yast won't work in Gnome after upgrade to 11.1

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After updating for the first time (11.0 to 11.1) Yast won’t work in Gnome. I can get the Yast main window to open but none of the modules will work. I tried going to init 3 and updating @system unconditionally there, but this did not help.

The error I get in Gnome is:


(y2controlcenter-gnome:5913): WARNING **: error accessing /desktop/gnome/applications/y2cc-gnome/cc_actions_list [Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)]

Here is what my repos look like:

bay@linux-f5ar:~> zypper lr --details
#  | Alias                              | Name                               | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                              | Service
---+------------------------------------+------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1  | Main Repository (NON-OSS)          | Main Repository (NON-OSS)          | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss/suse |        
2  | Main Repository (OSS)              | Main Repository (OSS)              | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/oss          |        
3  | Packman_Repository                 | Packman_Repository                 | No      | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/11.0/             |        
4  | mozilla_repository_at_opensuse.org | mozilla_repository_at_opensuse.org | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.0  |        
5  | openSUSE 11.1-0                    | openSUSE 11.1-0                    | Yes     | No      |   99     | yast2  | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0                                          |        
6  | repo-debug                         | openSUSE-11.1-Debug                | No      | Yes     |  100     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/   |        
7  | repo-non-oss                       | repo-non-oss                       | No      | No      |  120     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss/     |        
8  | repo-oss                           | repo-oss                           | No      | No      |  120     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/         |        
9  | repo-source                        | openSUSE-11.1-Source               | No      | Yes     |  100     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/  |        
10 | repo-update                        | openSUSE-11.1-Update               | Yes     | Yes     |   20     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/

Any thoughts on what I should do?

Many thanks.

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Do you have the yast2-gtk packages?

3

Yes. v 2.17.8. (It took a while to find out because I had to go to init 3 and then reboot.)

4

Do you have the gvfs package?

5

Yes. I’ve got that too. v 1.0.2-2.19

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Have you updated ALL packages by disabling every other repo except OSS and NON-OSS ? (maybe packman would be useful too). Try to reinstall zypp (that might help)

Priorities may be confusing if i am right then your oss and non-oss repos have the lowest priorities in your system.

I’d also set all 11.1 repos to 99 priority and other to a higher priority or even disable them (the 11.0 ones)

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Thanks for your help.

I was unable to update Non-OSS from the console version of Yast2 (it was reinstalling everything, 4.4Gb or so, at speeds as slow as 4b/s and required constant attention because it kept timing out), so I ended up giving up on updating and installed 11.1 from the beginning. That worked fine–now all I have to do is configure multimedia packages again.