I have just checked the Automatic Online Update Setup -Yast dialog in the rebooted system - and automatic updates are disabled! Despite the fact that I definitely enabled them as reported above. Does the automatic update run after a reboot even if it is disabled?
I will enable the functionality once again, to see if I can find out when it is getting disabled.
The extract above illustrates ideally how confusing the management of updates is at present. I was looking for the configuration of whatever it is which checks for updates and reports them in the Gnome panel - but unlike everything else to do with updates that is not in Yast but in the System control centre in the Computer dialog. I am not really sure what "Automatic Online Update Setup" is as distinct from whatever it is I am trying to use (of course I assume I could find out...), but I have obviously never used it. Apart from the entry Software Updates in the System control centre, there are several entries in Yast: Automatic Online Update, Online Update, Online Update Configuration, Software Management (which is where you actually install updates from as far as I can see) and Software Repositories, which determines where we look for the updates (I think?) Many of these names are very similar and partly obscure the underlying funtionality. We need a single dialog where the user can see the various update functions at a glance and can configure them in a coordinated way. When I say "updates" above, I in fact mean "updates, patches and whatever else such things might be called" - any distinction between the various sorts of update and how they are handled is also not really clear from the various user interfaces. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org