I've been trying everything to get this working, and I've got nuttin'. NOTHING WORKS ANYMORE. Not YaST. Not YOU. Not my local copy of the DVD, not my local mirror of the updates, not the YaST default update servers.
Every package installed with "yast" in the title has been ``rpm -V'ed''. The rpm database has been rebuilt.
_Needless_ to say: This is _extremely_ annoying and frustrating.
It's almost like the GUI is preventing me from seeing what's available, but I can't figure out how to get it to do anything different.
I can't find ANYTHING about this on Google. The "docs" for YaST are next to NOTHING and completely worthless.
This probably has nothing to do w/ your problem but... Do you have Suse Watcher running? in 8.2 it sometimes caused things to disappear from the desktop , moved things all over the place and was generally annoying , I think most of us killed it off after a short while.