Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

["Alleman, Lowell" <lowella@xxxxxxxx>]

Has anyone had any problems with YaST2 crashing on them when they are trying
to install new packages?  Or had problems with installing LVM on a new
install of SuSE?

I had a problem with the second phase of the installer (when it does the
reboot).  Apparently, it died midway, and I was forced to reboot manually.
When the system came back up, I was dropped at the console.  It appears that
this happed because the LVM configuration was not loaded properly because of
some module issues.  I ran depmod, did a quick test or two, rebooted, and
the installation continued without any other problems.



I've only tried this on a single machine which is fairly old, and has had
some weird issues in the past.  (I keep running memory checks, but so far
nothing has shown up).   And I suspect that the hardware is to blame for
most of this, and I really doubt that SuSE would allow a distro to go out
the door with theses kinds of issues (A newbie would have abandoned the
system pretty quickly).

I would really like to install SuSE 8.0 on a few other "important" machines,
but I want to make sure that other people have had better success than me
when using normal hardware.  I guess it all boils down to this:  Has anyone
else had YaST2 crash during RPM installs or had problems with installing a
new system with LVM?


Thanks,

Lowell Alleman