On 05/13/2010 04:22 AM, Jon Clausen wrote:
On Wed, 12 May, 2010 at 16:27:22 -0400, John E. Perry wrote: ...
I was reading over the rest of your message, and trying to work up the courage to go through this scary process, when
Not much to be scared of, really ;)
:-) -- Says you! Back up everything. Create a temporary directory Download individual rpms ... True, it all looks pretty safe, and I'm sure it is for you. But I've followed directions I thought I understood before and run into trouble. And as I said, I was working through it to be sure I really understood the instructions before starting when Tony's suggestion arrived.
... Just:
rpm -q zypper
I get: jon@nx8220:~> rpm -q zypper zypper-1.3.4-0.1.3.i586
embelex:/usr/lib # rpm -q zypper zypper-1.3.4-0.1.3.i586 So it appears I'm up to date. In fact, looking back through zypper's command-line log, I find the fourth package is ----------------- Retrieving package zypper-1.3.4-0.1.3.i586 (4/31), 859.0 KiB (3.6 MiB unpacked) Retrieving delta: ./rpm/i586/zypper-1.2.8_1.3.4-0.1.3.i586.delta.rpm, 532.0 KiB Retrieving: zypper-1.2.8_1.3.4-0.1.3.i586.delta.rpm [done (93.3 KiB/s)] Applying delta: ./zypper-1.2.8_1.3.4-0.1.3.i586.delta.rpm [done] Installing: zypper-1.3.4-0.1.3 [done] Additional rpm output: Starting SuSEconfig, the SuSE Configuration Tool... Running module permissions only Reading /etc/sysconfig and updating the system... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.permissions... Checking permissions and ownerships - using the permissions files /etc/permissions /etc/permissions.easy /etc/permissions.d/mail-server /etc/permissions.d/postfix /etc/permissions.local setting /usr/sbin/zypp-refresh-wrapper to root:root 4755. (wrong permissions 0755) Finished. ---------------------------------------- ...followed by several packages of yast. (Had to edit out a LOT of trailing spaces to get most of the lines together! Why do zypper and rpm do that?) So it appears Tony's trick was enough to get zypper back in good shape, and my system back up to date. Thanks very much! Not only is my system fixed, but I've learned some neat stuff. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org