[ale] Help! I am getting zyppered!

[Cornelis van Dijk]

Thanks all for your comments,

Meanwhile I turned of the executive bits in "gpg2" which they seem to
need for decryption.
I also renamed all "zypp" etc to "zypp~".
This seems to work, never know what will happen on rebooting.

This is the first time I am disappointed with suse. Normally the stuff
works like a charm, especially the install procedure is very
transparent, unlike fedora where they start formatting your disk
before you have even had the chance to make a selection of packages.

I also tried to install Ubuntu 10.04 from a disk that came with a
book. This one hangs right out of the box! Could not even run their
painless demo.

Cor




On 3/1/12, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> Yeah but what a pain in the yast...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of James
> Taylor
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 4:15 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Help! I am getting zyppered!
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> This seems a little weird, because unless you specifically configure the
> update sources and explicitly set auto update, nothing gets downloaded with
> openSUSE.
> I have half a dozen openSUSE boxes at home, and none of them of any version
> do that.
> If you somehow managed to enable auto update, all you have to do is turn it
> off.
>
> In the GUI..
> yast|software|softwaremanagement|configuration|online update
> (running this will probably refresh the repositories, but this is a few
> hundred kb, not mb...)
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> uncheck the automatic updates box.
>
> CLI version...
> yast|software|online update configuration
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> uncheck the automatic online update option
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> -jt
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> James Taylor
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
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>>>> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> 3/1/2012   01:24 PM >>>
> It is likely the automatic update process. Look for PackageKit and turn it
> off. You may need to get a DVD of updates to get it current from that.
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Cornelis van Dijk
> <cor.angela0 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A few days ago I installed SuSe 12.1. When I go on the Internet, the
>> system almost immediately takes over my dialup connection with endless
>> downloads. Activating a firewall does nothing. Refusing authorization
>> for downloading does nothing. The system monitor shows nothing. Moving
>> suspicious files in /var to /temp does nothing.
>>
>> All traffic slows down to a crawl because of this downloading.
>>
>> I let the system go overnight, hoping that it would finish, no such
>> luck, it was still going in the morning. They are downloading hundreds
>> of MB without permission or even warning!
>>
>> I can not use my phone, in or out, while this is going on.
>>
>> I tried to contact them but I ran into a myriad of links and whenever
>> I succeed in leaving a message, I get no answer.
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>> THIS IS AN ATROCITY! Redmond would not do this!
>>
>> Anybody know how to stop this? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Cor van Dijk
>>
>> (I know I should get broadband, but we are on Social Security and have
>> to pinch pennies.)
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