Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
I tried to use YaST yesterday to find out whether I had some package installed and discovered that 'Install and Remove Software' is broken. I can start the Yast control centre and when I click on the I&RS it brings up a new window, tells me to wait whilst it scans the packages and then sits there indefinitely. If I try to close the window, I get a message about the program is not responding (I had to get the silver cross and garlic out at that point :)
I found this article: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/08/thallma_91_yastafteryou.html and decided my symptoms 'fuzzy matched' close enough to try it. I downloaded the popt.rpm but when I run the rpm -Uhv popt.rpm command, it too just sits there.
It sounds like a corrupted rpm database. Try rpm --rebuilddb
I rebuilt the database but YaST still hangs in apparently the same way. Thanks, for the idea though, Joe. Cheers, Dave