On Wednesday, 2009-12-23 at 18:14 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
After my last zypper update I got the message that several running
This has been known for ages, but it is now that zypper includes a tool to see them. Previously I used "lsof -n | grep -E 'RPMDELETE|;|path inode='" to detect them.
Did Yast have an own solution or is it zypper specific?
AFAIK, only zypper does it. However, you can run "zypper ps" after yast, it works fine.
After leaving KDE with Ctrl Alt Backspace
That's a bit harsh. Simply log out.
zypper ps The following running processes use deleted files:
PID | PPID | UID | Login | Command | Service | Files ------+------+-----+-------+---------+---------+--------------------------- 1090 1 0 root kdm /usr/bin/kdm (deleted) /usr/bin/kdm (deleted)
For this one you need to log out (yes, again), then switch to a text console, log in as root, do "init 3"; rerun "zypper ps" to make sure, and then "init 5" and login.
Don't kill that PID, that could make your system not to work. In general, the procedure is to restart the affected daemons. In this case, ignore it (IMHO).
Dear Carlos, Did a reboot and zypper ps is happy. So in my case I came clean. So, as a matter of fact, everybody who updates should check for deleted files and should in many cases reboot. The argument which is sometimes used is wrong that we linuxers, are better of that Window users, who have to reboot after every update ;(. And big uptimes are for servers who avoid updates :) -- Linux User 183145 using a Pentium III , powered by openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop KDE: 4.3.4 (KDE 4.3.4) "release 2" 21:37pm up 0:20, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.25, 0.45 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org