So guys to make a long story short: suddenly after 6 months of very good work yast freezes when managing packages. I have a lot of repositories in it. At launch yast refreshes those repo regularly but at the end of this process it freezes when it shows ‘initializing’ and the only way to stop it is a kill. Nothing has been done in the last month, i mean upgrading, so simply decided to die. I tried also in a console (x stopped, init 3) but the thing remains the same. Someone ever had am experience like this or any kind of solution?thanks
It’s also possible that your rpm database has gone south. If that is the case you should execute ‘rpmdb --rebuilddb’ as root. I’ve also experienced trouble with yast, but I’ve received an error about corrupt database. Maybe this might also be the source of your problem. On the other hand you could try to remove nearly everything as repository and only leave the stock repositories intact. After success try adding the extra repositories and see if you success.
Hi bcrisciotti,
Well I believe that what you are noticing on Yast can have something to do also with all the problems I get on my GNOME desktop after recent updates through software-updater-applet.
First of all it is necessary I supply further details of my linux configuration:
O.S. openSUSE 10.3
HW: HP Pavillion laptop
CPU: AMD Turion 64
After one of the last software updates, whereby have been updated gdm, gnome-screensaver, gtk2, gtk2-32bits, libgnome-kbd,libxklavier…,etc, by rebooting the system, I noticed that GNOME Desktop was not working anymore.
After a long time spent to find a solution, I downgrade to the previous versions of (what I think) the most relevant pkgs.
Actually GNOME DT is up again but it is still suffering some broken issue, as for example that Evolution GPG it is not usable due the fact I cannot input the pin code to sign the email.
I also registered a BUG of this problem :https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406967
but until now I have not get any relevant instructions to restore my system.
Furthermore now I am very scared to use Yast again.
BR
So those are the news. I rebuilded the rpm database. Something has changed. Now i can reach the package management, but just before i get this error:
SQL logic error or missing database.
So it’s a problem related to mysql.But it’s running! Any idea?
As you have rebuilt the rpm database also rebuild the zypper database itself. Might fix this. To do this open a console and as root;
cd /var/cache/zypp
rm zypp.db
zypper refresh
hope that helps,
Wj
ps. this is valid for 10.3 , 11.0 works a tad different due to the new satsolver.
SOLVED! Thanks to all for this geat help!