Unable to do a lot of things (no better way to put it)

I had Windows and Ubuntu dual-booted on my computer, installed Ubuntu to
the wrong partition, and then ended up crashing both operating systems.
I bought a CD drive online. To use it, i needed an operating system. So
I installed Fedora 9 off of a USB Drive, and no I replaced that with
OpenSUSE 11.1

Anyway, Whenever I try to Add/Remove programs, it will try and boot
itself up, then I get an error message saying-

“System Management is locked by the application with pid 4345
(/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base). Close the application before trying
again.”

Is this particular application conflicting with old
windows/fedora/ubuntu files? I found out I still have some from my D
drive.

On another note, how can I make OpenSUSE use all of my hard drive
space? I noticed its on a seperate partition.


e1ectthedead

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> “System Management is locked by the application with pid 4345
> (/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base). Close the application before trying again.”

In a terminal try
sudo kill 4345

Then try your add/remove again

> On another note, how can I make OpenSUSE use all of my hard drive space?
> I noticed its on a seperate partition.

Do you mean you want it to use unallocated space on your harddrive?

Anyway, to start with in a terminal type

su
password
fdisk -l

and post the results here


nzlbob23

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nzlbob23;1924934 Wrote:
> In a terminal try
> sudo kill 4345
>
> Then try your add/remove again
>
>
>
> Do you mean you want it to use unallocated space on your harddrive?
>
> Anyway, to start with in a terminal type
>
> su
> password
> fdisk -l
>
> and post the results here

This all worked great, thank you.


e1ectthedead

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Did you sort out giving openSUSE more space? The fdisk command I gave
you just lists your current hard drive partitions.


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oh. I thought it did it for me. It says I have all my hard drive space.
but I did reinstall it, and it asked me to unmount some of the
partitions, so maybe thats why,

And for the y2base, i just tried typing the kill and rebooting will not
work, it just says a different pid.


e1ectthedead

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> And for the y2base, i just tried typing the kill and rebooting will not
> work, it just says a different pid.

Don’t reboot after using kill, just give it a couple of seconds to kill
the process then go ahead and do what you want with add/remove programs


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ahh.Thank you. It works now.


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I had the same problem regarding application management being locked and
suspected that it was the Updater Applet. I let the applet search for
updates and once it found the updates and notified me, I went back to
the application management via YaST and the error didn’t show up
anymore.


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