What wqrong with my Update? (plus, can we add this feature?)

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There’s something wrong with my updates. I keep on updating but this security patch won’t go through after upgrading to 11.1

(The patch information is located below.)

The thing that happens is when I try to update, it makes an error that says:

Installation of Package failed

and when I click show details it says:

Yes, just “—”.

I click Retry or Ignore or abort and YAST quits. There was also this update that keeps doing this on another computer but that was way back on version 10.0

What’s wrong with this? I never touched the Repositories since installation? (Maybe I should?)

In addition, and this is just a minor thing… why can’t the slideshow wallpaper be random like in Mandriva? Does it always have to start with the wallpaper #1 on startup? Okay, it’s not really minor, I do mind the presentation of my desktop :shame:

udev - A Rule-Based Device Node and Kernel Event Manager
Alternate Version
Installed Version
Version:
128-9.7.1
128-9.7.1
Build Time:
Tue 14 Apr 2009 03:16:42 AM PDT
Tue 14 Apr 2009 03:16:42 AM PDT
Install Time:
Sat 18 Apr 2009 12:31:43 PM PDT
Package Group:
System/Kernel
System/Kernel
License:
GPL v2 or later
GPL v2 or later
Installed Size:
515.0 K
515.0 K
Download Size:
157.0 K
0 B
Distribution:
openSUSE 11.1
Vendor:
openSUSE
openSUSE
Packager:
http://bugs.opensuse.org
http://bugs.opensuse.org
Architecture:
x86_64
x86_64
Build Host:
URL:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html
Media No.:
0
0
Authors:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Kay Sievers <Kay.Sievers@vrfy.org>
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Kay Sievers <Kay.Sievers@vrfy.org>
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open a terminal and go su and do:

zypper lu

You said you upgraded. From what version and how did you do it?

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I’m sorry, I said it wrong. I did upgrade, but it was the Kernel… I was already in SuSE 11.1 when I did it.

Thank you for the suggestion, I will try this next time I get on the computer.

Any more solutions please keep them coming.

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Please post the output of

zypper lu
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zypper lu returned this:

Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Repository           | Name                 | Version    | Arch
--+----------------------+----------------------+------------+-------
v | openSUSE-11.1-Update | desktop-translations | 11.1-6.4.1 | noarch
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Now try doing


zypper ref

then

zypper up
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zypper up returned:

Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

The following package is going to be upgraded:
  desktop-translations


Overall download size: 6.1 M. After the operation, additional 2.9 M will be used.
Continue? [YES/no]: YES
Retrieving package desktop-translations-11.1-6.4.1.noarch (1/1), 6.1 M (34.9 M unpacked)
Retrieving delta: ./rpm/noarch/desktop-translations-11.1-6.3_6.4.1.noarch.delta.rpm, 3.0 M
Retrieving: desktop-translations-11.1-6.3_6.4.1.noarch.delta.rpm [done (323.3 K/s)]
Applying delta: ./desktop-translations-11.1-6.3_6.4.1.noarch.delta.rpm [done]
Installing: desktop-translations-11.1-6.4.1 [done]
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Has this resolved your issue?

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Not yet I guess, I opened YAST and on these sections:

Software
Online Update
Filter: Patches

Summary: Security → udev: fixed local privilege Escalation

(under “udev: fixed local privilege Escalation” are two items: )

  • libvolume_id1 - Dynamic library, which contains functions to get volume ids
  • udev - A Rule-Based Device Node and Kernel Event Manager

I click Accept and the same error (from the original post) happens.

I thought it’ll fix it but oh well :frowning:

I can look at it further (maybe try shutting it down and restart?) but right now it’s 12:31 AM Pacific time and I have work tomorrow, please send me more suggestions and I’ll be happy to try it next morning.