On Wednesday 07 March 2007 20:29, Tim Donnelly wrote: > I'm running the 64 bit version of Open SuSE 10.1. Often (nearly always) > when I try to go into the Software Management module in YaST I get nothing. > By nothing I mean, I click the icon, the "thinking" cursor appears and > stays up for a few seconds then reverts back to the normal arrow cursor. > And that's it. Rebooting the server generally allows me to use the module > for some period of time, then the behavior starts again. > > Running a ps -ef | grep yast command produces the following output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ps -ef | grep yast > root 30311 30206 0 12:23 ? 00:00:00 kdesu -u root -c > /sbin/yast2 root 30312 30311 0 12:23 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash > /sbin/yast2 root 30352 1 0 12:23 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash > /sbin/yast2 sw_single 1000 30530 30501 0 12:29 pts/4 00:00:00 grep > yast > > I have tried running yast2 from the command line and get the same thing, > namely nothing. > > The rest of the YaST modules seem to work fine, its only the Software > Management one that is borked. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The log file is /var/log/YaST2/y2log and it should contain a trace of what yast is up to, and hopefully some clues as to why it's failing -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
