I tried to install gnome and make it my default DE. I started up the Yast “Install/Remove Software” application, Switched to View->Patterns picked gnome desktop environment and pressed “Accept”. It was crunching away until it got stuck and it was stuck for a solid 30 minutes. My internet connection was working, so i killed the process and tried again. But since then when I press Accept the app just crashes.
Do you allready have an idea why it crashes ? Did you check logfiles for error messages ? Did you start the app from command line ( IIRC “yast2 sw_single”) and watch the output there ? Mightbe it is also something like “disk full”.