Hi, When "Starting the Software Manager" during the 'Load Configured Repositories' stage the following message appears. Warning There was an error in the repository initialization. The software Manager window then loads. Doing a 'Refresh all Repositories' is successful. After any kind of a change and selecting 'Accept' the Software Manager window disappears and the following Error message appears. No software is installed. This error message also appears after other Yast2 tasks, 'Network Settings', 'Hostnames' however, with these the changes do take effect. QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid YaST got signal 6 at YCP file String.ycp:128 /sbin/yast2: line 399: 6571 Aborted $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed Any idea what's wrong here? Thank you, -- Bruce Samhaber Tel/Fax: 613-724-5987 112 Kenora St. Cell: 613-297-6961 Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 3L1 mailto: bruce.samhaber@samhaber.ca http://www.samhaber.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org