I have had the very same experience and have posted on the SLE list regarding the issue. Many replies came back that there is definitely a problem. 8.1 is my first experience with linux but I also heard from many that YAST didn't used to be such a problem. I only hope that SuSE is paying attention or that there are some plans for resolution. Hello.... SuSE.... can you hear us??? -----Original Message----- From: Rob Willmore [mailto:rwillmore@austin.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 8:50 PM To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] YaST2 hell.

I'm at my wits end with YaST2 and was wondering if somone can offer some help. YaST2 almost never seems to work for me anymore, that is when I can even connect.

As a previous SuSE 8.0 owner I *loved* YaST, it always quickly connected and gave me exactly what I asked for. Not so with YaST2. My first issue is that I can almost never connect to a server without waiting for sometimes up to 30 minutes! Is this a bandwidth issue on the server side? I've tried several different locations to do a manual update and all offer the same lag. My connecton is a pretty quick cable one so the problem doesn't appear to lie there.

The "Initialzing for FTP/HTTP update. One Moment please..." message has become burned into my eyeballs.

Even after I finally DO get connected I *always* get the same message that there are files missing certain dependencies do I want to try again/ignore/abort. There also appears to be no new updates of anything to download.

I've tried the gpg Error Messages While Running YaST Online Update fix even though on the surface it doesn't appear to be the same problem I suffer from. No luck. At this point it's almost moot becasue I can never, ever get connected to a server. I'm asking for help before I have to set aside a wonderfull distro and try something like red-hat or even Gentoo. I'd hate to do that.

Any suggestions?

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