Daniel Feiglin wrote: > > John E. Perry wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My opensuse updater suddenly started showing the yellow triangle with >> the exclamation point a few days ago. When I try to clear it, it exits >> with the message "Another process is accessing the package database. >> Package management cannot be used now." >>... > ps -ef | grep y2base > > Same thing. > > ps -ef | grep zyp >
This was it. Both y2base and zypper were running. (Need to find out what y2base is). Killing them let the updater run, and it's nice and green again. This all started, I think, when I tried to set up a new wifi router (Netgear WPN824NA). Trying to install kwifimanager, I got a libpng.so.2 dependency error, and haven't been able to use any package management software since. What would start zypper and y2base and not stop them when it failed? I've had other dependency errors that didn't clog up my package system. (Thanks, Ken, I did know better than to follow Daniel's advice on kill -9, although I have in the past gone straight from kill to kill -9. I'll have to read up on kill to see what -1 is). jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
