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Tip: IOS Files + Samba - seamless access to $HOME through phone over Wifi
by David C. Rankin 27 May '22

27 May '22

All, After being forced to update my phone (they took down 3G), a pleasant surprise was the "Files" app that will connect to any available smb server. I may be late to this party, but this was a huge improvement with the pain of e-mailing from my phone to my server to transfer files on the old iphone 4s. If you haven't discovered samba on Linux, then a simple way to share your files with your phone is to install the samba package, and you can use a simple config to share $HOME and make your files available to via the Files app. (note: samba 4.15 is fine, but 4.16 introduced a bug that broke sharing of [homes] in standalone mode, https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15062, this will be fixed in the next 4.16.x release) 15.4 still has samba 4.15, so you are fine. Double check if on Tumbleweed. The cliffs notes version, create a trivial /etc/samba/smb.conf to share your $HOME (done through the [homes] share in the config). A basic config is: [global] dns proxy = No map to guest = Bad User printcap name = cups security = USER server string = %h Samba %v workgroup = WORKGROUP map to guest = Bad User cups options = raw vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr [homes] browseable = No comment = Home Directories read only = No (The 'vfs objects' config is required to handle IOS connections, and of course you are free to change 'WORKGROUP' to whatever) You can limit connections to your specific subnet or specific IP addresses with a space separated list, e.g.: hosts allow = 192.168.0. (when done editing smb.conf, run 'testparm' to check your config and see a dump of the settings. If no errors, all is good) To add valid samba users, all that is needed is: # smbpasswd -a username Use Yast-firewall to add 'samba' to the public zone, and then start 'nmb' and 'smb', e.g. # systemctl start nmb # systemctl start smb (to have it automatically start at boot, substitute 'enable' for 'start' and re-run the two commands above) That's it. Just open the Files app on your IOS device, click the ... menu and "Connect to Server", type in your hostname, then next and enter your samba user name (keep it the same as your Linux user), and pw and presto, $HOME appears on your phone. I'm no IOS fan, but this is one app they got right. So long as your IOS device is connected to your LAN via Wifi, Files provides access to all smb shares available. (I also recommend disconnecting from local shares before leaving your wireless range. Otherwise, if you need to access Files on your phone while away, you will wait through ~60 sec timeout as Files tries to connect to your server -- something discovered while trying to pull up my auto-insurance information to hand to a friendly DPS officer...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Firefox 91 - "Web Content" Higher CPU Demand - Any Way To Minimize?
by David C. Rankin 26 May '22

26 May '22

All, One thing I've noticed with FF 91 compared to FF 78 on 15.0 is FF 91 is quite a bit heavier on the CPU that 78. top shows the culprit to be "Web Content". This is with the exact same pages open. I first noticed this by the fan level on my laptop. Checking, rather an an intermittent "Web Content" process waking up and doing whatever it does, it now runs a majority of the time. Not continually, but close. In the past, Xorg was the leader (as expected) running at 0.997% CPU. (that's damn good). But now "Web Content" is continually up with Xorg demanding 0.997% (or 0.664% at times). The end result is a slightly higher CPU demand at idle than with 15.0. This is down on the fine-tuned end of things. I generally tune my setup until the laptop fans are silent at idle. Goal is a "load average:" at idle in top of 0.01 0.01 0.01 or less. Currently it is 0.03 or 0.02 and the difference is "Web Content". Below is the top output (it's a bit higher because I'm editing this in Tbird at the moment), but the rest is representative. Web Content is more active than normal in this slice: top - 13:01:31 up 3 days, 19:28, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.08 Tasks: 230 total, 1 running, 227 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie %Cpu0 : 0.5/0.5 1[ ] %Cpu1 : 1.0/0.5 1[| ] %Cpu2 : 0.5/0.5 1[ ] %Cpu3 : 1.0/0.5 1[| ] MiB Mem : 7890.094 total, 377.703 free, 2515.207 used, 4997.184 buff/cache MiB Swap: 2057.996 total, 2056.246 free, 1.750 used. 5025.125 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 26125 david 20 0 3667.9m 615.8m 195.5m S 1.493 7.804 1:06.31 thunderbird-bin 26752 david 20 0 36.3m 4.3m 3.4m R 0.995 0.055 0:00.04 top 2236 david 20 0 13.4m 3.2m 2.2m S 0.498 0.040 1:38.60 gam_server 7303 david 20 0 5514.3m 1.047g 315.3m S 0.498 13.58 31:00.42 firefox 7370 david 20 0 3045.8m 294.5m 167.2m S 0.498 3.733 18:06.73 Web Content 7475 david 20 0 2559.2m 141.1m 95.8m S 0.498 1.788 1:05.96 Web Content 1 root 20 0 219.3m 14.2m 8.8m S 0.000 0.180 0:03.52 systemd 2 root 20 0 0.0m 0.0m 0.0m S 0.000 0.000 0:00.07 kthreadd Rest of the processes are all 0.00 in %CPU and %MEM. Also, what is gam_server? (I think it is also related to FF) Don't recall that being in the top-5 either (though it isn't much). Any ideas how I can tweak Web Content in FF91 to make it behave a bit better? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[opensuse] Memtest & UEFI
by James Knott 26 May '22

26 May '22

In openSUSE 15.1, memtest, as installed, would not work with UEFI. Has this been fixed in 15.2? There is a version on the memtest website that will work with it. tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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X virtual frame buffer
by Roger Oberholtzer 25 May '22

25 May '22

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

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System slowdowns
by Marc Chamberlin 24 May '22

24 May '22

Hi - I have a number of openSuSE 15.3 x64 that periodically experience bad sluggishness in responding to keyboard or mouse input. This can get frustrating with delays up to a minute or so after clicking on a button, or typing in a window. This occurs across all applications/windows open on a KDE desktop. Ksysguard aka System Monitor, nor top, do not show my why these slowdowns occur. I monitor CPU %, I/O Reads/Writes, Network activity and don't see anything indicating abnormal consumption of time. So given the fact that I am NOT a guru on Linux systems, what else can I do to try and track down (and hopefully fix or find a solution to) what is going on with my computers. What strategy(s) should I follow and what other tools might be helpful? Thanks for any advice/help in advance.... 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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15.4 - Tbird 91 font size fiasco [work-around]
by David C. Rankin 24 May '22

24 May '22

All, One giant headache moving to Tbird 91 (aside from the loss of enigmail and the screwy way gpg keys are handled) is that font sizing just sucks. Nothing works to set the folder pane (tree) or thread pane (tree) to something readable. The new approach is to have you use the aboud:config editor and set: layout.css.devPixelsPerPx ( 1.0 is base, can go in increments of .05, etc.. to grow or shrink interface font size) However, in reality all this does is stretch the line height and there is no independent control of the folder pane and thread pane. So if you want to increase the size of the message list (thread pane) you end up making the folder list too big and vice versa. The problem is Mozilla, in true Plasma or Gtk4 fashion has removed the ability to set the interface elements through userChrome. The did so by disabling the following by default: toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets The good news is you can set that to true and have the userChrome file read by Tbird on start. This will restore the ability to adjust the font size of the folder pane or thread pane individually, e.g. /* thread pane font */ #threadTree > treechildren { font-size: 9pt !important; font-family: sans-serif !important; } /* folder pane font */ #folderTree > treechildren { font-size: 8pt !important; font-family: sans-serif !important; } After wasting an hour playing with various approaches I stumbled onto the following answer on Unix & Linux on StackExchange: https://superuser.com/a/1678336/439609 Hopefully this will save someone else the wasted hour trying to figure out why what has always worked for fonts no longer works in Tbird 91 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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18 Months Later - I'm getting list mail through suddenlinkmail.com
by David C. Rankin 23 May '22

23 May '22

All, I don't believe it, but beginning day before yesterday, I started getting openSUSE list mails through suddenlinkmail.com (factory and users). Par for course. Trouble ticket opened 9/2020, and just now fixed! Go figure. Thanks to Patrick and rest for keeping mail flowing before I gave up and went to gmail. (will leave both accounts up for a week or so to make sure this isn't a fluke) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Netdiscover - wrong source address
by James Knott 22 May '22

22 May '22

I recently installed netdiscover and noticed by default it uses the wrong source address. I set the range to my home LAN (172.16.0.0/24) and when I run it, it shows a source address of 172.16.0.67 on my desktop computer, which should be 172.16.0.10 and my ThinkPad (172.16.0.40). I can force the correct address with the -n option. Also, when I get a capture, it shows some, but not all of the devices on my LAN, but also several lines of nonsense addresses such as 192.168.0.67, 192.168.1.67, etc., all with the MAC from the computer I'm running it on. Here are some examples. Only the first line is a valid address. 172.16.0.92 96:60:ae:bd:84:7f 28 1680 Unknown vendor 192.168.0.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.1.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.2.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.3.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.4.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.5.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.6.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.7.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. That Hon Hai name also is shown on the valid address for my ThinkPad. Has anyone else experienced this? tnx jk 192.168.8.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.9.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.10.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.11.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd.

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problem with MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP= ??
by jdd＠dodin.org 22 May '22

22 May '22

zypper ref says on my 15.3: Repository 'SUSE:SLE-15-SP3:GA' is invalid. I find in https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000018127 Resolution Please clean up temporary directories in /tmp or /var/tmp. Do have the system clean up these directories on boot please edit /etc/sysconfig/cron and change the values for: but in this cron file I see ## The Parameters MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP, MAX_DAYS_IN_LONG_TMP, TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR, ## LONG_TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR, CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP and OWNER_TO_KEEP_IN_TMP have ## been converted to systemd-tmpfiles settings in /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf. ## Please check and modify to your needs. ## See 'man tmpfiles.d' for details. there is no tmp.conf file on my 15.3 install and the tmpfiles.d man page is not that clear for me. any help? notice than cleaning the tmp dir manually didn't help (but I can't reboot just now) thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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Upgrade of 15.3 to 15.4 (beta? rc?) went fine
by cagsm 21 May '22

21 May '22

Users, upgrading online some 15.3 to 15.4 just today (beta? rc?) via zypper and golbal parameter --releasever=15.4 went fine over here with a rather simple test system. Too bad 15.4 is very conservative and old in various software versions and so on. Is a tumbleweed more suited when not wanting to risk stability and not opting in for data loss? ty

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15.4 Beta Report - All Good (2 Bugs Filed - 3 Bugs Fixed) Working Like a Champ
by David C. Rankin 21 May '22

21 May '22

All, Short report on 15.4 Beta, after relatively smooth install, ext4 w BIOS Boot, / and /home, Minimal Desktop, (IceWM), Addition and install of KDE3, two bugs filed: * https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199473 (Not a kde bug - Gnome stripped subcategories from xdg menu (grab 15.3 package) * https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199643 (both icon-select and shortcut dialog issues - FIXED; Yasuhiko Kamata has been a Rock Star) While I haven't gotten to cinelerra yet or kdevelop, etc..., all other desktop aspects: * libreoffice, Tbird, FF. gcc-7 and gcc-11 installed and working fine. * OO calc has a full-screen hang if launched on first use through the calc icon, but launching libreoffice starts windowed and choosing calc there opens calc windowed setting whatever wasn't set causing hang. * goal of Qt4 removal may be a bit premature, issues remain, but factory:frameworks5 repo contains all qt6-4 libs, so there is a ready workaround while the transition takes place. * No showstoppers, great job all and kudos to the openSUSE/SLE devs. Looks like 15.4 is a keeper. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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list directory in ext4 filesystem
by Dave Howorth 20 May '22

20 May '22

Is there any way to display the contents of a directory in an ext4 filesystem? I don't mean an ls, I mean a byte by byte inspection of the actual directory structure. I have what is apparently a rather large directory, which is also empty: $ ls -ld files/ drwxr-xr-x 2 motion motion 3215360 May 9 00:55 files/ $ ls -l files/ total 0 od for example won't open it: $ od files od: files: read error: Is a directory 0000000 it's on the root filesystem which is supposedly clean: $ sudo e2fsck -n -v /dev/root e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) Warning! /dev/root is mounted. Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check. root: clean, 90733/897600 files, 1419737/3583744 blocks (it's a rather old SD-card-based system I'd rather not reinstall) I'm tempted to just delete the directory and recreate it, but I'd like to understand what happened first if I can.

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Will 15.2 cinelerra repo work for 15.4?
by David C. Rankin 20 May '22

20 May '22

Devs, The last cinelerra repo is 15.2: https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/pkgs/leap15.2/ Will that be compatible with 15.4 from a library standpoint? I know some packages like virtualbox, cinelerra, etc.. are relatively generic from a build version standpoint. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Request of testing new fingerprint reader library
by Lukáš Krejza 19 May '22

19 May '22

Dne čtvrtek 19. května 2022 10:45:04 CEST, Benjamin Berg napsal(a): > Hi, > > On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 00:17 +0200, Lukáš Krejza wrote: > > Dne čtvrtek 19. května 2022 0:04:06 CEST, Neal Gompa napsal(a): > > > > The original plan was to do that, but since it has not been the case yet > > (and it is already some time that this fork exist), distributions started > > to switch to this one for the time being. It does not seem that this fork > > will merge back to mainline anytime soon, so we are just following > > general "trend" of other distros to support more use-cases and hardware > > for the users. > There never was a plan to merge the TOD branch back into libfprint > upstream. > > For any driver that is open source, we are or course happy to work with > the developers to integrate it into upstream libfprint. > > The TOD branch exists to enable non-free code to be loaded (into the > GPL'ed fprintd binary). There are good reasons for me to accept that > this is happening and I have little power to do anything against it. > However, I hope that there is no false impression that upstream > libfprint is condoning the existence of the TOD branch and non-free > drivers in particular. > > > Also, the mainline devs are actively solving bugs reported by users using > > the "-tod" fork, as you can see for example here: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ libfprint/libfprint/-/issues/436 . > > Not really. The TOD fork just adds an extra feature that allows side > loading more code. It makes little sense to ignore valid bug reports > for the main library. Doing so would be detrimental to everyone, > including users of upstream libfprint. > > All I am doing in that bug is not actively sabotaging users of the TOD > fork as there is a benefit to everyone. > > > Also, developers themselves are pointing users to the fork, as you can see > > here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/-/issues/267 > > People wear multiple hats, so the line can be blurry. The person > posting the link contributed the goodixmoc driver, and is likely also > involved with the non-free goodix driver that appears to exists for > other chipsets. > > I didn't delete the reference. But I also don't feel that the > discussion there gives the impression that upstream is condoning the > existence of the TOD branch and loading non-free code. > > Benjamin Thank you Benjamin for explaining your opinion about the situation and clearing it out further. I have contacted board and asked for their decision, they should have also ability to contact SUSE legal team, if required. Regards, Gryffus

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15.4 Beta - Hangs on shutdown (will not turn off - stops with unresponsive text login shown)
by David C. Rankin 19 May '22

19 May '22

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

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Re: Request of testing new fingerprint reader library
by Lukáš Krejza 18 May '22

18 May '22

Dne čtvrtek 19. května 2022 0:04:06 CEST, Neal Gompa napsal(a): > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 5:51 PM Lukáš Krejza <gryffus(a)hkfree.org> wrote: > > Hello list(s), > > > > we, together with Florian "Sp1rit" have created packages for "new" > > libfprint- tod library/fork, which is going to replace current one used > > in distribution. This library has advantage of loading external drivers > > as libraries, typically closed source ones. These closed source drivers > > are soon going to appear on Packman as "libfprint2-tod1-*" packages (the > > SR is pending). The library source code is located on > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/3v1n0/libfprint/-/ tree/tod and is always > > re-based on current libfprint "upstream". It is also the default one in > > Ubuntu, Arch and Debian (if i checked correctly). > > > > We are able to test the closed source drivers, since we have access to > > devices using them. However, what we cannot test are fingerprint readers, > > that are supported directly by libfprint library. > > > > For this, i would like to ask anyone, who is using his fingerprint reader > > on openSUSE Tumbleweed with libfprint library to test with this new > > library using following steps: > > > > 1) Add home:sp1rit:factory repository: > > :~> sudo zypper ar --refresh --name libfprint-tod https:// > > > > download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sp1rit:/factory/openSUSE_Tumblewe > > ed/ home:sp1rit:factory.repo > > > > 2) Install libfprint-2-2 package from it (and do NOT install libfprint-2- > > > > tod1): > > :~> sudo zypper in --from libfprint-tod libfprint-2-2 fprintd > > > > 3) Open one terminal window, su to root and start fprintd in debug mode: > > :~> su [enter] > > :~ # env G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all /usr/libexec/fprintd > > > > 4) Open second terminal window and enroll or verify fingerprint (as normal > > > > user): > > :~> fprintd-enroll > > > > or > > > > :~> fprintd-verify > > > > That is all. After this test, please send us output from the terminal > > window, that you started fprintd in debug mode (step 3) in. You can use > > https:// paste.opensuse.org/ for that. > > > > For switching back to original libfprint, just remove the repository: > > :~> sudo zypper rr libfprint-tod > > > > and install original libfprint > > > > :~> sudo zypper in libfprint-2-2 fprintd > > > > That should be all. > > > > @Fridrich, @Matthias, @Timo: > > I am CCing you in case you missed discussion that happened on Factory ML. > > If you have any objection against planned switch, please step up now. We > > will be doing SR to hardware/libfprint in forthcomming days, when we get > > some confirmation that it is working correctly for the users using > > "native" libfprint. > > > > Thanks very much to everyone involved for helping openSUSE get better and > > better! > > Is there any plan to reconcile this back into mainline? Or is this a > permanent incompatible fork of libfprint? The previous discussion[1] > didn't seem to indicate there was any such plan going on. It seems > kind of bad to switch to a fork like this without at least some kind > of plan for reconciling them. > > [1]: > https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/ > 6R75CILJ3GAUSKMNJ7ERYZLH75QF5UHX/ The original plan was to do that, but since it has not been the case yet (and it is already some time that this fork exist), distributions started to switch to this one for the time being. It does not seem that this fork will merge back to mainline anytime soon, so we are just following general "trend" of other distros to support more use-cases and hardware for the users. Also, the mainline devs are actively solving bugs reported by users using the "-tod" fork, as you can see for example here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ libfprint/libfprint/-/issues/436 . Also, developers themselves are pointing users to the fork, as you can see here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/-/issues/267 Regards, Gryffus

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Request of testing new fingerprint reader library
by Lukáš Krejza 18 May '22

18 May '22

Hello list(s), we, together with Florian "Sp1rit" have created packages for "new" libfprint- tod library/fork, which is going to replace current one used in distribution. This library has advantage of loading external drivers as libraries, typically closed source ones. These closed source drivers are soon going to appear on Packman as "libfprint2-tod1-*" packages (the SR is pending). The library source code is located on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/3v1n0/libfprint/-/ tree/tod and is always re-based on current libfprint "upstream". It is also the default one in Ubuntu, Arch and Debian (if i checked correctly). We are able to test the closed source drivers, since we have access to devices using them. However, what we cannot test are fingerprint readers, that are supported directly by libfprint library. For this, i would like to ask anyone, who is using his fingerprint reader on openSUSE Tumbleweed with libfprint library to test with this new library using following steps: 1) Add home:sp1rit:factory repository: :~> sudo zypper ar --refresh --name libfprint-tod https:// download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sp1rit:/factory/openSUSE_Tumblewee… home:sp1rit:factory.repo 2) Install libfprint-2-2 package from it (and do NOT install libfprint-2- tod1): :~> sudo zypper in --from libfprint-tod libfprint-2-2 fprintd 3) Open one terminal window, su to root and start fprintd in debug mode: :~> su [enter] :~ # env G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all /usr/libexec/fprintd 4) Open second terminal window and enroll or verify fingerprint (as normal user): :~> fprintd-enroll or :~> fprintd-verify That is all. After this test, please send us output from the terminal window, that you started fprintd in debug mode (step 3) in. You can use https:// paste.opensuse.org/ for that. For switching back to original libfprint, just remove the repository: :~> sudo zypper rr libfprint-tod and install original libfprint :~> sudo zypper in libfprint-2-2 fprintd That should be all. @Fridrich, @Matthias, @Timo: I am CCing you in case you missed discussion that happened on Factory ML. If you have any objection against planned switch, please step up now. We will be doing SR to hardware/libfprint in forthcomming days, when we get some confirmation that it is working correctly for the users using "native" libfprint. Thanks very much to everyone involved for helping openSUSE get better and better! Regards and happy hacking, Gryffus

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How to disable Green screen with 3-squares on boot? Remove all plymouth? (nvidia driver)
by David C. Rankin 18 May '22

18 May '22

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

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With Beta do we 'zypper up' or 'zypper dup' to update packages? (growing list of NOT installed)
by David C. Rankin 18 May '22

18 May '22

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

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15.4 Beta - Update or patch keepassxc for bug 7813 (natural sort)
by David C. Rankin 18 May '22

18 May '22

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

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[oS-en] XFCE problem: when there is no internet, xfce fails to restore the session
by Carlos E. R. 17 May '22

17 May '22

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

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Unnecessary .spec entry: Obsoletes: keepassx < 2.0.4 (prevents install of non-conflicting package)
by David C. Rankin 17 May '22

17 May '22

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

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Re: X virtual frame buffer
by Roger Oberholtzer 17 May '22

17 May '22

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

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TW fish filesystem bug in Dolphin.
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 17 May '22

17 May '22

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

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Leap 15.4 Beta - Shave 30 seconds off boot time (WAIT_FOR_INTERFACES="1")
by David C. Rankin 16 May '22

16 May '22

All, My 15.0 would boot from off to full desktop in 12 seconds (kdm3/kde3). I installed 15.4 Beta and boot times were a little over 43 seconds. I wanted 15.4 to boot like 15.0. Going back to my notes, checked the same /etc/sysconfig/network/config setting and reduced the timeout from 30 to 1 and presto 15.4 beta boots from off to full desktop (kdm3/kde3) in 13 seconds! (I'll find that extra second yet) The /etc/sysconfig/network/config setting at issue is: ## Type: integer ## Default: 30 # # Some interfaces need some time to come up or come asynchronously via hotplug. # WAIT_FOR_INTERFACES is a global wait for all mandatory interfaces in # seconds. If empty no wait occurs. # #WAIT_FOR_INTERFACES="30" WAIT_FOR_INTERFACES="1" I'm not sure why there is a full 30 second default used, (one of the devs in the know will have to chime in), but I suspect it is related to dongles and non-built in hardware. For builtin hardware you ethernet and wifi hardware, you can check dmesg and locate how much time is needed to find and initialize yours. At any rate this will be done well before the OS boots to the point sysconfig is involved. It's worth tinkering with if you are a boot-time conscious user... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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15.4 Beta - solver.dupAllowVendorChange default changed to 'true'?
by David C. Rankin 16 May '22

16 May '22

Devs, Why was there a default change to 'true' for solver.dupAllowVendorChange? In all prior releases of leap I have this has always been 'false'. Now it seems we have: ## Set whether to allow changing the packages vendor upon DUP. If you ## are following a continuous distribution like Tumbleweed or Factory ## where you use 'zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change' quite frequently, ## you may indeed benefit from disabling the VendorChange. Packages from ## OBS repos will then be kept rather than being overwritten by Tumbleweeds ## version. ## ## Valid values: boolean ## Default value: true ## solver.dupAllowVendorChange = false I've set this to false because I don't want vendor changes on dup (I have packman, etc.. repos and on dup when 15.4 is released, I don't want there to be various packages from different repos installed unless I explicitly tell zypper to change vendors. Has this become safer where there is no longer a risk of getting a smattering of packages from say packman and some from oss and some from factory-python that would break things? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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15.4 Beta - cancelling "zypper se" with [ctrl + c] SEGFAULTS ??
by David C. Rankin 16 May '22

16 May '22

All, This was unexpected (to me), but may be normal. Canceling "zypper se" with [ctrl + c] results in a Segmentation Fault. E.g. $ zse octabe ^C^CSegmentation fault (I meant to type octave, but had a typo so I canceled the search) Shouldn't the interrupt handler in zypper handle this in a more graceful way? The 'zse' alias for users is: alias zse='sudo zypper se -s' (not sure whether that would make any difference, but included anyway) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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15.4 Beta - What package provides Gtk+3 File Chooser for Firefox?
by David C. Rankin 15 May '22

15 May '22

All, Strange deal, Firefox on 15.4 Beta 91.9 (whatever comes with it) can not download ("save link") files. It doesn't matter if it is set to download all to "~/Downloads" or set to "Always ask" for a download location. Clicking the "save as" link in the context menu doesn't work. So much so, I just have to copy the link and use wget. (which gets old quick with at large number of files). Since the only desktops I loaded were icewm (with the install) and then KDE3 and fluxbox, my guess is there is an unidentified dependency that provides the dialog and makes the download work. (that's a guess) Anybody have any insight into what package is needed or why this may be happening? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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had thought 15.4 was rc in end of april 2022 already, today I read lck post on factory
by cagsm 15 May '22

15 May '22

Users, was wondering when comparing opensuse roadmap article on opensuse wiki <https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap> with todays lck post on factory list <https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/…> that they are still > Waiting for RC build of Leap 15.4 goldmaster code submission was yesterday or something. ty

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15.4 Beta - libreoffice-calc opens maximized, crashes when maximize removed, writer - okay
by David C. Rankin 15 May '22

15 May '22

All, Fresh install of 15.4 Beta and libreoffice. All apps, writer, calc, etc.. open full-screen on first run. Writer can be un-maximized (restored) without any issue, but attempting to restore calc crashes. The crash occurs regardless of whether you use the restore button (top-right titlebar next to close) or use the window menu (top-left titlebar and uncheck the "maximize" options) Before I write a bug on it, can somebody else confirm the behavior? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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15.4 Beta - /dev/sda and /dev/sdb swap drives (drive persistence problem)
by David C. Rankin 14 May '22

14 May '22

All, Looking for help or suggestions on this one. I have run 2 drives in my laptop for 4+ years. Drive persistence has never been an issue. Regardless of whether sda was Windows and sdb opensuse or sda Arch and sdb opensuse. However, after an install of 15.4 Beta to /dev/sda with 15.0 still in /dev/sdb, the drives swap on rebooting 15.4. This is really, really weird. I install 15.4 on /dev/sda and then after reboot, 15.4 pops up mounted on /dev/sdb and 15.0 has been swapped to /dev/sda. The system doesn't care as all drive ID is by uuid for the system, but for short mount scripts I have that use sda/sdb, I'm having to rewrite those to use uuid as well. I've never had a BIOS Boot partition on anything other than 15.4 before, so I don't know if that contributes (I can see why it would). Is there anything anyone can think of that would make 15.4 more prone to cause drive label persistence problems more than any release before? While the 15.4 install didn't modify the 15.0 on sdb, it did include a chainload for it in grub installed for 15.4. What makes little sense is after running with swapped drives and a shutdown, the drives will pop up in the right order on power-on (but not always). Any body have any idea on this one? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Dell Precision 7560 With Tumbleweed
by Sean Marlow 13 May '22

13 May '22

Hi, I have a Dell Precision 7560 machine that is running Tumbleweed. It has an Nvidia GPU but I've had no luck getting drivers to load. Curious if anyone else has a similar machine and has found a solution here. I've tried both the Nvidia proprietary drivers and also nouveau both with no luck. Initally I had the system setup using secure boot. When the drivers installed they were not creating the MOK keypair and thus on reboot there's no way to add the keypair to the MOK database. Since then I've disabled secure boot and tried reinstalling both drivers (separately) and still the drivers do load at boot. Any ideas how to get the drivers to load. For now I have an unusable GPU and thus an unusable HDMI port. I have already changed the boot mode to (slow) to load all drivers. This was required to get the openSUSE installer to boot. And I'm following the steps according to [1]. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers Thanks, Sean

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15.4 install to 2nd Drive - How to Insure YAST does NOT mess with Windows on /dev/sda?
by David C. Rankin 12 May '22

12 May '22

All, This really asks -- what is the default behavior for YAST if it sees Windows on sda with os_prober? I do NOT want YAST to touch the window drive, I don't want the boot sector modified, I don't want grub put there, I don't want chainloaded options for dual-boot, etc... With either 423 or 15.0 I have YAST think it was okay to modify the windows install and put grub there with options to chainload windows (which was hell finding out how to restore the boot loader on Windows (I don't want to be thrown into that briar-patch again -- ouch) So if I'm installing to sdb, and windows is sda, what do I need to do to tell YAST not to touch sda? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Perl modules install with RPM versus CPAN
by Bill Merriam 12 May '22

12 May '22

When something I am installing requires a list of perl modules I have to figure out how to install them. I first have to search the rpm repositories for the module. If the module is available in rpm repositories I can use zypper to install it. Other times I have to use CPAN to install it. Does anyone know of a script that will install a list of modules by searching for it and installing from the necessary location? Bill

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HELP please
by Stevens 12 May '22

12 May '22

System: Ryzen 7 2700X, 32GB RAM, GTX-1060 w/3GB, KDE Plasma 3.12.8, Kernel 4.12.14 I have a GP106 sound device (actually, I have a video card which has HDMI output) and I assume the GP106 is the way to send audio via the HDMI. Whatever the case may be, my problem is that some time earlier this year the $#@!& system started defaulting to HDMI-2 instead of HDMI-1, which kills the sound to my speakers. I can go to Configure Desktop in the Settings menu, Audio Volume, Advanced and change the device profile from Digital Stereo (HDMI2) to Digital Stereo (HDMI1) and it starts working and will until the desktop changes, then it changes back to HDMI2 profile. I cannot find where the default profile is stored and there is no option to apply the change when I make it. I have spent a lot of time looking and now I am down to asking for help. Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks in advance. Fred

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NEW 15.4 Beta - Why is GCC 7.5 so OLD?
by David C. Rankin 12 May '22

12 May '22

All, Installed 15.4 beta and was surprised to find gcc at --version 7.5 (gcc 12.0 is current), 8.3 came on my RaspberryPi 3B+ a couple of years ago. The problem is this, 15.0 has 7.2, barely has full C++17 support, C++20 is current and 23 is just around the corner. There is virtually no C++20 support in the gcc 7 release: https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html Before I installed 15.4, I browsed the repo and there was gcc-7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 available, but Yast during 15.4 install only shows 7.5 and does not show any alternative versions. I really do not want to have two differing versions of gcc installed (no good comes from that), but don't see getting much mileage out of gcc 7.5 when C++20 is needed. Any chance gcc will get an update before the 15.4 release (gcc 11 is fine, no need to jump on the bleeding edge of 12). If not, is there a safe way to have a non-conflicting gcc install generally available in a 15.4 install? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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15.3 KDE network manager -- no persistent IPv6 address
by James Knott 11 May '22

11 May '22

I run OpenSUSE 15.3 on a notebook computer, with network manager for configuring IP. One thing I've noticed is there do not appear to be any persistent IPv6 addresses. Normally, with SLAAC, there is 1 persistent address, based on either the MAC address or a random number. There can then be up to 7 privacy addresses, depending on how long the computer has been running. Without a persistent address, DNS can't be used to reach it. Is it possible to enable a persistent address with the network manager? tnx jk

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vncserver or: how to make a useful tool useless
by Peter Suetterlin 09 May '22

09 May '22

Hi, I have a script that starts a vncserver session on a remote machine, sets up a ssh port redirect and connects to that with vncviewer. It no longer works :( (on Tumbleweed) The reason I found is speedy:~% rpm -q --changelog xorg-x11-Xvnc * Thu Feb 17 2022 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch(a)suse.com> - n_vncserver.patch * fix location of Xsession script - vncserver usage has radically changed; please check this: https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/blob/master/unix/vncserver/HOWTO.md In short, instead of creating sessions on the fly, everything has to be pre-defined, restricted to *one* session per user, and launched via systemctl. Of course only as root..... Sorry, but I find this "improvement" a complete desaster in userfriendliness :(((

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Unhappy computer
by Marc Chamberlin 03 May '22

03 May '22

Hello - I have an OpenSuSE x64 15.3 system that has become unhappy about a 4Tb disk drive. When I start up the system, a "start job" with no time limit, is automatically started (I kinda suspect it is actually running fsck but I have no way to find out and the message I do see is pretty useless. Is there a way to find out what this "start job" is actually running? ). I let it run for 5 days before I found it had stopped (crashed perhaps?) So this morning I restarted the computer again and once again this "start job" started and has now been running for a few hours. So my question is, what is a reasonable amount of time to let this run? Can it be bypassed? Should I simply considered the drive is irreparable? I don't know what is a reasonable amount of time since I have never seen fsck take so long. But I have also seen fsck do what I almost call a miracle and restore drives completely after a disk crash... So not sure what I should do at this point and if it is indeed fsck that is running I would like it to repair the drive if it can.. Thanks for any advice... 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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External USB disks not recognized - Leap 15.3
by Per Inge Oestmoen 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

Hello. I use openSUSE Leap 15.3. Trouble is, when I attach USB sticks from 16-128 GB there are no problems. They are mounted and read immediately upon being attached. When I attach large external USB disks, there is a different story. The disks most often do not show up. Sometimes they do, but most times I must read the disks (formatted with EXT4, FAT32 and EXFAT) on a Mac laptop in order to access them. Which, admittedly, makes me ashamed. The question is why this happens. To elucidate the problem, I have typed fdisk -l and dmesg, and the results are in the links below. I shall be extremely thankful if you can have a look at these outputs and see if you can spot the source of my problem. If these files do not provide a clue, please tell me what commands I should try next. In both cases, an external disk was attached. However, the system failed to see it. The fdisk -l output: http://www.coldsiberia.net/technics/fdisk_l_21042022.txt The dmesg output: http://www.coldsiberia.net/technics/dmesg_21042022.txt Sincerely, Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway

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TW: mutt no longer showing special characters
by Peter Suetterlin 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

Hi list, Since one of the latest updates of my TW computers(*) mutt (running in XTerm, but it's the same in konsole) no longer is showing special characters (like accented ones). Are others seeing that, too? Any hints what to look for? I didn't change any of my settings... (*) one is running TW20220421/mutt 2.2.3, the other one TW20220419/mutt 2.1.5 With LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 I get, e.g., "ZurÃ¼ck", LANG=en_DE.UTF-8 displays it as two questionmarks, "Zur??ck"

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on 15.4: any new fancy additional or differings repos?
by cagsm 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

I remember making the switch from 15.2 to 15.3, it was very messy in the early days in the rc stages or something, or at least me, I was not aware that there were those brand new backports and sle-update repos coming in additionally to those standard repos ever since until 15.2 days. so here is the question, are we getting another set of new additional or completely differing repo addresses on 15.4? anything to be aware of? where can one find such elementary changes and stuff if such stuff happens except for going for a clean install on clean new hardware and first observing and looking through all sorts of things there, and then manually "backporting" such stuff as addl repo urls to other existing but aged opensuse installs? ty.

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[oS-en] patch:openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-1273-1.noarch conflicts with 'libSDL-devel.x86_64
by Carlos E. R. 23 Apr '22

23 Apr '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 #### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2022-04-22 22:07:07 #### the to be installed patch:openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-1273-1.noarch conflicts with 'libSDL-devel.x86_64 < 1.2.15-150000.3.19.1' provided by the installed libSDL-devel-1.2.15-lp153.93.2.x86_64 [ ] Following actions will be done: install libSDL-devel-1.2.15-150000.3.19.1.x86_64 from vendor SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/> replacing libSDL-devel-1.2.15-lp153.93.2.x86_64 from vendor obs://build.opensuse.org/games install libSDL-1_2-0-1.2.15-150000.3.19.1.x86_64 from vendor SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/> replacing libSDL-1_2-0-1.2.15-lp153.97.1.x86_64 from vendor obs://build.opensuse.org/games [ ] do not install patch:openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-1273-1.noarch #### YaST2 conflicts list END ### What is this, in plain language? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYmMPCRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVw9IAn3Uk2Dkxu8hXs4KVbFjI WYRO8ZTaAJ44PBYGjGKSpellmXUkQryvnhsPzw== =i3EC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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autofs mounts don't show symlinks
by Marc Chamberlin 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

Hi - If I mount a filesystem, from a different computer system on my local network, on my laptop using autofs (automount actually), where samba exported cifs shares from the other remote system, I run into a snag. How do I get ls -al or the abbreviated for - ll to show me both a link name and the file/dir being pointed at, in the same way of using ls -al or ll on a local file system shows me symlinks? For example if I use ll (or ls -al) to show me the contents of directory on my laptop - marcslaptop:/srv/bacula #ll total 32 drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Aug 16 2020 etc_bacula5.2 drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Aug 16 2020 etc_bacula7.4 drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Jun 23 2021 etc_bacula9.0.3 drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Apr 4 16:41 etc_bacula9.6.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bacula 15 Apr 3 18:21 etc_SYMLINK-> etc_bacula9.6.6 drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Apr 4 16:43 etc_systemd_system lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bacula 56 Aug 16 2020 README-> /home/marc/Documents/System Notes/Linux/Bacula_notes.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bacula 41 Apr 3 20:11 usr_lib_systemd_system_bacula-fd.service_SYMLINK-> /usr/lib/systemd/system/bacula-fd.service drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Apr 4 16:44 usr_lib_tmpfiles.d drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Apr 3 20:26 usr_sbin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bacula 17 Oct 4 2020 var_spool_bacula_SYMLINK-> /var/spool/bacula drw-rw-r-- 2 root bacula 4096 Aug 16 2020 working_bacula5.0 Note that all the entries in this directory, that are symlinks, the ll or ls -al commands show both the name of the symlink and the path that the symlink follows to the target of the symlink. I use autofs to mount various samba (cifs) file systems under /mnt/samba/SuSE/<system name>/<remote file system> My autofs automounter maps, on my laptop, look something like this for mounting shares from a remote system named bigbang - rootdir -fstype=cifs,rw,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,credentials=/etc/smb.auth ://bigbang/rootdir srv -fstype=cifs,rw,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,credentials=/etc/smb.auth ://bigbang/srv But if I show this same directory, by following an automount to another system (named bigbang here) and then follow an automount path back to my laptop to show the above /srv/bacula directory, I get the following display that does not show the symlinked paths - marcslaptop:/srv/bacula #ll /mnt/samba/SuSE/bigbang/rootdir/mnt/samba/SuSE/marcslaptop/srv/bacula total 20 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Aug 16 2020 etc_bacula5.2 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Aug 16 2020 etc_bacula7.4 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Jun 23 2021 etc_bacula9.0.3 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 4 16:41 etc_bacula9.6.6 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 4 16:41 etc_SYMLINK drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 4 16:43 etc_systemd_system -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13616 Mar 1 20:52 README -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1411 Apr 3 21:33 usr_lib_systemd_system_bacula-fd.service_SYMLINK drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 4 16:44 usr_lib_tmpfiles.d drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 3 20:26 usr_sbin drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Apr 5 02:20 var_spool_bacula_SYMLINK drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Aug 16 2020 working_bacula5.0 I used this example to somewhat dramatically illustrate the problem, but following a single automount point and displaying a remote directory also does not show symlink paths. Where I am really having problems is when I use Beyond Compare to compare files and directories on both a local filesystem and a remote filesystem accessed via an automount point. It is critical to know when I am working with a symlink on a remote filesystem, otherwise Beyond Compare is blind to them and can easily clobber and ruin a remote system by overwriting a symlink. AFAIK Beyond Compare is being blinded by the automount system dropping the symlink information. Hope I have been clear and hopefully some nice guru with have a magic incantation I can use to solve this issue. Google has not been my friend on this issue! Thanks as always in advance for helping me... 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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[oS-EN] firewalld question
by Carlos E. R. 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Hi, I get these messages in the firewall log, using firewalld: 2022-04-20T22:18:58.849017+02:00 Elesar kernel: [13052.961056] FINAL_REJECT: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:b0:a7:b9:ae:05:3c:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=0 DF PROTO=2 They come from the router. proto=2 means IGMP. What do I have to do, using the firewall-config application, to allow those packages? Would it be to add protocol "igmp" in the protocol tab? It seems to work, but I don't know if that is the correct method. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)

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[oS-EN] boot delay
by Carlos E. R. 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Hi, I noticed, using: systemd-analyze plot > bootup.svg eog bootup.svg that display-manager.service waits for purge-kernels.service to complete. Why is this done? :-? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)

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leap 15.4, only having openssh 8.4? post quantum key exchange from 8.9 / 9.0 ?
by cagsm 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Users list, leap 15.4, only having openssh 8.4? according to download files list at: <http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.4/repo/oss/x86_64/> I only see openssh 8.4 named packages. Is there backport of post-quantum key exchange support introduced in openssh 8.9 and finalized in openssh 9.0 included? <https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.0> i regard these security features very important. isnt openssh 8.4 from like sept 2020? <https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.4> dwelling on the windows platform here, just recently the putty project added this new post-quantum key exchange to their client code base as well. <https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commit;h=faf1601a5549eda9298f…> can I use this on new leap releases or will these be backported to current and supported leap and other suse products? is it not important to the security of suse users? ty

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is it possible to remove only non-existing from ./cache/thumbnails?
by Daniel Bauer 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Hello, my ~/.cache/thumbnails contains uncountable old files for images that do not exist anymore, so they are there "for nothing". I know I can delete those folders and they will be rebuilt, but rebuilding will take some time, so I don't want that. Is there a way to clean-up those directories, only delete the thumbnails for files that do not exist anymore? Didn't find anything useful in big brother... Do you know a smart solution? have a nice day! Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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openssh 9.0 or openssh (ssh) with ntru (post quantum prime) support?
by cagsm 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

list, does current opensuse releases support NTRU prime for ssh (openssh, tinyssh) just yet? <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTRU#cite_note-18> ty

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os 15.3 won't boot into KDE after regular update
by Gustav Degreef 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Hello, I need some help in how to approach this problem. The oot process ends with a black screen with a mouse cursor. ESC brings me to the terminal screen which shows the boot hung at "Started Locale Service (OK). I can not get any other terminal (Ctrl+F1-F12). If I include "nomodeset" by editing the grub boot menu item, I can get a boot prompt and login as root. I have network access but "startx" produces the same dark scren with a cursor which I can move, but no desktop. Running opensuse 15.3 (previously upgraded from 15.2 and prior to that 15.1). Running only kde, kernel and other major software from the regular opensuse repos. The recnt upgrade included the 5.3.18-150300.59.63-default kernel. I tried removing the .local directory for my user, but no help. I have Intel graphics (no NVidia or AMD) on this Lenovo T440 laptop. How to approach fixing this? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Gustav

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Can't install OpenVPN 2.5.6 on Leap 15.3
by James Knott 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

I'm trying to install OpenVPN from https://software.opensuse.org/package/openvpn?locale=en Whether I use one click or expert download, I get an error about initializing the repository. https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP1:/GA/pool/ I have tried 2 different links for this and get the same error on both. Suggestions? tnx jk

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No eth0 connection after soundcard config in Yast...
by Daniel Bauer 17 Apr '22

17 Apr '22

Hello, something strange happened on my OS 15.3 with KDE, after posting this here: > - during the bot messages I get > snd-hda-intel ... cannot probe codec, giving up Carlos said: > You just need to configure sound with Yast. There will be an old entry which you have to delete, and let it add automatically the new one. So I happily went to Yast, Hardware, Audio... - I see two sound cards, Intel and Nvidia - I click on "Bearbeiten" on Intel (setup?) and chose "fast" -> sound gets switched of - I deleted both (clicked on delete, but nothing happened), said ok, rebooted, had sound again But: No network, no internet. After changing in Yast from networkmanager to wicked and then back again, I can now access WiFi, but ethernet isn't here (it doesn't show in Networkmanager). lspci -k gives: 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I225-V (rev 03) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device e000 Kernel modules: igc 05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200NGW Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi Kernel modules: iwlwifi How can I make my ethernet/eth0 work again? Thanks for help... Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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Best way to move to a new PC
by Daniel Bauer 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

Hello, I just ordered a new computer and (hopefully) in a week I will (have to) install it. It will replace my current machine, which means that I need everything installed just the same on the new machine. There are many things that have my own settings (apache modules, sql databases, php setings... etc.), additional programs, changed versions, and on my last new install, years ago, I just did those things that I remembered manually, copied individual files, found out missing things weeks later... Is there a more intelligent, easier way to "clone" my current machine to the new one? There are several hardware differences, i9 instead of i7 processor, 6 instead of 4 disks, more memory, new graphics card, no DVD anymore, so just plugging in my system SDD into the new machine seems to be no option :-( One of my problems is that actually I don't remember all the changes I did during all those years, but I know, that some of them are necessary and at the time caused me a lot o headaches... I'd love to avoid that this time. Any hints about a procedure that makes sense and helps? (Oh: in a manner a simple user can understand, please). Thanks, Daniel (OpenSuse 15.3 with KDE) -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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TW: no more "Have a lot of fun" ... ?
by Per Jessen 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

After 'dup'ing my TW system yesterday, I logged in this morning over ssh, and had this weird feeling I was missing something. After some more trials, I spotted it - the MOTD "Have a lot of fun" is gone ? In earlier times, it was in /etc/motd, which was part of 'openSUSE-release', but it's no longer there. I see the text in '/usr/lib/motd.d/welcome' though. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.5°C)

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Tumbleweed update
by Roger Oberholtzer 14 Apr '22

14 Apr '22

I have a Tumbleweed system that was last updated Oct 2019. I am running Trac (https://trac.edgewall.org/) which has been slow to move to Python 3 - and it is just about there now. I did not want to chance messing up the Python 2 setup that has been working fine. So, I abstained from updating until the dust settled. Given the amount of time that has passed, is it reasonable to expect that an update in the near future would work? I worry about things like the /usr/lib64 move. And probably other things that have been rather big. All done at once. Has anyone else left such a big time between Tumbleweed updates? I do not generally do that with my other Tumbleweed systems. This was a special case. I am using this system in production. So I know, do a backup. Everything of interest is on a separate (from the OS) RAID volume. I might disconnect that during the update. I have generally been lucky. I am running snapper. Aside from a couple small installs of some packages, thee main snapshot is from Oct 2019. I do not want it to be removed. It is rather old. I guess I need to check the rules for this to be sure it won't be removed as part of a cleanup. Anything else to think of? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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Tumbleweed update
by Roger Oberholtzer 14 Apr '22

14 Apr '22

I have a Tumbleweed system that was last updated Oct 2019. I am running Trac (https://trac.edgewall.org/) which has been slow to move to Python 3 - and it is just about there now. I did not want to chance messing up the Python 2 setup that has been working fine. So, I abstained from updating until the dust settled. Given the amount of time that has passed, is it reasonable to expect that an update in the near future would work? I worry about things like the /usr/lib64 move. And probably other things that have been rather big. All done at once. Has anyone else left such a big time between Tumbleweed updates? I do not generally do that with my other Tumbleweed systems. This was a special case. I am using this system in production. So I know, do a backup. Everything of interest is on a separate (from the OS) RAID volume. I might disconnect that during the update. I have generally been lucky. I am running snapper. Aside from a couple small installs of some packages, thee main snapshot is from Oct 2019. I do not want it to be removed. It is rather old. I guess I need to check the rules for this to be sure it won't be removed as part of a cleanup. Anything else to think of? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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[a little OT] old cal sunday-first-day behavior
by David T-G 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, all -- I just found on my LEAP 15.{1,2} boxes that cal(1) defaults to Monday as the first day of the week. While this can be changed with -s (Sunday), it is inconvenient. There is also a -m (Monday) flag to set the current behavior. Without getting into flame wars of which is "right", does anyone know of an environment variable that will set Sunday as the default, or (short of writing a wrapper, which is stupid) is there another way to accomplish the original behavior, or is there an alternate RPM install that sets it, or ... do I just have to rebuild from scratch? TIA :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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Best place to ask for help with current mailing list account?
by -pj 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, this past week on Friday I sent a message to support(a)lists.opensuse.org regarding an issue I am having with my mailing list account after I removed my OpenID from within (which I should not have done). I have not heard a response back as of yet. So I decided to ask here as to the best place to resend the message if possible. I would prefer not to create yet another account on openSUSE mailing lists with yet another username. After reading Per Jessens mailing Re: List switched to "reject posts from non-subscribers" I was looking over my mailing list account etc.... Thanks for all your work with openSUSE also.

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Re: how to prevent /etc/profile.d/ files from returning
by David T-G 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, all! My, how time flies ... It's been a year since I last wrestled with this! ...and then davidtg-robot(a)justpickone.org said... % % ...and then L A Walsh said... % % % % On 2021/03/14 18:34, David T-G wrote: % % >Is there any way to keep them from being dropped again so that I don't % % >have to deal with this over and over? *sigh* % ... % % % % So...I set the immutable bit on the problematic files. % % So far, that's kept them intact. % [snip] % ... % % Time to go learn something :-) So I went and learned and played and eventually played davidtg@jpo:~> lsattr /etc/profile.d/ls.bash ----i-------------- /etc/profile.d/ls.bash with some of these keep-coming-back files. They were empty and stayed that way; yay. Except that I actually stood at the keyboard in the closet and paid attention to updates one day and found that various ones threw failures because they couldn't tweak these files. Dang it! No, I don't want failing updates; it's hard enough to make sure things stay current. I guess we're back to adding ls.bash.off that figures out what's in the original file and undoes it as part of the login process *sigh* There really oughta be a better way. Maybe in Leap 16, I heard in the old thread ... Have a great day! :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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how to read reiserfs on 15.3? What to do with "old" backups?
by Daniel Bauer 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

I know reiserfs was removed from 15.3. Still I have many TB external disks with Reiserfs (encrypted). I can't read them right now. First question: How can I read those backups? libreiserfscore0 and reiserfs are installed, but plugging such a disk leads to a message "unknown file system". What else do I need to install? Second question: What do I do with those encrypted Reiserfs backups? Do I really have to copy all that tremendous amount of data to other disks, newly format the original one, and copy back? (I have a laptop with 15.2 where I still can read them) Is there another way? Copying all those TB would take me about a week, I guess... Thanks for any ideas. Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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KWallet & PAM?
by James Knott 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

I have KWallet storing some passwords and every time it's called, I have to enter the wallet password. I believe that the login password can be used automatically, using PAM. How is this set up? I'm running Leap 15.3 & KDE. tnx jk

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is open-suse 15.1 firefox 78.7 really outdated?
by Daniel Bauer 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Using Firefox 78.7.0esr (64 bit) on Opensuse 15.1 on several websites (tumblr, a bank, some others) I get a message like "You are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge." Are the programmers of those sites stupid or is my OS 15.1 so very outdated? (I restrain from updating/upgrading because of the huge amount of work that a new install brings with it [direct upgrades haven't worked for me in the past, left a lot of confusion in /home in app properties of changed versions etc., and because of some missing programs in the new versions, like support for my many reiserfs backup disks) -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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[oS-en] Very slow update download.
by Carlos E. R. 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 200K/S, of the kernel. 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp-core] PathInfo.cc(hardlinkCopy):916 hardlinkCopy /var/tmp/AP_0xbwLBVf/noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm -> /var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update/noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher++] MediaSetAccess.cc(releaseFile):92 Going to release file ./noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm from media number 1 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp-core] PathInfo.cc(unlink):706 unlink /var/tmp/AP_0xbwLBVf/noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [Progress++] progressdata.cc(report):70 {#104|} START 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [Progress++] progressdata.cc(report):89 {#104|} END 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media] RepoProvideFile.cc(provideFile):307 provideFile at /var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update/noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [Ruby] modules/PackageCallbacks.rb(DoneProvide):245 DoneProvide: 0, , firewall-macros 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <2> Elesar(20671) [Ruby] modules/PackageCallbacks.rb(DoneProvide):273 DoneProvide: unknown error '0' 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp] PackageProvider.cc(providePackage):513 provided Package (114846)firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch(repo-sle-update) at /var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update/noarch/firewall-macros-0.9.3-150300.3.3.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp] PackageProvider.cc(providePackage):412 provide Package (118443)kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch(repo-sle-update) 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp++] DeltaCandidates.cc(deltaRpms):82 package: (118443)kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch(repo-sle-update) 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media] RepoProvideFile.cc(provideFile):241 [1]./noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm{243.3 MiB|sha256-d846a4a491b5f086ad331e8509681819bc080a9564ac18925218a9a5e5234638|} 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher++] Fetcher.cc(addCachePath):331 Adding fetcher cache: '/var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update'. 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media] RepoProvideFile.cc(provideFile):260 Added cache path /var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media] RepoProvideFile.cc(provideFile):294 Providing file of repo 'repo-sle-update' fromhttp://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/ 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] RepoProvideFile.cc(setVerifierForRepo):203 No media verifier for repo 'repo-sle-update' media.1/media does not exist in '/var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-sle-update' 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher] Fetcher.cc(downloadAndReadIndexList):705 No indexes to read. 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher] Fetcher.cc(locateInCache):362 start fetcher with 1 cache directories. 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher] Fetcher.cc(provideToDest):533 Not found in cache, retrieving... 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::fetcher++] MediaSetAccess.cc(provide):278 Going to try to provide file ./noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm from media number 1 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaManager.cc(checkDesired):155 checkDesired(30): desired (cached) 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1336 dest: /var/tmp/AP_0xbwLBVf/noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1337 temp: /var/tmp/AP_0xbwLBVf/noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm.new.zypp.6waHyf 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1177 ./noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1187 URL: http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/noarch/kernel-firmware-20… 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1375 HTTP response: 200 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <5> Elesar(20671) [zypp-core] Exception.cc(log):186 MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1433 THROW: Multicurl enabled but not enough mirrors provided 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1177 ./noarch/kernel-firmware-20210208-150300.4.7.1.noarch.rpm 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1187 URL: http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/noarch/kernel-firmware-20… 2022-03-31 19:36:02 <1> Elesar(20671) [zypp-curl++] curlhelper.cc(log_redirects_curl):117 redirecting to Location: https://rsync.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/noarch/kernel-firmware-2021… Now it is going at normal speeds. - -- Cheers Carlos E. 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Unplanned reboot fried sound card?
by Michael Fischer 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Today I had the pleasure of my computer shutting down without warning. It came back up mostly fine, except that my sound card no longer seems to work. It is recognized in Yast, and thinks it is the primary card, yet the (amp, speakers) do not seem to get a signal from it. `aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav` or a video from a browser now send sound to a small builtin speaker on the computer. Is it possible to determine if the card itself is destroyed? Clearly yast, etc. still recognize it. OpenSuSe 15.2 $ hwinfo --sound 06: PCI 300.0: 0403 Audio device [Created at pci.386] Unique ID: svHJ.aI0zRHBQWr8 Parent ID: 1GTX.zL18kkxawk9 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0 Hardware Class: sound Model: "Creative SB1570 SB Audigy Fx" Vendor: pci 0x1102 "Creative Labs" Device: pci 0x0012 "Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-Series]" SubVendor: pci 0x1102 "Creative Labs" SubDevice: pci 0x0010 "SB1570 SB Audigy Fx" Revision: 0x01 Driver: "snd_hda_intel" Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel" Memory Range: 0x91104000-0x91107fff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0x91100000-0x91103fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (4676 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00001102d00000012sv00001102sd00000010bc04sc03i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel" Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #21 (PCI bridge) Thanks. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael(a)visv.net

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thunderbird not forwarding messages with yahoo mail
by George from the tribe 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Howdy, I have some email that comes in through a yahoo email account that I want to set up automatic forwarding to a different email account. Can't do that on yahoo anymore, as they removed that feature for free accounts. So I wanted to do that in thunderbird by setting up a filter that automatically forwards certain emails coming into that account. Problem is, when it tries to forward the emails, it tries to login to yahoo separately and something goes wrong... there is no problem with me manually forwarding all of those emails, but I can't get it to work on the automatic forward. It says that it fails to login, so I have to click that to acknowledge the failure, then it asks me for a new password, even though the old password works for regular email us. Any ideas? -- George Box: TW | Plasma 5 | AMD Ryzen 9 | 64 | 32GB Laptop: TW | Plasma 5 | Intel EVO | 64 | 32GB

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Need a new hard disk.
by Carlos E. R. 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Hi, One of my 4TB disks in my miniserver is failing. Unrecoverable errors, says smartctl, and growing. I have disconnected it till I get a replacement. And here are my doubts. Looking at Seagate at my local supplier, 4 to 6 TB, I see a variety and higher prices than I remember. <https://www.pccomponentes.com/discos-duros/3-5-pulgadas/4-tb/5-tb/6-tb/hdd-…> Seagate Exos 7E8 3.5" 6TB SATA 3/SAS 258,69€ Seagate IronWolf NAS 6TB 3.5" SATA3 172,26€ Seagate IronWolf Pro NAS 3.5" 6TB SATA3 250,62€ Seagate SkyHawk 6TB 3.5" SATA3 (svlnc) 151,38€ Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 6TB SATA 3 144,84€ 24€/TB Seagate Exos 7E8 3.5" 4TB SATA3 199,87€ Seagate IronWolf NAS 4TB SATA3 104,05€ Seagate IronWolf Pro 4TB NAS 144,09€ Seagate SkyHawk 4TB 3.5" SATA3 (svlnc) 96,93€ Seagate BarraCuda 3.5" 4TB SATA3 81,53€ 20.3€/TB * I believe I have the last one (model ST4000DM000) - it is powered off, can't look details except on the logs. The 6TB version of such disk is quite more expensive per gigabyte. The questions is, what advantages or disadvantages has each family? It is confusing. (If you know of a link with a comparison of them, that would be wonderful ;-) ) Western Digital: WD Purple 3.5" 6TB SATA3, surveillance 150,91€ WD NAS Red 6TB SATA3 159,01€ Western Digital Blue 6TB 3.5" SATA3 167,06€ WD Red Plus 3.5" 6TB NAS SATA 3 172,19€ WD Purple 3.5" 6 TB SATA3, surveill. 190,49€ WD Purple 3.5" 6TB SATA 3, surveill. 191,83€ I guess I don't want a surveillance unit. A NAS unit? :-? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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optional updates in Leap
by gumb 20 Mar '22

20 Mar '22

I see in YaST Online Update (Leap 15.3) currently three items in the Optional category with similar descriptions, e.g. openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-781 - Optional update for SUSE Package Hub This optional update provides the following changes: - Provide binaries for non x86_64 architectures directly to SUSE Package Hub. - There are no visible changes for the final user. - Affected source packages: MozillaThunderbird, enigmail References: MSC-303 (jira) : https://jira.suse.com/browse/MSC-303 --------- I don't really understand what the implication is here. I'm on x86_64, so is it suggesting that other non-x86_64 packages have been added that weren't there before, and there's some minor version numbering difference or something that forces my existing installed packages to see some kind of upgrade, even though it isn't a real upgrade? I don't know what to make of it otherwise. gumb

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Authorization in CUPS fails in google-chrome-stable
by Jos van Kan 20 Mar '22

20 Mar '22

Hello, For reasons that do not matter right now I moved from FF to GCS as my default browser. A day ago I ran into printer problems that I usually addres by use of CUPS. Much to my dismay I could not do any aignificant work because of lack of authorization. Ordinarily a popup appears to let you enter credentials but it did not. After a day of hairpulling and spelunking the net i chanced on a message of some good soul who wrote that he had the same problem with chromium and that switching to a different browser solved it. Much to my surprise he was right. I went back to FF and there it was: the popup for my credentials. There ought to be a law that this should not happen. :) FF rocks! I wonder what particular bug triggers this behavior in GCS. But in case you run into something similar here's this one more thing to try. Regards, Jos -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

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Another dumb question
by Stevens 19 Mar '22

19 Mar '22

I haven't found the answer yet... If my wifi goes down, then powers back on, my system (OS 15.0, wicked) doesn't detect it and will sit there until I manually restart the service. Isn't something supposed to be running that makes that process automatic? Yeah, I know it's one of those really stupid simple things but I just cannot remember and searching the web hasn't been much help. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks ...

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[oS-en] Is it possible to trigger some job when hibernation fails?
by Carlos E. R. 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yesterday night I told the machine to hibernate and left the room. This morning I came back and found the machine running, using electricity. Hibernation had failed, reason not clear. It is not the first time. I don't care for the reason, usually a second try succeeds. But I have to notice. Waiting is not it, sometimes hibernation just takes long to complete. I want to know when it failed. The log does show it failed. What I want is to trigger some script when it fails. The script will tell me, somehow, like ringing a bell. How do I launch that script? Long ago we decided there was no way to do it. Is there now some way? To hibernate, I do, as root: sudo /usr/bin/systemctl hibernate which always return before completing. If you are curious, the reason this time was: <0.6> 2022-03-02T03:38:30.405121+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [260032.789235] PM: hibernation: Creating image: <0.6> 2022-03-02T03:38:30.405125+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [260033.285989] PM: hibernation: Need to copy 4387369 pages <0.7> 2022-03-02T03:38:30.405125+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [260033.285992] PM: hibernation: Normal pages needed: 4387369 + 1024, available pages: 3988067 <0.3> 2022-03-02T03:38:30.405128+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [260033.285993] PM: hibernation: Not enough free memory <0.3> 2022-03-02T03:38:30.405128+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [260032.789427] PM: hibernation: Error -12 creating image ... <3.3> 2022-03-02T03:38:30.497553+01:00 Telcontar systemd-sleep 15519 - - Failed to suspend system. System resumed again: Cannot allocate memory (machine has 32 gigs or ram, and 12719480 KiB are free now) The previous time was: <0.7> 2022-02-28T04:28:03.533764+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [159266.987264] PM: hibernation: Basic memory bitmaps created <0.6> 2022-02-28T04:28:03.533764+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [159266.987344] PM: hibernation: Preallocating image memory <0.6> 2022-02-28T04:28:03.533765+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [159276.443763] PM: hibernation: Allocated 2557543 pages for shapshot <0.6> 2022-02-28T04:28:03.533766+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [159276.443766] PM: hibernation: Allocated 10230172 kbytes in 9.45 seconds (1082.55 MB/s) <0.6> 2022-02-28T04:28:03.533766+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [159276.443766] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... <0.3> 2022-02-28T04:28:03.533767+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [159296.449068] Freezing of tasks failed after 20.005 seconds (0 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=1): ... <3.3> 2022-02-28T04:28:03.673259+01:00 Telcontar systemd-sleep 2417 - - Failed to suspend system. System resumed again: Device or resource busy Before that, this one: Jan 31 03:15:04 Telcontar kernel: PM: hibernation: Preallocating image memory Jan 31 03:15:04 Telcontar kernel: PM: hibernation: Allocated 2465214 pages for shapshot Jan 31 03:15:04 Telcontar kernel: PM: hibernation: Allocated 9860856 kbytes in 32.60 seconds (302.48 MB/s) Jan 31 03:15:04 Telcontar kernel: Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... Jan 31 03:15:04 Telcontar kernel: Freezing of tasks failed after 20.003 seconds (0 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=1): ... Jan 31 03:15:04 Telcontar systemd-sleep[22294]: Failed to suspend system. System resumed again: Device or resource busy (and then, some xfs related messages) No more instances in the journal, which goes back to Nov 19. Anyway, you see, hibernation is not reliable. I need a way to run a job when this happens. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYh9UTRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV6pMAn0O6GtFEj6nf9PM43VLi nW3yR8AhAJ98DkrGr6ej8Q9mxVpWUJ7P/qmurg== =jRKQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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OS Leap 15.4
by Stevens 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

From 15.4 roadmap: "Wed, Jun 8, 2022 Public Availability of the Release openSUSE Leap 15.4 will be released to the public at 12:00 UTC" I am running 15.0 and had planned to install 15.3 back in Aug but life got in the way, as it is still doing. My schedule looks way better for June, so looks like I can do 15.4 then. I see that 15.5 has already been authorized... I am rambling because it's late here but if I install 15.4 then, shouldn't I get a 18 months or so before I have to go through the process again? Moving to a newer version is always so time consuming; it's like buying a new recliner and getting it to feel as comfortable as the old one. Like, you gotta relearn how updated programs work, which ones no longer exist, etc. A real P.I.T.A. for the first 6 months or so. I just don't have the time or inclination any more to enjoy steep learning curves but technology marches on and an update is definitely required. Later ...

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Booting from external enclosure
by Cyrus 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Good evening, Anybody has experience installing on and booting from external enclosures for NVMe?. I would like to boot opensuse Leap 15.x on a Dell Latitude 5420 using one of these options: https://www.sabrent.com/product/EC-SNVE/usb-3-2-type-c-tool-free-enclosure-… https://www.sabrent.com/product/EC-T3NS/thunderbolt-3-to-m-2-nvme-ssd-tool-… Any comments and recommendations are welcome. Regards, CI.-

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escaping "." in ip address
by Patrick Shanahan 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

I need to escape the periods in some ip addresses. I need xc=111.111.111.111 to become 111\\.111\\.111\\.111 sed appears (or not) to be the proper utility but I cannot get the correct syntax. tks -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times...

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OS install on USB-C disk on a laptop
by Cyrus 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Hello!, I have a work machine I cannot reinstall (comes with Windows), Latitude 5420. Given it has only one M2 slot, I'm exploring using a Sabrent nano USB-C external disk to run opensuse from it, but I'm wondering if it will work properly in a laptop scenario (suspend/resume). Can anybody share their experience with similar setups?. Regards, Cyrus.-

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hp printers and firewall settings
by Per Jessen 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Carlos E. R. wrote: > I just noticed this text in the terminal where I had run hp-setup: > > Searching... (bus=net, timeout=5, ttl=4, search=(None) desc=0, > method=slp) error: No devices found on bus: net > error: HPLIP cannot detect printers in your network. This may be due > to existing firewall settings blocking the required ports. That's at least a good hint :-) > With all these tests, I see this on the firewall log: > > <0.4> 2022-03-15T11:09:32.296997+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - > [165601.945448] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=00:d8:61:a1:5a:bd:00:1e:0b:08:4c:cb:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.3 > DST=192.168.1.14 LEN=362 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=31194 PROTO=UDP > SPT=427 DPT=38972 LEN=342 > > Which is blocked incoming, from printer on port UDP 427, but on the > computer comes on a random port. Something on the outgoing broadcast > (guess) says what port the hp application will be listening, but > somehow the kernel is not aware that it is a reply communication and > the firewall blocks it. Yes, it is UDP, i.e. stateless, there is no concept of a reply. I wonder if you have to enable port 427 for input and output both. I.e. enable for UPD traffic coming _from_ port 427 as well. Just a hunch. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.5°C)

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[oS-en] Is there a systemctl command to erase an override file?
by Carlos E. R. 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If I try: systemctl edit sleep.target and delete the contents, on save I get: Editing "/etc/systemd/system/sleep.target.d/override.conf" canceled: temporary file is empty. Of course I can manually "rm ..." the file, but I wonder if systemctl can do it. --force doesn't do it. For the moment, I have the file contain only # - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYjI6Hhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV3HYAn1uIL93X1LhF1iJmGeDa shU2QylaAJ44m+UcAnnyMLkEGdUhf6LqfaoXTw== =v88p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Recent updates to 15.3
by Darryl Gregorash 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Why am I seeing a bajillion updates appearing in the updates mailing list, yet precisely zero of these have made it into the updates repositories? I can understand why I don't need the Firefox update, it appears to be for the upstream branding, whereas I am using the "in house" one. But for a lot of other packages, many of which are security updates, no such distinction applies (eg. chrony, java-11-openjdk).

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alternative to rpm package groups
by Istvan Gabor 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hello: Previously I asked what happened to rpm package groups in yast package manager. The answer was that is had been removed. What alternative can I use to find packages that belong to a certain category, for example network/ftp or graphics/viewers etc? I copy here part of my previous question to make it clear what I am talking about: In previous openSUSE/SuSE versions (eg in 13.1) there was an rpm group list option in yast package manager/view tab pulldown menu. It showed a list of rpm groups in a very detailed manner where I could show/hide groups and subgroups like directories and files in a file manager. For example: +Amusement +Games +3D Other Race Shoot Simulation +Action Arcade Breakout First Person Shootes Other Race Shoot +Board ... ... Applications +Arciving +Client etc. Thanks, Istvan

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How to repair OpenSuSE?
by Marc Chamberlin 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hello, I have an openSuSE 15.2 x64 system which somehow managed to lose it's boot directory and perhaps a few other system files, I dunno. So it no longer boots up. I managed to restore it, using a live USB stick, a bit to the point where I could get it to boot to a command prompt but not to the point where I could use the network. Something about firewalld and dbus not starting was keeping me from getting any further. So I decided to try an repair the installation from a regular installation USB stick. I thought OpenSuSE used to supply a repair option but was unable to find it on either the live or the installation USB sticks. So I tried to use the upgrade option instead, but that did not repair or replace any existing files on my system, it just installed files that were needing to be upgraded from what was already installed. (just a few files were touched) And that actually made the system worse, I cannot even boot up to the command prompt for a single shell. Instead now the system goes into an endless cycle of error messages and will not boot up at all. So how does one repair OpenSuSE these days? Can I do it from a live CD? If so how? Thanks in advance, for all offers of help and advice! 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 electronic signature is attached. 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 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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Live USB stick and partitioner
by Marc Chamberlin 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hello - I keep encountering a problem that has occurred on all the 15.* version of OpenSuSE Live USB sticks, which I think may actually be a bug, but perhaps there is a workaround or a solution that I cannot find by Google. When I run a Live version of OpenSuSE I often want to use the YaST2 partitioner to mount partitions from an installed version of OpenSuSE that is on my hard drives. (I usually am trying to fix a problem that is preventing the disk installation from booting up) Trouble is, the YaST version of the partitioner (on the Live USB stick) complains that there is nothing mounted for the root directory "/" I don't grok this at all because the Live version does have something "mounted" for "/" but whatever is mounted does not show up in the YaST partitioner. Nor does fdisk - l show anything mounted for "/". I have tried mounting some other partition, including the root dir/partition for the disk installation of OpenSuSE, to satisfy this requirement but then I get into trouble because the live version thinks there are two mount points for "/" and often crashes. So my question is, how do I mount partitions from my disk drives when I am using a Live version of OpenSuSE? How do I handle the requirement that the YaST partitioner wants for mounting something as "/"? Thanks in advances for your time and help, 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 electronic signature is attached. 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 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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Re: Tumbleweed rescue upgrade: Product problem during update initialisation
by Knurpht-openSUSE 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Op dinsdag 15 maart 2022 19:20:29 CET schreef Peter Fodrek: > There seems not to be problem with repository but with removing product > Tumblewwed 20210523 I was to mention if there are corresponding files for > products as they exists for repositories Think I got it: the old entry for the install USB is still present. Look at the setup with zypper lr -d and you will see the repo index number. Do sudo zypper rr $repo index number -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team

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[oS-en] hp printers
by Carlos E. R. 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I noticed I have installed a long list of hp utilities: cer@Telcontar:~> hp-[TAB][TAB] hp-align hp-pkservice hp-check hp-plugin hp-clean hp-pqdiag hp-colorcal hp-print hp-config_usb_printer hp-printsettings hp-devicesettings hp-probe hp-diagnose_plugin hp-query hp-diagnose_queues hp-sendfax hp-doctor hp-setup hp-fab hp-systray hp-faxsetup hp-testpage hp-firmware hp-timedate hp-info hp-toolbox hp-levels hp-uninstall hp-linefeedcal hp-unload hp-logcapture hp-upgrade hp-makecopies hp-wificonfig hp-makeuri cer@Telcontar:~> hp- But they all fail: cer@Telcontar:~> hp-info HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.21.10) Device Information Utility ver. 5.2 Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. error: No device found that support this feature. cer@Telcontar:~> hp-toolbox gives some information as to why. It opens a GUI, then a popup says "no Installed HP Devices Found" - see photo: <https://susepaste.org/21567804> Now, I don't want to install a new printer, mine is installed and working. but notice what it says at the bottom: Note: Only devices installed with the hp: or hpfac: CUPS backend will appear in the HP Device Manager. What I have in CUPS is: Description: HP Color LaserJet CP1510 Series Postscript (recommended) Location: Red local Driver: HP Color LaserJet CP1510 Series Postscript (recommended) (color) Connection: socket://bilbo.valinor:9100 Defaults: job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm sides=one-sided Indeed, if I allow hp-toolbox to create a printer ((after dropping the firewall), it does so and it appears in all tools. And cups shows a new printer: Description: Created using hptoolbox Location: Driver: HP Color LaserJet CP1510 Series Postscript (recommended) (color) Connection: hp:/net/HP_Color_LaserJet_CP1515n?ip=192.168.1.3 Defaults: job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=one-sided Curious. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYih3Phwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVaZgAn0uOqQTj7HGV49ZZsfJB B5tWX7TUAJ0eXD+7GCV1CatpdE/h+lB/R0v03A== =/KhL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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HP 1109W printer not working OpenSuSE 15.2
by Carl Spitzer 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Though recognized and powered up it seems to be disabled. I have gone into Yast to delete it rerun detest and checked enabled. NOt sure what log to check for the error. CWSIV

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Gimp scripting - seeking help/scripter
by Daniel Bauer 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hello, it might be a bit off-topic, please excuse... I am looking for somebody who can write a small Gimp-Script for me (I'll pay for it, within reason). Ideally the script could also be called from bash. After looking in the Gimp scripting documentation and more pages I see that I'd need so much time to learn it that I rather continue to do the steps manually... I work everyday with Gimp on OpenSuse, and there are some simple basic steps I have to do with almost every image to retouch with what I believe is called "frequency-separation". There is a gmic filter that more or less does it, but it takes extremely long, I must set the parameters each time, and some I can't change, not even find out to what value they are set... The script should: 1. Open png-image 2: Duplicate layer twice (to have 3 identical layers) 3: Turn off visibility of bottom layer 4: Apply Gaussian blur on the middle layer with value 15 5: Set top layer to grain extract mode ("faser extrahieren") 6: Create new layer from visible 7: Delete the layer set to grain extract before 8: Set the new top layer to grain extract mode 9: Put top and middle layer in a new layers group, visible 10: Turn on visibility of bottom layer 11: Make blurred layer (second/bottom in layers group) active 12: Save as xcf with same file name in same folder I would like to have this script available to click within Gimp, but it would be fantastic when I could use it also from bash, so that I can let it run on all files in a folder, for example. Can anybody help - or point me to a place where I could find it? Thanks! Daniel -- -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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Howto make the switch to OpenSuSE on the desktop as a primary system?
by cagsm 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hello list, non-desktop user of Linux here. How to best switch over to OpenSuSE on the desktop for daily normal gui life on the desktop? So far only on windows. I have a physical windows machine, I run gui and applications on it. The machine stays running. I lock the screen desktop. I return to the machine physically and have all my stuff running or available. Being remotely, what I often do in Windows ist tunnel to the windows machine via SSH means, and then remote desktop (microsoft rdp client) or VNC to the machine as a secondary means if needed. How do I make the switch over for this primary windows system into the linux desktop world? Occasionally I ssh to remote linux machines and use x11vnc and a vnc client to grab the real display:0 kind of physical screen pixel output of the linux machine and make it visible at my local place (also mostly being windows machines currently). X11vnc is often really sluggish on some targets even though the round trip time and the bandwidth allows plenty, I have not fugured out why the huge delays on certain x11vnc sessions happen. Anyways. How would I switch over from so far working on windows (normal firefox, mails/thunderbird, office documents related stuff) to a linux opensuse main machine. Reaching the windows or linux machine network wise via ssh tunnel is okay and dealt with i guess. How do I get my pixels to my off-site physical machine the best ways? I remember x11-servers and names of some such tools on windows from days back when hummingbird exceed or similar stuff. What would be the best practices to simply be able to access the screen of a linux machine from nearly anywhere from remotely in safe and sound means? That x11vnc attempt doesnt seem right to me. I read about newer concepts such as x2go, nomachines' nx and other stuff. . I also know about such stuff as teamviewer, anydesk and various vnc types and dialects. Also I read about that one can add some rdp (microsoft kind-of rdp server to the linux machine) and use normal rdp clients to connect to. Maybe I am going down the wrong road or doing things not in a fancy way. Thanks for insight.

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PostgreSQL 14.2
by Simon Connah 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Hi, I've just started a project using PostgreSQL and have noticed that the latest version in Tumbleweed is 14.1, but there was a patch to 14.2 on the 10th of February. Is there a reason why PostgreSQL has not been updated to the latest version at all? Is there anything I can do to help if there is a problem? Simon.

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HP 1109W printer not working OpenSuSE 15.2
by Carl Spitzer {L Juno} 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

Though recognized and powered up it seems to be disabled. I have gone into Yast to delete it rerun detest and checked enabled. NOt sure what log to check for the error. CWSIV

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x11vnc scrolling showing basic desktop
by Marc Chamberlin 06 Mar '22

06 Mar '22

Hello - I am running openSuSE 15.3 x64 on a number of systems and use x11vnc/vncviewer to access them remotely. A problem, that is really annoying is that vncviewer often shows only a portion of the remote desktop and uses scrollbars to move the view around. The vertical scroll bar in particular, when moved to the extreme bottom causes the view to stop showing any open windows, and just show the basic desktop itself with whatever icons are placed on the desktop. This behavior is what I find very annoying and I would like to stop it. Can some kind guru tell me how? Hours googling has brought me no joy probably because I cannot find the right set of keywords for searching with. Thanks in advance if you can help me with this? 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 electronic signature is attached. 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 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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[oS-en] [XFCE] What happened to xfce4-panel-plugin-multiload-nandhp?
by Carlos E. R. 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I miss this package in 15.3, can not find it: https://software.opensuse.org/package/xfce4-panel-plugin-multiload-nandhp xfce4-panel-plugin-multiload-nandhp System Load Monitor for the Xfce Panel A system load monitor that graphs processor, memory, and swap space use, plus network and disk activity. It is a port of the GNOME multiload applet to the Xfce panel. Version 0.3 Size 43 KB openSUSE Leap 15.2 I have been using it for "decades". Why is it not available on 15.3, what happened to it? :-? Some known equivalent? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYfceQhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVtCMAnR7NfRLT3dALC7111IaD GP0jjDsPAJ9YdBDHXQ0Hzp2qjIqV9rzqq18p+Q== =Gk0s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[oS-en] Black window in Thunderbird
by Carlos E. R. 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Leap 15.3, XFCE, Thunderbird 91.6.1 Sometimes, when changing workspaces, or clicking to open the about box (and not only that box), the window is filled in black. I have to wait some seconds, or sometimes click inside the window. Telcontar:~ # inxi --graphics Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] driver: amdgpu v: kernel Display: server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.39.0 5.3.18-150300.59.49-default LLVM 11.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.4 Telcontar:~ # - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYiHuIhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVqXoAn0Kgb+igjuk6WooklAqr +f5mHkkDAKCJXb1aeokWZrTQEqu+/K5Dr6i38A== =mzXN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Leap 15.3 download links broken - Error 404
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

All the links from https://get.opensuse.org/leap/#download are broken. Error 404 download.opensuse.org -- Regards, Ariez ajv(a)opensuse.org

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Zim
by Simon Connah 02 Mar '22

02 Mar '22

Hi, I installed Zim on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and the package failed to work. This is the error message I get: https://gist.github.com/simonconnah/4416b36aa0924794c204965dc6eec588 I installed Zim with a completely up to date version of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed using KDE. Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this issue? I can provide any extra information you need. Simon.

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[opensuse] Bug in usb drivers? "Not enough bandwidth for new device state"
by Markus Egg 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

SuSE Tumbleweed with newest updates and upgrades. 5.7.1-1-default #1 SMP Wed Jun 10 11:53:46 UTC 2020 (6a549f6) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Just recently started to give error messages when plugging in e.g. USB Headsets, Arduino Uno into some Exsys USB 3.0 hub. This was working fine in Tumbleweed before and in e.g. SuSE 13.1. The error message is e.g.: [...]usb 2-1.4.3: new full-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd [...]usb 2-1.4.3: New USB device found, idVendor=2341, idProduct=0043, bcdDevice= 0.01 [...]usb 2-1.4.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=220 [...]usb 2-1.4.3: Manufacturer: Arduino (www.arduino.cc) ...serialnumber... [...]kernel: usb 2-1.4.3: Not enough bandwidth for new device state. [...]kernel: usb 2-1.4.3: can't set config #1, error -28 This error message started on Jun 04, after making an update (zypper up) on June 3rd. A USB3.0 stick is working on the Exsys Hub. The Arduino is working on some other USB 3.0 Port of another hub. Regression? Any hints how to get this away? Found only another occurrence of this bug: http://opensuse92.rssing.com/chan-20813128/all_p1407.html Best regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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yast / zypper repo not visible
by Simon Becherer 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

Here on tumbleweed, not completely updated 20220122: i tried in yast chang a url, the repo is deleted, (not listed any more) so i decide to cancle, and delete the repo in yast. then i added a new repo with zypper: zypper ar -c -n 'Arcad Systemhaus' http://packages.arcad.de/maintenance/accesscode/rpms/5.11/main/RPMS Arcad now its listed in yast "software-repositorys" but NOT in the yast "install software" / show -repositorys and yes, its active zypper lr -p 1 | Arcad | Arcad Systemhaus | Ja | ( p) Ja | Ja | 99 what i see is that in yast "software-repos" the type of the repo is shown as "none" not as "yum" as all others. whats wrong, here, some corrupted database (how to fix) or is this some bug? simoN -- www.becherer.de

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Searchable database on the web?
by Simon Connah 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

Hi, This is probably an idiotic question but is there a searchable database of all OpenSUSE Tumbleweed packages available on the web at all? I'm used to Ubuntu, where I can go to https://packages.ubuntu.com/ and search the package list. I know I can do that using YaST, but sometimes I find it more convenient to do it using a web browser. Thanks. Simon.

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Strange problems with browsers and thunderbird
by Markus Egg 27 Feb '22

27 Feb '22

I installed SuSE Tumbleweed 20220202 snap since I read about some problems with SuSE Leap 15.3 . Installation failed to adress the online repositories but installed anyway. Afterwards I tried the installed firefox which constantly fails for certain webpages like www.suse.com www.nvidia.de github.com Funnily enough other sites like www.fosshub.com are working ok, there is no network problem since Windows 10 on the same machine and a laptop with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on the same network are doing just fine. Thunderbird refuses connections to email servers which are working fine on my Ubuntu Laptop. Then I tried chromium from the repos: same problem. Opera from the repos: same problem. I also tried the Mozilla version from here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/97.0.1/ and the Mozilla version of thunderbird from here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/91.6.1/ Still the same problem. Started firefox with a complete new ~/.mozilla : no change. What is wrong with Tumbleweed nowadays? Do I have to say goodbye to OpenSuSE after more than 20 years? :-( BR

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running an ARM domu under xen?
by Per Jessen 27 Feb '22

27 Feb '22

I'll just throw it out here, you never whom I might hit - for compiling/building stuff for small ARM boards, I have a dedicated machine with a qemu-arm "system" set up, to run on an openSUSE jeos ARM image. This works really well, but it's a little cumbersome. I got wondering if it might be possible to run a virtual ARM guest too, on xen? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.1°C)

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Leap 15.3: strange network error
by Peter Maffter 27 Feb '22

27 Feb '22

Hello, on Leap 15.2 on my laptop network (eth and wlan) was working just normal.Updated yesterday to Leap 15.3 and I have massive networking problems: Feb 04 01:44:34 machine4 systemd-udevd[428]: Network interface NamePolicy= disabled by default. Feb 04 01:44:34 machine4 systemd-udevd[5519]: Using default interface naming scheme 'v238'. Feb 04 01:44:34 machine4 systemd-udevd[5520]: Using default interface naming scheme 'v238'. Feb 04 01:44:34 machine4 systemd-udevd[5521]: Using default interface naming scheme 'v238'. Feb 04 01:44:34 machine4 systemd-udevd[5522]: ethtool: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable. Feb 04 01:44:34 machine4 systemd-udevd[5520]: ethtool: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable. Feb 04 01:44:34 machine4 systemd-udevd[5521]: ethtool: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable. Feb 04 01:44:34 machine4 systemd-udevd[5519]: ethtool: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable. Feb 04 01:44:38 machine4 systemd[1]: Reloading wicked managed network interfaces. Feb 04 01:44:38 machine4 kernel: e1000e 0000:00:19.0 interneth0: NIC Link is Down Feb 04 01:44:39 machine4 firewalld[1364]: WARNING: NOT_ENABLED: interneth0 Feb 04 01:44:40 machine4 firewalld[1364]: WARNING: NOT_ENABLED: wlan0 I've never seen this "NIC Link is Down" message, when the cable is plugged in and the switch is on.On Windows 10 all is ok and this was working on SuSE Leap 15.2 just before update.:-( What is wrong here?Reinstall?Try tumbleweed?Take another distribution and leave SuSE? BRPete

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OpenVPN version
by James Knott 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

A recent update to pfsense has OpenVPN version 2.5.4, which breaks 2.4.3-5.7.1 that is in OpenSUSE. Is a newer version available for OpenSUSE? tnx jk

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ZFS?
by James Knott 25 Feb '22

25 Feb '22

I've come across a video and article about ZFS. How does it compare with btrfs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlBXXdz0JKA https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/zfs-101-understandin… BTW, I'm currently running ZFS on my pfsense firewall.

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[oS-en] Mail repo gone?
by Carlos E. R. 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was using "http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/mail/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/", but it is gone now. Has it moved? I still see https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/mail/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ and https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/mail/15.3/ - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYhdyThwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVn+4An1O4iXDaVqMMiyoU7at9 nFtyIutgAJ4m4gcYFfGlpciJCKZ5GIOTXTzUPw== =WFO6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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root cannot play sound ???
by Patrick Shanahan 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

root no longer has access to sound devices, wft ???? -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times...

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Blacklist pipewire from zypper dup (TW)
by Bengt Gördén 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

Hi, As the subject says, I'd like to blacklist pipewire from dup updates in tumbleweed. Do not misunderstand me. I like pipewire and look forward to it becoming standard, when it's ready for prime time. Unfortunately, this is not the case at the moment and I rely on professionally audio with jackd etc. Anyway. What's the correct way to blacklist pipewire from zypper dup, and is it even possible without destroying the setup? PS. This might be more appropriate on the factory list but I start here. DS. -- /bengan

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Re: DICOM viewer for Tumbleweed KDE
by mh＠mike.franken.de 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

Hi again, uhm, I spoke too soon: I can open single dicom files only. Trying to open a series leads to a coredump. Bye. Michael. On Sonntag, 13. Februar 2022 19:45:20 CET mh(a)mike.franken.de wrote: > Hi Simon, > > thx for this description. > dcmtk an liborcus were already installed here. After installing libglademm > aeskulap could be installed without a problem and seems to run as expected. > > Bye. > Michael. > > On Samstag, 12. Februar 2022 14:17:56 CET you wrote: > > Am 11.02.22 um 20:55 schrieb mh(a)mike.franken.de: > > > Hi *, > > > > > > is there any DICOM viewer available for KDE in openSUSE Tumbleweed? > > > > > > TIA. > > > > > > Bye. > > > Michael. > > > > i use aeskulap from: > > > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/fstrba/openSUSE_Tumbleweed > > / > > > > working fine for me. but i remember somebody had problems with the > > installation. ah, found my note: > > you must also install: > > > > dcmtk > > dcmtk3_6 > > > > is, or it was a dependency problem. i think automatically it will maybe > > not installed, but you need it otherwise aeskulap will not work. > > > > this 4 have also something to do with it, according to my very old, (maybe > > wrong) writings: libixion-0_13-0 from opensuse > > liborcus-0_13-0 from opensuse > > libglademm from home-fstrba.... > > libglademm-2_4-1 from home-fstrba.... > > > > i need always a little time and never remember after a half year of > > not working with it how to get all pictures in and slide thru, if > > you not managed it to use, write again, i must try then, and then > > i could write how to work with it. > > > > simoN

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Packman and TW
by Simon Connah 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

Hi, I've got a fairly new install of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed but I'm getting stuck when trying to run sudo zypper dup as Packman hasn't caught up with the main repositories. I've had this problem before but normally the Packman repository updates fairly quickly so that it is back in sync with the main repositories. Has there been any news on this issue? Thanks. Simon.

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Tiny fonts in Zoiper phone since 1 week
by Bjoern Voigt 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

Hello, I have the problem, that my Zoiper VOIP phone application is shown with tiny fonts since around one week. I remember only two configuration changes before this happened: * Latest Tumbleweed snapshot update * I updated the /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directory with the current font files from Windows 10 and started "sudo fonts-config" afterwards. I did not updated Zoiper (already latest version 5.5.9). I use Xorg with KDE Plasma and the Nvidia driver 470.103.01 from the Nvidia repository. Only this single application is affected. All other applications are still good. My guess is, that the Zoiper application detects incorrect DPI or font size settings since latest Tumbleweed update. In the past Zoiper already had bugs with fontconfig. Any ideas? Is it possible to display the fontconfig default fonts? Here is a Zoiper screenshot with the tiny fonts: https://paste.opensuse.org/79fe4254 Greetings, Björn

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[oS-en] Slow update wit YaST
by Carlos E. R. 16 Feb '22

16 Feb '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying an update with YaST, and metadata is downloading at 145 Kb/s for minutes. Modem speeds :-( 2022-02-11 10:38:59 <1> Telcontar(7459) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1018 URL: http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/repodata/eac20872cfcc736e… 2022-02-11 10:38:59 <1> Telcontar(7459) [Ruby] modules/PackageCallbacks.rb(StartDownload):1785 Downloading http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/repodata/eac20872cfcc736e… to /var/adm/mount/AP_0xWVpq6a/repodata/eac20872cfcc736eca89886cff25cfc37ee4f55fb9e0a5460ff11ae09990a6d6-primary.xml.gz 2022-02-11 10:38:59 <1> Telcontar(7459) [Ruby] modules/Progress.rb(SubprogressType):519 Resetting the subprogressbar... 2022-02-11 10:38:59 <1> Telcontar(7459) [zypp::media++] MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1374 HTTP response: 200 2022-02-11 10:38:59 <5> Telcontar(7459) [DEFINE_LOGGROUP] Exception.cc(log):166 MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1432 THROW: Multicurl enabled but not enough mirrors provided 2022-02-11 10:38:59 <1> Telcontar(7459) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1008 ./repodata/eac20872cfcc736eca89886cff25cfc37ee4f55fb9e0a5460ff11ae09990a6d6-primary.xml.gz 2022-02-11 10:38:59 <1> Telcontar(7459) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1018 URL: http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/repodata/eac20872cfcc736e… 2022-02-11 10:38:59 <1> Telcontar(7459) [zypp++] CurlHelper.cc(log_redirects_curl):105 redirecting to Location: https://rsync.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/repodata/eac20872cfcc736eca… - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYgYwWRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVgroAn3SiVP18TQZ5ya3ZfNSR /ItTKMJzAKCTKRnGOyitUNITfDNhM98PkCb9IQ== =UgK1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Latest TW 20220212 fails to boot after dup - maybe an nvidia issue
by Michael Hamilton 14 Feb '22

14 Feb '22

Just a heads up to anyone using nvidia considering dup'ing to 20220212 with kernel 5.16.8-1-default. After upgrading I cannot boot, not even to run level 3. It may be because I'm using the nvidia proprietary driver. I've not seen it fail to boot to runlevel 3 before, so that's a surprise. The host is not reachable via ssh and it's NFS-exports are not available. I'm seeing the following errors in the journal (after booting back to 5.16.5-1-default). BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 233s! .. #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page .. PGD 100001067 P4D 100001067 PUD 1001b5067 PMD 111932067 PTE 0 .. CPU: 1 PID: 459 Comm: kworker/1:2 Tainted: P OE 5.16.8-1-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed 257f8f36371552cd38032922fd021edb6811ecdc Journal Entry 2022-02-14 17:37:17.393907 .. Workqueue: events drm_fb_helper_damage_work RIP: 0010:memcpy_toio+0x23/0x50 Hardware concerned: CPU: Info: 6-Core model: AMD FX-6300 bits: 64 type: MCP cache: L2: 2 MiB Speed: 1404 MHz min/max: 1400/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1404 2: 1399 3: 3450 4: 1869 5: 1404 6: 1404 Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER] driver: nvidia v: 470.103.01 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 driver: loaded: nvidia resolution: 1: 3360x2100~60Hz 2: 3840x2160~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.103.01 There's no time for me to look further at this today. Cheers, Michael

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[oS-en] Thunderbird issue
by Carlos E. R. 14 Feb '22

14 Feb '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Since a recent update I notice something different in Thunderbird that I don't like (Using version 91.5.0 on Leap 15.3). I'm reading the subject lines in the top panel (I don't know its name). It shows the from, to, subject, date... I go up and down using the wheel on the mouse. I locate an email I want to read, so in the bottom panel I have the email. I want to browse it, so I poise the mouse over the panel and move the wheel... nothing happens. I have to click on the panel first, then move the wheel, then the mail read panel goes up or down the email. This did not happen before, the window would follow the wheel as soon as I move the wheel. On other programs it works, it is just Thunderbird that has changed behaviour. I thought I would get used to the change, so I have waited two weeks, but no, it is still a nuisance. Is there some configuration to change back to the old behaviour? Is this a bug? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYglXAxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVZsgAn11bqmgJlp1QlAEP/kC/ C0MA0JHoAJ4nwROz4HZqiT+JhwZ91Jeit3eILg== =P4p1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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x windows on 15.3
by joea- lists 14 Feb '22

14 Feb '22

Originally installed a test 15.3 system as a simple server, no graphics environment. It's been maybe a decade since I had to install and configure an X system from scratch. Added X11 via Yast. Accepted the required additions. systemctl start xdm.service fails. Due to "dependencies". Did find a few services it needed that were not installed by YAST. Still failed to start. Eventually I found it was failing due to "not configured". Suse docs seem to say it does "not normally need to be configured" and should just work. I've so far found no configuration utilities to assist. At least none seem to be installed. Any assistance is appreciated. joe a.

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DICOM viewer for Tumbleweed KDE
by mh＠mike.franken.de 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

Hi *, is there any DICOM viewer available for KDE in openSUSE Tumbleweed? TIA. Bye. Michael.

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problem printing some documents
by Istvan Gabor 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

Hello: This occurs in openSUSE Leap 15.3 with its default cups installation. The printer is an Epson AL-M300II connected with USB cable. There are some documents I cannot print, eg invoices. Other regular pdf files print OK. When opening a problematic document with Okular, it says: "This document has embedded files. Click here to see them or go to File -> Embedded Files. This document has forms. Click on the button to interact with them, or use View -> Show Forms. This document is digitally signed." When I print the document, the printer's green led is blinking, but nothing is printed. CUPS acces_log file says: localhost - - [09/Feb/2022:18:14:05 +0100] "POST /printers/epson_usb HTTP/1.1" 200 605 Create-Job successful-ok localhost - - [09/Feb/2022:18:14:05 +0100] "POST /printers/epson_usb HTTP/1.1" 200 1205055 Send-Document successful-ok lpstat reports a successful print job: epson_usb-30 user 1205248 Wed 09 Feb 2022 06:14:20 PM CET What to check or how to fix this? Thanks, Istvan

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Stellarium os flickering
by Albert Oszkó 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

Hi all, I 've been using Stellarium as a planetarium software and also for demonstration purposes. For some time, it is blinking, flickering etc, cannot be enjoyed at all. This is an elder ASUS laptop with TW and KDE (and XFCE). Is there somebody out there who also uses Stellarium and observed this unwanted flickering. Any idea is welcome. Thanks, Albert

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pgp for Leap 15.3 arm
by jdd＠dodin.org 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

Hello, I don't seems to be able to install pgp for openSUSE 15.3 arm any hint? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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Audio problem Leap-15.3
by Mark Hounschell 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

On a machine I did a "zypper dup" to update from 15.2 to 15.3, the 15.3 does not have sound at bootup. Sound card is: # lspci | grep -i audio 16:00.4 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller The 15.2 works fine. 15.2: #dmesg | grep -i audio [ 0.502138] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio) [ 9.892740] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: ALC1150: SKU not ready 0x00000000 [ 9.894094] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for ALC1150: line_outs=1 (0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:line [ 9.894980] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) [ 9.895870] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: hp_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) [ 9.896760] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: mono: mono_out=0x0 [ 9.897662] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: dig-out=0x1e/0x0 [ 9.897662] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: inputs: [ 9.897663] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Front Mic=0x19 [ 9.897664] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Rear Mic=0x18 [ 9.897664] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Line=0x1a [ 9.912613] input: HD-Audio Generic Front Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:16:00.4/sound/card0/input4 [ 9.913543] input: HD-Audio Generic Rear Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:16:00.4/sound/card0/input5 [ 9.914476] input: HD-Audio Generic Line as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:16:00.4/sound/card0/input6 [ 9.915416] input: HD-Audio Generic Line Out as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:16:00.4/sound/card0/input7 [ 9.916344] input: HD-Audio Generic Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:16:00.4/sound/card0/input8 On 15.3: #dmesg | grep -i audio [ 0.132048] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio) [ 5.112574] hdaudio hdaudioC0D0: Unable to bind the codec Yet when I go into Yast and reconfigure the card, the sound works until a reboot happens. What am I missing? Mark

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polkit aka PolicyKit?
by joea- lists 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

What news about the Polkit vulnerability?

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TW Yast Bootloader Options refreshes repos?
by Michael Hamilton 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

In recent weeks/months I've noticed that if I enter the Yast "Boot Loader Settings" "Bootloader-Options" tab, there is a long pause because yast immediately refreshes/downloads all the zypper repo data. Why does changing the boot loader options require a repo refresh? And while I'm on the subject of repos, I'm sometimes asked whether I want to accept new keys (like just five minutes ago). I always answer yes, but is there an easy way to tell what answer I should give? Or perhaps a way to get zypper to authoritatively check or re-check keys? Thanks. Michael

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Samba updates crashes smbd
by Marc Chamberlin 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

I am running OpenSuSE 15.3, x64 I am a bit confused, I noticed on Mon Feb 1, that I received a number of updates, many of which involved samba bringing it to version 4.15.4-git.324.8332acf1a63150300.3.25.3-SUSE-oS15.0-x86_64. Today (Feb 5) I noticed that autofs on other systems was failing and I traced the problem back to samba which was failing to export shares because smbd had crashed. The smb.log file showed this error - [2022/02/05 18:45:01.852699, 0] ../../source3/smbd/server.c:1734(main) smbd version 4.15.4-git.324.8332acf1a63150300.3.25.3-SUSE-oS15.0-x86_64 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2021 [2022/02/05 18:45:01.867593, 0] ../../lib/util/become_daemon.c:120(exit_daemon) exit_daemon: daemon failed to start: Samba failed to init printing subsystem, error code 13 Googling this error message lead me to this bug report - https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191532 which seems to be all about fixing this error. The bug is marked resolved/fixed and the last entries (on Mon Feb 1) are about releasing the fix. So I assume that the release of this fix corresponds to the updates I got on that same day. Yet this is when this particular bug started showing up on my systems! I have dropped back to version 4.13.13-git.539.fdbc44a85983.20.2-SUSE-oS15.0-x86_64of samba and all is well again, both autofs and my printers are working again. So what gives? Did this update fix, or not fix this bug? I admit I do not grok about 95% of the bug report (didn't take the time to do so) but it seems pretty coincidental that the bug was was marked as resolved and then released on the very day I got updates that broke my smbd daemons. Please don't be harsh on me, I am simply trying to understand what is going on and would appreciate any suggestions/advise on what to do about updating Samba. 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 electronic signature is attached. 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 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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504 gateway timeout
by Joe Acquisto-j4 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

While attempting to login to change subscribed address, that is delete old one got 504 gateway timeouts every time https://lists.opensuse.org/accounts/openid/login/?openid=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.… My new address was confirmed, FWIW --------------------- j4computers llc Stone Ridge NY 12484 845-687-9595 www.j4computers.com ---------------------

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[oS-en] [Solved] USB trouble af
by Carlos E. R. 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The issue is solved, but as it may help other people searching for issues, I post it. Actually, I solved it after writing the post, when I had a new idea to try ;-) Actual solution at the bottom. So the text below is as written before I solved the problem, so it is in the present tense. Convert mentally to "past", there are too many things to manually edit ;-) I have trouble today with USB. I noticed the keyboard not responding at times, too, but I don't think it is the keyboard at fault, because I disconnected it and the messages in the log did not stop: <0.3> 2022-02-04T16:02:10.505904+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13512.013430] usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 <0.3> 2022-02-04T16:02:26.429904+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13527.937480] usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 <0.6> 2022-02-04T16:02:26.737899+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13528.245446] usb 3-2: new low-speed USB device number 69 using xhci_hcd <0.3> 2022-02-04T16:02:42.550312+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13544.061549] usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 <0.3> 2022-02-04T16:02:58.218032+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13559.725587] usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 <0.6> 2022-02-04T16:02:58.325919+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13559.833895] usb usb3-port2: attempt power cycle <0.3> 2022-02-04T16:02:58.405913+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13559.913695] debugfs: Directory '03' with parent 'devices' already present! <0.6> 2022-02-04T16:02:58.809916+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13560.317578] usb 3-2: new low-speed USB device number 70 using xhci_hcd <0.4> 2022-02-04T16:03:08.435534+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13569.946944] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.3> 2022-02-04T16:03:08.437901+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13569.947312] debugfs: Directory '04' with parent 'devices' already present! <0.4> 2022-02-04T16:03:18.271274+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13579.782227] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.3> 2022-02-04T16:03:18.481921+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13579.989623] usb 3-2: device not accepting address 70, error -71 <0.3> 2022-02-04T16:03:18.481935+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13579.990023] debugfs: Directory '06' with parent 'devices' already present! <0.6> 2022-02-04T16:03:18.678068+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13580.185623] usb 3-2: new low-speed USB device number 71 using xhci_hcd <0.4> 2022-02-04T16:03:28.302733+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13589.814221] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.3> 2022-02-04T16:03:28.305898+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13589.814625] debugfs: Directory '07' with parent 'devices' already present! <0.4> 2022-02-04T16:03:38.141900+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13599.650482] usb 3-2: Device not responding to setup address. <0.3> 2022-02-04T16:03:38.353902+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13599.861695] usb 3-2: device not accepting address 71, error -71 <0.3> 2022-02-04T16:03:38.353914+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [13599.861989] usb usb3-port2: unable to enumerate USB device Telcontar:~ # lsusb Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 005: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub <-- UPS? Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c404 Logitech, Inc. TrackMan Wheel Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04d9:2020 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. USB Keyboard Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Telcontar:~ # Telcontar:~ # uname -a Linux Telcontar 5.3.18-150300.59.43-default #1 SMP Sun Jan 23 19:27:23 UTC 2022 (c76af22) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Telcontar:~ # The only things connected to the USB now are the keyboard, the mouse, and an UPS. Looking at previous log entries I see: Telcontar:~ # zgrep "usb 3-2:" /var/log/messages-20220203.xz <0.6> 2022-01-27T11:36:21.240553+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [30257.429520] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-01-27T18:19:25.226068+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [39132.001180] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-01-28T11:43:40.193992+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [65096.224584] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-01-28T23:19:36.212612+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [82710.907141] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-01-29T00:27:38.989871+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 6.552012] usb 3-2: new low-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-01-29T00:27:38.989925+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 7.598700] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0463, idProduct=ffff, bcdDevice= 0.01 <0.6> 2022-01-29T00:27:38.989925+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 7.603853] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=4 <0.6> 2022-01-29T00:27:38.989925+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 7.608948] usb 3-2: Product: ELLIPSE <0.6> 2022-01-29T00:27:38.989930+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 7.614002] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: EATON <0.6> 2022-01-29T00:27:38.989930+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 7.618987] usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 000000000 <0.6> 2022-01-29T12:53:44.212043+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [14276.521334] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-01-29T19:53:50.190505+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [24902.096326] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-01-30T13:02:30.443420+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 6.492010] usb 3-2: new low-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-01-30T13:02:30.443458+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 7.535702] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0463, idProduct=ffff, bcdDevice= 0.01 <0.6> 2022-01-30T13:02:30.443493+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 7.540599] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=4 <0.6> 2022-01-30T13:02:30.443495+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 7.545485] usb 3-2: Product: ELLIPSE <0.6> 2022-01-30T13:02:30.443496+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 7.550328] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: EATON <0.6> 2022-01-30T13:02:30.443497+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [ 7.555128] usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 000000000 <0.6> 2022-01-30T20:13:37.216073+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [14716.037398] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-01-31T11:17:15.195212+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [40118.790690] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-01-31T18:56:33.207103+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [55638.682915] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-02-01T08:05:36.186233+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [85187.438786] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-02-01T17:56:27.206231+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [102700.937967] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-02-02T08:58:42.228372+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [136057.971264] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2022-02-02T19:00:50.221197+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [152279.349753] usb 3-2: reset low-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd Telcontar:~ # - --- Solution It was when pasting the test just above I noticed that usb 3-2 was "EATON", thus the UPS. I did not know before which was the culprit. So suspicions were a kernel update just before this happened, or broken hardware at the computer USB port because I had accidentally powered off the UPS while the computer was active. But then, being less dramatic, just the UPS chipset hanging. So I halted the computer, powered off the UPS at is buttton, then powered off the mains before the UPS. And on the next power up, the problem was gone :-) So the problem was that, chipset hung up at the UPS. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYf5/Hxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVo5cAnRNRcug7TIwEtUmCyf7c pUJDM/1+AKCN5ayWA8vRdxxnnD5BYtgO9IJCBw== =7tte -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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VMWare Workstation Pro kernel module error
by Simon Connah 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Hi, Sorry to send two messages to the mailing list in the past hour but I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. The full error log can be found here: https://gist.github.com/simonconnah/626bcc3ba426990757f900f3a59ad5cf Does anyone have any experience with this sort of issue? Thank you. Simon.

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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed init.d directory?
by Simon Connah 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Hi, I'm trying to install VMWare Workstation Pro 16.2.1 on a new install of Tumbleweed with all updates installed and when I run the installer it asks me this question: System service scripts directory (commonly /etc/init.d).: But I'm not sure what to put in there. Does anyone know by any chance? Thank you. Simon.

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[oS-en] Leap 15.3: can't mount /home
by Carlos E. R. 03 Feb '22

03 Feb '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Unknown filesystem 'reiserfs' :-/ - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYcvG+hwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVeQcAn1pPUk98DaNg71a+xWkt aO8+J/NUAJ9+K6U01YofXopVhWGaPh6VIt2Ygw== =nhEU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[oS-en] Reiserfs ongoing problem
by Carlos E. R. 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a problem with my one remaining reiserfs partition on rotating rust. The problem I initially detected was that telling the machine to hibernate sometimes appeared to stall, and I had to force a power off (via physical power switch) to recover. In fact, I found out later, the kernel was simply syncing one partition, and this operation would take half an hour, which it is absurd. Later I found out that it was only one partition affected, and this partition was (is) reiserfs. Then I guessed that the slow operation was syncing the metadata (the time stamps) of the news (nntp) spool. Traditionally a news server touches (and use) the access timestamp each time a post is read, affecting one file per read. With the default mount options used nowdays this modification stays in RAM for long, many hours. So, the cronjob that scans the news spool now also calls sync on that filesystem, and when hibernating I call sync in advance. This improved things, but not completely. Thus I finally resorted to moving the news spool only to another reiserfs partition created on an SSD disk, which usually syncs in seconds, instead of half an hour. So I thought, problem solved. But later on I noticed that the sync operation prior to hibernating on the old reiserfs partition still takes long, but only on some days - even if nothing writes there now. This is astonishing. Look, last Monday: Telcontar:~ # hibernate 2021-12-13 04:26:18+01:00 Checking news to send 2021-12-13 04:26:22+01:00 Syncing rm: cannot remove '/var/lib/news/bin/cronscriptparafetchnews.enabled': No such file or directory 2021-12-13 06:06:09+01:00 synced. Now screensaver xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0.0 touch /var/lib/news/bin/cronscriptparafetchnews.enabled Telcontar:~ # An hour and a half to sync a not used partition! (I know it is only one partition because I monitor it with gkrellm) Hibernation script: date --rfc-3339=seconds echo Checking news to send /var/lib/news/bin/cronscriptparaenviarnewspendientes date --rfc-3339=seconds echo Syncing rm /var/lib/news/bin/cronscriptparafetchnews.enabled strace -o /tmp/hibernate.strace sync date --rfc-3339=seconds echo "synced. Now screensaver" xscreensaver-command -lock sleep 3 #sudo chvt 10 #sleep 1 sudo /usr/local/sbin/beep sleep 1 #systemctl hibernate sudo /usr/bin/systemctl hibernate The structure of the mount is this: Telcontar:~ # mount | grep sdc9 /dev/sdc9 on /data/Lareiserfs type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,user_xattr,acl) /dev/sdc9 on /usr/src type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,user_xattr,acl) /dev/sdc9 on /home/cer/terrasync type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,user_xattr,acl) /dev/sdc9 on /data/homedvl type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,user_xattr,acl) /dev/sdc9 on /usr/share/flightgear type reiserfs (rw,relatime,lazytime,user_xattr,acl) Telcontar:~ # The first one is the actual mount, the rest are bind mounts - fstab: LABEL=c_data_reiser /data/Lareiserfs reiserfs acl,user_xattr,barrier=flush,lazytime 1 3 /data/Lareiserfs/gamedata/flightgear /usr/share/flightgear none bind 0 0 /data/Lareiserfs/gamedata/terrasync /home/cer/terrasync none bind 0 0 /data/Lareiserfs/data_homedvl /data/homedvl none bind 0 0 /data/Lareiserfs/usr_src /usr/src none bind 0 0 Now I have added entries to my hibernate script to sync each reiserfs bind mount separately, find out which one it is, if any. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYbiC3Bwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVNQ0An0UB/PrQobQOFtt1bA5b ll35Ej7FAJ9E6b3Mh88V1OcIbudlN0SwdavIhw== =hvzD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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15.3, updates a few moments ago, what are those update-test-.... updates? similar to early alpha/beta stages?
by cagsm 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

List, some simple 15.3 just applied some update-test-..... named updates. What gives? I am not on alpha or beta level repos or anything? bug? testing on whole userbase? 2022-02-01 20:17:34|install|update-test-affects-package-manager|5.1-33.2|x86_64||repo-sle-update|b30701eb358b95cabf7a724565bab263629b1dccdec9b50cb2113a0e34b9f6de| 2022-02-01 20:17:34|install|update-test-interactive|5.1-33.2|x86_64||repo-sle-update|f2211a27237a471cf6f558c22e63119d6e3a30af1d065be3697e53714d105ff3| 2022-02-01 20:17:34|install|update-test-optional|5.1-33.2|x86_64||repo-sle-update|b40ea677c146f8494f954531b5eac29bd88912386069039fbf7c397bdad7a41d| 2022-02-01 20:17:35|install|update-test-reboot-needed|5.1-33.2|x86_64||repo-sle-update|09f0465f6e500c6467f1c0e0865a268c0259386198a18c833b5f4049126212c2| 2022-02-01 20:17:35|install|update-test-security|5.1-33.2|x86_64||repo-sle-update|85b096976235af18d085a52cbfa1d31c40336e6120c396b3feafb264c09ef1ce| 2022-02-01 20:17:35|install|update-test-trivial|5.1-33.2|x86_64||repo-sle-update|e219dd6c3a92ccb691bafe7cfbd338d61160dc33e1470fe266e8f2dc57be4b60| ty

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Leap 15.3 latest kernel update gibts bootup freeze on amd gpu based - nomodeset needed to work again
by cagsm 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

Hello list dwellers, some simplistic leap 15.3 system, just applied tonights kernel update fix currently installed packages, dunno why after reboot surplus kernels dont get cleaned up btw. used to be in the past? anyhow: rpm -aq | grep kernel | sort kernel-default-5.3.18-150300.59.43.1.x86_64 kernel-default-5.3.18-59.40.1.x86_64 kernel-default-extra-5.3.18-150300.59.43.1.x86_64 kernel-default-extra-5.3.18-59.40.1.x86_64 kernel-default-optional-5.3.18-150300.59.43.1.x86_64 kernel-default-optional-5.3.18-59.40.1.x86_64 kernel-firmware-all-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-amdgpu-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-ath10k-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-ath11k-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-atheros-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-bluetooth-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-bnx2-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-brcm-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-chelsio-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-dpaa2-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-i915-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-intel-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-iwlwifi-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-liquidio-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-marvell-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-media-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-mediatek-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-mellanox-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-mwifiex-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-network-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-nfp-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-nvidia-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-platform-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-prestera-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-qlogic-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-radeon-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-realtek-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-serial-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-sound-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-ti-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-ueagle-20210208-2.4.noarch kernel-firmware-usb-network-20210208-2.4.noarch purge-kernels-service-0-8.3.1.noarch right now only via nomodeset as additional grub2 parameter in that command line there able to boot into this system. otherwise after grub2 screen and selection or timeout into boot, whole screen gets back, becomes powersaved (monitor says no signal, powersaves itself thereafter) no ctrl alt del no numlock LED no nothing. no hdd events/LED whole system needs to use the reset button to come back up again into BIOS/POST and grub2 screen again and continuing there only with additional nomodeset parameter. some elderly amd / amd gpu/chipset based system. worked neatly until a few minutes ago before the kernel update :( Linux linux 5.3.18-150300.59.43-default #1 SMP Sun Jan 23 19:27:23 UTC 2022 (c76af22) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880 [Radeon HD 4200] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M4A785TD Motherboard Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10, NUMA node 0 Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at c000 [size=256] Memory at fe9f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at fe800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Kernel modules: radeon 01:05.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M4A785TD Motherboard Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19, NUMA node 0 Memory at fe9e8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel what now? kernel rpm changelog showd quite a lot of amd/drm fixage and stuff. anyone able to fix this quickly? thanks. TIA

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bootable image(s) don't boot 15.3
by George H. Griffin 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Hello All: I have been trying to upgrade from Leap 15.2 to 15.3 but have not been able to get the 15.3 ISO(s) to boot on a variety of machines: a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series, an Asus M4A89 GTD pro MB with an AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T Processor and 16 GB RAM, and an old Toshiba laptop. All of these machines are happily running Leap 15.2, the desktop with the Asus MB and the Toshiba since 15.2 came on line and many versions preceding it. The 15.3 image was downloaded today: openSUSE-Leap-15.3-2-DVD-aarch64-Build24.5-Media.iso I have verified the checksum of the downloaded ISO which I've burned to 3 different USB sticks, 2 of them brand new, with Image Writer, and a DVD burned with with K3B. On the Dell I get the following message: "Selected boot device failed. Press any key to reboot the system." On the other two machines all I get is a flashing bar in the upper left hand corner of the display. Since I started this project I've tested all three machines with old Leap 15.1 & 15.2 USB images and they've all booted without a problem. I've not tried using the network image yet because in my situation the ISO will be easier if I can get it to work, and it should work and I'd like to find out why it doesn't, at least for me. Any help, or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, George -- George H. Griffin Powered by opensuse Leap 15.2 "... now you're really in the total animal soup of time—" Allen Ginsberg

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LEAP 15.2 selecting only non-reboot updates
by David T-G 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Hi, all -- I would love to keep my system more up to date, but I can't always plan for a reboot in the middle of what I'm doing. Is there a way (KDE updates menu, zypper, YaST, ...) to select all updates that won't require a reboot? TIA & Happy New Year :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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[New laptop] Recommendations for new (ultrabook) laptop
by Mark Stopka 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Hi, I am seeking a new laptop which I would like to have the best possible experience with openSUSE, from hardware perspective I have the follwing requirements: - Screen: 13 - 14 inch - RAM: 32 or more memory - 500 GB to 1 TB - quality build (no bending plastic) - ideally WiFi 6 suport, or at least hardware with said ability so that the drivers can support it later - 8 hours batter lifetime during modersate load (YouTube,... no code compiling that I can do remotely or when plugged-in) - Bluetooth - USB-C - powerfull in-build GPU is nice to have but I am ok with powerfull embedded one, as I have eGPU over Thunderbold via USB-C - built in RJ54 1GbE would be nice, but I have a USB-C dongle that can take care of that Please let me know if I missed something I should add to my requirements list. Any recommendations what to look for? Minor bugs don't matter, I can either fix them myself, or pay someone to do it for me. -- Best regards / S pozdravem, BSc. Mark Stopka, BBA Managing Partner (at) PERLUR Group mobile: +420 704 373 561 website: www.perlur.cloud

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Leap 15.3 kernel 5.3.18-150300.59.43-default boot hang on Dell 2950
by Moby 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Hi all. Since updating to Kernel 5.3.18-150300.59.43-default, my Dell 2950 server refuses to boot. It starts to boot, and then just freezes after a slight flicker of the screen (the freeze occurs with ACPI related messages on the screen, but those messages get displayed with previous kernel versions as well and those boot fine). There is nothing that is recorded in the boot logs etc. Reverting back to the previous kernel (5.3.18-59.40-default) resolves the problem. Is anyone else seeing similar issues? Regards, --Moby

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Need a refresh on run as
by joea- lists 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

I find myself a bit brain fogged trying to setup an application to run as a system user rather than as the logged user. Done a bit of searching but only come up with very dated stuff that refers to now non existent settings. Pointers to a suse specific "how to" might be sufficient for a kick start. joe a.

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Leap 15.3 install errors
by joea- lists 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

Installing leap 15.3 from ISO image downloaded today and burned to DVD. Downloaded from opensuse default site/ Several errors during actual install, not preparation. The first few were related to curl, suggesting the download site for repository was not reachable. These I skipped after several retries. The more concerning ones were of this nature: "Subprocess failed. Error:RPM failed:error:%prein(login_defs-4.81-2.43.noarch) scriptlet failed,exit status 127 error: login_defs-4.81-2.43.noarch:install failed" This is the one I am staring at now, there were several others all RPM related, soe mentioning other packages such as perl. Ignoring gives a warning about ignoring packages and later verifying system. The install would continue until the next one. After perhaps a dozen of these all different packages some of which seemed critical to a working system, I gave it up. This is not confidence inspiring. Does this suggest bad download image or some other issue? joe a.

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[oS-en] Terribly slow download servers
by Carlos E. R. 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to run YOU, and it is refreshing at 75KiB/S. Server below: 2022-01-26 14:14:46 <1> Telcontar(10364) [Ruby] modules/Progress.rb(SubprogressType):519 Resetting the subprogressbar... 2022-01-26 14:14:46 <1> Telcontar(10364) [zypp::media++] MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1374 HTTP response: 200 2022-01-26 14:14:46 <5> Telcontar(10364) [DEFINE_LOGGROUP] Exception.cc(log):166 MediaMultiCurl.cc(doGetFileCopy):1432 THROW: Multicurl enabled but not enough mirrors provided 2022-01-26 14:14:46 <1> Telcontar(10364) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1008 ./repodata/c75bbe7661a40e64c22ce7489aa4bef078c9bd0e9e099a5e2e1a1950da8902cb-primary.xml.gz 2022-01-26 14:14:46 <1> Telcontar(10364) [zypp::media++] MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCopyFile):1018 URL: http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/repodata/c75bbe7661a40e64… 2022-01-26 14:14:46 <1> Telcontar(10364) [zypp++] CurlHelper.cc(log_redirects_curl):105 redirecting to Location: http://mirrors.hit.edu.cn/opensuse/update/leap/15.3/sle/repodata/c75bbe7661… - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYfFMUhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVCWoAoI3FKcmZ2atnSxtpjxAI RBKkhL9KAJ99CiHY06E5m335KBXWasnXWOa29A== =Ufd8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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openSUSE on root ZFS
by Nikita Druba 25 Jan '22

25 Jan '22

Hi to all! Some time ago I was a task to setup openSUSE on zfs, like a root filesystem. Instruction in openzfs-docs was usable, but not in all configuration and require a lot of time for every installation attempt. As result, I wrote script for an automatic installation with many changeable variables of installation. If someone have the same task, you can use this instrument: https://github.com/ndruba/LroZ I will be grateful for a user feedback or issue reports. P.S. This message not for discussion about advisability of using zfs on openSUSE as root filesystem. I hope, that peoples, that do it, understand what they do. Thanx.

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plymouth-start.service KillMode=none. This is unsafe
by Admin Beckspaced 25 Jan '22

25 Jan '22

Dear opensuse list, since upgrading to opensuse leap 15.3 I do receive the following lines in the log: Jan 18 08:19:26 cx41 systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-start.service:15: Unit configured to use KillMode=none. This is unsafe, as it disables systemd's process lifecycle management for the service. Please update your service to use a safer KillMode=, such as 'mixed' or 'control-group'. Support for KillMode=none is deprecated and will eventually be removed. Is this something I need to worry about? What's the best way to fix this? Mixed? Control-Group? Thanks & greetings Becki

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VirtualBox update kills USB
by James Knott 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

There was an update of VirtualBox to 6.1.32, which appears to break USB. It produces the error: Failed to start the virtual machine Windows 10. Failed to construct device 'usb-xhci' instance #0 (VERR_PDM_DEVHLP_VERSION_MISMATCH). Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component: ConsoleWrap Interface: IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed} Turning off USB allows Windows 10 to run. This also happens on my ThinkPad with USB 2, but with a slightly different error message reflecting the difference in USB.

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Zimbra?
by Joe Acquisto-j4 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

I do not see openSuse on Zimbra open source supported list. Can it be done without much pain? joe a.

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[oS-en] rsyslog filtering question.
by Carlos E. R. 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, After I upgraded to 15.3 my main machine, I see excesive verbose entries, probably debug entries, in the warning log. I want to filter them out. These are the entries I'm starting with: <3.4> 2022-01-23T22:56:02.171332+01:00 Telcontar systemd-xdg-autostart-generator 28650 - - /etc/xdg/autostart/ibus-autostart.desktop:2: Unknown key name '_Name' in section 'Desktop Entry', ignoring. <3.4> 2022-01-23T22:56:02.171482+01:00 Telcontar systemd-xdg-autostart-generator 28650 - - /etc/xdg/autostart/ibus-autostart.desktop:3: Unknown key name '_GenericName' in section 'Desktop Entry', ignoring. <3.4> 2022-01-23T22:56:02.171539+01:00 Telcontar systemd-xdg-autostart-generator 28650 - - /etc/xdg/autostart/ibus-autostart.desktop:4: Unknown key name '_Comment' in section 'Desktop Entry', ignoring. <3.4> 2022-01-23T22:56:02.171911+01:00 Telcontar systemd-xdg-autostart-generator 28650 - - Configuration file /etc/xdg/autostart/klipper.desktop is marked executable. Please remove executable permission bits. Proceeding anyway. <3.4> 2022-01-23T22:56:02.175609+01:00 Telcontar systemd-xdg-autostart-generator 28650 - - Not generating service for XDG autostart app-xapp\x2dsn\x2dwatcher-autostart.service, error parsing Exec= line: No such file or directory So, I create this filter in /etc/rsyslog.conf: #debugging. if $syslogfacility == 3 and $syslogseverity == 4 and $programname == 'systemd-xdg-autostart-generator' \ then -/var/log/pruned.warn & stop This does work. So indeed it is facility number 3, severity 4, and the programname is correct. But I want to be more strict, and I write this modified filter: #debugging. if $syslogfacility == 3 and $syslogseverity == 4 and $programname == 'systemd-xdg-autostart-generator' \ and ($msg startswith '/etc/xdg/autostart/ibus-autostart.desktop') \ then -/var/log/pruned.warn & stop This does not trigger on the line below, it continues being written to /var/log/warn and not to /var/log/pruned.warn: <3.4> 2022-01-23T22:56:02.171539+01:00 Telcontar systemd-xdg-autostart-generator 28650 - - /etc/xdg/autostart/ibus-autostart.desktop:4: Unknown key name '_Comment' in section 'Desktop Entry', ignoring. To me, it is obvious that the message is indeed starting with '/etc/xdg/autostart/ibus-autostart.desktop', so why doesn't it work? What am I missing? If instead I write: #debugging. if $syslogfacility == 3 and $syslogseverity == 4 and $programname == 'systemd-xdg-autostart-generator' \ and ($msg contains '/etc/xdg/autostart/ibus-autostart.desktop') \ then -/var/log/pruned.warn & stop It does work. :-? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYe3Utxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV9poAoIVGyjmglAYSdJbvH9iY uVTtDdfRAJ9w61MkYIzgx3iShQDEJbvJVNCWcQ== =Muo/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Entering Unicode hexcodes using Ctrl-Shift-u
by Darryl Gregorash 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

As reported by several list members, it appears that this no longer works in TW, and I can confirm that it also does not work out-of-box with Leap 15.3. A bit of digging around the web came up with a solution: install the package ibus and reboot. Voilà, it works again, except in a console (including eg. Konsole). By default, this will put a panel in the system tray that allows one to configure the beast to one's preferences. There are also a lot of supplementary packages that I haven't examined yet. I have no idea what any of them do, or why/when they might be needed. At least with just this one package, the basic functioning can be restored. Next silly question, why is ibus not included as part of the default configuration at install time?

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where is arp?
by Joe Acquisto-j4 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

opensuse 15.2 arp is not found. Where did it go? Why did it go? What replaces it? joe a.

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[Solved] Refuses to connect via WLAN
by Wolfgang Mueller 23 Jan '22

23 Jan '22

On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 17:12:33 +0100, Stephan Hemeier wrote: > Am Samstag, 22. Januar 2022, 14:21:06 CET schrieben Sie: >> On July 10th 2021, I purchased an >> >> HP 15s-eq2147 FHD RYZ5-5 >> 16GB 512 SSD DOS >> >> Since it has no cable connection to the internet, but only access via >> WLAN, I had at first some problems with setting up the connection, but >> eventually solved them thanks to Stephan Hemeier's useful rpm >> >> rtw88-kmp-default-git20210702_k5.3.18_57-lp153.2.2.x86_64.rpm >> >> But for about four weeks, the computer happened sometimes to disconnnect >> from WiFi. Then normally a reboot solved the problem. >> >> But since January 20th, the computer boots always disconnected and >> rebooting it does not help. >> >> So, I opened Yast, deleted the Wifi adwapter an rebooted the computer. >> Then I set up the Wifi adapter again, but I got this error message: >> [...] > > You are running an 5.12 kernel, but as you wrote you installed my > rtw88 for kernel 5.3. Delete the rtw88-kmp package and reboot. > Use zypper for that. > > rtw88 is also inside the kernel 5.12 and should work out of the box. Having followed your advice, I repeated deleting and re-setting up the Wifi adapter in Yast as described above, which worked now without producing an error message. Now, my problem does not persist any more, i.e. I have a wireless access to my router again - thanks a lot! Best regards, Wolfgang

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[oS-en] How can I play a sound from a script?
by Carlos E. R. 23 Jan '22

23 Jan '22

Hi, I want to play a sound from a script, for example to signal it finished, but I can't. First problem: I can't find a CLI command able to play the sound files I want, found in the default installed system: er@Erebor4:~> aplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga Playing raw data '/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono ^CAborted by signal Interrupt... cer@Erebor4:~> This command produces horrible noise with any .oga file I try. cer@Erebor4:~> madplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga MPEG Audio Decoder 0.15.2 (beta) - Copyright © 2000-2004 Robert Leslie et al. audio: No such file or directory cer@Erebor4:~> cer@Erebor4:~> paplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga cer@Erebor4:~> (silence...) cer@Erebor4:~> play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga: File Size: 8.50k Bit Rate: 487k Encoding: Vorbis Channels: 2 @ 16-bit Samplerate: 44100Hz Replaygain: off Duration: 00:00:00.14 In:100% 00:00:00.14 [00:00:00.00] Out:6.15k [ ====|==== ] Clip:0 Done. cer@Erebor4:~> (silence...) I can play sounds with VLC, but not being a CLI command, it starts a GUI that then I have to close manually. "vlc --help" is huge, I have not seen a way to play a sound and exit. I can probably convert a sound to .wav, and play that one. play, aplay, and paplay all work that way. Second problem: I can not play them as root, and I do need them as rootm because those scripts run as root. Erebor4:~ # su cer - -c vlc /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/service-logout.oga VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2) [000055713e92b640] vlcpulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: *Connection refused* [000055713e8494e0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-cer' [000055713e84ba40] main playlist: playlist is empty QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread Erebor4:~ # Erebor4:~ # vlc /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/service-logout.oga VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry. If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and cannot be run by non-trusted users first). Erebor4:~ # Erebor4:~ # su cer - -c "aplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/service-logout.oga" ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused aplay: main:830: audio open error: Connection refused Erebor4:~ # Erebor4:~ # su cer - -c "paplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/service-logout.oga" Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused Erebor4:~ # stuck. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.3 x86_64 (Erebor-4))

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new XPS13 9310 resume from hibernate is failing
by mh＠mike.franken.de 23 Jan '22

23 Jan '22

Hi *, yesterday I installed a new XPS13 9310 2-in-1 by preparing the necessary partitions and reovering a backup from an XPS 13 9370. Everything works ok besides resuming from hibernate. For the original XPS13 9370 this still works without any problems. When running "systemctl hibernate" on the 9310 I get systemd-sleep[5537]: INFO: running /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/grub2.sleep for hibernate systemd-sleep[5537]: INFO: Running prepare-grub .. systemd-sleep[5537]: Skipping openSUSE Tumbleweed, with Linux 5.16.1-1- default (recovery mode), because it has the noresume option systemd-sleep[5537]: Skipping openSUSE Tumbleweed, with Linux 5.16.0-1- default (recovery mode), because it has the noresume option systemd-sleep[5537]: Skipping openSUSE Tumbleweed, with Linux 5.15.12-1- default (recovery mode), because it has the noresume option systemd-sleep[5537]: Skipping openSUSE Tumbleweed, with Linux 5.15.8-1- default (recovery mode), because it has the noresume option systemd-sleep[5537]: Skipping openSUSE Tumbleweed, with Linux 5.15.7-1- default (recovery mode), because it has the noresume option systemd-sleep[5537]: running kernel is grub menu entry openSUSE Tumbleweed (vmlinuz-5.16.1-1-default) systemd-sleep[5537]: preparing boot-loader: selecting entry openSUSE Tumbleweed, kernel /boot/5.16.1-1-default systemd-sleep[5537]: running /usr/sbin/grub2-once "openSUSE Tumbleweed" systemd-sleep[5537]: time needed for sync: 0.0 seconds, time needed for grub: 0.1 seconds. systemd-sleep[5537]: INFO: Done. systemd-sleep[5534]: Entering sleep state 'hibernate'... I get the same output from "systemctl hibernate" on the 9370. Both have a swap partition with 32 GB in size and 16 GB of RAM. Kernel command line contains resume=UUID=<uuid_of_swap_partition> in both cases. The only difference I saw is this message, that shows up on the 9310 before systemd-sleep is running: kernel: PM: Image not found (code -16) Any idea what might be wrong here? Thx and bye. Michael.

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Creating a BTRFS root filesystem
by Mark Petersen 23 Jan '22

23 Jan '22

I'm trying to create a btrfs root filesystem following Richard Browns blog found here: https://rootco.de/2018-01-19-opensuse-btrfs-subvolumes/[1] but it seems that he missed a step or I can't follow directions. If I follow his recipe to the letter then no 1st snapshot is ever made and no default subvolume can be set. So, I omitted line 4 of step 4: and created a snapshot between his steps 6: & 7: btrfs subvol snapshot /mnt /mnt/(a)/.snapshots/1/snapshot After step 7: I am able to set the default subvolume, but I have the @ subvolume showing when I list the directory in step 8: Anyone have some pointers? Thanks. Mark -------- [1] https://rootco.de/2018-01-19-opensuse-btrfs-subvolumes/

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How to connect via WiFi
by Wolfgang Mueller 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

My new computer is an HP 15s-eq2147 FHD RYZ5-5 16GB 512 SSD DOS It has no cable connection to the internet, but only access via WiFi. Installing Leap 15.3 was no problem, but so far I did not manage to establish a WiFi connection. Using Yast, I set up a wicked service with fixed address, getting this list: Device Name: wlan0 Configured with address 192.168.2.16/24 (acer.ariannuccia.zz) Starting automatically on cable connection I find it somewhat absurd that a cable connection is required even for WiFi. Since I have no cable connection, I am looking for a work around. Any idea? The "Authentication Mode" offers these 5 options: No Encryption WEP - Open WEP - Shared Key WPA-EAP ("enterprise") WPA-PSK ("home") On my router (192.168.2.1) there are these "Encryption type": Unencrypted (not recommended) WPA2 (very secure) WPA / WPA2 (secure) WPA (secure) For avoiding problems with the correspondence of these methods, I have selected "No Encryption" on my computer and "Unencrypted (not recommended)" on my router. But the connection does not work. Any attempt to ping the router from the new computer is rejected with the reply: connect: Network is unreachable Any help would be welcome. Thank you in advance and best regards, Wolfgang

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authentification system
by jdd＠dodin.org 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

Hello, I'm building an usenet server on top of Leap 15.3. Looks like it would be interesting to authenticate users. Somebody spoke of kerberos. I don't expect more than a hundred users, at most. do you know some system a bit simpler? Do you have some link (including to Kerberos under Leap)? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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Compose key.
by Carlos E. R. 21 Jan '22

21 Jan '22

Hi, On this same machine, on 15.2 I have edited file "/etc/X11/Xmodmap". !! Fourth example: Make Menu key on WIN95 keyboard doing Compose !! CER !! keysym Menu = Multi_key !! keysym Win_R = Multi_key Does not work !!keysym Win_Menu = Multi_key Neither keysym Super_R = Multi_key This activates the compose key (using XFCE), on the right "Windows" key of my keyboard. On Leap 15.3 the exact same paragraph does nothing. Fresh test install. Why? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.3 x86_64 (Erebor-4))

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[oS-en] SUSE announces new distro for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux
by Carlos E. R. 21 Jan '22

21 Jan '22

<https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/suse_liberty_linux/> *SUSE announces new distro for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux* Run like RHEL Liam Proven in Prague Thu 20 Jan 2022 // 08:21 UTC Official details remain scant, but SUSE Liberty Linux is a new member of the growing tribe of CentOS Linux replacements. The new distro is a SUSE rebuild of CentOS 8, aimed at near-perfect RHEL 8 compatibility. Since Red Hat killed off CentOS Linux and replaced it with CentOS Stream, there's been renewed activity in the world of drop-in RHEL replacements. Now a new entrant has joined AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, as SUSE enters the fray with its own rebuild of Red Hat's freely-available source code. As it has only appeared on SUSE's website overnight, we don't have a demo version at time of writing, so here is what we know so far. At launch, Liberty Linux should be equivalent to the current Red Hat release – RHEL 8.5 – and compatible with packages from Red Hat's own EPEL repos. SUSE is building the distro using its own Open Build Service tooling. All of the userland of the new distro will be built from Red Hat's official Source RPMs (SRPMs), with the exception of the kernel. That comes from SUSE's own SLE enterprise distribution, currently on version 15 SP3, but compiled using a Red Hat-compatible configuration. Since these days openSUSE's stable distro, Leap, is binary compatible with SLE, that suggests that Liberty Linux will ship with kernel 5.3.18. That's a lot newer than RHEL 8.5's kernel 4.18, so RHEL device drivers and kernel modules almost certainly won't work – but SLE ones should. You can also only expect support for Red Hat's choice of filesystems, meaning XFS rather than SUSE's preferred Btrfs, which Red Hat doesn't support. The new distro is also x86-64 only, with no support for POWER or Arm boxes. ... further reading at the link -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.3 x86_64 (Erebor-4))

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open suse 15.2 using logrotate with fetchmail
by Joe Acquisto-j4 20 Jan '22

20 Jan '22

Looking for a means to setup logrotate for fetchmail on exisitng system. open suse 15.2 using logrotate with fetchmail Thanks.

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[oS-en] disk imaging code question
by Carlos E. R. 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I use this bash code (script) to image partitions - I arrived there with help here: function hacer() { echo echo "Doing partition $1 ($2) on $3" echo "copying, compressing, and calculating md5..." mkfifo mdpipe dd if=/dev/$1 status=progress bs=16M | tee mdpipe | pigz > $3.gz & # Try using "--fast" next time md5sum -b mdpipe | tee -a md5checksum_expanded wait rm mdpipe echo "$3" >> md5checksum_expanded echo "Verifying..." pigz --test $3.gz echo echo "·········" } Used this way: time hacer sda1 "5S" "sda1_WINBOOT" time hacer sda2 "250M" "sda2_WINDOWS" (the current directory is on the destination disk, external rotating rust via USB2) This works fine. Now, I noticed something. On gkrellmn I observe, as the script runs, that the reads on the source disk (ssd, in this case) and the writes to the destination disk alternate, are not simultaneous. And it took 5 hours to image perhaps 300gigs; of course, the destination is on USB2, and the CPU is old, but that alternation doesn't help. Could that be improved somehow? Short of writing my own binary code to implement it all... Never coded with parallelization, so that would not be trivial. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYccnxxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV+DEAn0qKBQv/D0k/pGQFYl6a w5+FjD23AJ0fsJs7A+zehwK0a5S/nHEJuP3bMw== =+rL4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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forgot password for only user on new opensuse 15.3 - any way to use the installation?
by Geza Giedke 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Dear all, I just received a brand new notebook, freshly installed with Opensuse 15.3 (bought at slimbook.es). When renaming the standard user and resetting its password I must have made a typo, because I can no longer log in (it's the only existing user). Now I see no other way but to reinstall the full system, which seems a pity. So before doing that I wanted to ask if there is a way to avoid that, e.g., by overwriting /home and /etc/passwd from a live USB to make the installed system accessible to a new user - or is a full reinstall the only way to make the system usable? Sorry for the embarrassingly stupid problem and thank you for your help Geza

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virt-manager connect to console button
by Simon Becherer 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

Hi, tumbleweed, since some updates i have in only one of my virtual machines (virt-manager+qemu) when i double click in virt-manager, a empty window and in the middle of the window is a button (free translated from german): "connect to console" "verbinden mit Konsole" when i click on this button, the screen of the virtual machine is there and all is fine. question is, why only at one machine, and where could i disable this function? -- www.becherer.de

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permanent changing of file /usr/lib/systemd/network/99-default.lnk
by Simon Becherer 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Hi, often on tumbleweed updates it updates the file: /usr/lib/systemd/network/99-default.lnk so it get overwritten. (since years with the same contens) i have to change always inside this file one line to let my network on same mac adress (network is with bridge and tap devices) i change: # MACAddressPolicy=persistent MACAddressPolicy=none all is ok again. i think this file is not the correct place to make this changes. where should i do this change to be not overwritten by system updates?? thanks, simoN -- www.becherer.de

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OpenSuse 15.2 ports closed, no firewall enabled
by Joseph Acquisto 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

On OpenSuse 15.2, the assigned IP address has only SSH port open. The localhost has several more open, which allows me to run mail server, by referencing localhost. However, this causes other machines on local network to be denied access to the email server. Firewall is not enabled, iptables shows no rules. I am puzzled.

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OpenSuse 15.2 ports closed, no firewall enabled
by Bob Rogers 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

From: Bob Rogers <rogers-suse(a)rgrjr.homedns.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:47:43 -0500 From: "Joseph Acquisto" <joea(a)j4computers.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 01:36:16 -0000 On OpenSuse 15.2, the assigned IP address has only SSH port open. The localhost has several more open, which allows me to run mail server, by referencing localhost. However, this causes other machines on local network to be denied access to the email server. Firewall is not enabled, iptables shows no rules. I am puzzled. Are you running postfix as your mail server? If so, what does "postconf inet_interfaces" say? If it says "localhost", you need to edit it to say "all" and restart. Sorry, that was too telegraphic; you need to add inet_interfaces = all to /etc/postfix/main.cf and restart. -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/

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Rankin subscribed with 2nd e-mail -- I can now get list mails
by David C. Rankin 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

All, Since my Suddenlink ISP is to incompetent to find the problem that is blocking receipt of opensuse list e-mails, I've subscribed through my gmail address -- so I will now get list mails. (Thank you Carlos for letting me know that was an option. Patrick, you can cancel the forward to the suddenlink account - thank you VERY much for your help with the list mails during the past year) What is the world coming too.... Never let foreign investors by a controlling stake in your ISP -- no thank you Patrick Drahi... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Audacity error: FFmpeg library not found (Leap 15.3)
by gumb 09 Jan '22

09 Jan '22

I only recently upgraded from 15.2 to 15.3. On first opening Audacity (from the Main repository) I get a dialog saying FFmpeg library not found, and to go to Preferences -> Libraries to sort it out. When I go there I see it's looking for libavformat.so.58 which I already have installed. According to YaST I have libavformat58_76 from Packman, but I can't direct Audacity to anywhere that it will see it. The adjoining Download button is useless, it just tells me I don't have the help manual installed, which is nonsensical at best. There was no such problem under Leap 15.2. gumb

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size of firefox sqlite database files
by Istvan Gabor 09 Jan '22

09 Jan '22

Hello: Currently I use firefox 91.4.1esr in openSUSE 15.3. I noticed that in the profile directory the size of some sqlite database files does not change after deleting history. Namely, places.sqlite, favicons.sqlite, cookies.sqlite files' size remains the same after deleting history. Why don't the file sizes decrease after deleting their content by deleting history? I have many profiles and want to decrease the profiles' size. I thought bu deleting history I can do it but not. Can someone explain this? Thanks, Istvan

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KDE Connect - Too many notifications.
by James Knott 09 Jan '22

09 Jan '22

A couple of months ago, I got a new Google Pixel 6 phone. Since then, I've been getting an excessive amount of email notifications from KDE Connect on my computer. Sometimes I have a stack of them reaching almost the top of my screen. I have checked both the phone and computer KDE Connect settings and I can't see anything that would cause this. Is there any way to stop all these notifications, short of uninstalling KDE Connect? KDE on Leap 15.3 Previously used a Pixel 2. tnx jk

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how could this happen? accidental mass file deletion
by Daniel Bauer 08 Jan '22

08 Jan '22

Hi, I am with OS 15.2/KDE and a very strange thing happened to me: all files (not the sub-folders, but the files in them) of my desktop folder were deleted without that I know why... what I did (in case it gives a hint) : Started SimpleScreenRecorder to record the complete screen in an mp4 in the desktop folder (this file vanished also). I paused/continued the screen recorder several times. Started Win10 in Virtual-Box, did some photo editing, shut down Win10, and when I saw my desktop again there were no icons, only some folders. I got aware of heavy disk use and shut down the computer. After booting again I saw that all files (several hundreds) in this folder and its subfolders were gone, but not the folders themselves. It only affected the Desktop folder and its subfolders, no others as much as I can see. To do this deliberately I would have to enter an rm with options, but I didn't... I know that during this session my mouse began to be defective, a right click produced a double-click, but that shouldn't be able to produce such a command, isn't it? Is there a way I can find out what happened exactly? Search (for what?) in what log? It seems mysterious to me and disquiets me although since then everything seems to work normally. (Luckily I am a back-up-freak, so no damage, but still...) (the desktop folder isn't shared with windows, the shared folder is on another partition and wasn't affected) Any thoughts? Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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[oS-en] Anchor image to page in LO disapeared?
by Carlos E. R. 07 Jan '22

07 Jan '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm creating a Write document in libre office, one I do often, which worked a month ago. Tonight, there is a feature that is gone. I'm simply inserted images from another application (same as I do every month, from Foxit), and anchor to page is gone. I can anchor "to paragraph", "as character", and "to character". But "to page" is gone. Is this known? Feature? Bug? This is LO 7.1.4.2, on Leap 15.2. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYddqDxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVL1oAn0vXHzch74u0z2gjaGSn pCtB8xDZAJoDPkLSNqaq+zVCDjU7RrBHbvC2cA== =rpm5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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backup of root
by jdd＠dodin.org 07 Jan '22

07 Jan '22

Hello, I use for some years a rsync line in cron to make a backup from a server to an other server. btrfs on source, ext4 on target. Right now I have to be run from root on the receiving part # rsync -azv -e ssh -x --exclude=/tmp --exclude=*cache* --exclude=*.Trash* --exclude=/sys --exclude=/proc --exclude=/dev --delete root@<source domain>:/* <local folder> I checked that -x do *not* exclude /proc. But it may be also useful to exclude /run? isn't this one dynamic (ie removed at boot time). I don't remember also is proc, sys, dev a recreated at boot, no need to make them by hand at restore time? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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puleaudio testing microphone GUI
by Istvan Gabor 07 Jan '22

07 Jan '22

Hello: I would like to test my microphone in pulseaudio. All info I found say that I have to load manually the loopback module in a terminal to hear the microphone, and after testing unload the module. Isn't there a GUI tool which has button for testing/hearing the microphone? I don't even understand why this option is not part of pavucontrol of some other pulseaudio GUI program. Thanks, Istvan

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mailutil program in openSUSE Leap 15.3
by Istvan Gabor 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Hello: I've been using mailutil program to backup my imap mailboxex. It seems that openSUSE Leap 15.3 doesn't have this program. It is part of alpine package and it is there in Leap 15.1 alpine. But not in Leap 15.3 alpine package. I checked two alpine packages, the official OSS package, and alpine from repositories/server:/mail/ repo. None has mailutils. Does anyone know why, and if its remove was announced? Thanks, Istvan

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Troubles installing OpenSuSE 15.3 on a HP Spectre laptop
by Marc Chamberlin 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Hello - I have an HP Spectre laptop that came with Windows 10 installed on it. It has a 1Tb SSD drive with almost 800Gb of unallocated space. I want to install OpenSuSE 15.3 x64 on this laptop as part of a dual boot system. I have done this many times in the past on other desktops and laptops but this time I am running into a couple of unexpected problems that is preventing the installation. I created an UEFI USB installation disk from the ISO file that I downloaded from the OpenSuSE downloads website. In the BIOS I turned off "Secure Boot" and set the boot order to allow booting first from USB devices. I did not have to choose whether to use "Legacy Booting" as there is no option in the BIOS for it. The installation of OpenSuSE starts off OK and I had no apparent problem with setting up the network WiFi connection. The installation process does not allow me to manually test and/or check to see if the network really got set up OK. The first problem occurs when the installation process gets to where it is attempting to read the list of Online Repositories. Here I get a warning message "Unable to download list of repositories or no repositories defined." No reason why is given and all I can do about it is to click the OK button and move on. Maybe the WiFi network connection is not working after all? I dunno how to check it at this point in the installation process. Sigh... Next I select for a System Role to use "Desktop with KDE Plasma" and when I click on Next I get a far more serious error message - "An error was found in one of the devices in the system. The information displayed may not be accurate and the installation may fail if you continue." The "Details..." button shows - "cannot delete MdContainer" and again I can only choose "OK" to dismiss this rather useless error message. I got no idea what an MdContainer" is! Google searches suggests it has to do with docker containers but that doesn't help me either as I don't grok much about docker and have never use it. The best discussion about this error, that I found, was at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/523095/opensuse-leap-15-1-install-… But the solution appears to be to delete and remove Windows 10 and the partitions it resides in. NOT what I want to do, I want a dual boot system with both OS's. Another suggestion was to contact HP Support which I have done but they seem to be taking a very long time to respond, so I am turning to this forum to see if anyone here can provide and/or guide me to a solution. FYI If I continue on, with the installation process, I reach a dead-end at the point where one is suppose to set up the disk partitions for OpenSuSE. The partitioner does not allow me to access or change anything within the SSD drive. Any attempt to do so, I get told the device is busy. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or solutions offered, much appreciated as always... 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 electronic signature is attached. 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 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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When/How to update tumbleweed
by Payam Firouztala 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

For the longest time I was depending on https://review.tumbleweed.boombatower.com to figure out when it was safe to update tumbleweed and which release to update to. That site has not been updated due to an issue with the mailing list where the site got its information. So for people who use tumbleweed, how do you know when is a good time to update? What command do you use? I know there is snap and that I can roll back if something breaks, but obviously would rather not go through that. Thanks and Happy New Year!

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no more usb keyboard and mouse
by jdd＠dodin.org 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

Hello, since the very last update with "zypper up --recommand", my openSUSE Leap 15.3 do not anymore accept external keyboard or mouse. however, booting windows 10 (!!!), and rebooting immediately (no need to login) restore the mouse/keyboard usual working the usb keyboard works as expected in grub menu booting the previous snapshot do not makes any better this was since 48 hours and right now still no new update may I fill a bug report? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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reiserfs
by Young, John E. (LARC-D312)[TEAMS3] 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

I know. Reiserfs is deprecated and is no longer supported, but some things that I have seen on the network lead me to believe that it may be possible to download the necessary files and (at least temporarily) enable it, at least long enough to copy the files off. This would be a big help in recovering some old filesystems. Does anyone have documentation on exactly how to do this? JY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John E. Young NASA LaRC B1148/R216 Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. "speaking ONLY for myself"

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file manager used to save in chrome
by George from the tribe 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

In the latest update in 15.2, something changed in the way I save files downloaded from the internet when in Chrome, or a Chrome based browser like Brave. It used to use Dolphin file manager, and that is much more convenient, because it requires less clicks to change the file name. Now it switched to the file manager that Gnome uses - I guess its Nautilus. I don't use Gnome very much, but I have it installed and sometimes go into it if there is something I need it for, so I have to keep the gnome base packages on my system. So how do you set Chrome so that it opens up the Dolphin file manager when you want to save a file from the internet? -- George Box: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: TW | Plasma 5 | Core i7 | 64 | 16GB

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zypper, which repo provides package
by Istvan Gabor 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Hello: How can I find with zypper which configured repos provide a given package? For example I would like to get a list of repos that have aaa_base package. I couldn't find this in zypper manual. Thanks, Istvan

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printing pdf file
by Istvan Gabor 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Hello: Up to openSUSE Leap 15.1 I could install Adobe Reader 9.5.5 (acroread) and I used it frequently to print documents. In Leap 15.3 I could not Adobe Reader make work. What program can I use for printing pdf documents, which has such options as "Fit to Printable Area" and "Shrink to Printable Area" in Adobe Reader? For example when I printed letter sized document on A4 paper I could use the Shrink to Printable Area option to make sure the whole page is printed (though with little bit smaller scale). Thanks, Istvan

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badblocks replacement successor for huge disks?
by cagsm 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

just figured that badblocks tool was having 32bit value issues for sector numbers of sata hdd disks. just what is the replacement or successor for badblocks? apparently people been discussing this even some upstream bugreport at redhat, but the information give was, that badblocks been actually invented for like floppy disks. have never heard of anything else than badblocks so far. how to check largeish huge hdd media? any quick resolution of this problem? did i miss a tool ever since badblocks? ty. <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1306522> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764636> <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/152171/badblocks-only-takes-32-bit…>

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Suggestions for simple digital asset management
by Togan Muftuoglu 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Hi, I am looking suggestions for a simple DAM digital asset management system. For example phrasenet is great but overkill for the job. tag and grade pictures for easy searching No picture editing sqllite as database Thanks

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Installing 15.3
by Dave Howorth 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

I'd like to [finally] install 15.3. I want to install it separate to my existing system so I can revert to my existing system in the event of problems. I'm having trouble finding a clear set of instructions. I've found https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book-startup/art-o… and https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book-startup/cha-i… but they both start with the assumption that I've already got an installation image. I don't! So searching elsewhere I've found https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Download_help and that suggests (among many other suggestions just to confuse me!) https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.3/iso/ but that seems to have an enormous number of possibilities. I can figure out some of it: DVD vs NET and x86_64 vs other architectures and .iso vs .iso.sha256 but I'm lost about other aspects. What's Media vs Current all about? And what's 15.3 vs 15.3-2? And what's Build24.5? Is there a single place that actually documents how to install 15.3 from start to end?

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Opera has lost ability to print to pdf
by Carl Spitzer 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

Version:81.0.4196.31 Opera is up to date Update stream:Stable System:openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64; MATE) This is sudden. Weeks ago I was able to print to pdf my work schedule. Yesterday no. I just ran update this morning after some issues with the main repository being down. According to Opera the latest is version 82 but only in Debian or DEB. Not sure why it has lost ability when print to pdf works in other browsers. A Bug report has been reported. CWSIV

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Help! chroot seems to have changed, I can't recover my system Solved
by Dave Plater 30 Dec '21

30 Dec '21

Hi my problem was caused by a system that was only half updated from 15.2 to 15.3. I was eventually able to chroot into my hard drives root from a tty console in the installation system after I had failed to update for the third time. Then I was able to do a zypper dup, force reinstall the kernel and I was able to boot by boot installed system and hunt down the remaining Leap 15.2 packages. Thanks Dave P

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[oS-en] 20 second delay to start a program.
by Carlos E. R. 29 Dec '21

29 Dec '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I see this in a small laptop upgraded this afternoon to 15.3. I open an ssh session to it, as root, then run: Legolas:~ # meld /etc/ssh/sshd_config.rpmnew /etc/ssh/sshd_config & [1] 1864 Legolas:~ # [1]+ Done meld /etc/ssh/sshd_config.rpmnew /etc/ssh/sshd_config Legolas:~ # The program takes 20 seconds to appear, there is a timeout in the log <3.6> 2021-12-24 22:42:07 Legolas dbus-daemon 1029 - - [session uid=0 pid=1029] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop' unit='xdg-desktop-portal.service' requested by ':1.38' (uid=0 pid=1864 comm="/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/meld /etc/ssh/sshd_confi") <3.6> 2021-12-24 22:42:07 Legolas systemd 542 - - Starting Portal service... <3.6> 2021-12-24 22:42:07 Legolas dbus-daemon 1029 - - [session uid=0 pid=1029] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gtk' unit='xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service' requested by ':1.39' (uid=0 pid=1870 comm="/usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal ") <3.6> 2021-12-24 22:42:07 Legolas systemd 542 - - Starting Portal service (GTK+/GNOME implementation)... <3.6> 2021-12-24 22:42:07 Legolas xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 1891 - - Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused <1.4> 2021-12-24 22:42:07 Legolas xdg-desktop-por 1891 - - cannot open display: <3.5> 2021-12-24 22:42:07 Legolas systemd 542 - - xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE <3.4> 2021-12-24 22:42:07 Legolas systemd 542 - - xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. <3.3> 2021-12-24 22:42:07 Legolas systemd 542 - - Failed to start Portal service (GTK+/GNOME implementation). <3.6> 2021-12-24 22:42:33 Legolas dbus-daemon 1199 - - [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' requested by ':1.133' (uid=0 pid=1864 comm="/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/meld /etc/ssh/sshd_confi") <3.6> 2021-12-24 22:42:33 Legolas systemd 1 - - Starting Hostname Service... (program closed about here) <3.6> 2021-12-24 22:42:34 Legolas dbus-daemon 1199 - - [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1' <3.6> 2021-12-24 22:42:34 Legolas systemd 1 - - Started Hostname Service. <1.4> 2021-12-24 22:42:57 Legolas xdg-desktop-por 1870 - - Failed to create settings proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gtk: Timeout was reached <3.6> 2021-12-24 22:43:04 Legolas systemd 1 - - systemd-hostnamed.service: Succeeded. <1.4> 2021-12-24 22:43:22 Legolas xdg-desktop-por 1870 - - Failed to create file chooser proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gtk: Timeout was reached <1.4> 2021-12-24 22:43:22 Legolas xdg-desktop-por 1870 - - No skeleton to export <3.4> 2021-12-24 22:43:37 Legolas systemd 542 - - xdg-desktop-portal.service: start operation timed out. Terminating. <3.4> 2021-12-24 22:43:37 Legolas systemd 542 - - xdg-desktop-portal.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. <3.3> 2021-12-24 22:43:37 Legolas systemd 542 - - Failed to start Portal service. <4.5> 2021-12-24 22:44:07 Legolas dbus-daemon 1029 - - [session uid=0 pid=1029] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop': timed out (service_start_timeout=120000ms) <4.5> 2021-12-24 22:44:07 Legolas dbus-daemon 1029 - - [session uid=0 pid=1029] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gtk': timed out (service_start_timeout=120000ms) <3.6> 2021-12-24 22:49:56 Legolas smartd 1245 - - Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 72 to 73 - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYcZCPhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVnboAnjdWssB5KF1TFiBYArC3 5vO7zSvIAKCYIXeJuzjiFkpKWXH8/pzP/gACyA== =wFK5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[oS-en] I managed to bork booting on a laptop, twice.
by Carlos E. R. 28 Dec '21

28 Dec '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On my old laptop (classic BIOS, not UEFI) I have a separate /boot partition, created 2009, say. It has become too small, 190 MB. So I had to enlarge it somehow... or wait, perhaps remove it. Yes, I decided it was no longer needed and that I could get rid of it. Apparently years ago the "/" partition was reiserfs and I migrated it to ext4. The partition layout was this: minas-tirith:~ # lsblk --output NAME,KNAME,RA,RM,RO,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL,PARTLABEL,MOUNTPOINT,UUID,PARTUUID,WWN,MODEL,ALIGNMENT NAME KNAME RA RM RO SIZE TYPE FSTYPE LABEL PARTLABEL MOUNTPOINT UUID PARTUUID WWN MODEL ALIGNMENT sda sda 128 0 0 489.1G disk 0x500a075117eea2e5 Crucial_C 0 ├─sda1 sda1 128 0 0 199M part ntfs SYSTEM B456B22956B1EC6C b4e583dd-01 0x500a075117eea2e5 0 ├─sda2 sda2 128 0 0 158.7G part ntfs D89260D89260BD1E b4e583dd-02 0x500a075117eea2e5 0 ├─sda3 sda3 128 0 0 12.5G part crypto f9ef602f-61ee-4a77-807b-12a92879e1eb b4e583dd-03 0x500a075117eea2e5 0 ├─sda4 sda4 128 0 0 1K part b4e583dd-04 0x500a075117eea2e5 0 ├─sda5 sda5 128 0 0 6G part swap Swap [SWAP] 675034b5-72ee-4db7-b8a4-d3cb197f9aad b4e583dd-05 0x500a075117eea2e5 0 ├─sda6 sda6 128 0 0 196.1M part ext2 Boot /boot 5b08978a-8461-4ecd-8049-bca31bbad2e6 b4e583dd-06 0x500a075117eea2e5 0 ├─sda7 sda7 128 0 0 30G part ext4 Root / 7d8f7fc8-df18-474b-be96-e43862cf3289 b4e583dd-07 0x500a075117eea2e5 0 ├─sda8 sda8 128 0 0 251.1G part reiser Home /home 434bcaab-addc-4efe-abd9-eeee576793c7 b4e583dd-08 0x500a075117eea2e5 0 └─sda9 sda9 128 0 0 7G part ext4 Other /other c0863c21-5df9-4040-9ad8-1f3f8b99424e b4e583dd-09 0x500a075117eea2e5 0 sr0 sr0 512 1 0 1024M rom hp_CDDVDW 0 minas-tirith:~ # minas-tirith:~/bin # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 489.1 GiB, 525112713216 bytes, 1025610768 sectors Disk model: Crucial_CT525MX3 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xb4e583dd Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 409599 407552 199M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 409600 333279231 332869632 158.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 950562816 976771071 26208256 12.5G 83 Linux /dev/sda4 333284490 950549984 617265495 294.3G f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 333284553 345863384 12578832 6G 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 345863448 346265009 401562 196.1M 83 Linux /dev/sda7 346265073 409175549 62910477 30G 83 Linux /dev/sda8 409175613 935850509 526674897 251.1G 83 Linux /dev/sda9 935852032 950548479 14696448 7G 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order. minas-tirith:~/bin # The MBR is "Syslinux ALTMBR", hardpointing to partition numer 4, the extended. The boot record there would load grub residing in /dev/sda6 which would load the kernel, and done. Ok, so I moved /boot partition over to /old.boot, and copied files over to /boot directory. Called YaST boot loader module, changed timeout to force it writing, and rebooted. Text grub, loading initrd, and hang. I then used an external rescue disk to mount sda7, chroot, run mkinitrd, run "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg", run YaST boot loader module again... After a few attempts, the rescue disk no longer boots on its own (big text black display with cursor blinking on top left corner, instead of grub menu), and the internal disk boots in text mode grub, but it boots (and has an entry for the external hard disk, which also works that way). So, I have now two boot systems to repair (same computer, internal disk and external via USB2). [correction: external disk is booting now] Both are running Leap 15.2: I had to eliminate the /boot too small problem before attempting to upgrade to 15.3. Today, I had planned. I need more eyes... bootinfoscript says: Boot Info Script 0.76 [13 April 2017] Last git commit: Also search for grub2 custom.cfg on FAT Commit date: 2017-04-23T05:49:05Z ============================= Boot Info Summary: =============================== => Syslinux ALTMBR (4.06 and higher) with boot partition 0x04 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda. --> internal disk => Syslinux GPTMBR (4.04-5.01) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb. --> external disk sda1: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ntfs Boot sector type: Windows 8/2012: NTFS Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block. Operating System: Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD sda2: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ntfs Boot sector type: Windows 7/2008: NTFS Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block. Operating System: Boot files: /bootmgr /boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe sda3: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: crypto_LUKS Boot sector type: Unknown Boot sector info: sda4: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: Extended Partition Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99-2.00) Boot sector info: Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in the boot sector of sda4 and looks at sector 396060737 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks for (,msdos7)/boot/grub2. It also embeds following components: modules ------------------------------------------------------- fshelp ext2 part_msdos biosdisk ------------------------------------------------------- - --> Question: (,msdos7) is /dev/sda7? I'm confused now. It should be sda7 to be correct. If it points to sda6, it is not correct, old boot partition. sda5: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: swap Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: sda6: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ext2 Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: Operating System: Boot files: /grub2/grub.cfg /boot/grub2/grub.cfg /grub2/custom.cfg /boot/grub2/custom.cfg /grub2/i386-pc/core.img /boot/grub2/i386-pc/core.img - --> this partition is now mounted at /old.and.separate.boot, not /boot. But I have not erased content yet. sda7: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ext4 Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.2 Boot files: /boot/grub2/grub.cfg /boot/grub2/custom.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub2/i386-pc/core.img sda8: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: reiserfs Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: Operating System: Boot files: sda9: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ext4 Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99-2.00) Boot sector info: Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in the boot sector of sda9 and looks at sector 945088400 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks for (,msdos9)/boot/grub2. It also embeds following components: modules ------------------------------------------------------- fshelp ext2 part_msdos biosdisk ------------------------------------------------------- Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta Boot files: /boot/grub2/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub2/i386-pc/core.img sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: BIOS Boot partition Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ext4 Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99-2.00) Boot sector info: Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in the boot sector of sdb2 and looks at sector 9141768 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks for (,gpt2)/boot/grub2. It also embeds following components: modules ------------------------------------------------------- fshelp ext2 part_gpt biosdisk ------------------------------------------------------- Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.2 Boot files: /boot/grub2/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub2/i386-pc/core.img sdb3: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: swap Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: sdb4: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: crypto_LUKS Boot sector type: Unknown Boot sector info: ============================ Drive/Partition Info: ============================= .... The rest, here: <https://paste.opensuse.org/97794560> Correction! The external hard disk is now booting correctly. I did nothing to it, just power it off and on, remove and insert USB cable again. I did run YaST module on the internal hard disk once more, prior to obtaining data. The internal hard disk still produces a grub menu in text mode. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYctUYhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV7NEAoIIbWpf7/zBMnrdwxVdw 9iGN4e9vAJ9Ga2LkN4XK9+MGhdne7DxJW7YiSw== =LMR7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Compare package lists of yast2?
by Markus Egg 27 Dec '21

27 Dec '21

Hello, is there an easy way to compare the exported package list of yast2 meaning the list of 2 different machines? xmldiff is a nightmare. BR

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Bubble infos not shown -> ?
by Markus Egg 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

Hello, does anybody know, why XFCE may not show the bubble infos e.g. when connecting to internet ? I do have another machine with Leap 15.2 where this information is shown. Where can I config this? Which rpms might be missing? Thanks in advance. BR

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Help! chroot seems to have changed, I can't recover my system
by Dave Plater 24 Dec '21

24 Dec '21

Hi, I had to change over to a new hard drive,500G to 1T, I changed my partitioning scheme slightly to include a separate home and opt partition and merged two data partitions into one. I also changed to a gpt partition table to remove the need for an extended partition I got this Leap:15.3 system up and running fine except for a root ext4 partition error that popped up when I had a power outage. This made me remember how tolerant the xfs file system was to crashes so i decided to copy the root partition contents to a backup and create an xfs root partition. Wrong move, I'd forgotten that grub2 and xfs don't like each other and the system was unbootable. Ok backup root again and create an ext3 boot partition before the root partition and perform the mount --bind on sys proc and dev then chroot into root partition then use yast2 bootloader on it. Fine except "chroot /mnt" no longer appears to work, it says: "chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: Permission denied" I've googled this but I can't understand any of the solutions and tutorials which I don't really have time for, I need to get back to work. Thanks Dave Plater

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A Professor needing information about repositories.
by Hugo Napoli 24 Dec '21

24 Dec '21

Have a good day, dear community. I am an Uruguayan teacher and technician who has been using several distros for years ( and counting :D ) and wants to learn some particular things about Linux repositories. Just for the pleasure of saying it, my system of daily use has been (and is, and will be) openSUSE for 14 years :D :D :D I have been talking with one of the repo maintainers and with some users of the Mageia community with the intention of being able to finish writing a manual of disclosure level on repositories that tries to be an important reference for students, and that in turn will remain for the community. What I am interested to know fits better in the following questions, so, I have taken the liberty of write this questions, hoping that some mates could answer little by little the ones that they want. Here I go, and thanks beforehand! I) Are http repos more insecure than the https ones? II) Where is there a list of "https" repos of every http repo in the case of openSUSE? III) In which cases is NOT advisable to add all (and only) https repos for openSUSE? IV) Can a replica or clone of an official repository server represent a threat? V) What modifications does opensuse introduce in its Linux kernel to adapt it to the system? VI) In which cases is it advisable to add the kernel.org repo to use the intact Linux kernel? I apologize if this is not the list for this type of topic. In that case, I can delete the thread and post it in another list. Big hug!

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[oS-en] [curio] [OT] CLI weather report
by Carlos E. R. 24 Dec '21

24 Dec '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Run in a terminal: curl wttr.in Found on Usenet, alt.os.linux Apparently, "curl wttr.in/your_zip" works. If you don't enter it, it geolocates your IP. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYcTNkhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV7aQAn3ddsGrkdGzIw87fVOdh 8avvtxCzAJ4i9hNbmUav66+gkFgvOh8c7HQIfw== =/koS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[oS-en] What means this?
by Carlos E. R. 23 Dec '21

23 Dec '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My log is being spammed by these two messages: <0.6> 2021-12-22T14:23:10.886668+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [34111.261316] IPv4: Redirect from 192.168.1.1 on eth0 about 192.168.2.1 ignored <0.6> 2021-12-22T14:23:10.886682+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [34111.261316] Advised path = 192.168.1.14 -> 192.168.2.1 <0.6> 2021-12-22T14:23:11.879169+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [34112.251659] IPv4: Redirect from 192.168.1.1 on eth0 about 192.168.2.1 ignored <0.6> 2021-12-22T14:23:11.879183+01:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [34112.251659] Advised path = 192.168.1.14 -> 192.168.2.1 192.168.2.1 belongs to a new virtual machine running in VBox, network in bridge mode. System is still 15.2 (on both). What should I do? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYcMnqxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVbzkAnj1jML0siEmJ9O5BcR8r bw8d6kBGAJ48meWbLG+vj2Bj3FULUX9GzROjiQ== =2iCA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: KDE development
by Chuck Davis 23 Dec '21

23 Dec '21

Is there anyone here doing KDE development? I have installed everything in the C++ development pattern and the KDE Frameworks pattern but KDevelop cannot find the header imports for the simplest "Hello World" program. I'm interested in taking a serious look at developing for Plasma. Using Tumbleweed. Where do I go to get started? Thanks for some direction. Feel free to use private email to take it off the list.

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has some 15.3 update patch just been pulled - libz1-1.2.11-3.24.1.x86_64 nonretrievable all of a sudden
by cagsm 23 Dec '21

23 Dec '21

suddenly, on different machines with 15.3, interactive zypper up first the repo refreshed, then it started downloading bits eventually it arrives at libz1-1.2.11-3.24.1.x86_64 printing not found on the main download bouncer Retrieving: libudev1-32bit-246.16-7.28.1.x86_64.rpm ......................................................................................[done] Retrieving package libz1-1.2.11-3.24.1.x86_64 (7/17), 62.3 KiB (108.1 KiB unpacked) Retrieving delta: ./x86_64/libz1-1.2.11-3.21.1_3.24.1.x86_64.drpm, 9.8 KiB Retrieving: libz1-1.2.11-3.21.1_3.24.1.x86_64.drpm ..................................................................................[not found] File './x86_64/libz1-1.2.11-3.21.1_3.24.1.x86_64.drpm' not found on medium 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/' Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/...? shows all options] (a): ----- had at least two machines with this happening. another zypper refresh and another zypper up only left some libz devel stuff but not this main(?) libz package any more? been pulled? ty

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[oS-en] Can't boot freshly installed 15.3 system.
by Carlos E. R. 23 Dec '21

23 Dec '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I can't boot freshly installed 15.3 system (with current updates as of today). I get (hand copied): error: bad shim signature. error: you need to load the kernel first. Press any key to continue. Details: It is a new external hard disk, via USB3 (tried also USB2) on a laptop that has internally Leap 15.2 and Windows, both booting normally. On this external hard disk I installed 15.3 (UEFI mode). The UEFI boot menu does not display this disk at all. The efibootmgr man page doesn't say how to add a new entry: CREATING A NEW BOOT OPTION An OS installer would call efibootmgr -c. This assumes that /boot/efi is your EFI System Partition, and is mounted at /dev/sda1. This creates a new boot option, called "Linux", and puts it at the top of the boot order list. Options may be passed to modify the default behavior. The default OS Loader is elilo.efi. 3. What are those options to modify the behaviour??? It is an example section with no examples!!! So, instead I boot 15.2 (with current updates as of yesterday), start yast boot manager, and tell it to probe the disk for other systems. It does find 15.3, and the error I posted above is precissely what happens when using that probed entry. No matter if I select failsafe. Legolas:~ # lsblk --output NAME,KNAME,RA,RM,RO,PARTFLAGS,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL,PARTLABEL,PTTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,UUID,PARTUUID,WWN,MODEL,ALIGNMENT /dev/sdbNAME KNAME RA RM RO PARTFLAGS SIZE TYPE FSTYPE LABEL PARTLABEL PTTYPE MOUNTPOINT UUID PARTUUID WWN MODEL ALIGNMENT sdb sdb 512 0 0 1.8T disk gpt 0x3e41425341383144 Basic 0 ├─sdb1 sdb1 512 0 0 512M part vfat gpt 513E-8E77 564d9061-ccb2-4f48-8810-6c5aae67e99f 0x3e41425341383144 0 ├─sdb2 sdb2 512 0 0 10G part swap Erebor3_swap gpt 575a03c8-5afa-4c38-91f4-9f5ad8fb60d5 a1aa1b82-1229-459c-9bbd-f67b868fa24f 0x3e41425341383144 0 ├─sdb3 sdb3 512 0 0 20G part ext4 Erebor3_main gpt 932d5cf7-031c-45a4-bc62-86ab4a160680 aa63ecdd-fc48-4aa9-9dee-370b0c3d563a 0x3e41425341383144 0 └─sdb4 sdb4 512 0 0 1.8T part crypto_LUKS gpt 3804e2da-f4a4-4c26-9121-d763dd8f736e 76d6cf0f-beb2-4d80-b6e2-90ab018a7e50 0x3e41425341383144 0 Legolas:~ # Legolas:/data/Erebor # tree boot/efi/ boot/efi/ └── EFI ├── boot │ ├── MokManager.efi │ ├── bootx64.efi │ └── fallback.efi └── opensuse ├── MokManager.efi ├── boot.csv ├── grub.cfg ├── grub.efi ├── grubx64.efi └── shim.efi 3 directories, 9 files Legolas:/data/Erebor # Isengard:~ # efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0001 Timeout: 6 seconds BootOrder: 0001,0004,0005,0002,0003,0000,0006,0007,0008 Boot0000 Windows Boot Manager Boot0001* main-os-secureboot Boot0002* UEFI: IP4 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Boot0003* UEFI: IP6 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Boot0004* UEFI: KINGSTON SMS200S3120G, Partition 1 Boot0005* UEFI OS Boot0006* UEFI:CD/DVD Drive Boot0007* UEFI:Removable Device Boot0008* UEFI:Network Device Isengard:~ # What next? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYZ+p+Bwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVSu8An1eUXSo9hzVbT1CAQbcG 01Zo2RCBAJ94uDwYfbYvAUusxN795dF2IiNPng== =ykb9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Amarok playlists
by James Knott 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

I recently added a 2nd playlist to Amarok for Christmas music. However, I've noticed that it does not limit to items in the selected play list. Is there anyway around this? It seems to me that when one and only one playlist is selected, it shouldn't play from another. KDE on 15.3. tnx jk

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postfix: default or nil
by jdd＠dodin.org 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Hello, In an other thread I asked to see what postfix options are made empty/nil by adding in the file the option name followed by only " = " In fact there are more than I expected. Is it better to let the file as is, or to comment out these lines to get back postfix default? for example I notice "relayhost = " several options are listed in main.cf, I'm unsure to what is done if the option is not listed in the file practically, I didn't find a way (without breaking all the install) to list *default* options (that is what is done if the option is written nowhere :-() comm -23 <(postconf -n) <(postconf -d) (settings that *differ* from built-in defaults) gives relayhost = but, if I remove (rename) main.cf and stop postfix, # postconf -n | grep relayh postconf: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory that's ok, but: postconf man page: -d Print main.cf default parameter settings instead of actual settings # postconf -d | grep relayh address_verify_relayhost = $relayhost(...) relayhost = (...) so "relayhost =" should be the default, is the comm line wrong?? thanks jdd (confused) -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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cleanfeed? (on usenet INN server)
by jdd＠dodin.org 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Hello :-) I'm installing an usenet server. The doc I found for peering asks me to install "cleanfeed" https://news.aioe.org/documentation/how-to-setup-a-feed-with-aioeorg/ I don't find it on openSUSE, but it is on fedora https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=cleanfeed is there an openSUSE clone/replacement? is it safe to use fedora one? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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OT yet I need help
by Togan Muftuoglu 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Hi, Although it is OT as it has nothing to do with openSUSE, I need help in finding an email address for quadmetrics.com regarding so called OPT-OUT of the never ending daily network scans as I am sure like me no one has opted in unvoluntarily. So far I am empty handed their registar gandi.net pointed out AWS but the IP belong to CARINET and most probably other names. So rather then dealing with each one them I would rather find an email adress. Yes I have tried abuse@ but that is bouncing back. Thanks

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postfix config
by jdd＠dodin.org 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Hello, I noticed that in postfix config, a blank option mean that the default is no more used. that is, for example, alias_maps = *remove* the default (lmdb:/etc/aliases) is there a way (with postconf, for example) to list only such empty line? lines with no option set in main.conf. I don't find this :-( By the way it seems that "postconf -n" do not really display non default values, but values that are written down in the config file, even if they are identical to default values thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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postfix aliases
by jdd＠dodin.org 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Hello, My new postfix install do not seems to read the /etc/alases file (of course I have run newaliases) mostly default install with openSUSE doc https://en.opensuse.org/Mail_server_HOWTO only for local delivery (no dovecot) if I send a mil to jdd, with jdd: root the mail still come in jdd mail box any idea? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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Firefox crashes after update
by Jos van Kan 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

After a recent update of Leap 15.3 firefox crashes every couple of minutes. Anybody else experiencing this? Regards, Jos -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

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Black X screen after last TW upgrade (nvidia)
by Peter Suetterlin 09 Dec '21

09 Dec '21

Hi, I just did an upgrade of my Laptop (Lenovo T460p) to latest TW 20211203. I'm running it with the G05 driver from the nvidia repo, which worked before. I'd been offline here for a while (almost a month), so it was a large update, and I can't put the finger on a specific release. Symptom is, the screen stays black on VT7. X is running, sddm is running, just no display. Other VTs do work. I checked the logfile, but there's nothing obviously wrong. I.e., no EE or related WW entries... So far I had tried deleting the cache files from sddm (had been an issue at some point, I remembered), and (based on some trouble posts from September) tried kernel parameter "nomodeset nvidia-drm.modeset=1". Neither did help :( Any hints where to look? Pit

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cookie transfer
by Istvan Gabor 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

Hello: Is there a way to export/import (practically transfer) SELECTED cookies form one firefox (or palemoon) profile to another one? I would like to transfer webpage settings between profiles. I don't want to transfer all cookies, only selected ones. Thanks, Istvan

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smartctl
by mcgarrett 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

I have been beating my head against smartctl for over two hours now. I cannot seem to get the command "long" accepted, as the various tutorials explain. When I try to insert it, I get an error, like this: linux1:~ # smartctl long /dev/nvme0n1 smartctl 7.0 2019-05-21 r4917 [x86_64-linux-5.3.18-57-default] (SUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org ERROR: smartctl takes ONE device name as the final command-line argument. You have provided 2 device names: long /dev/nvme0n1 (It doesn't like "short" either.) And my typing is getting worse! It doesn't help that my drive is called /dev/nvme0n1. As I mentioned earlier, the lightning strike has damaged something in this, my main computer, and I'm trying to find out what. For those who missed the earlier post, the only thing I can connect to here is the internet. I cannot see the printers or the laptop machine, and nmap basically doesn't work. I started this quest at 11:30 PM and it's now 3:30 AM. I'm going to bed! --doug

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gtk2 application start delays 25 seconds
by Istvan Gabor 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Hello: This occurs in openSUSE Leap 15.3 (64 bit). Gtk2 applications start with a 25 seconds delay. That is, it takes exactly 25 seconds the application window to appear. This behavior has been reported previously in other distros, eg: In 20.04.1 all gtk2 apps starts 25 seconds https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1891245 I installed appmenu-gtk2-module and libcanberra-gtk-module but it did not solve the problem. How can I fix this in Leap 15.3? Thanks, Istvan

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2774 packages? really? seriously?
by Mathias Homann 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Hi, I need to create a pdf file from a .md text. pandoc wants pdflatex - ok. mathias@mio:~/work/git-infrastructure.as.code> cnf pdflatex The program 'pdflatex' can be found in the following package: * texlive-latex-bin-bin [ path: /usr/bin/pdflatex, repository: zypp (download.opensuse.org-oss) ] Zum Installieren versuchen Sie: sudo zypper install texlive-latex-bin-bin mathias@mio:~/work/git-infrastructure.as.code> sudo zypper install texlive-latex-bin-bin Repository-Daten werden geladen... Installierte Pakete werden gelesen... Paketabhängigkeiten werden aufgelöst... Die folgenden 1163 empfohlenen Pakete wurden automatisch gewählt: [...] Die folgenden 2774 NEUEN Pakete werden installiert: [...] 2774 neue Pakete zu installieren. Gesamtgröße des Downloads: 1,27 GiB. Bereits im Cache gespeichert: 0 B. Nach der Operation werden zusätzlich 1,9 GiB belegt. TWO THOUSAND SEVENHUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR packages, almost TWO gigabytes of software? Seriously? why is the whole text stuff even packaged with all those subpackages when you have to install them all, no matter what? /rant off MH -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann(a)openSUSE.org telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98 irc: [lemmy] on freenode and ircnet obs: lemmy04 gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102

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Any advice for leap on mobile desktop zen3 ryzen5000 based hardware?
by cagsm 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

List, newbie with desktop linux usage. Pondering about going for linux on mobile desktop. Some amd zen3 based ryzen5000 mobile based hardware. only integrated gpu apu stuff no discrete gfx chip, only embedded into the cpu/apu hardware. Any best practices? wifi, bluetooth, power saving power efficiency, some nvme disk or something. Any full disk full system encryption good? The system will probably be uefi based no classic bios available I guess. Should I already go for leap 15.4 at its early stage? Any hints in general? TY.

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