Yast2 Is Broken

I have no idea how it happened but when I try to envoke yast with batwings and lzard blood I get the following:



YaST got signal 11 at YCP file OnlineUpdateCallbacks.ycp:524
/sbin/yast2: line 386: 20908 Segmentation fault $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2QT_ARGS

Try the following: change to console (<CTRL>+<ALT>+F1) login as root and start yast in console mode. Then update all yast packages. (The console mode of yast works similar to the gui mode, you should find your way around. Search for packages with yast in it and update all)

Try the following: change to console (<CTRL>+<ALT>+F1) login as root and start yast in console mode. Then update all yast packages. (The console mode of yast works similar to the gui mode, you should find your way around. Search for packages with yast in it and update all)
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That wont work. SOme how yast is FURBAR. I can't install or update anything. When I try to go to Manage Software I get all the dialog boxes saying they are checking the Repos' but then it just defaults to the main screen. I can never get to a package selection screen.

Try to boot to rescue system from the installation cd and restore yast from there.

That didn't work either-and I have no idea why. Just red box came up with an error saying it couldn't continue. I check the DVD and there are no errors on it.

So I decided to go into the software repo control and unchecked everything. I noticed there was a new version of yast installed than what was on the CD. Any how I reinstalled all the yast packages, and one by one started to enable the software repos--and the KDE one is what is causing my headaches. For some reason my system doesn't want anything to do with it.

Well now after a restart I get this error:


There was an error in the repository initialization.
Record not found in the cache
History:
- SQL logic error or missing database

Sounds like ther are errors in your rpm database.
In a console as root type rpm --rebuilddb.
Hopefully this should fix things for you.

/Geoff

Unfortunately that didn't help either. I'm getting close to doing a fresh install

try

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

Hope this will help.

:beer:

Thank you very much eberhard!

That has fixed my issue. I still have a few questions:

1. The zypp part,is that part of yast?
2. Did you get this info from google or a faq? If so which one || what search terms did you use?

I'm still pretty new to SuSE after using gentoo and slackware for a long few years so this one total escaped me. Thanks again for the help!

Yast uses for it's package management zypper, which is a frontend to libzypp, which itself uses rpm.

see here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper
and see here for the hint:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Speed_up_..._Manager_Stack

(What finally gave me the idea that it could be the libzypp-database was the sql-error you named.)