a strange thing happened today: trying to update all newer packages via YAST, the software manager, after solving all dependency problems, started to download for a second, then exited w/o error. "zypper up" brought up a new agreement form for an oS 11.4 licence, then segfaulted. no help in zypper.log or y2log, but /var/log/messages had this to say: ----------- Dec 9 11:29:12 phani kernel: [ 3610.153426] zypper[17239] general protection ip:7f953c30ca6f sp:7fff67f49d50 error:0 in libcurl.so.4.2.0[7f953c2e2000+5a000] ----------- i re-tried several times, after successfully running "zypper ref -f" and "rpmdb --rebuilddb", with the same result: segfault. finally i thought there might be something wrong with one of the factory repos, so i disabled OSS & non-OSS, after which both zypper up & yast updated their new packages w/o problem. next thing i enabled OSS and then non-OSS again, and no further error happened. updates from OSS included rpm and rpm-python, but since there have not been any changes to the rpm system prior to the error, i don't think that's relevant. in any case, things are working ok for me again; i'm just wondering what did happen, and if it happened to other factory users as well? for now i'm assuming it was a temporary glitch while the repos were being updated. -- phani. system info: ----------- Processor (CPU): Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz Speed: 3,600.00 MHz Cores: 2 Total memory (RAM): 3.1 GiB Free memory: 22.1 MiB (+ 1.7 GiB Caches) Free swap: 8.5 GiB OS: Linux 2.6.37-rc4-13-desktop x86_64 Current user: phani@phani System: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 4 of 6 (x86_64) (updated from /factory/repo) KDE: 4.5.80 (4.6 Beta1) Vendor: nVidia Corporation Model: GeForce 9400 GT 2D driver: nvidia 3D driver: NVIDIA 260.19.26 ----------- repos: ----------- phani:/home/phani # zypper lr -d # | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service ---+----------------------------+----------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------- 1 | KDE-extra | KDE-extra | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Factory/ | 2 | Kernel-HEAD | Kernel-HEAD | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/ | 3 | XOrg | XOrg | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_Factory/ | 4 | dev-lang-python | dev-lang-python | No | No | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_... | 5 | factory-OSS | factory-OSS | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ | 6 | factory-SRC-OSS | factory-SRC-OSS | No | No | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/src-oss/ | 7 | factory-SRC-non-OSS | factory-SRC-non-OSS | No | No | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/src-non-oss/ | 8 | factory-debug | factory-debug | No | No | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/debug/ | 9 | factory-non-OSS | factory-non-OSS | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/ | 10 | factory-tested_OSS | factory-tested_OSS | No | No | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/factory-tested/repo/oss | 11 | factory-tested_SRC | factory-tested_SRC | No | No | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/factory-tested/repo/source | 12 | factory-tested_SRC-non-OSS | factory-tested_SRC-non-OSS | No | No | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/factory-tested/repo/source-non-oss | 13 | factory-tested_debug | factory-tested_debug | No | No | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/factory-tested/repo/debug | 14 | factory-tested_non-OSS | factory-tested_non-OSS | No | No | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/factory-tested/repo/non-oss | 15 | games | games | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Factory/ | 16 | google-chrome | google-chrome | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 | 17 | mozilla-beta | mozilla-beta | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla:/beta/SUSE_Factory/ | 18 | openSUSE_Factory | education | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/openSUSE_Factory/ | 19 | packman-DE | packman-DE | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://mirror.geht-schon.de/packman.links2linux.de/suse/factory/ | 20 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss | No | No | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss/ | 21 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Oss | No | No | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/ | 22 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.4-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/ | 23 | skype | skype | No | No | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Lord_LT/openSUSE_Factory/ | 24 | video-lan | video-lan | Yes | Yes | 110 | rpm-md | http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/Factory/ | 25 | window_managers | window managers | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/windowmanagers/openSUSE_Facto... | 26 | xfce | xfce | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_Factory/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org