[SLE} How replace YAST?

Jack Reilly

1 Feb 2005 1 Feb '05

19:53

I have clobbered my Yast and cannot get beyond "yast2 is starting up". It seems that there should be an easy way to reinstall yast but I can't find it. I am using Suse 8.2 Pro. Can anyone help me? aa6vn@pacbell.net

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Jesse L. Purdom

1 Feb 1 Feb

19:53

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On Tuesday 01 February 2005 14:53, Jack Reilly wrote:

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I have clobbered my Yast and cannot get beyond "yast2 is starting up". It seems that there should be an easy way to reinstall yast but I can't find it. I am using Suse 8.2 Pro. Can anyone help me?

aa6vn@pacbell.net

Can you run YAST from a command line? Jesse

Dimych

20:12

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--- Jack Reilly wrote:

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I have clobbered my Yast and cannot get beyond "yast2 is starting up". It seems that there should be an easy way to reinstall yast but I can't find it. I am using Suse 8.2 Pro. Can anyone help me?

This happens for me too from time to time... The only way around this I've found is either to start YaST from the console after "sux" or log out from the current session and log back in (in this case you'll be able to use it the usual way) Dmitry

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aa6vn@pacbell.net

Jerry Feldman

21:07

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On Tuesday 01 February 2005 14:53, Jack Reilly wrote:

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I have clobbered my Yast and cannot get beyond "yast2 is starting up". It seems that there should be an easy way to reinstall yast but I can't find it. I am using Suse 8.2 Pro. Can anyone help me? One additional possibility is to boot your installation media, do an upgrade install, and force install YaST. This will reload YaST. Then run YOU to update to the most current version of YaST. You can also do this manually with the rpm command. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

Jack Reilly

2 Feb 2 Feb

05:01

New subject: [SLE] How replace YAST?

I can not start yast from the console. No matter what I do Yast will not get beyond "YaST2 is starting up". It goes no further. On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 13:07, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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One additional possibility is to boot your installation media, do an upgrade install, and force install YaST. This will reload YaST. Then run YOU to update to the most current version of YaST. You can also do this manually with the rpm command. --

If you are suggesting a new install of Suse, I would only want to do that as a very last resort. Linux is very difficult for me and it took a long time to get this Suse version installed. I took a look at the RPMs on the cd 1 and I see there are quite a bunch of yast2 RPMs.Can you tell me how to go about installing a new YAST with them? Would each RPM be installed separately? I sure appreciate the help. aa6vn@pacbell.net

Doug B

05:15

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On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:01 pm, Jack Reilly wrote:

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I can not start yast from the console. No matter what I do Yast will not get beyond "YaST2 is starting up". It goes no further.

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I sure appreciate the help.

Try a repair. Boot from the cd > select 'installation' > select language > select 'repair installed system'. I haven't used the repair option in a while so I don't remember what options are available but it seemed to be pretty intuitive. Good luck! Doug

Per Jessen

09:59

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Jack Reilly wrote:

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I have clobbered my Yast and cannot get beyond "yast2 is starting up". It seems that there should be an easy way to reinstall yast but I can't find it. I am using Suse 8.2 Pro. Can anyone help me?

Might you be able to reinstall YaST simply by using rpm ? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - sign up for your free 30-day trial now!

Jack Reilly

19:40

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Thanks for all the suggestions.It looks like the RPM would be the easiest thing for me to try first. Looking at the handbook I guess I should use the "--refresh" command. But I don't want to make any further mistakes. I would appreciate help on exactly how to use this. The RPMs are on my Suse 8.2 CDROM 1 disk which I have in and mounted. aa6vn@pacbell.net

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