On 2021-09-20 10:26, shundhammer wrote:
On 2021-09-17 14:59, jsmeix wrote: ...
Something went wrong during package installation but I could not read the error message because YaST exited and about one second later I was in linuxrc with its ncurses Error/Exit screen. ... But the UX is poor in such cases because in practice it is then basically impossible for the user to make a meaningful issue report.
As long as that red "an error occurred" linuxrc popup is still open, you can switch to console 2 and use "save_y2logs" and copy the logs away.
That has been clearly documented since the very first version of the Bug Reporting FAQ that I wrote (yes, my version was the original!) almost 20 years ago. ;-)
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Report_a_YaST_bug#I_get_a_red_text_pop-up_t...
SCNR ;-)
I know, I know, but my mail was --------------------------------------------------- because what I actually wanted to do is to "just try out something on Tumbleweed" but that error exit interrupted my ongoing work so I did not do a major mental task switch to dig out the error message and YaST logs. --------------------------------------------------- Just read what I wrote ;-) SCNR too ;-) Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 - 90409 Nuernberg - Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nuernberg) GF: Felix Imendoerffer