Hi, Jim
OK, I was able to successfully create a reference profile on this machine. However, it took an extremely long time. It literally took almost 14 hours to generate the reference profile. And again, there is significant duplication in the <patterns> and <remove-packages> sections of the resulting XML file.
I suspect you're hitting this issue (the second one of those, to be precise): ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Feb 9 11:19:44 CET 2009 - ug@suse.de - shell escape added for the password for encrypted profiles - speed up software cloning with many repositories - clean up - 2.18.0 I thought the fix went out as online update for openSUSE 11.1, but I can't seem to find it among released patches :( So the solution now seems to be using autoyast2 package from openSUSE Factory ... hB. -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter