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15.2 to 15.3 Where is klogconsole
by Mark Hounschell 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Why has klogconsole been removed from the util-linux rpm in 15.3? Is there a replacement? Regards Mark

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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed equivalent of /etc/init.d?
by Simon Connah 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Hi, I'm trying to install VMWare Workstation Pro 16 onto my Tumbleweed system, and the installer is asking for the location of system scripts. I'm not entirely sure where that location is on Tumbleweed. Can someone point me in the right direction, please? Thank you. Simon.

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Upgrade to LEAP 15.3 for production servers?
by Simon Connah 11 Jul '21

11 Jul '21

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here had already upgraded production servers to LEAP 15.3 from LEAP 15.2? Have all the initial release bugs been squashed? I don't do anything super complex with my servers, but I don't mind waiting for some outstanding problems to be fixed. Any advice? Simon.

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Update announcements -- Leap 15.3
by Darryl Gregorash 11 Jul '21

11 Jul '21

Why do I keep seeing updates announced in the list, when zypper lu says there is nothing to install? I just got a dump of 34 of them, maybe 50, and out of all that, all I needed was an update to X. (And no, it's not because I don't have those packages installed.) It's also amusing to see a security update for Thunderbird to: > MozillaThunderbird-78.10.2-8.27.1 when current installed version is: > MozillaThunderbird-78.11.0-8.30.1.x86_64

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Cannot install 15.3 on Acer Aspire 3
by Wolfgang Mueller 10 Jul '21

10 Jul '21

Today I bought a laptop with the following specifications: Acer Aspire 3 (A317-52-30X0) 17,3" FHD IPS, i3-1005G1, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Linuxs Then I inserted the USB stick, which I had made bootable using openSUSE-Leap-15.3-NET-x86_64.iso, i.e. for installation from network, and switched the computer on. Now, with the appropriate choice in the bios and the selection of "Installation", it boots and loads the online repositories. Then it asks for the "System Role": I select "Desktop with KDE Plasma". Afterwards "Suggested Partitioning" appears; but I choose "Expert Partitioner" --> "Start with Existing Partitions". Then a table appears: > Device Size F Enc Type Label Mount Point > sda 7.84GiB usb 0x058f-Spaceloop 8GB > sda1 3.45MiB EFI System-Partition-Partition > sda2 142.42MiB ISO 9660 Partition openSUSE-Leap-15.3-NET-x86_64160 Now, when I try to add a partition, it shows a limit of 7.7GiB, i.e. 7.84GiB of the USB stick minus space for sda1 and sda2 (see table above). So, I am offered the USB stick for partitioning, which makes no sense because I want to partition the hard disk of 512GiB. How can I get access to the hard disk? Thank you in advance, Wolfgang

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Updates are not posted to lists 'openSUSE Security Announce' or 'openSUSE Updates' atm
by Martin Waleczek 09 Jul '21

09 Jul '21

Hi, since monday there have not been any updates to both https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/updates@lists.opensuse.org/ https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.o… Did someting break? Cheers martin

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[support] sleep/suspend/hibernate don't
by Felix Miata 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

This PC is my brother's, originally installed 24 months ago by myself with 15.1. He claims sleep/hibernate used to work before the upgrade to 15.2, and now 15.3. He wants hibernate/sleep to work again. So far, I haven't found the secret to success. # inxi -Fxzy System: Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.41-default x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.18.6 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.3 Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: N68C-GS FX serial: N/A BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.40 date: 10/31/2012 CPU: Info: 6-Core model: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T bits: 64 type: MCP arch: K10 rev: 0 cache: L2: 3 MiB flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm bogomips: 33754 Speed: 803 MHz min/max: 800/2800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 803 2: 1470 3: 804 4: 1772 5: 1667 6: 1675 Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] vendor: ASRock driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 00:0d.0 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.2.4 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:05.0 Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.3.18-lp152.41-default running: yes Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2-rebootstrapped running: no Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.24 running: no Network: Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet vendor: ASRock 939NF6G-VSTA Board type: network bridge driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: e080 bus-ID: 00:07.0 IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> Drives: Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 204.73 GiB (183.1%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SU650 size: 111.79 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 17.18 GiB used: 9.41 GiB (54.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 ID-2: /home size: 51.45 GiB used: 14.53 GiB (28.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 33.5 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A Info: Processes: 191 Uptime: 1h 16m Memory: 3.59 GiB used: 816 MiB (22.2%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: 2580 Shell: Bash v: 4.4.23 inxi: 3.3.04 The BIOS doesn't have any setting labeled S1 or S3, but the ACPI setting it does have that Google says equates to S3 is enabled. To generate the following, I first booted to multi-user, logged in as root, then issued systemctl start systemd-suspend. The response was no different that I could tell than by selecting sleep or hibernate from Plasma's Power/Session menu. # dmesg https://paste.opensuse.org/99478212 # journalctl -b https://paste.opensuse.org/10906426 My search fu is fubar again. I was sure there was recent discussion about this subject either on a mailing list or on the forums, but I'm not finding it. Is there anything in the two logs to explain why an attempt to suspend or hibernate results either in: 1-several seconds of black screen without a poweroff, then all coming back as if resume had been intentionally triggered, or 2-several seconds of black screen without a poweroff, then all coming back as if screenlocker had been triggered, or 3-reboot Does anyone know of some bug that needs a workaround, or a fix or config change required? Is this supposed to be controllable via YaST? The only place I see power control settings are in Plasma's systemsettings, where screen energy saving and suspend session are enabled, but the other three checkboxes (including button events) not. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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15.2 - keepassxc - Bad Solver - requires removal of keepassx 0.4xx (no actual conflict)
by David C. Rankin 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

All, The .spec for keepassxc has a problem. It refuses to install keepassxc unless the user removes keepassx 0.4.x. That is unneeded. There is no actual conflict and it is ridiculous for the package to insist on removal of a prior competing version. Why was this new forced deprecation added? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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What are the default repositories in a brand new OpenSUSE TW install?
by Simon Connah 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Hi, I tried to remove a repo using zypper, which I didn't want, and I think I might have accidentally removed an official one. Can anyone give me a list of all the repos I should have from a default TW install, please? Thank you. Simon.

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Help - Realtek RTL8852AE WiFi
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Folks, I'm really desperate now... got a new laptop Lenovo L15 AMD Ryzen 7 :) really super in every way **except the WiFi** no matter what I try Leap 15.3 or Tumbleweed just can't get the WiFi going. I got the machine as it is Ubuntu certified so thought should be ok. Googling seems to suggest it works under Ubuntu, but no matter what I try just cant get this WiFi going under openSUSE seems the driver from Realtek is up to version 4.x but can't find any trace of it on openSUSE. FYI lspci and hwinfo below. lspci grep 8852 03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8852 hwinfo --netcard 07: PCI 300.0: 0280 Network controller [Created at pci.386] Unique ID: svHJ.lTCK_+KOKi9 Parent ID: aYFK.1qAv6Us7QUA SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.3/0000:03:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Realtek Network controller" Vendor: pci 0x10ec "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd." Device: pci 0x8852 SubVendor: pci 0x17aa "Lenovo" SubDevice: pci 0x4852 I/O Ports: 0x2000-0x2fff (rw,disabled) Memory Range: 0xfd500000-0xfd5fffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 255 (no events) Module Alias: "pci:v000010ECd00008852sv000017AAsd00004852bc02sc80i00" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #14 (PCI bridge) I have got the driver from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git… but can't get modprobe to load it!!! Anyone got any idea how to get this working? -- Cheers and may thanks in advance, Ariez ajv(a)opensuse.org

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SSH Tumbleweed OpenSSH_8.4p1, need to enable root
by Chuck Payne 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Guys, Hey, so I been redoing my libvirtd servers and I notice that sshd_config and ssh_config files are no longer in /etc/ssh . ├── ssh_config.d ├── ssh_host_dsa_key ├── ssh_host_dsa_key.pub ├── ssh_host_ecdsa_key ├── ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub ├── ssh_host_ed25519_key ├── ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub ├── ssh_host_rsa_key ├── ssh_host_rsa_key.pub └── sshd_config.d There are now ssh_config.d and sshd_config.d folders. I have to enable root login because i have a master virt-manager that manages the other libvirtd servers. This new setup disables root access all together and I spent a few hours trying to google how to re-enable root access. I also need to know how to set my port back up on their special. Can someone explain to me what I need to do, I figure it dropping in a config into the folders. -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 openSUSE Community Member since 2008.

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Issue with gvim package
by Milhouse Vanhouten 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Hi, I'm using Tumbleweed on RPi 4 and the gvim package is pretty hopeless. Not sure if this is related to the platform I'm running, or if it's just buggy. If any OpenSuse developers are reading this, please take note of the following: 1. The only gvim available in Tumbleweed repo is the one with Gtk3. The Gtk3 GUI is painfully jerky/laggy when scrolling lines of text. Debian for example, have Gtk2 and Gtk3 versions of gvim. Could someone please do the same for OpenSuse. 2. There is a really annoying bug with OpenSuse gvim. When I split the window vertically, there is no scroll bar visible on the right window, the left window has a correct scroll bar. This looks like a GUI bug of some sort, but it has been like this for quite some time now. Does anyone use gvim on Tubleweed and can confirm the same issue?

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Bluetooth pairing, Leap 15.3/KDE-Plasma
by Peter McD 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Hi, My USB-Bluetooth adapter can't pair with my bluetooth headset. It worked in Leap 15.2. The bluetooth assistant, i.e. the bluetooth applet searches for the headset, but doesn't find it. hwinfo (below) outputs much information, I hope I found the interesting bit. Any ideas? Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- ============ start debug info ============ libhd version 21.72 (x86-64) [7688] using /var/lib/hardware kernel version is 5.3 ----- /proc/cmdline ----- BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.18-59.5-default root=UUID=adea8b9e-b878-4afa-89c9-337797cc8b56 splash=verbose noresume mitigations=auto ----- /proc/cmdline end ----- ... 77: USB 00.0: 11500 Bluetooth Device [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: POWV.nQKjiuCfL84 Parent ID: k4bc.kNaPe9SZft4 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.3/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-9/1-9:1.0 SysFS BusID: 1-9:1.0 Hardware Class: bluetooth Model: "Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)" Hotplug: USB Vendor: usb 0x0a12 "Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd" Device: usb 0x0001 "Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)" Revision: "88.91" Driver: "btusb" Driver Modules: "btusb" Speed: 12 Mbps Module Alias: "usb:v0A12p0001d8891dcE0dsc01dp01icE0isc01ip01in00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: btusb is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe btusb" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #86 (Hub) ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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grup screen wrong rotation
by Daniel Bauer 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

I installed OS 15.3 on a Lenovo Ideapad Duet 3. One problem is that the grub menu, all boot messages, the decryption passphrase and the KDE-login screen are shown rotated (instead of up to down the lines go left to right). I put fbcom=rotate:1 and also tried video=efifb fbcon=rotate_all They have no effect. What else can I try? -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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Repositories whitelist
by Ciro Iriarte 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

Hello!, In an isolated environment I would like to avoid VMs accessing Internet directly to grab updates. I'll probably create a local mirror with The Foreman + Katello, but meanwhile I'll force the use of an HTTP proxy. The proxy I'm using (embedded in OPNsense) allows dynamic whitelists, where the firewall can grab the list from an URL. Are there official repositories lists for OpenSUSE that I could use to feed it?. Regards, CI.-

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Sound card configuration problem
by Wolfgang Mueller 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

I recently installed Leap 15.3 on my computers "hp" and "se" Configuring the sound cards by yast worked on "se" only, whereas on "hp" the following error message appears: ================================================================= An error occurred during the installation of GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller The kernel module snd-hda-intel for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. ================================================================== The same for the other sound card, called "Cannon Lake PCH cAVS". How can I correct the kernel module snd-hda-intel and provide correct module, IO, or IRQ parameters? Thank you in advance for your help. Best regards, Wolfgang

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Missing ibm850 charset in Thunderbird
by Carlos E. R. 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I received an email using this charset: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ibm850" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Thunderbird is unable to handle it right, accented letters (áéíóú plus ñÑ) are displayed wrong, no matter what charset I choose in View/Text Encoding. Alpine displays it perfectly, no action needed. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYN9GLhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV7/MAn0lpnHnAkaRgHEY+ZQn5 3gUFDgiMAJ9q8iqWnowKkjsEWofTmsrgcsTcsA== =cybv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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How to make xinput set-prop permanent, + 1 more
by Daniel Bauer 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

So I managed to have the touchscreen rotated, using xinput set-prop pointer:'ELAN901C:00 04F3:2Bd6' 'Coordinate Transformation Matrix' 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1 questions: 1) how do I make this setting permanent, so that it is applied again after a fresh boot? I've read to make a file like "50-touchscreen.conf" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ but obviously I used a wrong syntax as I could not login to the graphical system anymore after reboot. If this is the way to go, can anybody point me to the correct syntax, or tell me the correct way to make this setting permanent, please? 2) The Icon-Starters on the Desktop usually do not react (the don't get marked nor start the desired app). All the other things work (I can move windows, mark text, touch things in dolphin, firefox etc.). However in one exception desktop-icon-touch works: When I first touch an open window, and after that touch an icon, it works (app starts) as it should. But /only/ if I first touch an open window, and only once, directly after touching that window. Any ideas? Thanks! -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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On one computer, xfce4-panel is using 1.4 GB.
by Carlos E. R. 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 View of top, sorting by memory: top - 13:27:09 up 12 days, 9:30, 5 users, load average: 5.12, 3.70, 2.15 Tasks: 408 total, 4 running, 404 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 14.3 us, 7.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 24.6 id, 53.5 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.3 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 7995344 total, 857392 free, 5739144 used, 1398808 buff/cache KiB Swap: 9446396 total, 9354748 free, 91648 used. 1616044 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND 3971 cer 20 0 1702692 1.122g 12312 0 S 0.000 1:13.24 xfce4-panel <===== 5154 cer 20 0 3924304 1.033g 33148 0 S 0.000 69:28.87 WebExtensions 4021 cer 20 0 4299592 922428 129636 0 S 8.125 552:36.75 firefox 5103 cer 20 0 3893680 398436 102932 0 R 25.62 2938:04 Web Content 19778 cer 20 0 2644216 355808 57124 0 S 3.125 1470:05 kodi-x11 18478 cer 20 0 3141844 335740 101772 0 S 0.625 42:10.54 Web Content 19741 cer 20 0 3250292 228088 39508 0 S 0.625 163:18.54 Web Content I'm very surprised by the high memmory usage of xfce4-panel. 1.2 Gigs? Process tree (ps -fx): PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND ... 2429 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/sddm 2432 tty7 Ssl+ 304:20 \_ /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /run/sddm/{cb0ab23f-eda4-4c5d-bf88-a9504ffda949} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7 3819 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/sddm/sddm-helper --socket /tmp/sddm-auth567d414c-8028-40ca-97ed-a8779b3d8335 --id 1 --start startxfce4 --user cer 3835 ? Sl 0:04 \_ xfce4-session 3888 ? Ss 0:04 \_ /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/gpg-agent --sh --daemon --keep-display /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc 3889 ? Ss 0:34 \_ /usr/bin/gpg-agent --sh --daemon --keep-display /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc 3945 ? Sl 88:42 \_ xfwm4 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 27ef593e4-abdd-45de-87e1-06f1cda34cda 3971 ? Sl 1:13 \_ xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2c36722ba-067e-4ae0-8417-a8245488ea39 <====== 3986 ? Sl 2:39 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libwhiskermenu.so 1 16777223 whiskermenu Whisker Menu Show a menu to easily access installed applications 3991 ? Sl 18:15 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libmultiload.so 15 16777224 multiload Multiload A system load monitor that graphs processor, memory, and swap space use, plus network and disk activity. 3992 ? Sl 20:09 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libpulseaudio-plugin.so 6 16777225 pulseaudio PulseAudio Plugin Adjust the audio volume of the PulseAudio sound system 3993 ? Sl 0:28 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libxfce4powermanager.so 13 16777226 power-manager-plugin Power Manager Plugin Display the battery levels of your devices and control the brightness of your display 3995 ? Sl 0:02 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 7 16777227 systray Notification Area Area where notification icons appear 3982 ? Sl 0:00 \_ Thunar --sm-client-id 2dfa4a24a-8d69-4a3d-a93d-5f51febf0e5e --daemon cer@Isengard:~> uptime 13:32:22 up 12 days 9:36, 5 users, load average: 4.56, 4.13, 2.81 How can it be? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYEoO1xwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVhFwAn0XgAg1KtZqP1FSQdgAK OQ5hNRhGAKCSL32uSBCbbYc4QxjjPAdXo4HtzQ== =8ukM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Upgrade from Leap 15.1 to 15.2 Desktop Failure
by Jim Flanagan 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

Greetings, Just did an upgrade from my stable Leap 15.1 install to 15.2. I downloaded the DVD and did the upgrade from booting that. It asked me if I wanted to used the online repos as I have an internet connection so I said OK. Everything seemed to go well and booting into my KDE desktop. But clicking the gecko start menu gives an error. "Error loading QML file:file///sur/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kicker/contents/ui/main.qml:27:1: module "org.kde.plasma.private.kicker: is not installed" The system is running and I see my desktop widgets doing their thing. But I can't do anything. I can get to tty1 and login as root but I don't know what to do from there. I tried running yast in tty1 but get errors when I try software management. This system was first installed with Leap 15.0, upgraded to 15.1, now to a partially broken 15.2. Any suggestions most welcome. Jim F

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encrypted Ideapad: passphrase asked twice/device descriptor read
by Daniel Bauer 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

So I installed OS 15.3 o my new Lenovo Ideapad Duet 3. It went ok (later I will open new threads for different smaller prolbems). I let the installer overwrite all former partitions and used "encrypted system" within the installer. So I have /dev/mmcblk0 116.48 GiB mmcblk0p1 0.5 GiB Ext4 /boot/efi mmcblk0p2 29.47 GiB Ext4 / (encrypted) mmcblk0p3 78.94 GiB Ext4 /hme (encrypted) mmcblk0p4 7.57 GiB Swap encrypted When I switch on the device I get: Attempting to decrypt master key... Enter passphrase for hd0, gpt2 (hex nmber) I enter the passphrase I takes 50 seconds until the grub menu appears, ten it shows Started Plymouth Boot Screen. Forward Passworëto Plymouth Directory Watch. Reached targets Paths. Found device /dev/disk/by-long hex number Found device /dev/disk/by-long hex nmber Found device /dev/disk/by_uuid/hex number Starting Cryptography Setup for cr_root... Starting Cryptography Setup for cr_swap... Please enter passphrase for disk cr_swap:: [6.974882] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -71 I enter the passphrase again, and it boots. Something is wrong. Passphrase should be asked only once and the 50 seconds after the first enter are loooog. What can I do? (I can repeat install if necessary as I have not copied any personal data nor did any settings until now) Thanks for hints. -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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cannot install OS on Lenovo Ideapad Duet 3
by Daniel Bauer 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

Hi, so just bought a small Lenovo Ideapad Duet 3. I want to replace Win with an Operating System, so I downloaded OpenSuse15.1 iso (15.1 because I have it on the other computers, to have the same). I used Suse Studio Image writer to write that ISO to an USB stick. - Start the pad so that the "Novo Button Menu" menu appears - select Boot Menu - select the stick, called "EFI USB Device (Philips USB Flash Drive)" - Opensuse Menu appears - Select Install - it says "Loading Kernel - loading initial Ram Disk" then a scrambled page filled with random characters appears after a while this disappears, the screen gets black, and nothing more happens :-( I tried with enabled and disabled secure boot. I cannot disable UEFI. How can I continue? Thanks for your help! Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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Signal desktop (electron) causes high CPU usage and lag
by Markus Feilner 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

Hi, is anybody else experiencing high CPU usage and extremly long lags when typing messages in signal-desktop app (I am using Tumbleweed). Strace and systemlogs didn't yield any thing notable... any help appreciated! -- Best Regards - Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Markus Feilner, Feilner IT - 20 years of open services - ------------------------- Agile Recursive Documentation: – Document it or it didn't happen! – ------------------------- Digitale Souveränität, Nachhaltigkeit, Dokumentation Linux, Security, Strategy, Politics, Journalism, Networking. https://www.feilner-it.net, 93059 Regensburg Wöhrdstr. 10, +49 170 302 7092 (+Signal) Blog: https://markusfeilner.de PGP: 40A3C306F96133067C11CFD9A958A906268C9F0A http://www.feilner-it.net/files/MFpub.asc Xing: http://www.xing.com/profile/Markus_Feilner LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markusfeilner @mfeilner: Matrix, Jabber, Skype, Twitter, Diaspora, ...

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multi-site private overlay networking (not? vpn)
by David T-G 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

Hi, all -- I would have called this a vpn, but after reading the recent [excellent] thread on what is or isn't vpn and what it can or can't do for one, maybe that's not the right term ... I have multiple sites A.comcast.net 192.168.a.0/24 B.att.net 192.168.b.0/24 C.localisp.net 192.168.c.0/24 ... that I would like to integrate into my own WAN and be able to see devices (machines, printers, etcetc) using the Internet as my transport medium. [NB that I don't have a proper router at most of these sites; I only have what the ISP gives me.] Better yet, when I'm on the road with a laptop I'd love to be able to connect into that and be part (just like remote office work). I was thinking that a host at each location, exposed through the firewall, would act as the local gateway and I could just route traffic across ... um, well ... that's where I run out :-) Is there any consumer-level software that will let me overlay a private network across multiple sites and encrypt the traffic between sites? And does each device in a site have two addresses (192.168.?.? and 172.16.?.?) or do I set each router's internal DHCP range to the larger network? Where do go to I learn about this stuff? :-) TIA again :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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15.2 install report
by David T-G 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

Hi, all -- I've just run through a few installs and thought I'd send an update, pretty much for general news but also so that someone can tell me where I'm being an idiot. I downloaded the NET image and threw it on a USB stick and ran through the entire install configuration. Although it happily pulled down data to get set up, it couldn't figure out networking (on-board Ethernet) and failed to connect to repositories and died. Worse, there was no way to get back into the install process after manually bringing up the interface; I was stuck at the 80s-style screen (which I love; don't get me wrong :-) and unable to try again. So, fine, I also downloaded the DVD image and went through the whole setup again. This *appeared* to configure (including without limitation setting a static IP address) properly, but during the actual install failed to connect to a couple of repositories and so wasn't quite complete. Urgh. But I can ping! *grrr* I rebooted and found networking to be unavailable. I had to go into YaST, change over to wicked, and tell it to believe the static IP info it had there before I could get going. Odd. Networking appeared fine after that, and I was able to zypper grab a few packages, but did not come up on the next boot. This box again did the resume search on System\x20Reserved during boot; I really need to file that bug report. [This is an identical machine from the same refurb folks, so it's not surprising to see that it would be duplicated.] It takes less time to edit the boot line than to wait through it, so I've done that a few times now. By the way, according to /dev/disk/by-label, my sda1 swap volume *does* have that label, so my guess is that "format"ting for swap doesn't actually do so. Still, though, why it searches there or even specifies resume= is a question for the bug report ... On this last boot of the night, as noted above, I still have no networking, and poking at it this time does not appear effective. Hmmm. It's bedtime for me, and I'll hope to get back to this the next time I'm where it is. I'll certainly send updates -- and, now that I know I'm likely to see difficulties, take better notes. Maybe this is enlightening for others, though. Have a great night! :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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15:3: Is there any delays in updates/patches due to SLE dependency compared to before (15.2)?
by cagsm 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

hello list is there actually any impact in delays or release handling of patches updates in leap 15.3 now that we have stronger(?) ties to SLE? are packages that are coming in from for example the SLE backports update repo such as todays chromium release having a larger delay than the situation on still leap 15.2? do we have different maintainers and people in charge for this package for example, or does it not really matter? I wondered about google chromium having released the chromium package on june 17th already to the public, see: <https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/06/stable-channel-update-for-des…> > https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/06/stable-channel-update-for-des… the package being shown as Name : chromium Version : 91.0.4472.114 Release : bp153.2.13.1 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Mon Jun 28 21:24:34 2021 Group : Unspecified Size : 346112298 License : BSD-3-Clause AND LGPL-2.1-or-later Signature : RSA/SHA256, Tue Jun 22 20:36:12 2021, Key ID 9c214d4065176565 Source RPM : chromium-91.0.4472.114-bp153.2.13.1.src.rpm Build Date : Tue Jun 22 20:24:39 2021 Build Host : lamb77 being compiled on june 22nd already, thats still 6 days in the past from today, as the release directories show the file date from today <https://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/backports/x86_64/?C=M;O=D> > https://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/backports/x86_64/?C=M;O=D <https://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/backports/x86_64/chromium-91…> > https://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/backports/x86_64/chromium-91… chromium-91.0.4472.114-bp153.2.13.1.x86_64.rpm 28-Jun-2021 13:10 96M The google chromium blog post and the changelog as well talking about WebGL exploited as one of the major reasons for this release, and exploits circulating in the wild and google being aware of it. Trying to find out if linux or more specific opensuse leap is actually fitting my needs with its updates and patches concept and time spans to actual availability. Having observed more desktop computing on the windows os side of things, the chromium and google chrome update were available on the original blog post release date, june 17th. Does opensuse or suse as the commercial company backing opensuse, and with its maybe heavier ties with leap now from 15.3 on, i am wondering if i am really protected to my needs, just looking at this chromium as an example here. ty.

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Create jpg
by James Knott 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

What's a good app for creating jpgs? I'm not a graphics person, so this is a bit out of my area. I currently have some photos in pdfs, but can scan them again into whatever app. tnx jk

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15.2 or 15.3 or other?
by David T-G 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Hi, all -- I have a 15.1 desktop davidtg@gezebel:~> cat /etc/SUSE-brand openSUSE VERSION = 15.1 and a 15.2 disk farm diskfarm:~ # cat /etc/SUSE-brand openSUSE VERSION = 15.2 and am now about to build a 'net-facing small LAMP server. How stable have folks found 15.3? Should I go with that or stick with 15.2? In this life, I am absolutely anything but a bleeding-edge guy :-) TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

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TPM2 auf Leap 15.3
by Gui Do 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Hallo, mein Laptop läuft einwandfrei mit secure-boot und trusted-boot und hat auch einen TPM2-Chip eingebaut. Den würde ich gerne nutzen. Wenn ich ihn aber im BIOS aktiviere, startet der Rechner nach dem Boot-Menü nicht mit einer Fehlermeldung bzgl. tpm-error und dass der kernel zuerst gestartet werden müsse. Hat jemand schon TPM2 zum Laufen bekommen? Danke und Grüße, HAL

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Update Repository (Debug)
by Wolfgang Mueller 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

When I try to update my new Leap 15.3 system by invoking "zypper patch" or "zypper up", the following warning message appears: Repository 'Update Repository (Debug)' appears to be outdated. Consider using a different mirror or server. For suppressing the warning message, I have inactivated this repository in yast. But I am looking for a better solution. On the site http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/, I did not find anything appropriate. Is there a better site available? And if so, what is its URL? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Wolfgang

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Re: Sound card configuration problem
by Masaru Nomiya 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Hello, In the Message; Subject : Sound card configuration problem Message-ID : <e03487f7-5aed-4af8-750b-72349cc4e028(a)ariannuccia.de> Date & Time: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 11:23:00 +0200 [WM] == Wolfgang Mueller <wm(a)ariannuccia.de> has written: WM> I recently installed Leap 15.3 on my computers "hp" and "se" WM> Configuring the sound cards by yast worked on "se" only, whereas on "hp" the WM> following error message appears: WM> ================================================================= WM> An error occurred during the installation of WM> GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller WM> The kernel module snd-hda-intel for sound support WM> could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect WM> module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. WM> ================================================================== WM> The same for the other sound card, called "Cannon Lake PCH cAVS". WM> How can I correct the kernel module snd-hda-intel and provide correct module, WM> IO, or IRQ parameters? These will help you. https://github.com/spotify/linux/blob/master/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-… https://github.com/spotify/linux/blob/master/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Au… Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ galaxy.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Three young men died for Rationalization. Yet, Margaret Bloody Thatcher LIVES!" 'Brassed Off'

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System sounds in Enlightenment
by Masaru Nomiya 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

To someone who's desktop is enlightenment. I can enjoy many multimedias on openSUSE 15.3 RC. audacious, mplayer, aplay, ffplay, mpd, vlc, xine, kodi.... But, I can't get any system sounds within the enlightenment, at all. It looks just like a PnP spec, so the developper told me that my pulseaudio is broken. I don't think so. In fact, I can enjoy multimedias. So, I'd like to ask the enlightenment user all. Are you getting the system sounds flawlessly? Thanks. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ galaxy.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ Think. -- The IBM slogan --

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snapper config
by Roger Oberholtzer 27 Jun '21

27 Jun '21

I have Tumbleweed installed on a computer at home. I was planning on updating it. I do not want to take a chance with the /usr merge change, so I want to have a snapshot just in case. The strange thing is: snapper seems not to be configured. It is a full btrfs install with everything as the install defaults to. There is ample free space (> 100 GB). When I run snapper ls, I get: The config 'root' does not exist. Likely snapper is not configured. There is no /.snapshots dir, and there is nothing in /etc/snapper/configs. No idea why it is this way. How can I config snapper? I just want whatever the openSUSE install would have done. I googled a bit and the discussions are about where it seems snapper is set up (the files that I said do not exist do exist in the questions I have seen), but this complaint is made. I do not think that is my issue. As an aside, that's the 'drawback' of systems like SUSE where so much is done automatically. One no longer really knows the commands involved. It's not at all a complaint. Just an observation of how things have evolved. I used to know a lot more about what was happening under the hood. Now I just sit and enjoy the blinking lights! -- Roger Oberholtzer

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Leap 15.3 RC Gnome and Tumbleweed XFCE: Logitech Marble Mouse not working (40-libinput.conf missing)
by Peter McD 27 Jun '21

27 Jun '21

Hi, I have been using a Logitech Marble Mouse trackball and a Logitech optical mouse with Leap 15.2/KDE for quite a while. Trackball left-hand-mapping, and an optical mouse right-hand-mapping (one computer, two users) I left the the optical-mouse-setting as it came with the system, and added for the trackball the configuration below. Works the way I like it. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf in Leap 15.2/KDE-Plasma ---------------------------------------------------------------- Section "InputClass" Identifier "Marble Mouse" MatchProduct "Logitech USB Trackball" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "libinput" # default button assignments. # Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9" # right-hand-mapping # Option "ButtonMapping" "1 8 3 4 5 6 7 2 9" # left-hand-mapping Option "ButtonMapping" "3 8 1 4 5 6 7 2 9" Option "ScrollMethod" "button" # Option "ScrollButton" "8" Option "ScrollButton" "9" # Option "MiddleEmulation" "on" # use instead Buttonmapping "3 8 1 ... 9" EndSection ---------------------------------------------------------------- But not so with Leap 15.3 RC Gnome or with the current Tumbleweed XFCE. It seems that /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is not used except for a keyboard-configuration file in Tumbleweed XFCE. It is still there in Leap 15.3 RC KDE-Plasma. How could I get the trackball functionality in Tumbleweed XFCE? Peter

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Main Update Repository' metadata error
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 27 Jun '21

27 Jun '21

Hello, Fort the last few days I'm getting this error Retrieving repository 'Main Update Repository' metadata ..........................[error] Repository 'Main Update Repository' is invalid. [download.opensuse.org-oss_4|http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.2/o…] Valid metadata not found at specified URL History: - File './repodata/a668552c59a768c5d53985abf664bafdfcbe396d25c48332e2da41a4df17aea8-primary.xml.gz' not found on medium 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.2/oss' - Can't provide ./repodata/a668552c59a768c5d53985abf664bafdfcbe396d25c48332e2da41a4df17aea8-primary.xml.gz Regards, -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047

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SD card errors - what to do?
by Dave Howorth 27 Jun '21

27 Jun '21

I've just had SD card errors for the first time and don't know what they mean exactly nor how to investigate further. The SD card was in a wildlife camera, which said there was an error. I thought it might have become full. I brought it back to my computer and put it in the card reader. Nothing shows up on screen (it normally opens a dialog box that offers to open my file manager when I insert an SD card). I see repeating blocks of messages in the journal: Jun 25 12:57:54 acer-suse kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Jun 25 12:57:54 acer-suse kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] Jun 25 12:57:54 acer-suse kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information Jun 25 12:57:54 acer-suse kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 Jun 25 12:57:54 acer-suse kernel: print_req_error: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 0 Jun 25 12:57:54 acer-suse kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sdc, logical block 0, async page read I don't really know what these mean. I thought the normal failure mode for SD cards was to go read-only, so I'm a bit lost. Any suggestions to recover the images at least? Or is it totally dead?

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(Not quite) duplicate repositories?
by J Leslie Turriff 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Following the link to "openSUSE Build Service repositories" | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ I see many almost duplicate repositories in the list, differing in name only by the trailing : in its name. Some have older, some newer dates. What is going on here? How to decide which to use? (Example attached.) Leslie -- Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64

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"connect: Network is unreachable"
by Wolfgang Mueller 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Connected to the same router, there are two computers, called "se" (192.168.2.11) and "hp" (192.168.2.11) in my home network. Last Monday, I have installed Leap 15.3 on "se" and yesterday on "hp". Whereas "se" reaches any internet site, on "hp" some sites may reached and some not, in which case the error message "connect: Network is unreachable" appears. Both machines are connected to the same router by cable. Examples of sites I can reach: - https://www.google.de - https://en.wikipedia.org - https://dict.leo.org - https://elpais.com Examples of unreachable sites: - https://www.treccani.it - https://www.washingtonpost.com - https://www.dizionario.rai.it - http://www.ariannuccia.de (my own site) Thinking it is a firewall problem, I made sure that the firwall is switched off. But that did not help. Thank you in advance for your help. Best regards, Wolfgang

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ICC, printers and KDE
by Frans de Boer 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

LS, I keep getting the message " You need Gnome Color Management installed in order to calibrate devices" when I select Color Management in the System Setting under KDE. The thing is, colord as well as the gnome-color-manager are both installed. So, why does it not see the the latter program? Anybody experience with it? Regards, Frans. -- A: Yes, just like that A: Ja, net zo Q: Oh, Just like reading a book backwards Q: Oh, net als een boek achterstevoren lezen A: Because it upsets the natural flow of a story A: Omdat het de natuurlijke gang uit het verhaal haalt Q: Why is top-posting annoying? Q: Waarom is Top-posting zo irritant?

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Double click and Thunderbird
by Carlos E. R. 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Since a few weeks back, when using Thunderbird (XFCE/Leap 15.2) I have a problem with the mouse: often a click is interpreted as double click or two clicks. For example, I hit "reply", and two identical reply windows are opened. That would be "two clicks". Or I click on a thread, and the entire thread is opened as a multitude of tabs. That would be a double click. On XFCE Settings, Mouse and Touchpad configuration, Behaviour, I have set the double click threasold to 501 mS, ie, half a second. No change. Maybe Thunderbird does its own separate mouse handling? What can I do? Someone else noticed this? My mouse is a logitech marble trackball. hwinfo says: Telcontar:~ # hwinfo --mouse 59: USB 00.1: 10503 USB Mouse [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: PsRb.FBtr+tYVKV1 Parent ID: k4bc.029GFTetOb3 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.3/0000:03:00.0/usb1/1-13/1-13:1.1 SysFS BusID: 1-13:1.1 Hardware Class: mouse Model: "Holtek USB Keyboard" Hotplug: USB Vendor: usb 0x04d9 "Holtek Semiconductor, Inc." Device: usb 0x2020 "USB Keyboard" Revision: "1.01" Compatible to: int 0x0200 0x0001 "Generic USB Mouse" Driver: "usbhid" Driver Modules: "usbhid" Device File: /dev/input/event3 Device Files: /dev/input/event3, /dev/input/by-id/usb-CYKB13_USB_Keyboard-event-if01, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:03:00.0-usb-0:13:1.1-event Device Number: char 13:67 Speed: 1.5 Mbps Module Alias: "usb:v04D9p2020d0101dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc01ip02in01" Driver Info #0: XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2 GPM Protocol: exps2 Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #62 (Hub) 61: USB 00.0: 10503 USB Mouse [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: Mwf_.z_8Swe_nwg5 Parent ID: 2XnU.BpLUUanApo2 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:29:00.3/usb5/5-3/5-3:1.0 SysFS BusID: 5-3:1.0 Hardware Class: mouse Model: "Logitech TrackMan Wheel" Hotplug: USB Vendor: usb 0x046d "Logitech, Inc." Device: usb 0xc404 "TrackMan Wheel" Revision: "2.20" Compatible to: int 0x0210 0x0023 Driver: "usbhid" Driver Modules: "usbhid" Device File: /dev/input/mice (/dev/input/mouse0) Device Files: /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/input/event1, /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_Trackball-event-mouse, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:29:00.3-usb-0:3:1.0-event-mouse, /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_Trackball-mouse, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:29:00.3-usb-0:3:1.0-mouse Device Number: char 13:63 (char 13:32) Speed: 1.5 Mbps Module Alias: "usb:v046DpC404d0220dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc01ip02in00" Driver Info #0: Buttons: 3 Wheels: 1 XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2 GPM Protocol: exps2 Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #64 (Hub) Telcontar:~ # (I have no idea about the first entry) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYNRMCRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVfE0AmwYl/KHHmhHzGzR+k2kX G7qvV3VUAJoDZw/uu8t8gxNMQp9h1/4cJ9V5LQ== =CxFz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Leap-15.3 splash screens
by Mark Hounschell 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

When I try to install a splash screen via "system settings / splash screen" I get an error: The installation of /tmp/KIbuMW-tranquil-1624535858364-3727.jpg failed, as the downloaded package does not contain any useful meta information, which means it is not a valid KPackage. Regards Mark

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out of date certificates in caches
by Marc Chamberlin 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

I just spent several days tracking down a problem on OpenSuSE 15.2 which I don't know who has the responsibility for reporting what failed, the operating system or the server/client applications. Anywise what happened was Certbot automatically updated some security certificates on one of my systems (Nova) and I wasn't aware of the consequences of it doing so. After that happened all of the sudden I lost the ability to connect to the services running on Nova. Autofs/Automount could not mount Samba shares from Nova, vncviewer could not connect to x11vnc service on Nova, ssh could not connect to sshd, knockd no longer opened ports, etc. None of the clients (except ssh but with a caveat) reported anything useful, just generalized crap like "No route to host" I hide a lot of the service's ports behind a port knock sequence which rendered the error messages from ssh invisible also. It was only when I directly opened the ssh port, on Nova, in firewalld and tried connecting that I finally learned what was going on. The cached certificates on my other systems were no longer valid and thus causing the failure. Only ssh actually offers a solution to the user to update the cached certificates with the new one from Nova. But again only if the server's port is not being handled by a portknocker. This was very difficult to track down and resolve! My question is, who should have the responsibility for detecting these out of date certificates, and offering a solution to the users when they are encountered? To my Object Oriented Design mind it seems the O.S. should have this responsibility and it should not be delegated to each individual client/server application. Maybe a distro is not the right place to start such a conversation, but I am only a poor user of OpenSuSE and not a member of any more centralized Linux group(s). After spending so much time tracking this down, I feel this is a deep design flaw in Linux itself but have no idea where to report it. 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. My public key for sending encrypted email to me 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, no worries, just ignore it and/or ask me to explain it further./)

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logitech X230 speaker system
by Douglas McGarrett 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

This may be off topic, but I don't know where else to ask. Started to relocate my logitech x230 speaker system, which consists of a big woofer to sit on the floor, and two tweeters that can sit on your table or hang on the wall. This particular system is no longer made, unfortunately, and it is truly wide-band audio. Problem: I discovered that the acoustic sound tube inside the woofer enclosure has come unglued from the plastic port entrance device, and I can't get the plastic thing off the enclosure so as to fish out the sound tube and glue it back on to the port device. The box is otherwise sealed up--apparently glued together--and I can't get the plastic port device off the box so as to glue the sound tube back onto it and put the thing back together. So, looking for advice as to how to get the port device loose from the box without breaking it! (I have tried very hard to slip a knife under the edge of it, but with only about 40% success. I tried heating the plastic port with a hair-dryer, but I'm afraid to get it too hot and melting it! If they had better glued the sound tube onto it before installing the assembly inside the box, this mail wouldn't be written! If this is unclear, I will attempt to draw a picture and attach it to an email. --thanx--doug //

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Re: Scanner trick [~OT]
by Roger Price 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, Carlos E. R. wrote: > I'm scanning a bunch of pages, and I noticed that the text in the reverse of > the page gets in the photo made of the front page. It occurred to me to cover > the white plastic lid of my scanner with a black spongy layer, and it works > wonders. The scanned page doesn't get material from the back, or very little, > depending on paper thickness. My old Epson Perfection 4870 Photo has a detachable plate in the lid which is white on one side and black on the other, but I'm sure this is accidental and was not intended as a helpful design feature. Roger

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Re: Spanish IPv6
by Per Jessen 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 23/06/2021 11.09, Per Jessen wrote: >> Carlos E.R. wrote: >> >>> So in Spain probably nobody sells IoT gadgets with IPv6. >> >> Actually, they are most probably the same everywhere. >> >> > > They are, but it would be pointless to sell an IPv6 gadget here. Well, only 95% pointless - on my opensuse mirror, yesterday 4.8% of all Spanish traffic was IPv6. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (22.8°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted in Switzerland.

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Scanner trick [~OT]
by Carlos E. R. 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm scanning a bunch of pages, and I noticed that the text in the reverse of the page gets in the photo made of the front page. It occurred to me to cover the white plastic lid of my scanner with a black spongy layer, and it works wonders. The scanned page doesn't get material from the back, or very little, depending on paper thickness. (using gimp and xsane) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHYEARECADYWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYNIl7BgcY2FybG9zLmUu ckBvcGVuc3VzZS5vcmcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VwNwCdFalnLwCtDfrUMfSUH1wjKEEp oHoAn2KeiTa511D0QKL0vlwSmWc7mYdz =38bt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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TinySSH & openSUSE 15.3 & WSL
by jimmypierre.rouen.france＠gmail.com 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Geetings, Has any of you managed to SSH from your LAN to a openSUSE 15.3 running on WSL & Windows 10 by any chance please? I followed what I could find on the net and this with openssh. No joy, many libraries missing. However, someone suggested TinySSH, a clean, simple, low ressources deamon. It would be great for admins to be able to ssh from their LAN to WSL. Thanks, Best, Jimmy

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Leap 15.3, KDE and removable media
by Roger Oberholtzer 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

I do not seem to get removable media to work correctly on leap 15.3 They are configured as usual to ask the user what to do, However, when plugging them in, KDE does not respond. I can see the devices listed with lsscsi. But nothing happens. I'm not sure where to look for more info. journalctl only lists that the devices are now there. But nothing happens in KDE. Is there some other setting other than the one in the system configuration program under Removable Devices? It would help if I got a complaint somewhere. But I do not see anything. Other than the system log, I'm not sure where to look. There used to be an X log file in $HOME that listed whatever programs were saying. I do not see that file. Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Roger Oberholtzer

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Leap 15.3 samba-krb-printing removed from repo
by David Mace 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

Hi, We started testing Leap 15.3 and noticed samba-krb-printing is no longer a part of the offical repos. Yes we did decide to build it for ourselves in OBS but wondering why this was removed? This package is very useful for organisations in a Microsoft environment who have Linux desktops joined to a domain with Samba, they can print to a Windows Server shared printer seamlessly using their local kerberos ticket Thanks

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leap 15.3 autoyast issue with samba-client
by David Mace 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

Hi, using the same Autoyast profile which works in Leap 15.2. Does not work in Leap 15.3. The autoyast portion relevant: ``` <samba-client> <active_directory> <kdc>dc.domain.co.uk</kdc> </active_directory> <join> <user>adomainuser</user> <password>password</password> </join> <disable_dhcp_hostname config:type="boolean">true</disable_dhcp_hostname> <global> <cached_login>yes</cached_login> <idmap_gid>5000-4000000000</idmap_gid> <idmap_uid>5000-4000000000</idmap_uid> <kerberos_method>secrets and keytab</kerberos_method> <security>domain</security> <template_shell>/bin/bash</template_shell> <usershare_allow_guests>No</usershare_allow_guests> <usershare_max_shares>100</usershare_max_shares> <winbind_offline_logon>yes</winbind_offline_logon> <workgroup>DOMAIN.CO.UK</workgroup> </global> <mkhomedir config:type="boolean">true</mkhomedir> <winbind config:type="boolean">true</winbind> </samba-client> ``` When launching a PXE install for Leap 15.3, it gives this error: ERROR: Extra element samba-client in interleave<br>36:0: ERROR: Element profile failed to validate content If I press OK, then I get this error: ERROR: Extra element samba-client in interleave<br>155:0: ERROR: Element profile failed to validate content Thanks

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Boot loader 15.3
by James Knott 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

My ThinkPad had been configured to have the boot loader on sda3. In updating to 15.3, I accidentally put it on the master boot record on sda. This has created a problem with updates to Windows 10, which I also have on that computer. The major updates will choke if the computer doesn't boot from the Windows partition, so I'd use fdisk to change booting from sda3 to sda1. It would then boot directly into Windows, allowing he update to continue. After my mistake in updating, I can no longer do that. I have used the Yast Boot Loader to move the boot loader to sda3, but the problem continues, no matter which partition I choose to boot from. Any idea how to fix this? tnx jk

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Mailing Lists
by Ianseeks 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Whats happened to the list.opensuse.org/archives ? and Factory List? regards Ian -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20210609 Qt: 5.15.2 KDE Frameworks: 5.82.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.22.0 - kwin 5.22.0 kmail2 5.17.1 (21.04.1) - akonadiserver 5.17.1 (21.04.1) - Kernel: 5.12.9-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.17

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SAMBA, Problem in SuSE Leap VERSION = 15.2, with "PRINT COMMAND ="
by Stefan Becker 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

openSUSE VERSION = 15.2 SAMBA Version 4.11.14-git.247.8c858f7ee14lp152.3.19.1-SUSE-oS15.0-x86_64 Greetings, this week I've installed a fresh SuSE 15.2 Server via DVD, and updated all services. This server would replace an existing old SuSE Server already in place. My problem is that the printer SHARE on the new Samba Server does not work. The file system shares [HOME] work fine, Just not any Printing shares that use "PRINT COMMAND =" as directive; in order to execute tailored script. My example is a simple PDF-Printer [pdf] printing = sysv comment = PDF Generator path = /tmp read only = no printer name = ps1 guest ok = yes printable = yes browseable = yes print command = /usr/local/lufa/mkpdf %s ~%u //%L/%u %m %I Being able to use "print command =" to submit to script is an important part of many solutions that I need to have in place. (The [PDF] share is just an example, I know that I could solve THIS differently.) Other file server shares like [HOMES] work fine. Just the "print command = " does not execute. Scripting to a log file shows no activity at all, and I receive no error messages, neither from the client nor from the samba server. Does anyone know how to debug the printing service. As to show if samba has a problem, or if the client is trying to submit printing at all. Setting "log level = 10" doesn't show me any usefull, at least any information that I can understand. I do know that "printing = cups" (using cups librarys) will suspend the "print command" completely, but does that mean that the "print command =" won't work at all with other "printing = " directives ? My printers otherwise use "printing = sysv", this has always worked. Can anybody help me with this or advise in what direction to pursue. my best regards, Stefan Becker LUFA Speyer My Script: --------- file: /usr/local/lufa # dir mkpdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 becker users 4299 14. Jun 12:25 mkpdf script: #!/bin/bash #/usr/local/lufa/mkpdf # samba-print-pdf cd /tmp/ ( echo "" echo Time: $(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") echo Proc: $USER [ $UID ] echo Call: $0 echo File: $1 echo User: $2 echo Para: $3 , $4 , echo Para: $5 , $6 ) >> /tmp/mkpdf.log if [ "$1" = "" ] ; then exit 10 fi # .... the complete smb.conf : --------------------- [global] workgroup = HOME netbios name = SUE log level = 3 realm = HOME.DE passdb backend = tdbsam security = ADS ntlm auth = ntlmv1-permitted min protocol = NT1 interfaces = 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 192.168.10.0/255.255.252.0 hosts allow = 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 192.168.10.0/255.255.252.0 hosts deny = all bind interfaces only = yes printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw guest account = nobody guest ok = no logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile logon drive = L: domain logons = No domain master = No prefered master = No wins server = 192.168.10.13 wins support = No allow insecure wide links = yes follow symlinks = yes wide links = yes allow trusted domains = No template homedir = /home/%U template shell = /bin/bash oplocks = No level2 oplocks = No client min protocol = NT1 nt acl support = no inherit acls = no kerberos method = secrets and keytab winbind use default domain = yes winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes winbind nested groups = No winbind refresh tickets = yes winbind offline logon = yes idmap config HOME : backend = rid idmap config HOME : range = 1000 - 20000 idmap cache time = 20000 unix charset = utf8 dos charset = cp1252 [homes] comment = home valid users = %S, %D%w%S read only = no create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 browseable = no printable = no [pdf] printing = sysv comment = PDF Generator path = /tmp read only = no printer name = ps1 guest ok = yes printable = yes browseable = yes print command = /usr/local/lufa/mkpdf %s ~%u //%L/%u %m %I

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rbind mount problem
by Marc Chamberlin 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Hello - I am running OpenSuSE Leap 15.2 and am encountering a problem with doing an rbind mount on the root / directory that I cannot find a solution to. I run a SOHO network and only my wife and I are users. (She is NOT Linux savoy so not a threat! LOL) In my /etc/fstab file I mount the root / directory at /slash using the following configuration - > /slash none rbind,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=300 0 0 The trouble I am having occurs when I try to set up a relative link in a sub-directory that uses slash. So for example I have a directory at /srv/samba/etc as accessed and shown here - > marcslaptop:~ # cd /srv/samba/etc/ > marcslaptop:/srv/samba/etc # ll > total 20 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 11 09:17 dhcp.conf -> /etc/samba/dhcp.conf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jun 13 14:52 lmhosts -> > ../../../slash/etc/samba/lmhosts > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 12 22:21 smb.conf -> > ../../../slash/etc/samba/smb.conf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 13 15:34 smbusers -> > ../../../etc/samba/smbusers and all is fine and works as expected. However if I cd to this same directory via the /slash mount things go to pot! - > marcslaptop:/srv/samba/etc # cd /slash/srv/samba/etc/ > marcslaptop:/slash/srv/samba/etc # ll > total 20 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 11 09:17 dhcp.conf -> /etc/samba/dhcp.conf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jun 13 14:52 lmhosts -> > ../../../slash/etc/samba/lmhosts <-- Highlighted in red > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 12 22:21 smb.conf -> > ../../../slash/etc/samba/smb.conf <-- Highlighted in red > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 13 15:34 smbusers -> > ../../../etc/samba/smbusers > The color coding is missing but it shows that the links for lmhosts and smb.conf are broken. I can demonstrate this - > marcslaptop:/slash/srv/samba/etc # more smb.conf > more: stat of smb.conf failed: Too many levels of symbolic links > marcslaptop:/slash/srv/samba/etc # more lmhosts > more: stat of lmhosts failed: Too many levels of symbolic links I don't know if the relative links for lmhosts and smb.conf are broken because I cd via the /slash mount point or something else is haywired, but the error message telling me that there are "Too many levels of symbolic links" makes me think that an indefinite recursion loop is occurring somewhere. I can't grok why that would be the case, and after 5 days of Googling and reading man pages, I give up and hopefully a guru here has solved this or something similar and will be able to point me in the right direction and tell me how to get these links to work. I can't find any options for autofs, automount, cifs file systems etc that would solve this either. (Yes I am using cifs because there are Windoz systems on my SOHO network also and I want to be able to access the /slash share from them as well.) While this is NOT a complete or precise explanation for why I need these relative links to work via the /slash mount point, I want the /srv directory to contain all the links to various configuration files, for each service I run on each of my systems. This way I will be able to export a samba share for both /slash and /srv and use a tool like Beyond Compare to manage and maintain these files and keep them in sync when I update or make changes to a configuration file that should be propagated to each system on my network. Using relative links will allow me to access these configuration via the remote host's /slash mount and not via the local host's /slash mount. Thanks as always in advance for your time and efforts! Marc...

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please consider fixing update system thank you
by paolo brusasco 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Thank you for opensuse 15.3. Updating a brand new x64 opensuse install kde and gnome, as for now, fails and it's well known all over the internet. Zyppering and rezyppering updates something but doesn't fix. I'm sorry for the annoyance but I think this item should be on the top of the forum till the fix, and users should be openly informed of the fixing process on top of every official page of the project. Great, long lasting distribution, we wish and hope well. Thank you, best regards, Paolo Brusasco

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Every time I try to install the proprietry Nvidia drivers X11 KDE Plasma completely fails to start
by Simon Connah 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Hi, As the title really. I have no idea what is going on. It happened after the UsrMerge update and now I can't install the propriety drivers at all without completely killing my GUI. Is this a known issue at all? I don't want to try again because I haven't been able to fix it. Simon.

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Handbrake is broken for what is sound - how to report a bug to packman?
by Stakanov 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

Handbrake is a coversion program for movies. The current version is broken apparently for sound. It creates conversions without. Now, I tried to understand, but found not bugzilla for them, so I wondered where to report a bug with them?

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Update error - Leap 15.3 KDE
by James Knott 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

I'm getting update errors "patch:SUSE-2021-1526-1.noarch conflicts with readline-doc". When I try using online update it shows it wants to uninstall LibreOffice. If I allow it to do that, it leaves me without LibreOffice. The error still occurs after reinstalling it. Anyone else see this? tnx jk

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Leap 15.3 update issue
by Mark Hounschell 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

I have only one 15.3 box. The panel says I have updates. I click ok/update to update and I get this Update Error: the to be installed patch:SUSE-2021-46-1.noarch conflicts with 'gnu-compilers-hpc-devel Then aborts the update. ???? Regards Mark

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15.3 as well please, do send update mails to the update mailing list
by cagsm 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

for 15.3 as well please. There were already a few updates on 15.3 but the updates list archive shows only stuff about leap 15.2 updates. Please dont think so low and care so little for this hybrid kind of leap 15.3 with its SLES bastardisation. This whole leap 15.3 adventure more and more smells like considering it the unloved sibling of god knows whom or what. :(

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Old version of Firefox
by James Knott 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

When I try to run Firefox, I get an error message that it's an older version and might corrupt bookmarks etc. When will the current version be available? tnx jk

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15.3 anomalies
by Mark Hounschell 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Trying to compile an app from 15.2 and it fails. The simplest way to describe this is to take the sample code from the encrypt man page and try to build it on 15.2 and 15.3. It builds with no errors and works on 15.2 but here is what I get with 15.3. cc encrypt.c -o encrypt -lcrypt encrypt.c: In function ‘main’: encrypt.c:25:9: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘setkey’; did you mean ‘setgid’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] setkey(key); ^~~~~~ setgid encrypt.c:29:5: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘encrypt’; did you mean ‘crypt’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] encrypt(buf, 0); ^~~~~~~ crypt /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEYoHXm.o: in function `main': encrypt.c:(.text+0xa1): undefined reference to `setkey' /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: encrypt.c:(.text+0xda): undefined reference to `encrypt' /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: encrypt.c:(.text+0x188): undefined reference to `encrypt' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status So where have this set of functions gone? Regards mark

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Leap 15.3 upgrade from 15.2 , Thunderbird forget master password
by Peter McD 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Hi, I upgraded from Leap 15.2 to 15.3, as mentioned above, Thunderbird didn't accept its master password anymore (standard installation) Back to Backup, this mail sent from Leap 15.2. Peter

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Downloaded 15.3
by James Knott 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

I've just downloaded 15.3 and am making a USB install stick. With a 500/20 Mb Internet connection, writing the USB stick is taking much longer than the download.

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Leap 15.3?
by Mark Hounschell 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Back in 15.1 and 15.2 EVERY rpm had lp151, pm151, lp152, or pm152 on their name. Now we seem to have lp153, pm153, bm153, and very many with none of the above like pre 15.1. Anyone know what happened? Mark

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No Seamonkey
by James Knott 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

There doesn't appear to be a Mozilla repository for Leap 15.3. When will it be availalbe? tnx jk

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openSUSE Leap 15.3 Release Notes contains a dead link
by Adam Mizerski 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

In chapter "2 System upgrade" the second link https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book.opensuse.star… gives me error 404

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shouldnt sle(s) based packages on 15.3 be not handled via a sp3 named directory instead of sp2?
by cagsm 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

hi there, === ( 5/72) Installing: libcurl-devel-7.66.0-4.17.1.x86_64 ................................................................................................................................................................[done] Additional rpm output: warning: /var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update/sle-sp2/x86_64/libcurl-devel-7.66.0-4.17.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 39db7c82: NOKEY ( 6/72) Installing: libcurl4-32bit-7.66.0-4.17.1.x86_64 ...............................................................................................................................................................[done] Additional rpm output: warning: /var/cache/zypp/packages/repo-sle-update/sle-sp2/x86_64/libcurl4-32bit-7.66.0-4.17.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 39db7c82: NOKEY === this is happening inside a zypper up on a current leap 15.3 today. shouldnt that var cache directory be named sle-sp3 (which also exists in that folder structures already) and instead? is my understanding of what leap 15.3 and suse linux enterprise 15 sp2 and sp3 are, wrong? ty.

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15.3, firing up konqueror, brings defective startup page, unknown konq protocol
by cagsm 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

this 15.3 test system, which came from 15.2 before, maybe even 15.1 before that. pretty much never before having used konqueror on this machine, firing it up today only renders that error message that unknown protocol konq cannot create io-slave === The requested operation could not be completed Cannot Initiate the konq Protocol Technical Reason: Unable to Create io-slave Details of the Request: URL: konq:konqueror Protocol: konq Date and Time: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 Additional Information: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'konq'. Description: The io-slave which provides access to the <strong>konq</strong> protocol could not be started. This is usually due to technical reasons. Possible Causes: klauncher could not find or start the plugin which provides the protocol.This means you may have an outdated version of the plugin. Possible Solutions: Update your software to the latest version. Your distribution should provide tools to update your software. Contact your appropriate computer support system, whether the system administrator, or technical support group for further assistance. === konqueror-20.04.2-bp153.1.24.x86_64 konqueror-lang-20.04.2-bp153.1.24.noarch konqueror-plugins-20.04.2-bp153.1.24.x86_64 are installed. bug? anyone? ty.

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15.3, packagekit updater shows two libreoffice (?) updates but can not apply them
by cagsm 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

my 15.3 testing machine. came from RC candidates, today I applied some gstreamer and shim updates via zypper dup and it als brought in that suse-sles-backport-update repo location config or whatever that was. anyways so the packagekit now shows two more updates for libreoffice, but can not apply them update error, patch: suse-2021-1200-1.noarch conflicts with libreoffice-writer-extensions.x86_64 and such. first bug? anyone? ty.

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Packman and certificates
by Roger Oberholtzer 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

If I download a package from Packman and install it directly, I get this warning: libvo-amrwbenc0-0.1.3-pm151.1.4.x86_64 (Plain RPM files cache): Signature verification failed [4-Signatures public key is not available] Of course if I add the repository this is all managed. But if I want to just install the RPM direct, is there a package with the certificates that I can install so this message is not given? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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15.2, restarting firewall service fails, need to restart fail2ban right before it, ordering matters
by cagsm 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

15.2 with some recent zypper ps telling me that python stuff wants the firewall service to be restarted PID | PPID | UID | User | Command | Service | Files -----+------+-----+------+-----------+-----------+--------------------------- 1075 | 1 | 0 | root | python3.6 | firewalld | /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.3.0 sudo systemctl restart firewalld.service Failed to restart firewalld.service: Transaction contains conflicting jobs 'restart' and 'stop' for fail2ban.service. Probably contradicting requirement dependencies configured. sudo systemctl restart firewalld.service fail2ban.service Failed to restart firewalld.service: Transaction contains conflicting jobs 'restart' and 'stop' for fail2ban.service. Probably contradicting requirement dependencies configured. finally sudo systemctl restart fail2ban.service firewalld.service throws no errors. i am a simple user only. bug? why? ty.

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supported fingerprint sticks
by suse＠a-domani.nl 31 May '21

31 May '21

Hi all, We are looking for a fingerprint-protected usb-stick. I noticed: two luxwallet devices, and on their site they clain (...) that those are linux-compatible. URL: https://www.luxwallet.nl/product-categorie/usb-opslag/vingerafdruk-usb/ However, one must first initialize them, with windows-only software. I've got lot of rubbish and junk here, but no W10. I tried wine, but all i got was: "No U: drive", nothing else :-( Anyone around here who got them working? (or other recommendable devices? read/write is OK, bootable would be perfect.) Kind Regards, Hans.

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Compositing crashing KWin on Login
by Matthias Bach 29 May '21

29 May '21

Hi all, For a while now I have this weird issue where, when logging into KDE after system boot, KDE is in a weirdly broken state: compositing is disabled (no wobbly windows, only half my windows are restored (curiously, Firefox always is, Konsole is always missing), and the desktop itself is not being drawn, resulting in remnants of moved windows staying on it. This happens when using the official NVIDIA driver from the openSUSE-NVIDIA repository on a GTX 1060. I have been using this same set-up for years but the issue only popped up a couple months ago without me knowingly changing anything. It also survived the move from Leap 15.2 to Leap 15.3 Beta / RC. Only my main user seems to be affected by this. Two test users I use irregularly don't seem to show the same behaviour. When going to the compositing settings in that state, I get a message that compositing crashed KWin and OpenGL detection has thus been disabled, see the German-language screenshot attached. Reactivating the detection and either doing a logout / login or running "kwin_x11 --replace" will result in compositing working again. I also have a slight impression that this is more likely to happen when there is disk activity while initiating the login. But this might also be a red herring. Does anybody have any hints what log files might help to home in on the issue causing this? I have a suspicion that I have some non-default configuration, that I am not aware of, that either directly causes this or exposes some underlying bug that is otherwise not triggered. Kind Regards, Matthias -- Dr. Matthias Bach www.marix.org „Der einzige Weg, die Grenzen des Möglichen zu finden, ist ein klein wenig über diese hinaus in das Unmögliche vorzustoßen.“ - Arthur C. Clarke

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Re: Moving from Freenode to Libera.Chat
by Carlos E. R. 27 May '21

27 May '21

On 27/05/2021 13.37, Richard Brown wrote: > On Thu, 2021-05-27 at 13:31 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >>> Again. Pidgin requires the password BEFORE a connection is >>> established. >> >> If nothing else, this is going off-topic here - FWIW, it worked just >> fine with konversation. No userid, no password, but there was a >> third >> step to verify my email address. > > Indeed - please can we relocate the "Carlos doesn't know how to connect > to IRC" portion of this thread to the Support list please? As long as somebody helps me there... Connection doesn't work: https://susepaste.org/81396729 -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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We knew there was something funny about the new Tbirds and gpg ...
by David C. Rankin 27 May '21

27 May '21

Icarus moment: Mozilla Thunderbird was saving OpenPGP keys in plaintext after encryption snafu Cockup has since been patched in latest release 6 Comments https://go.reg.cx/tdml/dfd67/60d51c7f/70bba22e/3ZNf Gives me the shivers about ever updating.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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IRC moving from freenode to libera
by Per Jessen 27 May '21

27 May '21

... continued from factory. Carlos, you have the wrong server specified. It is 'irc.libera.chat', not 'libera.chat'. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.6°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes.

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bind mount and yast partitioner
by Marc Chamberlin 27 May '21

27 May '21

Hello, I am running a number of OpenSuSE systems on my SOHO network at home and I keep hitting a small but annoying problem that I wonder if there is a better workaround/solution to. This occurs on all versions of OpenSuSE - 15.0, 15.1, and 15.2. I am not running 15.3 yet. All systems are x64 architecture. I want to access the complete file systems of each computer via samba and autofs, which means I want to be able to access the "root" directory / on each system. Some years ago Samba stopped me from designating / as a samba shared directory and exporting it. (I don't understand why except from Googling it appears someone decided that to allow /, to be exported as a Samba share, was a security problem. I get so annoyed at all the layers of security and obfuscation so have not tried to track down what is exactly going on with Samba and the "root" / directory. Please don't try to dissuade me and tell me about the security risks of making the "root" / directory available for mounting, this is a SOHO network and I solely control all the computers on it.) I know Samba will allow me to define a share for the "root" / directory but it doesn't seem to work, at least autofs will not recognize/mount it and still reports the directory does not exist if I try to cd into it. So to work around this I do a bind mount of / as /slash and samba then allows me to export /slash as a samba share. In my various configuration files I use the name "slash" as the name of the exported Samba share and I create a directory /slash so that my configuration files will work regardless of whether /slash is a bind mount or not. At least that is what I think I am doing. The config line in fstab looks like this - / /slash none bind smb.conf has the following definitions for the root directory - [slash] available = Yes browseable = Yes comment = Root directory inherit acls = Yes path = / read only = No create mask = 0755 force user = root autofs configuration for mounting the root directory / typically looks like the following, only names of the remote host changes. slash -fstype=cifs,rw,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,credentials=/etc/smb1.auth ://bigbang/slash This works fine for autofs and most tools that work on the host or across network file systems. All except, that is, the YaST2 partitioner. For some unknown reason it picks up the bind mount /slash and automagically reassigns all my mount points to be under /slash. So for example if I tell it to mount my home partition at /home the partitioner will reassign my mount point to be at /slash/home. More importantly, the partitioner reassigns / to be mounted as /slash. Then if I want to make any further change to partitions and save those changes, the partitioner will complain that the mount point for / is undefined and it wants to force me to define a / mount. The only workaround I have found is to remove the bind mount from fstab and then reboot. After reboot I can then use the YaST partitioner to make the changes I want, since because without the bind mount the partitioner now sees all the mount points of different partitions as subdirectories under / and not under /slash/. But without the bind mount defined in fstab, tools like autofs will no longer mount the "root" / directory though I do not grok why. So again I have to add back in the bind mount to fstab so that Samba shares will again work, and again I have to reboot. I have tried restarting all the appropriate services individually, such as nmb, smb, autofs, and network but no joy getting the the remote host's "root" / dir to remount, so I resort to rebooting the systems (a PITA) and that does the trick... Perhaps I am missing some magic trick or there is a better way to accomplish what I want to do, which ideally is to configure Samba to really share the "root" / directory. Sorry this is complicated and will be difficult to grok, it is for me! Any help would be much appreciated, I would love to once and for all resolve this irritant because I have to rediscover these issues and their resolutions each time something like autofs breaks or I want to use the partitioner. Thanks, Marc

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php7 zmq (ZeroMQ) for LEAP 15.2, anyone?
by Adam Tauno Williams 26 May '21

26 May '21

Anyone know where I can find a php7-zmq package for LEAP 15.2? I'd struck out in the usual places and it doesn't want to build from PECL/phpize. This is the last dependency to forward port an application of an old server. :( -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA

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email of bugzilla of opensuse
by Stakanov 26 May '21

26 May '21

I am receiving my bugzilla reply mail on a historical freenet account that recently does not work well anymore (freenet causes me dns problems, no idea why). I tried to change the email to this one (disroot) but no luck up to now, even in my account settings no way to change the original historical email to something valid and new. Does anybody know a procedure to have this done? I have seen not further indication.

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Why can't the process "sync" be killed?
by Carlos E. R. 25 May '21

25 May '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is just a fact, it can not. Situation. The system is running the process "texpire", which is part of leafnode package, an nntp proxy server. texpire simply looks at every posts and deletes those that are old according to certain rules. This is very intensive on the disk, looking at 1.2 million files. It runs for half an hour. If during that process I issue a "sync", it does not succeed till texpire ends. It can not be killed. Telcontar:~ # time sync ^C^C^C On another terminal: Telcontar:~ # killall sync Telcontar:~ # killall sync Telcontar:~ # killall -9 sync Telcontar:~ # killall -9 sync Telcontar:~ # It has to run till completion. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYHN4lRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV1sMAn2cBZmEwd/2LPAIbwlZA xOYqhSPeAJ9JEDEbDbVTBxs9Ec7oK20KZpqWkQ== =Rcb3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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named - writeable file 'master/2001.db8.1234.1': already in use: /etc/named.d/enidan-reverse.conf:40
by Per Jessen 24 May '21

24 May '21

I run a named with multiple views (four) - in such a setup, you cannot have independent / out-of-view zones so each view includes common zones, such as 'enidan-reverse' (just reverse zones). For the reverse ipv6 zone, we want to do dynamic updates - hence we have 'allow-update { localhost; };' for that zone. Previously, named or named-checkconf did not complain, but I am attempting an upgrade to 15.2 and the new named-checkconf complains. Plenty of hits with google, but no solutions other than disabling the checkconf. Some people suggest adding 'DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING=yes' to /etc/sysconfig/named, but that variable is not supported in our named setup. For now, I need the named update more than the dynamic ipv6 updates, so I'll probably just disable it, but surely there is a way out of this? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland.

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Automatically install debuginfo/debugsource packages?
by Niklas Haas 24 May '21

24 May '21

Hello, I do a lot of debugging, and I generally find it annoying to have to wait for debuginfo to become available. I'm used to distros such as Gentoo where I can globally enable debuginfo for all packages, and never have this problem ever again. I know that in recent times, openSuSE has started shipping gdb with the annoying `libdebuginfod` which attempts solving this problem but fails spectacularly. As such, I don't consider it a solution, for a number of reasons that are besides the point. (To anybody finding this email via google: comment out /etc/profile.d/debuginfod.sh to disable it) What I _want_ to have happen is for `zypper in <package>` to automatically pull in `<package>-debuginfo` where available. Is there any way at all to accomplish this? Thanks, Niklas P.s.: It's possible with some parsing of the `zypper packages -i` output to construct a command line that installs `<package>-debuginfo` for all installed packages. However, this still has annoying shortcomings: 1. Uninstalling packages doesn't auto-clean the (no longer needed) debuginfo packages, thus causing them to continue littering the system over time. 2. This has to be re-run periodically in order to keep up with newly installed packages.

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Leap 15.2 repositories down?
by Bruce Ferrell 24 May '21

24 May '21

I'm seeing timeout problems with the installation and update repositories Anyone know what's going on?

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bluetooth with Nokia N9 smartphone
by Peter Münster 23 May '21

23 May '21

Hi, I would like to connect my N9 to my desktop for making phone calls and listening to music coming from the N9. How could I achieve this please? Sometimes after pairing I get music but no phone, and sometimes phone but no music. It seems to be related to these messages: kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: SCO packet for unknown connection handle 0 TIA for any help, -- Peter

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unsubscribe opensuse users
by Hans-Peter Heubach 22 May '21

22 May '21

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Leap 15.1 repositories
by Jeffrey Taylor 22 May '21

22 May '21

Before I update to 15.2, I'd like my 15.1 installation to be up to date. Two of the repositories warn they are out of date. I've tried switching from http to https, and several other suggestions. Could someone with a 15.1 installation post here or e-mail me off list with URIs for their official repositories, i.e.: Main Repository (OSS) Main Repository (NON-OSS) Main Update Repository Main Update Repository (NON-OSS) Thank you, Jeffrey

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Re: The most non destructive way to prepare a SSD for openSUSE
by L A Walsh 21 May '21

21 May '21

On 2021/05/16 18:57, -pj wrote: > I was recently informed that using dd (dubbed - data-destroyer) can > seriously shorten a SSD devices lifespan. ---- dd is not a data-destroyer. It is a very useful tool in many circumstances. Of course many tools can be mis-used. Maybe sudo find / -type f -delete or a dos/win fav: format C: Not sure what happens with sudo cat /dev/zero >/dev/rootfs It is handy to have the rootfs so readily identified...*cough* > > 1. What is the most effective non destructive way to erase or prepare a > SSD drive for an openSUSE (LEAP or TDE) installation? ---- Just put it in your drive and create a new partition table. No unnecessary writes. > > I am wondering now about USB flash drive devices. > > 2. Does the use of "dd" on USB flash drives kill the limited lives on > these devices in a similar manner also? ---- ???!!... Depends on what you do with "dd". Why would you need or want to use 'dd' unless you want to transfer a disk image. Usually you want to xfer files so 'dd' wouldn't even come into the picture. > > 3. Does the use of "dd" on a mechanical drive have less of a negative > lifespan effect than that of it's effects on SSD or USB devices? --- Um...less of a negative effect? Well, since magnetic media isn't known to be very degraded by multiple r/w ops, it would probably generate less wear. But if you use 'dd' to copy a boot-disk-img which you want to use on a flash-drive, 'dd' could be less harmful, than formatting the flash drive, then copying all the files from some mounted source to the target media. Just don't do unnecessary R/W's on media not designed for it (maybe some flash drives). FWIW, I would tell you I've not had any flash drives/ssd's fail, but to do so might invite unnecessary risk due to some carelessness -- like removing the wrong data disk from a RAID5. I don't know where you got the idea that 'dd' was more dangerous than other i/o, but if you are using to zero out or write other test patterns then you are doing unnecessary I/O -- and that's not the fault of 'dd'. FWIW, dd with the right parameters will give you the fastest r/w speeds. I often use it to test my network R/W speeds with CIFS/SMB... I do frequent i/o speed testing reading + writing on Win from/to two files in my linux home directory. Writing to the devices avoids any physical disk-speed interactions so I just get the protocol transport speed. It varies alot based on how the ethernet connection is tuned. Ishtar:law> /bin/ls -lgG ~/{null,zero} crwxrwxrwx 1 1, 3 Dec 24 2018 /home/law/null crwxrwxrwx 1 1, 5 Jun 15 2015 /home/law/zero which is drive 'H:' on my Win machine: /h> /bin/ls -lgG /h/{null,zero} -rwxrwxrwx 1 0 Dec 24 2018 /h/null -rwxrwxrwx 1 0 Jun 15 2015 /h/zero /h> bin/iotest Using bs=16.0M, count=64, iosize=1.0G R:1073741824 bytes (1.0GB) copied, 2.27302 s, 451MB/s W:1073741824 bytes (1.0GB) copied, 3.02209 s, 339MB/s

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Mailing list Web archive barely usable any more - nginx backend timeout error
by cagsm 21 May '21

21 May '21

Hello suse infrastructure staff, the webpages for the mailing list archives are often not loading at all and nginx backend timeout being shown. is this due to hello kitty system or lack of capacity or higher load with the newer web archive technology putting load onto the whole system? ty

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The most non destructive way to prepare a SSD for openSUSE:
by -pj 21 May '21

21 May '21

I was recently informed that using dd (dubbed - data-destroyer) can seriously shorten a SSD devices lifespan. 1. What is the most effective non destructive way to erase or prepare a SSD drive for an openSUSE (LEAP or TDE) installation? I am wondering now about USB flash drive devices. 2. Does the use of "dd" on USB flash drives kill the limited lives on these devices in a similar manner also? 3. Does the use of "dd" on a mechanical drive have less of a negative lifespan effect than that of it's effects on SSD or USB devices? -Best Regards :|

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need help with displaymanager weirdness
by Mathias Homann 20 May '21

20 May '21

Hi guys, all of a sudden my displaymanager isn't starting properly anymore... Yesterday morning all was fine, since yesterday afternoon display- manager.service doesn't start properly after boot anymore. All I get is a black screen, and a mouse pointer. Then, I restart X with ctrl-alt-backspace, or login through ssh or from a text console and restart the display-manager.service, and all is well. I already checked - the xdm and sddm packages have not changed since some time in the first two weeks in APRIL. A bit more detail: I'm running 15.2 with the KDE/Plasma repositories from OBS active and prioritized so that they always override the stock repos. I'm using nis and autofs to get the user home directories. I used systemctl edit to make sure that display manager gets started only after the networks, nis, and autofs are all up & running. There is nothing suspicious in the journal, or in /var/log/Xorg.0.log... and like i said, once I restart the displaymanager all is fine. Anyone got any ideas? Cheers MH -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann(a)openSUSE.org OBS: lemmy04 Jabber (XMPP): lemmy(a)tuxonline.tech IRC: [Lemmy] on freenode and ircnet (bouncer active) telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98 keybase: https://keybase.io/lemmy gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102

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Firewall configuration, confused.
by Gustav Degreef 20 May '21

20 May '21

Hello, I read with great interest the entire recent thread "Possible malware?" and tried to make sure that I set my firewall (firewalld) to block all ssh connections from outside my home LAN. My ISP provides access via cable modem and I set up my own router. There are 3-4 laptops running opensuse 15.x (and 2 android phones) on my home network (adresses configured with DHCP) and I log in periodically via ssh (as user, not root) to the other computers to fix various issues. Via the yast2 firewall configuration I set only the "public", "internal" and "home" zones to have ssh as an allowed service. The "external" and other zones do not have ssh allowed. I read quite a few articles on the firewall configuration, but I am not sure that I set it right. Is there anything else I should do? Thanks, Gustav.

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Bugzilla mailing list help
by Christoph Feck 19 May '21

19 May '21

Hello, could someone please help to unsubscribe from the "opensuse-bugs" mailing list? I tried sending mail to opensuse-bugs-leave as well as to opensuse-bugs+unsubscribe, but except for a moderation mail, I got no answer. Note that I am receiving all opensuse-bugs mails twice, so maybe I am registered somewhere I am not really aware of. Christoph Feck

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firefox quantum frustration
by Istvan Gabor 18 May '21

18 May '21

Hello: I use firefox browser only occasionally, because Pale Moon fits my requirements much better. Unfortunately Pale Moon is becoming unusable for a number of web sites, including youtube. Therefore I installed the newest ESR version of firefox, 78.10.x esr. Apart from that I don't like it very much it loads youtube and some other sites smoother than Pale Moon. But there are some "features" I cannot accomodate to, and would like to change if possible. 1. How could I restore the old selection behavior in the url bar, that is: one click inserts the cursor into the url, two clicks selects all. I don't want to use three clicks. I found a hack here: https://blog.tusooa.xyz/2020/10/01/Fix-firefox-address-bar-clickSelectsAll-… I applied it to my omni.ja, and it changes selection behavior except the selected by double click text is not put in the primary selection list, and can not be pasted with the middle mouse click. I would appreciate if someone could help me to restore that behavior too. 2. I really miss a button that clears the url bar, so that I could use a middle click to paste text into the address bar without selecting and deleting before pasting. 3. Is it possible to restore multiple tab rows while they remain rearrangeable? I found some css hacks to restore multi row tab bar, but then the tabs cannot be rearranged. 4. How could I get rid of the annoying update notification popup? I do know these are not opensuse specific questions, but this list has experienced users who might help solve these issues. Thank you in advance, Istvan

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Microsoft Teams
by James Knott 18 May '21

18 May '21

Has anyone successfully used Microsoft Teams on 15.2/KDE? I have tried both with a browser and installing the Teams app, but neither works. I hate to have to use Windows to run it. I have no problems with Skype, Meet or Jitse, just Teams. tnx jk

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on 15.3: dmesg asks for more priviliges? root needed? 15.2 works as normal user
by cagsm 18 May '21

18 May '21

on a 15.2 to 15.3 dup-ed system, dmesg and dmesg -e suddenly ask for priviliges or deny functionality without being root. why? bug? ty.

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sftp and mxc with rsa key
by jdd＠dodin.org 18 May '21

18 May '21

Hello, I have connection between my computer and my server using rsa key. It works perfectly with no password for ssh, scp, sftp... but it don't works for "mc" in sftp mode (I have to give the -very long- password) any clue? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org

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15.2: latest dracut update, then reboot attempt, system doesnt come back up
by cagsm 17 May '21

17 May '21

some remote 15.2 system, applied the dracut [1] and some sed update and tiny bits. attemtpted reboot. system wouldnt come back up. need to embark on a journey now to visit that system just for yet another failed boot attempt of my suse experience. :( [1] <https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/updates@lists.opensuse.org/thread/…>

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dup error when trying to update TW
by Simon Connah 12 May '21

12 May '21

Hi, I have the following error when I try and update TW at the moment. Is this just one of those instances where you wait for a couple of days for it to fix itself or is my system missing something? Problem: Mesa-vulkan-device-select-32bit-21.0.2-275.3.x86_64 requires libvulkan_intel-32bit = 21.0.2, but this requirement cannot be provided deleted providers: libvulkan_intel-32bit-21.0.2-275.3.x86_64 Solution 1: Following actions will be done: keep obsolete libvulkan_intel-32bit-21.0.2-275.3.x86_64 keep obsolete libvulkan_radeon-32bit-21.0.2-275.3.x86_64 Solution 2: deinstallation of steam-1.0.0.70-1.2.x86_64 Solution 3: install steam-1.0.0.70-1.2.i586 despite the inferior architecture Solution 4: break Mesa-vulkan-device-select-32bit-21.0.2-275.3.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies Simon.

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Thunderbird NNTP permission denied error.
by -pj 11 May '21

11 May '21

Opening the Thunderbird mail client today I was greeted with the following message. A news (NNTP) error occured: Permission denied: To much connection time. 1. I have been having some on again off again issues with the Eternal September Newsgroup server. I will send a message and get a notice that the message can not be sent. I have ended up sending messages message multiple times. Possibly causing distress to the specific group users. Eternal September Server Settings: Server Name > new.eternal-september.org > Port > 119 Eternal September Security Settings: Security Settings > Connection security > none I have added Newsgroup "news.aioe.org" and with this Newsgroup server test messages seem to be sent without error. The test messages sent through "news.aioe.org" do not seem to show in the Eternal September (news.eternal-september.org) mailbox promptly though. This seems to happen intermittently. Obviously due to my lack of experience this could be a settings issue of some nature on my end. I wanted to get your opinions on some possible solutions that I may be able to try to implement here. -Regards

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Update error
by Marc Chamberlin 11 May '21

11 May '21

Hi - I am running OpenSuSE 15.2 x64 on my laptop with the KDE Plasma desktop. I got an update notification yesterday for a security update for VLC but when I try to install it I get an error message - vlc-codecs-3.0.11.1-pm152.2.11.2.x86_64 requires vlc-noX = 3.0.11.1, but this requirement cannot be provided If the Packman repository is needed to resolve this issue then I have another problem to resolve. If I try to enable and use the Packman repository I get the following error - An error occurred during repository initialization. SKIP request: User-requested skipping of a file History: - Permission to access 'http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/repodata/repomd.xml' denied. What do I need to do to resolve these problems? Thanks in advance for any advice. Marc C. -- *"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. My public key for sending encrypted email to me 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, no worries, just ignore it and/or ask me to explain it further./)

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I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 09 May '21

09 May '21

Subject: I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021 Good day from Singapore, I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021. Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 8GB (Latest) - Price SGD$120 https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-main-board/c-raspberry-p… Raspberry Pi 7 Inch Touch Screen Display With SmartiPi Case - Price SGD$147 https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-display/c-display-for-rp… Do you think it is a good match? I want to use my Raspberry Pi like a regular laptop or desktop computer. Would a 7 inch touch screen display be too small for my use case? I don't want to strain my eyes looking at a small display. However, if I get a 10 inch touch screen display, I can't find one with a supporting base. I can't find a 10 inch touch screen display with a supporting base which could allow the screen to stand vertically. Finally, does your Linux distribution support Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 GB? Can I do 4K Ultra HD video editing on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 GB? Like adding watermarks, and cutting away unwanted 4K scenes. Is there a good 4K video editing software for Linux? I am looking forward to your reply. Thank you very much. Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming, 43 years old as of 9th May 2021, is a TARGETED INDIVIDUAL living in Singapore. He is an IT Consultant with a System Integrator (SI)/computer firm in Singapore. He is an IT enthusiast. -----BEGIN EMAIL SIGNATURE----- The Gospel for all Targeted Individuals (TIs): [The New York Times] Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html ******************************************************************************************** Singaporean Targeted Individual Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 14 Feb 2019 and refugee seeking attempts at the United Nations Refugee Agency Bangkok (21 Mar 2017), in Taiwan (5 Aug 2019) and Australia (25 Dec 2019 to 9 Jan 2020): [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2] https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ [3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming -----END EMAIL SIGNATURE-----

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Why can't HP1109W print in leap 15.2
by Carl Spitzer {L Juno} 09 May '21

09 May '21

Oops accidently sent in html and made message too large. 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['requesting-user-name'], 'uri-security-supported': ['none'], 'which-jobs-supported': ['completed', 'not-completed', 'aborted', 'all', 'canceled', 'pending', 'pending-held', 'processing', 'processing-stopped']}} Page 5 (<troubleshoot.CheckPPDSanity.CheckPPDSanity object at 0x7f93c4b7e0f0>): {'cups_printer_ppd_defaults': {'General': {'ColorModel': 'Gray', 'InputSlot': 'Auto', 'MediaType': 'Plain', 'OutputMode': 'Normal', 'PageRegion': 'Letter', 'PageSize': 'Letter'}}, 'cups_printer_ppd_valid': True, 'missing_pkgs_and_exes': ([], [])} Page 6 (<troubleshoot.LocalOrRemote.LocalOrRemote object at 0x7f93c4b7ee80>): {'printer_is_remote': False} Page 7 (<troubleshoot.DeviceListed.DeviceListed object at 0x7f93c4b7eeb8>): {'cups_device_dict': {'device-class': 'direct', 'device-id': 'MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP LaserJet ' 'Professional P1109w;CLS:PRINTER;DES:HP ' 'LaserJet Professional ' 'P1109w;SN:000000000W484RBVPR1a;', 'device-info': 'HP LaserJet Professional P1109w USB ' '000000000W484RBVPR1a HPLIP', 'device-make-and-model': 'HP LaserJet Professional ' 'P1109w'}} Page 8 (<troubleshoot.PrinterStateReasons.PrinterStateReasons object at 0x7f93c4b9b780>): {'printer-state-message': 'ready to print', 'printer-state-reasons': ['none']} Page 9 (<troubleshoot.VerifyPackages.VerifyPackages object at 0x7f93c4b9b9e8>): {'packages_verification': {'cups': ['..?...... c /etc/cups/cups-files.conf', '..?...... c ' '/etc/cups/cups-files.conf.default', 'S.?....T. c /etc/cups/cupsd.conf', '..?...... c /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.default', '..?...... c /etc/cups/snmp.conf', '..?...... c /etc/cups/snmp.conf.default', '..?...... /usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd', '..?...... /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp', '..?...... /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd', '..?...... /usr/sbin/cupsd'], 'foomatic': ['package foomatic is not installed'], 'gutenprint': ['..?...... ' '/usr/lib/cups/backend/gutenprint52+usb'], 'hpijs': ['package hpijs is not installed'], 'hplip': ['..?...... ' '/usr/lib/cups/backend/hpfax'], 'system-config-printer': []}} Page 10 (<troubleshoot.Locale.Locale object at 0x7f93c467fdd8>): {'printer_page_size': 'Letter', 'system_locale_lang': 'en_US', 'user_locale_ctype': 'en_US', 'user_locale_messages': 'en_US'} ____________________________________________________________ Choose to be safer online. Opt-in to Cyber Safety with NortonLifeLock. Plans starting as low as $6.95 per month.* https://store.netzero.net/account/showService.do?serviceId=nz-nLifeLock&utm…

4 7

Working with KDE Wallet System: Storing Network Manager passphrase:
by -pj 09 May '21

09 May '21

I am interested in your thoughts about using the 'KDE Wallet system' or at least reviewing more about it. I see that if I proceed to setup with KMail there is an option to use the KDE wallet system also. Activating the machines wireless capability through: > System Settings > Network > Connections > Wi-Fi Security > Password > Store Password for this user only (encrypted) (entered password) > Apply > Exit (top right) > Powercycled. No passphrase appears stored. KDE Desktop > 'Wi-Fi password dialog window - KDE Daemon' asks for password again....no connection. I notice that I can set password and store password for all users (not encrypted). Powercycle...no problem...password remembered. Except. 1. Where is the location of this none encrypted password file? If I decide to go this route (it's known to work). How to revert on this - remove this stored password for all users once this step is performed? 2. Any idea on as to why: > Store Password for this user only (encrypted) (entered password) > Apply > Exit (top right) > Powercycled. < Does not seem to store passphrase? 3. Could I ask for a preferred link in regards to openSUSE for the KDE Wallet system (Using TDE here). It seems this is basically a subtle nuance nevertheless it seems to exist that is why I am asking. -Wishes

1 0

how can i limit my screen resolution?
by Mathias Homann 08 May '21

08 May '21

Hey guys, I just got me a new laptop, so now I need to limit my screen resolution. ...the new laptop has a 14" 4K display, I really don't need 3840x2160 on that little screen - FullHD should be more than enough, expecially when that means better performance in games. I know I can switch the resolution on a per user basis in Plasma or Gnome, but how can I limit the whole thing to "only" 1920x1080? As in, even gdm/sddm runs at that resolution? Back in the olden days I'd put that in /etc/X11/xorg.conf or somewhere like that, but nowadays that file doesn't exist and everything's autodetected... Any suggestions? Cheers MH -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann(a)openSUSE.org Jabber (XMPP): lemmy(a)tuxonline.tech IRC: [Lemmy] on freenode and ircnet (bouncer active) telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98 keybase: https://keybase.io/lemmy gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102

4 5

add group cdrom for K3b?
by -pj 08 May '21

08 May '21

Hi, I installed K3b on my 32 bit and 64 bit (TDE) computers and decided to test how the application performed. Settings > Configure K3b > Devices > Displays the following error: * Optical Devices In order to give K3b full access to the writer device the current user needs be added to a group cdrom. The Permission helper that could do this for you was not enabled during build. Please rebuild the package with the Permission helper enabled or contact your distribution. * K3b was able on both machines (32 and 64 bit TDE) to complete the burning of an .iso and verify without incident. I attached a screenshot of the error message here. > https://susepaste.org/26598876 1. How can I enable this permission helper that is spoke of? 2. How should I go about adding a cdrom group? I am not seeing the capability in (YaST > Control Center > Security and Users > User and Group Management >) most likely I am missing something about how to use this particular module. 3. Do I need to uninstall K3b and reinstall again (once a group cdrom is added)? 4. Will removing K3b and the dependencies of K3b through YaST Software Manager create potential dependency problems? 5. I was looking at this YaST CD-ROM Drives module page: > https://en.opensuse.org/YaST_CD-ROM_Drives Most likely I am missing something in the YaST - User and Group Management section. Is there a preferred openSUSE Wiki Portal on this topic of adding groups and users through YaST? I looked at this information briefly and it refers to a CD-ROM Drives module: > https://en.opensuse.org/YaST_CD-ROM_Drives < Seems to be not relevant most likely. What are your thoughts on this matter? -Regards

4 8

How to Hold/Lock a specific kernel in place openSUSE TW?
by -pj 08 May '21

08 May '21

I recently attempted to Hold/Lock a specific kernel in place on openSUSE TW. My hardware is 32 bit so I am currently inhibited by having to load a specific kernel-release (a newer release is not allowing the computer to boot). See the following link if you are interested in more details on the filed bug report: -> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185542 I edited the following file with Kate text editor /etc/zypp/zypp.conf scrolled down to line 554 and edited the following entry to: multiversion.kernels = latest,running,5.11.16-1-pae " Keep the last two kernels and the one currently running. multiversion.kernels = latest,running,5.11.16-1-pae " I saved the edited file and closed Kate. I then opened /etc/zypp/zypp.conf and verified that in fact the entry I created had been saved. Then I powercycled the computer (maybe twice I am not certain-most likely only once). Needless to say that the boot menu has no more listing for "kernel-5.11.16-1-pae". There were 2 listing's for kernel-5.12.series (both unbootable). I have been reviewing the following link concerning this: > https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP4/html/SLES-all/cha-tuning-multike… 1. I really would like to ask as to if the reason for failing to hold the "kernel-5.11.16-1-pae" was/is this because of the fact I edited the zypp.conf file's entry incorrectly by adding the "kernel-flavor" suffix (5.11.16-1-pae <-Not Entering-> 5.11.16-1) instead? 2. What is the best way to Hold/Lock the running kernel? 3. is YaST2 sometimes used for this task? Thanks :|

6 18

Forcing a specific kernel to be installed on openSUSE TW:
by -pj 08 May '21

08 May '21

I followed the following instructions (listed below) in an attempt to install a specific kernel on my laptop computer which I downloaded from the following webpage: > https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/tiwai:/kernel:/5.11/standa… Completing the Instructions below. I powercycled the laptop and it loaded into the bootmenu now listing multiple kernels -BUT- not kernel-default-5.11.16-1.1.ge06d321.i586.rpm (Which I intended to be installed). I have tried entering the following in Konsole's - bash terminal command line as root user (su -)as follows: localhost:~ # zypper install --oldpackage kernel-default-5.11.16-1.1.ge06d321.i586 Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... The following NEW package is going to be installed: kernel-default-5.11.16-1.1.ge06d321 The following package requires a system reboot: kernel-default-5.11.16-1.1.ge06d321 1 new package to install. Overall download size: 72.4 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 215.3 MiB will be used. Note: System reboot required. Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y Retrieving package kernel-default-5.11.16-1.1.ge06d321.i586 (1/1), 72.4 MiB (215.3 MiB unpacked) kernel-default-5.11.16-1.1.ge06d321.i586.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID f6e74bf5: NOKEY V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID f6e74bf5: NOKEY Looking for gpg key ID F6E74BF5 in cache /var/cache/zypp/pubkeys. Repository kernel-default-5.11.16-1.1.ge06d321.i586.rpm does not define additional 'gpgkey=' URLs. kernel-default-5.11.16-1.1.ge06d321.i586 (kernel-default-5.11.16-1.1.ge06d321.i586.rpm): Signature verification failed [4-Signatures public key is not available] Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): 1. How can I correct this "Signature verification failed [4-Signatures public key is not available]" message? ===================================Instructions=============================== >> And, I have the rpms from a commercial package--I can (and do) install >> them from the command line. These will >> never be in the repos. > > Very bad idea to use commercial packages with Tumbleweed, that is asking for trouble. I will explain, again, how you do this. 1) Create a directory, for example /home/doug/extrarepository/ 2) Copy all the rpms from that commercial thing into that directory. 3) start yast as root in graphic mode: su - yast2 4) Start the "Software repository" module 5) Click the button "Add repository" 6) on the list that appears, click "Local directory", then [next]. 7.0) On "repository name" put whatever you like. 7.1) On path to directory, you write the path (/home/doug/extrarepository/). 7.2) Click on "Plain rpm directory" 7.3) [NEXT] It thinks for a while, and if all goes well, you click [OK]. Now, you have created your own private repository for external packages. Next, install those packages. 1) On YaST, click "Software management module 2) On view, select "repositories". 3.0) On repositories, you will see a list of repositories on the left panel. Select the repository you created. 3.1) On the right panel, you will see the list of packages in that repository. If it is empty, exit YaST, run "zypper refresh --force" and try yast2 again. 3.2) select the package, solve the dependencies if needed, accept and finish. Done. ======================================================================================================

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libdvdcss source package in repository?
by -pj 08 May '21

08 May '21

Hi, I have added the following repository with YaST: > Software Repositories > Add > HTTP > Next > Repository Name - libdvdcss2 > URL of the Repository - https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essenti… Priority 99 (Default) Both Enabled and Autorefresh are both ticked/checkmarked. The Name is listed as libdvdcss2 also. Clicked OK to exit. Then opened Software Managment > Repositories > libdvdcss2 > Empty (no contents) I passed the following command in Konsole: zypper se -s libdvd Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository --+------------------+------------+-----------+--------+------------------------ | libdvdcss | srcpackage | 1.4.2-1.3 | noarch | libdvdcss2 | libdvdnav-devel | package | 6.1.0-1.6 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss i | libdvdnav4 | package | 6.1.0-1.6 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss | libdvdread-devel | package | 6.1.1-1.6 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss i | libdvdread8 | package | 6.1.1-1.6 | i586 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss lines 1-10/10 (END) It appears a source package of libdvdcss is in fact installed on the machine. Is this the package that the above repository contains? Is it best to install both of the following packages libdvdcss and libdvdcss2? I would like to compile the above listed package but I am curious as to if I have done a step incorrectly up to this point. I am also of course wondering if it would be best to install package libdvdcss2 as well. I do notice by using VLC that the same dvd medium I previously tried "Plays the same movie as before with no libdvdcss instance installed". Switching to a different dvd medium results in no playback at all. The drive is certainly activated when the VLC media play key is clicked. I verified with "lsblk" I have the correct block device selected also. Suggestions on this would be a great help. Regards :|

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libdvdcss2 not required for DVD playback anymore?
by -pj 06 May '21

06 May '21

I was working with my Compaq nc-6400 laptop yesterday (openSUSE TW) and I installed the "Packman Essentials" repository also "libdvdcss2" from the following links I have documented. Packman Essentials -> "https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories" I am seeing now that the openSUSE TW portal located here "https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed" has maybe a better link for "Packman Essentials" under the "Multimedia Codecs" section. Than what I have been using currently. My main question here is perhaps the following: Is the "libdvdcss2" repository needed for DVD playback anymore? libdvdcss2 -> https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/523474-Multimedia-Guide-for-open… I ended up removing the "libdvdcss2" repository (for some reason) then (I am not sure if it was necessary) Powercycled the laptop. VLC media player loaded the movie DVD perfectly with no notable problems/issues detected. How can this be? I made certain and saw with "zypper lr" that there is absolutely no "libdvdcss2" repository left on the computer. Is it not necessary anymore for DVD/CD playback? At this time the computer is unbootable due to a bug in the "5.12.0-1-pae kernel" but ugh I would like to get your thoughts even if brief on this maybe. Thanks

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zypper dup question
by J Leslie Turriff 06 May '21

06 May '21

I'm getting ready to upgrade my desktop (TDE) to the newest stable release, using zypper dup. Should I include --solver-focus=Update or leave it to the --solver-focus=Job default? Leslie -- openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64

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Prior snapshots of openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Rescue-CD-i686-Current.iso.mirrorlist
by -pj 05 May '21

05 May '21

Hi, I see on reviewing the link below the "Current-Snapshot". Is there a list of prior openSUSE i686 Rescue-Cd snapshots that can be downloaded? https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/iso/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Rescue-CD-… -Regards

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Re: make boot disk from install disk--how?
by Carlos E. R. 05 May '21

05 May '21

On 30/04/2021 08.28, Doug McGarrett wrote: > On 4/29/21 5:57 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 29/04/2021 22.27, Doug McGarrett wrote: >>> On 4/28/21 8:32 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>>> On 28/04/2021 01.28, Doug McGarrett wrote: >> >> ... >> >>> I cannot get the screen you show in the picture. When I start the >>> system, I get a note that says >>> type startx, and then I get a blue-green screen with a caracature of >>> a mouse and two icons for file-system and home. >> >> I suspect you did not download the correct image. It is this: >> >> <https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/live/openSUSE-Leap-15.…> >> >> >> Best put it on an USB stick. Instructions here: >> >> For usb stick: <https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick> >> >> If you have to use Windows, then: >> >> <https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Create_a_Live_USB_stick_using_Windows> >> >> >> >> Then, just boot the stick: >> >> Booting: <https://susepaste.org/14418492> >> >> It goes directly to this, but can take a while, without touching any >> key: <https://susepaste.org/18739074> >> >> Just double click on the partition you want to mount and use it normally: >> >> <https://susepaste.org/37117851> >> >> >> After much messing around I got the new file on a usb stick and tried >> to boot it. No luck. > Messages: invalid magic number you need to load the kernel first How exactly did you put the image on the USB? > It's almost 2;30 in the morning. I've been at this for a week. I know > you and some others are trying to help > but I guess I'm just too stupid. And too sleepy. I don't even know what > the messages mean--I thought > the download was supposed to be bootable, like the other one. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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anyone seen this prob? root can't read manpages?
by L A Walsh 05 May '21

05 May '21

I ran into this some time ago, and thought it was solved, but am having probs looking up manpages while running as root: Ishtar:/Media/Library> cd Ishtar:law> sudo man ls No manual entry for ls Ishtar:law> man ls |wc # really is there! 241 925 7864 Ishtar:law> sudo man -w ls No manual entry for ls Ishtar:law> man -w ls /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz Ishtar:law> llg /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz -rwxrwsr-x 1 man man 3112 Mar 2 2015 /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz* Ishtar:law> llg -d /usr/share/man/man1/ drwxrwsr-x 3 man man 139264 May 3 09:04 /usr/share/man/man1/ Ishtar:law> llg -d /usr/share/man/ drwxrwsr-x 32 man man 4096 Apr 17 03:22 /usr/share/man/ ('llg' shows user+group which I normally have suppressed)

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Fwd: Reporting saved kernel logs on system that stalls during boot?
by -pj 05 May '21

05 May '21

My apologies, this message was intended for the list. :| -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Reporting saved kernel logs on system that stalls during boot? Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 19:12:13 -0500 From: -pj <pj.world(a)gmx.com> To: Carlos E. R. <robin.listas(a)telefonica.net> On 5/4/21 3:26 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 04/05/2021 22.07, -pj wrote: >> I am wondering if it would be possible to maybe get a couple of pointers >> on what to do next as far as a bug report. I don't know if it is correct >> to ask more questions in Bugzilla at this point. >> >> First off the bug report is here: -> >> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185542 >> >> My computer was able to boot fine with kernel 5.11.16-1-pae >> >> I was asked to install kernel-default for testing purposes >> 5.12.1-1.g9bb8944-default which I did. kernel-default failed to boot. >> >> So now 3 kernels are installed/listed in the bootmenu as follows. >> >> 1. 5.12.1-1.g9bb8944-default >> 2. 5.12.0-2-pae >> 3. 5.12.0-1-pae >> >> kernel 5.11.16-1-pae <- Is now gone. Computer is unable to boot to >> splash screen with any of the 3 above listed kernels. It makes >> little/some sense since in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf - line 554 >> multiversion.kernel the kernel 5.11.16-1-pae must have been removed <- I >> do not understand though because when I installed KOTD the 5.11.16-1-pae >> was the running kernel. >> >> Quoting the bug report now as per Comment #7 is as follows: >> "OK, thanks, then it's a generic problem of 32bit Intel kernel. >> Feel free to uninstall kernel-default again. >> >> Now, we need more details about the crash. Any chance that you have the >> relevant kernel Oops or panic in the saved kernel logs? Or if not, try >> to boot without quiet boot option, and check whether you get the stack >> traces on screen, and take a picture. That's often helpful as a start.". >> >> What does the kernel Oops or saved kernel logs mean? I have the openSUSE >> https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Report_a_YaST_bug#How_can_I_setup_network_… >> >> >> >> 1. Is this y2logs? What is the best way to retrieve these logs that are >> needed? > > No. Those are the YaST logs. > > > > You first run: > > journalctl --list-boots > > For this to work, the directory "/var/log/journal/" must exist. If it > doesn't, create it, for the next time. Great..I see here: -> https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-opensuse-re… "section 11.1:". Which is the best way to perform this step (due to having kernels that are not allowing boot to Splash screen or desktop)? Will I need to create a Rescue-CD perhaps so that I can check for this "/var/log/journal" directory? I do see "C: Command Line E: Edit Entry" at the bottom left corner of the "boot menu" screen. 1. Is it best in my reply here to snip off the remainder (bottom portion) of this message before sending? Thanks. > > > Then select which of the listed boots you want. Then, request the log > for that session: > > journalctl -b 2 > > If that is the one you need, then: > > journalctl -b 2 > somefilename.log > > and attach it to the bugzilla. > > > Alternatively, you may have "/var/log/boot.msg" for the current boot > and "/var/log/boot.omsg" for the previous boot. > > > However, as the boot crashed, there will be nothing. You have instead > to remove "quiet" and take a photo with your camera. > >> >> 2. I do not want to install the operating system again as it will not >> help the situation at all most likely. >> >> 3. Sometimes I do get stack traces on the screen and am not booting with >> quiet boot option I believe. >> >> 4. I decided to take a photo of the "stack traces" and I have attached >> the image to this email. > > Don't. Upload to susepaste.org, or upload to bugzilla. > > >

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Send direct if response from Rankin wanted.
by David C. Rankin 04 May '21

04 May '21

All, After nearly 20 years on this list, seem my ISP has fsck'ed up its mail servers and I am no longer getting list messages, according to Per due to a 521 service not available from my ISP. (WTF?) Any way, I do get direct mails and I do get an occasional mail from the list. Just understand I'm not ignoring the list. I've asked a(a)o.o for log entries so I can prove to my ISP they have a problem -- terrible service now... Joy... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: printer bomb?
by Doug McGarrett 04 May '21

04 May '21

On 5/4/21 1:41 AM, Doug McGarrett wrote: > Sent here because you all have a great deal of experience and I am > known to you, even tho the OS machine is off line at present. > > About a week ago I attempted to download a PDF and print it. I tried a > couple of times to print it from two different Linux computers running > two different Linux systems. Since then neither my Epson nor my HP > printers work, altho I did get a short period of output from the HP, but > now it is ng again. > The printers say they're ready, but the systems say they're not. > > [root@localhost ~]# lprm - > [root@localhost ~]# lpq > HP-LaserJet-Pro-M201-M202 is not ready > no entries > > On laptop: > lprm - > lpq > Epson WP-4530 Series is not ready > > WARNING: The destination that brought this about is here: > > 0081dd867a979b89ecf0(a)members.ebay.com > > Also: > > "Instruction Manual Download Link from eBay - > yesterdaystractprartsinc" > > This outfit wanted to sell me a CD of the instruction manual, so I > agreed, since > I do want the information, and a CD came, but now I'm afraid to run it! > > If this is truly a printer bomb, probably some government agency should > be alerted. However, the expression "printer bomb" does not register on > Firefox. > > BTW: The manual I wanted has nothing to do with tractors; it is a ham > radio. > > --doug > > >

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How to gather "saved kernel logs" information for bug report?
by -pj 04 May '21

04 May '21

I am wondering if it would be possible to maybe get a couple of pointers on what to do next as far as a bug report. I don't know if it is correct to ask more questions in Bugzilla at this point. First off the bug report is here: -> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185542 My computer was able to boot fine with kernel 5.11.16-1-pae I was asked to install kernel-default for testing purposes 5.12.1-1.g9bb8944-default which I did. kernel-default failed to boot. So now 3 kernels are installed/listed in the bootmenu as follows. 1. 5.12.1-1.g9bb8944-default 2. 5.12.0-2-pae 3. 5.12.0-1-pae kernel 5.11.16-1-pae <- Is now gone. Computer is unable to boot to splash screen with any of the 3 above listed kernels. It makes little/some sense since in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf - line 554 multiversion.kernel the kernel 5.11.16-1-pae must have been removed <- I do not understand though because when I installed KOTD the 5.11.16-1-pae was the running kernel. Quoting the bug report now as per Comment #7 is as follows: "OK, thanks, then it's a generic problem of 32bit Intel kernel. Feel free to uninstall kernel-default again. Now, we need more details about the crash. Any chance that you have the relevant kernel Oops or panic in the saved kernel logs? Or if not, try to boot without quiet boot option, and check whether you get the stack traces on screen, and take a picture. That's often helpful as a start.". What does the kernel Oops or saved kernel logs mean? I have the openSUSE https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Report_a_YaST_bug#How_can_I_setup_network_… 1. Is this y2logs? What is the best way to retrieve these logs that are needed? 2. I do not want to install the operating system again as it will not help the situation at all most likely. 3. I do get stack traces on the screen and am not booting with quiet boot option I believe. 4. I decided to take a photo of the "stack traces" and I have attached the image to this email. 5. The 32 bit computer does have 4 gigabytes of memory installed. <- Do not know if that was necessary to say. :| I would really appreciate your input as I am quite inexperienced with this situation. I think it would be really neat to get some of the bugs fixed for 32 bit TW for the: Dual Core model: Intel T2400 bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Yonah rev: 8 cache: L2: 2 MiB flags: nx pae sse sse2 sse3 vmx bogomips: 7314 Speed: 997 MHz min/max: 1000/1833 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 997 2: 997 -Best Regards

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Literature specified for SUSE used in openSUSE:
by pj.world＠gmx.com 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi, I just reviewed a page of literature specified for SUSE, it's concerning "15 Installing Multiple Kernel Versions". In the top right corner the page states the following. Applies to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP4/html/SLES-all/cha-tuning-multike… I was asked to complete a survey which I agreed to do so. it asked about my use of SUSE products which I ticked "no" to (since openSUSE was not allowed). It was interesting to me because the documentation really was quite good and informative for my openSUSE TW version. Is it looked down/frowned on to be using openSUSE and/or occasionally reading SUSE related documents if a websearch shows? They seem to somewhat touch base very closely in a way between the two of the distributions. I am not sure yet about if SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is more closely related to openSUSE Leap 15.2 than TW. I'm just quite curious about this. Thanks

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Dealing with proprietary Apple iPhone
by pj.world＠gmx.com 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hello, I am trying to open Apple iPhone 'File.HEIC' types. I discovered by installing GIMP 2.10.24 on my openSUSE TW computer (all updated-to current), that I can now open and then export an HEIC image-file into a format now readable (by Okular and Gwenview) through Dolphin. I saved this particular testing file to the pc previously. I didn't know before that by installing and using Gimp that I could then export the "HEIC" file types. I don't own an iPhone it's actually a aquaintance's. (So it's not super easy to do the mounting of the device for testing). I followed an article here a bit and did have success in mounting the phone previously (Per login Instance basis, not permanent across powercycle). https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-iphone-6s-ios-11.html Do some users have opinions on how to go about mounting an iPhone more easily? How far off or difficult is it to make openSUSE able to mount iPhones more easily or what is the preferred method now? What is the preferred app for viewing these "HEIC" file types? For instance taking photos with iPhone then using the pc to more easily create adds for selling items online. I wanted to include some software information also if that could help. System Information: Software KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0 QT Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.12.0-1-default OS Type: 64-bit Graphics Platform: X11 Thanks -pj

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Re: Dealing with proprietary Apple iPhone
by Carlos E. R. 04 May '21

04 May '21

On 04/05/2021 01.47, -pj wrote: > On 5/2/21 1:42 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 02/05/2021 14.17, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: >> > On 5/1/21 4:35 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... >> >> Reading the netiquette page is enough; the others, well, are extra >> information. >> > Yes, there is alot of information to learn from that page no doubt. Yep. ... >> Just see how the other people are doing it. Takes a bit of practice, I >> know. Just try :-) >> >> >> Top posting style reminds us of Microsoft ;-) > I am seeing how this works a little bit now. I am confused by the > various colours of the vertical lines on the left. > Blue/Magenta/etc..etc... I hope this will get better for me since now I > am seeing how I am trying not to toppost. :-| You are doing it very well :-) >> Something else you could do is, that in Thunderbird, Account settings, >> is "define your name". It doesn't have to be your full name, it can >> also be an alias. Just how do you want us to call you. Then your mail >> address will appear like: >> >> "Some Name" adress(a)host.domain >> >> >> Also the first line of the replies, instead of saying: >> >> On 02/05/2021 14.17, adress(a)host.domain wrote: >> >> will say: >> >> On 02/05/2021 14.17, Some Name wrote: > I thank you for that suggestion. I followed that. I think this is the > first time I am trying not to toppost. Good :-) About the forgetting to post to the list, do you see in Thunderbird a row of big buttons that say: [Reply][Reply List][Forward] ... Just use the one that say "Reply List" :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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Re: Dealing with proprietary Apple iPhone
by -pj 03 May '21

03 May '21

I apologize, this message was intended for the list. On 5/3/21 6:47 PM, -pj wrote: > > On 5/2/21 1:42 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 02/05/2021 14.17, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: >> > On 5/1/21 4:35 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >> On 01/05/2021 23.27, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: >> >> ... >> >> >> See here for the long explanation: >> >> >> >> <https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette> >> >>> By the way I spent quite a bit of time yesterday reading the netiquette >>> and pressed on to http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >>> and >>> https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO/intro.html >>> but it's slow going. I really don't care at this point since it's >>> difficult enough times to keep my head up. If i'm not supposed to be >>> able to post here anymore so be it. I don't get along with people very >>> well that's why I stay alone. >>> >>> So best wishes to all. >> >> Reading the netiquette page is enough; the others, well, are extra >> information. >> > Yes, there is alot of information to learn from that page no doubt. >> Every group of people mix and interact following a set of rules, that >> can be written or "just known". People that don't adhere are often >> singled out. And a different group of people may have different >> rules, so it is a good idea when you join a new mail list to observe >> how they write and do the same ;-) >> >> >> All we are asking is that you don't reply above the previous email >> leaving it intact, but below, as I am doing it now, and deleting >> superfluous text from the previous email. It is easy to do, and it is >> the ancient usage in internet mail lists and places such as Usenet or >> Fidonet. It facilitates us understanding things without sending long >> emails with old text we already have. >> >> Just see how the other people are doing it. Takes a bit of practice, >> I know. Just try :-) >> >> >> Top posting style reminds us of Microsoft ;-) > I am seeing how this works a little bit now. I am confused by the > various colours of the vertical lines on the left. > Blue/Magenta/etc..etc... I hope this will get better for me since now > I am seeing how I am trying not to toppost. :-| >> Something else you could do is, that in Thunderbird, Account >> settings, is "define your name". It doesn't have to be your full >> name, it can also be an alias. Just how do you want us to call you. >> Then your mail address will appear like: >> >> "Some Name" adress(a)host.domain >> >> >> Also the first line of the replies, instead of saying: >> >> On 02/05/2021 14.17, adress(a)host.domain wrote: >> >> will say: >> >> On 02/05/2021 14.17, Some Name wrote: > I thank you for that suggestion. I followed that. I think this is the > first time I am trying not to toppost. >> >>

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How to do this?
by Lew Wolfgang 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hi Folks, I've got a little problem here that I bet someone here could handle. I've got a couple of thousand zip files that some knuckle-headed package created that have to be unpacked for inspection. They're named with a long date-time group with the .zip extension, as in Fri-Apr-30-185859-PDT-2021-logfile.zip Alas, they all unpack to the same filename: logfile So what's the easiest way to unzip them all and add the date-time string to the resultant logfile name so that they all don't unpack to the same filename and step on each other. Awk maybe? A clever pipeline with xargs? Or? Regards, Lew

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google borked
by Dave Howorth 02 May '21

02 May '21

I generally use google with javascript disabled, to reduce their ability to track me. I noticed today that their site no longer displays correctly. If I disable their CSS as well and scroll down past lots of junk oversize icons etc, I eventually can see some search results. Even better, the search results are direct links with no google redirection embedded. So good news, but mostly bad news. Does anybody know anything about what is going on? And is anybody aware of any tools to make such google results usable again? Yes, the likes of duckduckgo or startpage give me some functionality, but not as much as I had yesterday with google + noscript. :(

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su with xauth and display
by Richmond 01 May '21

01 May '21

How does opensuse automatically set the xauth and DISPLAY when using su? I'd like to do the same thing with debian. Also, I remember long ago there used to be a way to run an x-server in an x-window. I think it was called zephyr but this seems to be an entirely different thing now. Does anyone remember or know a way?

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Stealthy Linux backdoor malware spotted after three years of minding your business??
by David C. Rankin 01 May '21

01 May '21

openSUSE devs, Don't know if the powers that be are up on this, but quite alarming and I still can't figure out how to test for it. Apparently corrupt versions of systemd-daemon and gvfsd-helper have been used -- for years. https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/29/stealthy_linux_backdoor_malware_spot… Any body got more on this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Recognized but unusable hp 1109w printer on Leap 15.2 up to date
by Carl Spitzer {L Juno} 01 May '21

01 May '21

Setup in yast or hplip both see and recognize printer but all text pages and attempts to use this printer fail. I have followed the usual methods and was able to install another older printer which works to a degree random out of paper faults on older printer. I tried different usb ports and still no go. I have no idea what to try next. The ppd files are installed. On another system with drive issues this printer did work. netcat: connect to localhost port 631 (tcp) failed: Connection refused cwsiv@localhost:~> sudo zypper install cups-filters No update candidate for 'cups-filters-1.25.0-lp152.1.8.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed. localhost:/ # find . -iname hplip ./usr/share/doc/packages/hplip ./usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs/hplip ./usr/share/hplip localhost:/ # find /usr/share/ -iname "*ppd.*" | grep "1102" /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs/hplip-plugin/hp-laserjet_professional_p_1102w.ppd.gz /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs/hplip-plugin/hp-laserjet_professional_p1102.ppd.gz localhost:/ # find /usr/share/ -iname "*ppd.*" | grep "1109" /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs/hplip-plugin/hp-laserjet_professional_p1109w.ppd.gz /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs/hplip-plugin/hp-laserjet_professional_p1109.ppd.gz i never selected printer shared. This is exclusive to one machine. No such nonsense with the other printer which is also hp. Server Not Exporting Printers Allthough one or more printers are marked as being shared this print server is not exporting shared printers to the network. Enable the publish shared printers connected to this system opetion in the server settings using the printing administration tool. To start this too select Sustem --> Administration --> Print Settings from the main menu. cat troubleshootApril27.txt | grep "not installed" 'foomatic': ['package foomatic is not installed'], 'hpijs': ['package hpijs is not installed'], lpinfo -v | grep ":/" file cups-pdf:/ direct usb://HP/LaserJet%20Professional% 20P1109w?serial=000000000W484RBVPR1a direct hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1109w?serial=000000000W484RBVPR1a cat /var/log/messages | grep 1109w | grep 04-27 2021-04-27T07:01:27.980284-07:00 localhost kernel: [386843.058859] usb 2-1: Product: HP LaserJet Professional P1109w 2021-04-27T07:01:28.216481-07:00 localhost python3: io/hpmud/musb.c 2282: hpmud_make_usb_uri() uri=hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1109w?serial=000000000W484RBVPR1a bytes_read=67 2021-04-27T07:01:28.244634-07:00 localhost /hp-firmware: hp-firmware[12210]: error: Device hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1109w?serial=000000000W484RBVPR1a does not support or require firmware download. 2021-04-27T07:01:28.793284-07:00 localhost colord[1403]: CdMain: failed to emit DeviceAdded: failed to register object: An object is already exported for the interface org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Device at /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/devices/sysfs_Hewlett_Packard_HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1109w 2021-04-27T07:01:28.901215-07:00 localhost udev-configure-printer: MFG:Hewlett-Packard MDL:HP LaserJet Professional P1109w SERN:- serial:000000000W484RBVPR1a 2021-04-27T07:01:35.910650-07:00 localhost udev-configure-printer: URI match: usb://HP/LaserJet%20Professional% 20P1109w?serial=000000000W484RBVPR1a 2021-04-27T07:01:35.910979-07:00 localhost udev-configure-printer: URI match: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1109w?serial=000000000W484RBVPR1a 2021-04-27T07:01:35.911140-07:00 localhost udev-configure-printer: URI of detected printer: usb://HP/LaserJet%20Professional% 20P1109w?serial=000000000W484RBVPR1a, normalized: laserjet professional p1109w serial 000000000w484rbvpr1a 2021-04-27T07:01:35.911456-07:00 localhost udev-configure-printer: URI of detected printer: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1109w?serial=000000000W484RBVPR1a, normalized: laserjet professional p1109w serial 000000000w484rbvpr1a 2021-04-27T07:01:35.911668-07:00 localhost udev-configure-printer: URI of print queue: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1109w?serial=000000000W484RBVPR1a, normalized: laserjet professional p1109w serial 000000000w484rbvpr1a 2021-04-27T07:01:35.911833-07:00 localhost udev-configure-printer: Queue ipp://localhost/printers/HP-LaserJet-Professional-P1109w has matching device URI 2021-04-27T07:01:35.911959-07:00 localhost udev-configure-printer: Re-enabled printer ipp://localhost/printers/HP-LaserJet-Professional-P1109w ____________________________________________________________ Choose to be safer online. Opt-in to Cyber Safety with NortonLifeLock. Get Norton 360 with LifeLock starting at $9.95/month.* https://store.netzero.net/account/showService.do?serviceId=nz-nLifeLock&utm…

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boot fail on 15.3 rc zypper dup
by jdd＠dodin.org 01 May '21

01 May '21

Just a word to say that I did a zypper dup to update my 15.3 home server. probably to Rc version, given the date. At the end it asked to reboot, what I did, but the reboot didn't succeed, ended with a file not found grub error, a "mod" file missing (don't remember which) I could reboot on the usb pen with 15.3 image, in rescue mode and chroot in actual 15.3, use yast to rewrite the grub system and now it works nothing very special, just a warning jdd -- http://dodin.org

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Signing off for now.
by Per Jessen 01 May '21

01 May '21

I have finished sticking needles into my Office365 voodoo dolls, someone in Seattle will have been writhing in pain. I know, I known, but it feels _really_ good. I am about to go watch "Line of Duty", I'm totally hooked. At openSUSE, tonight someone crashed the galera cluster, unfortunately nothing much I can do. It seems to be myself and cboltz "on duty". In between, I've been listening to David Gilmour playing old Pink Floyd stuff, I can never tire of that. Now just finishing Nena playing "Irgendwie irgendo irgendwann" to be followed by "Leuchtturm". -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.3°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland.

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I am sorry.
by pj.world＠gmx.com 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

My apologies to the list. I just lost a family member and have been going through some difficulties that way her. Carlos is anawesome help.I have been learning alot and just been struggling quite alot too. -Best wishes.

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Memory hot-unplug
by Дмитрий 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

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make boot disk from install disk--how?
by Doug McGarrett 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

I need to boot into my crashed Tumbleweed system to copy some files onto a second ssd within the computer. I have several install disks from different dates, including one from a couple of days ago. I would be happier if the boot disk does NOT include an installation, since I'm afraid I might wipe some of the data off the existing crashed drive. I have two different Linux systems and Windows 10 available to do the job. I have looked on Google, but most of the information there is designed to install a system. I I am assuming that if I can boot a Linux system from CD that I can then read the internal drive and copy files to another drive. If I'm wrong, then what do you suggest? Please keep it as simple as possible, I'm not a guru! Thanx--doug

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15.2 dup to 15.3 works okay. what is the welcome ahoy funnybusiness application?
by cagsm 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

15.2 dup to 15.3 works okay. what is the welcome ahoy funnybusiness application? apparently its some kind of stuff that I never observed before. / usr / bin / opensuse-welcome rpm -qf /usr/bin/opensuse-welcome opensuse-welcome-0.1.7.1-bp153.1.18.x86_64 Name : opensuse-welcome Version : 0.1.7.1 Release : bp153.1.18 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Wed Apr 28 20:06:36 2021 Group : System/X11/Utilities Size : 5671185 License : GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT Signature : RSA/SHA256, Sat Apr 24 02:46:49 2021, Key ID 9c214d4065176565 Source RPM : opensuse-welcome-0.1.7.1-bp153.1.18.src.rpm Build Date : Sat Apr 24 02:46:34 2021 Build Host : goat13 Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : https://bugs.opensuse.org Vendor : openSUSE URL : https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-welcome Summary : Welcome utility for openSUSE Description : A welcome utility built to welcome new users to openSUSE. Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 * Tue Oct 01 2019 Carson Black <uhhadd(a)gmail.com> - Update to 0.1.7.1 ... Was this supposed to be installed in previous LEAPses? Never seen this until today. It seems rather old. Wonder why it never came along so far? ty

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KDE3 konqueror question
by Istvan Gabor 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Hello: This question is addressed only to KDE3 users or who knows KDE3. The question applies to KDE3 konqueror file manager in openSUSE Leap 15.1. When I open konqueror as file manager it takes very long time (~30 secs) until it populates its file window with files and directories (that is, becomes ready for use). I have plenty of files in my home folder but I still find this delay too long. If I open kde3 krusader file manager it starts and loads the same directory in one second without delay. What can cause is this delay and how could I make it shorter? Thanks in advance, Istvan

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ipv6 ndp ?
by Per Jessen 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

On some servers we rent at Hetzner, we have recently (in the last month) begun to run Xen - and the Xen guests obviously have "made up" MAC addresses, e.g. 00:16:3e:bb:ac:82. For IPv4, we have enabled proxy_arp on the bridge interface, works well as always. We have not yet configuredany IPv6 in any of the guests, only on the xen host. The guests only have a link-local address. In this config, the only MAC addresses that should be seen on the network that of the only real interface, eth0/br0. However, Hetzner is complaining that some of our guest MAC addresses are "leaking out". AFAICT, this is happening in neighbour solitications and advertisements, with the link-local addresses. I figured out we probably needed to enable ipv6 ndp - neighbour discovery protocol proxy : setting /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/proxy_ndp = 1 This did not have the desired effect, so I am clearly missing something? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.2°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland.

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what is fdisk: "GPT PMBR size mismatch (500118191 != 2000409263) will be corrected by write."?
by kf 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Along with other (normal) output, running "fdisk -l /dev/blahblah" gives a rather cryptic message: GPT PMBR size mismatch (500118191 != 2000409263) will be corrected by write. Reading a lot of posts on this message, doesn't clarify at all what it means. The numbers the message contains don't correspond even remotely to anything output by fdisk. Secondly, what's to be "corrected" and why? Thanks.

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leap 15.3 - systemd-modules-load failed ?
by Per Jessen 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

I have just 'zypper dup' a leap153 test system (on the xen host in the other thread) which then ended up being unbootable. It does not see the virtual disk. The only immediate indication is systemd-modules-load failing. I'll open a bugreport anyway, but just in case someone else has seen the same - Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue. Type "journalctl" to view system logs. You might want to save "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" to a USB stick or /boot after mounting them and attach it to a bug report. Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D to continue): sh-4.4# systemctl --failed UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION ● systemd-modules-load.service loaded failed failed Load Kernel Modules LOAD = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded. ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB. SUB = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type. 1 loaded units listed. sh-4.4# systemctl status systemd-modules-load ● systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; stat> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-04-27 12:52:31 UTC; 6min> Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8) man:modules-load.d(5) Process: 141 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, > Main PID: 141 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Notice: journal has been rotated since unit was started, output may be incomple> sh-4.4# journalctl _PID=141 -- Logs begin at Tue 2021-04-27 12:52:31 UTC, end at Tue 2021-04-27 12:56:16 UT> Apr 27 12:52:31 test153 systemd-modules-load[141]: Failed to look up module ali> Apr 27 12:52:31 test153 systemd-modules-load[141]: Failed to look up module ali> Apr 27 12:52:31 test153 systemd-modules-load[141]: Failed to look up module ali> Apr 27 12:52:31 test153 systemd-modules-load[141]: Failed to look up module ali> Apr 27 12:52:31 test153 systemd-modules-load[141]: Failed to look up module ali> sh-4.4# journalctl _PID=141 | LESS sh: LESS: command not found sh-4.4# journalctl _PID=141 | less -- Logs begin at Tue 2021-04-27 12:52:31 UTC, end at Tue 2021-04-27 12:56:16 UTC. -- Apr 27 12:52:31 test153 systemd-modules-load[141]: Failed to look up module alias 'scsi_dh_alua': Function not implemented Apr 27 12:52:31 test153 systemd-modules-load[141]: Failed to look up module alias 'scsi_dh_emc': Function not implemented Apr 27 12:52:31 test153 systemd-modules-load[141]: Failed to look up module alias 'scsi_dh_rdac': Function not implemented Apr 27 12:52:31 test153 systemd-modules-load[141]: Failed to look up module alias 'dm-multipath': Function not implemented Apr 27 12:52:31 test153 systemd-modules-load[141]: Failed to look up module alias 'sg': Function not implemented -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.3°C)

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Cannot mount Sony Walkman
by Payam Firouztala 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

I can no longer mount my Sony Walkman MP3 player on latest Tumbleweed. I'm not quite sure when it stopped working but I used to be able to plug it in and 2 options used to pop up under removable devices (Plasma Desktop): Mass storage (Storage Volume) and MTP (Portable Media Player) entries used to allow me to "Mount and Open" which would then open a Dolphin window with the root directory of the device. Everything now happens the same up to and including the Dolphin window opening, but almost immediately, the directory shown is /, not the device. The device no longer shows up as a mass storage. I no longer have the option of mounting it as a mass storage device. the MTP option is present, but the results are the same. Dolphin window opens, but the MP3 player is not mounted. Here is the relevant lines from dmesg. Any advice on how to figure out what is happening? I guess the interesting lines are these 2: [ 156.119906] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 4 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [ 156.119912] Buffer I/O error on dev sdc1, logical block 1, lost async page write I have formatted the device through its menu system. connecting it to a Windows machine shows no issue and allows me to move files to it. [ 41.510222] usb 5-4.3: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd [ 41.610985] usb 5-4.3: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=05a6, bcdDevice= 1.00 [ 41.610990] usb 5-4.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 41.610992] usb 5-4.3: Product: WALKMAN [ 41.610993] usb 5-4.3: Manufacturer: Sony [ 41.610995] usb 5-4.3: SerialNumber: 10FE97F5082454 [ 41.639599] usb-storage 5-4.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [ 41.639784] scsi host6: usb-storage 5-4.3:1.0 [ 41.639860] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 41.643154] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas [ 42.663139] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SONY WALKMAN 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 42.663743] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [ 42.667867] sd 6:0:0:0: Power-on or device reset occurred [ 44.710307] ready [ 44.710471] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 1686208 2048-byte logical blocks: (3.45 GB/3.22 GiB) [ 44.817257] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [ 44.817268] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 3b 00 00 00 [ 44.927246] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 44.951079] sdc: sdc1 [ 44.951091] sdc: p1 size 17179869180 extends beyond EOD, enabling native capacity [ 44.952518] sdc: sdc1 [ 44.952525] sdc: p1 size 17179869180 extends beyond EOD, truncated [ 45.187370] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 156.119906] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 4 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [ 156.119912] Buffer I/O error on dev sdc1, logical block 1, lost async page write [ 156.122589] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Synchronizing SCSI cache [ 161.229873] usb 5-4.3: reset high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd [ 161.409940] usb 5-4.3: reset high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd [ 199.403518] nf_conntrack: default automatic helper assignment has been turned off for security reasons and CT-based firewall rule not found. Use the iptables CT target to attach helpers instead. Payam.

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obtaining git requirements to buld a package
by Patrick Shanahan 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

what is the zypper command to install a package dependencies to build locally a git clone? -- (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 freenode

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Fwd: Filing upstream mesa bug?
by pj.world＠gmx.com 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Filing upstream mesa bug? Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2021 11:25:31 +0200 From: pj.world(a)gmx.com To: Users.lists(a)opensuse.org Hello to you all, I reported a bug in KDE (System Monitor Crashes each attempt to execute). -> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436054 Reading a bit on KDE bugzilla reporting I was able to determine by the flowchart "Resolved Upstream" means that I need to report the bug at -> https://www.mesa3d.org/bugs.html <- The bug is not really completely repaired. Could I please ask on a few tips how to for instance (simplify) this process? For a good chance at getting this bug fixed in as timely a manner as possible? (I have filied 1 bug report before this). It appears to be an issue concerning: bug in Mesa in combination with having stack protection enabled. This bug affects System Monitor on each instance. 1. Would you recommend a glxgears information/printout? 2. Would you recommend an apitrace? 3. What would you recommend to more quickly facilitate this bug being fixed? I appreciate your advices on this matter. :) Thank You

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Re: Tumbleweed is able.
by Carlos E. R. 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Somebody else explains to him? Don't mail me anymore. Ask the list, not me in private. On 25/04/2021 23.08, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: > PLONK = HUH? > > On 4/25/21 4:05 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >> PLONK. >> >> >> On 25/04/2021 23.02, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: >>> This is exasperating. :] >>> >>> >>> On 4/25/21 3:51 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>>>> On 4/25/21 2:57 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Please remember to post to the list. >>>>>> >>>>>> On 25/04/2021 21.54, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: >>>>>>> I think openSUSE should clean up everything about it. The only thing >>>>>>> kinda good thus far was (reporting bugs). Lucky to get that help. >>>>>>> Yes >>>> it >>>>>>> is easier in a way. I dunno ''Links and documentation isn't so great >>>>>>> sometimes. I would like to stay if that is ok with you. >>>>>> I'm sorry, but I'm completely lost, I don't understand this paragraph >>>>>> at all. Perhaps you are using an automated translator? >>>>>> >>>> >>>> On 25/04/2021 22.30, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: >>>> > I can do what I like can I not? >>>> >>>> You can, but it is not advisable, nor polite. I do not like to engage >>>> on private conversations coming out of a help mail list. It is >>>> possible that other participants see things that I do not see and >>>> chime in to complete the help process. >>>> >>>> Specially as it is the case that I don't understand what you say and I >>>> need help from others. >>>> >>>> >> >>

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Re: Tumbleweed is able.
by Carlos E. R. 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

PLONK. On 25/04/2021 23.02, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: > This is exasperating. :] > > > On 4/25/21 3:51 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>> On 4/25/21 2:57 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>>> >>>> Please remember to post to the list. >>>> >>>> On 25/04/2021 21.54, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: >>>>> I think openSUSE should clean up everything about it. The only thing >>>>> kinda good thus far was (reporting bugs). Lucky to get that help. Yes >> it >>>>> is easier in a way. I dunno ''Links and documentation isn't so great >>>>> sometimes. I would like to stay if that is ok with you. >>>> I'm sorry, but I'm completely lost, I don't understand this paragraph >>>> at all. Perhaps you are using an automated translator? >>>> >> >> On 25/04/2021 22.30, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: >> > I can do what I like can I not? >> >> You can, but it is not advisable, nor polite. I do not like to engage >> on private conversations coming out of a help mail list. It is >> possible that other participants see things that I do not see and >> chime in to complete the help process. >> >> Specially as it is the case that I don't understand what you say and I >> need help from others. >> >>

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Re: Tumbleweed is able.
by Carlos E. R. 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

> On 4/25/21 2:57 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >> Please remember to post to the list. >> >> On 25/04/2021 21.54, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: >>> I think openSUSE should clean up everything about it. The only thing >>> kinda good thus far was (reporting bugs). Lucky to get that help. Yes it >>> is easier in a way. I dunno ''Links and documentation isn't so great >>> sometimes. I would like to stay if that is ok with you. >> I'm sorry, but I'm completely lost, I don't understand this paragraph >> at all. Perhaps you are using an automated translator? >> On 25/04/2021 22.30, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: > I can do what I like can I not? You can, but it is not advisable, nor polite. I do not like to engage on private conversations coming out of a help mail list. It is possible that other participants see things that I do not see and chime in to complete the help process. Specially as it is the case that I don't understand what you say and I need help from others. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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Re: Tumbleweed is able.
by Carlos E. R. 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Please remember to post to the list. I'm replying on the list. It is not polite to reply privately. > On 4/25/21 1:18 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 25/04/2021 20.12, Carlos E. R. wrote:>>> On 25/04/2021 18.55, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote:>>>> On 4/25/21 11:45 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:>>>>> On 25/04/2021 18.37, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote:>>>> ...>>>>>> I would like to get the link for "CURRENT' - Packman Essentials" so>>>> this>>>> is what it is. I want only to have the "Packman Essentials ->>>> Repository">>>> enabled as 3rd party. I prefer to use openSUSE Tumbleweed.>>>>>> One mirror - repository for Tumbleweed:>>>>>> https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/Factory/Essentials/>>>>>> There is no "current".>>>>>> I think I saw in the past a symlink named "current", but it was for>>> Leap, not Tumbleweed. Today there is no such thing.>>>> Ah, I found "current".>>>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/>>>> [DIR] jump/ 10-Sep-2020 11:59 ->> [DIR] leap/ 26-Nov-2020 10:22 ->> [DIR] openSUSE-current/ 08-Feb-2021 14:44 ->> [DIR] openSUSE-stable/ 08-Feb-2021 14:44 ->>>> If you look carefully, openSUSE-current is actually:>>>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/>>>> Just look at the contents of:>>>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-current/iso/>>>> It is NOT Tumbleweed.>>>> And "openSUSE-stable" is also Leap 15.2 - look at the contents:>> >> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-stable/iso/ On 25/04/2021 22.29, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: > It's so sad about Tumbleweed failing like it has been even on 64 bit > systems. I in no way would try 15.3 LEAP because of past heros. I thank > you for your input. I simply feel somewhat exasperated with the failure > of a "MAINLINE SYSTEM" to have such problems... I'm sorry but I have no idea whatsoever of what problems or failures you are talking about. I simply do not understand what you say. > I suppose I could goto > Fedora but I was beaten up by someone years ago who liked picking on > people. I think though really if ----> I can spell it correctly? ----> > openSUSE Tumbleweed actually is functional on my m-57p. What a shame to > just think journalctl [FLAG] can make due. > > Your operating system is poor. I will continue to try for a period of > time. It's built for enterprise warehouses not a loser that lives in 1/2 > of a warehouse. You best wake up. I have no idea what you are talking about. Perhaps you are using an automated translator? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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Re: Tumbleweed is able.
by Carlos E. R. 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Please remember to post to the list. On 25/04/2021 21.54, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: > I think openSUSE should clean up everything about it. The only thing > kinda good thus far was (reporting bugs). Lucky to get that help. Yes it > is easier in a way. I dunno ''Links and documentation isn't so great > sometimes. I would like to stay if that is ok with you. I'm sorry, but I'm completely lost, I don't understand this paragraph at all. Perhaps you are using an automated translator? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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Re: Tumbleweed is able.
by Carlos E. R. 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

On 25/04/2021 18.55, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: > On 4/25/21 11:45 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 25/04/2021 18.37, pj.world(a)gmx.com wrote: >>> I think the latest version of Tumbleweed allows for 15.3 LEAP. >> >> Sorry, I don't understand this sentence. :-? >> >>> I I am >>> not because I would like to see more testing. I want to learn about bug >>> reporting and talk to people. I cannot since I guess, it's life. >>> >>> Sorry for trying with - Tumbleweed - >>> >>> Thanks for all your setting up, I can see the difference yet not >>> leaving. >> >> And I don't understand the rest, either... > I would like to get the link for "CURRENT' - Packman Essentials" so this > is what it is. I want only to have the "Packman Essentials - Repository" > enabled as 3rd party. I prefer to use openSUSE Tumbleweed. One mirror - repository for Tumbleweed: https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/Factory/Essentials/ There is no "current". I think I saw in the past a symlink named "current", but it was for Leap, not Tumbleweed. Today there is no such thing. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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Tumbleweed is able.
by pj.world＠gmx.com 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

I think the latest version of Tumbleweed allows for 15.3 LEAP. I I am not because I would like to see more testing. I want to learn about bug reporting and talk to people. I cannot since I guess, it's life. Sorry for trying with - Tumbleweed - Thanks for all your setting up, I can see the difference yet not leaving. panorain

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What type of malware or spam link is this?
by Carlos E. R. 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What type of malware or spam link is this? I write it separated in two lines to defang it. Does it ring? http://anvietfood.com.vn/ .well-known/pki-validation/index_copy/uu_get_status.php?ten=twba10xcvsy5a20x&instead=capital&send=grass I got it in an email passing to come from a friend, with an https://j.mp (aka https://bitly.com/) link that expands to the above. (the trick to expand without opening is appending a "+" to the address, at least on bitly) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYIRpcxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVeLsAn2BHqwGUxm6+XGDMQUO6 QT/KLDqGAKCJzUlv+BN12DM6nNTApbotmiS+fQ== =um32 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: anyone playing wth leap 15.3 ?
by David C. Rankin 24 Apr '21

24 Apr '21

Not yet, Can't even get the mailing list to work, much less 15.3 :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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anyone playing wth leap 15.3 ?
by Per Jessen 24 Apr '21

24 Apr '21

I'm having trouble with the dhcp config in the installer, it takes very long and sometimes it just fails. It is a network install. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland.

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VS Code on openSUSE? (yes really)
by David C. Rankin 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

All, I would never use such a thing, but given the frequency questions arise on StackOverflow regarding its use, I decided to see if I could install it on Leap. To my utter amazement, MS has a repo for openSUSE making it trivial to install the IDE. So I did. Works absolutely fine. (few rants about the tooty-fruity C/C++ syntax highlight colors aside) Yes, you have to opt out of usage statistics (I left the crash reporter enabled). They try and hook you again by suggesting you download and install the C/C++ extensions which automatically re-enables usage stats, but you can just write a tasks.json file to build C/C++ without it. I spent about an hour with the settings (there are many, but no way to change the syntax colors). The have the nice mini-map like kate/kwrite in plasma (that gets a Meh... in usefulness, but you can patterns in your code and jump easily with it -- that was about the only use I found for it, even in sources with thousands of lines -- crayons issue) Nothing will ever beat kate/kwrite as simple code editors. I'll use them both in plasma, but prefer the KDE3 versions of both. Once you have learned the shortcuts (at least in the KDE3 version -- for the most part unchanged in plasma), all other shortcut key layouts just seem horrible inefficient by comparison... So bottom line, if you like VS Code and wish you had it on openSUSE, well it's as simple as go to the download page, configure your "code" repo per the instruction on the page, import the gpg key (kudo for the security), and then zypper in code done.. a 94M download and about 250M full install. Even with the "nanny" feature rich environment it has, it is kitten-light on CPU usage (compared to something like TI CCS which is implemented through chrome). So there you go, my $0.02 review. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Can't log in any more to Bugzilla
by jimc 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

I last successfully logged in to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/ on 2021-03-16. Today 04-20, I could not authenticate. It looks like there is a new authentication infrastructure (whose name I didn't copy down). I went through the "reset password" procedure twice, and finally got on once, but once again I'm unable to get on. The login page shows an error message, "Bugzilla requires a valid user name and password". This month I've installed a password manager, Bitwarden. When appropriately clicked on, it will insert the user ID and password in the login form, which it "successfully" did with all three passwords (original and two new ones). But whatever it inserted, was not acceptable to the auth system. For the new passwords I generated new 16 byte random ones, and saved them in a file, and pasted them onto the password change form, and then the Bugzilla login form (after Bitwarden's rendition was rejected). These also were rejected. The one time I got on, I was very low tech: I typed everything letter by letter. But 3 hours later I could not repeat that performance (with the same password, the second new one). (I tried several times.) So I signed up with the mailing list system, which uses a different infrastructure including a choice of Identity Providers; I used the OpenSuSE one. Actually I gave it my latest Bugzilla credentials, but it wanted to sign me up with a new identity. Apparently the Bugzilla provider shares identity info with it; it knew my e-mail address without being told, but it did not re-use my user ID, which combines my normal loginID and my work site name, so is very likely to be unique. Does anyone have any idea what's going on, and how I can authenticate to Bugzilla? I'm thinking that the login form has been updated with Javascript provided by the new outsourced Identity Provider, that can distinguish keystroke input from program-generated text and which rejects the latter as a defense against bots. While bot defense is not bad, you get a whole lot better defense if you encourage the users to use a password manager with long random passwords. -- James F. Carter Email: jimc(a)jfcarter.net Web: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)

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No KB in Plasma (X11) after TW update
by Rodney Baker 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hi all, I've just updated my TW installation (first update for 3-4 weeks, so included full glibc update) and after rebooting I have no KB in Qt applications under Plasma (X11). Non-qt applications are working ok (e.g. Thunderbird, Firefox, xterm) but no qt apps (i.e. no native KDE apps) are accepting keyboard input. I'm using nvidia drivers (installed "the hard way") with dkms. I've tried installing the 2 latest driver versions (465.24.02 and 460.73.01) as well as the version I was previously running (460.73) - no difference. I've tried rebooting to the kernel version I was previously running (5.11.6-1-default) and the latest (5.11.15-1-default) - no difference there either. Qt applications do work using a "Full Wayland" plasma session, but my desktop is borked using that and I cannot change the second monitor from "Folder View" to "Desktop View", no matter what I do ("Some settings are locked by the system administrator", which is weird). They don't work under Plasma Wayland (X11) or Plasma (X11). This would seem perhaps to point to an issue between X11 and KDE/Plasma, but not sure. Any hints/pointers? TIA, Rodney. -- ============================================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker(a)iinet.net.au ==============================================================================

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GRUB2 error at 98% of openSUSE Tumbleweed installation.
by pj.world＠gmx.com 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hi, I am installaling openSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop computer. The live usb starts up fine now with the "nomodeset" flag. The problem I am having is at 98% of installation completed I get a warning concerning GRUB2 (Installing grub2 to device failed-/usr/sbin/grub2-install: Decompressor is to big). I have attached a link containing the error message here: -> https://ibb.co/6Jh4t7C I have posted in the forums on this also. I would appreciate your help on this as it seems i'm just so close to being able to successfully complete installing. :| Thank You

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Privoxy does not start after update. TW
by Stakanov 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

The failure is: Process: 8552 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/privoxy --chroot --pidfile /run/privoxy.pid --user privoxy /etc/config (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Is this a PAM issue? whole log: ● privoxy.service - Privoxy Web Proxy With Advanced Filtering Capabilities Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/privoxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2021-04-19 14:04:39 CEST; 53s ago Process: 8550 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/cp -upf /etc/resolv.conf /etc/ host.conf /etc/hosts /etc/localtime /var/lib/privoxy/etc/ (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 8551 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/cp -upf /lib64/libresolv.so.2 /lib64/ libnss_dns.so.2 /var/lib/privoxy/lib64/ (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 8552 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/privoxy --chroot --pidfile /run/ privoxy.pid --user privoxy /etc/config (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CPU: 16ms Apr 19 14:04:38 silversurfer systemd[1]: Starting Privoxy Web Proxy With Advanced Filtering Capabilities... Apr 19 14:04:39 silversurfer systemd[1]: privoxy.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Apr 19 14:04:39 silversurfer systemd[1]: privoxy.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 19 14:04:39 silversurfer systemd[1]: Failed to start Privoxy Web Proxy With Advanced Filtering Capabilities.

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Hos to install fonts into LibreOffice without adding them to the system
by Carl Spitzer {L Juno} 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

Seems there are differing ideas for Ubuntu but this is Leap 15.2 updated routinely. one idea is /home/<user>/.local/share/fonts the other is /usr/share/fonts though I do not have a fonts directory here presently. Some mention of fc-cache -fv. I have about 3k fonts and no desire to slow down the system by installing them in the system especially the speciality fonts for holidays etc which will only ever be used in OpenOffice on the older systems and LibreOffice on the Leap system. CWSIV ____________________________________________________________ Choose to be safer online. Opt-in to Cyber Safety with NortonLifeLock. Plans starting as low as $6.95 per month.* https://store.netzero.net/account/showService.do?serviceId=nz-nLifeLock&utm…

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How does one start "nut" to handle a local UPS?
by Carlos E. R. 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have one UPS (with an almost dead battery) and I want to at least see it with NUT. When I connect it, I see in the log: <0.6> 2021-04-14T23:36:49.659987+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [11662.628468] usb 1-2.2: new low-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd <0.6> 2021-04-14T23:36:49.815973+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [11662.787160] usb 1-2.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0665, idProduct=5161, bcdDevice= 0.02 <0.6> 2021-04-14T23:36:49.816019+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [11662.787165] usb 1-2.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 <0.6> 2021-04-14T23:36:49.816023+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [11662.787168] usb 1-2.2: Product: USB to Serial <0.6> 2021-04-14T23:36:49.816026+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [11662.787170] usb 1-2.2: Manufacturer: INNO TECH <0.6> 2021-04-14T23:36:49.816049+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [11662.787172] usb 1-2.2: SerialNumber: 20.... <0.6> 2021-04-14T23:36:49.827962+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [11662.798017] hid-generic 0003:0665:5161.0005: hiddev97,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [INNO TECH USB to Serial] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2.2/input0 <1.6> 2021-04-14T23:36:49.951367+02:00 Isengard mtp-probe - - - checking bus 1, device 5: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2.2" <1.6> 2021-04-14T23:36:49.952720+02:00 Isengard mtp-probe - - - bus: 1, device: 5 was not an MTP device I read the documentation file "/usr/share/doc/packages/nut/README.SUSE" It says: It requires only few adoptions before you can start the service: * Configuration of a locally connected UPS: In /etc/ups/ups.conf: - Go to the [myups] section at the end of the file. - Set driver key to the driver name supporting your UPS. (see /usr/lib/ups/driver/ for possible drivers. Each driver has a man page. Many USB UPSes are usbhid-ups.) - Set port key to the device your UPS is connected to, e.g. /dev/ttyS0 for first serial port (COM1) or /dev/usb/hiddev0 for USB HID UPS. - Adjust desc key as you want. Start the service: - "/etc/init.d/upsd start" No autodetection script in year 2021? Sigh. :-( Ok, so I configure "ups.conf". What driver? My UPS is "Salicru", there is no driver listed. Google sugest "blazer_usb". [myups] driver = blazer_usb port = /dev/usb/hiddev0 desc = "Salicru SPS SOHO+ 800VA" Start the service with "/etc/init.d/upsd start". Surely this is obsolete! Yes, the documentation is dated 2014. The posibilities are: /usr/sbin/rcnut-driver /usr/sbin/rcnut-monitor /usr/sbin/rcnut-server or /usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-driver.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-monitor.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-server.service No "/etc/init.d/upsd". So how do I start it? I try "systemctl start nut-driver.service" <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:36.916959+02:00 Isengard systemd 1 - - Started Session 5 of user root. <10.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:36.922301+02:00 Isengard sshd 11557 - - pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:53.295533+02:00 Isengard systemd 1 - - nut-driver.service: Unit not needed anymore. Stopping. <3.5> 2021-04-15T00:12:53.296254+02:00 Isengard systemd 1 - - Requested transaction contradicts existing jobs: Transaction for nut-driver.service/stop is destructive (nut-driver.service has 'start' job queued, but 'stop' is included in transaction). <3.4> 2021-04-15T00:12:53.296799+02:00 Isengard systemd 1 - - nut-driver.service: Failed to enqueue stop job, ignoring: Transaction for nut-driver.service/stop is destructive (nut-driver.service has 'start' job queued, but 'stop' is included in transaction). <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:53.297378+02:00 Isengard systemd 1 - - Starting Network UPS Tools - power device driver controller... <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:53.578538+02:00 Isengard upsdrvctl 11633 - - Supported UPS detected with megatec protocol <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:53.898349+02:00 Isengard upsdrvctl 11633 - - Vendor information unavailable <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:53.898943+02:00 Isengard upsdrvctl 11633 - - No values provided for battery high/low voltages in ups.conf <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:53.899339+02:00 Isengard upsdrvctl 11633 - - Using 'guestimation' (low: 10.400000, high: 13.000000)! <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:53.899719+02:00 Isengard upsdrvctl 11633 - - Battery runtime will not be calculated (runtimecal not set) <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:54.156106+02:00 Isengard upsdrvctl 11633 - - Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.4 <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:54.156653+02:00 Isengard blazer_usb 11636 - - Startup successful <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:54.157393+02:00 Isengard systemd 1 - - Started Network UPS Tools - power device driver controller. <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:54.157981+02:00 Isengard systemd 1 - - nut-driver.service: Unit not needed anymore. Stopping. <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:54.164015+02:00 Isengard systemd 1 - - Stopping Network UPS Tools - power device driver controller... <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:54.167969+02:00 Isengard upsdrvctl 11638 - - Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.4 <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:56.156325+02:00 Isengard blazer_usb 11636 - - Signal 15: exiting <3.6> 2021-04-15T00:12:56.159324+02:00 Isengard systemd 1 - - Stopped Network UPS Tools - power device driver controller. So what next? I understand nothing. Did it work? I tried removing the AC cord. Nothing appears in the log. Google suggests that I edit "nut.conf": MODE=standalone done. ... No change, doesn't seem to work at all. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYHdvZRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVNtIAnRr/gM7VpAuJOHHArKGC 39NPDQW5AJ9aACYcyCV9e/oC8Zsstcx6JzKAJg== =5Irv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SuSE Leap 15.2 problem: Some videos and moving gifs are not displayed on Twitter on Firefox, Chrome, Opera
by Peter Maffter 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

Hello, if moving gifs are not working anymore on Twitter for all browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera) are there some missing libraries on a new installed leap 15.2 ? Previously these were working on SuSE tumbleweed but the tumbleweed version from January 2021 did not find my software raid and crashed my installation completely, that is why I switched to Leap 15.2 . It is very strange that these gifs are working on https://giphy.com/ but it is not working here: https://twitter.com/PMaff2/status/1383877611844038662?s=20 The same tweet is working in firefox on Ubuntu perfectly. I read several pages, also suggesting switching off security.csp.enable in firefox, but since this also is not working on opera and chrome I do think there is some library missing in Leap 15.2 . Any help? Do I have to switch to Packman? BR & thanks in advance Pete

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System will not boot after security update: error: symbol 'grub_is_lockdown' not found.
by Carlos E. R. 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just updated my mini server machine (yast online update), and when booting I get this error from grub: error: symbol 'grub_is_lockdown' not found. Enter rescue mode... grub rescue> and that's it. I can boot a rescue system from usb stick, but then what? I googled and saw several entries, but I don't see a solution. I see a reference to the symbol in tumbleweed, but I'm using Leap 15.2: Subject: New Tumbleweed snapshot 20210315 released! Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:00:48 +0000 ... - - Fix CVE-2020-27779, CVE-2020-14372 (bsc#1179265) (bsc#1175970) ... * 0012-efi-Use-grub_is_lockdown-instead-of-hardcoding-a-dis.patch If I try "ls" I see (hd0) (hd0, gpt1) (hd1) ... and more then I try: ls (hd0, gpt1) (hd0, gpt1): Filesystem is unknown. which looks bad. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYHwocRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVDooAoIPkxipDMh5n0CHcZyIg Y86IK2P9AJ9KXGnsaW839/700L+VRhdc3lIpRw== =OdnY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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zypper dup 15.1 to 15.3
by Per Jessen 17 Apr '21

17 Apr '21

On a server installation, I see 932 vendor changes to "SUSE LLC" ? all fairly basic stuff, like e.g. bzip2. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.7°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted in Switzerland.

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terminal screen saver
by jdd＠dodin.org 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

Hello, I have a server at home with no X at all (no need). but it's an old laptop, so with screen attached and the screen keep on all the time. In my memories I remember having a screen saver even in the time where my computer was too short for X to works, but don't find it. any way to blank the screen or protect it from burning? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org

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Leap 15.2: Laptop fails to boot after latest kernel update
by Philippe Andersson 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

Hello List, On Saturday evening, I installed the latest kernel update on my laptop (kernel-default-devel-5.3.18-lp152.69.1.x86_64, Lenovo ThinkPad P53 with UEFI, Secure boot enabled, Trusted boot disabled). It replaced version 5.3.18-lp152.66-default. Package installation did not report anything unusual, but when booting the laptop on Sunday, I was greeted with an unfamiliar blue 'curses' prompt right after POST (and before the Grub menu): 'hit any key to enter MOK management' (this is the first time that I see this since upgrading the laptop from 15.1 to 15.2). Upon hitting a key, another pop-up menu was displayed, where I selected the "Continue boot" option. I then reached the usual Grub menu and attempted to boot, but the process then hung at "Loading ramdisk". Out of options, I performed a forced power-cycle and tried again: no more "MOK Management" menu, but the new kernel still fails to boot and hangs at the same spot. Selecting the earlier kernel in Grub still allows me to boot normally, thankfully. Has anyone else seen this? Depending on the replies, I'll file a bug if necessary. TIA Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan(a)iba-group.com <http://www.iba-worldwide.com> Disclaimer | Use of IBA e-communication<https://iba-worldwide.com/disclaimer> The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.

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boot.log in leap?
by Peter Suetterlin 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Hi list, on my TW systems, there is a boot.log created that catches the on-screen messages from the boot process. I have now some Leap 15.2 systems, and there I don't have those. Is there a way to enable this?

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Re: acroread doesn't see printers
by Michael Hamilton 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

On Tuesday 13 April 2021, Istvan Gabor wrote: > Hello: > > For a while I could not upgrade to Leap 15.1 because I could not > make acroread (adobe reader) work. I did not see the cups configured > printers. The print window of acroread only offered "custom" printer. > > ... > > Istvan > Acroread for linux has been abandoned by Adobe for quite some time It's probably best to switch to something that is being actively maintained such as okular. If acroread is a must-have, I guess Wine or a VM (running Windows or an old version of Linux) might be the best way to continue with it. Michael

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acroread doesn't see printers
by Istvan Gabor 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Hello: For a while I could not upgrade to Leap 15.1 because I could not make acroread (adobe reader) work. I did not see the cups configured printers. The print window of acroread only offered "custom" printer. Then I find this acroread package: http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/ithod:/restored/openSUS… I installed it and then acroread showed all cups printers. I worked well. Recently I did some updates and now acroread shows only the "custom" printer again. I can't tell what triggered the change. I have run nvidia driver installer which might have change ld optins. How can I trace it? Can it be change of ld.so.conf or ld.so.cacher or something related? I do know it is possible to make it work, because it worked before. Thanks, Istvan

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Paraview v5.6.3 compilation issue VTK
by Ram Kumar 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hi all, I am Ramkumar, an OpenSUSE Tumbleweed user.. i started to use tumbleweed as it is both a rolling distro and has official support for OpenFOAM, which is one of the main applications that i work on daily. I tried to install OpenFOAM from the science repository "openfoam2012-default" but i got dissatisfied in following points 1. i have to use system's paraview as the native paraview of openfoam2012 is not installed. 2. i got moved to a different shell environment when i source the openfoam resources (i.e. openfoam's bashrc) which i feel uncomfortable so i decided to compile entire openfoam from source by following the instructions given in the official site https://develop.openfoam.com/Development/openfoam/blob/develop/doc/Build.md i have successfully compiled OpenFOAM part and can access all the applications like, icoFoam, blockMesh etc... and then switched to ThirdParty directory and started to compile paraview v5.6.3, but it failed throwing lot of "undefined reference" issues related to VTK files. i have attached the log entry during compilation along with this mail. i have asked this in the forums but couldnt get a solid solution https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/552344-OpenFOAM-s-Paraview-Compi… i tried installing vtk packages and all the dependencies but unable to get rid of this error. could u plz help me in figuring out what the issue is? P.S i need to compile the paraview that comes with OpenFOAM package as it has the support of OpenFOAM's plugins which are quite useful. Thank you and be safe! Ramkumar

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Re: Firefox problem
by paka 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

* mcgarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> [04-10-21 22:53]: > System: OpenSUSE-tumbleweed. Was using Firefox for many months. Icon on desktop disappeared. Can get to and use > > Firefox by selecting the icon from the Application Menu, and it works OK. However, if I drag the Firefox icon onto the desktop > > and then select it, I get a message "Unknown error code 100. You are not authorized to execute this file." And the advice to > > make a bug report, which is what this is. Please respond to but this is definitely not a bug report. you need to go to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/enter_bug.cgi?classification=openSUSE to report a bug. dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net mailto:dmcgarrett@optonline.net . Thank you. and to have mail directly posted to you, you need to set "Reply-To:" header when posting. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net

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How to connect TW bugzilla to commits?
by Michael Hamilton 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

I've been sent a promising update to something I logged in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183148#c6 (nmbd nmb.service startup delays multi-user.target by 5 seconds) Comment # 6 on bug 1183148 from Samuel Cabrero We have released the update for the systemd unit files. Please reopen if you continue having the problem. Just out of curiosity: is there an procedure for looking up what has been changed? For example, is there a way to connect bug 1183148 to any commits at github or elsewhere? Michael

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Re: acroread doesn't see printers
by Michael Hamilton 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

On Tuesday 13 April 2021, Lew Wolfgang wrote: > On 4/12/21 7:23 PM, Michael Hamilton wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 April 2021, Istvan Gabor wrote: > >> Hello: > >> > >> For a while I could not upgrade to Leap 15.1 because I could not > >> make acroread (adobe reader) work. I did not see the cups configured > >> printers. The print window of acroread only offered "custom" printer. > >> > >> ... > >> > >> Istvan > >> > > Acroread for linux has been abandoned by Adobe for quite some time > > It's probably best to switch to something that is being actively > > maintained such as okular. If acroread is a must-have, I guess Wine > > or a VM (running Windows or an old version of Linux) might be the best > > way to continue with it. > > The problem is that okular can't handle newer pdf's with forms. An > alternative is Master PDF Editor. The full version costs $70-US, but > the free demo version is usable. I use okular until it doesn't work, > then switch to Master PDF Editor when necessary. I should buy > the full version, they deserve it. > > Regards, > Lew > The latest okular (20.12) can handle forms. Whether it can handle all possible forms I don't know, but it's certainly able to handle the forms my accountant sends me. Some browsers can also handle PDF's with forms - chrome can open a PDF with a form via file:/blah/blah.pdf Cheers, Michael

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Apcusd output difference
by James Knott 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

I just experienced a 2 hour power failure, which was long enough for my APC UPSs to power down. However, I have one UPS on my Linux computer and the other on my pfSense firewall. I noticed that the firewall one, which runs on FreeBSD, provided more info that the one on Linux. Any idea why that may be? Both UPSs are the same model and age. Linux - This is the entire apcupsd.events file 2021-04-09 21:06:00 -0400 Power failure. 2021-04-09 21:06:00 -0400 Power is back. UPS running on mains. 2021-04-09 21:06:00 -0400 Power failure. 2021-04-09 21:06:00 -0400 Power is back. UPS running on mains. 2021-04-09 21:06:01 -0400 Power failure. 2021-04-09 21:06:07 -0400 Running on UPS batteries. 2021-04-09 23:00:05 -0400 apcupsd 3.14.14 (31 May 2016) suse startup succeeded pfSense - This is the last several lines of the apcupsd.events file, which goes back to Feb. 22. 2021-04-06 05:56:40 -0400 UPS Self Test switch to battery. 2021-04-06 05:56:49 -0400 UPS Self Test completed: Battery OK 2021-04-09 21:05:59 -0400 Power failure. 2021-04-09 21:06:05 -0400 Running on UPS batteries. 2021-04-09 22:01:59 -0400 Battery charge below low limit. 2021-04-09 22:01:59 -0400 Initiating system shutdown! 2021-04-09 22:01:59 -0400 User logins prohibited 2021-04-09 22:01:59 -0400 apcupsd exiting, signal 15 2021-04-09 22:02:00 -0400 apcupsd shutdown succeeded 2021-04-09 23:00:43 -0400 apcupsd 3.14.14 (31 May 2016) freebsd startup succeeded This one shows not only more info about the shutdown, but also a self test 3 days ago. Why the difference with the Linux system.?

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Two more desktop features compared: scroll buttons & drawers
by kf 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

Scroll buttons have been on windows in linux since the early '90s (in FVWM/X they were, at any rate) and they still are in other apps. But it seems that gnome, like too much else, has abandoned them. (For those who might not know of them, they're the up & down arrows which move the contents of a window a small bit, like just one line of text.) I searched about and played around with gnome for a week before I finally found a way to bring the scroll buttons back. but it was a huge PITA, they don't appear everywhere they should, and there's no telling if some software update will wipe them out again. So does the desktop you're using have scroll buttons? Second: drawyers. Another nice widget in FVWM back in the '90s was drawers. They were much like a menu that you could build yourself. You started with an icon which resided on the topbar. FVWM had a big library of icons if you didn't want to create one yourself. When you clicked on that icon a line would pop down containing other icons. Clicking on any of those icons would lauch whatever app you assigned to it. Or the icon could pop open (horizontally) another drawyer with more apps in it. The "app" you would assign to an icon in the drawyer was really anything which could be invoked with some command line, so an app, a script, a webpage, a document... anything. I loved drawyers, had (built) a couple of them, one of which was a collection of all the apps I used with my camera and manipulating and managing digital photos. I used drawyers as much as the main menu. They were also great for projects and/or for collecting documents of different formats. Gnome used to have drawers, but it seems they too have been phased out. Does KDE or Mate or xfce have drawyers? Thanks again for the enlightenment.

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Re: Desktop Environment Features Compared: terminal and tabs
by paka 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> [04-10-21 20:34]: > On 2021-04-09 20:00:31 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > |* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> [04-09-21 20:59]: > > |> On 2021-04-09 19:51:29 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > |> > |* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> [04-09-21 20:49]: > > |> > |> Really, the only think that one might wish for is the ability to > > |> > |> split the window to view more than one terminal at a time (but one > > |> > |> can, of course, just open additional Konsole instances to do that). > > |> > | > > |> > |which is possible in konsole, both vertical and horizontal and more > > |> > | than one time. > > |> > | > > |> > |so now konsole satisfies *all* of your wishes/needs. :) > > |> > > |> Which KDE would that be? > > | > > |afaik, most of them in the last several years. but the current > > |definitely. > > Ah. Apparently not in (too old?) KDE 3, I guess. well, current is plasma5/kde5 5.21 no reason to worry about kde 3. and if you prefer kde3, then you will also have to do w/o features added to later versions. your choice. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net

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Re: Apcusd output difference
by Roger Price 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

> On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, James Knott wrote: > > > On 2021-04-10 3:02 a.m., Roger Price wrote: > > > The "low limit" is not detected on the Linux box. Did it crash? > How are you viewing that? I didn't see much in dmesg and I don't see any > files that refer to system log. Even doing a google search doesn't turn up > much. I used the command journalctl -b -1 -n 14 but I was sitting in front of a Debian box. On my opensuse boxes, with that command, I get a similar but more laborious logging since opensuse seems to have more stuff running. Roger

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Firefox problem
by mcgarrett 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

System: OpenSUSE-tumbleweed. Was using Firefox for many months. Icon on desktop disappeared. Can get to and use Firefox by selecting the icon from the Application Menu, and it works OK. However, if I drag the Firefox icon onto the desktop and then select it, I get a message "Unknown error code 100. You are not authorized to execute this file." And the advice to make a bug report, which is what this is. Please respond to dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net mailto:dmcgarrett@optonline.net . Thank you.

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Desktop Environment Features Compared: terminal and tabs
by kf 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

There are a couple of terminal programs available in gnome. The one which I like best is gnome-terminal. It can, within a single window, have a number of tabs, each functioning separately from the others. i.e., like a separate terminal window. They are automatically numbered, and (after remapping) I access them with Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-9, or however many tabs I have. All that is nice. However, in a new session (upon startup or after reboot), after I move the gnome-terminal where I want it (where I always put it), and after I resize it to how I want it (also pretty much the same in every session), then I need to open up all the other tabs... that is, it would be nicer if that app would remember that it should have eight tabs open and present itself that way upon invocation (i.e.. upon startup or after reboot). But AFAIK there is no such capability. How do these functionalities compare with the terminal app in other desktop environments (Mate, KDE, or others)? Thanks.

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icon packages installed as part of the server pattern ?
by Per Jessen 10 Apr '21

10 Apr '21

I was just now cloning a 15.2 system and happened to notice a bunch of icon files being copied over. For a head-less system, that seems somewhat misplaced? Installed I see : adwaita-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme Trying to remove them: # zypper rm adwaita-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... The following 43 packages are going to be REMOVED: adwaita-icon-theme gcr-lang gcr-prompter gcr-viewer gnome-online-accounts gnome-online-accounts-lang gtk2-branding-openSUSE gtk2-immodule-amharic gtk2-immodule-inuktitut gtk2-immodule-thai gtk2-immodule-vietnamese gtk2-lang gtk2-metatheme-adwaita gtk2-theming-engine-adwaita gtk2-tools gtk3-branding-openSUSE gtk3-immodule-amharic gtk3-immodule-inuktitut gtk3-immodule-thai gtk3-immodule-vietnamese gtk3-lang gtk3-tools gvfs gvfs-backend-afc gvfs-backends gvfs-fuse gvfs-lang hicolor-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme-branding-openSUSE libgcr-3-1 libgdata-lang libgdata22 libgoa-backend-1_0-1 libgtk-2_0-0 libgtk-3-0 libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37 libwebkit2gtk3-lang notification-daemon notification-daemon-lang openssh-askpass-gnome patterns-yast-yast2_basis webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles yast2-theme The following pattern is going to be REMOVED: yast2_basis 43 packages to remove. Something's not quite right, some where. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.5°C)

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Installing openSUSE Tumbleweed i686 on 32bit Compaq NC-6400 laptop:
by pj.world＠gmx.com 10 Apr '21

10 Apr '21

A couple weeks ago I downloaded and verified an .iso from the following link: -> http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/iso/ It was a 32 bit snapshot by the name of: -> openSUSE-Tumbleweed-KDE-Live-i686-Snapshot20210307-Media.iso I am uncertain between the difference in the i686 openSUSE TW .iso's as per current or snapshot-media suffixes. I successfully used balena Etcher to transfer the .iso to USB. I was able to use this snapshot effectively to install openSUSE TW on an Atom 311mini 1600 mhz cpu - small laptop. It was slow to update and very slow now but in a pinch functional. :| I am now attempting to use the same usb drive to install openSUSE TW onto a 32 bit Compaq nc-6400 1833 mhz Centrino Duo with 4 gigabytes of memory installed and verified. Intel integrated graphics onboard as well as Intel onboard wireless functionality. 160 GB internal sata harddisk. The usb appears to load fine into the boot option menu where I can choose to install openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Live. I attempt this option (The first option-default) and loading proceeds without noticeable incident except for a square mouse cursor with some (Jumbly characters inside). KDE desktop seemingly appears and background scrolls very slowly down a bit at an angle with the openSUSE welcome lizard on the sailing mast window appearing. Trying to use the mouse cursor (block) is not functional when trying to click on "install". For that matter attempting to click on menu or closing the welcome window does not seem to work whatsoever. Are there a couple of options I could try with the boot menu that could yield some further success with this installation possibly? Thank You for your thoughts and suggestions.

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Gimp startup requests root access?
by Peter Suetterlin 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Starting GIMP on a newly booted system, I get a popup requesting root access to do something: https://paste.opensuse.org/65474487 What? And why? TW 20210330

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Lexar F35
by suse＠a-domani.nl 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Hi all, Anyone around who managed to get the Lexar-F35 storage+fingerprint working with SuSE? They claimed that it was compatible under Linux, however, the small-print (after buying it) says: only the storage-part, not the fingerprint-reader.

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ya Feature Comparison: Language selector
by kf 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

A nice feature in gnome/wayland is that we can easily change the (software) keyboard from one language to another (well. the choices are actually a bit more than that). A little bit of configuration is required in advance of course. And hotkeys can be assigned so then we don't even have to touch the mouse/touchpad. Do KDE, Mate, and/or other desktop environments have this feature? tia

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Leap 15.1 delayed shutdown, at-spi-dbus-bus.service
by Istvan Gabor 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Hello: My openSUSE Leap 15.1 system has a 90 seconds delay at shutdown. I use KDE3. It seems that some process is not stopped normally and systemd uses up its default timeout until it steps the next step of the shotdown process. Indeed, journalctl shows: # journalctl -rb -1 ... Apr 04 18:31:52 linux systemd[2014]: at-spi-dbus-bus.service: Killing process 2381 (at-spi-bus-laun) with signal SIGKILL. Apr 04 18:31:52 linux systemd[2014]: at-spi-dbus-bus.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing. Apr 04 18:30:23 linux systemd[1]: Stopped Restore /run/initramfs on shutdown. The above last tow lines shows the 90 seconds delay. ps shows: # ps -ef|grep at-spi 3555 2043 0 18:38 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/at-spi2/at-spi-bus-launcher 3560 3555 0 18:38 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/usr/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3 3562 2043 0 18:38 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/at-spi2/at-spi2-registryd --use-gnome-session There is no at-spi-dbus-bus service running but there is a at-spi-bus-launcher. I don't know how they are related. Maybe the delay occurs because there is no process to kill? How cold I fix this? The goal would be to get rid of the 90 seconds shutdown delay. Thanks in advance, Istvan

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Desktop Environment Features Compared: window placement on startup
by kf 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Gnome seems to be canceling ever more functionality with every release. Used to be, when my system came up from a cold start or a reboot, all the windows were in the same place as when the system was shut down. Now gnome just puts all the windows in a senseless pile on the left side of of the screen. How do other desktop environments-- e.g., Mate, Enlighten, KDE-- handle this? Thanks.

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systemd automount units are dying ?
by Per Jessen 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

I have a couple of NFS and samba filesystems that I mount with systemd automounts from fstab: fileserver.local.net:/home/spamchek /home/spamchek nfs x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=300,tcp,_netdev,user 0 0 fileserver.local.net:/home/hostsuisse /home/hostsuisse nfs x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=300,tcp,_netdev,user 0 0 //io64.local.net/photos /home/per/Photos cifs user=me,password=XXXXXXXX,vers=1.0,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=300,_netdev,user 0 0 //heron.local.net/photos /home/per/Photos2 cifs user=me,password=XXXXXXXX,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=300,_netdev,user 0 0 Sometimes the two NFS automounts fail, whereas the cifs ditto keep working. # systemctl status home-hostsuisse.automount ● home-hostsuisse.automount Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab; generated; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: resources) since Thu 2021-04-01 08:25:21 CEST; 6 days ago Where: /home/hostsuisse Docs: man:fstab(5) man:systemd-fstab-generator(8) Mar 31 08:39:16 office68 systemd[1]: Set up automount home-hostsuisse.automount. Mar 31 08:39:28 office68 systemd[1]: home-hostsuisse.automount: Got automount request for /home/hostsuisse, triggered by 17724 (ls) Apr 01 08:25:21 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: home-hostsuisse.automount: Got invalid poll event 16 on pipe (fd=79) Apr 01 08:25:21 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: home-hostsuisse.automount: Unit entered failed state. # systemctl status home-per-Photos.automount ● home-per-Photos.automount Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab; generated; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2021-03-25 14:59:34 CET; 1 weeks 5 days ago Where: /home/per/Photos Docs: man:fstab(5) man:systemd-fstab-generator(8) I only have to restart the NFS automount units, and they work again. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland.

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Anbox
by Vojtěch Zeisek 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Hi, did anyone manage it to run Anbox or any other as much featured Android emulator on openSUSE (preferably TW) to run? Installation of Anbox <https:// docs.anbox.io/userguide/install.html> requires kernel modules and snap, which don't see to be available. There seems to be some Anbox of unclear version available <https://software.opensuse.org/package/anbox> but I'm not sure how reliable they are and which one to pick. -- Vojtěch Zeisek https://trapa.cz/ Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/

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Quick installation report on 15.3
by Per Jessen 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Yesterday, I installed 15.3 on a xen guest - the minimal server pattern. In summary - fast and easy and nothing much to comment on. Minor observations - - when reviewing "Automatic Changes", the list starts at the end. - "cannot save ntp config because chrony is not installed" - needless prompt. - final pop-up, "the system will reboot now" - no time-out ? "Performing Installation" - an hourglass character/icon until the ETA can be estimated, nice touch! I see some fonts (adobe, cantarell, google) are being installed, which doesn't make much sense, but they don't take up much space or time. ISTR it having to do with the release notes or some such? The two prompts are a little annoying, coz they mean I have to be present to hit "OK", otherwise the install will be held up. Previously, I thought we had a 10sec time-out on the final prompt ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.7°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland.

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Now look at this! (a bit of a rant at FF and page designers)
by Carlos E. R. 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 top - 02:40:02 up 11 days, 17:10, 2 users, load average: 1,47, 1,61, 1,52 Tasks: 652 total, 2 running, 649 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie %Cpu(s): 11,2 us, 0,9 sy, 0,6 ni, 86,5 id, 0,2 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,6 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem : 32821800 total, 2750532 free, 28228940 used, 1842328 buff/cache KiB Swap: 10485760+total, 95023808 free, 9833788 used. 3340160 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11012 cer 20 0 14,010g 0,010t 81556 167372 R 100,9 33,92 670:39.60 Web Content <======== 11096 cer 20 0 9982108 4,464g 119580 993160 S 2,985 14,26 306:24.60 Web Content 32435 cer 20 0 8121244 2,753g 92956 915588 S 0,000 8,796 302:12.75 thunderbird-bin 10799 cer 20 0 6830940 1,331g 506812 454940 S 1,791 4,251 401:56.06 firefox 11152 cer 20 0 5157264 829856 71600 175304 S 1,194 2,528 102:52.05 Web Content 10942 cer 20 0 4462244 704732 58320 176224 S 0,896 2,147 119:38.94 Web Content 11068 cer 20 0 5306312 644124 100104 534320 S 0,896 1,962 124:44.93 Web Content 10990 cer 20 0 4281224 586028 111408 154048 S 6,866 1,785 210:21.72 Web Content 4206 cer 20 0 4019828 564988 15012 0 S 0,299 1,721 6:00.57 shotwell See that process using 0,010t of resident memory? I've never seen the word "teras" of ram used for a single process... :-o It was probably this page: <https://www.movistar.es/particulares/oferta-combinada/fusion> just a list of packages from my ISP... I have another tab that Firefox about:performance says it is using 2.33GB of ram. A train information page: <https://www.thetrainline.com/en/train-times/seville-to-berlin> what a lot of crap, how can they design those pages that eat so many resources. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHkEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYFqbahwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVxGMAn3VfxZV19w7GaTc1CW2h OV8qDQZ9AJiRKzg2WVHSRODK9mm6rCmW0q2z =sPPH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Grepping for emails problem.
by Michael Hamilton 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

A relatively easy solution might be to break the grep appart and not use regular expressions for the second component: grepmail -h '^Message-[Ii][Dd]' | grep -F "$MSGID" Michael

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Re: Grepping for emails problem.
by Carlos E. R. 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2021-04-06 at 00:40 +0200, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 05 Apr 2021, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> grepmail -h ^Message-[Ii][dD].*"$MSGID" ~/Mail/_Lists/_filed/os-en.2007* >> >> What can I do so that the $ inside the $MSGID content is passed to grepmail >> and not interpreted as a variable start? Do I need to do text substitution >> first inside $MSGID, replacing '$' with '\$'? Is there some other way? > > $ grepmail -h "^Message-[Ii][Dd].*${MSGID//$/\\$}" \ > ~/Mail/_Lists/_filed/os-en.2007* I don't understand how, but it works :-D [...] Huh, it fails on these (that mc finds, manually): Message-ID: <006501c7b50e$77cc3630$6764a290$@com> Message-ID: <2md$yDk+qZbGFwuq(a)dev.null.davjam.org> Message-Id: <8993-Fri29Jun2007142734+0100-jpff(a)codemist.co.uk> and a few others that seem similar. :-? Pine.LNX.4.64.0706071117040.15609(a)nimrodel.valinor not found 4673A349.5030701(a)gmx.net not found 4179-Mon04Jun2007071608+0100-jpff(a)codemist.co.uk not found 7281-Sat16Jun2007102117+0100-jpff(a)codemist.co.uk not found '027801c7b544$c5202410$4f606c30$@com' not found 7281-Fri22Jun2007074841+0100-jpff(a)codemist.co.uk not found 200706012133.01430.thadeurj(a)terra.com.br not found 4300-Fri29Jun2007145048+0100-jpff(a)codemist.co.uk not found '003801c7a6d3$70740370$515c0a50$@com' not found 20070616184124.GF19067(a)blinkenlights.visv.net not found 00cc01c7ba6b$1ace4060$506ac120$(a)co.cr not found 7277-Tue26Jun2007205907+0100-jpff(a)codemist.co.uk not found Pine.LNX.4.64.0706251153151.14573(a)nimrodel.valinor not found 6647-Mon11Jun2007214515+0100-jpff(a)codemist.co.uk not found 000001c7b380$a5f1edf0$f1d5c9d0$@com not found 200706071153.50160.wstephenson(a)suse.de not found JM200706162234065.4685828(a)pop.707.to not found the script is still running, there may be a few more. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYGukWhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVC2wAnj1ENtse+uyCFLVc7Hfe s8gHjd1UAKCWo+wkdYYNqfHCOFOKogvXhNT/gA== =7NY+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Hotspot authentication problem - 15.2
by James Knott 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

I just tried setting up a WiFi hotspot, using the network manager in Leap 15.2/KDE. I have tried both long and short passwords and get authentication error when I try to connect to it. In Windows 10, on the same computer, the hotspot works with the same password. Any ideas? tnx jk

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Grepping for emails problem.
by Carlos E. R. 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to locate messages on a mail archive, looking for the Message-ID header. It works, except on a 5% of the messages. I have found these combinations: Message-id Message-ID Message-Id So the basic command is: grepmail -h ^Message-[Ii][dD].*"$MSGID" ~/Mail/_Lists/_filed/os-en.2007* which should find all those combinations. But no. My script doesn't find: "f4sjvj$1p6$1(a)sea.gmane.org" The problem is that Midnight Commander does find it in the expected file. But not grepmail, nor grep. cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/mailarchive> grepmail -h ^Message-[Ii][dD].*"f4sjvj$1p6$1(a)sea.gmane.org" ~/Mail/_Lists/_filed/os-en.200705..08 cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/mailarchive> Or a shorter version: cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/mailarchive> grepmail -h "f4sjvj$1p6$1(a)sea.gmane.org" ~/Mail/_Lists/_filed/os-en.200705..08 cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/mailarchive> Not even plain grep: cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/mailarchive> grep -i "f4sjvj$1p6$1(a)sea.gmane.org" ~/Mail/_Lists/_filed/os-en.200705..08 cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/mailarchive> But MC finds it! +++······························ home/cer/Mail/_Lists/_filed/os-en.200705..08 22237684/51M 41% Subject: [opensuse] Re: SUSE 10.0: How to prevent mount of USB disk with subfs? Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:45:54 +0200 Lines: 41 Message-ID: <f4sjvj$1p6$1(a)sea.gmane.org> References: <f4rfqb$q63$1(a)sea.gmane.org> <4671A7F5.5030207(a)web.de> ······························++- The issue is the dolar symbol: cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/mailarchive> grep -i "f4sjvj\$1p6\$1(a)sea.gmane.org" ~/Mail/_Lists/_filed/os-en.200705..08 Message-ID: <f4sjvj$1p6$1(a)sea.gmane.org> cer@Telcontar:~/tmp/mailarchive> Now, the text to search for comes in a variable, $MSGID, like this: grepmail -h ^Message-[Ii][dD].*"$MSGID" ~/Mail/_Lists/_filed/os-en.2007* What can I do so that the $ inside the $MSGID content is passed to grepmail and not interpreted as a variable start? Do I need to do text substitution first inside $MSGID, replacing '$' with '\$'? Is there some other way? Thanks. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYGuGFBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVae8AnRFdRRPPIrUQPEan7z0R Vk7csTSzAKCA2C9dbK+09yYlgeNJtWXg944M8A== =t5r3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Which OpenVPN
by James Knott 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

I see in Yast Software Management that OpenVPN 2.5.1 is installed, but 2.4.3 is available. Why's that? 2.5.1 is from vendor obs and 2.4.3 from the main repository. I don't recall enabling obs.

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where are the rpmdb and alternatives files supposed to be?
by L A Walsh 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

As near as I can tell, the rpm db files were (are) in /var/lib/rpm while some things seem to be accessing them in /usr/var/lib/rpm. Oddly, /lib/rpm is pointing to /etc ?? That doesn't seem right. I seem to have multiple copies of the alternatives directory: /etc/alternatives ^^ this one is full of symlinks /var/lib/rpm/alternatives /usr/var/lib/rpm/alternatives ^^ these two are full of small files Thanks, I think...

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Error with Yast Network Setting
by James Knott 03 Apr '21

03 Apr '21

I just noticed an error when I try to open Network Settings in Yast. The computer uses Network Manager. Here is the error: Parse error while reading file /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf YaST cannot continue and will quit. Possible causes and remedies: 1. You made a mistake when changing the file by hand, the syntax is invalid. Try reverting the changes. 2. The syntax is in fact valid but YaST does not recognize it. Please report a YaST bug. 3. YaST made a mistake and wrote invalid syntax earlier. Please report a YaST bug. Caller: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/cfa-1.0.2/lib/cfa/augeas_parser.rb:458:in `report_activity_error!' Details: Augeas parsing error: Iterated lens matched less than it should at /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf:22:6, lens /usr/share/augeas/lenses/dist/sysctl.aug:38.10-.52: There is only a single line in the file 99-sysctl.conf that is not commented out. When I comment it out, Network Settings opens properly. Here are the contents of that file: #### # # /etc/sysctl.conf is meant for local sysctl settings # # sysctl reads settings from the following locations: # /boot/sysctl.conf-<kernelversion> # /lib/sysctl.d/*.conf # /usr/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf # /usr/local/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf # /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf # /run/sysctl.d/*.conf # /etc/sysctl.conf # # To disable or override a distribution provided file just place a # file with the same name in /etc/sysctl.d/ # # See sysctl.conf(5), sysctl.d(5) and sysctl(8) for more information # #### # net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=1 There appears to be some error with that last line, but I have no idea what. tnx jk

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nvidia-smi can't see the second graphic card in the system, why?
by Karl Sinn 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Hi, when I run nvidia-smi as root it shows me the information of both graphic cards. If I run it as a user I get only infos about the first card. Why is that so, and how can I change that? thanks, Karl

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https://paste.opensuse.org/ TITSUP?
by David C. Rankin 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

It seems paste.openesuse.org is down again. Whether you use the web interface or the paste script, you are provided with a URL, but attempts to access result in 404. a(a)o.o notified, let me know if I should have sent elsewhere. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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NFS V2 not available.
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Hello I need to get NFS V2 working. This document claims https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-opensuse-re… I can't get Leap 15.2 to allow NFS V2 the Note does not work. Note: NFSv2 If NFS clients still depend on NFSv2, enable it on the server in /etc/sysconfig/nfs by setting: NFSD_OPTIONS="-V2" MOUNTD_OPTIONS="-V2" But looking at the proc tablestiil only gives sudo cat /proc/fs/nfsd/versions -2 +3 +4 +4.1 +4.2 changing the -V2 to +V2 doesn't make a difference Any ideas on getting NFS V2 available so sudo cat /proc/fs/nfsd/versions -2 +3 +4 +4.1 +4.2 has +2 instead of -2 Thanks, -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047

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/usr/local/lib ? do I need to manually update the cache?
by Per Jessen 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

On 15.1 and 15.2 both, ld.so.conf contains: # cat /etc/ld.so.conf /usr/local/lib64 /usr/local/lib include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf # /lib64, /lib, /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib gets added # automatically by ldconfig after parsing this file. # So, they do not need to be listed. On 15.1 - long-running system: # ldconfig -p | grep local libbwbemag.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libbwbemag.so libbulwark.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libbulwark.so On 15.2, newly booted, 'ldconfig -p' shows nothing. I have copied some new libs to /usr/local/lib, do I now need to rebuild/update the cache manually? I ran 'ldconfig' and now the cache is fine. I feel like I must be missing something. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.1°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland.

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/var/lock/subsys missing
by John Young 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

I have noticed over the last few days that whenever one of our openSUSE 15.2 systems is rebooted, /var/lock/subsys disappears. Since we have applications that use it, I have been manually putting it back, but I'm curious as to why it goes missing. Does anyone know? JY "All ideas and opinions expressed in this communication are those of the author alone and do not necessarily reflect the ideas and opinions of anyone else."

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Nvidia Oddity
by Robin Klitscher 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

For many years – 20 or more - I’ve been installing without problems the Nvidia GEForce drivers in successive editions of openSUSE/Leap “the hard way”, using nVidia’s xxx.run packages. Recently, however, however, something went wrong in a fresh installation of Leap 15.2. After installing the OS I’d disabled nouveau as normal and installed Nvidia-Linux-x86_64-455.45.01.run successfully. But every attempt to upgrade to later Nvidia versions failed. The installation would proceed without error messages or any other indication of problems, but a reboot would invariably default to a commandline only, with no X and no desktop (Plasma). Xorg.0.log said “(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module”, while dmesg showed this (typical): “NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 460.56, but this kernel module has the version 455.45.01”. But there was no indication why the mismatch was occurring (the nouveau stuff is properly disabled, so it wasn’t that). On the theory that maybe the earlier version had somehow become welded into the initrd and the Nvidia installer wasn’t smart enough to overcome this, I took a punt by installing Nvidia 460.56 and then running mkinitrd. Lo and behold, that cured the problem. But why would this happen when it had never happened before, across many installations of the proprietary Nvidia drivers over many years? Do I have to run mkinitrd for every Nvidia update henceforth? Out of curiosity if nothing else, any explanations would be gratefully received. -- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand

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Annoying desktop "features"
by James Knott 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

There are a couple of useless features in the KDE desktop. One is something triggers a bunch of thumbnail over the desktop, instead of the normal apps & folders. The other is when the mouse is held over an app, such as a browser, again thumnails pop up along the bottom of the screen, all showing exactly the same thing, so they can't even be used to select an open windows. I find both of these to not only be useless, but often get in my way. Is there anyway to disable this nonsense? I'm running Leap 15.2. tnx jk

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