Hiya! My laptop crashed in the middle of running an online update (Suse 10.1). Now i can't start X11 (the X11 base package was being updated when it crashed), and when i try to reinstall X or do an online update (via the console yast) almost all packages fail with an error saying i must "rebuild the database". But... what database? How? i'm assuming it's an rpm db, but... WTF??? A useless error message. Of course, i can't paste in the complete output from the error because it's on my laptop console. And the kicker is, i can't abort the installation because the "Abort" hotkey (alt-r) doesn't work/respond. So i'm forced with either killing yast from another terminal (almost ensuring further corruption) or sitting and tapping "ignore" twice for each package (the error dialog pops up twice for each error, for some unknown reason) and do this for an indeterminate number of packages which are in the update queue. Aaaarrrrgggghhhh. <rant> i'm so pissed off with Suse 10.1 that i'm now downloading kubuntu. If i can't get the laptop back running without a reinstall of the system, the reinstall won't be suse. The 10.1 release, in particular the last-minute Update changes, has been a disaster, and i'm tired of fighting with it. </rant> -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts