samba browsing firewall problems

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#1

am trying to open up the firewall in order to et up home network with XP computer.
Using Opensuse 11.1 with KDE 4.2

Problem I have is with firewall disabled network works perfectly.

I want to enable the firewall and am following Swerdna’s guide here
Samba and Suse: HowTo Set up an openSUSE-Windows Home Office LAN/Network. Versions 10, 11

However, any time I hit apply, next, OK etc in yast2 / firewall
The firewall / yast 2 crashes and I simply cannot apply any of the settings in swerdna’s guide.

Here is the error dialogue that opens every time yast2 crashes.
I get it for other utilities in yast but usually try again and it works. With the firewall it crashes every time.


Loading socket Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading x11 FrontEnd module ...
Failed to load x11 FrontEnd module.
Loading simple Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading socket FrontEnd module ...
Starting SCIM as daemon ...
YaST got signal 11 at YCP file DialogTree.ycp:267
/sbin/yast2: line 437:  4563 Segmentation fault      $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS
Loading socket Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading x11 FrontEnd module ...
Failed to load x11 FrontEnd module.
Loading simple Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading socket FrontEnd module ...
Starting SCIM as daemon ...
#2

You could try using yast from outside X
Boot to level3 CLI user and go su and start yast

yast

or try
su terminal

rpmdb --rebuilddb

it take a little while

#3

What will this do?
Will it mess with any settings I have already input successfully in yast or any other settings anywhere?

#4

On Sun February 22 2009 01:56 am, farcusnz wrote:

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> caf4926;1947731 Wrote:
>>
>> su terminal
>>
>> rpmdb --rebuilddb
>>
>> it take a little while
>
> What will this do?
> Will it mess with any settings I have already input successfully in
> yast or any other settings anywhere?
>
>
It rebuilds the YAST database. Should cause no harm.

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

#5

rebuilding the database didn’t help. Still seeing the crash after that.

Did manage to get things sorted using the old ascii interface.

Wondering if there are problems with yast 2 in general. since 10.3 when yast2 received a major makeover have been seeing crashes more often with each incremental release - this definitely being the worst.

#6

On Sun February 22 2009 07:46 pm, farcusnz wrote:

>
> rebuilding the database didn’t help. Still seeing the crash after that.
>
> Did manage to get things sorted using the old ascii interface.
>
> Wondering if there are problems with yast 2 in general. since 10.3 when
> yast2 received a major makeover have been seeing crashes more often with
> each incremental release - this definitely being the worst.
>
>
farcusnz;
Maybe you should open a tread in the install-boot forum on your YAST crashes.
It would likely get more attention there then here in the Network forum. Be
sure to mention if this was an update of 10.3 or a fresh install. If you
took the update route, maybe there are pieces of the 10.3 YAST lying around.

Have you considered just reinstalling YAST? Never tried this, but you should
be able to do it from the DVD.

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

#7

possibly yes - but on the other hand all the crash issues are related to network settings in yast through either samba or the firewall. haven’t had issues with other yast components.

Clean install of 11.1

#8

On Sun February 22 2009 08:56 pm, farcusnz wrote:

>
> possibly yes - but on the other hand all the crash issues are related to
> network settings in yast through either samba or the firewall. haven’t
> had issues with other yast components.
>
> Clean install of 11.1
>
>
farcsnuz;

Have you checked the logs in:
/var/log/YaST2/
They may shed some light on this. It sounds like something in YAST2 is
corrupt on your system.

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green