Dave, On Tuesday 14 December 2004 08:05, Dave Howorth wrote:
Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
I tried to use YaST yesterday to find out whether I had some package installed and discovered that 'Install and Remove
You may have a situation I see often. A 'pop-up' dialog box has "popped-UNDER" other windows, waiting for input, but unseen. Look around, see if there is an unsatisfied request for input. Move or minimimize the windows you can see to find out. This hits me several times a day.
I know of no way to change or fix this; you just have to remember to look around. I have given feedback to SUSE.
Hi Peter,
Thanks for this idea. I only had some shells open as far as I could see, but given your suggestion of something weird unseen, and my earlier amusement at 'the program is not responding' message, I decide to adopt the same tactics I would with an MS box. I rebooted.
Keep in mind that not all windows show up in the taskbar. The most reliable way to see an obscured window is to shade other windows that may cover it (by double-clicking the title bar).
Now it works :)
Who knows why!
I have occassionally experienced a similar symptom in which the Install and Remove window never appears. I don't know the precise details, but I've been able to ascertain that the process is hung in a high-priority (uninterruptable) kernel wait. Because the wait is high-priority, the process cannot be killed. Whatever has gone wrong, it appears to persist until the system is rebooted. Since high-priority waits are supposed to be short term, one might hypothesize a bug in the kernel or a disk or file-system driver.
Thanks again, Dave
Randall Schulz