On Monday 18 September 2006 00:28, William Gallafent wrote:
On Saturday 16 September 2006 22:41, John Andersen wrote:
WTF?
Try my usual technique, which is to stop zmd with 'rczmd stop', remove /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db (I think) (move it somewhere rather than just deleting it completely, in case you want to restore it ...), then restart zmd. The database is then rebuilt (you might need your installation media present at this point), and the updater starts working again.
Reporting back (for the archives if nothing else), I backed up the data in both the /var/lib/zmd directory and the /var/lib/zypp directory and nuked all files, leaving only the two directories themselves. Next I went into yast and set up install sources again. I was careful to set up one for Suse itself and one for KDE so that I can run the latest stuff. I'll get brave and add Packman later. Lo and behold my zen-updater no longer abends. What's more, after a refresh, it even found patches that were needed. Furthermore my zmd.db is half the size it was before, and poking around in it (very carefully) shows that none of the old repositories are in there any more. So, thanks William, it appears the operation was a success. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen