Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Dave Barton <db1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 16:50 -0700, Simon Su wrote:
> Just wondering if you have done the following from opensuse.org
> 
> BEFORE YOU INSTALL READ THIS:
> 
> The package manager in SUSE 10.1 is regrettably broken on most
> systems. To correct this you should do the following after you have
> installed SUSE:
> 
> 
>  Open Yast chose "online update configuration" , click next and wait until finished.
>  Press the updater icon on you taskbar/panel
>  If it updates, congratulations, all is well.
>  If it throws up an error. Close it.
> Follow the instructions in this SDB article or  this mail.
> at http://en.opensuse.org/Download
> 
> I just installed 10.1 and yast is working.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Simon

Hi Simon,

Thanks for replying and offering that pointer. However, my issue not so
much getting updates, as being able to install anything without Yast
crashing. I have had 10.1 installed on this machine since it was first
released and this has only become a problem in the last couple of days.
I suspect package database corruption may be the cause.

Regards
Dave

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dave Barton <db1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: SuSE Users <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, 1, 2006 4:42:18 PM
> Subject: [SLE] YAST Totally Screwed Up
> 
> 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.
> 
> Is there any way to fix this, other than the Windows way of
> reinstalling?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
>