Good Morning,
When openSuse does its auto daily updates is there anyway to ‘turn off’ the streaming updates are being installed messages that take over the right hand edge of the screen.
Cheers
Ron
vk4kbg wrote:
> Good Morning,
> When openSuse does its auto daily updates is there anyway to ‘turn off’
> the streaming updates are being installed messages that take over the
> right hand edge of the screen.
So you want to disable the updater on login?
I am assuming that you are in KDE, because I just never got bugged by
the updater in Gnome (unless deactivating it in KDE deactivates it too
in Gnome?).
You should have an icon in the lower right panel with a red triangle and
a “!” or a green geeko chameleon. Right click it > Configure applet… >
uncheck “Automatically start updater on login” (as well as anything you
don’t want).
To manually start it (which you should, from time to time)
KDE: KMenu > Applications > Desktop Applet > kupdateapplet
Check out this: http://tinyurl.com/mns53k, section 3.3 on updater applets
Thanks for the reply,
What is happening, when I use the auto download and install selection in ‘Software Update Preferences’, the downloading and installation starts and as SusE downloads and installs each update a rectangular box pops up, and these boxes cascade on top of each other taking up the whole right-hand side of the screen. This process continues for hours and hours. Whether it every ends I don’t know because after several hours I have always had enough and shut off auto update in ‘Software Update Preferences’ and reboot.
I then go to ‘Update on line’ and install any updates in a few seconds.
By the way I am use Gnome
Suse 11.1
Fully updated
Cheers
Ron
vk4kbg wrote:
> Thanks for the reply,
> What is happening, when I use the auto download and install selection
> in ‘Software Update Preferences’, the downloading and installation
> starts and as SusE downloads and installs each update a rectangular box
> pops up, and these boxes cascade on top of each other taking up the
> whole right-hand side of the screen. This process continues for hours
> and hours. Whether it every ends I don’t know because after several
> hours I have always had enough and shut off auto update in ‘Software
> Update Preferences’ and reboot.
>
> I then go to ‘Update on line’ and install any updates in a few
> seconds.
>
> By the way I am use Gnome
> Suse 11.1
> Fully updated
>
> Cheers
>
> Ron
>
>
something is BAD wrong with your openSUSE Updater (which i think is
the name of that thing down in the bottom right that looks like a
lizard head with a couple of curved barbs rotating around it…
maybe a fix is possible if you go into YaST > Software Management >
search on “updater” and then left click either or both of the little
boxes next to opensuse-updater-gnome and opensuse-updated-kde until
the GREEN update icon appears (right click to see the options: keep,
delete, update, etc…THEN on the “Accept” button…
or, perhaps it would be best to use zypper to refresh/bebuild the
updater and YaST like so:
open a terminal, then type the first line below and press enter, give
your root pass, then WAIT until all activity has stopped and you are
returned to the command prompt, and then type the second, wait, repeat
su -
rpmdb --rebuilddb
zypper ref
zypper up
After that see if the openSUSE Updater still takes ‘hours’…BY the
way, it has been my experience that when one runs out of patience with
updating and kills the process and reboots: everytime it screws up
all automatic updating scripts FOREVER…try the above fix to that,
and then be MORE patient (if the networks are clogged with users it
can take a LONG TIME for the (free) servers to provide you the data
needed for the updates…is is NOT like the servers are all owned by
the openSUSE community–they are usually university servers and they
THROTTLE their downloads to us)…
if you become impatient, go for a walk, take a nap, etc…
oh, and how many repos to you have active? EACH one of them will add
TIME to everything software related that happens with YaST or openSUSE
Updater… (you should, usually, have only FOUR active repos!)
good luck…have fun
–
brassy