Questions tagged [opensuse]

openSUSE (formerly known as SuSE Professional) is the "free" branch of the SuSE distribution family. openSUSE Leap is binary compatible to its bigger brother "SLES" starting with version 15.3 .


openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE.

After Novell acquired SUSE Linux in January 2004, Novell decided to release the SUSE Linux Professional product as a 100% open source project.

In openSUSE the openSUSE Project community, sponsored by SUSE, develops and maintains SUSE Linux distributions components.openSUSE is the successor to "SuSE Linux Professional".

Like most Linux distributions, openSUSE includes both a default graphical user interface (GUI) and a command line interface option. During installation, the user may choose among KDE SC, GNOME, LXDE and Xfce GUIs. openSUSE supports thousands of software packages across the full range of Free software / open source development.

openSUSE is fully and freely available for immediate download, and is also sold in retail box to the general public.
It comes in several editions for the x86 and x86-64 architectures.

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gparted installed on OpenSuse shows all file system types as greyed out except for hfs

I have had this problem before and fixed it, but I don't recall how I did it and I did not record it (sadness :( ) I have all the requisite commands installed on OpenSuse to support gparted's efforts in creating any of the supported file systems. I…
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Linux - How to change version of PHP Cli?

I try to uninstall PHP CLI because I am running it with version 7.3.7 while I run the normal PHP with 7.2.5 I tried apt-get purge php but this only removed the normal PHP not the CLI php. How can I uninstall the PHP CLI or change the version? Output…
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/etc/HOSTNAME on SuSE: short name or FQDN?

The file /etc/HOSTNAME on SuSE-Linux contains the host name. Should this be the full qualified domain name, or the short name (without ".")? Related question: socket.getfqdn() returns no domain, but socket.gethostname() does?
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Linker error in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3

Our machine was in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 until when we recently moved to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3. Our C++ tools were compiling without any problem on SuSe 11. But when we compile the tools in SuSe 12, we are having below…
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Samba File Server shows already deleted users as directory owner / winbind name resolution

I have on a Samba File Server (openSUSE Leap 15), a directory with subdirectorys in which some should have no more owner. User Name Resolution is going by winbind. I want to delete every dir with no owner. The Problem is, that ls -la shows me, that…
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opensuse leap 15 ditched php7-imap, where to get replacement?

After upgrading from openSuSe Leap 42.3 to 15.0 PHP Software using php7-imap does not work any more since openSuSe ditched php7-imap php7-imap extension missing since 7.2.3. Apparently there are not even community packages for the current 7.2.5…
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Dovecot can't open log after upgrade

On an OpenSUSE Tumbleweed host, updated this morning. After the update and a reboot, every attempt to start dovecot fails with Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot: Permission denied cat /etc/os-release includes…
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OpenSUSE 10.2 two network adapters, one problem

Actually several problems. Let me explain what we are trying to accomplish first: We have a server that sits in two subnets, by having a network adapter plugged into each network. 192.168.10.x and 192.168.20.x are the subnets. The 20.x subnet in…
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Which is easier scaled - LAMP, or LAP + MySQL on seperate VM's?

Which is easier to scale later on - 1 server with a full LAMP stack directly on the OS, or 1 server running VMWare Server 2 with 2 VM's - one running apache and PHP, and the other MySQL. The applications I will be running off of this are written…
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Low NIC throughtput under Hyper-V

I have a Xeon-based Dell T20 with Quad Intel I350 running Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V with OpenSUSE as Gen2 VM. Both Windows Server and OpenSUSE have dedicated ports on I350, no sharing. SR-IOV is enabled on all NIC's ports and Hyper-V virtual…
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How to save and reload iptables permanently in openSUSE?

I was trying to save iptable configuration and someone suggested me iptables-save which wasn't convencing for me. I logged in and tried /etc/init.d/iptables save and service command, none worked and didn't find any online reference. -bash-4.2#…
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What might cause YaST2 GUI to not appear on OpenSUSE Leap server

I'm connected to OpenSUSE Leap 42.2 over SSH with X-forwarding. Consider the system completely fresh ("server" option) apart from sshd enabled installation of kde-cli-tools-5 in order to get kdesu installation of dolphin and konsole I'm able to…
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How to install packages from list with zypper?

End state. I want to reformat my / partition, reinstall opensuse tumbleweed, and have the same packages installed then as now. Problem. I made what appears to be a poor choice, formatting the root filesystem as btrfs. The 20 GB I had for it was…
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Zypp curl error during installing OpenSUSE 13.1

I have error during automatic install OpenSuse with AutoYAST. First stage completes successfully. But when server restarts I get error when autorefreshing repos. In y2log error zypp error MediaCurl.cc(doGetFileCOpyFile): Download (curl) error for…
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Force files to stay in dentries und inodes cache on SuSe

We have some sql queries which are rarely executed. When running them first time after a while they take about 2 minutes, a second call takes only 800ms. I found out when i restart postgres the querys are still fast. Only when i clear the inode…
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