Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Why does Yast keep starting up?
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This happened to me as well, Yast assumed that it need to be started during boot, started, informed me that installation was complete, and exited. On a slow machine, this really made rebooting intolerable ;). A careful look at the boot script show that Yast is starting as a result of two test lines, if it finds a file call suse.newconfig, or somesuch, or a file called .Configure2 in the paths the script indicates, Yast starts. What I did was look for these files, and finding .Configure2, simply moved it. I have no idea if this was the best thing to do -- but yast clearly thought the install was complete every time it launched. I also have a couple of other problems. I am running yast to perform some system admin. I played around with Live FIlesystem, then decided I didn't want it. Yast spends a bit of time 'removing symlinks' then tries to update by running suseconfig. It errors here, indicating that there is already a susconfig running. A ps -aux | grep config proves that it is *not* already running. Any idea? Also, I am having problems with X. I am using xf86config, defining mt Trident card, using the Suse trident server (which *is* installed), but when I startx, I get a fuzzy screen, lose mouse and keyboard, and can only do a reset and reboot the machine to escape. Any help appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Elizabeth Finson | | Web Site/Systems Administrator (206) 345-2751| | U S WEST Creative Services | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Look: trees do exist; the houses that we live in still | | stand. We alone fly past all things, as fugitive as the | | wind. -- Rainer Maria Rilke | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Steve Cohen wrote:
I didn't reboot it then. I waited, did what it said, and it asked me for the 2nd cd and then the third. I know it is finished with the install. I think I put 500MB into the /usr partition.
Tom Schaefer wrote:
This is the "problem" I mentioned a while back ...
Right after yast "looked like it was done", I'll bet you rebooted before you let yast finish the initial install - you probably didn't think twice about rebooting after getting the login prompt after the system does its first initialization.
I wonder if you've got all the packages installed as well. If you run yast now, does it tell you that a boatload of packages were not installed?
I'd re-install and make sure you wait for everything to finish before rebooting. Watch the console messages at Alt-F9 ... it takes a while to unpack a ton of man pages and other stuff.
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