-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-02-08 at 15:16 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
What yast does is an update of the kernel rpm, meaning that the old one is uninstalled and the new one installed.
It's worse than that. You can rpm -ivh the new kernel to have both old and new before doing other updates, and yast will dutifully reinstall the kernel you just installed as well as removing the old one you kept on purpose.
:-(
So, at least test the new kernel first before letting yast have its way, to be sure the only kernel yast leaves you with actually works.
I always check what yast wants to install carefully. Right now, it wants to update xinelib, even though I have a version compiled by myself, which on previous suse version automatically meant "protected" status. I will have to reinstall my rpm with release number .999 :-(
Right now with one of my systems the factory kernels are incompatible with an X session lasting more than a few seconds. Any more than that, and the system is instantly put into unrecoverable sleep mode.
Ouch :-( My 10.3 goes dozing unless there is keyboard activity or some other interrupt. I have my router permanently pinging my PC so that it doesn't sleep "on foot" - it simply stops processing, tasks stops, display stops... waiting for a mouse move, key press, network packet... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHrMHctTMYHG2NR9URAob2AJ4jzK6r8sru0ptXpDtrBGaxuyFONgCfR6TW SaYwwjX0akLpm/zCQ9hksCc= =b1vz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org