Newer kernel on SuSE 10.2

Hi All,

Old computer blew up. Rather than fix it I thought it was about time I
got a new one (which I did) nice shiny HP m7000 media center, AMD64x2.

After a bit of fight I get OpenSuse 10.2 running on it (after
disabling PnP in the BIOS and ACPI in the kernel). Its OK, but I miss
telling it to switch off and walk away instead of waiting for it to
tell me to press the power button. Oh yes, and remarkably - I've got a
machine that should be about 10x more powerful than my previous box
and Yast takes EVEN LONGER to start. Nearly everthing else works well
though.

Booting up with a LiveCD version of Vector-Linux - everything works
fine too - I also get drivers working for the USB-to_IDE adaptor I
bought to migrate my old data (which wouldn't work with SuSE 10.2) -
this has 2.6.20 rather than 2.6.18. So thinks I, this is openSuSe
surely I can upgrade the kernel?

A quick google turned up this thread:
[url]http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.os.linux.suse/browse_thread/thread/f1ef4c5b7484db30/a6b74bea3eb023d2?hl=en&lnk=st&q=opensuse+10.2+kernel+upgrade#a6b74bea3eb023d2[/url]

but using the rpms from [url]http://software.opensuse.org/download/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/[/url]
I get:

colin@kernit:~/download/kernel-try1> rpm -U --test kernel-
kdump-2.6.22_rc4_git3-40.1.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
apparmor-profiles <= 2.0.1 conflicts with kernel-
kdump-2.6.22_rc4_git3-40.1.x86_64
apparmor-parser <= 2.0.1 conflicts with kernel-
kdump-2.6.22_rc4_git3-40.1.x86_64

(and there's no apparmor rpms in this repository)
So in [url]ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/SUSE-10.2/x86_64/[/url]
I find
apparmor-docs-2.0.2-39.ccj0.x86_64.rpm
apparmor-parser-2.0.2-39.ccj0.x86_64.rpm
kernel-default-2.6.22.9-ccj54.x86_64.rpm
But no apparmor-parser, and sure as fate:

colin@kernit:~/download/kernel-try2> rpm -U --test *.rpm
warning: apparmor-docs-2.0.2-39.ccj0.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA
signature: NOKEY, key ID 844c4360
error: Failed dependencies:
apparmor-profiles <= 2.0.1 conflicts with kernel-
default-2.6.22.9-ccj54.x86_64
kernel(drivers_i2c) = 669ec2e871c7bf71 is needed by
(installed) nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-
default-100.14.09_2.6.18.8_0.3-1.1.x86_64
kernel(vmlinux) = ae33424b78d75c11 is needed by (installed)
nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default-100.14.09_2.6.18.8_0.3-1.1.x86_64

(and adding either as an installation source didn't cause a new kernel
to appear in the list of available software).

One of the reasons I liked SuSe (and linux for that matter) is that it
just worked - but no more?

Time to stop ranting.

How do I get a new kernel on my machine?

WTF is ZenWorks and ZMD - it won't stop and uses enough CPU time to
fry eggs on my PC?

Where is my medication!!!!!?????


C.

On 14 Oct, 20:32, "C." <colin.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Where is my medication!!!!!?????
>
> C.[/color]

Whoops, and didn't mean to post this here - sorry!

"C." <colin.mckinnon@gmail.com> said:[color=blue]
>Old computer blew up. Rather than fix it I thought it was about time I
>got a new one (which I did) nice shiny HP m7000 media center, AMD64x2.
>
>After a bit of fight I get OpenSuse 10.2 running on it (after
>disabling PnP in the BIOS and ACPI in the kernel). Its OK, but I miss
>telling it to switch off and walk away instead of waiting for it to
>tell me to press the power button. Oh yes, and remarkably - I've got a
>machine that should be about 10x more powerful than my previous box
>and Yast takes EVEN LONGER to start. Nearly everthing else works well
>though.[/color]

Yast overall or the software-update part of it? If the latter, then
it'll be the zmd you appropriately curse later in the message.
[color=blue]
>Booting up with a LiveCD version of Vector-Linux - everything works
>fine too - I also get drivers working for the USB-to_IDE adaptor I
>bought to migrate my old data (which wouldn't work with SuSE 10.2) -
>this has 2.6.20 rather than 2.6.18. So thinks I, this is openSuSe
>surely I can upgrade the kernel?
>
>A quick google turned up this thread:
>[url]http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.os.linux.suse/browse_thread/thread/f1ef4c5b7484db30/a6b74bea3eb023d2?hl=en&lnk=st&q=opensuse+10.2+kernel+upgrade#a6b74bea3eb023d2[/url]
>
>but using the rpms from
>[url]http://software.opensuse.org/download/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/[/url]
>I get:
>
>colin@kernit:~/download/kernel-try1> rpm -U --test kernel-
>kdump-2.6.22_rc4_git3-40.1.x86_64.rpm
>error: Failed dependencies:
> apparmor-profiles <= 2.0.1 conflicts with kernel-
>kdump-2.6.22_rc4_git3-40.1.x86_64
> apparmor-parser <= 2.0.1 conflicts with kernel-
>kdump-2.6.22_rc4_git3-40.1.x86_64
>
>(and there's no apparmor rpms in this repository)
>So in [url]ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/SUSE-10.2/x86_64/[/url]
>I find
> apparmor-docs-2.0.2-39.ccj0.x86_64.rpm
> apparmor-parser-2.0.2-39.ccj0.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-default-2.6.22.9-ccj54.x86_64.rpm
>But no apparmor-parser, and sure as fate:[/color]

Well, are you using apparmor for something? If not, just drop the
apparmor rpms and update the kernel.
[color=blue]
>WTF is ZenWorks and ZMD - it won't stop and uses enough CPU time to
>fry eggs on my PC?[/color]

I got tired of this same today, and found the following helpful
article:
[url]http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_remove_ZMD_in_openSUSE_10.2[/url]

.... no more zmd chewing my CPU.
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