After installing some dependencies, yast will no longer launch

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#1

I am using the newest opensuse install (13.1 I believe), fresh install off new HD with the ldxe gui.

I need to install automake and a few other deps to install the geda suite, and I installed them directly from the yast interface. However, right after the install from yast, I am no longer able to open the yast interface either from a xterm or launching any yast app from the gui interface.

For example, if I ssh into the box and type in yast, the command promp does nothing, no error messages, and just returns to the command prompt without loading the yast interface. I can of course just wipe the HD and reinstall linux fresh but I’m hoping to avoid that and instead find out what is going on. Im not sure if this is relevant but here are the contents of /var/log/YaST2/y2log:

2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):575 Launched YaST2 component ‘y2base’ ‘menu’ ‘ncurses’
2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [ui-component] YUIComponentCreator.cc(createInternal):124 Creating UI component for “”
2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):764 YAST_IS_RUNNING is yes
2013-11-28 03:33:27 <3> compsrv1(3671) [Y2Ruby] binary/YRuby.cc(callClient):238 cannot require yast:cannot load such file – fast_gettext at /usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in `require’
2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):778 Finished YaST2 component ‘y2base’
2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):783 Exiting with client return value ‘false’

#2

fusion9161 wrote:
>
> I am using the newest opensuse install (13.1 I believe), fresh install
> off new HD with the ldxe gui.
>
> I need to install automake and a few other deps to install the geda
> suite, and I installed them directly from the yast interface. However,
> right after the install from yast, I am no longer able to open the yast
> interface either from a xterm or launching any yast app from the gui
> interface.
>
> For example, if I ssh into the box and type in yast, the command promp
> does nothing, no error messages, and just returns to the command prompt
> without loading the yast interface. I can of course just wipe the HD and
> reinstall linux fresh but I’m hoping to avoid that and instead find out
> what is going on. Im not sure if this is relevant but here are the
> contents of /var/log/YaST2/y2log:
>
> 2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2]
> genericfrontend.cc(main):575 Launched YaST2 component ‘y2base’ ‘menu’
> ‘ncurses’
> 2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [ui-component]
> YUIComponentCreator.cc(createInternal):124 Creating UI component for “”
> 2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2]
> genericfrontend.cc(main):764 YAST_IS_RUNNING is yes
> 2013-11-28 03:33:27 <3> compsrv1(3671) [Y2Ruby]
> binary/YRuby.cc(callClient):238 cannot require yast:cannot load such
> file – fast_gettext at
> /usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in `require’
> 2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2]
> genericfrontend.cc(main):778 Finished YaST2 component ‘y2base’
> 2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2]
> genericfrontend.cc(main):783 Exiting with client return value ‘false’
>
>

if zypper works then disable all other repos except 4 repos
(oss,nonoss,update,non-oss update) and do a, zypper dup to restore openSUSE

List repos using zypper lr -d

Note down the repos numbers and disable repos using

zypper mr --disable 1 2 3

where 1,2,3 are repos nmumbers

–
GNOME 3.10.1
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop

#3

You could open up a terminal session, run the following command:

zypper repos -u

Post the output of this command inside code # tags. I had this occur in openSUSE 12.2 once as I recall.

Thank You,

#4

Try to (re-)install rubygems-fast_gettext:

sudo zypper in -f rubygems-fast_gettext
#5

So you have a guess as to what is wrong here? What is “rubygems-fast_gettext”?

Thank You,

#6

Great that worked perfect. Thanks!!!

#7

It’s a ruby package that YaST uses/needs. (YaST has been “translated” from YCP to ruby for 13.1 as you may know)
Something like a library.

Description :A simple, fast, memory-efficient and threadsafe implementation of GetText

https://github.com/grosser/fast_gettext

I have no idea though what’s wrong there. Maybe some file of this package got corrupted/removed?
Maybe an incompatible version from a non-standard repo was installed?