"Steve Wickert" <swickert@basepointanalytics.com> writes:

I'm running 10.1 x86_64 on a server located at our datacenter that does not have outside network access for security reasons. The only access is via SSH from a secure internal network.

To do the patches and security updates, I set up a mirror of one of the SuSE FTP mirrors on a machine that does have Internet access, and then mirrored that repository onto local disk on the server using rsync over SSH, more or less as described here:

http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/howto/you_local.html

This used to work fine in earlier releases, but I've had lots of problems on 10.1. In addition to other nasty problems, I'm getting segmentation faults from YaST itself:

Segmentation fault at SlideShow.ycp:1613 /sbin/yast2: line 233: 6366 Segmentation fault $ybindir/y2base $module "$@ " qt "$Y2_GEOMETRY" $Y2QT_ARGS

I cannot easily update the base YaST packages by hand because of dependency loops.

I'm hoping someone from SuSE might be reading this. Given that I don't have Internet access on that server, how do I at least recover YaST?

Copy all the yast packages from the last update over (easiest way: copy them from ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/10.1-package-manager-test (didn't check the last directory)), and update those: rpm -Fhv x86_64/*x86_64.rpm noarch/*noarch.rpm Hope this fixes the issue - if not, we need a bugreport, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126