Re: SuSE 9.3 LSB/pidof broken dependency

Christian Barmala adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie and donned asbestosunderwear to post:

> Hi,
>
> I have a SuSE 9.3 system with almost everything installed, which
comes
> on the DVD and nothing foreingn installed. I regularely do "you"
> updates.
>
> When I start YaST2 sw_single, I get a warning that the installed lsb

> 2.0-8 requires /sbin/pidof. The binary is actually there:
>
> # ls -l /sbin/pidof
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 19 11:48 /sbin/pidof -> killall5
>
> YaST only offers a single conflict resolution: "Ignore the conflict> and risk an inconsitent system". Should I really agree to this
> suggestion or is there a better way to quiesce YaST?
>
> Christian

Don`t know why you are getting this error Christian, try re-installing

the rpm that contains that, it is in the sysvinit package:

DVD1/suse/i586/sysvinit-2.85-38.i586.rpm

Or you could re-build the rpm database first just incase it is out ofsync with your installation using:

rpm --rebuilddb

HTH

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"baskitcaise" <baskitcaise@gmx.co.uk>
> re-build the rpm database
> rpm --rebuilddb

This did the job! Thank you!

Christian Barmala adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie and donned asbestosunderwear to post:

>
> "baskitcaise" <baskitcaise@gmx.co.uk>
>> re-build the rpm database
>> rpm --rebuilddb
>
> This did the job! Thank you!

You are welcome.

Seems to be my lucky day today :-)

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