YaST2 is not working

Any further advice on how to fix this problem?

Well, I have no idea what could be wrong…
The fact is that ruby cannot load fast_gettext, but I’m not really a ruby expert and don’t know how to find out why.

Does Yast work in text mode? (just type “sudo /sbin/yast” into a terminal window)

Maybe you have set some RUBY envvars that cause this?

env | grep RUBY

Huh. Text mode didn’t work before, but now it does.

 darin@slackerd:~> env | grep RUBYMY_RUBY_HOME=/home/darin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247
RUBY_VERSION=ruby-2.0.0-p247

Oh, for heaven’s sake. Turns out I did have a self-compiled ruby installed. I forgot that I still had rvm installed from when I was running Slackware on this PC. I just removed the .rvm folder, and removed the calls to it in .bashrc and .bashprofile. I then rebooted the machine, started up Install/Remove software, and it loaded right up.

http://hh6ic34lwtx1ijlrnx2rpd644.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/files/2013/08/double-facepalm-picard-riker-2.jpg

Sorry about taking up your time. Man, I feel stupid right now.

On 2013-12-27 05:06, SlackerD wrote:

> Code:
> --------------------
> darin@slackerd:~> env | grep RUBY
> MY_RUBY_HOME=/home/darin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247
> RUBY_VERSION=ruby-2.0.0-p247
>
> --------------------

Why do you have that? It could be the cause of your problems. :-?


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Elessar))

On 2013-12-27 05:16, SlackerD wrote:
>
> Oh, for heaven’s sake. Turns out I -did- have a self-compiled ruby
> installed. I forgot that I still had rvm installed from when I was
> running Slackware on this PC. I just removed the .rvm folder, and
> removed the calls to it in .bashrc and .bashprofile. I then rebooted the
> machine, started up Install/Remove software, and it loaded right up.

Question.

Were you running YaST after doing “su”, or doing “su -”, or perhaps “sudo”? There are differences.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Elessar))

On 2013-12-27 05:16, SlackerD wrote:
>
> Oh, for heaven’s sake. Turns out I -did- have a self-compiled ruby
> installed. I forgot that I still had rvm installed from when I was
> running Slackware on this PC. I just removed the .rvm folder, and
> removed the calls to it in .bashrc and .bashprofile. I then rebooted the
> machine, started up Install/Remove software, and it loaded right up.
>
> [image:
> http://hh6ic34lwtx1ijlrnx2rpd644.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/files/2013/08/double-facepalm-picard-riker-2.jpg]
>
>
> Sorry about taking up your time. Man, I feel stupid right now.

Oh, well… mistery solved :slight_smile:


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Elessar))

to clarify it was a bug in yast not resetting environment variables => http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00030.html