yast error

After update to leap 42.1 console Yast reports error “code converter not found UTF-8 to UTF-16”. Can’t install packages.

You do not give many details :frowning:

Do you get this message before or after the pop-up window that asks for the root password?

Do you get this in a window or in the terminal when you start it from there.

Please, people here may be 100s or 1000s km away from you. We can realy not see what your are doing exactly. We depend on your description.

First of all very sorry about description.

I used Software update in yast from init 3 after logging in under root (because GUI fails to start properly).

Error is in the terminal during package installation (I installed nvidia drivers from newly added repo ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/42.1/). I also tried zypper but that gives error in DB (don’t know if it is logged, it gives full screen errors in red).

Can you, please, check /var/log/YaST2/y2log for relevant errors and post it here?

Really need something about exactly what error messages. We can not see over your shoulder.:stuck_out_tongue:

Is the update to Leap from what version??? Or was this a an update done to already installed leap??

Exactly what video card is it?? is this maybe a notebook that has Optimus configuration (Intel+NVIDIA)

Motherboard have build in graphics
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AT3IONTI/

It should not support optimus as was released before.

Will try to get logs using usb flash

You will need the GO3 (340.96) driver packages

You can install by adding NVIDIA repo then selecting the 5 GO3 packages

I updated from 13.2 to 42.1 leap using zypper dup in init 3 mode.
Yast and zypper give error when installing (actually updating) G03 drivers.

Yast log
https://mega.nz/#!i08z3a5Z

zypper log
https://mega.nz/#!29sTmSBT

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zypper lr -d

When updating on line via zypper you should disable any but the base openSUSE. Do not try to update all repos at once. Crawl before you run

A common problem seems that not all the needed repos are moved to the new version leaving a mixed bag.

When updating I disabled all but four opensuse oss and non oss dist and update repos. After reboot I added nvidia and packman.

zypper lr -d

https://mega.nz/#!65MSERxS

hwinfo

https://mega.nz/#!qlVlGIQC

The url that you have posted require a crypted key. Could you, please, unencrypt the files or post the key?

All above files with key

https://mega.nz/#F!W8VDlYbS!Vwc6DtHtVuL_Gx_O-ECIQQ

hwinfo.txt
https://mega.nz/#!qlVlGIQC!Xv8Cq8lVVb1D4zrhknfd5tPXzK74jlxF5MYfcXSH4O4
y2log 6.4 MB
https://mega.nz/#!i08z3a5Z!bNFY3S-yd-wsA8P-FTslTu2A4C7vDeQKeP6rIO6Att4
zypper.log 15.6 MB
https://mega.nz/#!29sTmSBT!VNBmf69vrt-BUS537onIW2uV_JsFN_JOBanFABMITG8
zypperdist.txt 11 KB
https://mega.nz/#!65MSERxS!GLTSiPX4cQTqqdtreVrlo2-lpI6YT3X7YHLHITKffQY

You have errors in your rpm database. You have to run as root:


rpm --rebuilddb

From your y2log:


2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 RpmDb.cc(doInstallPackage):2044 THROW:    Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: 
error: rpmdb: Requirename page 86 is on free list with type 7
2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 error: rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument
2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 error: db4 error(-30974) from dbcursor->c_put: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run 
database recovery
2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 error: error(-30974) storing record "libc.so.6()(64bit)" into Requirename
2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 error: rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 error: db4 error(-30974) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run 
database recovery
2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 error: error(-30974) setting "libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)" records from Requirename ind
ex
2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 error: rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 error: db4 error(-30974) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run 
database recovery
2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 error: error(-30974) setting "libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)" records from Requirename ind
ex
2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 error: rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
2015-12-23 23:59:10 <5> linux-b5px(2429) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 error: db4 error(-30974) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run 
database recovery


Thank you very much that helped but plasma desktop crashes on startup.

video driver does not matched renel type (kernel was default and video was desktop). Solution replaced video drivers with default version.