The taskbar updater wants to install an update - is this a kernel update? It doesn’t really say…
This update will add new features and expand functionality.
openSUSE is a distribution by the openSUSE.org project.
Obsoletes:
• openSUSE-release - 11.4-1.9
/• openSUSE-release - 11.4-1.8
/• openSUSE-release - 11.4-1.9
Repository: repo-oss
If it’s a kernel update, then it will say so. This sounds like an update to /etc/openSUSE-release.
Thanks! Buuuuut… what is that? I’ve been using OpenSuSE since 10.0 and have never seen a reference to that before. I’m always leery about such things 'cause they can break your video…
I remember seeing that, IIRC not a kernel update, but the updater (Kpackagekit) broke here as for some other posters. You could do what I did, and use YaST>Software>Online Update. It’s more familiar, gives more information about the updates, and more importantly it works (as does zypper). 
Hmmmm… curiouser and curiouser! Nothing shows up at all in yaST2 Online Update! - Oh, wait a moment, nothing shows up in “needed patches” but a bunch of things show up in “All Patches.” Well, I guess as long as I don’t do a kernel update, I can’t break my video since I’m using the driver from the ATI repo for 11.4.
I deal with developing applications, so any update can be disastrous in an automated realm. I simply kill the kupdate applet by uninstalling it. When I want to gamble with updates, I make a special back-up including rollback, then use YAST->online update or zypper. If the update wreaks havoc then I go back to my rollback. 10% of updates have in the past damaged my video stability, 10% have damaged applications that fall outside the recommended 4 repo’s, and 30% of the updates have really been unnecessary or useless for my particular set-up YMMV.