Questions tagged [sles]
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the enterprise version of openSUSE.
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Strange "Directory not empty" for `rm -rf ...`command for %clean in rpmbuild of SLES15
After upgrading from SLES12 SP5 to SLES15 SP6 I noticed that the %clean phase of some RPM spec files fail for some strange reason when using rpmbuild -ba. The RPMs (SRPM, RPMs) are written correctly, ...
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Server stuck with Secure Boot error "problem with revocation key (-74)" after online repartitioning
I tried to resize partitions on a SLES 15 server by using gdisk. No matter what I try to do, I cant get it to work after rebooting the system. Initial situation: I have a boot partition (/dev/sda1), a ...
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"Automatic Boot Assessment" for SLES, RHEL, how to implement it in reality?
https://blog.koehntopp.info/2024/07/22/crowdstroke.html -> So, if you ask me what my takeaway from the Crowdstrike issue is, I’d say: boot counting/boot assessment/automatic fallback should really ...
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Trouble using a Qt 6 application on an older (SLES 15) machine
I'm trying to run an app which apparently uses some Qt6 capabilities on my SLES 15 SP5. When I do that, I get the following error message: qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is ...
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How to increase the hard disk space of thin provisioning virtual machine?
Created thin provisioning VM (Suse Linux) with 100 GB hard disk. Now due to space requirements, I need to increase the size to 200GB. Can someone please tell me how to increase the space of the "/...
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Zypper: System management is locked
I am having trouble updating a SLES 12.5 server. Zypper is not working supposedly due to another zypper process already running: # zypper lu System management is locked by the application with pid ...
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Has grep --quiet a bug with its exit status?
I have some SLES 12 SP5 machines with grep version 2.16 and on a single machine I'm heavily using scripts which contained the following grep --quiet condition: # $pid_list contains the result of ...
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How to increase the disk space for /root from /home on SLES SP4?
Currently I am unable to run or install anything on SLES SP4 system because insufficient space in /root. Could you please suggest a way to increase the disk space for /root from /home on SLES SP4? ...