apper applet - update fails

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#1

OpenSuse 13.1 x86_64 KDE 4.11.5
I got the icon on my KDE task bar to notifying me of updates. When i click “install” it downs a bunch of items then it fails with a dialog:
A problem that we were not expecting has occurred.
Please report this bug with the error description.
Details
Installation aborted by user.

But, I didnt do anything, i just sat back and watched it happen.

Any ideas as to what this means (since i didnt abort it it must mean something else)?

#2

Apper is not the sharpest pencil in the software box. Don’t go too much about things like what the abort tells you. It stopped working because of a problem. As root do a zypper up it will give you a lot more info of what the problem is.

You may also try as root

rpm --rebuilddb

It may be the rpm database got corrupted

#3

Thanks!
You led me to the problem - disk space was low. Too bad the dialogs don’t have more meaningful error messages.