Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3135 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 20:29, Tim Donnelly wrote:
> I'm running the 64 bit version of Open SuSE 10.1.  Often (nearly always)
> when I try to go into the Software Management module in YaST I get nothing.
>  By nothing I mean, I click the icon, the "thinking" cursor appears and
> stays up for a few seconds then reverts back to the normal arrow cursor. 
> And that's it.  Rebooting the server generally allows me to use the module
> for some period of time, then the behavior starts again.
>
> Running a ps -ef | grep yast command produces the following output:
>
> tdonnelly@sword:~> ps -ef | grep yast
> root     30311 30206  0 12:23 ?        00:00:00 kdesu -u root -c
> /sbin/yast2 root     30312 30311  0 12:23 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash
> /sbin/yast2 root     30352     1  0 12:23 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash
> /sbin/yast2 sw_single 1000     30530 30501  0 12:29 pts/4    00:00:00 grep
> yast
>
> I have tried running yast2 from the command line and get the same thing,
> namely nothing.
>
> The rest of the YaST modules seem to work fine, its only the Software
> Management one that is borked.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The log file is /var/log/YaST2/y2log and it should contain a trace of what 
yast is up to, and hopefully some clues as to why it's failing

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