If I use Yast software maintenance, then quit it and then try to use it again, it states the package manager is in use.
I have to reboot to get Yast software management to work again.
Any ideas please
What running processes do you see?
Yast2 and Y2base are both running. Killing them does not make any difference.
When you quit software manager, the yast process should end. If it doesn’t, it may be because of a running update check, or another scheduled process that accesses the rpm database.
You can’t kill yast as user, only as root.
If this happens frequently, you may have a installation problem.
The few times this happened to me, I THINK it was because I double-clicked the software management icon, starting two processes, with the second waiting patiently for the first to end, and the reopening the database, but without a GUI.
P.S.: I also THINK that the same happens with OpenOffice’s splash screen, it I start OOo twice the splash locks, or something. It can be seen in the proccess list. (CTRL-ESC in the desktop or the usual commands in a terminal).
I didn’t investigate both issues further, though, since clicking just once gives me no problem.
Ahh, the double click issue may well be the answer.
Thanks Bruno!
I have had this problem frequently and I’m sure I haven’t been double clicking on anything. Every time I have the problem the only solution is restarting! There might be something generally wrong with package management!
Right click suse updater - Quit and choose do NOT start at boot.
re-boot
now try Yast - software management
It wasn’t a double click issue.
For some reason, exiting any yast module doesn’t kill y2base. If I manually kill it, yast works normally, until I exit whatever procedure I’m using, then y2base has to be manually killed again.
Yast is a root process, so are you managing kill from root?
Or even worse - are you running as root
No, using the system monitor (KDE4 one, although running 3.59) right clicking y2base and clicking KILL. Asks for root password and then kills process.