William Gallafent wrote:
Well, after a reboot there were five updates available, which downloaded and installed OK. I can provide logs for the earlier crashes if anyone's interested; otherwise, it must surely be getting towards the time for another updater update, so I'll just wait for that.
I have installed 10.1 now on about 8 machines. It is tricky to get the update mechanism stable and reliable but in every case I have one the battle and the machines all update now without any special effort. Unfortunately I haven't accurately captured the procedure I use and I have no idea if I am wasting steps to get to the successful end goal. I always do the following: 1) Go to YaST2 and click on "Online Update Configuration" 2) Click on "Online Update Setup" 3) Look to see if the Software Updater ICON (Blue, Orange, or Red) is present in the bottom right. If so click on it and go through the process of adding the root password to give you the user authority/permission to use it. 4) Do not use the orb to download anything yet or you will just get errors. 5) Go back to YaST2 and optionally look at "Installation Source" to make sure a repository was added by #1 above. 6) Click on Online Update and get any patches available. Do not make any modifications to the list. Usually I get new replacements for rug,zmd and anything else dealing with the updater mechanism that came initially broken. 7) When that completes, I usually reboot to make sure that I am using that which was just received. 8) I then go back to YaST2 and repeat the Online Update seeing if anything more would like to come my way. Sometimes I reboot and sometimes I don't depending on what I see come down the pipe. 9) Repeat as necessary. 10) After that I just use the Orb at the bottom right an all seems to go smoothly.