From a user perspective I've been able to try a few tests today that led to
some more info. Don't know if it will help but it concerns the Repositories
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464214
User david.casson@ntlworld.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464214#c23
--- Comment #23 from David Casson 2009-03-20 14:19:32 MST ---
that are configured and enabled. After reading a few posts on the open SuSE
forums it seemed some users had a degree of success with changing configured
repositories.
So I gave it a try and disabled all of mine except Packman.org and the problem
is still there. - Segfault as soon as yast2 tries to build the repository
cache.
Next I tried disabling all repositories and apart from a whinge about no
repositories I go no segfault crash! (The first time I've seen yast software
management working on this machine since the beginning of the year.)
So I next tried just enabling the Main (OSS) repository at
download.opensuse.org with complete success. yast also now works from a root
console login (TRL-ALT-F2).
Further investigation revealed that the following repositories work in either
the X11 GUI or on a console login:
Main Repository (OSS)
Main Repository (Non-OSS)
Open Office for SuSE 10.3 STABLE
Virtualisation: VirtualBox SuSE 11.1
The following would apparently work as far as setting up the repository details
and enabling them but all caused the software management module to segfault in
either the X11 GUI or on a console login. I included trying various different
mirrors and protocols but to no avail.
Open SuSE : Tools
Mozilla
Packman Repository
VideoLan Repository
Packman (Unixheads.org)
Updates Repository (SuSE 10.3)
When the cause is discovered it would be great if someone could give a brief
guide for the inexperienced to implement the fix as many relaatively new users
seem to have lost the yast functionality to apply any update through this bug
so perhaps it is also (IMHO) worth considering an upgrade of the current
importance of the bug to somewhat higher than 4 .
I would further suggest that while there does seem to be a link with a fonts
issue my system displays the problem in spite of having some fonts installed
for "X" so perhaps the title of the bug could be misleading to "some" readers
too,
DC
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