Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4656 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 12:39 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
> On Sat January 27 2007 12:28, Robert Lewis wrote:
> > This morning when I got up the orb was missing in the panel.
> > I then looked with YaST to see if my installaton sources were
> > still intact and they were.
> >
> > A reboot brought the orb back.
> >
> > When I click on it a popup appears and says that
> > zmd is not running.  Hovering over it says there are
> > no software updates available.
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> This happened to me in the last day or so, I /think/ because an update to the 
> updater system was applied the night before. I got it working again, as 
> follows:
> 
> -> right-clicked the "orb" and quit it
> -> opened a shell and su'd to root
> -> ran an 'rczmd status' (returned "dead")
> -> ran 'rczmd restart'
> -> ran an 'rczmd status' (returned "running")
> -> launched the "orb" again from the menu via "System > Configuration > Update 
> Software"
> 
> I think I had to repeat this sequence twice, for unknown reasons, for it 
> to 'stick' in running mode.
> 
> hth & regards,

  So do I Carl.  I've got the same prob in my new 10.2 install.  I did
the last set of updates and ZMD seems not to be running.  There are
still a few gotcha's in ZMD it seems.

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