Copy and Paste does not work while installing programs
Hello all! I have four machines here, all with openSUSE Leap 15.4. With three of them there are no particular problems, but with the one I am using now there is a consistent, reproducible error: When I am installing a number of programs, I normally copy my password when installing the first in the row. Then, it is easy to paste in the same password for each successive installation. However, with this machine that is impossible. I copy the password, but after I have exited the dialog box the copied password is erased from memory and I have to type the password each time when doing the subsequent installations. Further; as long as I have the dialog box open the password copied is kept in memory and can be pasted into a document I made to test this, but when I close the dialog box in order to go to Yast2 the password is evidently erased since it then cannot be pasted into the document. It is gone, but on my other machines it is kept in memory and can be pasted into the dialog box. See the picture in the link below; that is where it happens. What configuration error have I inadvertently made, since the password is not kept in memory on this one machine? http://www.coldsiberia.net/computer_tests/copy_fails.png Sincerely, Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway
Hello, In the Message; Subject : Copy and Paste does not work while installing programs Message-ID : <03b56bba-0dcd-579f-2944-231a8e3a9846@coldsiberia.org> Date & Time: Wed, 5 Jul 2023 17:50:45 +0200 [PIO] == Per Inge Oestmoen via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> has written: PIO> Hello all! PIO> I have four machines here, all with openSUSE Leap 15.4. PIO> With three of them there are no particular problems, but with the one I am using PIO> now there is a consistent, reproducible error: [...] PIO> See the picture in the link below; that is where it PIO> happens. What configuration error have I inadvertently made, PIO> since the password is not kept in memory on this one machine? PIO> http://www.coldsiberia.net/computer_tests/copy_fails.png Could it be a permissions issue? In other words, is it not like this? root root 4096 7月 5 10:31 /usr/local/backup If so, just change ownership with chown. Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 野宮 賢 mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "No Windows, no gains!" ... "Why, I am wrong?" -- Bill --
Masaru Nomiya wrote:
[PIO] == Per Inge Oestmoen via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> has written: PIO> See the picture in the link below; that is where it PIO> happens. What configuration error have I inadvertently made, PIO> since the password is not kept in memory on this one machine? PIO> http://www.coldsiberia.net/computer_tests/copy_fails.png
Could it be a permissions issue? In other words, is it not like this? root root 4096 7月 5 10:31 /usr/local/backup If so, just change ownership with chown.
Can you be a little more precise? I do not understand what you mean, and there are some characters which I do not recognize. How can a permissions issue prevent the keeping of a copied text in memory? Per Inge Oestmoen
Hello, In the Message; Subject : Re: Copy and Paste does not work while installing programs Message-ID : <ff8f22f9-2c11-1133-af01-9cab34680274@coldsiberia.org> Date & Time: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 11:30:55 +0200 [PIO] == Per Inge Oestmoen <pioe@coldsiberia.org> has written: PIO> Masaru Nomiya wrote: PIO> > [PIO] == Per Inge Oestmoen via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> has written: PIO> > PIO> See the picture in the link below; that is where it PIO> > PIO> happens. What configuration error have I inadvertently made, PIO> > PIO> since the password is not kept in memory on this one machine? PIO> > PIO> http://www.coldsiberia.net/computer_tests/copy_fails.png MN> > Could it be a permissions issue? MN> > In other words, is it not like this? MN> > root root 4096 7月 5 10:31 /usr/local/backup MN> > If so, just change ownership with chown. PIO> Can you be a little more precise? I do not understand what you PIO> mean, and there are some characters which I do not PIO> recognize. How can a permissions issue prevent the keeping of a PIO> copied text in memory? Sorry. Looking at the image again, I feel like I've made a mistake. Please explain what you are trying to do with YaST2; 1. Already registered /usr/local/backup as a repository? 2. Where did you get the files in /usr/local/backup and how did you get them? Regards. PS. It is not in memory that passwords are stored. --- ┏━━┓彡 野宮 賢 mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Bill! You married with Computer. Not with Me!" "No..., with money."
On 2023-07-06 12:03, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
Hello,
In the Message;
Subject : Re: Copy and Paste does not work while installing programs Message-ID : <ff8f22f9-2c11-1133-af01-9cab34680274@coldsiberia.org> Date & Time: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 11:30:55 +0200
[PIO] == Per Inge Oestmoen <pioe@coldsiberia.org> has written:
PIO> Masaru Nomiya wrote:
PIO> > [PIO] == Per Inge Oestmoen via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> has written: PIO> > PIO> See the picture in the link below; that is where it PIO> > PIO> happens. What configuration error have I inadvertently made, PIO> > PIO> since the password is not kept in memory on this one machine? PIO> > PIO> http://www.coldsiberia.net/computer_tests/copy_fails.png
MN> > Could it be a permissions issue? MN> > In other words, is it not like this? MN> > root root 4096 7月 5 10:31 /usr/local/backup MN> > If so, just change ownership with chown.
PIO> Can you be a little more precise? I do not understand what you PIO> mean, and there are some characters which I do not PIO> recognize. How can a permissions issue prevent the keeping of a PIO> copied text in memory?
Sorry.
Looking at the image again, I feel like I've made a mistake. Please explain what you are trying to do with YaST2;
1. Already registered /usr/local/backup as a repository? 2. Where did you get the files in /usr/local/backup and how did you get them?
Regards.
PS. It is not in memory that passwords are stored.
Yes, it is :-D I think you are still misunderstanding. He types the password, selects it, then does "control-C" to store the password in the clipboard, thus in memory. Then he tries to install a second rpm the same way, and hits "control-V" to paste the password on the dialog. On three computers this works, on a fourth the password is gone from the clipboard. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
He types the password, selects it, then does "control-C" to store the password in the clipboard, thus in memory.
Then he tries to install a second rpm the same way, and hits "control-V" to paste the password on the dialog. On three computers this works, on a fourth the password is gone from the clipboard.
The above is correct. Luckily, I finally managed to solve that riddle. I decided to re-install the plasma5-workspace and the dependent libraries. After that procedure, everything works in the same way as my three other Linux machines. Somehow something necessary for keeping the info in the clipboard must have been missing from my first installation. You absolutely put me on the right track. Thanks! Per Inge Oestmoen
Masaru Nomiya wrote:
Looking at the image again, I feel like I've made a mistake. Please explain what you are trying to do with YaST2;
1. Already registered /usr/local/backup as a repository? 2. Where did you get the files in /usr/local/backup and how did you get them?
Hello! No, this has nothing to do with /usr/local/backup. It happens whenever I try to install a number og .rpm files, regardless of where I got the file from - which is normally an external drive. I have many of those, by the way. Per Inge Oestmoen
Hello, In the Message; Subject : Re: Copy and Paste does not work while installing programs Message-ID : <7824b70e-9d6f-cd3a-f871-a3b799f65d3e@coldsiberia.org> Date & Time: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 16:39:27 +0200 [PIO] == Per Inge Oestmoen <pioe@coldsiberia.org> has written: PIO> Masaru Nomiya wrote: [...] PIO> No, this has nothing to do with /usr/local/backup. It happens PIO> whenever I try to install a number og .rpm files, regardless of PIO> where I got the file from - which is normally an external PIO> drive. I have many of those, by the way. Maybe the password is locked? How's this working out for you? # faillock If it appears like as follows, [...] When Type Source Valid 2023-07-03 09:05:44 rhost 192.168.xxx.x v 2023-07-03 09:10:08 rhost 192.168.xxx.x v please run; # faillock --user root --reset Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 野宮 賢 mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "A bachelor’s degree still holds prestige as a ticket to the middle class, but its value has received increasing scrutiny. In the last several years, rising tuition and student loan debt have led more Americans to reconsider an investment in postsecondary education." -- Washington Post --
On 2023-07-05 17:50, Per Inge Oestmoen via openSUSE Users wrote:
Hello all!
I have four machines here, all with openSUSE Leap 15.4.
With three of them there are no particular problems, but with the one I am using now there is a consistent, reproducible error:
When I am installing a number of programs, I normally copy my password when installing the first in the row. Then, it is easy to paste in the same password for each successive installation.
Ok, there is missing data in your question, which I can guess from your posted photo. You are running dolphin, click or right click on an rpm on a directory, and select "install with yast"? Then it asks for root's password? And you repeat this a few more times, each time pasting the password from the first time? Pasting the password works on 3 machines, but not on a forth? Maybe you have a clipboard manager installed or not installed in the fourth, or the clipboard manager has a different setting. I have never done this. I don't like the idea of repeating the command several times. I would open a terminal in that directory, "su" (not "su -"), then use zypper to install a list of rpms in the current dir. I would perhaps use the "mc" file manager. Or I would try to select several rpms at a single time, and see how to install them on a single click or right click with dolphin.
However, with this machine that is impossible. I copy the password, but after I have exited the dialog box the copied password is erased from memory and I have to type the password each time when doing the subsequent installations.
Further; as long as I have the dialog box open the password copied is kept in memory and can be pasted into a document I made to test this, but when I close the dialog box in order to go to Yast2 the password is evidently erased since it then cannot be pasted into the document. It is gone, but on my other machines it is kept in memory and can be pasted into the dialog box.
See the picture in the link below; that is where it happens. What configuration error have I inadvertently made, since the password is not kept in memory on this one machine?
http://www.coldsiberia.net/computer_tests/copy_fails.png
Sincerely, Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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