Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 October 2006 20:49, Dave Barton wrote:
> > > Any attempt to add/remove or update software causes Yast to crash. Have
> > > tried repair from the 10.1 boot DVD, but this also crashes Yast when
> > > checking the packages.
> > >
> > > I suspect that the package database has been corrupted in some way, but
> > > rpm --rebuilddb does not help.
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> 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
>
> The only other thing I have noticed is that if I reboot there is a large
> amount of modem/router activity between this box and the internet that I
> never saw previous to this situation. It almost seems as if Yast is
> trying to continue where it left off or is trying to refresh sources.
> But that's nothing more than a guess on my part.

The fact that rpm --rebuilddb runs without spitting out errors is a good sign. 
I suspect YaST's 'Online Update' (YOU) and 'Software Management' may be hosed 
in some way, but they're just a GUI 'bolted onto' the package manager 'rpm'. 
Have you tried installing a package from the command line using just rpm?

Carl