Smart configured in read only mode

[dheem]

Greetings
Smart 0.51-11 installed by YaST from guru rpm
seems to have been configured in Read only mode.
This message appears even if I invoke SMART as root.
I donot recollect to have set this switch ,does this have
any thing to do with the status of repositories in YaST?
Because,
I have set refresh off for some of the repositories in
YaST and have disabled some inefficient ones.


Thanks

dheem

[docarockus]

Check if there is already an instance of Smart running in the background. The status of your YaST repos and their settings do not affect Smart; Smart uses it's own channel info and preferences.

Press the Ctrl+Esc keys and look in the process table for "smart" and kill any running processes. If root owns the smart process that is running, note the PID number. Open a terminal and as root, "kill pid" to stop it (where pid = the numeric PID of the process you want to stop).

hth...

-Docarockus

[dheem]

Thanx
Both smart and ksmarttray were indeed running..

dheem