[opensuse] How to deal with both you and packagekit, if both seem to be unable to recognise rootpassword?
Hiya 'xperts and other interrested, As in subjectline. Maybe i have overseen a major discussion about this, as i did not realy follow the mail for a few weeks... Both are present, but do not accept my rootpassword to update anything.. So i might as well imediately use zypper or yast to update ... Is there any chance on of these will ever work? (Packagekit has been here 'forever' without being able to accept my rootpassword ever.) Or is it safe/unsafe to remove them from the system? And if safe, which pkgs are involved to remove also? Is there a command to show pkgs involved, and which can be removed without harming the system? Or might there be a bug involved. (11.4 over here is an 11.3 plain, only online updated system, installed by a 'zypper dup'.) -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) KDE: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I've been able to get packagekit and YOU to work by removing the check to remember password on a fresh install of 11.4 on my laptop. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Oddball" <monkey9@iae.nl> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 7:06:42 AM Subject: [opensuse] How to deal with both you and packagekit, if both seem to be unable to recognise rootpassword?
Hiya 'xperts and other interrested,
As in subjectline. Maybe i have overseen a major discussion about this, as i did not realy follow the mail for a few weeks... Both are present, but do not accept my rootpassword to update anything.. So i might as well imediately use zypper or yast to update ... Is there any chance on of these will ever work? (Packagekit has been here 'forever' without being able to accept my rootpassword ever.) Or is it safe/unsafe to remove them from the system? And if safe, which pkgs are involved to remove also? Is there a command to show pkgs involved, and which can be removed without harming the system?
Or might there be a bug involved. (11.4 over here is an 11.3 plain, only online updated system, installed by a 'zypper dup'.)
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Enjoy your time around,
Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...)
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Op 12-03-11 13:33, James P. Bland schreef:
I've been able to get packagekit and YOU to work by removing the check to remember password on a fresh install of 11.4 on my laptop.
That is most interresting! What exactly did you do? -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) KDE: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
That is most interresting! What exactly did you do?
This time during install I reformatted my entire hard drive instead of keeping my home partition. I've had issues with other versions of KDE 4 where packagekit would not work if "remember authorization" was checked. I was able to verify today that if I left that option unchecked packagekit and YOU will run. HTH, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Op 13-03-11 02:25, James P. Bland schreef:
That is most interresting! What exactly did you do?
This time during install I reformatted my entire hard drive instead of keeping my home partition.
I've had issues with other versions of KDE 4 where packagekit would not work if "remember authorization" was checked. I was able to verify today that if I left that option unchecked packagekit and YOU will run.
HTH, James Did not use another home partition yet, i have several users i seldom use, only in case i need a 'clean' /home... Will try it there, because in my regular /home it does not work that way... Never tried to 'remember' the authorization. Tried it now, but changes nothing. Will report back if it runs on the other /homes... Thnx for the reply.. ;-)
-- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) KDE: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Op 13-03-11 13:13, Oddball schreef:
Op 13-03-11 02:25, James P. Bland schreef:
That is most interresting! What exactly did you do?
This time during install I reformatted my entire hard drive instead of keeping my home partition.
I've had issues with other versions of KDE 4 where packagekit would not work if "remember authorization" was checked. I was able to verify today that if I left that option unchecked packagekit and YOU will run.
HTH, James Did not use another home partition yet, i have several users i seldom use, only in case i need a 'clean' /home... Will try it there, because in my regular /home it does not work that way... Never tried to 'remember' the authorization. Tried it now, but changes nothing. Will report back if it runs on the other /homes... Thnx for the reply.. ;-)
I really must have missed something here.... Using another user to test your suggestion did not work with the rootpassword. So i tried the user password, and that worked! Always thought roots permission was needed to update/grade/install software... Dear devs, is this a feature or a bug? To me it doesn't really matter which password is needed, as long as the updates are done by the app created for it. To have to fire up another app is just ...dumm.. Have to try if my regular user also is able to use you and packagekit this way... -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) KDE: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Op 13-03-11 15:02, Oddball schreef:
Have to try if my regular user also is able to use you and packagekit this way...
The authentication did not fail with the userpassword... -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) KDE: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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