system management locked by the application with pid 5084

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hello all,

i am new for openSUSE, i am running openSUSE on virtual box bt when i try to install applications i got

system management locked by the application with pid 5084
i have try to kill the process with kill and process id command but when i try to install appn again i got the same prob,

some one can help me out?

tnx

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Are you sure the process has been killed?


ps -p 5084

Hiatt

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If you killed it did the PID change the next time you tried to do software
management? You may need to kill it again. Eventually (usually in a
minute or two) the application will finish what it’s doing on its own and
then you can do whatever you’re after without needing to kill things.

Good luck.

On 03/03/2011 08:36 AM, samhela wrote:
>
> hello all,
>
> i am new for openSUSE, i am running openSUSE on virtual box bt when i
> try to install applications i got > system management locked by the application with pid 5084 i have try to kill the process with kill and process id command but
> when i try to install appn again i got the same prob,
>
> some one can help me out?
>
>
> tnx
>
>
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Basic problem is that you can not have two processes updating the system at the same time. The Updater Applet may be running and trying to update the system. Best to wait a bit and let it finish it’s task. This often happens at boot since one of the first things it does is check for updates. So wait a few minuets after booting to install new software to simply don’t use the auto-update feature.

Also you must be root to kill an update process. Become root with

su -

command

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I am root, and i have tried to kill the process with

kill PID
but the problem still is thier even i wait for 1-2 min with out doing any thing plus how can i stop automatic update and make manual update like i do
sudo apt-get update
in ubuntu?

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Is this a Gnome or KDE install?

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In gnome do this
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/SUSE%20Misc/update-prefs.png

reboot

In kde
right click the updater applet in the tray > quit
It should ask if you want to start it at startup > say No

reboot

In suse we use zypper not apt

as su -

zypper in <application>

to update: zypper up

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after i installing version openSUSE 11.3 i can install softwares with CLI of openSUSE with zypper, the admins can give the technical discriptions of this, but for the above replies i can’t do any thing, my friend arround me helps me out for the force kill command which is

kill -KILL PID
, that helps me out but now i install this 11.3 version n working well