Yast Software bug. Installation or upgrade stops midway

**m_frei** · 19-Aug-2008, 01:57

Hi.

OpenSUSE 11, 32bit.

When I try to install Software through yast, or run the updates, the process usually starts OK, then midway through the process, it finishes and asks whether I want to add or remove more software. If I say no, the installer closes, and when I try the new software, I find out it hasn't been installed. If I then restart the install packages via yast (it happens with yast and yast2, through a remote SSH session or not), I have to reselect the software I wanted to install. Some of the software of course has already been installed. If I repeat the procedure it starts installing again, and then suddenly, before it has finished, it asks me again whether I want to install or remove more SW. If I say yes, it goes back to the screen where I can select the software again. As it is still selected, I can use Accept, and the changed packages get listed. I select continue and the installation proceeds. Sometimes it then stops immediately again, sometimes it gets further. Sometimes it even finishes successively after a few retries, but very often it needs a lot of retries, which wastes a lot of time. This has happened on different hardware, so it must be a bug with yast.

**caf4926** · 19-Aug-2008, 02:22

In a terminal go su

type
zypper up

see if that sorts it

**m_frei** · 19-Aug-2008, 03:17

I've meanwhile managed to finish the updates via yast, but I still get the same issue when installing new packages. So I don't think zypper up will do anything.

**m_frei** · 19-Aug-2008, 03:28

As I thought, zypper up didn't help...

**deano_ferrari** · 19-Aug-2008, 03:33

Actually, some users have has similar problems with yast as you've described, and the zypper update has helped with upgrading packages including problematic yast package versions. So, I recommend trying it if you still have problems.

Edit: Just read your last post. Were the updates initiated by opensuseupdater with PackageKit backend?

**m_frei** · 19-Aug-2008, 03:52

I had run online update via yast a couple of times, until it had managed to get all the updates. And zipper up said nothing to do.

**RedDwarf** · 19-Aug-2008, 04:24

"online update via yast" and "zypper up" make different things. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408675#c8

**m_frei** · 19-Aug-2008, 09:19

Nevertheless, using zypper, it searched, then said nothing to do.

**caf4926** · 19-Aug-2008, 09:31

try

zypper in -f yast
zypper up -f package libzypp zypper

see if that gets Yast working

**m_frei** · 20-Aug-2008, 01:48

That didn't help either.

zypper in -f yast2

reinstalled yast2 (with yast nothing was done),

and zypper up -f .... caused an unknown option (-f), so I did

zypper in -f package libzypp zypper which reinstalled zypper.