Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 11:49 +1100, Dave Barton wrote:
> There is not really a lot of history here. In the early days of 10.1 I
> tried and gave up on the "zen-updater" and YOU, but manually running the
> Yast "software management" has been working well for months and I have
> not had any problems getting the updates I wanted.
> 
> The problem arose just a couple of days ago. I am not aware of doing
> anything specific or different before this happened. It started when I
> tried to add one package from the 10.1 DVD (no dependency issues) and
> Yast just simply froze for about 60-90 minutes and finally crashed. I
> did reboot to init 3 as root and tried to run Yast, but it crashed with:
> 
> sbin/yast2: line233: 3343 Segmentation fault
> $ybindir/yastbase menu ncurses  $NCTHREADS

Is it possible that you have a half complete update in there? That some
yast packages have been updated while others haven't?

This could cause a crash