configuration in read-only mode

[Randy Smith]

Jack Schneider wrote:
> On Thursday 23 August 2007 14:42, Randy Smith wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> on my machine (SuSE linux 10.1 on a centrino duo), ksmarttray is stuck
>> on "Updating channels...".  When I run "smart --gui", I get a warning
>> stating "Warning:  configuration is in readonly mode".
>>
>> If I later try to update channels using the gui, I get the error "Can't
>> update channels in readonly mode".
>>
>> So...I'm stuck.
>>
>> I have no idea how my configuration got into this state.  Looking at
>> /var/lib/smart/config, permissions are -rw-r--r-- for the root user, so
>> that doesn't seem to be the problem.
>>
>> Can anybody give me any suggestions how to resolve this problem?  I'm
>> using Smart 0.51.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Randy Smith
> Randy,
> 
> What I do (regularly) is to let smart reset it's self. As follows:
> 
> Get out of X ctrl-alt-bs
> Drop to init 3
> login as root
> #rpm --rebuilddb
> #ldconfig && SuSEconfig
> #cd /var/lib/smart
> #rm -rf cache
> # rm -rf channels
> # smart  update
> # smart upgrade
> 
> That usually resets things to most current channels and up to date upgrades...
> 
> If you have specific channels installed you would have to note and 
> re-install..   YMMV 
> 
> Jack

Thanks.  I'll give this a try.  Looking around elsewhere, I found other 
reports that ksmarttray sometimes gets hung up (locking the database in 
the process), which prevents smart --gui from doing its work.  Quitting 
ksmarttray and THEN running smart --gui seemed to solve the problem I had.