On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 19:53 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sunday 01 October 2006 19:42, Dave Barton wrote:
Any attempt to add/remove or update software causes Yast to crash. Have tried repair from the 10.1 boot DVD, but this also crashes Yast when checking the packages.
I suspect that the package database has been corrupted in some way, but rpm --rebuilddb does not help.
Is there any way to fix this, other than the Windows way of reinstalling?
Hi Dave,
Is there a history behind this situation? When did it first arise and what did you do, if anything, just prior?
Carl
Hi Carl, There is not really a lot of history here. In the early days of 10.1 I tried and gave up on the "zen-updater" and YOU, but manually running the Yast "software management" has been working well for months and I have not had any problems getting the updates I wanted. The problem arose just a couple of days ago. I am not aware of doing anything specific or different before this happened. It started when I tried to add one package from the 10.1 DVD (no dependency issues) and Yast just simply froze for about 60-90 minutes and finally crashed. I did reboot to init 3 as root and tried to run Yast, but it crashed with: sbin/yast2: line233: 3343 Segmentation fault $ybindir/yastbase menu ncurses $NCTHREADS The only other thing I have noticed is that if I reboot there is a large amount of modem/router activity between this box and the internet that I never saw previous to this situation. It almost seems as if Yast is trying to continue where it left off or is trying to refresh sources. But that's nothing more than a guess on my part. Regards Dave