-----Original Message----- From: Dan Weisenstein [mailto:dan@tesoro.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 3:12 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] YaST2 Sick
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Dan Weisenstein wrote:
In the course of playing around with Evolution, adding and removing things, etc. yast2 has become partially broken. If I attempt to do anything related to adding or removing packages, it just freezes up. I can do anything with services, hardware, etc. with no problems.
What could be wrong? I'm thinking something might be damaged with respect to the rpm database? If so, can it be repaired?
Thanks - Dan
You could try rebuilding the database. # rpm --rebuilddb
Well, that helped somewhat. Now, I start yast2, click on Add/Remove Software, and it starts: then a dialog starts that says "Checking Dependecies" ??? I haven't even selected anything to add or remove... The dialog box stays there... window is now frozen. It's process is now sucking up 95% of the CPU.... Any other ideas? I'll have to kill -9 it to get it to stop.
Thanks- Dan
Dalziel, Josh wrote:
How long did you let YAST sit before you killed it? It make take a long time to work after you rebuild the DB. I think it took about 15 minutes for me once.
Well, I let it run for about 20 minutes or so. I'll let it run over the weekend as I'm about to leave work... Let me relay the rest of the story: This all started when I did a (command line) 'rpm -Fvh' on a new download of evolution (v 1.4.5) That hung for 2 hours. I couldn't even kill it. Had to reboot. That started this whole chain of events. Something evidently got damaged... Dan