>>> On 3/7/2013 at 06:03 PM, "Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)"
<[email protected]> wrote: 
> In this case the upgrade process script is calling YaST2 

/sbin/yast is simply a symbolic link to /sbin/yast2.  /sbin/yast2 is a bash 
script that tries to figure out whether to run in ncurses mode or GUI mode 
depending on a number of things it checks on the installed system.

> Perhaps because we chose the ssh method rather than vnc in original parm
> file

That is exactly what I do all the time, so that's not your problem.

-snip-
> vnc method may have required installing a product in my vmware

If your firewalls allow access to port 5801, you can use any Java-enabled web 
browser for the VNC install.  (Not that having a Java-enabled browser is a very 
good idea these days, but that's a different topic.)

-snip-
> PuTTY is allowed so opted to try ssh method (silly us)

Not at all.  As I said, that's what I do most of the time.  It does work, we 
just have to figure out why not for you.

> Don't know why the install process is invoking YaST2 rather than yast

That is the question.  If you look at /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.ssh, it's 
just a shell script that checks a few things, and then makes this call:
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.call installation continue

That is also a shell script, which means that you can invoke it directly 
(without going through the YaST2.ssh script) this way:
sh -x /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.call installation continue

Do that and send me the output off-list.  I'll see if I can figure out what's 
going on in your case.


Mark Post

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