Hello, The YaST2 online update stopped working on one of my systems. Here is what happened: I tried to update an older SuSE 8.1 system, which was offline most of the time. I started the YaST2 online update. The update first loaded some updates on YOU itself. I had to restart the online update 2 times. Then it started to download a large number of packages. Unfortunately, there was not much space left on the system, and during the download the system ran out of disk space. The update aborted. I removed some files and have enough space now (about 900MB). But the online update does not work any more. After starting it, it says "Initialisierung für FTP/HTTP-Update... Einen Moment bitte..." and after some seconds "Keine Verbindung zu www.suse.de möglich. Bitte überprüfen Sie die Verbindung." (Note: I'm using the text version of YasT2 on a german system) I checked on our firewall, but I could not find any package going out to www.suse.de. However, ping and ftp to that server work well, so I don't think it's a problem with the connection. I found a note on SuSE's web site that behind firewall, it could help to set wget to passive ftp downloads. I did that by changing /etc/wgetrc, as recommended. Did not help. And, BTW, the first update (before the disk was full) worked through the firewall without that change. Then I looked a little bit into the YaST modules, and found a setting in /usr/share/YaST2/modules/OnlineUpdate.ycp. There is an entry global string you_url = ""; in it. I inserted the text "ftp:://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse" and tried again. That helped a little, as the first initialization step was working now. Actually, YasT2 seems to download some URL if none is given in that variable. But now, when I start the update, I got other similar error messages. However, now I found the line "[mediaaccess] MediaWget.cc(getFile):125 wget error: connection failed" in the y2log file. Seems like wget has some problem. Again, the firewall did not show any packet going out. I also checked DNS and network setups. No clue. And, as I said, I can download packages manually using ftp. This is where I'm stuck. I suspect that during the failed update process, the system has been left in an incomplete state, and there's no way getting out with YaST2. Does anyone have an idea how I can get out of this? I'm currently thinking of removing the YaST packages via rpm, and restore the original ones from the CDs. But before doing that, and maybe causing other trouble, I thought I should ask for help here. I didn't use YOU before. A collegue told me (later) that he had bad experience with it. Is YOU known to have such problems? Should I better do the updates manually? BTW, the rest of the system seems to run fine. Thanks in advance, Axel ************************************************************** Axel Wagner raytest Isotopenmessgeraete GmbH Benzstr. 4 D-75334 Straubenhardt Tel: (07082) 9255 16 Fax: (07082) 20813 Email: wagner@raytest.de