UPDATE FAILS, LOOP: FLASH-PLAYER, YAST2-CORE

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1

Helllo,

I am trying to update Flash-player and yast2-core as prompted by today’s update icon.

I am now faced with a loop that goes like this:

  1. click on icon
  2. window pops up, “2 packages selected”
  3. click on apply, subwindow pops up
  4. click on continue, “waiting for authentication”
  5. after minutes of waiting, click on cancel, nothing happens
  6. click on icon killing subwindow
  7. now back to 2)
    aborting the process, starting at 1) again, same mess

rebooting (message re KDE failing)
starting over: same again

rebooting again (message re KDE failing)
starting over: same again

rebooting (message re KDE failing)
starting over: no update icon
yast: 2 packages to update, update successful

Conclusions:
a) No idea what was going on
b) Use Yast instead of clicking update icon

The above for those who are interested

J C Anker

2

Hi,

Doesn’t the authentification window pop up?

(Sometimes it pops up in the background…)

HTH

Lenwolf

3

Yes, the authentication window pops up (sorry, I should have reported this for completeness).
Anyhow, the problem was solved by using Yast.

Intention with my posting: The unidentified bug (hardware, software, me?) was solved by applying Yast.

jc_anker