Hmm, I wonder if there are some "special" characters that aren't handled right? I've found in the past that SCPM doesn't seem to like anything other than alphanumerics in profile names.
I'm using SCPM on 10.2 with five different profiles, and boot-time switching with F3 is working for me. So it's not broken in general. There must be some subtle bug keeping it from working for some people. -- Well, when I look at the /var/lib/scpm/profiles/ directory I see three subdirectories and they are all lower case alpanumeric characters, default, home, and work.
It is very strange that I can only get it to work from the command line after booting the machine. I even tried to select the default after being in the profile work, but it still boots the last profile that I was actively in. I noticed this error in /var/log/scpm Thu Mar 15 13:50:06 2007 scpm (scpm_helpers) warning database I/O error (key not found) Thu Mar 15 13:50:06 2007 scpm (scpm_helpers) warning could not determine installed system Thu Mar 15 13:50:06 2007 scpm (scpm_helpers) warning scdb error (key not found) Thu Mar 15 13:50:06 2007 scpm (scpm_helpers) ERROR status operation failed Thu Mar 15 13:50:06 2007 scpm (scpm) warning could not query scpm status Thu Mar 15 20:06:48 2007 scpm (scdb) warning could not open /var/lib/scpm/scdb/scdb.db Thu Mar 15 20:06:48 2007 scpm (scpm) ERROR could not open database I googled for it and found one bugzilla report regarding the same problem that I am having, but it was not resolved and seemed to go to a dead end. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org