System Tray and Desktop upgrade problem

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Hi, when I check for updates using Zypper dup, I get the following message:

Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make
sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See ‘man zypper’ for more in
formation about this command.
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Computing distribution upgrade…

The following 2 applications are going to be REMOVED:
Desktop “System Tray”

No additional space will be used or freed after the operation.
Nothing to do.

I have been getting this message for over a week now. My PC used to run KDE Neon, I installed Tumbleweed onto the formatted system partition an retained the /home partition from when I used Neon. Can someone shed any light on whats going on?

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Start by showing us your repo list:

zypper lr -d
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Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.

| Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI

 | Service

—±---------------------------------±----------------------------±--------±----------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------------
-----±-------
1 | http-ftp.gwdg.de-a962bacb | Packman Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
|
2 | http-opensuse-guide.org-7f7dc2ef | libdvdcss repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
|
3 | openSUSE-20170407-0 | openSUSE-20170407-0 | No | ---- | ---- | 99 | yast2 | hd:///?device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36001b440644477df0000000000000000-p
art2 |
4 | packman2 | packman2 | Yes | (r ) Yes | No | 99 | rpm-md | http://mirror.yandex.ru/opensuse/packman/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
|
5 | repo-debug | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Debug | No | ---- | ---- | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
|
6 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/
|
7 | repo-oss | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
|
8 | repo-source | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Source | No | ---- | ---- | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/source/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
|
9 | repo-update | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/
|
10 | skype-stable | skype (stable) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | https://repo.skype.com/rpm/stable/
|

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Start by making certain your Packman switch is still in force.

zypper dup --from packman

Then, make sure your repos and database are in order:

zypper clean --all
zypper ref
rpm  --rebuilddb

Then, (maybe not needed, but can’t hurt) refresh again:

zypper ref

Since you have Packman, you want to do your Tumbleweed Updates and Upgrades with:

zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change
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Thanks for your help so far, but i’ve followed each step and I still get the same message:

linux-quqw:~ # zypper dup --from packman
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Computing distribution upgrade…

The following 2 applications are going to be REMOVED:
Desktop “System Tray”

No additional space will be used or freed after the operation.
Nothing to do.
linux-quqw:~ # zypper clean --all
All repositories have been cleaned up.
linux-quqw:~ # zypper ref
Retrieving repository ‘libdvdcss repository’ metadata …[done]
Building repository ‘libdvdcss repository’ cache …[done]
Retrieving repository ‘packman’ metadata …[done]
Building repository ‘packman’ cache …[done]
Retrieving repository ‘openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss’ metadata …[done]
Building repository ‘openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss’ cache …[done]
Retrieving repository ‘openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss’ metadata …[done]
Building repository ‘openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss’ cache …[done]
Retrieving repository ‘openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update’ metadata …[done]
Building repository ‘openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update’ cache …[done]
Retrieving repository ‘skype (stable)’ metadata …[done]
Building repository ‘skype (stable)’ cache …[done]
All repositories have been refreshed.
linux-quqw:~ # rpm --rebuilddb
linux-quqw:~ # zypper ref
Repository ‘libdvdcss repository’ is up to date.
Repository ‘packman’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update’ is up to date.
Repository ‘skype (stable)’ is up to date.
All repositories have been refreshed.
linux-quqw:~ # zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See ‘man zypper’ for more information about
this command.
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Computing distribution upgrade…

The following 2 applications are going to be REMOVED:
Desktop “System Tray”

No additional space will be used or freed after the operation.
Nothing to do.

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Then I would just ignore those messages. It appears you are up to date, AFAICS.

… unless one of our more technical members has anything to add, say Deano, Wolfi, or Arvidjaar, or others…

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I ignore that.

Zypper deals with packages, not with applications. If it says a package will be removed, then investigate. But if it is only reporting that an application will be removed, just treat it as background noise.

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Thanks for verifying, Neil.

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FWIW - I get the same message on tumbleweed using zypper as well, and it’s the same on 2 new tumbleweed installs…I’ve been meaning to look into why it is saying that, and what to do, but for now I’ve been ignoring it. It will say it whether you use

zypper up

or

zypper dup