Re: Yast Online Update

From: Wayne Stallwood (firstname.lastname_at_notthisbitdigimatic.plus.com)
Date: 10/06/03 

Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 08:58:49 +0000

nikoli wrote:

> I've been trying to set up Linux on my machine for a while now and I
> keep having this same problem.
>
> I'll get my system up and running just how I like it with a fresh
> install of Suse 8.1 pro. I set up the nvidia drivers and get the intelli
> wheel mouse working and Mozilla configured... on and on and on.
>
> But as soon as I do an update with Yast, I encounter problems. A couple
> symptoms always occur. After a reboot my monitor is out of scan range
> and I can't accept an IP. It's a huge pain because I have no graphics
> and no internet connection.
>
> I've tried several different configurations and several different update
> methods. All with very similar results. At the moment it's easier for me
> to just reload the OS than to figure out what went wrong. But obviously
> this is no real solution. Why can't I update without these problems
> occuring?

How are you updating the Nvidia drivers, Are you downloading them from
Nvidia's site. The new nvidia installer does not play nicely with yast and
can cause problems.

The "proper" way with SuSE is to install the nvidia drivers using yast
update (or install the SuSE nvidia rpm's manually). You can do the manual
package selection from yast update and delselect the nvidia updates, but if
you don't do this each time yast is run it will think that you are still
running with the placeholder drivers and try to update them.

This will conflict with the already manually installed drviers as Yast is
only aware of rpm packages installed on the system, not on ones installed
from source or via some custom installation tool (like the nivida drivers)

As to the no IP thing, can you be more specific. What sort of connection do
you have, does your machine vanish from a home network after you run Yast.
Do you run the SuSE firewall and if so have you checked /var/log/messages
to see if the firewall is dropping packets.

Regards
Wayne

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