That would have to be one hell of a swap partition for the entire OS to be installed. Then again, when you don't undertstand what's going on, I suppose someone could create a 3 gig swap partition. LOL.
How about this:
1) Low level format the HD.
2) Use Yast for package management. If you start playing with other package managers, your system will become hosed up in no time flat. Compile code only if you know what you're doing. This goes for Gore too. ;-)
So the answer is yes, I have seen this many times. Yast is there for a reason. Use it.
Have you tried using the RPM facility to back out the packages? i.e., RPM -e [package-name]
I typically rebuild the RPM db once I remove/add packages RPM --rebuilddb
Anyway, you've gone ahead and hosed up something by nixing files that Suse uses by installing packages outside of Yast.
More than likely, you're seeing the warning about needing to have a GnuPG key installed on your host. There should be further instructions given to install the public key. Or, you're seeing a message about a package failing because the GnuPG signature is bad on the particular RPM. Which is it?unable to understand the GPG key thing
--TH13
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