Latest 10.3 HAL Update Won't Install

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#1

Another broken update.

My 10.3 system notified me of a security update to the hal for the powersave new dbus configuration version 6085.0.

Repeated attempts to install have apparently failed, it continues to prompt me that the update is available.

I’m not terribly happy about this announcement either:

“The dbus package used a too permissive configuration. Therefore intended access control for some services was not applied (CVE-2008-4311). The new configuration denies access by default. Some dbus services may break due to this setting and need an updated configuration as well.”

Nice - break stuff at random.

Any ideas? Is it just an update process problem or is it a problem with the update itself?

I think I applied the update over on my 11.0 machine and it went OK. Perhaps I should just blow 10.3 off and upgrade to 11.0 - which of course will break everything on that machine if experience is any guide. Since it’s my backup machine, I guess it doesn’t matter much.

#2

Fixed it. Ran zypper update from a terminal - that worked.

Interesting that it had to downgrade the hal in order to update powersave!

Here’s the output in case it might help somebody.

spectrum:/home/rhack # zypper update

  • Reading repository ‘OpenOffice Stable’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘KDE Community’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘openSUSE-10.3-DVD 10.3’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Packman USA’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘openSUSE-10.3-Updates’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘OpenOffice Extras’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Packman Repository’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘GNOME Community’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Main’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Wine Repository’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Non-OSS’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘NVIDIA Repository’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘KDE Core’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘VideoLan Repository’ cache
  • Reading installed packages [99%]

The following packages are going to be upgraded:
powersave powersave-libs

The following patch is going to be downgraded:
hal

Overall download size: 400.0 K. After the operation, additional 1.1 K will be used.
Continue? [yes/no]: yes
Downloading package powersave-libs-0.15.17-10.3.i586, 59.3 K (37.9 K unpacked)
Downloading delta: ./rpm/i586/powersave-libs-0.15.17-10_10.3.i586.delta.rpm, 46.4 K
Downloading: powersave-libs-0.15.17-10_10.3.i586.delta.rpm

  • Downloading [100%]
    Applying delta: /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000007/rpm/i586/powersave-libs-0.15.17-10_10.3.i586.delta.rpm
  • Installing: powersave-libs-0.15.17-10.3 [100%]
    Downloading package powersave-0.15.17-10.3.i586, 340.7 K (1.1 M unpacked)
    Downloading delta: ./rpm/i586/powersave-0.15.17-10_10.3.i586.delta.rpm, 86.5 K
    Downloading: powersave-0.15.17-10_10.3.i586.delta.rpm
  • Downloading [100%]
    Applying delta: /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000007/rpm/i586/powersave-0.15.17-10_10.3.i586.delta.rpm
  • Installing: powersave-0.15.17-10.3 [100%]
    spectrum:/home/rhack #

spectrum:/home/rhack # zypper update

  • Reading repository ‘OpenOffice Stable’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘KDE Community’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘openSUSE-10.3-DVD 10.3’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Packman USA’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘openSUSE-10.3-Updates’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘OpenOffice Extras’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Packman Repository’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘GNOME Community’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Main’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Wine Repository’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Non-OSS’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘NVIDIA Repository’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘KDE Core’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘VideoLan Repository’ cache
  • Reading installed packages [99%]

Nothing to do.
spectrum:/home/rhack #

After that, rerunning the applet “Check Now” comes back clean, no updates available.

#3

Thanks, was wondering how to fix that

A

#4

I had this problem. I assume the downgrade prompt is what was stalling the GUI updater

I’m all good too after “zypper update”

#5

Thanks Richard, it did the trick.