On Tuesday 23 May 2006 09:58, Anders Norrbring wrote:
Known problem. It's related to Zen and rug...
Wrong. YaST does not communicate directly with rug and only communicates with ZMD if you either add or remove an installation source, which is not the case here.
You can remove these services and use yast2 online update or yum manually.
/etc/init.d/novell-zmd stop rpm -e zmd rug zen-updater
Wow, hold on... I cannot believe you are seriously suggesting he removes some of the default package management utilities/services? Even if his problem was related to these utilities/services ( which i doubt very much since Software Management module does not use these ) you shouldn't just advise someone to remove them and use something else. Crazy suggestion, totally crazy... :( Since we don't have a lot of information regarding the problem other than an estimated time of 20 minutes opening the software management module we don't have much to go on and AJ has suggested he opens a bug and supplies his logs. It may be something else but experience tells me refreshing meta data from a large repo ( the main inst-sources for example ) over a slow connection or from a slow mirror exhibits the very same symptons refreshing package information using the software management yast module. Graham