yast2 does not work in KDE4.3.4

I moved to KDE4.3.4 which is now the STABLE KDE4 under openSUSE-11.1 and now yast2 does not start. The error message says:
line 440: 5573 segmentation fault $y2ccbin $Y2UI_ARGS “$@”
Is this a known fault or is there something I can do to correct it? How to re-install it, given that it is yast which is broken?

Thanks for help.

first, is there more on the error message? like a file or something?

second, you can try to start yast by typing the following in a terminal:


$ su
$ yast2 --ncurses

this will open a textmode yast. this is keyboard based, but should always work.

Thanks for suggestions.

I have just corrected the issue myself. In fact the software updater worked on its own (i.e. not going via yast control centre) and so I was able to do an unconditional update on yast2_control_center and yast2_control_center_qt and yast now starts under KDE4.3.4.

Hope this helps anyone else with this issue.

Please: not

$ su
$ yast2 --ncurses

but:

$ su -
# yast2 --ncurses

Mind the - parameter of su!
Shorter:

$ su -
# yast

whats the difference except that the first one starts in the current directory (which i usually want)?

You can of course find the exact difference in

man su

In short, you will have root powers, but still the end-users environment. This may be annoying because e.g. /sbin is not in your PATH, but even dangerous because the users umask, alisases and PATH variable (there may be more) can lead to unexpected execution of the wrong program in the wrong place.