Fix Tumbleweed VLC/browser playback

This also fixed Twitter videos not playing in Firefox!

Solution here!

sudo zypper ar -cfp 90 http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials packman-essentials
sudo zypper dup –from packman-essentials –allow-vendor-change

The above 2 seemed to fix the problem however there was another step listed (see below) in the solution that I did not do…because the above 2 commands fixed the problem!

sudo zypper install --from packman-essentials ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-{good,bad,ugly,libav} libavcodec-full vlc-codecs

More gnuCOBOL issues in Tumbleweed

Had successfully compiled a simple program. But the latest compile attempt give me…

bill@bill-MS-7B79:~/Mystuff/COBOL/progs/Primes> cobc PRIMCOB1.cbl  
/tmp/cob5820_0.c:11:10: fatal error: gmp.h: No such file or directory
  11 | #include <gmp.h>
     |          ^~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
bill@bill-MS-7B79:~/Mystuff/COBOL/progs/Primes>

Solved: Had to select gmp-devl in YaST Software. This selected 2 other packages also.

libgmp10 already was checked


Garuda Linux

Been hearing a lot of good things about Garuda Linux. Sounded like something I would like to try. Unfortunately they say ” We do not support dual booting as it can lead to many potential problems regarding peripherals such as Wifi & Bluetooth not working. It might also cause the system to be unbootable after other operating system updates and overwrites Garudas bootloader.”. Well that’s not good. I’ve never heard of such a thing! So, the Linux Nazi says…No Garuda for you!

If I google it. There are quite a few articles about dual booting with Windows 10.

Solution to last update…high CPU usage!

Installed proprietary Nvidia driver by following this. Once again not a show stopper but more work to install Nvidia drivers than I’m use to. I did this because I’ve seen similar problems with other distros.

bill@bill-MS-7B79:~> sudo hwinfo --gfxcard | grep Model 
[sudo] password for root:  
  Model: "nVidia GK208B [GeForce GT 730]" 
bill@bill-MS-7B79:~> 
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed NVIDIA
zypper se x11-video-nvidiaG05


Go to the YaST Control Center and click Software Management.
View > Repositories > NVIDIA
Choose the appropriate driver, e.g. x11-video-nvidiaG04 or x11-video-nvidiaG05
Optionally choose the corresponding OpenGL acceleration libraries; nvidia-glG04 or nvidia-glG05.
Press Accept.
Restart your computer.

Tumbleweed problems after applying 73 updates!

Success? Not flawless. Appeared to complete. However it had problems shutting down. CPU was running at 60%+. Finally did ALT+CTRL+Back Space a few times and it logged off and rebooted. At re-logon CPU still running high…60%+. Top reports plasma-systemmo running at over 700%. Rebooted…same thing. Shutdown/restart…same thing. Not good : (

gnuCOBOL in Tumbleweed

Wasn’t hard to get working…but more work than expected in 2021. I think it was 1 click in Manjaro. Mint is still on GnuCOBOL ver 2. GnuCOBOL not available in Discover, but was in YaST Software. So Install gnuCOBOL which also installed libcob4. A libcob-devel was shown but not selected by default, so I didn’t select it! So after trying to compile a gnuCOBOL program it fails and tells me it needs gcc. So I installed gcc. Try compile again but now it tells me some COBOL header file is missing. Go back to original install and select libcob-devel. Finally a successful compile.

This version was 3.1.2.0. Nice to see version 3 is finally official…no longer a release candidate.

Reviewing my MVS Create Standalone Executable video

Part of that video I showed how to create a PDS. Everything worked fine in the video. However I later found that some of my batch utility programs would fail. Such as the IBM utility IEBPTPCH. I would get…

IEB421I I/O ERROR ,IEBPTPCH,IEBPTPCH,291,DA,SYSUT1 ,READ, WRNG.LEN.RECORD,0000002B000106,BSAM

It appeared it didn’t like my BLKSIZE=800 when creating the PDS

When I changed it to 19040 (like SYS2.JCLLIB) the utility worked fine!