[OpenIndiana-discuss] gdm freezing

[Reginald Beardsley]

Are you saying that you can't uninstall a package because the old publisher is gone?  If true that's an absolutely breathtaking design error.  Quite frankly, that seems improbable for Sun.  Have you looked under /var/pkg?  Unless you cleaned it out, there should be all the information needed to manually remove things.  After all it's getting conflict information from somewhere.

Hopefully someone with more knowledge will reply as I find it hard to believe there's not a simple solution. 

FWIW on important systems, I preserve snapshots taken immediately before and after the install so I can revert if needed.  Before ZFS came along, I used "find / -type f -exec md5sum {} \;" to help me back out changes.  This is an old habit from dealing with vendor packages that had to be installed as root and routinely trashed the other applications.  Strangely at $100k+ per user the vendors think they own your system ad can do whatever they want.  With 5 or 6 such applications it gets pretty messy. 

Good luck!
Reg

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On Sat, 8/16/14, solarg <solarg87 at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] gdm freezing
 To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
 Date: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 11:31 AM
 
 Le 16/08/14 18:24,
 Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss a écrit :
 > Forgive my asking the obvious, but have
 you tried uninstalling them one at a time?
 
 yes i did, but not possible
 because old publisher isn't available.
 
 >
 > FWIW
 I just booted my Ultra 20 which I setup as an OI dev system
 w/ 151_a8.   The keyboard and mouse were both
 unresponsive briefly.  Not sure why, but I use a KVM switch
 so I see such behavior fairly often and am in the habit of
 just cycling thru the ports in response.  You might try
 removing and reconnecting the keyboard and mouse or using
 different ports and/or a different keyboard and mouse. 
 Connectors do fail and an intermittent can do a wonderful
 job of simulating a software fault.
 >
 
 yes i did it too, wxithout
 success
 
 > I often see OI
 151_a8 on my Giada N3  become non-responsive, but that
 appears to be a Firefox issue as restarting Firefox seems to
 cure it for a while.  Also I often have quite a few large
 PDF files open and iconified which chews up memory.
 >
 
 firefox
 isn't a problem, because i'm not logged yet
 
 thanks for your answer
 
 gerard
 
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