Questions tagged [opensuse]
openSUSE is a free and open source operating system based on the Linux kernel.
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opensuse leap 15.4, automatic wifi connection to known sites using eth0
I only connect to the internet via wifi, and Yast Network shows the following info on my internet connectivity:
RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
(Not connected)
MAC : fc:34:...
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opensuse leap 15.4, installing apps from .ymp files (one click install) with the command line
I have a new (to me) opensuse leap 15.4 installation with the generic desktop (just ICEWM, no file manager) for I use mc as my file manager.
Several apps I need I could only find as .ymp files, "...
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How to overcome a missing msvcrt module when installing Python 3 from source on OpenSuSE Linux?
In order to test a fresh version of a Python app, I need to install the last stable version of Python on my OpenSuSE 15.4 machine /* which by default comes with Python 3.6 */. So I downloaded Python 3....
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How to set screen to black
I'm looking for a feature that seems impossible to search for due to too many problems with graphics drivers...
I'd like to set the screen to black to disable output on a projector for a moment. The ...
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Building emacs 29 on openSUSE: `configure` cannot find json library despite it being installed
Im currently trying to build emacs 29.0.90 from source. I've installed every version and permutation of json-devel, json-c, libjsoncpp, etc on the repositories, and even built, tested, and installed ...
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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed after update graphic mode fails
I used the package updater to install the latest patches und updates this morning. Since init 5 i.e. graphic mode doesen't work anymore!
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
VERSION="20230301&...
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(openSUSE T) Kernel panic - not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)
I am getting
Kernel panic - not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)
When booting my openSUSE Tumbleweed on my Lenovo ThinkBook 13s ACN (Ryzen 7 5800U, APU, 16GB RAM, 512GB ...
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I cannot boot OpenSUSE after installing Linux Mint
My computer has OpenSUSE 11.3 installed and I added Linux Mint to it. Linux Mint runs without any issues, but when I choose OpenSUSE on the GRUB page where we choose the operational system, it does ...
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Corel AfterShot Pro 3 needs a backlevel library - Can I install libgstapp-0.10.so.0()(64bit) in parallel with already installed libgstapp-1_0-0
Corel has never supported OpenSuse (Tumbleweed) but until about a year ago, their RPM version worked anyway. On install, it now complains about
Problem: nothing provides 'libgstapp-0.10.so.0()(64bit)' ...
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Leap 15.4 boot hangs on: fbo: switching to i915 from EFI VGA
HW: Asus mainboard Prime Z790-P iCore5 with integrated GPU, no additional graphic card OS: OpenSuse Leap 15.4 new installation and updated.
Installing the OS without the linux parameter nomodeset in ...
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Display package info of all available packages across all repos in OpenSuse
I am a beginner to bash shell and I am trying to display the package info of all available packages in OpenSuse across all repos.
zypper info
needs a package as an argument. Could any command be ...
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During linux bootup smartd daemon turns itself off because "No devices to monitor"
opensuse leap 15.4 on asus l210 laptop
/media/q/HDD1 $ systemctl status smartd.service
× smartd.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/...
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Clone RAID 1 array to single HDD - Linux (OpenSuse)
I have a server with a hardware made RAID 1 array (Adaptec board). The array is composed of 2 SSD and the OS id OpenSuse Linux.
I want to clone the array on a single SSD and make it bootable.
I ...
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How to prepare a Suse 15 for Graphical Remote Desktop Access via MobaXterm on Windows 10?
I want to access a SUSE 15.x Computer via a graphical remote connection, SSH is already working.
I'm using a windows 10 computer with MobaXterm.
What do I have to prepare?
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Conflict with the xhci_hcd device
I have been working with wireless keyboard and mouses from several manufacturers, but I have been trying to use the logitech's MK540 and MK235 under SuSe.
But there is some turmoil there, these ...
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error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found
I get this error after installing opensuse 15.2 on a Dell Latitude E5410 (~year 2011), where the hard drive was replaced.
I tried default as well as manual setups and partitions.
I tried suggestions ...
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Korean keyboard dysfunctional in OpenSuse
I am having issues figuring out how to use a Korean (Hangul) keyboard layout on OpenSuse Gnome. I can set the system language to Korean, but when I set the keyboard layout to Korean, it just types in ...
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Sound problems with Jabra Evolve2 65 and GNOME in openSUSE Leap 15.3
Did anybody succeed to make the Jabra Evolve2 65 headset work in openSUSE 15.3 running GNOME?
A2DP Sink works fine in stereo
HFP and HSP (mono) cannot play the test sounds; I only hear some noise
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Installing Git LFS
I'm following this guide. When I have to run this trainer:
trainer = Seq2SeqTrainer(
model,
args,
train_dataset=tokenized_datasets,
eval_dataset=tokenized_eval,
data_collator=...
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PostgreSQL Client on SUSE Linux
On an SUSE Linux server I need the tools psql, pg_dump and pg_restore, without the whole database server installation. Other distributions provide an postgresql-client package (Ubuntu) but I am unable ...
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Unable to install driver for serial/parallel port card on Suse Leap 15.2 with Kernel 5.3.18-lp152.84-default
I have an IOCREST SI-PEX50103 which is a PCI-Express Multi I/O Controller Card with 2 serial ports and 1 parallel port. It uses the vendor supplied AX99100 driver. I am running openSUSE Leap 15.2 with ...
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trying to install openSuse Leap 15.3 alongside existing windows10 on my surface pro
Device Spec
Windows Spec
Disk Partition in Windows
Now, when I restart and boot using a openSuse Leap 15.3 bootable USB, i expect to see a 100 GB disk that I could partition as required (root, home, ...
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Cloned Suse machine wont boot
I am very much still a linux noob. I am cloning a current Suse workstation, attempting to create another identical workstation.
I have attempted booting the new workstation with the hard drive in a ...
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what does a mail-transfer-agent.target do?
I tried searching everywhere on google and it won't provide any good information. What does the mail-transfer-agent.target specifically do? (I'm talking about the "TARGET" mail transfer ...
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btrfs fails to load qgroups from disk with error -2 (out of memory)
I ran out of space in my OpenSUSE partition, which uses btrfs. I booted from a live Ubuntu USB to reallocate some of the space from my Windows partition to the Linux one. It succeeded in shrinking the ...
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trying to install openSuse Leap 15.3 alongside existing windows10 on my surface pro
Device Spec
Windows Spec
Disk Partition in Windows
Now, when I restart and boot using a openSuse Leap 15.3 bootable USB, i expect to see a 100 GB disk that I could partition as required (root, home, ...
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System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate. Failed to connect to bus: Host is down Failed to talk to init daemon [duplicate]
his is what happens when I try to put in:
sudo reboot
and:
/sbin/reboot
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate. Failed to connect to bus: Host is down Failed to ...
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How to not auto start lightdm at boot
I am working on the project which major on console based on opensuse. But some time need to run some gui application. I installed the lightdm. After rebooting my machine, it will auto launch the ...
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Secure boot with unified kernel image on openSuSE?
I am trying to install OpenSuSE Tumbleweed on a system with encrypted root partition. At first i tried to set up GRUB, but it refused to recognize a LUKS-encrypted partition.
Currently I am trying to ...
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Which package provides kmod-zstd on openSUSE 15.2?
I am running openSUSE 15.2, but with a newer stable kernel in order to have a driver for the RTL8125 network interface.
Currently, I am on kernel-default-5.13.7-1.1.gb1bb2c4.x86_64 and I would like to ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad E15 (2nd Gen): Special function keys don't work with openSUSE Leap 15.3
The whole story can be found in openSUSE Bugzilla, but here is the summary:
For openSUSE Leap 15.3 the "special function keys" (media keys, etc.) do not work, or do not work reliably for a ...
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After Linux OS upgrade audio is 20% quieter - how to get back to previous level?
I just upgraded my OpenSUSE OS and the volume output is not as high as before. I would say it's 20% quieter compared to before the upgrade.
I'm guessing its a matter of selecting the right option for ...
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How do you create a chroot environment for OpenSUSE Leap?
I have CentOS 7 and would like to install a chroot environment of OpenSUSE Leap for testing.
How do I do that?
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Is it possible to close the gui of a virtualbox vm and return it to headlessly running without rebooting it with opensuse as host system
I start windows with a database server in a virtual box by the command:
VBoxManage startvm Wind10 --type headless
Then maybe I want to show the gui by
VirtualBox
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VBoxSDL --startvm Wind10 --...
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How to start and stop virtualbox machines, only from CLI via ssh?
I have a server that I want to run virtual machines on
I want to use virtualbox but I want to start and stop them using only ssh as the server is headless.
The question:
How to start and stop ...
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7.6 GB of files in root system, but 41 GB of disk in use in OpenSuse system?
I am running OpenSuse (Tumbleweed) in VMWare (I'm not sure it's relevant but mentioning it anyway), and I'm facing a very strange problem that I can't figure out where the main disk has 41 GB in use ...
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Booting Windows Installer on separate Partition via Grub2
I have the following (dumb) Problem: I have set a BIOS Supervisor password on my Laptop and forgot it. Because I have a modern ThinkPad a BIOS password reset is not possible without desoldering chips ...
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What are other Update repositories for?
The two standard update repositories included with an openSuse installation are:
repo-update | Main Update Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | http:/...
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Odd Zenity-behaviour
I have a Bash-script containing Zenity dialog boxes that works fine on Ubuntu 20.04.
However when I start it in openSUSE Leap 42, it looks like this:
It seems as if some package is missing. Any ideas?...
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How to disable screen unlock on mouse move
I have an openSUSE Leap 15.2 KDE desktop which runs 24/7 but the screen turns on every time my cat jumps on the table :( (:
That's why I would like to turn on the screen only on keyboard interaction ...
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LightDM refuses to read monitor configuration in .config folder (monitors.xml)
I'm the proud owner of an Eluktronics RP-15 Laptop featuring an AMD Ryzen CPU with an integrated Radeon GPU and an NVIDIA RTX 2060 discrete GPU. The display outputs seem to be married to the discrete ...
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Opensuse full-screen inside Hyper-v
I was having problems trying to configure my hyper-v display resolution with an opensuse machine. My "fullscreen" was really small and it's hard to find the solution so I'd like to add the ...
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About to install openSUSE on top of Ubuntu in a dual boot system with Windows 10. Do I need to remove grub?
I am currently running a dual boot setup (Win10 & ubuntu 20.04 LTS)
I want to clean my ubuntu partitions and install openSUSE instead, do I need to get rid of grub as well or is it going to be the ...
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How do I create a manual point-to-point wicked network configuration?
I am tasked with working on an OpenSUSE 42.3 server (without desktop environment) that I'm looking to connect to a Windows10 laptop (configured as 192.168.1.2) using ethernet (in order to run other ...
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How to make basic TCP/IP connections where nc(1) is not available?
I'm maintaining an outdated server where nc(1) is not available and installing new tools is also not an option. I've to use basic UNIX tools in order to do what nc(1) does. The system is a SuSE 11.1. ...
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How do I share a USB DVD Writer on a Linux host machine with a virtualised windows guest using Virt-manager?
I am using openSUSE Tumbleweed, and the windows guest is a Windows 10 instance.
I tried to share the drive by passing through the USB host device but I could not find it on Windows. I looked around ...
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GNU DDRescue 1.25 to copy a failed to be recognized 4.0TB HDD to rescue. Completed "mapfile", but what do I do with this mapfile file?
I have :
Gigabyte X399 Aorus Gaming 7
AMD Thread Ripper 1950X
32GB Ram
O/S=OpenSuSE Leap 15.2
2 (new) X 4.0TB WD(Blue)[Raid 1]
2 (corrupted existing) X 4.0TB WD(Blue)[ex-Raid 1] HDDs
Also QNAP TS/...
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Is it safe to delete contents of /root/.cache folder to free up space?
I need to free up disk space on my linux server.
I run the df command to check space ad see that I'm using up 100% of disk space.
myserver:/ # df /
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% ...
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.Xresources file ignored on OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 with GNOME
I have written an .Xresources file with xterm settings, and it is not loaded when user logs in: the xterm has the ugly default settings when launched. This happens on a VirtualBox VM running OpenSUSE ...
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OBS Studio + NVidia GeForce: is it possible to record in higher resolution than the display permits?
The relevant part of my setup:
A monitor with a maximum resolution 1920x1200
NVIDIA GeForce 2070 Super
OpenSuse Leap 15.2
OBS Studio installed and working
I've either read or heard somewhere, that ...
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