Karol, Thanks for the information, I pulled down the yast.rpm (1.09.05) update and installed it. However yast still crashes at the same point. I did an strace on yast on the system that crashes and also on one of the the duplicate system that doesn't crash. In comparing the outputs of the two strace's, there doesn't appear to be anything that jumps out as the culprit. The failing one fails on an llseek call on fd 9, then it starts bailing. Here is the output where the failure occurs. _llseek(9, 40960, [40960], SEEK_SET) = 0 time([999208207]) = 999208207 open("/var/log/YaST.err", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFI | _llseek(9, 40960, [40960], SEEK_SET) = 0 fstat64(13, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=43, ...}) = 0 Hmmmm, god I hate to fdisk/format/install and start over, but at this point I see no alternative. Too bad SuSE folks are too inundated to help. Hope the MS boys don't hear about this one. Cheers, -jpg

Did you try getting the updates version [Aug 09] from: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/a1/yast.rpm

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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