Hi all.
As of a few days ago, I can’t get Yast2 to start with Qt frontend. The GTK frontend works fine. I get no error message. Neither reinstalling it, nor rebooting helped.
Yast2 version 2.17.69-0.1.1 (x86_64). OpenSUSE 11.1 64 bit.
Has anyone had a similar problem?
I’ll appreciate any suggestions.
Cheers.
Victor.
You could try updating via yast (ncurses version) from terminal. You will need to su to root first. Alternatively use zypper to complete update
zypper up
Yes, I can do that and it works, but the problem is not that I can’t find an alternative to Yast2 Qt functionality, but the very fact that Yast2 Qt doesn’t work…
Yes, I can do that and it works, but the problem is not that I can’t find an alternative to Yast2 Qt functionality, but the very fact that Yast2 Qt doesn’t work…
The idea behind using yast or zypper from CLI is to complete any updates (with qt packages for example) that might be causing the yast-qt front-end not to function.
Anyway, you could try launching graphical yast2 via termnial and see what errors get reported from there.
su (to become root, enter root password when prompted)
yast2
It may be a good idea to give us a list of your repos from
zypper lr -d
Nothing happens. It just does nothing so I just Ctrl+C it.
Here is a list of repositories (very long):
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh
—±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------±--------±-------
1 | Education:/Salome:/Factory | Education:/Salome:/Factory | Yes | Yes
2 | KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop | KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop | No | Yes
3 | KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Extra-Apps | KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Extra-Apps | No | Yes
4 | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop | Yes | Yes
5 | KDE:Qt | KDE:Qt | Yes | Yes
6 | devel:/gcc_1 | devel:/gcc | Yes | Yes
7 | devel:/languages:/perl_1 | devel:/languages:/perl | Yes | Yes
8 | devel:/languages:/python_1 | devel:/languages:/python | Yes | Yes
9 | devel:/libraries:/c_c++1 | devel:/libraries:/c_c++ | Yes | Yes
10 | devel:/tools:/building_1 | devel:/tools:/building | Yes | Yes
11 | devel:/tools:/scm_1 | devel:/tools:/scm | Yes | Yes
12 | home:/bitshuffler_1 | home:/bitshuffler | No | Yes
13 | home:/hfiguiere | home:/hfiguiere | Yes | Yes
14 | home:/j-engel | home:/j-engel | Yes | Yes
15 | home:/jnweiger | home:/jnweiger | Yes | Yes
16 | home:/jsakalos | home:/jsakalos | No | Yes
17 | home:/kte608_1 | home:/kte608 | Yes | Yes
18 | home:/lmich | home:/lmich | No | No
19 | home:/pereconstans(cb2bib)1 | home:/pereconstans(cb2bib) | Yes | Yes
20 | home:/rguenther_1 | home:/rguenther | Yes | Yes
21 | home:/soes_1 | home:/soes | Yes | Yes
22 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Extra-Apps/openSUSE_11.1 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Extra-Apps/openSUSE_11.1 | No | Yes
23 | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_UNSTABLE_Desktop | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_UNSTABLE_Desktop | No | Yes
24 | Index of /repositories/Subversion/openSUSE_11.1 | Index of /repositories/Subversion/openSUSE_11.1 | Yes | Yes
25 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/h31/openSUSE_11.0_1 | home:/h31 | Yes | Yes
26 | mozilla:/beta | mozilla:/beta | No | Yes
27 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | No | No
28 | openSUSE:/Tools_1 | openSUSE:/Tools | Yes | Yes
29 | openSUSE_11.1 | openSUSE_11.1 | Yes | Yes
30 | openSUSE_11.1_1 | openSUSE_11.1 | Yes | Yes
31 | openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop | openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop | Yes | Yes
32 | openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop_1 | openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop | Yes | Yes
33 | repo | NVIDIA Repository | Yes | Yes
34 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | Yes | Yes
35 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes
36 | repo_1 | Main Repository (NON-OSS) | Yes | Yes
37 | repo_10 | openSUSE BuildService - X11:Compiz | Yes | Yes
38 | repo_11 | openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla | Yes | Yes
39 | repo_12 | openSUSE BuildService - Database | Yes | Yes
40 | repo_13 | openSUSE BuildService - PHP | Yes | Yes
41 | repo_14 | VideoLan Repository | Yes | Yes
42 | repo_15 | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes
43 | repo_16 | openSUSE Education | Yes | Yes
44 | repo_2 | Main Repository (OSS) | Yes | Yes
45 | repo_3 | openSUSE BuildService - Wine CVS Builds | Yes | Yes
46 | repo_4 | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Community | Yes | Yes
47 | repo_5 | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:STABLE | Yes | Yes
48 | repo_6 | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports | Yes | Yes
49 | repo_7 | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Community | Yes | Yes
50 | repo_8 | openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes
51 | repo_9 | openSUSE BuildService - Virtualization (VirtualBox) | Yes | Yes
52 | repositories/Education_1 | repositories/Education | Yes | Yes
53 | repositories/network:/utilities | repositories/network:/utilities | No | Yes
54 | repositories/science_1 | repositories/science | Yes | Yes
Your configured repositories are in a bit of a mess. I see some duplications for a start. Remove these first. Almost certainly, some of your repos will be causing conflicts. You have to be careful with KDE4 repos in particular. You have the VideoLan and Packman repos simultaneously enabled - that can also cause problems (usually media playback related).
Have a read of this
Repository Management - openSUSE Forums
In general, keep your repositories to a minimum to avoid conflicts and breakage. A good choice would be those added by default at install: oss, non-oss, updates + just ‘Packman’ and ATI or Nvidia if you need these. That should give you all you need. The exception being if you need the libdvdcss package from the VLC repo. To acquire this, add the VLC repo – install libdvdcss and then disable this repo.
caf4926 might be better placed to get you out of this mess.
It might look like a mess, but it isn’t. I’ve had this setup for many months and had no problems. I am not exactly a linux/opensuse beginner so I know how to handle repositories and every single one of them is in the list for a reason. The reason being either my curiosity or need for software that’s not in the default repos. If I have conflicting software, I always remove the repository causing it but this doesn’t happen often.
Anyways, which particular repositories do you think might be the likely cause of the problem? Please also note that some of them are in the list but are in fact disabled.
Just a guess. Might be a conflict between yast from suse repo, update and kde4.3 Try to use the yast from the suse repo or the suse update and take out the yast from kde 4.3. You can select those via the version section of yast software management. You don’t need to disable any repo. Look for the yast2 qt and be sure it will be installed from the mentioned repository.
See what
zypper ve --dry-run
throws up. (You might need to do ‘zypper ref’ first). That should generate a list of dependencies not satisfied if they exist.
Maybe also have a look at
rpm -qa |grep qt
In particular, I would be looking at versions of yast2-qt and libqt4 packages…
Quick update.
Yast2 still doesn’t start, but yast2 qt front end for software management does. I have no idea what changed. I just kept updating the system every day, but didn’t see any particular packages that may have been the reason. I guess I’ll just wait till 11.2 is out and then reinstall the whole thing.