zentara wrote:

The symptom is Yast loses it's color screen, and comes up in black and white text-mode which has non-functionality in it. The non-functionality is that it refuses to let me change installed packages. How? Well, when you select a package to install, reinstall, or remove; then hit F10 for OK, a confirmation screen appears which says "discard changes?" "yes or no". If you answer no, you are returned to the selection. If you answer yes, you discard any change!!! So no changes can be made.

Well I found the problem. :-) I'm not a unix expert but I know how to use Midnight Commander. I noticed that a directory called "terminfo" was created in /root. How? I don't know. It was filled with a bunch of directories named 1, 2,3.... A, B, C...a, b ,c....z. They all seemed to be empty. I moved it, and voila.... Yast is back and working fine. This is more fun than Ninetendo. ;-) zentara -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e