Updater loop

[reducto]

Hi all!

Right know, the opensuse-updater applet signals that there is a patch available (webkit), but when I try to install it the updater goes into an all too familiar loop: instad of installing the patch it looks for update/patches again and notifies me about the patch!

The “uncheck remember password” trick does not work (it does not always work, could not understand when or why), and patches are not visible on yast.

Any idea how to solve the problem? and has someone found any, you know, permanent solution to the problem?

thanks in advance!

[Havoc65]

i think the problem could be theres a dependency problem that why it wont install the update
try going into yast>package>All Packages>update if newer version
and see if you get any dependency errors

[reducto]

thanks for your reply, but as I said, the problem is not with an update, but a security patch. There have been some kde3 updates in the meantime, and i can install them with yast, but the patch remains there, uninstalled.

As far as I know, patches are not visible on yast, and thus do not create dependency problems, is that correct? In short, the problem seems to lie with the updater applet itself, not with any dependency problems.

[reducto]

ok, I answer myself:

– patches can be install with yast, via online updates, that solved the nagging “red alert” with the updater, yet the problem remains: from time to time, the updater fails to install packages, and the “uncheck remember password” trick does not always work.

[malcolmlewis]

@reducto

thanks for your reply, but as I said, the problem is not with an update,
but a security patch. There have been some kde3 updates in the meantime,
and i can install them with yast, but the patch remains there,
uninstalled.

As far as I know, patches are not visible on yast, and thus do not
create dependency problems, is that correct? In short, the problem seems
to lie with the updater applet itself, not with any dependency problems.

Hi
Try it from the CLI then (console/konsole);

sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper lu
sudo zypper up

The first command refreshes the repositories, the second lists any updates, the third
will apply the updates.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 1 day 2:16, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.13, 0.15
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80

[reducto]

@malcolmlewis

Hi
Try it from the CLI then (console/konsole);

sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper lu
sudo zypper up

The first command refreshes the repositories, the second lists any updates, the third
will apply the updates.

thanks, I tried these commands, and no update was found (I had just installed all available updates via yast). Yet the updater applet still signals the presence of some 13 kde updates! (the “check now” command of the updater applet does not change the sutuation)

so it seems that yast and opensuse-updater can fall out of sync

[malcolmlewis]

@reducto

ok, I answer myself:

– patches can be install with yast, via online updates, that solved
the nagging “red alert” with the updater, yet the problem remains: from
time to time, the updater fails to install packages, and the “uncheck
remember password” trick does not always work.

Hi
You may also want to have a read here;
Package
Manager Cleanup

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 1 day 2:28, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.06, 0.09
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80

[reducto]

[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;1891031]Hi
You may also want to have a read here;
Package
Manager Cleanup

Thanks indeed!!! That solved the problem, and it sure made yast fire up much faster! (By the way, the last script on the page you linked is incomplete. the complete script is here: SDB:Speed up Package Manager Stack - openSUSE).

thanks again!