At 03:36:34 on Friday Friday 01 May 2009, "Rajko M." <rmatov101@charter.net> wrote:
On Thursday 30 April 2009 08:03:31 am Stan Goodman wrote:
If still nothing can be deducted disable all online repositories, drop
DVD in the drive, install Wireshark, run it and then try to update. Output is verbose, but there is no chance not to find out what is going wrong.
I have disabled all the repositories and installed Wireshark. I then called it to bring up its UI, but did nothing within it, because I am not clear what I should do.
Hovering over first few icons from left to right will give you tooltips popups that should be clear enough what that icons do. I use one that offer available interfaces, and choose eth0 from selection, and then Start. Following capture is running on that interface only.
Done. I will attach two captures, explained below.
With the program running, I clicked on the updates icon (which has changed since yesterday from being an orange triangle to being a dark square with a white downward-pointing arrow in its center). This brings up a dialog box telling me that I have two optional updates waiting (only two?); it has the expected "Install" button for confirmation, but it is greyed out, so there is nothing to click. Meantime, nothing has happened either in the Wireshark window or in the terminal from which I called it.
What I did forget to tell that disabling online repositories is just temporary measure to enable Wireshark installation without wading trough error messages. After Wireshark is installed you should turn them again on. Sorry for confusion.
No confusion. I restored them at once, and also added Packman. Attached ("NewSW.log") is the first log I made. After starting the capture, I clicked the new "black rectangle w/white down-arrow", which caused a dialog box telling me that new optional software is available, and asking to "Install"; but the Install button is greyed, and therefore ineffective. I note that this notice was for one single optional file, whereas past notices were for two, showing me that failed upgrades are being lost to me, not merely deferred. The second attachment ("YaSTSW.log") is for an attempt to reinstall XMMS with YaST (which is why I added the Packman repository). YaST went through its usual stages, telling me what it was going to install, etc, and crashed only at the end. YaST now tells me that XMMS is installed, but I think that is incorrect, as calling XMMS from a CLI does nothing. But the apparent failure has restored the XMMS icon that I kept on a second panel on my screen. I hope I have done properly what you asked, and have supplied some hints for going further. No-flame disclaimer: I've seen some complaints on the forum deploring the use of attachments here. The two files I have attached are not text files; I see no way to convey them other than as attachments. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel