To add quick observations after updating the update stack posted by Andreas. 1. The Yast2 online updater hanged while trying to download the updated packages (it stopped downloading one of the packages mid-way and just sat there for a while.) Killed the process, downloaded and installed the packages manually. 2. After update, now the "Installation Source" panel shows all catalogs I test added before via rug, they did not show with the previous update stack. 3. Updating the causes one of the cpu cores to be used close to 100% by an "update-status" process. It completed in about 4 minutes. I've 4 online catalogs and one local. 4. Loading the "Software Management" panel takes a couple of minutes and uses up to close to 100% cpu. 5. The installer now notifies of automatically selected packages for installation. 6. When you select the "changelog" of a package, it is not clear which one you are looking at, if there is a new version available, the installed one or the available one. Also, sometimes it takes a significant amount of time to load the changelog into the GUI. Try to load the changelog for the kernel-source package. That's it for now. -- Rafael