Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1185 mails)

[Linda Walsh <suse@xxxxxxxxx>]

I found the beginnings of the problem.

Does this make sense?

Ishtar:/suse11.2> sudo zypper in xorg-x11-libx11
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'xorg-x11-libX11' is already installed.
Resolving package dependencies...

Nothing to do.
Ishtar:/suse11.2> rpm -V xorg-x11-libx11        
package xorg-x11-libx11 is not installed
Ishtar:/suse11.2> rpm -q xorg-x11-libx11
package xorg-x11-libx11 is not installed

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If zypper says the package is installed, shouldn't rpm also
notice that it is installed?

This might explain why I can have missing files/packages as
I tried to upgrade from 11.1>11.2 using zypper.  

(  Boy was that ever a disaster -- a week of downtime just to get 
  bootable again!  Pray you never have problems with grub.  It gets
  real flakey in handling file systems -- doing reads/writes from disk
  while the file system is still mounted!    After many headaches,
  I moved back to lilo -- itself a feat, due to changes in the boot
  process that seemed to presume grub and a ram disk.  Now I'm back 
  to ~20 second boots from loading to login prompt, down from ~35-45
  with grub and ramdisk
).

Anyway...apparently zypper didn't install some things or it
thought it did and they didn't get fully there (as noted by rpm
not seeing them). I suspect zypper and rpm pck lists *should*
be the same....

I don't see an option to zypper to syncrhonize it with rpm or
for it to verify packages on disk.  Anyone know how to get it
to do either?

thanks...
(on the hunt of another obscure config problem...
linda

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