gpk-update-icon crashed

[blnl]

I'm using openSUSE 11.0 for almost a year and I have never had problems with automatic updates. Recently I reinstalled my notebook and now I regularly get to see the following error message:

The application gpk-update-icon has crashed.

Why is it showing up now?
It is the same OS, same installation medium. I don't understand!
Is something wrong with my installation or is my /home corrupted?

I'm considering to reinstall the whole thing again, unless someone can help me to fix this.

Does anyone know a quick fix?

Boris

[Camale�n]

blnl wrote:

> I'm using openSUSE 11.0 for almost a year and I have never had problems
> with automatic updates. Recently I reinstalled my notebook and now I
> regularly get to see the following error message:
>> The application gpk-update-icon has crashed.
> Why is it showing up now?
> It is the same OS, same installation medium. I don't understand!
> Is something wrong with my installation or is my /home corrupted?
>
> I'm considering to reinstall the whole thing again, unless someone can
> help me to fix this.
>
> Does anyone know a quick fix?

Try to update the system to get all the patches available for 11.0.

BTW, it seems you are being bitten by this old bug:

Bug 395445 - gpk-update-icon crashes after get updates failed dialog box
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=395445

Greetings,

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Camale�n

[blnl]

I have consumed most of the updates that were available in YaST Package Selection.
Following updates were skipped due to conflict messages:

• banshee-1
• banshee-1-backend-engine-gstreamer
• banshee-1-backend-platform-gnome
• banshee-1-backend-platform-unix
• banshee-1-extensions-default
• DirectFB
• libschroedinger-1_0-0
• taglib-sharp

Now I have another more severe problem. I do not have access to Internet at all. Although Network Manager icon shows that I'm connected to the wireless network, Firefox can't open any web page and also the repositories can't be refreshed.

The funny thing is that when I disable WPA encryption on my Wireless Modem, I get full access to the Internet.