I just wanted to disable the on-line updates and reinstall Wine from the DVD but Yast won't do as it keeps finding another process accessing the repositories. When you first login, zypp-check-patches runs to look for any updates. It locks the rpm database while it looks. If you are wanting to kill it (not just opensuseupdater, which is just the frontend, kill it (as root, by using killall zypp-check-patches, or by using kde system guard) and
On 02/15/2008 06:46 AM, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: then open Yast Software Management.
Maybe because I had to abruptly reboot by hardware reset button as Yast won't leave the loop of trying to download from the faulty repository.
Perhaps, but the nice thing here (assuming you have root available) is YOU are in control of your computer.
I will get a new computer and install Windows on this laptop in place of SuSE. I regret saying that but this situation is unbearable .
You can choose your poison. To me, that sounds like a frying pan/fire scenario.
I think the only way to get out of this impasse is to reinstall SuSE without overlapping the /home partition. ... I have back-ups but reinstalling every application again implies too long. Please, instruct me how to do that.
I have a hard time believing a reinstall of Linux really helps much at all, especially in the long run. BUT, you just need to remember to check what it does in regard to Partitioning in the install process, making sure your home partition is set to be mounted on home and not formatted. Other than that, installation is normal. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org