Hi, Daniel Peraza schrieb: > I've just finished installing Open SuSE 10.1 and when I tried to update > my system, ZEN warned me that there was a kernel update, so I proceeded > to download the update package and then to restart my system, just as > ZEN asked me to do it. But then when I tried to continue when the > updating process, it downloaded the kernel again (it did it over 3 times > more when I repeated the process)!, and I couldn't go forward with the > updates.
The problem is known, it seems that zmd does sometimes not recognize installed updates, not even after a reboot. You can easily prove this by looking at the versions that zen-updater displays in the "Details" view. It says something like: Update Version: Y Installed Version: X Because Y is greater than X, it wants to install Y, but it doesn't know that Y is already installed. Whether Y is already installed can be determined via the command line rpm -qa kernel* There you can see that the version proposed for installation is already installed, and that the version zen-updater displays as currently installed is already deleted since long ago. Long story, short solution: Force zmd to rebuild its broken cache by deleting it. killall zen-updater /etc/init.d/novell-zmd stop rm -f /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db /etc/init.d/novell-zmd start zen-updater & The cache is the reason why the false update notification survives even a reboot. I've observed this often. > I'd also wish you could help me to set up new suse mirrors for my YAST, > so I might find, download and install new software packages with their > proper dependencies in a much easier manner. Choose a mirror from http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
