On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: pa> I've had a persistent problem recently with Yast 1 freezing the pa> machine during Choose/Install Packages / Package information. My pa> installation device is a SCSI CD-ROM, and Yast does seem to be making pa> the initial access to the CD. The freeze happens when I do a search. pa> Both the keyboard and mouse are dead, and the only way to recover is a pa> hard reboot. However, if I use a different CDROM drive I don't seem pa> to have the problem. pa> Quick check, are you using KDE and if so, do you have the CD-Player in the taskbar set to play CD's on tray close? If so that would be your problem, I posted a detailed example/problem/fix back when 6.2 was released which you may beable to find in the archives. But in a nutshell, disable the play on tray close and remove from taskbar. pa> I suspect that there's some kind of hardware difficulty because of the pa> difference between drives. However, I don't know what kind of pa> difficulty would cause that kind of freeze-up. Nor do I know how to pa> check out whether the drive/CD combination is working properly. Any pa> advice? pa> Same as above which I suspect in the CD-Player you have the SCSI cd-rom set as the play device. You can find the message inthe SuSE archives back on Sept. 19, 1999 with the following 'Subject: Yast/KDE/CDROM bug' pa> Paul Abrahams pa> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - homepage is in the works SuSE Linux v6.2+ - Kernel 2.2.13 "Cogito ergo I'm right and you're wrong." -- Blair Houghton -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/