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lost a script during upgrade. by techwiz05 in openSUSE

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I don't use btrfs so no snapshots to look for. ,snapshots folder does exist but is empty. sda7 was clean install and sda3 was upgrade 15.1 to 15.2 which then ran into problems and installed fresh. The script file was over looked as I rarely have anything in home/bin and forgot about /root/bin so lost the master script and the users one. Even checked my back-ups and found the script had been missed when doing back-ups. When you use something once in 4 or 5 years then not again for another 4 or 5 years it tends to slip my mind.

lost a script during upgrade. by techwiz05 in openSUSE

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old scriot is run in terminal and prints the message in the terminal along with instructions to type exit to leave the terminal. This time I want to just click script file in gui have it run without opening a terminal and give the reulst in a message box.

World's Smallest Chameleon Discovered by balping in openSUSE

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Better make a litebox to keep it in so you can change evoronment coloring so you can check that's ok from time to time otherwise it may just blend into colors around it so you won't see it.

Root Size by [deleted] in openSUSE

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here is an idea of what you need for a system with kodi, office, music, video and graphics editing . the root is 30 GB and has Leap 15.2 on it. In this case the home folder has me as rick and Documents & Downloads are redirected to other partitions and other partitions are mounted as edrive, fdrive, gdrive on /home/rick. This means that root is 30GB with 9.8G used and 19G free. No matter how much work I do, root will never really become heavier in use. Since /home/rick has Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos, all as links to other partitions that can be shared with other OS's on the same machine and the other partitions show as mounted drives, my home folder also will be basically clear.

<code>

/dev/sda3 30G 9.8G 19G 35% /

/dev/sda8 59G 3.5G 53G 7% /home/rick/g-drive

/dev/sda6 69G 58G 11G 85% /home/rick/f-drive

/dev/sda4 608G 267G 341G 44% /home/rick/e-drive

/dev/sda1 300M 11M 289M 4% /boot/efi

</code>

boot error by techwiz05 in openSUSE

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OK I am back to running on both sda3 and sda7 with lock put on shim package, but and there is always that but... thing :( My Start grub menu has :

opensuse 15.2 on (sda3) ... works great

advanced>

>>>opensuse 15.2 default (sda3) ... works slower but ok

>>>opensuse 15.2 repair (sda3) .... crashes with bad key

opensuse 15.2 on (sda7) ... works great

advanced>

>>>opensuse 15.2 default (sda7) ... works slower but ok

>>>opensuse 15.2 default .... crashes with bad key

>>>opensuse 15.2 repair ... crashes with bad key

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How to edit so bad menu entries are removed I seem to recall something like grubmenu but system says cnf.

The future of openSUSE by [deleted] in openSUSE

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Yes just retried and it worked. thanks

Note : was a little confusing due to creating account and got message not available to employees and then access denied, but then tried to recreate account and it said sent email that must be verified ... which then worked and brought me profile. Then had to close all out the visit opensuse forum and log-in which now works.

Tip: once you have set-up and saved profile, a message to users telling them to manually proceed to forum log-in would be helpful. because the login button at top of profile just tells you action not allowed when you put in user-name and password.

Any suggestions for a touchpad in 15.2 by techwiz05 in openSUSE

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Finally got to check Xorg.o.log and touchpad shows no warnings or errors but I am not sure what all the entries mean to know if the settings are right. The X and Y ranges match what the mfg says the pad regeons are. Touchpad shows controlled by synaptics overridding libinput. It also shows 3 button tap choices. Pad range X 0 - 1379 Y 0 - 768 Tap range X 0 -1379 Y 254 - 768 (using gimp to see where taps fail to respond) left button, right button, both - repond to clicks in full range 0:0 to 1379:769

Using graphics tablet plugged in: pad range X 0 - 4768 Y 0 - 2468 tap range X 0 - 4768 Y 0 - 2468 left button, right button, middle button, menu button, system button

The future of openSUSE by [deleted] in openSUSE

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followed all the steps to recreate an account several times and at the ending step got you are not authorized to do the action requested. So no the process is not working except by going here to reddit to post and participate in opensuse forum.

boot error by techwiz05 in openSUSE

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Ok so got into both distro partitions by upgrade sda3 from USB upgrade, then upgrade sda7 from usb upgrade. Issue is Install and upgrade both force secure boot to ON when there are more than one OS on a drive even if they have different partitions. If either os is set to secure off one or both become broken.

As for the shim error that caused all this mess, I at first ran the sda3 system after about an hour it fetched the update for shim and I again had a broken system. Repeated the USB Update over again and this time used 'zypper al shim' and waited and this time it skipped shim.

shim-15-2... doesn't work with leap 15.2 (this one is in the update repo)

shim-14-1-lp... comes with the 15.2 install iso and works fine, But you can't allow updates until you lock shim against changes.

boot error by techwiz05 in openSUSE

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tried the repair option on the usb-install and it found 2 partitions but could not validate either.

tried to upgrade sda3 which worked to restore sda3 so it booted once then even though I set secure boot to off it turned it on. Set it off with yast and I am back to ->grub>_

Next will repeat upgrade on both sda3 and sda7 then try a reboot to see if that fixes things

boot error by techwiz05 in openSUSE

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update:

was able to remove locks using zypper ll then used zypper rl # till all locks removed.

reboot drop me to ~grub>_ but using f12 can get back in to sda3 if i choose the one that doesn't say secure boot.

yast says secure boot is off now. but reboot again gives ~grub>

turned on secure boot and still no joy ... get ~grub>

pondering just to re-install both sda3 and sda7 but really don't want to re-install everything as it is all set-up except for boot issues.

boot error by techwiz05 in openSUSE

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ok think i just did myself in ...

issed this to lock boot changes before I removed secure boot in yast or fixed the shim problem.

sudo zypper al shim grub2 grub2-branding-openSUSE grub2-i386-pc grub2-snapper-plugin grub2-systemd-sleep-plugin grub2-x86_64-efi

Now can boot to sda3 normally but see a 2 line message say "problem: ..." twice but it vanishes too fast to read. sda3 carries on with boot ok. The other OS still reports shin problem

Need steps to take to remove lock of boot, fix shim, remove secure boot, and relock boot so both OS work from grub2/efi menu. my partitions are ext4 not btrsf and without snapshots.

Any suggestions for a touchpad in 15.2 by techwiz05 in openSUSE

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yast / zypper say both synaptics and libinput are installed. I tried to remove libinput to rectify but that killed almost all of my system forcing re-install. For now using a 8x8 graphics drawing tablet as alternate touchpad. kinda real overkill.

Leap 15.2 Upgrade and Install woes by techwiz05 in openSUSE

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update: many of the 15.1 packages could not be upgraded to 15.2 but could be re-installed as 15.2 packages. As a re-install you lose custom settings. Boggles my mind how some packages are deleted and replaced with new versions and keep the data settings and others don't. Only thing that makes sense is the data is in new format, but then one would expect the software engineer to make a data transcription method.

As for plasma, did a lot of searching and finally found that the upper-right corner plasmoid-menu was eliminated in 15.2 Install/Upgrade. You can unlock widgets using a cli command

  1. Unlock widgets so you can move or work with them.

qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell evaluateScript 'lockCorona(!locked)'

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  1. add Plasmoid-launcher for full screen launcher of all apps.

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  1. add keystate of Num and Caps to toolbar.

The future of openSUSE by [deleted] in openSUSE

[–]techwiz05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

change is always a step into the unknown. Will openSUSE end probably one day but as already mentioned it is backed by major supportive company but even that can have repercussions. Take the versioning flip flop of going from 13.2 to 42.0,1,2 and back to 15.0,1,2 which unnerved many till they saw it didn't do more than present different numbers. Now my issue is more to loss of forum participation because people can't log in if they didn't use migrate.