Hello, I am unable to update/install and uninstall software because something locked up on me. I’m using Suse 10.3 When i click on install/remove software or try to use updates I get the following error.
System management is locked by the application with pid 2970 (/usr/sbin/packagekitd).
Close this application before trying again.
Rebooting has no effect and i could probably try opening packagekitd, but still unsure of what to do with it if I did…
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
It’s the software updater in the panel
Configure it to not start at boot
reboot
try again
How would I go about doing that?
Right click the updater applet and choose Configure
In the box uncheck the start at boot option (You have to understand my wording is guessing a little as 10.3 went out with the ark)
If that’s not there, when you right click and choose quit, does it ask if you want to start at boot, choose no.
well, YaST is locked because the YaST Online Updater (that round green
little icon with a smiling lizard, down on the lower right part of
your screen (unless you moved it) is also trying to run an update…
while, solving that is not a problem it won’t help you any because
there are NO updates to get…openSUSE 10.3 has had NO updates since
October 2009…and, it will never have another one, ever…
that version is no longer supported with updates nor repos to hold
updates (which is why yours is locked: because it is sitting waiting
for a repo to appear which was unplugged almost a year ago)
cite: http://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime
so, the best thing you can do is install supported software (openSUSE
11.1, 11.2, 11.3) but be advised: the newer software may or may not
work on your machine…and you absolutely should take measures to
protect/archive/backup all your music, photos, films, emails, master’s
thesis, etc etc etc etc before beginning the install process…
ideally, that archive would not be on the same machine you are gonna
install on…
as an alternative, you can do as i do, use 10.3 without updates…and,
just “be careful” with online contacts…but, i can’t really tell you
it is ‘safe’ or that you should do that…
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
Well, there’s still a problem… if you’re talking of the little orange star looking deal it has no such options. If it’s the blue (sort of) icon that looks a bit like a globe…same thing… No such options.
A nice little “just shoot me now” option might help … 
Check the process id again and open a terminal and become su -
do this
kill -9 id#
But as DD said 10.3 has no updates
11.2 would be a good move for you
my bad… i am using 11.3 not 10.3 … Why i said 10.3 is anyones guess… I’m getting old and stink at numbers i guess…
Will “kill -9 id#” work the same on 11.3?
WOW
That’s a point we do need to be clear on
So are you KDE of Gnome
You see I don’t use the updater at all.
Let’s just do this another way for now…
am I KDE of Gnome? I’m not sure what you’re asking there… Do I have both KDE and Gnome? I assume so… I haven’t had Suse on here to long… I’mstil getting over my Debian aggravation…
You must know what desktop you are using?!
In control centre can you find this (Gnome): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/SUSE%20Misc/update-prefs.png
OK… I understand… yes I’m using Gnome. I misunderstod when you worded it with OF instead of OR… My bad… I have all of them turned to never and have rebooted already so that didn’t help.
Try the
kill -9 2970
(where 2970 is the process id)
Strange…Result of kill…
kill -9 2970
bash: kill: (2970) - No such process
You need to re-check the process id
mram51 wrote:
> I’m getting old and stink at numbers i guess…
join the crowd, i’m too old to breathe…
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
OK… Then I’ll have to rebot because i don’t get the message till i reboot. After i try to run install/remove once the second time just times out.
Next time can you post the result of
zypper lr -d