Firewall configuration >???? (Suse 13.1 KDE)

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Maybe I am not seeing what is in front of my eyes but how the heck do you get at all the system configuration via this Icon based front end? I can only find an Icon for “settings” that makes no mention of a Firewall.

There isn’t even an Icon for YaST and when I type YaST2 into a an root privilege terminal all I get for security and users is “configure apparmour?” (whatever that is)

What happened to the old KDE interface and can I get at it from 13.1…?!

Any help appreciated.

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Perhaps you don’t have the yast2 modules installed?

zypper in yast2-firewall

zypper se yast2 will reveal most fun things.

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yast is the ncurses mode of YAST, you can invoke that from any type of console and use YAST
yast2 is the GUI mode of YAST, you can invoke it from almost anywhere, but you need to have a running Xserver for yast2 to work.

I’d suspect you don’t have a full Desktop installed with default configuration and tools.

Recommend you run from a root console the following to display your base configuration, you may not even have KDE installed.

cat /etc/release*

TSU

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I have a fully-functional 13.1 KDE 32-bit system. Running the above gave:

howard@X41-int-oS131:~> su
Password: 
X41-int-oS131:/home/howard # cat /etc/release*
cat: /etc/release*: No such file or directory
X41-int-oS131:/home/howard #

Maybe you meant

cat /etc/os-release

which gave

X41-int-oS131:/home/howard # cat /etc/os-release
NAME=openSUSE
VERSION="13.1 (Bottle)"
VERSION_ID="13.1"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (i586)"
ID=opensuse
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://opensuse.org/"
ID_LIKE="suse"
X41-int-oS131:/home/howard #

Regards,
Howard

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Thanks for the replies - even zypper does not work when I am root - which I guess suggests that all it not well at all with the upgrade…

I may try the install again and opt for a “clean install” I cannot recall if I originally did an upgrade (from Suse 12.3)

Thanks

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What do you mean with “does not work”?
What error message do you get?

Regarding YaST’s Qt GUI (the “KDE interface” that you mentioned), try to run it like this:

su -
yast2

or

kdesu /sbin/yast2

And please post error messages you might get.

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On 2014-08-12 11:36, mcmorj wrote:

> Thanks for the replies - even zypper does not work when I am root -
> which I guess suggests that all it not well at all with the upgrade…

What upgrade? Please clarify.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)