On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:09 +0200, Uwe Galle wrote:
I already posted a problem caused by mandatory updates, perhaps in conjunction with a specific system configuration of my computer. Now I see that the control center cannot start. Altogether I am missing two executables: - gnome-control-center and - gnome-settings-daemon
Thanks to search.rpmseek.com I know that these files belong to several packages. But openSUSE 10.3 provides only one of these: control-center2.
The package was renamed in 11.0.
Surprisingly this package is displayed as to be not installed although gnome-control-center and gnome-settings-daemon always worked until yesterday. I don't know of another openSUSE-package what contains these files.
Unfortunately YaST rejects the installation of this package because it requires "libxklavier >= 3.5" for "libxklavier12-3.5-3.1.i586". In my understanding this should be a bug because no already installed package can be dependent from a new package and prevent it from being installed. Even if a new package requires a second version of an already installed package rpm should ensure that these two versions can coexist.
Then I guessed that the rpm database is perhaps damaged and started an rpm --rebuilddb. Answer: Can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/..db.00 (even after reboot!). But other programs I have installed and removed after the error, so there cannot be a general problem wit the rpm DB! It's a nightmare.
I am desperately looking for a way to install "control center2". BTW, is it possible to use rpm with rpm-files in the openSUSE repositories? Until now I used rpm only with single downloaded files. I would prefer to have access to the repositories what are also available for YaST.
Are you on 10.3 or 11.0?
-JP
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JP Rosevear