Bugzilla – Bug 156979
selecting same update partition multiple time results random packages to update
Last modified: 2006-04-19 10:54:50 UTC
What I did: Booted from 10.1 beta7 CD. Selected to update. Selected root partition to update. Got YaST "Installation Settings" screen which shows that it will update about 900 Packages and that there is a package conflict which must be manually solved. Selected "Selected for Update" again and got "Select for Update" scrren where I only clicked [Accept] (still the same root partition to update which is o.k.) got back to the "Installation Settings" screen which shows now only 5 packages to update and no longer a package conflict. Selected "Selected for Update" again and got "Select for Update" scrren where I only clicked [Accept] (still the same root partition to update which is o.k.) got back to the "Installation Settings" screen which shows now 7 packages to update and no longer a package conflict. Because the package conflict disappeared I assume it is not only a wrong information shown but that the packages to update really change randomly only by selecting and confirming the same update partition multiple times.
Created attachment 72207 [details] tgz of /var/log/YaST2/* I will reboot from 10.1 CD and do the update again - i.e. I cannot provide further information.
After reboot I got again the YaST "Installation Settings" screen which shows that it will update about 900 Packages and that there is a package conflict which must be manually solved. After solving the conflict (it was only about one single package) the YaST "Installation Settings" screen shows 0 packages to update but 1088 new packages to be installed. Perhaps only a misleading message? Probably I should simply ignore what YaST tells me about packages ;-)
(In reply to comment #2) > After solving the conflict (it was only about one single package) > the YaST "Installation Settings" screen shows 0 packages to update > but 1088 new packages to be installed. This one is already known - bug 155284 / bug 154720 About the remaining issue: When YaST shows only few packages to install/update, go to the package manager detail view - does it look "normal" (lots of packages marked for update)?
I am afraid, at the moment I cannot re-do an update to answer your question - I need the updated system for other tests.
Maby this one should be handled seperately. Reassigning.
Reinstalled 10.0 system from scratch and updated it to 10.1 beta8.
Created attachment 73968 [details] YaST "Installation Settings" screenshot Meanwhile probably correct size info but still wrong package numbers.
Created attachment 73969 [details] YaST package manager screenshot
After leaving the package manager I got the same "Installation Settings" screen. Then I selected the "Selected for Update" and got the "Select for Update" screen where I only clicked [Accept] (still the same root partition to update which is o.k.) and got back to the "Installation Settings" screen which hangs for a few minutes with the "busy"-mouse cursor (the arrow with the running clock) and several y2log* files are filled up with tons of messages from the "Resolver*".
Created attachment 73981 [details] YaST "Installation Settings" screenshot After "Selected for Update" the packages to update are wrong.
Created attachment 73982 [details] YaST package manager screenshot Compare this with comment #8
I cannot answer further questions because I will redo the update because I need a correctly updated system for my own tests.
In particular note that in screenshot comment #13 there is still "Packages to Remove: 0" which is dangerous misleading for the user according to the corresponding screenshot in comment #14 which shows that tons of packages would be actually removed.
Sounds like a duplicate of #154720
As far as I see only comment #17 is a duplicate of bug #154720. But note the subject and the initial comment of this bug.
Any progress on this?
No big progress - I have tested it and it seems that zypp is probably not completely resetted when a new (or the same) target partition is set. I'll investigate more...
It is not possible to change the root partition anymore.
I do not understand comment #22 and why it is "WONTFIX". Do you mean that on the YaST "Installation Settings" screen the item "Selected for Update" was simply removed? If yes, I think it is perfectly o.k. and therefore FIXED because the user cannot expect to change anything later.
Yes, "Selected for Update" item has been removed.