* Stan Goodman
That's what I thought too. The reinstallation is finished now, after an hour and a half plus, and I was told that some programs haven't been restarted because they depended on files that have been deleted. I was advised to run zypper -ps.
the command is "zypper ps" and it is to show programs that *need* to be restarted because the files they depend on where deleted and/or replaced. Dropping to runlevel 3 should clear *most* of them. The others need to be "kill -HUP <process-id>" or failing that, "kill -9 <process-id>". Then return to runlevel 5. or, you could restart your system.
That produced a file of nearly 30KB, containing a list of what appear to be library files; I was able to save this file, but not to copy it to another machine through NFS, so I can't exhibit it here.
What am I to make of this? Is this normal in the circumstances?
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