Intro: This started because of a disk crash which I have mostly recovered.
(The disk containing the home dirs died. I set up a new user with its home dir in the mount point /home because I wanted a working platform and that seemed harmless. Well, maybe not quite, but things are working mostly. There were some GUID and GID problems and permissions problems with the home dirs; but some of that was messy disk management from prior. I have full access and things are running, except...)
"ksmserver not started" (quote not exact) appears each time I log into my user. Everything else proceeds as expected.
Searching this error, some immediate suggestions involved DUP'g with zypper. Which leads to the title problem.
Another digression: I have at least half dozen, maybe a dozen, "extra" applications I have installed, usually from "community" on opensuse.org. I want those applications, and in good health - I installed them all for good reasons. I have _no_ understanding of versioning problems and even after many years of suse, I still really don't find the explanations and "solutions" about the "will not be updated" list returned by "zypper up". All the explanations seem to want to lead to spaghetti concepts that really don't help anything. IOW, no practical fixes. I just need to install functioning packages when I need them and I can't spend hours every time deciphering libraries and repos. So far, to the distro's credit, it pretty much works, with the only apparent consequence (I think it's a consequence) being a growing list of "will not be upated..." when I run "zypper up". I works and I can live with it.
I run on above to say I don't want to trash various packages that didn't come with the distro and which I _want_ to work.
So this "ksmserver not started" thing leads to DUP as possible fix. But DUP says it's going to delete stuff. So, how does zypper select it's deletes? It sounds like it might trash my "extra" applications. If so, I'll live with the "ksm..." message annoyance and/or find another solution.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Rufus
OpenSuse 15.1, current (per zypper up)
GigaByte AMD mobo (10yrs old)
(The disk containing the home dirs died. I set up a new user with its home dir in the mount point /home because I wanted a working platform and that seemed harmless. Well, maybe not quite, but things are working mostly. There were some GUID and GID problems and permissions problems with the home dirs; but some of that was messy disk management from prior. I have full access and things are running, except...)
"ksmserver not started" (quote not exact) appears each time I log into my user. Everything else proceeds as expected.
Searching this error, some immediate suggestions involved DUP'g with zypper. Which leads to the title problem.
Another digression: I have at least half dozen, maybe a dozen, "extra" applications I have installed, usually from "community" on opensuse.org. I want those applications, and in good health - I installed them all for good reasons. I have _no_ understanding of versioning problems and even after many years of suse, I still really don't find the explanations and "solutions" about the "will not be updated" list returned by "zypper up". All the explanations seem to want to lead to spaghetti concepts that really don't help anything. IOW, no practical fixes. I just need to install functioning packages when I need them and I can't spend hours every time deciphering libraries and repos. So far, to the distro's credit, it pretty much works, with the only apparent consequence (I think it's a consequence) being a growing list of "will not be upated..." when I run "zypper up". I works and I can live with it.
I run on above to say I don't want to trash various packages that didn't come with the distro and which I _want_ to work.
So this "ksmserver not started" thing leads to DUP as possible fix. But DUP says it's going to delete stuff. So, how does zypper select it's deletes? It sounds like it might trash my "extra" applications. If so, I'll live with the "ksm..." message annoyance and/or find another solution.
Code:
Air-PC:/home/rufus # zypper dup
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command.
Computing distribution upgrade...
The following 15 packages are going to be REMOVED:
ImageMagick-config-6-SUSE libass5 libgif6 libgnutls28 libHalf11 libhogweed2 libIex-2_1-11 libIlmImf-Imf_2_1-21 libIlmThread-2_1-11 liblcms1 libMagickCore-6_Q16-1
libMagickWand-6_Q16-1 libmng1 libnettle4 libwebp5
15 packages to remove.
After the operation, 11.9 MiB will be freed.
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): nRufus
OpenSuse 15.1, current (per zypper up)
GigaByte AMD mobo (10yrs old)