I have a similar problem. The automatic update from 7.3 to 8.0 did not work (ext3 root fault? But I loaded the ext3 module.), so I tried to upgrade manually. Now I have a working Yast2, but I'm not able to connecto to the ftp server. I managed to avaoid the rpc error by mounting the root image found on the ftp distribution (images/root) and copying the contents of path_to_root_image/suse/ to /var/adm/current_package_descr/suse. At this point I'm able to browse the package description and to select packages, but I'm not able to change the installation medium or to install anything from ftp, as yast2 do not perform the commection. I think the relevant log lines are now 2002-06-13 11:53:28 <1> pc-31c(6574) [YCP] modules/InstMedia.ycp:613 initializeInstMedia ($["alias":"eth0 3c59x", "demo":"0", "disks":"/dev/hda /dev/h db", "display":"Color", "floppy_disk":"/dev/fd0", "framebuffer":791, "gateway":"131.175.154.254", "hardBoot":true, "haspcmcia":"0", "instmode":"ftp", "ip":"131.175.154.10", "keyboard":"1", "keytable":"it", "language":"en_US", "manual":"1", "nameserver":"131.175.13.13", "netdevice":"eth0", "netmask": "255.255.255.0", "network":"131.175.154.0", "serial":"0", "server":"134.76.11.100", "serverdir":"/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/8.0", "sourcemount ed":"0", "textmode":"0", "unknown":"BootDisk: 0", "updatemode":true, "vnc":"0", "yast2_update":"0"]) 2002-06-13 11:53:28 <1> pc-31c(6574) [YCP] modules/InstMedia.ycp:883 mediadevices: [] 2002-06-13 11:53:28 <3> pc-31c(6574) [Interpreter] :0 Couldn't find an agent to handle '.yast2.instsource.cdrelease' 2002-06-13 11:53:28 <3> pc-31c(6574) [Interpreter] :0 Couldn't find an agent to handle '.yast2.instsource.product' 2002-06-13 11:53:28 <1> pc-31c(6574) [YCP] modules/InstMedia.ycp:412 RELEASE No. nil, nil is the reference. I think that the "Couldn't find an agent to handle '.yast2.instsource.cdrelease'" error is triggered from InstMedia.ycp:403, but I'm stuck here. Any hints? Thanks in advance, Marco Morandini