Hi John, check out the SuSe site for hardware (in-)compatability issues. I had similar experiences using YAST for a clean install of 7.1 on a host equipped with a Promise RAID ATA100 controller and a SCSI-drive hooked up to a AHA-2940 Adaptec (SCSI drive was destination for this install...) Cheers, Volker John Griffin <jpg@cvs.agilent.com> schrieb am 30.08.01:
Brand new install of SuSE 7.1
When I fire up yast as root and select Package Management -> Change/Create Configuration or Package Management -> Load Configuration
I get the following error.
Program aborted! Thu Aug 30 9:02:08 2001 ERROR: Unknown Error!, DETAIL: 0 FILE: PkgRetriever.cc LINE: 616
I manually copied over a fresh copy of the /suse/a1/yast.rpm file from the install CD's and executed:
'rpm -Uhv yast.rmp --force'
But yast still dies with the same error. My only recourse now is to fdisk/format/re-install from scratch, much like a Microsoft solution.
I cannot easily rebuild this system as it has numerous users on it 24x7 and it's inconvenient and embarrassing that SuSE Linux is having this problem.
Anybody got any ideas (SuSE??) before I do the Redmond solution? -jpg
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Hey Volker, Thanks for the information, I appreciate you offering your help. However this system is one of 8 identical systems, the other 7 have no problems. Not all of them have the same configuration since they are performing differenct tasks, but they are all hardware equivalent. Thanks again, -jpg
Hi John,
check out the SuSe site for hardware (in-)compatability issues.
I had similar experiences using YAST for a clean install of 7.1 on a host equ ipped with a Promise RAID ATA100 controller and a SCSI-drive hooked up to a AHA -2940 Adaptec (SCSI drive was destination for this install...)
Cheers,
Volker
John Griffin <jpg@cvs.agilent.com> schrieb am 30.08.01:
Brand new install of SuSE 7.1
When I fire up yast as root and select Package Management -> Change/Create Configuration or Package Management -> Load Configuration
I get the following error.
Program aborted! Thu Aug 30 9:02:08 2001 ERROR: Unknown Error!, DETAIL: 0 FILE: PkgRetriever.cc LINE: 616
I manually copied over a fresh copy of the /suse/a1/yast.rpm file from the install CD's and executed:
'rpm -Uhv yast.rmp --force'
But yast still dies with the same error. My only recourse now is to fdisk/format/re-install from scratch, much like a Microsoft solution.
I cannot easily rebuild this system as it has numerous users on it 24x7 and it's inconvenient and embarrassing that SuSE Linux is having this problem.
Anybody got any ideas (SuSE??) before I do the Redmond solution? -jpg
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frankly i was amazed i was able to install all the packages i needed to run kde on this little box of mine, but it seems i missed something when i was looking through the "add packages" section. kde is the only gui on here (i like it this way) but the login screen is this really ugly thing not the sleek gui that i have on my other systems that had the gui installed initially. anyone know the name of the package i need to install to get the nice looking gui login screen?
On Thursday 30 August 2001 5:07 pm, gabriel wrote:
frankly i was amazed i was able to install all the packages i needed to run kde on this little box of mine, but it seems i missed something when i was looking through the "add packages" section.
kde is the only gui on here (i like it this way) but the login screen is this really ugly thing not the sleek gui that i have on my other systems that had the gui installed initially.
anyone know the name of the package i need to install to get the nice looking gui login screen?
I'm unclear; do you have a graphical login (welcome message, clock etc.) or do you login via the console and type startx? M
i do have a graphical login but it's just a grey background with an embossed "suse linux" at the top and a simple login window with username / password the password box doesn't even recognise the number pad there's no clock etc. and none of the changes i make to kde's login manager have any effect does that help?
From: Martin Webster <mwebster@ntlworld.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:14:40 +0000 To: gabriel <dan@netgenetix.com>, SuSE Mailing List <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] graphical login
On Thursday 30 August 2001 5:07 pm, gabriel wrote:
frankly i was amazed i was able to install all the packages i needed to run kde on this little box of mine, but it seems i missed something when i was looking through the "add packages" section.
kde is the only gui on here (i like it this way) but the login screen is this really ugly thing not the sleek gui that i have on my other systems that had the gui installed initially.
anyone know the name of the package i need to install to get the nice looking gui login screen?
I'm unclear; do you have a graphical login (welcome message, clock etc.) or do you login via the console and type startx?
M
On Thursday 30 August 2001 7:30 pm, gabriel wrote:
i do have a graphical login but it's just a grey background with an embossed "suse linux" at the top and a simple login window with username / password
the password box doesn't even recognise the number pad there's no clock etc. and none of the changes i make to kde's login manager have any effect
does that help?
I've seen this before when upgrading KDE. I can't rember the solution though. Check that /etc/rc.config has the follwing lines: DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" DEFAULT_WM="kde" If you change them run SuSEconfig. Just guessing though. ;-) M
kickass! it worked! thanks a lot the only wierd bit is that numbers are represented with 3 "*" in the password line... odd, but useable
From: Martin Webster <mwebster@ntlworld.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:55:50 +0000 To: gabriel <dan@netgenetix.com>, SuSE Mailing List <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] graphical login
On Thursday 30 August 2001 7:30 pm, gabriel wrote:
i do have a graphical login but it's just a grey background with an embossed "suse linux" at the top and a simple login window with username / password
the password box doesn't even recognise the number pad there's no clock etc. and none of the changes i make to kde's login manager have any effect
does that help?
I've seen this before when upgrading KDE. I can't rember the solution though. Check that /etc/rc.config has the follwing lines:
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" DEFAULT_WM="kde"
If you change them run SuSEconfig. Just guessing though. ;-)
M
On Thursday 30 August 2001 8:48 pm, gabriel wrote:
kickass! it worked!
thanks a lot the only wierd bit is that numbers are represented with 3 "*" in the password line... odd, but useable
That's easy! Control Centre->Login Manager-Appearance->Echo mode. Change to "One Star" if you like (need root password). M
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On Thursday 30 August 2001 8:48 pm, gabriel wrote:
kickass! it worked!
thanks a lot the only wierd bit is that numbers are represented with 3 "*" in the password line... odd, but useable
That's easy! Control Centre->Login Manager-Appearance->Echo mode. Change to "One Star" if you like (need root password).
I used to have 'no echo' to mirror the traditional behaviour, but it annoyed my GF, so I use '3 stars' now. It's *never* a good idea to let somebody know how many characters are in your password. It makes brute-force a *lot* easier, especially if they saw a couple of the characters you typed. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7j5ja+FOexA3koIgRAstkAJ9D3ULI91eBcnMc1p4mdOJLtNO6AACfdRgK KFC9S9PqBl6BcbXAd2QSTfs= =0KOP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Did you try getting the updates version [Aug 09] from: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/a1/yast.rpm On 30 Aug 2001, John Griffin wrote:
Thanks for the information, I appreciate you offering your help. However this system is one of 8 identical systems, the other 7 have no problems. Not all of them have the same configuration since they are performing differenct tasks, but they are all hardware equivalent. -- noodlez: Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 0x3A1446A0
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