Fresh 11.0 install. Yast is generating “another process is accessing the package database”.
Searched and reviewed all the suggestions on Google and here reference other processes maintaining
access to the repositories. Renamed /var/cache/zypp to /var/cache/zypp-old and rebooted. Worked great,
just needed to re-build repositories and insert CD.
No other package management processes seemed to be running.
Problem returned today. So I killed packagekitd and ran Yast. Works good again. What app is owner of packagekitd? And what should I do to clean this up?
[LEFT]It’s deffinately the updater… Looked all over the place for config settings. You know us Windows guys. It’s gota be visual. GRIN!
Anyway, finally got a dialogue from the system advising that updates were available. Right clicked this in the tray area and it offered settings. No more auto updates.
Without the system alert, tracking down the config settings, for updates, was a real hassle.
Oh well, time to research and learn how to do this via the shell so I don’t get burned again.
Look in /var/run/ for stale yast.pid or zypp.pid.
If they are there, look at the process number inside the file.
Run ps -efc and grep for the process that created those lock files and kill it or use it instead.
So I find with grep that there are 4 digit numbers in a yast.pid or zypp.pid file. What then? What do those 4 digit numbers mean?
Why don’t I have permission to rewrite those files or how do I get permission to re-write them?
Running ps -efc just makes the screen blink once and I get no information there.
I’d love to get the auto-updates like I use to with 10.3…
AdDeRidder;1882129 Wrote:
> Look in /var/run/ for stale yast.pid or zypp.pid.
> If they are there, look at the process number inside the file.
> Run ps -efc and grep for the process that created those lock files and
> kill it or use it instead.
So I find with grep that there are 4 digit numbers in a yast.pid or
zypp.pid file. What then? What do those 4 digit numbers mean?
Why don’t I have permission to rewrite those files or how do I get
permission to re-write them?
Running ps -efc just makes the screen blink once and I get no
information there.
I’d love to get the auto-updates like I use to with 10.3…