All, I took my trusty laptop to about 10,500 ft (in Co.), and upon return, it booted fine, I went to use yast -> network to change the wifi connection and was prompted that wpa_supplicant, etc.. were not installed -- HUH? This is an old 11.4 box, wpa_supplicant and the rest have been installed for years. So to check, I did the old 'rpm -q wpa_supplicant' and got: error: no dbpath has been set error: cannot open Packages database in /%{_dbpath} error: no dbpath has been set error: cannot open Packages database in /%{_dbpath} Decided to reboot and watch the startup as this didn't make any sense... fsck.ext3 on /dev/sda6 '/' failed and through me into recovery mode. So, in recovery mode: fsck -y /dev/sda6 Churns away for a minute or two and finds ..... blah.blah duplicate/unused inode for file.xyz delete? yes <snip> about 15 more Then fsck completes all remaining checks normally. (reboot) Open kde3, konsole, "su" "yast2 --qt" -> network settings -> same problem, yast doesn't see wpa_supplicant installed --> crud! So, 15:26 alchemy:~> rpm -qa error: no dbpath has been set error: cannot open Packages database in /%{_dbpath} error: no dbpath has been set error: cannot open Packages database in /%{_dbpath} Ok, so apparently rpm lost a link/file that sets the dbpath so rpm doesn't know what is installed and can't find it's cache. How do I fix this? I haven't messed with the actual dbpath for rpm before -- where is it set and to what? Any help appreciated. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org