NOWS SBE Web-Gui not showing updates

  • 7008128
  • 15-Mar-2011
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell Open Workgroup Suite SBE 2.5

Situation

When opening the Web-Management-UI on Novell Open Workgroup Suite SBE ("simba"), the update-applet keeps showing the spinning wheel and doesn't refresh.

Resolution

While downloading new patch information and updating the RSS feed, these files are created:

/var/lib/simba/sbs/conf/checking.txt
/var/lib/simba/sbs/conf/checking_rss.txt

If the spinning wheel issue occurs, it is likely that there are leftovers from a previous instance. Please remove these files:

rm /var/lib/simba/sbs/conf/checking.txt
rm /var/lib/simba/sbs/conf/checking_rss.txt

Then, restart the simba daemon:

/etc/init.d/simba restart

and re-login to the web-frontend.