Re: [opensuse] Locked out of my software database!

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
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