I’m running SuSE 8.1 and I would like to update to KDE 3.0.4, which is available using YOU. On the “Online Update Confirmation” screen I get the following messages: ------- Retrieving autoyast2: "Auto-installation Configuration System" Error Retrieving cdrecord: "Tool for writing CDR's" Ok Retrieving dhcpcd: "A DHCP client daemon" Ok Retrieving e2fsprogs: "Utilities for the second extended file system" Error Retrieving gv: "View PostScript files" Ok Retrieving mod_php4: "Latest version of the HTML embedded scripting language" Error Retrieving rpm: "RPM Package Manager" Error Retrieving util-linux: "A collection of basic system utilities" Ok Retrieving xfsprogs: "Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem" Error Retrieving yast2-bootloader: "YaST2 - component for bootloader configuration" Ok Retrieving yast2-printer: "YaST2 - component for printer configuration" Ok Retrieving yast2-sound-6615: "YaST2 - component for soundcard configuration" Ok Retrieving yast2-tv: "YaST2 - component for TV card configuration" Ok Retrieving yast2-users: "YaST2 - component for user and group configuration" Ok Retrieving yast2-x11: "YaST2 module for configuring X11 from the YaST2 control center." Ok Download finished. ------- (Note: You may notice that I didn’t attempt download KDE here; The results are the same when I do.) When it tries to download KDE 3.0.4, It too gives me the same “Error” message (where is the descriptive error message? Even an error code would be nice.). Each time I run YOU, it re-downloads all of the files that I have already received successfully and then fails on the files that it failed on last time -- I’m glad I have a fast Internet connection. I’ve tried all the normal stuff: different mirrors, Automatic/Manual mode, different Internet connections, … and so on. BTW: I have no problem installing RPMs myself, but I would prefer to let YOU do it so that it doesn’t try to download and re-install them again next time. I copied some lines from the YaST2 log file below…. /var/log/YaST2/y2log: ---------------- 2002-10-11 17:17:32 <3> LowellPort(15102) [qt-pkg] YQPkgRpmGroupTagsFilterView.cc(check):156 NULL pointer in group_ptr() for package kdeadmin3 2002-10-11 17:17:32 <3> LowellPort(15102) [qt-pkg] YQPkgRpmGroupTagsFilterView.cc(check):156 NULL pointer in group_ptr() for package kdebase3-devel-doc 2002-10-11 17:17:32 <3> LowellPort(15102) [qt-pkg] YQPkgRpmGroupTagsFilterView.cc(check):156 NULL pointer in group_ptr() for package kdebase3-extra 2002-10-11 17:17:32 <3> LowellPort(15102) [qt-pkg] YQPkgRpmGroupTagsFilterView.cc(check):156 NULL pointer in group_ptr() for package kdegraphics3-devel 2002-10-11 17:17:32 <3> LowellPort(15102) [qt-pkg] YQPkgRpmGroupTagsFilterView.cc(check):156 NULL pointer in group_ptr() for package kdegraphics3-extra 2002-10-11 17:17:32 <3> LowellPort(15102) [qt-pkg] YQPkgRpmGroupTagsFilterView.cc(check):156 NULL pointer in group_ptr() for package kdegraphics3-tex 2002-10-11 17:17:32 <3> LowellPort(15102) [qt-pkg] YQPkgRpmGroupTagsFilterView.cc(check):156 NULL pointer in group_ptr() for package kdemultimedia3-devel 2002-10-11 17:17:32 <3> LowellPort(15102) [qt-pkg] YQPkgRpmGroupTagsFilterView.cc(check):156 NULL pointer in group_ptr() for package kdenetwork3-devel 2002-10-11 17:17:32 <3> LowellPort(15102) [qt-pkg] YQPkgRpmGroupTagsFilterView.cc(check):156 NULL pointer in group_ptr() for package kdenetwork3-dialup 2002-10-11 17:17:32 <3> LowellPort(15102) [qt-pkg] YQPkgRpmGroupTagsFilterView.cc(check):156 NULL pointer in group_ptr() for package kdenetwork3-lan ---------------- 2002-10-11 17:22:23 <2> LowellPort(15444) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(resolveConflict):260 Reassigning shortcut 'H' for YRadioButton "HTTP" 2002-10-11 17:22:23 <2> LowellPort(15444) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(resolveConflict):260 Reassigning shortcut 'N' for YRadioButton "NFS" 2002-10-11 17:22:23 <2> LowellPort(15444) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(resolveConflict):260 Reassigning shortcut 'S' for YRadioButton "Samba" 2002-10-11 17:22:23 <2> LowellPort(15444) [ui-shortcuts] YShortcutManager.cc(resolveConflict):260 Reassigning shortcut 'I' for YRadioButton "Directory" 2002-10-11 17:22:43 <1> LowellPort(15442) [mediaaccess] MediaHandler.cc(MediaHandler):112 ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/suse/susenot attached; localRoot "/var/lib/YaST2/you" 2002-10-11 17:22:47 <0> LowellPort(15442) [mediaaccess] MediaWget.cc(getFile):125 wget error: unexpected error 2002-10-11 17:22:47 <0> LowellPort(15442) [mediaaccess] MediaHandler.cc(release):180 ok 2002-10-11 17:24:22 <1> LowellPort(15442) [mediaaccess] MediaHandler.cc(MediaHandler):112 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/susenot attached; localRoot "/var/lib/YaST2/you" 2002-10-11 17:25:07 <0> LowellPort(15442) [mediaaccess] MediaWget.cc(getFile):125 wget error: unexpected error 2002-10-11 17:25:11 <0> LowellPort(15442) [mediaaccess] MediaWget.cc(getFile):125 wget error: unexpected error 2002-10-11 17:25:22 <0> LowellPort(15442) [mediaaccess] MediaWget.cc(getFile):125 wget error: unexpected error 2002-10-11 17:25:27 <0> LowellPort(15442) [mediaaccess] MediaWget.cc(getFile):125 wget error: unexpected error 2002-10-11 17:27:13 <0> LowellPort(15442) [mediaaccess] MediaWget.cc(getFile):125 wget error: unexpected error 2002-10-11 17:27:13 <0> LowellPort(15442) [mediaaccess] MediaHandler.cc(release):180 ok 2002-10-11 17:27:13 <1> LowellPort(15442) [packagemanager] PMManager.cc(poolAddCandidates):203 Going to add 24 objects... 2002-10-11 17:27:13 <0> LowellPort(15442) [packagemanager] PMManager.cc(poolAddCandidates):232 objects added! I can gzip and send the entire log if anyone thinks that I would be useful. Any info would be helpful. I’m a fairly fluent Linux user (which I why I never complained about this in previous versions), but I’d like to do this the YaST way if possible…. Thanks, Lowell Alleman lowella@mfps.com