Yast won't start.

[Jonathan_R]

Allow me to get on my soap box briefly.
This is why I like having more than one package manager. In my case, I use smart.

OK. to the issue at hand. We still need to see the repositories that you have.

zypper lr -d

Something you installed broke YaST, which is why we need to see what repositories you have.

One way to fix this is to uninstall YaST completely, then reinstall it. Something like

zypper rem yast*

and then

zypper in yast*

Sounds like orbit maybe broke.

Do you have NFS set up?
Take a look at the logs you pasted here. Notice it tells you about your home directory

error accessing /desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/upgrade_package_command

You might want to check out this rcapache2 start -fail - LinuxQuestions.org
You also might want to visit #yast in irc on irc.freenode.net

[difficilus]

Results of zypper lr -d
I clipped url's. Only have four repos enabled.

# | Alias |Name |Enab |Ref |Pri| Type +---------------------------------------------------------------
1 |GNOME:Factory |GNOME:Factory |No |No | 99 |rpm-md
2 |Packman Repo |Packman Repository |Yes |Yes | 99 rpm-md
3 |Videolan |Videolan |No |No | 95 |rpm-md
4 |openSUSE 11.1-0 |openSUSE 11.1-0 |No No | 95 |yast2
5 |repo-non-oss |openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss|Yes |Yes |100 |yast2
6 |repo-oss |openSUSE-11.1-Oss |Yes |Yes |100 |yast2
7 |repo-source |openSUSE-11.1-Source |No |No |100 |NONE
8 |repo-update |openSUSE-11.1-Update |Yes |Yes | 20 |pm-md

[caf4926]

Actually those look OK.
I see that at some point you had gnome Factory, so I am wondering if you have a mix of packages. Please do this.

• First go to Repository Management and change the priority of Packman to 10
• Next open su terminal and do zypper ref then zypper dup

You may need to answer some questions, if you can't, just copy it and post here.

When we are done, reboot.

[difficilus]

Results of zypper lr -d (url's clipped off)

# | Alias |Name | Enabled |Refresh | Priority | Type |
-+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | GNOME:Factory | GNOME:Factory | No | No | 99 | rpm-md
2 | Packman Repository | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md
3 | Videolan | Videolan | No | No | 95 | rpm-md
4 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | No | No | 95 | yast2
5 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2
6 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2
7 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | No | No | 100 | NONE
8 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | 20 | rpm-md

[floydrodery]

Have you looked in the Yast2 log to see if there are any indications of conflicts, failures, or any messages that might indicate why it's failing?

Yast2 logs are located:

/var/log/YaST2

The "y2log" file is the log your looking for, cat the file and see if there are any errors. I would probably recreate the error first, then head directly over to the log file and look at the last entries.

[caf4926]

Did you do this:
Yast won't start. - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums

[difficilus]

Still digging around. Thanks for all the suggestions you guys are great! I can figure this out. I can...I can... I can!