OK, I have systems running SLES 8 on Arima, 2x246, 8gig, LSI SCSI Raid 01. The description fields of the packages you mention are well populated ( too many lines to include here). My problem is that when I do an update with Yast (either on-line or with the SP 3 CDs), I can no longer boot the system. I am talking 10+ update attempts and the total exhaustion of SuSE support's suggestions so unless you have solved this before, I have probabaly already tried it. I was successful in one instance (which later reverted to absolute failure to boot) by adding acpi=oldboot to the failsafe selection, then succeeding by adding acpi=oldboot and maxcpus=0 to the linux selection. Of course, this meant I was running on only one processor. Oddly, when I checked for the "updates" I thought I should of had (kernel, initrd, JAVA, etc.), the System packages but none of the application packages had been updated. In short, I think the SuSE update process fails silently. This is very, very serious. My principal reason for using SuSE vs something like Gentoo is to free me from having to maintain systems up-to-date. In the time I have wasted trying to get this system to behave, I could have contributed something useful to the community. The bottom line is that on this system SLES 8 as is will not run the required applications and updating via the SuSE process fails as well as rendering the system unusable. I am waiting for SLES 9 with bated breath. If it has update problems, Gentoo will have a half dozen new supporters. Do not misunderstand me, SuSE is the best of the commercial distributions and I will probably always run a copy on one of my personal machines, but my company cannot afford, from either a monitary or credibility standpoint, to deploy a product that does not perform. |---------+----------------------------> | | Sergei Klink | | | | | | | | | 04/12/04 10:56 PM| | | Please respond to| | | sklink | | | | |---------+---------------------------->

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On April 12, 2004 11:30 pm, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

Sergei Klink writes:

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No, no, no - that's what I'm trying to tell, not very effectively, apparently :) There's nothing wrong with standard SuSE's i386 packages. But on x86_64 this occurred with YaST, _before_ I tried apt. I've just checked with rpm -q --info - there's nothing in the description field of the packages mentioned above.

That's strange indeed. My own system was done with the 9.0/AMD64 DVD and I see those...

Just out of curiosity, what exactly do you see for the description field in those packages? (See attached file: attkiy5q.dat)