----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Stotler" To: "SUSE Linux" Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] cat: write error: Broken pipe

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

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Does anyone else notice the error "cat: write error: Broken pipe" when running YaST2 on openSUSE 11.0 via SSH?

Actually, I get it whenever I use the text based YaST in 11.0. Since it never seemed to do anything wrong, I just ignored it.

Yes I've been seeing that too since day one of opensuse 11. I only ever work via text and so I've seen it a lot, 100% of the time as far as I can tell. I've also noticed the thing where making changes to the nic/tcp/routing/dns settings doesn't perform the changes when exiting yast. I have to "rcnetwork restart" after exiting yast. I've also noticed that something somewhere keeps incorrectly overwriting the LINES variable whenever I am connected via serial console. It incorrectly forces LINES=24, while the terminal really has 25, (and TERM is set to a correct value for the terminal in question, which may be xterm or linux or scoansi or cons25...). This causes some screens in yast to be unreachable, because they are only reachable via some tabs at the top of the screen, and when LINES=24, those tabs simply do not appear. The ugly workaround is to manually type "export LINES=25 ; readonly LINES" And then every time you exit any program back to a command prompt, you get a message when bashrc tries to set LINES back to 24 "LINES: readonly variable". It doesn't matter what term type is specified for the tty (ttyS0) on the getty line in /etc/inittab, nor what value I might have manually changed TERM to for that session. It only, and always, happens when connected via a serial port. The only times I connect via serial console are for remote installs, drastic repairs, bios changes, network changes, or just testing, which are all rare enough that I just live with it. No such problem via ssh or the vga console. -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org