yast crashes cleaning repositories

**geraldinho** · 03-Aug-2008, 22:14

hiya
im using suse 10.3
all of a sudden yast crashes when it tries to clean the repository caches, when i click on Software Management from YaST Control Center.
for example when Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository'
it gives an error in xmessage:

YAST got signal 11 at YCP file /usr/share/YAST2/clients/sw_single.ycp:187
/sbin/yast2: line 386: 8134 Segmentaion fault
$ybindir/y2base $module "@" "SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2QT_ARGS

it was also giving an error with Main Update Repository before i removed it hoping things might move forward

i no ideas about it... anyone? cheers

**rhorstkoetter** · 04-Aug-2008, 07:07

hm, I never explored such a behaviour, but I'd like to point you to a wiki article about speeding up the package management stack - especially useful for the 10.3 release - it can be found here SDB:Speed up Package Manager Stack - openSUSE
If you're on the lucky side, this will maybe solve your problem as well with some extra credit

**lornix** · 04-Aug-2008, 22:03

geraldinho wrote:

>
> hiya
> im using suse 10.3
> all of a sudden yast crashes when it tries to clean the repository
> caches, when i click on Software Management from YaST Control Center.
> for example when Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository'
> it gives an error in xmessage:
>
> YAST got signal 11 at YCP file
> /usr/share/YAST2/clients/sw_single.ycp:187
> /sbin/yast2: line 386: 8134 Segmentaion fault
> $ybindir/y2base $module "@" "SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2QT_ARGS
>
> it was also giving an error with Main Update Repository before i
> removed it hoping things might move forward
>

> i no ideas about it... anyone? cheers
>
>
Signal 11 usually comes with memory errors (bad dimm/simm) or overheating
issues. Try running memtest from the install CD/DVD, check your memory
under load.

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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

**Magic31** · 04-Aug-2008, 23:44

You can always try to zypper cleanup trick (works on 10.3 - and also 10.2 if I remember correctly) as it can often fix the segmentation faults:

Code:

cd /var/cache/zypp
rm zypp.db
zypper refresh

This just removes the zypper database and does a rebuild refreshing the database contents directly from the repositories.
* there are also some cache folders found under /var/cache/zypp, but they are probably ok.

And to also fix any rpm database errors

Code: