Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Dave Barton <db1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 19:53 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
> On Sunday 01 October 2006 19:42, 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.
> >
> > Is there any way to fix this, other than the Windows way of
> > reinstalling?
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Is there a history behind this situation? When did it first arise and what did 
> you do, if anything, just prior?
> 
> Carl

Hi Carl,

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.

Regards
Dave