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[bb@xxxxxxxx (Bodo Bauer)]

zentara wrote:
> I have just run into a very perplexing problem with Yast.
> It has happened twice over the last few days while I have been
> setting up samba, rebuilding kernels , and doing alot
> of  system changes.
> 
> The symptom is Yast loses it's color screen, and comes up in
> black and white text-mode which has non-functionality
> in it.
> The non-functionality is that it refuses to let me change
> installed packages. How?  Well, when you select a package
> to install, reinstall, or remove; then hit F10 for OK,
> a confirmation screen appears which says "discard changes?"
> "yes or no". If you answer no, you are returned to the selection.
> If you answer yes, you discard any change!!! So no changes
> can be made.

Use Ctrl+f+0 to emulate F10, you are having problems with the 
terminal settings...
 
> It happened the first time when I recompiled my kernel to
> include ppp support for my NE2000 card. I was forced to
> reinstall.
> Things ran good, until I tried to get OSS sound drivers
> going after  rebuilding my sound module for awe32 support.
> It wouldn't install saying it couldn't recompile the
> soundshield. I used to be able to run a midi program
> called drvmidi, and it reports that it can't open
> libncurses.so.3.2.
> Then Yast just went out on me again; so I'm
> asking either how to restore it, or what is going on.
> 
> The rest of the system seems to work OK.
> But I can't use yast to reinstall ncurses, do you think that
> is what is wrong?

Check your terminal settings, echo $TERM should report
'linux' on the text console. 

Cioa,
        BB

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