Cannot start YaST - error message attached

I tried to start YaST this morning. Initialisation failed with this error message:

here was an error in the repository initialization.
http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/1.0/11.0’: Failed to cache repo (4).
History:

  • repo2solv.sh “/var/cache/zypp/raw/http:__www.opensuse-education.org_download_repo_1.0_11.0” > “/var/cache/zypp/solv/http:__www.opensuse-education.org_download_repo_1.0_11.0/solv”
    Bad dependency line: 7304: =Prv: /etc/settings/iTALC
    cat: write error: Broken pipe
    cat: write error: Broken pipe
    cat: write error: Broken pipe

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

I have no idea what to do with this information or how to overcome the problem.

I should also say that I have been living for a week with an error message on system start up with words to the effect of ‘an unexpected error has occurred’. Could this system start-up error have also caused this later problem with YaST?

To me, all errors are unexpected!
Could somebody advise me please?

Sorry, I didn’t realise that the earlier system error message I referred to was still being displayed; here it is:

"An internal system error has occurred

A problem that we were not expecting has occurred.
Please report this bug with the rror description."

The ‘more details’ button reveals:

http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/1.0/11.0: Failed to cache repo (4).

I’ve had a similar message today. In the meantime I just unsubscribed to the repository until things are sorted. Are you able to access YaST > Software Repositories to do that?

‘Cannot start YaST’. That was what attrackted me to your thread. But you can start YaST. You caa choose Software. It is only when it comes to Software Management that it sucks.

Creating short, but clear headings is difficult isn’t it?:wink:

May be there is something with the rep. I simply should try later.

I recieved the same error today. What can I do to fix it? It says
“Package Kit Error” for the title of the window. Then right below it says: “An internal system error has occurred. A problem that we were not expecting has occurred. Please report this bug with the error description.”
More Details:
http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/1.0/11.0: Failed to cache repo (4).

what can I do to resolve this? I installed opensuse this weekend and everything else is working fine other than this.
Thank you.

I did not install 11.0 until now, so I do not have that repo myself. But I clicked on tthe link you provided (do it yourself in a browser) and it is definitly not a repo!.

What repo should it be? Something to do with educational software?

I have no idea what repo it should be, but what I do know is that I went into yast, selected software repositories, then looked up the repo. I unselected it, refreshed the list, and finally restarted my computer. To my dismay I received the same error message. So I went back in and deleted the repo, restarted the computer again, and again I got the same error message even though the repo was deleted. I then re-added the repo back to the list but unselected it one more time, then restarted my computer one more time and finally came up without the error message and my computer was able to download some software updates once I did that. That’s how it worked for me, so you might want to un-check it and restart your computer or you can delete that repo, add it back then restart your computer like I did which fixed the problem. I think that repo is for any type of education apps that you might have with suse. I haven’t looked to see what education programs came with the OS. Let me know how it goes.

I am glad you soved the problem, but it stays a bit of a riddle.

BTW all that restarting is not needed. This is not Windoze. Restarting YaST should be suufficient.

yes it does stay a riddle, for now. If I can find something that will solve it I will let you know. Thanks for letting me know about restarting the computer. I thought I had to do that every time. I’m somewhat of a newbie to Linux and have used Windows for the last 20 years of my life, hence why I love Linux. It is so much better.

Normaly one only has to reboot when the kernel changed and that is not too often :slight_smile:

When X (the GUI) is updated, log-out log-in is sufficient.

And when a program is updated, restart the program

But even then everything will normaly stay running until you do stop it.

Just think about what would happen if all those Unix/Linux servers would be rebooted when only an unimportant tool was changed?

thank you for all the info. I really do appreciate it.:slight_smile:

Yes, it is difficult - but it is also most important, for 2 reasons in my opinion:

  1. It allows the reader to decide more efficiently if this is a post which is of interest, either to read or to respond to

  2. It increases the likelihood of a productive response.

So, as a really new user, how did I do?

And, indeed, I could start YaST - but not without an error message. And that seemed to have attracted not only attention, but also a solution.

As you guessed there was/is something wrong with the rep. Having deleted it, the Package Manager now start without a problem.

Thanks for this observation - it truly makes a viable argument for replacing Windows with Linux. I was getting more and more p***ed off with that OS - which Gill Bates (I think that is her name) created for the exclusive benefit of herself (money) and criminals (ditto) at our expense. This has really hurt me when one of the foreign students I support asked a friend to rebuild her computer - using less than fully authorised sources to obtain licensed software.

I read today (The Register: Sci/Tech News for the World) that the average life span of an unprotected Win PC on the internet is 4 MINUTES!. She was on my home network all day downloading malware (unknowingly). That stuff got out onto my network, infecting my own (windows) PCs. I have had to change all my passwords (about 200 of them), plus details with all my financial institutions, as well as try to clean up 5 computers. I’m switching to Linux as robustly as I can.

So, thanks Miss Bates and M$ for making such a wonderful criminal-supporting OS. ***k you and all who sail in you.

(I just wish Linux wasn’t so hard to switch to after 25 years of the other!)

Thanks for this observation - it truly makes a viable argument for replacing Windows with Linux. I was getting more and more p***ed off with that OS - which Gill Bates (I think that is her name) created for the exclusive benefit of herself (money) and criminals (ditto) at our expense. This has really hurt me when one of the foreign students I support asked a friend to rebuild her computer - using less than fully authorised sources to obtain licensed software.

I read today (The Register: Sci/Tech News for the World) that the average life span of an unprotected Win PC on the Internet is 4 MINUTES!. She was on my home network all day downloading malware (unknowingly). That stuff got out onto my network, infecting my own (windows) PCs. I have had to change all my passwords (about 200 of them), plus details with all my financial institutions, as well as try to clean up 5 computers. I’m switching to Linux as robustly as I can.

So, thanks Miss Bates and M$ for making such a wonderful criminal-supporting OS. ***k you and all who sail in you.

(I just wish Linux wasn’t so hard to switch to after 25 years of the other!)

Wish you all the best using Linux. The only thing now and then is forgetting what you learned about the other OS. And … when in troubles … ask the forums :smiley:

Hi there,

I was having the same problem. What i did was go to yast -> software repositories, then delete every single repo. I then went to yast -> online update configuration and did the configuration. I then went to yast -> add-on product selected community repositories and select all the repo’s that i had before, then i clicked finished, and walla, alls good, now only too add the few repos that do not appear in the add-product list.

If your using KDE 4 watch out for the factory repositories!

greets,
Wernher

Simple solution: the Education repository was broken. (Note: the 11.0 repository is still in “Beta” phase and will hopefully get the official “final” status next month.)

The problem is fixed now. Thanks to the one reporting this in the Education-Bugzilla. :wink:

With kind regards,
Lars