Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2315 mails)

[JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Novell, Inc.

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