https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827528
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827528#c48
--- Comment #48 from Tony Mechelynck
Hmm I am going to mark this as fixed per your comments :)
I really suspect the broken symlinks during the update to cause all this to you so you should now be on safe side. Sadly there is never any protection against such broken update.
The best practice would in theory be to look up what packages were updated when trying out and then remove them and add again (or just force new install on them) as this way you can really end up with tainted system.
IIUC this would mean logging to disk the output of "zypper up" (and doing it every time, since of course a spontaneous reboot or an AC brownout cannot be foreseen, and once they've happened, whatever was displayed at the console is lost). If it happens again I repeat what I did in comment #44 (unless you tell me it's dangerous): rebuild the RPM DB indices, then remove the "dubious" packages with --allmatches --nodeps, and immediately add them back.
FWIW there is upstream bug with parsing the language files as we observed. But it is nothing for SUSE itself to fix so if you really feel like doing good deed just go ahead and report it on upstream bugzilla at bugs.freedesktop.org.
I wouldn't know how to make a useful bug report: I don't know what caused the problem, I never knew how to reproduce it (and now that it is gone, I wouldn't want to try); and now that the problem has disappeared, I couldn't answer questions of the kind "please do this to investigate the problem, then tell us the answer", other than what I did in previous comments of this bug while I still saw the problem. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.