Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (84 mails)

[chu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eugene Chu)]

Hi Folks,

We are still running an old version of SuSE SLES 8/x86_64.  Recently,
we found that Oracle update to 10g we're trying to install needed a
more recent version.  This system hasn't been updated for over a year,
and I need to know if the update procedure is still the same:

Bring up YOU
Let it connect to the download site (http://sdb2.suse.de/download)
Log in and let it do an automatic update

It downloads and installs an update for Yast2 update utility, and the
utility crashes.  Now when I try to do the complete install, it fails
at the log-in, everytime.  It's as if the upgrade to Yast2 broke it.
The log-in screen shows the same username and password as what had worked
before, but I keep getting log-in failures.

Is there a config file that Yast uses to do its things, like logging me
into the download site?  I need to undo what the upgrade process did,
and try to do a manual update of everything else.

Also, is there a way to manually download the update files, install them,
without using the Yast2 GUI?

thanks,
eyc