On Tuesday 28 December 2010 23:13:01 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Stan Goodman
[12-28-10 15:58]: lots of *mis*understanding here.
That's what I thought too. The reinstallation is finished now, after an hour and a half plus, and I was told that some programs haven't been restarted because they depended on files that have been deleted. I was advised to run zypper -ps.
the command is "zypper ps" and it is to show programs that *need* to be restarted because the files they depend on where deleted and/or replaced. Dropping to runlevel 3 should clear *most* of them. The others need to be "kill -HUP <process-id>" or failing that, "kill -9 <process-id>". Then return to runlevel 5.
I was already at run level 3. In the meanwhile, I rebooted to level 5, and found a desktop that looks normal except for the absence of a panel and the immobility of the mouse cursor. Now, having seen your message, I booted to level 3, ran zypper ps again, and found the happy news that there are no files that depended on deleted files, so all has now been cleaned.
or, you could restart your system.
Then I rebooted to level 5 again, which is where it is now. The desktop is incomplete, missing the Desktop Folder window, but the panel is present. The chameleon is still there, as is the progress gauge under it, which seems to be fully extended. The mouse cursor, after several boots, is still frozen.
That produced a file of nearly 30KB, containing a list of what appear to be library files; I was able to save this file, but not to copy it to another machine through NFS, so I can't exhibit it here.
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