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[opensuse] zypper refuses to update some software
by j.e.perry＠cox.net 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

I switched from zypper dup to sypper up a few months ago, and lately I've been getting a long list of packages that won't be updated. Some of them have been in this message for weeks (I update a couple of times a week), and look pretty important to me. THe update I just did, for instance: The following package updates will NOT be installed: NetworkManager-kde4-libs NetworkManager-kde4-libs-lang NetworkManager-openvpn-kde4 NetworkManager-pptp-kde4 NetworkManager-vpnc-kde4 amarok bluedevil choqok cln clucene-core-devel digikam digikam-lang ffmpeg gstreamer-0_10 gstreamer-0_10-plugin-gnomevfs gstreamer-0_10-plugin-hal gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-lang k3b k3b-codecs kaffeine kde4-printer-applet kdeadmin4 kdeartwork4-desktopthemes kdeartwork4-emoticons kdeartwork4-icons kdeartwork4-sounds kdeartwork4-wallpapers kdebase4-runtime-xine kdebase4-wallpapers kdetoys4 kdeutils4 kdewebdev4 kipi-plugins kipi-plugins-acquireimage ksshaskpass ktorrent ktorrent-lang libavcodec52 libavdevice52 libavfilter1 libavformat52 libavutil50 libblas3 libbluedevil1 libgstapp-0_10-0 libgstinterfaces-0_10-0 libgstreamer-0_10-0 libindi0 libktorrent3 libktorrent3-lang liblapack3 liblash1 libpostproc51 libshout3 libswscale0 libtag-extras1 libva1 libvpx0 libwavpack1 libxine1 libxine1-gnome-vfs libxine1-pulse libxvidcore4 linphone mjpegtools mobile-broadband-provider-info oxygen-gtk python-numpy qt4-qtscript-doc qtcurve-kde4 shared-desktop-ontologies shared-desktop-ontologies-devel skanlite smb4k smb4k-lang sox taglib The following packages are going to be upgraded: libzypp python-satsolver satsolver-tools zypper The repositories: embelex:~ # zypper up Retrieving repository 'openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Extra' metadata [done] Building repository 'openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Extra' cache [done] Retrieving repository 'openSUSE BuildService - KDE:UpdatedApps' metadata [done] Building repository 'openSUSE BuildService - KDE:UpdatedApps' cache [done] Retrieving repository 'Main Repository (Contrib)' metadata [done] Building repository 'Main Repository (Contrib)' cache [done] Retrieving repository 'Packman Repository' metadata [done] Building repository 'Packman Repository' cache [done] Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-11.4-Update' metadata [done] Building repository 'openSUSE-11.4-Update' cache [done] Retrieving repository 'science' metadata [done] Building repository 'science' cache [done] Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Am I missing something? Is my database corrupt? Is everything ok? There is a long list of kde modules, for instance, that has been in the "no update" list forever. Seems to me kde should be moving along, but I can't remember a kde update at all recently -- that's prompted this message. Do I need to fix something? What? john perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: zypper refuses to update some software
by Joachim Schrod 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 09:46:32PM -0400, j.e.perry(a)cox.net wrote: >> I switched from zypper dup to sypper up a few months ago, and lately >> I've been getting a long list of packages that won't be updated. Some >> of them have been in this message for weeks (I update a couple of times >> a week), and look pretty important to me. THe update I just did, for >> instance: >> >> The following package updates will NOT be installed: >> NetworkManager-kde4-libs NetworkManager-kde4-libs-lang >> NetworkManager-openvpn-kde4 NetworkManager-pptp-kde4 [more packages discarded] >> >> The following packages are going to be upgraded: >> libzypp python-satsolver satsolver-tools zypper >> >> Am I missing something? Is my database corrupt? Is everything ok? There >> is a long list of kde modules, for instance, that has been in the "no >> update" list forever. >> >> Do I need to fix something? What? > > It looks like it wants to install the update stack patch first. > After you have done it, the rest will also be installable. > > zypper patch // first run will install update stack update (new zypper/libzypp) > zypper patch // second run will install the rest updates Markus, are you sure? I have such a really long list during zypper update as well. I checked almost every packet in that "will NOT be installed" list; these are all packages from other OBS repositories or packman where I deliberately did not switch to them, but use the original package from 11.4 resp. 11.4 update repository. E.g., I use the repository openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_11.4/ to get OBS. It has a more current apache2 than the one in the 11.4 update repository. So, with each zypper up I get told that a whole bunch of apache2 packages will not get installed. Well, I know that: After all I decided that I won't switch wholeheartedly to openSUSE-Tools, but use that repo just for obs and not for apache2 and haveged. Packman is similar; I want it only for audio/video and not for the rest of packages that they provide. What I would really like to have: A zypper or zypp.conf option "don't list non-updateable packages caused by irrelevant vendor changes" in the "will NOT be installed" list at zypper update. Irrelevant here means: The package would change vendor and all its dependencies could be installed. Then the admin probably didn't install it by choice. As a further example, a relevant change that should be still listed: A package cannot be updated because one of its dependencies would have to change vendor to do the update. That's of interest, since here admin actions are probably needed. Currently, I have to do the dependency analysis to distinguish these two cases myself, and also haven't yet found good tools in the zypper framework that tells me concisely "why could something not be installed". Just some thoughts, no call for action, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] tumbleweed dup wants to downgrade packages
by Sunny 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hi, I have been using Tumbleweed for months now, but I haven't updated in the last few weeks. Today, after zypper ref, zypper dup --from Tumbleweed, besides all the packages which need upgrade, and few changing vendor to Tumbleweed, 89 were marked for downgrade??? It shows 143 packages to upgrade. at the same time zypper up shows 168 packages to upgrade - much more than tumbleweed. Is this normal? -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-kde] KMail2, email vanished.
by ianseeks 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

On Thursday 04 Aug 2011 15:27:44 Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > On my KMail2 I received an email which after I read it just vanished. Went > with midnight commander to the folder and found that the email had an > different naming than everything else. It starts with { and ends with }. > I have renamed it with something more similar to everything else and now the > email is there again. The original email was named: > {8fa605a2-f331-4858-892a-c420df7d6b9d} > This is something I really dislike. I am not yet able to reproduce the > original email. Otherwise I would send this email to interested parties and > find out whether the symptom can be repeated. > > The email was sent from an yahoo account. Is this is not just a simple change of view? I usually change my view setting to show unread only and as i read them they disappear from view (unlike kmai1 where they stayed in view). They reappear when i change staus back to "Any Status" Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] NVidia repo no longer "community repo"?
by Carlos Frederico Lange 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I just looked for the NVidia driver repo, which used to be listed in YaST/Software Repositories among the Community Repositories, but it does no longer show up. Is it deprecated? -- Carlos F Lange -- Recursive: Adj. See Recursive. -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Prblem with 'recently used'
by Anton Aylward 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I'm running KDE4.7 out of Factory but this was in 4.6 as well If I start a program from the kickoff menu it appears afterwards in the 'recently used', But only for that session. If I log off and back on, the items from the previous session are gone. What's there is a collection from back when.... Oh, and its only the programs. The recently used documents part works fine. I'm resuming that this is maintained in memory for the session and written to disk on log off. But that doesn't seem to happen. What am I missing here? /a -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] total system crash
by george olson 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hello, I have a new hard drive that I just put on an old pc. I am experimenting around with things, and this is the sequence of what has happened. - first, I installed suse 11.4 and ran it ok for a few days. Had some problems with the monitor and networking. - I installed windows xp in place of suse 11.4, over-writing the hard drive with windows xp files. I needed to check some things. - I reinstalled suse 11.4 and again it ran ok once. On the install I wiped over completely all the windows xp files (using the suse installation utility) - the next day I brought my computer to a tech store to purchase a new motherboard. Before the purchase, we turned it on to boot up to suse 11.4 from the hard drive, and it would not boot up. It said "error loading boot system" or something like that. It did not make it anywhere even near loading anything from the hard drive, as if the hard drive failed. This was only the 2nd time that I powered up the pc after re-installing suse 11.4. - I installed the new motherboard (to get more memory) and again tried to boot from the hard drive, and it would not boot from the hard drive - I booted from the cd and went to re-install suse completely again. It ran through the whole setup sequence and did not indicate any errors. I did a complete re-install from the beginning. It performed the initial re-boot as part of the install sequence and brought up KDE. There was a problem with my video driver or something, as my screen only showed a series of horizontal lines of alternating green white and black colors. There was nothing readable. - I did a ctrl-alt-f2 and brought up the terminal window, but I didn't really know what to do from there because I am not really familiar with the commands. At this point I thought my only problem was the video driver. - I powered off the pc. - later I tried to boot up again, and again I got the same error as before "error loading boot system" and it did not get close to loading linux at all. That is the way it is now when I try to boot up from the hard drive. - I put in the install disk again and went to "rescue system". I typed in "root" as the login with a blank password, and got a terminal command. That is where I am now. I can get into the rescue system but not much else. I can't imagine that my hard drive has failed, as it is only 1 week old. I think that when I installed windows xp on it, microsoft did something to prevent me from installing another system over the top of xp, and now I can't access anything. I remember on the setup having 3 partitions, as swap, a root, and a home. I had the max size on all 3, I think they were 2gb, 20gb, and 465gb or something like that. I have a 500gb drive. So, can someone help me first of all to get my directories back? I only know enough to get into the rescue system. I don't know the commands to use from the rescue system, or what to do from there. If I need to provide any more information, please tell me what commands I need to use to find it out. Thanks in advance! George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Kmai2 etc etc
by ianseeks 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi all mmmm kmail2 is proving fun (or not). Anyone know the resolutions to these ? 1. Always having to enter a password for Ankonadi Resource to access kwallet. (every time i log in) 2. When trying to post an email to this mailing list via kmail2 "Message/Mailing List/Post new message" launches my browser to compose/send the email instead of kmail2? regards Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] local parallel oprinter in openSUSE 11.4
by Istvan Gabor 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hello: I would like to configure my kyocera parallel printer in YaST, openSUSE 11.4. If I go to Harwdware>Printer in YaST the "Printer Configurations" window opens but it only says: "There is no print queue." If I click "Add" the "Add New Printer Configuration" window opens which says: "No connections. Try 'Detect More' or use the 'Connection Wizard'." Detect more does not find anything. Clicking 'Connection Wizard' opens 'Connection Wizard' window. Under "Directly connected device>Parallel port" nothing is listed. What can I do with this? openSUSE 11.2 could find an configure the printer perfectly right away on the very same hardware. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] monitor and video card not working
by george olson 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

I will try sending this again with a subject line that is a little more descriptive: Hi all, Ok next problem. I have a new motherboard that the manual says it uses "Integrated programmable Shader model 3.0 DirectX 9 graphics processor" My screen looks just like a series of green, black, and white horizontal lines. There is nothing remotely decipherable about it. I verified the problem is not the monitor itself by plugging in a different monitor which I am using on another system and I got the same screen - lots of horizontal lines. I ran the lspci command and here are the results: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025/nForce 630n] (rev a2) I used midnight commander to view the /var/log/xorg.0.log file. It is a really long file. I managed to figure out how to mount a usb drive and copy the file into that so that I could bring the file over here to my laptop and email it. I will paste a copy of it in my first reply. So, where do I go from here? If I can get the video card working, then I can set up thunderbird and email from that computer, instead of hand copying everything here on my laptop, and then troubleshooting will be easier. George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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