yast2 shot dead

**topitz** · 07-Dec-2008, 13:25

greetings,
i think i totally shot the gui on yast 2 ... i did an update, and ever since i get 'error while creating client module*' message, no matter on what i click in the yast control centre ... i googled hours to find asolution, but nothing seems to fix it ... things tried so far:
loggin in as level 3 and starting yast -- yast won't start up
smart upgrade 'yast2*' -- 'no interesting updates available'
'zypper up' in terminal produces and executes updates, but does not fix the problem
'zypper dup' in terminal gets to computate upgrade and hangs itself there ....
anyone has got something i haven't tried ... thanks people ...theo

**Magic31** · 07-Dec-2008, 13:34

Hi Theo,

Besides the YaST issuse... Is your system working normally?
Any idea what the update where you placed?

Also, which version of openSUSE are you running?

If YaST won't start, not even in ncurses console mode, you still have the option of downloading rpm's from the repository using wget or a browser.
You might get things working by installing selective YaST rpms.

Before doing this... any interesting messages in /var/log/YaST2/y2log or y2start.log ?

Cheers,
Wj

**topitz** · 07-Dec-2008, 16:14

hallo WJ ... thanks for replying ... here the answers to your comments:
1.) everything except yast seems to be working fine (well except for the annoying issue of ndiswrapper dropping the wifi all the time, but i already do research for that at the wifi forum) ...
2.) i can't tell you a specific update ... whenever opensuse updater indicates there are updates, but refuses to execute the update, i go (well: went) into yast-->software mgnt-->package groups-->all packages and then right-clicked in the package list and chose 'all in this list->update, if newer versions are available' ....
3.) on that machine: opensuse 11.0 with kde3 (i test 11.1 on the other) ...
4). the only way, updates work is through console and 'zypper up' ... one-click install via opensuse's software repositories brings the same yast error ... installing via wget i never tried (and i admit, wouldn't really know how ... also, i am still learning console commands, so i also do not really know how to install via terminal) ...
5.) when i did '/var/log/YaST2/y2log' and '.../y2start.log', i got the 'no permission'-reply ... even as superuser ...
theo

**caf4926** · 07-Dec-2008, 22:33

You could try

zypper in -f yast2*

**topitz** · 08-Dec-2008, 06:48

>>You could try
>>
>>zypper in -f yast2*

just tried that and got the following system reply:

linux-sne5:~ # zypper in -f yast2*
Metadaten von Repository 'KDE4 Qt44' werden abgerufen [fertig]
Zwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'KDE4 Qt44' wird erzeugt [fertig]
Metadaten von Repository 'Packman RPMs' werden abgerufen [fertig]
Zwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'Packman RPMs' wird erzeugt [fertig]
Metadaten von Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Community' werden abgerufen [fertig]
Zwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Community' wird erzeugt [fertig]
Metadaten von Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Mono:Community' werden abgerufen [fertig]
Zwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Mono:Community' wird erzeugt [fertig]
Metadaten von Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Treiber f�r Web-Cams' werden abgerufen [fertig]
Zwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Treiber f�r Web-Cams' wird erzeugt [fertig]
Metadaten von Repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pikerhog:/utils/openSUSE_11.0' werden abgerufen Metadaten von Repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pikerhog:/utils/openSUSE_11.0' werden abgerufen Metadaten von Repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pikerhog:/utils/openSUSE_11.0' werden abgerufen [fertig]
Zwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pikerhog:/utils/openSUSE_11.0' wird erzeuZwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pikerhog:/utils/openSUSE_11.0' wird erzeuZwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pikerhog:/utils/openSUSE_11.0' wird erzeuZwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pikerhog:/utils/openSUSE_11.0' wird erzeuZwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pikerhog:/utils/openSUSE_11.0' wird erzeugt [fertig]
Metadaten von Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla' werden abgerufen [fertig]
Zwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla' wird erzeugt [fertig]
Metadaten von Repository 'Packman Repository' werden abgerufen [fertig]
Zwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'Packman Repository' wird erzeugt [fertig]
Metadaten von Repository 'http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/11.0' werden abgerufen [fertig]
Zwischenspeicher f�r Repository 'http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/11.0' wird erzeugt [fertig]
Daten des Repositorys laden...
Installierte Pakete lesen...
'yast2*' nicht gefunden
Paketabh�ngigkeiten aufl�sen...
Keine auszuf�hrenden Aktionen.
linux-sne5:~ #

theo

**Magic31** · 08-Dec-2008, 08:05

That is strange... Especially the ''yast2*' nicht gefunden'.
It could be that your repository list is incomplete (missing the main, oss and non-oss repos).

For a complete view, please post the output of
zypper lr

Not that it's a problem, but you do have quite some build and 3d party repositories in your list. This could cause dependency issues with certain packages... again, no drama.. just meant as a heads up!

**topitz** · 08-Dec-2008, 09:15

hier is the output of 'zypper lr'

# | Alias | Name | Aktiviert | Aktualisieren
---+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+--------------
1 | 20081124-214811 | 20081124-214811 | Ja | Ja
2 | KDE4_Qt | KDE4 Qt | Ja | Ja
3 | KDE4_Qt44 | KDE4 Qt44 | Ja | Ja
4 | Packman_RPMs | Packman RPMs | Ja | Ja
5 | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0 | NVIDIA Repository | Ja | Ja
6 | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss | Haupt-Repository (NON-OSS) | Ja | Ja
7 | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/oss | Haupt-Repository (OSS) | Ja | Ja
8 | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/oss/suse | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/oss/suse | Ja | Ja
9 | Index of /repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - Wine CVS-Pakete | Ja | Ja
10 | Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Community | Ja | Ja
11 | Index of /repositories/GNOME:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:STABLE | Ja | Ja
12 | Index of /repositories/KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports | Ja | Ja
13 | Index of /repositories/KDE:/Community/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Community | Ja | Ja
14 | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - KDE4:Factory

esktop | Ja | Ja
15 | Index of /repositories/Mono:/Community/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - Mono:Community | Ja | Ja
16 | Index of /repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org | Ja | Ja
17 | Index of /repositories/Virtualization:/Qemu/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - Virtualisierung (QEMU) | Ja | Ja
18 | Index of /repositories/Virtualization:/VirtualBox/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - Virtualisierung (VirtualBox) | Ja | Ja
19 | Index of /repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - X11

GL | Ja | Ja
20 | Index of /repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - XFCE | Ja | Ja
21 | Index of /repositories/drivers:/webcam/openSUSE_11.0_Update | openSUSE BuildService - Treiber f�r Web-Cams | Ja | Ja
22 | Index of /repositories/home:/jsmeix/openSUSE_11.0 | Index of /repositories/home:/jsmeix/openSUSE_11.0 | Ja | Ja
23 | Index of /repositories/home:/pikerhog:/utils/openSUSE_11.0 | Index of /repositories/home:/pikerhog:/utils/openSUSE_11.0 | Ja | Ja
24 | Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla | Ja | Ja
25 | Index of /repositories/server:/database/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - Datenbank | Ja | Ja
26 | Index of /repositories/server:/mail/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - Mail Server | Ja | Ja
27 | Index of /repositories/server:/php/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - PHP | Ja | Ja
28 | Index of /update/11.0 | Hauptaktualisierungs-Repository | Ja | Ja
29 | Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0/ | VideoLan Repository | Ja | Ja
30 | Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.0 | Packman Repository | Ja | Ja
31 | Index of /suse/11.0 | Index of /suse/11.0 | Ja | Ja
32 | Index of /download/repo/1.0/11.0 | openSUSE Education | Ja | Ja
33 | http://www2.ati.com/suse/11.0 | ATI Repository | Ja | Ja
34 | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | Ja | Ja
35 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | Nein | Nein

theo

**caf4926** · 08-Dec-2008, 09:17

That is strange... Especially the ''yast2*' nicht gefunden'.

I was scratching my head on that too.

I'll be interested to see the output of : zypper lr

*edit: it arrived as I typed

**caf4926** · 08-Dec-2008, 09:24

So in a terminal do:

rpm -qi yast2

post result

**topitz** · 08-Dec-2008, 09:32

here it is ...

linux-sne5:~ # rpm -qi yast2
Name : yast2 Relocations: /usr
Version : 2.16.71 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Release : 6.1 Build Date: Fr 06 Jun 2008 23:15:59 CDT
Install Date: Do 04 Dez 2008 22:46:43 CST Build Host: cimarosa.suse.de
Group : System/YaST Source RPM: yast2-2.16.71-6.1.src.rpm
Size : 3206436 License: GPL v2 or later
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Fr 06 Jun 2008 23:18:07 CDT, Key ID a84edae89c800aca
Packager : Submitting Bug Reports - openSUSE
Summary : YaST2 - Main Package
Description :
This package contains scripts and data needed for SuSE Linux
installation with YaST2

Authors:
--------
Michael Andres <ma@suse.de>
Waldo Bastian <bastian@suse.de>
Michael Hager <mike@suse.de>
Stefan Hundhammer <sh@suse.de>
Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@suse.de>
Mathias Kettner <kettner@suse.de>
Thomas Roelz <tom@suse.de>
Arvin Schnell <arvin@suse.de>
Stefan Schubert <schubi@suse.de>
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.de>
Martin Vidner <mvidner@suse.cz>
Jiri Srain <jsrain@suse.cz>
Lukas Ocilka <locilka@suse.cz>
Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@suse.cz>
Jiri Suchomel <jsuchome@suse.cz>
Ladislav Slezak <lslezak@suse.cz>
Distribution: openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)
linux-sne5:~ #

theo