05 Sep '24

My nvidia gt640 video card is temporarily re-installed after the AMD card went kaput. The TW install and Live DVD's both boot but end up with a black screen after the last HDMI symbol appears. The DVD continues reading but the prog is unaware that I can't see anything. I thought that the installers and Live media could work with any card. What are my options to recover the installation and use it with this card UFN?

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Repo: http://mirror.fcix.net/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/ 0.0 - 2.0 KiB/s
by David C. Rankin 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

Devs, all, I've been stuck doing a "zypper se eigen" for 30 minutes waiting for repositories to update. The problematic repo on Tumbleweed is the default "openSUSE-*-0.repo" that has baseurl=http://mirror.fcix.net/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/ Here is the current thoughput: $ bwm-ng v0.6.3 (probing every 0.500s), press 'h' for help input: /proc/net/dev type: rate | iface Rx Tx Total = <snip> KB/s wlo1: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s br0: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s - total: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s A few minutes later: $ bwm-ng v0.6.3 (probing every 0.500s), press 'h' for help input: /proc/net/dev type: rate / iface Rx Tx Total = <snip> wlo1: 0.22 KB/s 0.18 KB/s 0.40 KB/s br0: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s - total: 0.22 KB/s 0.18 KB/s 0.40 KB/s Is there any system that monitors mirrors and kicks them out when they can't serve packages? Finally after what seems like forever I get: Repository 'openSUSE-20240704-0' is invalid. [openSUSE-20240704-0|http://mirror.fcix.net/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/oss/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL History: - Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://mirror.fcix.net/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/762ac4531c45ef…'. Also, where does the "openSUSE-*-0.repo" come from on TW? I didn't add it. It seems duplicative of "download.opensuse.org-oss.repo" where both have baseurls looking for .../tumbleweed/repo/oss/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: a bit OT: how to GIMP:open as layers from dolphin
by Hlib Koziakov 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

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fail2ban stopped working?
by Pit Suetterlin 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

Hi list, I just noticed that since my latest update 3 days ago fail2ban is no longer working! It properly runs, but doesn't find any failed logins, so the block list of sshd is empty, and the other jails (I have a staged fbloop setup with increasing bantime) only perform unbans. The update was to 20240829, IIRC that was also the first one using kernel 6.10 - could that be related? Or was it some systemd update? Anyone else noticed this?

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Scientific calculator widget - KDE
by James Knott 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

I used to have a scientific calculator widget on my taskbar. However, it appears to have disappeared. Any idea what happened to it? I can't find it to add it. tnx jk

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Using XFCE on a Raspberry Pi with Leap 15.6
by Freek de Kruijf 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

I am using XFCE on a Raspberry Pi with Leap 15.6. Because there is only one user I want to autologin that user. In /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager there is an entry DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN, which I give the value of the username. There are two problems. Problem 1: After booting there is no login screen or a XFCE session started. Problem 2: When I goto console 1 <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<f1>, login as root and give: "systemctl restart displaymanager" I do get a login screen, but no autologin. Any suggestions? I found some autologin_timeout value in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, but did not find the proper location where to put this entry (might solve problem 1). -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf

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Why doesn't TW configure resume from swap by default?
by David C. Rankin 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Devs, I put my computer to sleep yesterday only to find it would not wake from sleep forcing a hard reset. Checking the config, there was no resume=/dev/by/uuid/..... configured. Leap 15.4 configured this automatically. Is there a reason why TW doesn't configure resume? It was quite a shock to have this laptop, that has always woken from sleep without issue suddenly die trying to wake. Where/how did resume not get set? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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chromium
by Michael Spartana 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Hello, ok so chromium 128 is out....can i replace 125 with it?? any problems with graphical or otherwise? thanks, michael spartana

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Tumbleweed: NetworkManager without kwallet
by bent fender 01 Sep '24

01 Sep '24

NO kwallet in my TW system, now or in the future. How do I set it up so as to allow all users to connect to the internet by providing a password each time i.e. pwd not stored anywhere neither in the clear nor encrypted? Right now I have NM set up this way: connect automatically with priority 0 all users may connect provide password each time But the dialog to supply root password never shows up and the wifi password dialog does not accept the password that is input, just returns the dialog 3 times and then say "no secrets provided". What I want is all users to be able to select the network to use, to be then connected to it upon providing the network password.

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Tumbleweed: one user cannot log in
by bent fender 01 Sep '24

01 Sep '24

I have a user whose attempt to log-in bounces. The home is a folder on a data drive and is linked-to from under /home. I tried to test by copying the entire folder to the system partition under /home but that did't fix the issue. How can I find out what is causing the reject? This user cannot log-in, another one (another posting) can but cannot get on-line to do a zypper dup. I had presumed that the inability to log-in was related to the home being linked-to but that doesn't seem to be the case.

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yast2 repos management did not work
by Simon Becherer 31 Aug '24

31 Aug '24

Hi, i have a strange problem: yast2 software / repositories i like to add a new repo: add / specify url / next repository name: openSUSE_Tumbleweed-home-Herbster0815-androidstudio url: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Herbster0815/openSUSE_Tumb… next emidiatley i am back inside configure software repositorys normalls it shoult download the specific stuff here. i do NOT see the new repo. [OK] / closing yast zypper lr did not show me the repo. inside /etc/zypp/servcices.d/ i have a file service.service contend: [service] enabled=1 autorefresh=1 url = https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Herbster0815/openSUSE_Tumb… type = N/A now: yast2 software /repositories error message appears: Errors occurred while restoring the repository configuration. Error refreshing service service (https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Herbster0815/openSUSE_Tumb…) [service:openSUSE:Tumbleweed|https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/o…] Repository already exists. [contignue] now i have a lot of never configured repos installed: 17 | service:KDE:Qt6 | service:KDE:Qt6 | Ja | ( p) Ja | Ja 18 | service:KDE:Unstable:Applications | service:KDE:Unstable:Applications | Ja | ( p) Ja | Ja 19 | service:KDE:Unstable:Extra | service:KDE:Unstable:Extra | Ja | ( p) Ja | Ja 20 | service:KDE:Unstable:Frameworks | service:KDE:Unstable:Frameworks | Ja | ( p) Ja | Ja 21 | service:KDE:Unstable:Qt | service:KDE:Unstable:Qt | Ja | ( p) Ja | Ja 22 | service:home:Herbster0815 | service:home:Herbster0815 | Ja | ( p) Ja | Ja 23 | service:openSUSE:Tumbleweed | service:openSUSE:Tumbleweed | Ja | ( p) Ja | Ja also shown by zypper lr other tumbleweed systems did NOT show this behavior. trying with zypper to remove number 17 (first of this repo) deletes number 16 my normal tumbleweed update repo. whats going on here? i have no idea, i found that there was in end of 2023 start of 2024 a problwm regarding yast softwaremanagement here is the list of updates of this vomputer: 20240826 20240625 20240617 20240613 20240517 20240419 20231001 20230904 because i think it could be possible that somewhere a config file will be not repaired after a bad update? in begin of 2024 there where some problems regarding zypper softwaremanagement. again, other of my systems, updated not equal to this, show absolute normal behavior, and add the repo correct. simoN -- www.becherer.de

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Re: [openSUSE Forums] [English/Install/Boot/Login] How to enable nvidia or nouveau from live/rescue/othersystem?
by bent fender 31 Aug '24

31 Aug '24

From: bent fender <slowroller(a)trixtar.org> To: openSUSE Forums <f03848728af0d56fdf74893af8353d0e(a)forums.opensuse.org> Subject: Re: [openSUSE Forums] [English/Install/Boot/Login] How to enable nvidia or nouveau from live/rescue/othersystem? Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:05:06 -0400 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu) Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:49:45 +0000 Felix Miata via openSUSE Forums <noreply(a)forums.opensuse.org> : > [quote="towbar, post:4, topic:177964"] > I boot with the latest TW install DVD and I have an nvidia GT640 card on the motheboard. What do I do to get an installer GUI? > [/quote] > Does your computer support UEFI? If yes, is CSM (legacy mode booting) enabled in the BIOS? If yes, is what is on the internal(s) drive now configured to use UEFI? Not using UEFI at all, I think the Corosshair-IV-Formula board supports it but can't really say. > How exactly did this "install DVD" come into possession? Downloaded and burned .iso of DVD image? Details please. Written to DVD? Written to USB? What program did you write with? Purchased somewhere? Same as always, including the last ten or so that didn't work - Download from suse using gftp - Burn image to DVD+R with k3b - this last one was: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20240827-Media.iso I always use 'verify data' but this time verification did dot take place; it didn't fail, just never happened. Not a factor since this has been going on for months and all the previopus DVD writes verified OK. Your earlier suggestion to append 3 and/or nomodeset to the linux line in the grub stanza DID improve things a bit. I got a localhost login so I logged in as root and called sddm. Then I logged in as my standard dummy user "u0" and got plasma up and running with no issues. But for UserMe I first verified that the data partition where that home is stored on a 4tb ssd and linked to from /home/UserMe was in fact mounted: it was. Then I tried to log in as UserMe and got the same result as when I did a chroot: no login and returned to sddm. I call xeyes in .profile I think and xeyes flashes momentarily as well as some color bars like a comb but no plasma. I cannot launch Artix either, TW and Artix are my only two installs using plasma. TW is my only install with systemd, probably unrelated but TW has often been problematic with my nvidia card, not suse if Artix is/was using nouveau. Slakware, Devuan are using XFCE, VoidLinux isn't GUI yet, these three definitely do not and never have used nvidia drivers but all worked and still do except Artix. I haven't tried the nomodeset bit with Artix yet. But there is a difference when I chroot into Artix: after first logging in as dummy user u0 I see the data partition mounted because it was mounted in Slackware from where I chrooted. KDF shows it containing nothing. I mount it again and thereupon KDF shows it xy% full. I log out and try my UserMe login and this is where Artix differs from TW: I do get plasma up. > > What exactly happens when you try to boot your "install DVD"? Do you use your BBS menu for choosing what to boot? Details please.. I use the grub menu, sometimes edited or done full manual. Since TW was my go2 system I did grub with it but with no TW and no new grubbies the other systems boots started falling apart as well, this got fixed a couple days ago when I got Yast up in a chrooted TW and redid the whole ritual. It's been another VERY long day, later :-)

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Leap 15.6 and amdgpu-pro ???
by Peter McD 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

Hi, Presently I use amdgpu-pro-23.40.2_SLES_15_sp_5 in Leap 15.5. I would like to upgrade from Leap 15.5 to Leap 15.6, but I wonder whether the current amdgpu-pro driver 24.10.3 for SLED/SLES 15 SP 5, release date 6/19/2024 works in Leap 15.6. Any information on that? cu Peter

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update tumbleweed 202408222/23 to 20240825 kills network
by Simon Becherer 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

As david ranklin wrote on this list in the morning with his whireless network, also here after a update a couple of minutes ago, one on of my machines (others i have not updated) from 240822 or 240823 (sorry, could not check, because netzwork is gone) my wicked network is gone. have not investigated up to now, i am not in front of that machine, so please take care ! simoN -- www.becherer.de

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Packman horribly slow from US, 16.0KiB/s - that's 1/2 of 33.6 baud modem dial-up speed....
by David C. Rankin 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

Devs, Not sure if packman is just out of bandwidth or what the issue is, but TW updates take forever, e.g. Retrieving: librist4-0.2.7-1699.1.pm.25.x86_64.rpm ....................................<86%>=======[| (16.0 KiB/s)] That is 1/2 of what a 33.6 dial-up modem will do over an old land-line. (it used to take Friday - Sunday to download SUSE over a modem - and pray a disconnect didn't occur :) Are there any additional resources that may help this situation? I think it is pulling from gwdg.de, but even then the pipe should be bigger than 16.0 KiB/s. Ideas? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Tumbleweed - dracut update on dup tonight failed to start WiFi on reboot?
by David C. Rankin 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

Devs, Just did a zypper dup on Tumbleweed after removing the openSUSE-repo-xxx packages. openSUSE repos have much improved download speed ~1-5MB/s compare to the less than 100KB/s earlier. Packman still crawls at ~100KB/s, but that's just packman in the US. But dracut was updated, and during reboot I noticed a couple new errors splashed to the screen - too quick to read what they were, but when the desktop started -- it was clear, my WiFi connection was dead. Checking 'ip' it was dead. Going into Yast, the configuration was fine and simply clicking "edit" on my wireless connection and "next", "next", "Accept" brought the wireless connection up without problem. What to check to find the earlier errors and determine why, for the first time since Tumbleweed install, wireless failed to start on boot? Seems likely to be related to dracut or one of the libraries that was updated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Fw: WDE - Whole Disk Encryption
by Dave Howorth 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

FWIW I got an off-list reply to my post as below: On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:18:25 +0000 opensusewde <opensusewde(a)proton.me> wrote: > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > On Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 at 8:45 PM, Dave Howorth > <dave(a)howorth.org.uk> wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:21:35 +0000 > > opensusewde via openSUSE Users users(a)lists.opensuse.org wrote: > > > > > WDE does not work with a Swedish laptop during setup and install. > > > After installing you have to use an english character layout on a > > > swedish character layout. It needs to be fixed. OpenSUSE needs to > > > use the character layout of the keyboard being used for encryption > > > purposes like debian and fedora. Or you need an english laptop. > > > > > > Please use a suitable subject. > > What is WDE? And which package is it in? So I guess we add "please reply to the list and not to me personally" to the list of requests.

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drkonqi-coredump-launcher
by Roger Oberholtzer 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

I see a message like this in my system journal: Aug 28 08:44:12 acme drkonqi-coredump-launcher[4357]: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified It happens quite often (every couple minutes), and when it does, it repeats many many times. It happens when I am not doing anything. So it seems not to be related to my activity. Or at least not directly. I do not know when this started. I just noticed it today because I saw that systemd-journald is taking > 25% CPU time. And rsyslogd is also taking lots of time. That seems wrong. How can I find out what is triggering it? I tried drkonqi-coredump-gui, but it says "No crashes match the search". I don't really need the core dumps. Can this be disabled? I see references (Google) to services with related names (drkonqi-coredump*). But I do not see them on my system. I'm running Leap. It's not the most recent: 20230908. I will be doing an update at some time soon. -- Roger Oberholtzer

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Cannot change user password
by opensusewde 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

Cannot change user password. Buggy as hell. But faster then fedora scientific version on my lapotop.

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(No Subject)
by opensusewde 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

WDE does not work with a Swedish laptop during setup and install. After installing you have to use an english character layout on a swedish character layout. It needs to be fixed. OpenSUSE needs to use the character layout of the keyboard being used for encryption purposes like debian and fedora. Or you need an english laptop.

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What are packages openSUSE-repos-MicroOS and openSUSE-repos-MicroOS-NVIDIA?
by David C. Rankin 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Devs, Recently there have been posts about removing openSUSE-repos-XXX to improve mirror performance and allow listing additional mirrors in the baseurl= option. What are these packages and why or why not to remove them? Why can't I just add the nvidia repo as a normal repo as we have always done? What is the benefit of these -repo packages? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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bug or freature? tty - perf: ....
by Simon Becherer 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Hi, up to date tumbleweed: i have a small opensuse without graphic, logging into tty1 there was a very old tumbleweed (3-4 years old, before updating this machine) behavior changed: when i use heavy load to the processor (here i pbzip2 a whole disk) i got on screen the messages (and similar messages): [1580-1618057] [ C6] perf: interrupt took to long (2503>2500), lowering kernel.perf.event_max_sample_rate to 798000 when i remember correct, the message itself is nothing to care about. BUT why is this message not (only) written inside a log file? why did this interrupt my screen output? is there something i have to configure, or why is this now on screen. on the old system it was not on screen. and i think it should not be there interrupting the output (as example if working with mc everything will be messed up) any hints? or should i open a bug report? simoN -- www.becherer.de

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Re: forums.opensuse.org block user
by Bengt Gördén 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

On 2024-08-12 17:39, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Bengt Gördén <bengan(a)bag.org> [08-12-24 11:12]: >> On 2024-08-12 06:16, Andrei Cherniaev wrote: >>> My account on forums.opensuse.org was blocked ("Account suspended: Spam"). I absolutely not agree. How I can make complaint for moderator action? >>> >> >> According to the FAQ, there is no point in doing so. >> >> "The staff of the openSUSE Forums reserve the right to determine what >> content is and is not acceptable under this policy. All staff decisions are >> final." >> >> https://forums.opensuse.org/faq#advertisingspam-7 > > so one needs to establish a different identity, then ... I assume so without really knowing the whole thing. But it should probably be something like if you want/need to change your ID on the forum. https://forums.opensuse.org/faq#changing-your-forum-id-17 > and I am also banned w/o notice I think I also heard that Carlos was banned a few years ago. I guess these guys make the rules. https://forums.opensuse.org/about -- /bengan

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ssh:... Connection refused
by Wolfgang Mueller 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Recently, I installed Leap 15.6 on one of my two computers and gave it the name "azure", "az" and the IP address 192.168.2.17. Then, from my other computer, which still carries Leap 15.2, I tried to reach it by the command "ssh az", getting the error message: "ssh: connect to host az port 22: Connection refused" Analogous error messages I get for "ssh azure" and "ssh 192.168.2.17", as to be expected. I have already checked the .ssh root and user directories and /etc/ssh on both of my computers, not finding anything wrong. What else can I do for getting ssh access to my computer "az"? Thanks in advance and best regards, Wolfgang

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Problem with Chinese opensuse mirrors
by chandan 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Hello In India in a alot of networks alot of chinese domains and ip addresses are blocked for obvious reasons. While this is a minor inconvenience when using zypper or yast ( it does slow down because most of the chinese mirrors are blocked, yet they come up because India is geographically closer to China.) The web is another story. for example if i want to download a package from say libtool from; https://software.opensuse.org/package/libtool this sends me to https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/li… ALWAYS. which obviously does not open. no other mirror is selected. and i cant download any thing. its as good as dead. any solution to this? this whole geographically close thing does not work. thanks chandan

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sedexp linux malware
by Fred 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Stealthy 'sedexp' Linux malware evaded detection for two years https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stealthy-sedexp-linux-malwar…

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Bitlocker Surprise!
by Lew Wolfgang 25 Aug '24

25 Aug '24

Hi Folks, One of my users connected a portable disk to his Leap 15.6 system that had an encrypted partition from a Windows Bitlocker pea sea. KDE announced the connection and prompted for the Bitlocker password! It worked! I've used Dislocker in the past, but had no idea it was built into KDE nowadays. I thought I'd mention it here in case others haven't heard about it either. Regards, Lew

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Fwd: Re: [openSUSE/distribution-logos] Logo proposal (Issue #11)
by Lukáš Krejza 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

Dear list, Dear Jay, @Jay at first, I would like to congratulate to Jay Michalska as a new Master Leader of openSUSE. @others Secondly, I would like to express my love and gratitude to many people from the openSUSE community I had the honor to meet, I won't list names here, but I am sure many of you know :) . openSUSE was basically part of most of my life and the community and people from it has inspired me in numerous ways in my life, not only career / libre software part of it. But sadly, It seems it has gone to the point, where negatives (that have nothing to do with people mentioned in previous paragraph) are just bigger than the positives. For me, this is the renowned final straw. I had come to conclusion, that logical way forward in my life is to switch main distribution after 20 years and find alternative for OBS, which will be hard, but sometimes things are not easy :) . So this is my farewell and my sincerest thanks <3 I am unsubscribing from the lists after sending this e-mail, so do not expect me to comment more on this. I wish openSUSE only the brightest future. I am sure we will meet again some time :) . Love, Gfs ---------- Přeposlaná zpráva ---------- Předmět: Re: [openSUSE/distribution-logos] Logo proposal (Issue #11) Datum: pátek 23. srpna 2024, 10:25:41, SELČ Od: Jay Michalska <notifications(a)github.com> Komu: openSUSE/distribution-logos <distribution-logos(a)noreply.github.com> Kopie: Lukáš Krejza <gryffus(a)hkfree.org>, Author <author(a)noreply.github.com> I'm the maintainer of this repository -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/openSUSE/distribution-logos/issues/ 11#issuecomment-2306568614 You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Message ID: <openSUSE/distribution-logos/issues/11/2306568614(a)github.com> -----------------------------------------

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Questionable problems with Tumbleweed snapshot 20240731 (Mostly-Solved):
by -pj 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

Hi, I am running openSUSE Tumbleweed on a machine with Nvidia G05 drivers. Machine was unable to boot to graphical target..... I just learned that Nvidia G05 driver is not supported with the 6.10.2-1 kernel as of yet. So adjusted Grub2, to booting with 6.9.9-1 and do now reach graphical target. A noticeable problem now is *not* having a rollback option available in the boot menu anymore. During the previous 'zypper dup' there was an error with a grub filename of sorts, that was unable to (r, retry) successfully. I aborted, powercycled then ran "zypper dup" again... I powercycled again and then passed 'zypper -vvv dup' with "Nothing to do" reported. When passing '# snapper list' the output shows many snapshots. Can you tell me how to recover the snapshot entry option for boot menu? I have attempted regenerating initrd > 'dracut --regenerate-all --force' *and* update grub > 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg' , powercycled and still no rollback option exists any longer. Also have attempted to pass > # zypper in --force grub2 grub2-branding-openSUSE grub2-i386-pc grub2-i386-pc-extras grub2-snapper-plugin grub2-systemd-sleep-plugin ruby3.3-rubygem-cfa_grub2 After powercycle, It appears the machine is now displaying 'boot from read-only snapshot' option again. If I *did not* pass 'zypper se -i grub*' , I would not have seen the possible culprit being package 'grub2-snapper-plugin'. Why did this happen? Those packages are now marked with 'i+', user installed *not* 'i' installer, as shown before. Is this an issue? Now the largest question I am left with about this is. Are there other packages installed on the machine that need to be installed again with force possibly? I recently passed '# zypper install --force sane-airscan' to correct 'airscan-discover' for some reason. I have passed 'zypper ve' > Dependencies of all installed packages are satisfied. How can I track down these partially, non-functional incorrectly installed packages? -Greatest Hopes🫥

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Need help with a laptop that will only run Plasma/Wayland
by Marc Chamberlin 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

I have an ASUS laptop that normally is running in a remote location. The trouble is, is that it will only start up the Plasma/Wayland desktop and I need it to bring up the Plasma/X11 desktop instead. (I use x11vnc for remote desktop access purposes, and x11vnc won't talk with Wayland AFAIK, and yes I must run both the x11vnc server as well as clients on the laptop) The laptop is running under OpenSuSE 15.5 x64 with the KDE desktop manager. When I try to use the Plasma/X11 desktop, after a reboot I reach the KDE login screen OK. If I choose to log in with the Plasma/X11 desktop, after entering my login name and password, the screen just goes blank for a moment, then cycles back and re-brings up the login/password screen again. Apparently the Plasma/X11 version of the desktop is not accepting my login credentials for some reason. However, if I choose to brings up the Plasma/Wayland desktop, my login credentials work just fine and the desktop comes up OK. I have no idea how to go about debugging and solving this problem, log files seem unhelpful with nothing much amiss, and DuckDuckGo internet searching ain't bringing no joy either. I would rather not apply a single case workaround either, I like to keep all my systems I support, as consistent as possible. Anyone up for helping me to get this beast of a laptop to behave itself. As always, my thanks and appreciation are offered in advance. Marc... --

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Re: [oS-en] sed question
by Serafino Conflitti 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

On 2023-04-28 09:33, Robert Webb via openSUSE Users wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:03:05 +0200 (CEST), "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas(a)telefonica.net> wrote: >> I have a script (from somebody else) to download the image of the day from >> the NASA. I have modified the script quite a bit to download a range of >> days, even years of them. >> One key function is failing on today's picture. This is the relevant >> section of the script: >> +++...................... >> function get_page { >> echo "Downloading page to find image" >> #wget http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ --quiet -O /tmp/apod.html >> wget https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap${SHORT_TODAY}.html --quiet -O /tmp/apod.html >> grep -m 1 jpg /tmp/apod.html | sed -e 's/<//' -e 's/>//' -e 's/.*=//' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/^/http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\//' > /tmp/pic_url >> } >> get_page >> # Got the link to the image >> PICURL=`/bin/cat /tmp/pic_url` >> if [ -z $PICURL ]; then >> echo "Not found picture.jpg for $TODAY. Trying .png" >> try_png >> PICURL=`/bin/cat /tmp/pic_url` >> if [ -z $PICURL ]; then >> echo "Not found picture.png for $TODAY. html file saved" >> cp /tmp/apod.html $PICTURES_DIR/$TODAY.html >> return >> fi >> fi >> NAME=`basename $PICURL` >> PICTURE_NAME=${TODAY}_${NAME} >> ......................++- >> The script sets up variable SHORT_TODAY to 230427, so "get_page" downloads >> <https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230426.html>. It is coughing up this error: > You mean "<https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230427.html>". ap230426.html is > "the day before" you mention later below. No, I wrote on the 27 ;-) >> Do 20230427 >> Downloading page to find image >> /home/cer/bin/NASA Picture-Of-The-Day Wallpaper Script, mine, loop: line 98: [: too many arguments >> basename: extra operand ‘Tarantula</a>’ >> Try 'basename --help' for more information. >> The problem is here: >> cer@Isengard:~> grep -m 1 jpg /tmp/apod.html | sed -e 's/<//' -e 's/>//' -e 's/.*=//' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/^/http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\//' >> http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1602/Tarantula-HST-ESO-annotated1800.jpgAro… the Tarantula</a> >> cer@Isengard:~> >> The source html goes like this: >> <a href="image/1602/Tarantula-HST-ESO-annotated1800.jpg">Around the Tarantula</a> >> are other star forming regions with >> young star clusters, filaments, and blown-out >> <a href="ap080327.html">bubble-shaped</a> clouds. > As Brendan pointed out, one of the problems is that the grep command > gets the first line that contains "jpg". Right. > That isn't even the line with > the picture-of-the-day link, on this ap230427.html page, because the > A.P.O.D. is a PNG instead. It is from the description. The correct > link is from here: When the jpg is not found, I do a second call asking for png instead: you can see it in the susepaste. And some are a youtube video, those I do not really want (it is for a screensaver). > 2023 April 27 > <br> > <a href="image/2304/SuperBIT_tarantula.png"> > <IMG SRC="image/2304/SuperBIT_tarantula_1024.png" > alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download > the highest resolution version available." style="max-width:100%"></a> > You need to grab not just a link *to* an image, but one that *is* an > inline image also. The file suffix doesn't matter. So, the following > can replace the grep and sed line, and the PICURL code. > -------------------- > # Given an A.P.O.D. HTML page, this skips the lines down through the > # page title heading. Then it extracts the HREF contents of the first > # link that contains an IMG tag. > # Requires GNU sed for the 'I' flag (ignore regex case) which is used. > # Line-by-line description of ${HREF_EXTRACT_SCRIPT}: > # > # On each line, remove leading space. > # Skip lines through the A.P.O.D. heading. > # Skip blank lines. > # If IMG tag, goto :img > # Save this line to the Hold Space. > # Next input line. (and go to the beginning of the script) > # :img > # Get (the previous line) from the Hold Space. > # If not an 'A' tag with HREF, next input line. > # Extract the HREF contents. > # Print it. > # Quit after the first print. > HREF_EXTRACT_SCRIPT=' > s/^ *// > 1,/^<h1> *Astronomy Picture of the Day/Id > /^$/d > /^<img *src="/Ib img > x > b > :img > x > /^<a href="$[^<>"]\+$">.*$/I!b > s//\1/ > p > q > ' > [...] > wget -O /tmp/apod.html ... > PIC_HREF="$(sed -n -e "$HREF_EXTRACT_SCRIPT" /tmp/apod.html)" > if [ -z "$PIC_HREF" ] ;then > printf '%s' "Not found picture.xxx for $TODAY... " > cp -T /tmp/apod.html $PICTURES_DIR/$TODAY.html \ > && echo " html file saved" > return 1 > else > PICURL="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/${PIC_HREF}" > # printf '%s\n' "$PICURL" > /tmp/pic_url > fi > NAME="$(basename "$PIC_HREF")" > [...] > -------------------- :-o Thanks. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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Re: What is required to migrate from /etc/hosts to DHCP
by Carlos E. R. 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

On 2024-08-20 19:12, J Leslie Turriff wrote: > On 2024-08-16 04:30:57 you wrote: >> On 2024-08-15 01:13, J Leslie Turriff via openSUSE Users wrote: >>> On 2024-08-10 02:11:51 Andrei Borzenkov wrote: >>> >>> >>> I haven't tried anything yet. I would like to keep the same IP >>> addresses as the NetGear router has configured, but the StarLink router >>> is a black box; no user configuration is possible. >> >> That is impossible. There must always be a configuration method, even if >> it is limited. It could be via a smartphone app. Or it could be via an >> external IP living at the ISP, say http://starlink.com/router (I just >> made it up). > > One would think that, right? But so far I haven't found a way. >> >> This second method is what my ISP does. But accessing that method >> provides a method to get the router password and disable the ISP page, >> and then access it locally at http://192.168.1.1 >> >> >> And then, you always have the option to use the DHCP service AND your >> own static IP definitions. You only have to use static addresses >> outside of the router DHCP range. > > And that would be acceptable IF I can see what the DHCP range is. Your router must be accessible in some way. At worst, in informative way only. > Anyway, the other possibility would be to more or less abandon my > static /etc/hosts table and let StarLink have its way. If I should take this > option, should I erase /etc/hosts, or will StarLink just ignore it? The router doesn't have access to that information. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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RFC 6724
by James Knott 20 Aug '24

20 Aug '24

I was reading about proposed changes to RFC 6724 which determines the priority for IP address selection. In the original RFC 6724, IPv4 addresses are given preference to IPv6 Unique Local Addresses (ULA). The proposed changes would reverse that. However, in testing with ping, I see ULA is preferred, except for the computer being used for testing from. That is when a computer is pinging itself. Why the difference? Why is the proposed priority used when pinging a different device, but not the same device? Also, if I use the FQDN, instead of just the host name, then ULA is used. WTF??? I'm using the DNS resolver in pfSense. The host command returns both IPv4 and ULA addresses for both host name and FQDN Original - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6724 Proposed - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rfc6724-update/ Running openSUSE 15.5 & KDE.

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What is required to migrate from /etc/hosts to DHCP
by J Leslie Turriff 20 Aug '24

20 Aug '24

Long ago (openSUSE 6.3?) when I had only one machine and an analog modem, I set up /etc/hosts to map my IP address; as time went on I added a router, a network printer, an OS-X machine, etc., but my network was small enough that I could manage the devices with /etc/hosts. Currently I have satellite IP routed through a NetGear WiFi router, in which I have assigned the static addresses in my /etc/hosts file, but I want to migrate to the StarLink system that I recently bought. Unfortunately, the StarLink system's built-in router is a Black Box :-( that only supports devices via DHCP. (It is already handling a WiFi laptop and several smart phones; the legacy devices on the NetGear router use an Ethernet network.) My question is, do I just have to use YaST LAN to switch my network setting from Static to DHCP, or are there other changes required? (Both routers use the same 192.168.x.x address range, so it seems to me that just moving the Ethernet cable from one router to the other without assigning a new address ought to work, but there is no way to talk to the StarLink router if there is an address collision with devices it has already assigned.) My /etc/hosts currently looks like this: | wd=~ | $ cat /etc/hosts | # | # hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address | # mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly | # used at boot time, when no name servers are running. | # On small systems, this file can be used instead of a | # "named" name server. | # Syntax: | # | # IPv4 Address Fully Qualified Hostname Short Hostnames | #------------- ------------------------ ------------------- | 127.0.0.1 localhost | # | 192.168.1.1 grey.sixys.site grey router <== NetGear | 192.168.1.2 pinto.sixys.site pinto desktop1 | 192.168.1.3 philips.sixys.site philips TV | 192.168.1.4 chestnut.sixys.site chestnut desktop2 | 192.168.1.5 black.sixys.site black windows | 192.168.1.6 charcoal.sixys.site charcoal dell | #92.168.1.7 unused | #92.168.1.8 unused | 192.168.1.9 palomino.sixys.site palomino server | 192.168.1.10 buckskin.sixys.site buckskin printer | #92.168.1.11 unused | 192.168.1.12 chrome.sixys.site chrome laptop1 | 192.168.1.13 pinto-foal.sixys.site pinto-foal UPS | 192.168.1.14 toreador.sixys.site toreador laptop2 | # | 192.168.100.1 blueroan.sixys.site blueroan downlink <== ViaSat | # | #============================================================ | # IPv6 Address Hostnames | #------------- --------------------------------------------- | ::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback | | fe00::0 ipv6-localnet | | ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix | ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes | ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters | ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts | # | #============================================================ | # DNS Servers: | # 192.168.1.1 | 99.197.99.99 | 99.196.99.99 | #============================================================ | rc=0 | @01:34:39 leslie@pinto Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64

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Correct folder, file placement and Environment Variable for disabling QML cache in Plasma 6?
by -pj 20 Aug '24

20 Aug '24

Hi, Tumbleweed Plasma 6 here. Wondering if you know of the correct location for holding QT Plasma 6 QML Environment Variables? There has been a suggestion of '~/.config/environment.d/envvars.conf`. The directory does not exist by default. '/etc/environment' directory does not exist by default either so this very well could be the case. Suggested to me is "QML_DISABLE_DISK_CACHE=1" though I do not see that on the documentation page. Interested in variable to disable QML disk cache (bottom of page). Documentation reference:> https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qmldiskcache.html QML_DISABLE_DISK_CACHE No '=1' is shown in examples. Quote from page, "The primary way of fine tuning the behavior regarding ahead of time compiled code and caching is via the environment variable QML_DISK_CACHE. This variable takes a comma-separated list of options, for example:" 🫥

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Re: Why are packman package names not consistent?
by Serafino Conflitti 20 Aug '24

20 Aug '24

On 8/28/23 22:01, John Kizer via openSUSE Users wrote: > The Packman home page (http://packman.links2linux.org/) contains direct mail-to links to their mailing list, and their Help page contains a link to mailing list archives. Thanks John, I forwarded the original along with a preface. Will report back if I get an answer on what the stable naming convention will be going forward. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Why are packman package names not consistent?
by Serafino Conflitti 19 Aug '24

19 Aug '24

On 8/28/23 22:01, John Kizer via openSUSE Users wrote: > The Packman home page (http://packman.links2linux.org/) contains direct mail-to links to their mailing list, and their Help page contains a link to mailing list archives. Thanks John, I forwarded the original along with a preface. Will report back if I get an answer on what the stable naming convention will be going forward. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[oS-EN] [Leap 15.6 Alpha] Laicolasse - Beta
by Carlos E. R. 19 Aug '24

19 Aug '24

Hi, After a kernel Oops when attempting to connect via WiFi, on the next boot Network Manager is gone. How do I put it back in the panel? Using XFCE. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.6 Beta (Laicolasse))

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Significant video performance problems after running Flatpack that did not work.
by -pj 19 Aug '24

19 Aug '24

Hi, I have installed Flathub and a Flatpack (Total Chaos...game) The game basically halted the machine to the point of Alt+SysRq reisub . Tumbleweed installed with KDE Plasma 6. Reinstalled all Nvidia drivers, powercycled and still no accelerated display. :-> uname -r 6.9.9-1-default :~> inxi -Gxx Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GK107GL [Quadro K600] driver: nvidia v: 470.256.02 arch: Kepler pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: DVI-I-1 empty: DP-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0ffa Device-2: HP HP Webcam HD-2200 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-3:4 chip-ID: 03f0:a707 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.12 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.1 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 101 Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 note: disabled model: LG (GoldStar) IPS FULLHD res: 1920x1080 dpi: 102 diag: 551mm (21.7") API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: swrast x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland,device-1 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 470.256.02 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Quadro K600/PCIe/SSE2 API: Vulkan v: 1.3.290 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:0ffa device: 1 type: cpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000 zypper se -si "nvidia" S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository ---+----------------------------------+---------+--------------------------+--------+-------------- i+ | kernel-firmware-nvidia | package | 20240809-1.1 | noarch | repo-oss i+ | libnvidia-egl-wayland1 | package | 1.1.15-1.1 | x86_64 | repo-oss i+ | nvidia-computeG05 | package | 470.256.02-61.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free i+ | nvidia-computeG05-32bit | package | 470.256.02-61.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free i+ | nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default | package | 470.256.02_k6.9.7_1-61.3 | x86_64 | repo-non-free i+ | nvidia-glG05 | package | 470.256.02-61.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free i+ | nvidia-glG05-32bit | package | 470.256.02-61.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free i+ | openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed-NVIDIA | package | 20240712.dd8c2eb-1.1 | x86_64 | repo-oss i+ | x11-video-nvidiaG05 | package | 470.256.02-61.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free i+ | x11-video-nvidiaG05-32bit | package | 470.256.02-61.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free journalctl -b -n -l | grep nvidia Aug 17 04:46:09 Thinkcentre-M57p kernel: [drm:drm_new_set_master] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to grab modeset ownership Aug 17 04:46:11 Thinkcentre-M57p kernel: [drm:drm_new_set_master] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to grab modeset ownership Aug 17 04:46:11 Thinkcentre-M57p kernel: [drm:drm_new_set_master] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to grab modeset ownership nvidia-smi Sat Aug 17 04:49:29 2024 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 470.256.02 Driver Version: 470.256.02 CUDA Version: 11.4 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | | | MIG M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 Quadro K600 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A | | 26% 54C P8 N/A / N/A | 657MiB / 974MiB | 0% Default | | | | N/A | I have spent hours now trying to figure this out. I really hope you can give some insight further. -Thanks

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What's wrong with suse_paste.sh "Failed to get path for session '1"??
by David C. Rankin 18 Aug '24

18 Aug '24

Devs, All, I'm getting strange output from suse_paste.sh when pasting. It can't find "session '1"? Here is what I get when pasting: Aug 17 15:34:58 - "Tideman W/Debug Output" tideman-fmt.c Pasted as: https://paste.opensuse.org/886f21092d86 Failed to get path for session '1 2': No session '1 2' known Graphics server not found. Copying to clipboard is not possible. expires: Sat Sep 14 03:34:59 PM CDT 2024 This is a new one. Any ideas? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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gdb is horribly chatty and annoying in TW - adding config files helps
by David C. Rankin 18 Aug '24

18 Aug '24

All, Devs, I guess this option is supposed to be helpful, but gdb in TW chatty to the point of being annoying compiled with: --with-debuginfod (and I'm not sure which other options impact the amount of text shown at startup) This throws and huge amount of text into the terminal and totally scrambles kcrash backtraces until the debuginfo file is installed. For example, helping a user on SO with the cs50 tideman problem, starting gdb on TW results in: $ gdb -args ./tideman-fmt Alice Bob Charlie GNU gdb (GDB; openSUSE Tumbleweed) 14.2 Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-suse-linux". Type "show configuration" for configuration details. For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://bugs.opensuse.org/>. Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>. For help, type "help". Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... Reading symbols from ./tideman-fmt... (gdb) break main Breakpoint 1 at 0x4011b6: file tideman-fmt.c, line 95. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/david/dev/src-c/tmp/debug/cs50/tideman/tideman-fmt Alice Bob Charlie This GDB supports auto-downloading debuginfo from the following URLs: <https://debuginfod.opensuse.org/> Enable debuginfod for this session? (y or [n]) y Debuginfod has been enabled. To make this setting permanent, add 'set debuginfod enabled on' to .gdbinit. Downloading separate debug info for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Downloading separate debug info for system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7fc4000 Missing separate debuginfos, use: zypper install glibc-debuginfo-2.40-1.1.x86_64 Downloading separate debug info for /lib64/libc.so.6 [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". Breakpoint 1, main (argc=4, argv=0x7fffffffd888) at tideman-fmt.c:95 (gdb) Holy cow, and that is to just get started. That's annoying. But there are a couple of settings that can tame this down that should be considered for defaults, e.g. $ cat /etc/gdbinit set debuginfod enabled off and $ cat ~/.config/gdb/gdbearlyinit set startup-quietly on Now gdb behaves on startup and is nicely quiet: $ gdb -args ./test FOObar Reading symbols from ./test... (gdb) That's more like it. Personally I preferred when it just suggested the needed debuginfo file. That didn't require any addition of config files to quite it down. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Can't install hw-probe on OpenSuSE 15.4
by Carlos E. R. 17 Aug '24

17 Aug '24

On 2024-08-16 14:47, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Carlos E. R. <robin.listas(a)telefonica.net> [08-16-24 07:05]: >> On 2024-08-11 22:20, Dave Howorth wrote: >>> On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:27:49 +0200 >>> "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas(a)telefonica.net> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2024-08-11 14:40, Andreas Stieger via openSUSE Users wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 2024-08-11 14:33, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >> >>>> I don't understand the instructions in comment 2. >>>> >>>> gdb /usr/bin/vdpauinfo <core-file> >>>> (gdb) bt >>>> >>>> >>>> What is "<core-file>"? What do I write there EXACTLY? >>> >>> It is the core file produced when vdpauinfo crashes. You put the full >>> address of the file. (You may need to check your configuration to make >>> sure it creates core files and to find where it puts them. I have no >>> idea how to do that in opensuse. RTFM?) >> >> How can I put the name of the core file produced after the crash, into the >> gdb command line which is written before it crashes? >> >> It is nonsensical. > > /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core..... I know that. That is not the problem. I have to run gdb /usr/bin/vdpauinfo <core-file> which I understand will run vdpauinfo, then crash and generate a report and a coredump. But they tell me that <core-file> is from the previous crash! It doesn't make sense. I need the exact complete command sequence I have to run, or precise and complete instructions. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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Tumbleweed Gnome-sudoku: error Vulkan: Loader Message: setup_loader_term_phys_devs
by David C. Rankin 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Devs, All, After the latest TW dup, there is an error written to stderr from gnome-sudoku: (gnome-sudoku:38804): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 01:19:21.227: Vulkan: Loader Message: setup_loader_term_phys_devs: Failed to detect any valid GPUs in the current config Anybody have a clue what Vulkan is looking for that it isn't finding -- and how do I fix it? Is this mesa related? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Can't install hw-probe on OpenSuSE 15.4
by Marc Chamberlin 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

I want to install an run hw-probe on my OpenSuSE 15.4 system and ran into troubles. So I am in need of a guru to help me. Here is what I dod and the responses I got - quasar:/etc/X11 # zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_Leap_15.4/ hardware Adding repository 'hardware' ....................................................................[done] Repository 'hardware' successfully added URI : https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_Leap_15.4/ Enabled : Yes GPG Check : Yes Autorefresh : No Priority : 99 (default priority) Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority. quasar:/etc/X11 # zypper install hw-probe Error building the cache: [hardware|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_Leap_…] Valid metadata not found at specified URL History: - [hardware|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_Leap_…] Repository type can't be determined. Warning: Skipping repository 'hardware' because of the above error. Retrieving repository 'snappy' metadata ........................................................[error] Repository 'snappy' is invalid. [snappy|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_L…] Valid metadata not found at specified URL History: - [snappy|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_L…] Repository type can't be determined. Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Warning: Skipping repository 'snappy' because of the above error. Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error. Loading repository data... Warning: Repository 'Update repository of openSUSE Backports' metadata expired since 2024-02-05 05:25:26 PST. Warning: Repository 'Update Repository (Non-Oss)' metadata expired since 2024-04-30 04:05:04 PDT. Warning: Repository metadata expired: Check if 'autorefresh' is turned on (zypper lr), otherwise manually refresh the repository (zypper ref). If this does not solve the issue, it could be that you are using a broken mirror or the server has actually discontinued to support the repository. Reading installed packages... 'hw-probe' not found in package names. Trying capabilities. No provider of 'hw-probe' found. Resolving package dependencies... Nothing to do. quasar:/etc/X11 # zypper lr Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority. # | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh ---+---------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+---------+-----------+-------- 1 | download.nvidia.com-$releasever | nVidia Graphics Drivers | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes 2 | ftp.gwdg.de-openSUSE_Leap_$releasever | Packman Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes 3 | hardware | hardware | Yes | ( p) Yes | No 4 | openSUSE-Leap-15.4-1 | openSUSE-Leap-15.4-1 | No | ---- | ---- 5 | repo-backports-debug-update | Update repository of openSUSE Backports (Debug) | No | ---- | ---- 6 | repo-backports-update | Update repository of openSUSE Backports | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes 7 | repo-debug | Debug Repository | No | ---- | ---- 8 | repo-debug-non-oss | Debug Repository (Non-OSS) | No | ---- | ---- 9 | repo-debug-update | Update Repository (Debug) | No | ---- | ---- 10 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | Update Repository (Debug, Non-OSS) | No | ---- | ---- 11 | repo-non-oss | Non-OSS Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes 12 | repo-oss | Main Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes 13 | repo-sle-debug-update | Update repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterpris-> | No | ---- | ---- 14 | repo-sle-update | Update repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterpris-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes 15 | repo-source | Source Repository | No | ---- | ---- 16 | repo-update | Main Update Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes 17 | repo-update-non-oss | Update Repository (Non-Oss) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes 18 | snappy | snappy | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes quasar:/etc/X11 # zypper ref Repository 'nVidia Graphics Drivers' is up to date. Repository 'Packman Repository' is up to date. Retrieving repository 'hardware' metadata ......................................................................................[error] Repository 'hardware' is invalid. [hardware|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_Leap_…] Valid metadata not found at specified URL History: - [hardware|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_Leap_…] Repository type can't be determined. Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Skipping repository 'hardware' because of the above error. Repository 'Update repository of openSUSE Backports' is up to date. Repository 'Non-OSS Repository' is up to date. Repository 'Main Repository' is up to date. Repository 'Update repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15' is up to date. Repository 'Main Update Repository' is up to date. Repository 'Update Repository (Non-Oss)' is up to date. Retrieving repository 'snappy' metadata ........................................................................................[error] Repository 'snappy' is invalid. [snappy|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_L…] Valid metadata not found at specified URL History: - [snappy|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_L…] Repository type can't be determined. Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Skipping repository 'snappy' because of the above error. Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error. Marc.... --

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Re: [opensuse] ZFS on SuSE-anyone, Distributed File System...
by Verner Kjærsgaard 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Michael Folsom skrev: > Hi: > > Quick question - what are the advantages of ZFS over XFS? > > I'm not trying to start a flame war but as a happy XFS user wonder > what ZFS has to offer> > > Later - > > > Mike > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Verner Kjærsgaard <vk(a)os-academy.dk> wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> - has anyone tried SUN's ZFS on SuSE? Can it be done, is it at all feasible? >> >> - or another Distributed file system. I may need a file system, that will allow me to add storage ad hoc. >> >> Any hints, links? >> >> As always, thanks! >> >> -- >> -------------------------------------------- >> Med venlig hilsen/best regards >> Verner Kjærsgaard >> Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 >> www.os-academy.dk +45 56964223 >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org >> > I really don't know, if any? Are they not two different beasts? I tried looking for info about XFS, any good links, homepage? -- -------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] boot32.efi for 64 bits processor and Leap
by jdd 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Hello, We see more and more often very small but powerfull computers, atom multicore 64 bits, but with UEFI 32 bits firmware. I have one now ("It Works TW891" paid 129€ - 32Gb ssd + 2Gb ram, runs almost perfectly windows 10 32bits or Debian 64bits). these computers can be installed with 64 bits distros, but they need absolutely a 32 bits loader. Right now I on ly know of the hybrid debian 32/64bits dvd to be able to install. Notice that *only the loader* have to be 32bits, the generic name being boot32.efi copying a generic loader to the Leap EFI folder allows booting, and probably installing (I couldn't make all the tests), but the generic one gives only a grub prompt, not handy. Could it be possible to add to the Leap isos this 32 bits loader? only this one have to be 32bits, AFAIK nothing else have to be changed. thanks jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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TW dup to local repo packages tried to remove 53 kde3 packages -- what to check?
by David C. Rankin 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Devs, All, I created a signed local repo with patched Nvidia packages for the G04 driver. My intent was simply to: # zypper -r mynvidiarepo dup To move all Nvidia packages to the versions in my repo. When I did, zypper proposed updating the 7 driver packages, but then also proposed removing most of the kde3 desktop (53 packages). I'm at a loss to why zypper would propose the removal of unrelated packages when simply trying to update Nvidia drivers. My first thought was there must have been some problem with the .spec and dependencies -- but I can't imaging what that would be. Where would I start to look for why zypper proposed the removal of the kde3 packages on change of versions for the Nvidia drivers? To work around this problem, I simply rsynced the repo to my laptop and then did a: # zypper in *.rpm Which worked fine and didn't suggest uninstalling anything. So what's the difference in dup or in for the package removals? (I would have copied the zypper dup output -- but the dkms driver build scrolled everything out of the xterm buffer :( Thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Accessing ext4 from Windows
by Roger Oberholtzer 15 Aug '24

15 Aug '24

Perhaps a bit off subject. I'm not sure. But I figure there are folk here using ext4 file systems, so... I have a new requirement to be able to read/write ext4 file systems from Windows. It's like this: we have a data collection system that collects data to a mix of ext4 and vfat disks. For whatever reasons. We have usually accessed all of these from a Linux system where file system support is really great. Unfortunately, the powers that be have decided to set up a system that is Windows-only. Sigh. I have tried installing openSUSE Leap 15.6 in WSL 2. It actually works great. My motivation was that I should be able to mount the ext4 partition via wsl, and then access it in Windows. See, for example, https://windowsreport.com/ext4-windows-11/. That is sort of true if by 'access' you mean in Windows Explorer only. That is not a workable solution. I need access in programs and shell scripts. I then tried a product like Linux Reader. It is geared towards file recovery. Why anyone would use a Windows computer to try to recover files on an ext4 system is a real mystery. It also seemed to caution that it really wanted to be a read-only thing. Not a confidence booster. And not what I need. Finally, I tried Paragon Software's ext4 for Windows. It seems to be properly read/write and, generally looks great. But then I see that I cannot access SQLite databases that are on these disks. SQLite (general programs and database browsers) all complain that the database is locked. We had this issue when, from Linux, accessing databases on CIFS mounted drivers. That was sorted by adding nobrl to the CIFS mount command on Linux. It's a known issue. So this method was close, but no cigar. A support question is pending as I cannot think I am the first person who wanted to access an SQLite database this way. So my question here is if anyone has any experience with Windows software that lets one mount ext4 file systems read/write. It has to work from programs and shell scripts, not just in a file system browser GUI. -- Roger Oberholtzer

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Can download.opensuse.org/ add a cookie to save my view preferences (no. of lines to show)?
by David C. Rankin 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

Admins, The interface at download.opensuse.org is growing on me, but the frustrating part is I have to set the drop-down for number of files to show each time to 100, etc.. Can we add a cookie to save that info. It we are dealing with the additional overhead of the interface -- it may as well work for us. This is a cookie I would actually welcome :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Using iptables along with firewalld
by Curtis J Blank 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

I'm running Tumbleweed and using firewalld. If I want to block some incoming IP addresses and I add iptables reject rules will that work to block them? I do a iptables -L and iptables appears to be available. I have my reasons for wanting to use iptables for this blocking.

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Styling Qt5 Apps with qt5ct - simple text file edits work fine
by David C. Rankin 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

All, Dropping a note for anyone who has Qt5 apps running not under Plasma. Take for example keepassxc. The default dark style is fine, but if you install anything that adjusts the Qt5 style, it will revert to white and is quite blinding. One workaround is to install qt5ct (Qt5 Configuration Tool) which does come with a few themes. Only problem, the darker theme has hideous alternating row colors in keepassxc. (configured with darker colors and fusion qss) Thankfully the colors for everything are in a simple text file that you can change to suit your needs. The install will put the themes color files in: /usr/share/qt5ct/colors/xxxxxxx.conf (where xxxxxxx is the name for the color theme) You can simply copy a theme to modify from /usr/share/qt5ct/colors to your user config location in: ~/.config/qt5ct/colors/ You can then modify it to your hearts content. Use a color picker like kcolorchooser or the one in qimp or the gtk-color-chooser to find the color you wish to change in a Qt5 app, then just edit your copy of the .conf file (rename it too to some name you want for your theme). Then simply run qt5ct and select the color theme from the drop-down and hit "Apply". For the darker.conf theme hideous alternating row colors, simply change #ff5c5b5a to #ff434343 and things will look at LOT better. Change in all 3 lines (active, disabled, inactive). If you make sure that is the only color in the line (#ff5c5b5a is), you can simple use sed to fix it: sed -i 's/5c5b5a/434343/' ~/.config/qt5ct/colors/yourtheme.conf done. Hopefully this helps someone else faced with unbearable Qt5 color themes when running a Qt5 app not under plasma. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[opensuse] How to make sure that each vNIC in guest is always associated with a correct VLAN?
by Martin T 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

Hi, I have six virtual bridges in xen host machine and following virtual machine configuration file section defining the vifs: vif = [ 'bridge=br10', 'bridge=br20', 'bridge=br30', 'bridge=br40', 'bridge=br50', 'bridge=br60' ] This means that in the guest(openSUSE Leap 42.1) I have six vNICs(eth0 - eth5). Can I be sure that eth0 is always connected to br10, eth1 to br20, etc? Or should I specify a MAC address for each vNIC created like this: vif = [ 'bridge=br10, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F1', 'bridge=br20, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F2', 'bridge=br30, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F3', 'bridge=br40, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F4', 'bridge=br50, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F5', 'bridge=br60, mac=00:14:5E:11:C6:F6' ] .. and then configure udev rules which make sure that interface associated with MAC 00:14:5E:11:C6:F1 and br10 is always named eth0, interface associated with MAC 00:14:5E:11:C6:F2 and br20 is always named eth1, etc? Or maybe there is a better way using /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-* files? thanks, Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Bad blocks on a ReiserFS volume. How to retrieve files?
by Silviu Marin-Caea 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

I have a large hard-disk (120 GB) on which some blocks went bad. Now, it cannot be mounted. Attached is what debugreiserfs says. What can I do; I'm newbie to reiserfs architecture. I thought that ReiserFS keeps copies of the superblock or something, like ext2/3 does. reiserfsck says "error occured looks like hardware problem. bread cannot read block 13271040". That's the actual number it displays. PS I have asked the same question on the reiserfs-list, but it's extremely low traffic. Maybe someone here knows more. Thank you Filesystem state: consistency is not checked after last mounting Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x1642 of format 3.6 with standard journal Count of blocks on the device: 29945160 Number of bitmaps: 914 Blocksize: 4096 Free blocks (count of blocks - used [journal, bitmaps, data, reserved] blocks): 29154954 Root block: 14969 Filesystem is NOT clean Tree height: 4 Hash function used to sort names: "r5" Objectid map size 10, max 972 Journal parameters: Device [0x0] Magic [0x34ae2c74] Size 8193 blocks (including 1 for journal header) (first block 18) Max transaction length 1024 blocks Max batch size 900 blocks Max commit age 30 Blocks reserved by journal: 0 Fs state field: 0x0 sb_version: 2 inode generation number: 35482 UUID: 48d29ced-fe37-4c68-adf8-32ace9f2be45 LABEL: Set flags in SB: ATTRIBUTES CLEAN

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Linux and KDE Tutorial?
by Lew Wolfgang 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

Hi Folks, One of my PM's wanted an account on a server he's paying me to manage, so I set it up with xrdp so he can connect from his Windows desktop. I configured it to run Plasma and KDE. Now he's asking for a tutorial on KDE, and probably Linux in general. Does anyone have any recommendations for a newbee to Linux? He's heavily steeped in the Way of Windows, I'm afraid. But at least he wants to learn. Thanks in advance, Lew

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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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Tumbleweed - Print help from Gtk apps? Is /etc/printcap still used? What print config does Gtk want?
by David C. Rankin 06 Aug '24

06 Aug '24

All, Linux printing has always just worked for my Laserjets. I have a remote cups server that handles sending print jobs to an attached printer. This has been a great setup. In 15.4, I had no problem printing from any app, Gtk, Qt/KDE, command-line, it all worked. In Tumbleweed, I copied my /etc/printcap file from 15.4, e.g. $ cat /etc/printcap # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the # /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file # will be lost. HPLJ4200|HP LaserJet 4200 Series:rm=wizard:rp=HPLJ4200: rawqueue|Brother2360:rm=wizard:rp=rawqueue: The /etc/cups/printers.conf generated by TW does not have the Brother, but does have the LaserJet: # cat /etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v2.4.10 # Written by cupsd # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING NextPrinterId 3 <Printer CUPS-PDF> PrinterId 1 UUID urn:uuid:a21807af-ad74-367d-57be-d06283e78f2b Info CUPS-PDF MakeModel Generic CUPS-PDF Printer (w/ options) DeviceURI cups-pdf:/ State Idle StateTime 1720392176 ConfigTime 1720392176 Type 8450124 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer </Printer> <DefaultPrinter LaserJet> PrinterId 2 UUID urn:uuid:5b1d06f7-b810-35bc-49a8-47e1511cf4aa AuthInfoRequired none Info HP LaserJet 4200 Series Postscript (recommended) MakeModel HP LaserJet 4200 Series Postscript (recommended) DeviceURI ipp://192.168.6.17/printers/LaserJet State Idle StateTime 1722977095 ConfigTime 1722090452 Type 8425668 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer </DefaultPrinter> I have the LaserJet set up in Yast/Printer that has both of the printers in the printers.conf file listed as Local printers. KDE3 kprinter is fine printing to the LaserJet, but Gtk apps (LibreOffice, Firefox) cannot print. The lpq command is happy with the print queue: # lpq LaserJet is ready no entries But attempting to print from LibreOffice throws the error: "Could not start printer. Please check your printer configuration." What? I've just checked it all, it's good, why won't Libre of Firefox (Gtk apps) print? What configuration is it telling me to check? CUPS, Yast and kprinter are all happy? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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