** Reply to message from Patrick Shanahan on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:45:33 -0400

* kanenas@hawaii.rr.com [09-06-06 20:00]:

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btw, after i ran smart update/upgrade, now the "update" button has turned orange!!!! should i reinstall zmd? are they coming to take me away?

disable zmd and stick with smart.

I am updating 10.1 with apt-get with just a few hitches, like ghostscript fonts conflict with print-pro 4.1. So, in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/apt.conf I put a hold on that package so that apt-get doesn't try to update it again. I use 2 commands: apt-get update, then apt-get -s upgrade After the second, if everything looks okay, I remove the "-s" and let it rip. I have never caused instability in my system and it stays up to date. To kill all the weird messages from the broken updaters it did a "rpm -e zmd rug zen-updater" so they are now out of the way. Ed Harrison, Linux User # 199533 SuSE10.0, Kernel 2.6.16.21-0.13 PolarBar Mailer 1.26

On Thursday 07 September 2006 15:49, Jerry Feldman wrote:

The Zen updater seems to be working perfectly on my system. The indicator on my system tray actually turned red while I was composing the previous email, and it downloaded a few patches.

I don't think mine's ever turned red - it goes orange and gains an exclamation mark when there are patches to install. Is this right? Should it ever turn red? Is mine chromatically challenged? It is working well these days though. I did have a problem whereby it complained in the logs that it couldn't do something with the database, and wouldn't start up. I deleted the database, and the next time I restarted zmd it reloaded all the catalogues and rebuilt the database, and all now seems well. Fingers crossed. -- Bill Gallafent.

* Jerry Feldman [09-07-06 12:38]:

You are correct. Mine was Orange with an bang in it. I had a meeting to attend (with free pizza).

and bubbly amber fluid, free as in linux ? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

On Thursday 07 September 2006 06:49, Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 7:58 pm, kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:

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Well, after I gave it about 3 months, I thought I would try 10.1 again, surely that silly update issue has been solved by now, right? wroong!

The Zen updater seems to be working perfectly on my system. The indicator on my system tray actually turned red while I was composing the previous email, and it downloaded a few patches. The initial problems with libzypp appear to have been fixed. You should be able to run the YAST Online Update to download all the current updates.

Yes, it pretty much works now. I had two updates pending (both ImageMagic). The time it takes is not splendid but it did seem to work fine. 8:18 Click Update in the list of updates. Resolving Dependencies Immediate 100% CPU usage (both processors) 8:20 Updating (cpu usage down to just 50% of total i.e. 100% of one cpu) 8:26 Finishing.... 8:29 Success message. So 11 minutes for two little updates. Oddly enough I had the same updates waiting on the SUSE 9.3 machine adjacent to this one. 8:36:30 Start YOU 8:37:00 Click Accept - Start applying updates 8:37:30 Done applying - Starting Linker setup 8:38:00 Done 1.5 minutes. To be fair its a bit faster machine, but not that much faster. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen