Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Simon Su <ssu8888@xxxxxxxxx>]

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


----- 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



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