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[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Ken Jennings <ken_jennings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Saturday 2007-08-04 01:36, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> "Kai Ponte" <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > I was just trying to do a few things on my laptop (centrino duo
>> > 2GHz/2GB RAM/160G 7200RPM HDD) and noticed things were running really
>> > slow. . . .
>> > The process was zmd update-status.  What's that?  I googled it,
>> > thinking it might be the cursed Zen Updater, but I know I removed
>> > zmd-daemon.
>>
>> Are you sure you removed the package zmd?  If you did, then the helper
>> should not run at all since it's only called from zmd.
>>
>> > I wonder if it could be this?
>> >
>> > http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/ZMD/ZMD7.1/helpers/update-status
>> >
>> > What could this be and how do I get rid of it?
>>
>> Did you remove the complete zmd pattern in YaST?  The helpers are in the
>> package libzypp-zmd-backend - and those are only called from zmd itself.
>
> Cool! I didn't know this zyp/zmd thing wasn't necessary, so every time I 
> logged on  I've been living with this annoying crash dialog filled with a 
> mile of java-esque blather describing something in zmd not running.
>
> I removed everything that said zmd in the name and now life is good again.

There are two software management patterns in the dialog - you can
choose either of it,

Andreas
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