Hi i have had suse installed now for a little while but im just not using it anymore because of an annoying problem with the updater (Update Applet 0.3.11).
I allways have popup messages saying updates are being installed but no matter howmany time i click on ‘do not show this again’ i always get these messages.
i have set the ‘software update’ program not to display popup messages but this doesnt seem to have any effect. i have even left the computer on for a 24hr period hoping the updates would have finished but it still continues surely there cant be that many updates.
how can i stop this from happening as i loose nearly half my screen?
Ok i have done this, i’ve disabled the cd/dvd and added the packman repository as this wasn’t there for some reason but hey all seems ok at the moment.
Hi im afraid its still happening, it started happening this evening after being logged on for about 10min.
I’ve restarted and have stop packagekitd from starting by opening the online update app at the same time ive noticed that there aren’t any updates to actually install.
Since 10.2 I disable the updater and do my updates through Yast. for a home/workstation system I don’t think that everyday updates are necessary, usually I do it once every week or two. Of course, if you’re running a server it’s a different story.
i have found a log file /var/log/zypp/history that shows some updates have taken place and this would have been the time lots of pop ups kept coming up so i think packagekitd is working OK but i don’t think the front end is not saving my options
when i type ‘gconftool-2 -R /apps/gnome-packagekit’ i get a list as follows
if the line in red could be changed to false could this stop the popups from appearing if so how could i change this? i can’t find any file with this information saved in.
> if the line in red could be changed to false could this stop the popups
> from appearing if so how could i change this? i can’t find any file with
> this information saved in.
i don’t see any red (because i don’t use the web interface’s html) so
i can’t answer…but, i go along with ‘brunomcl’: just turn off the
openSUSE Updater (right click the greeen goblin icon, and . . . *)
just turn it off, and use YaST > Online Update at the exact time YOU
want it to run (instead of when it wants to run)…
simple.
non-obtrusive.
works. (you do need to be young enough to remember to do it every once
in a while…weekly is probably ok…this is not a frail Windows
that can get cracked if you don’t patch every two minutes…)
Well if its the gnome edition yeh I had it update on me many times, even more so then the KDE version.
I get far less update prompts with the KDE version.
I am having the same issue with the pop up windows trying to update. The updates never seem to complete, it’s like there is a hundred updates completing, and another hundred trying to do the same with a new window every time and it’s continuous. I have done the same suggestions as peachenoonoo has done.
The issue never happened in Suse 11.0 where I started with a fresh install. This started to occur after I upgraded to 11.1. During the upgrade there was some dependency issues, Some I resolve and some I’m sure, I didn’t resolve properly. Is there any way to figure out where the dependency issues are without turning off the updates or deleting the updater rpm and fixing these problem areas. I would like to try to fix this without having to do a fresh install. Where can I begin?
That should update you. Of course we don’t know what repo’s you might have added (zypper lr)
There is a recent kernel update which will require a reboot."
After the updates, I went to “online update” and my first update appeared, while prior to this no updates were ever available. I’m hopeful this is the start of my fix.
the Dude abides wrote:
> This started to occur after I upgraded to 11.1. During the
> upgrade there was some dependency issues
which is why you should avoid upgrade, as in: “This method is
unsupported for upgrades to releases 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1” at http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade
instead you should backup/protect your /home and do a fresh format and
new install…been that way since about 9.3 (2003?), supposed to
‘fixed’ so an upgrade from 11.2 to something higher is supported…
I read that article and did a DVD upgrade. The laptop I use was originally difficult and took a long time to configure with SUse 11.0, so this time around I didn’t have time to reconfig it, so I upgraded instead of the clean install.
No problems other than the pop up update windows as stated earlier, but upon your suggestion and caf4926 suggestion, I believe the problem is gone. The screen resolution has improved on the upgrade and it was a rather simple process all together.
updating from 11.1 to 11.2 will be a problem (default file system
switches from ext3 to ext4), but 11.2 to the next is supposed to be
supported…we will see…