In SuSE 9.1, Yast launches OK but when I click on [Install and Remove Software] that screen comes up for a split second and then disappears. What might cause that? TIA Mike
I wrote:
In SuSE 9.1, Yast launches OK but when I click on [Install and Remove Software] that screen comes up for a split second and then disappears.
What might cause that?
I switched off some source directories and it started working again. I haven't done it yet but I should switch them back on one at a time to determine which one (or more?) has the dud content. IMHO Yast needs to generate an error rather than just going away. Mike
Mike Dewhirst wrote:
I wrote:
In SuSE 9.1, Yast launches OK but when I click on [Install and Remove Software] that screen comes up for a split second and then disappears.
What might cause that?
I switched off some source directories and it started working again. I haven't done it yet but I should switch them back on one at a time to determine which one (or more?) has the dud content.
IMHO Yast needs to generate an error rather than just going away. In X, any reported errors should be logged in ~/.X.err.
Hi, On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:57:29 -0600 Darryl Gregorash <.> wrote:
In X, any reported errors should be logged in ~/.X.err.
Maybe things changed; I'm on SUSE 9.1 (similarly to the OP!), and I have no user having such a file in her/his home folder. But I have e.g. ~/.xsession-errors Pelibali
On Sunday 11 September 2005 00:00, pelibali wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:57:29 -0600
Darryl Gregorash <.> wrote:
In X, any reported errors should be logged in ~/.X.err.
Maybe things changed; I'm on SUSE 9.1 (similarly to the OP!), and I have no user having such a file in her/his home folder. But I have e.g. ~/.xsession-errors
.X.err is created when you log in in text mode and use "startx" to launch the X server. .xsession-errors is used when you log in through the graphical environment
Hi, On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:03:26 +1000 Mike Dewhirst <.> wrote:
In SuSE 9.1, Yast launches OK but when I click on [Install and Remove Software] that screen comes up for a split second and then disappears.
What might cause that?
I switched off some source directories and it started working again. I haven't done it yet but I should switch them back on one at a time to determine which one (or more?) has the dud content.
I had the same on 9.1 with an earlier version of the ulb-gnome reposi- tory I mirrored for myself. That time the culprit were the curl and curl-devel packages. When I removed them, YaST2 could "digest" that particular folder as well... Pelibali
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 05:03, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
I wrote:
In SuSE 9.1, Yast launches OK but when I click on [Install and Remove Software] that screen comes up for a split second and then disappears.
What might cause that?
I switched off some source directories and it started working again. I haven't done it yet but I should switch them back on one at a time to determine which one (or more?) has the dud content.
IMHO Yast needs to generate an error rather than just going away.
YaST will generate quite a few messages, both errors and otherwise, in /var/log/YaST2/y2log But in general, as it sounds like yast sw_install is crashing badly, it is difficult to generate error messages when you experience a crash. In some cases you can do what e.g. KDE does and install a general signal handler for some common crashes, like segmentation fault, but sometimes the crash is too severe
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