Package management seems highly messed up
My mistake perhaps, but I added a repository to the sources list and now I get a signature check every time I open the software manager. Fortunately it offers me a "Do not show this message again" check box. - Unfortunately it ignores it and continues to show me that message again each time I run it. To fix this I disabled all but the original installation DVD using "Installation Source". - But I still get the Signature check message anyway. Along with the "Do not show this message again" option. :) Anyway, to the point: I'm running "Software Management" because I want to install something. Perhaps as reward for doing all of the above (maybe not), I now get the following in response to trying to add an RPM in "Software Management": --- error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index Whatever all of that means. But as a general comment, package management always seems to offer a unique set of frustrations in suse. Probably my ignorance, but it just does not seem to work as well as does apt in something like ubuntu. I've either got to set the repositories to manual refresh in the "Installation Sources" and hope to manually refresh them frequently enough for "Software Management" to work, or I can make them auto-refresh and risk waiting an afternoon and a day for "Software Management" to finish timing out on unresponsive servers. Why is the burden of finding today's set of good mirrors mine? Should I really have to do this prior to each refresh? So then I get Software Management "to the prompt" (so to speak), and I'll get error pop-ups that the installation source is not available. I'll get this even on a good day, when all the mirrors and all of the refreshes happened quickly. So its frustrating and all the more so with the new wrinkle above. Apologies in advance .. I've not even hit SEND yet and I already feel guilty rattling off at what is otherwise such an excellent distro. (But I'm going to do it anyway) :)
2006/5/24, Bruce A. Mallett
My mistake perhaps, but I added a repository to the sources list and now I get a signature check every time I open the software manager.
Fortunately it offers me a "Do not show this message again" check box. - Unfortunately it ignores it and continues to show me that message again each time I run it.
To fix this I disabled all but the original installation DVD using "Installation Source". - But I still get the Signature check message anyway. Along with the "Do not show this message again" option. :)
Is this still not fixed? Maybe they are trying to get all the other problems out of ZEN (automatic type-detection?). Anyway, Watcher was my friend and he did a good job. Fast and without eating my resources, the replacement is, sorry have to say, crap. I hope this will be fixed soon :( I even tried VectorLinux for a while cause my old PC barely can run SUSE 10.1. But then it only shows me that SUSE is a great distribution! So I ran back as fast as I could and now I am running SUSE again (with Xgl and compiz, at 733mhz all going so well). Ther candy is great, but the management......so buggy (but so much better allready then in RC1!)..... Package-management and related: -8 Improved Desktop Experience: +8 (Xgl is so slick and even usefull) Style of 10.1: +9 I hope that the package-management bugs will be fixed in a short time and that OpenSUSE can put in a super-version at the time that Vista comes out (end 2006/begin 2007).
Hi,
To fix this I disabled all but the original installation DVD using "Installation Source". - But I still get the Signature check message anyway. Along with the "Do not show this message again" option. :)
This problem is known, a patch is expected to be available next week. (The patch is actually already done, but needs some testing.)
error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index
This problem might disappear after running rpm --rebuilddb if you're lucky.
But as a general comment, package management always seems to offer a unique set of frustrations in suse.
Maybe, but this time (SUSE 10.1) is really a special case because of all the changes. Stay tuned for updates next week.
Why is the burden of finding today's set of good mirrors mine? Should I really have to do this prior to each refresh?
Which mirrors did you try so far? You might want to try these load-balancers instead of specifying real mirrors: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1 (regular inst_source) http://download.suse.com/update/10.1 (patches and updates) They will redirect you to a good mirror, if everything works as it should.
I've not even hit SEND yet and I already feel guilty rattling off at what is otherwise such an excellent distro.
You're not alone with that. ;-) Andreas Hanke -- Bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten sparen: GMX SmartSurfer! Kostenlos downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer
andreas.hanke@gmx-topmail.de wrote:
This problem might disappear after running
rpm --rebuilddb
if you're lucky. Thanks .. I deleted everything down to the bare metal, then re-added the DVD and (forget which order) did the --rebuilddb. I am back in business again (for now anyway).
You might want to try these load-balancers instead of specifying real mirrors:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1 (regular inst_source) http://download.suse.com/update/10.1 (patches and updates)
They will redirect you to a good mirror, if everything works as it should. I'll give it a try, but at the moment the first link gives a "403 Forbidden" error while the second works fine. Maybe later.
- Bruce
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:14:54PM -0400, Bruce A. Mallett wrote:
My mistake perhaps, but I added a repository to the sources list and now I get a signature check every time I open the software manager.
Fortunately it offers me a "Do not show this message again" check box. - Unfortunately it ignores it and continues to show me that message again each time I run it.
To fix this I disabled all but the original installation DVD using "Installation Source". - But I still get the Signature check message anyway. Along with the "Do not show this message again" option. :)
Anyway, to the point: I'm running "Software Management" because I want to install something. Perhaps as reward for doing all of the above (maybe not), I now get the following in response to trying to add an RPM in "Software Management":
--- error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found
You rpm database is corrupted. run: rpm --rebuilddb once. Ciao, Marcus
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 05:14, Bruce A. Mallett wrote:
To fix this I disabled all but the original installation DVD using "Installation Source". - But I still get the Signature check message anyway. Along with the "Do not show this message again" option. :)
Things broken for me: - Installation source handling produces obscure errors every time - Zen-installer tries to install BOTH i586 and x86-64 packages at the same time and thus fails resolving dependencies. On the package selection list it does not bother to tell which package is for which architecture; all packages are listed 3 times. -- // Janne
Janne Karhunen
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 05:14, Bruce A. Mallett wrote:
To fix this I disabled all but the original installation DVD using "Installation Source". - But I still get the Signature check message anyway. Along with the "Do not show this message again" option. :)
Things broken for me: - Installation source handling produces obscure errors every time
Please use my test packages on ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/.... If it still fails, open a bugreport.
- Zen-installer tries to install BOTH i586 and x86-64 packages at the same time and thus fails resolving dependencies. On the package selection list it does not bother to tell which package is for which architecture; all packages are listed 3 times.
Please open a bugreport on bugzilla.novell.com and CC me as aj@novell.com on this one. Please add the /var/log/zmd*.log to the bugreport, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
On Friday 26 May 2006 09:55, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Things broken for me: - Installation source handling produces obscure errors every time
Please use my test packages on ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/.... If it still fails, open a bugreport.
Works now, sort of. No errors reported and restarting 'installation source' module is now fast. However, Zen-installer for one does not see any changes done :/
- Zen-installer tries to install BOTH i586 and x86-64 packages at the same time and thus fails resolving dependencies. On the package selection list it does not bother to tell which package is for which architecture; all packages are listed 3 times.
Please open a bugreport on bugzilla.novell.com and CC me as aj@novell.com on this one. Please add the /var/log/zmd*.log to the bugreport,
OK. Now it at least shows the architecture, but manually clicking through the list is rather painful :/ -- // Janne
Janne Karhunen
On Friday 26 May 2006 09:55, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Things broken for me: - Installation source handling produces obscure errors every time
Please use my test packages on ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/.... If it still fails, open a bugreport.
Works now, sort of. No errors reported and restarting 'installation source' module is now fast. However, Zen-installer for one does not see any changes done :/
There's an open bugreport for this, I'd like to see this solved before I make the fixes official.
- Zen-installer tries to install BOTH i586 and x86-64 packages at the same time and thus fails resolving dependencies. On the package selection list it does not bother to tell which package is for which architecture; all packages are listed 3 times.
Please open a bugreport on bugzilla.novell.com and CC me as aj@novell.com on this one. Please add the /var/log/zmd*.log to the bugreport,
OK. Now it at least shows the architecture, but manually clicking through the list is rather painful :/
Which bugreport is this? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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