The reason why Cross Over won't install any more is some problem in the Wine repository that I had the bad idea of apending to the list of repositories from which the updates are intslled. How can I get rid of it ? I do hope that the wine from SuSE DVD works fine as it was working when I installed SuSE 10.3. I work under pressure prepaing for a seminar scheduled in 9 days and have to use OO for slides that look oackward as also OO does not find all the fonts and symbols. For slides and documentation Windows MS Office is still the easier tool delivering good results. Thank you --- Joe Morris wrote:

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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.

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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.

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I will get a new computer and install Windows on

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laptop in place of SuSE. I regret saying that but

Perhaps, but the nice thing here (assuming you have root available) is YOU are in control of your computer. this this

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situation is unbearable .

You can choose your poison. To me, that sounds like a frying pan/fire scenario.

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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

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The Thursday 2008-02-14 at 15:32 -0800, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:

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The reason why Cross Over won't install any more is some problem in the Wine repository that I had the bad idea of apending to the list of repositories from which the updates are intslled. How can I get rid of it ?

Go to Yast, find the wine rpm, remove it. Go to repositories configuration, remove the wine repo.

It won't let me do that. As I start Yast and click on s/w it tries to download from the faulty repositoty. See attached snapshots. I tried desperately clicking on the Abort button but it won't abort as if it was not detecting its status change. The problem is that no process gets killed and Yast enter the endless loop again. mauede@linux-Ciccia:~> su Password: linux-Ciccia:/home/mauede # whoami root linux-Ciccia:/home/mauede # killall zypp-check-patches zypp-check-patches: no process killed WHere am I supposed to go from here ? Thank you so much. Maura

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I do hope that the wine from SuSE DVD works fine as it was working when I installed SuSE 10.3.

I work under pressure prepaing for a seminar scheduled in 9 days and have to use OO for slides that look oackward as also OO does not find all the fonts and symbols.

It is not a good idea to configure a new operating system when you are under pressure to finish something.

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For slides and documentation Windows MS Office is still the easier tool delivering good results.

You know that an alternative, if your machine is powerfull enough, is to have a virtual machine with windows.

- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

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On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:

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The Thursday 2008-02-14 at 15:32 -0800, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:

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The reason why Cross Over won't install any more is some problem in the Wine repository that I had the bad idea of apending to the list of repositories from which the updates are intslled. How can I get rid of it ?

Go to Yast, find the wine rpm, remove it. Go to repositories configuration, remove the wine repo.

It won't let me do that. As I start Yast and click on s/w it tries to download from the faulty repositoty. See attached snapshots. I tried desperately clicking on the Abort button but it won't abort as if it was not detecting its status change.

The problem is that no process gets killed and Yast enter the endless loop again.

mauede@linux-Ciccia:~> su Password: linux-Ciccia:/home/mauede # whoami root linux-Ciccia:/home/mauede # killall zypp-check-patches zypp-check-patches: no process killed

WHere am I supposed to go from here ?

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Find ksysguard under system > monitor, locate anything named yast or zypp in the process table and kill them. Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Go to Yast, find the wine rpm, remove it. Go to repositories configuration, remove the wine repo.

It won't let me do that. As I start Yast and click on s/w it tries to download from the faulty repositoty. See attached snapshots.

Then remove the faulty repository first - which is a factory repo: why are you using a factory repo, anyway? Go to yast, software, software repository, click, then disable or remove the faulty repo. Don't abort, wait while it tries to refresh the repos.

I tried desperately clicking on the Abort button but it won't abort as if it was not detecting its status change.

I know, it doesn't work.

The problem is that no process gets killed and Yast enter the endless loop again.

mauede@linux-Ciccia:~> su Password:

Use "su -", not "su".

linux-Ciccia:/home/mauede # whoami root linux-Ciccia:/home/mauede # killall zypp-check-patches zypp-check-patches: no process killed

ps afx | less find the process. killall processs killall -9 process Warning: this may be dangerous, use as the last resort.

Maura Edelweiss M.

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