This message addressed specifically at Carl Hartung but anyone who knows the answer to my question is most welcome to respond. Carl, On 15 May in a response to a msg from Erik Jakobsen you wrote (you were quoting from what you had written in the suse-kde mailing list): QUOTE When I first installed SUSE 10.1, I had problems with the new 'online update' system loading down my system and being very uninformative (i.e. cryptic.) After reading a couple of posts on SLE, I uninstalled the following packages: suseRegister rug zen-updater zmd libzypp-zmd-backend (maybe I kept this one due to dependencies?) Then I added the following installation sources in YaST: Base system: http://{mirror}/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source http://{mirror}/distribution/SL-10.1/non-oss-inst-source The "unofficial" supplementary KDE 3.5.2 'level a' upgrade: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.1/yast-source [etc] UNQUOTE I am having no luck in doing any updates with the "fix" which Andreas has asked people to test; I cannot do any updates. In the part of your msg I quote above you state that you deleted the 5 (or 4) of the new applications associated with zmd and, after adding the sources you also mention, you updated your system. (You then re-installed zmd etc and zmd etc worked.) My question is: if by deleting the suseRegister etc but NOT re-installing the zmd associated applications would this "reactivate" the YOU updating process - as it was in earlier versions of SuSE - and one could then use YOU and have nothing to do with the broken zmd updating problem? Cheers. -- Indecision is the key to flexibility. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com