On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:

The installation is for the 64 bit system. K3b reported md5 identical to that given at the distribution site. I installed to formatted partitions (ext4).

During the installation process errors appeared telling me of I/O errors preventing the installation of the following packaged:

yast2-themes-opensuse-2.18.10.1.1.1 (twice) xorg-x11-fonts-core (twice) yast2-nfs-client yast2-iscsi-client yast2-repair

Since I do not find on the forum messages from others about similar experience, I have to guess that it has happened only here, but I can't explain to myself why, since the burned disk seems to be good. Has anyone else had this?

Assuming that there is enough left of YaST to get and install packages, I would hope to be able to make the missing packages good, but that is impossible because of the other disaster, which is that the mouse cursor is erratic and uncontrollable, so that there is no way to operate the system.  The cursor is not visible except sometimes after the mouse is moved, but its invisible movements seem to be clicking (without any action from me) on whatever it passes on the desktop.

Stan, If this is a new install, just starting over is almost certainly your best solution. I would also not be surprised if you have a hardware problem. At a minimum I would run memtest from the install cd. If you do want to recover your partially installed system, then the most reliable solution is zypper. It is a pure command line solution, so if you can get to a terminal / console login, you have a good chance of fixing this. If you are on the X screen, then control-alt-F1 should take you to the console. Hit return a couple times and you should be prompted for a login. Once you login, verify you have the right repos installed and refresh them. Then run zypper dup to finish your install. See http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade for details about the above steps. You won't need to do the full upgrade process, but it should not hurt either. If you have a lot of missing packages, they still may not come in but I would expect zypper dup to at least get yast functional. And once yast is functional, you can start pulling in whole patterns. (ie. from within yast, select the patterns view and click on the ones you want to have installed.) If not, these are the yast packages I have on my 11.2 system. Use zypper to ensure you have them all installed.

rpm -qa | grep -i yast

yast2-core-2.18.19-2.3.x86_64 autoyast2-installation-2.18.14-1.1.3.noarch yast2-backup-2.18.4-3.2.noarch yast2-storage-2.18.19-2.3.x86_64 yast2-control-center-gnome-2.13.4-2.3.x86_64 autoyast2-2.18.14-1.1.3.noarch yast2-wagon-2.18.1-2.1.noarch yast2-trans-en_US-2.18.1-16.18.1.noarch yast2-kerberos-client-2.18.3-2.2.noarch yast2-qt-2.18.7-2.1.x86_64 yast2-qt-graph-2.18.4-4.1.x86_64 yast2-control-center-2.18.12-1.1.1.x86_64 yast2-bootloader-2.18.17-2.5.x86_64 yast2-online-update-2.18.5-2.2.noarch yast2-runlevel-2.17.4-2.2.noarch yast2-xml-2.16.1-56.1.x86_64 yast2-pam-2.17.1-2.1.noarch yast2-control-center-qt-2.18.12-1.1.1.x86_64 yast2-registration-branding-openSUSE-2.18.0-2.4.noarch yast2-samba-server-2.18.2-2.1.noarch yast2-ntp-client-2.18.0-3.2.noarch yast2-x11-2.18.0-2.1.noarch yast2-packager-2.18.13-1.1.3.x86_64 yast2-iscsi-client-2.18.6-2.2.noarch yast2-repair-2.18.3-2.4.noarch yast2-sudo-2.18.2-2.2.noarch yast2-mouse-2.18.2-2.1.x86_64 yast2-sound-2.18.4-1.1.2.1.x86_64 yast2-sshd-2.18.0-2.5.noarch yast2-scanner-2.18.0-2.2.x86_64 yast2-ncurses-2.18.10-2.1.x86_64 yast2-printer-2.18.19-2.2.x86_64 yast2-security-2.18.3-2.2.noarch yast2-samba-client-2.18.3-2.2.noarch yast2-network-2.18.51-1.1.2.x86_64 yast2-tune-2.18.1-2.2.x86_64 yast2-inetd-2.17.3-3.3.noarch yast2-installation-2.18.33-1.1.2.noarch yast2-irda-2.18.1-2.2.noarch yast2-libyui-2.18.8-2.1.x86_64 yast2-ycp-ui-bindings-2.18.5-2.1.x86_64 yast2-theme-openSUSE-Oxygen-2.18.10-1.1.1.noarch yast2-ldap-client-2.18.5-2.6.noarch yast2-users-2.18.13-2.1.x86_64 yast2-online-update-frontend-2.18.5-2.2.noarch yast2-mail-2.18.2-2.2.noarch yast2-pkg-bindings-2.18.11-1.1.4.x86_64 yast2-2.18.25-2.5.x86_64 yast2-vm-2.16.10-3.1.x86_64 yast2-trans-stats-2.15.0-122.2.noarch yast2-sysconfig-2.17.0-56.2.noarch yast2-nis-client-2.18.2-2.2.x86_64 yast2-country-2.18.20-2.2.x86_64 yast2-registration-2.18.0-2.4.noarch yast2-profile-manager-2.18.2-2.2.x86_64 yast2-fingerprint-reader-2.18.1-2.1.x86_64 yast2-hardware-detection-2.17.1-2.3.x86_64 yast2-add-on-2.18.3-2.1.noarch yast2-schema-2.18.2-2.4.noarch yast2-slp-2.16.0-83.1.x86_64 yast2-branding-openSUSE-2.18.0-2.1.noarch yast2-nfs-common-2.18.1-2.2.noarch yast2-dbus-client-2.18.0-2.1.x86_64 yast2-ncurses-pkg-2.18.4-2.9.x86_64 yast2-update-2.18.6-2.3.x86_64 yast2-firewall-2.18.1-1.1.2.noarch yast2-apparmor-2.18.4-1.1.1.noarch yast2-transfer-2.18.0-3.1.x86_64 yast2-metapackage-handler-0.8.9-2.2.noarch yast2-restore-2.18.1-3.1.noarch yast2-country-data-2.18.20-2.2.x86_64 yast2-theme-openSUSE-2.18.10-1.1.1.noarch yast2-perl-bindings-2.18.0-2.1.x86_64 yast2-nfs-client-2.18.0-2.2.noarch yast2-tv-2.18.4-2.8.noarch yast2-ldap-2.17.3-9.1.x86_64 yast2-qt-pkg-2.18.18-1.1.2.x86_64 When you invoke zypper, just give it the base package name. ie. "zypper in yast2-qt-pkg" will cause the last package in the above list to be installed. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org