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linuxvinh
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 25
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 Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:24 am Post subject:
YaST2 stopped working after apt-get upgrade
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Hi,
I just used apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade to update
my SuSE 9.1 Pro system. Now, YaST2 stopped launching from the
system menu. I used the commandline...
# yast2 'menu'
warning: the qt frontend is installed but does not work
warning: the ncurses frontend is installed but does not work
You need to install yast2-ncurses to use the YaST2 text mode interface
I looked up the first warning and found this webpage:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/08/thallma_91_yastafteryou.html
I followed the directions. After a bit of confusion from the
browser thinking the .rpm was a RealAudio file, I just used
ftp to download the popt.rpm file. I tried to install the package
and was told my system already contained the newest version.
("apt-get install popt" indicated this too.)
On my system,
# ls -l /usr/lib/libpopt.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2004-09-15 12:17 libpopt.so.0 ->
libpopt.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31837 2004-04-25 09:40 libpopt.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2004-08-22 11:03 libpopt.so.1 ->
libpopt.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31837 2004-04-25 09:40 libpopt.so.1.0.0
What else can I check and do to get YaST2 working again?
Thanks,
Vinh |
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mjt
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 09 Mar 2005
Posts: 961
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:24 am Post subject:
Re: YaST2 stopped working after apt-get upgrade
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linuxvinh wrote:
| Quote: | What else can I check and do to get YaST2 working again?
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.... if you could, try this:
[shell] nohup strace yast2
when you get the commandline back, post the contents
of the 'nohup.out' file for us to see. if it's more
than 200 lines long, post to a website or you can
email it to me.
--
<< http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >>
Boling's postulate: If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it. |
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linuxvinh
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 25
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject:
Re: YaST2 stopped working after apt-get upgrade
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| Quote: | ... if you could, try this:
[shell] nohup strace yast2
when you get the commandline back, post the contents
of the 'nohup.out' file for us to see. if it's more
than 200 lines long, post to a website or you can
email it to me.
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Thanks for looking at this!
http://www.geocities.com/linuxvinh/nohup.out.html
Vinh |
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Kevin Nathan
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 24 Mar 2005
Posts: 2026
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:20 am Post subject:
Re: YaST2 stopped working after apt-get upgrade
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On 5 Feb 2005 04:24:31 -0800
"linuxvinh" <linuxvinh@yahoo.com> wrote:
| Quote: | warning: the qt frontend is installed but does not work
warning: the ncurses frontend is installed but does not work
You need to install yast2-ncurses to use the YaST2 text mode interface
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I know this sounds weird, but remove and re-install the 'curl' package.
(This was the solution found in an earlier thread on this ng.)
--
Kevin Nathan (Arizona, USA)
Open standards. Open source. Open minds.
The command line is the front line.
Linux 2.6.8-24.11-default
7:19pm up 7:15, 8 users, load average: 1.00, 0.63, 0.55 |
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Marvyn von Mars
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Posts: 29
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:23 am Post subject:
Re: YaST2 stopped working after apt-get upgrade
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Kevin Nathan wrote:
| Quote: | On 5 Feb 2005 04:24:31 -0800
"linuxvinh" <linuxvinh@yahoo.com> wrote:
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| Quote: | I know this sounds weird, but remove and re-install the 'curl' package.
(This was the solution found in an earlier thread on this ng.)
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This is true, as I've just discovered now.
[My story: disregard this if you are in a hurry]
Over the last three months or so, I've had re-installed SUSE 9.0
quite a few times. And the same problem plagued me after 'apt-get'
upgrades.
I've had to disable the SuSEfirewall2 to get on the Internet.
With the consequence of my system getting broken in: my hostname was
changed to some porn site, nmap told me there was a Trojan horse
sitting at Port 6000, 'The Thing' (or it was a Russian test
site when I was fooling around with JAP anonymity proxy.)
For the last I appended '-nolisten tcp' to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.
I don't know if that did any good. (Bob Toxen, "Real World Linux
Security" which upto now has been a shelf decoration; seems full
of practical info.)
With the personal-firewall enabled, I could access YOU or Install-
Remove sources other than the distribution DVD. It wasn't protecting
much, I guess.
So with the last install, I decided to forgo APT and stick with YaST.
I took me some time to update and upgrade the system, though.
This morning I had the idea of going to the Guru's RPM Site and cherry-
pick some of the latest and greatest upgrades including 'curl' and
'curl-devel'. I wrote down which packages I downloaded and installed,
but not the exact version numbers.
After reading the original post, I tried YOU and Install-Remove.
The same old story. This time I read a description of 'curl':
'a client to get documents and files from or send documents to
a server using any of the supported protocols ...'
I replaced the new packages with ones from the distribution DVD.
It's OK now. There was nothing wrong with the packages I had
(they may have been updated slightly through Install-Remove from
the Chicago repository.) No security alerts. I had to have the
latest and ... -- you know the story.
Just try using the 'curl', security-patched if necessary.
I think it'll work.
SuSE 9.0, fully updated and upgraded but not loaded
with the latest, the greatest, the newest
(not any more ... for a while ... anyway,
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linuxvinh
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:45 am Post subject:
Re: YaST2 stopped working after apt-get upgrade
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Wow, that's some crazy story!
I was lucky that a:
apt-get reinstall curl
solved my problem.
Vinh |
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linuxvinh
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:51 am Post subject:
Re: YaST2 stopped working after apt-get upgrade
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Wow, that's some crazy story!
I was lucky that a:
apt-get reinstall curl
solved my problem.
Vinh |
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mjt
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 09 Mar 2005
Posts: 961
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject:
Re: YaST2 stopped working after apt-get upgrade
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linuxvinh wrote:
| Quote: | ... if you could, try this:
[shell] nohup strace yast2
when you get the commandline back, post the contents
of the 'nohup.out' file for us to see. if it's more
than 200 lines long, post to a website or you can
email it to me.
Thanks for looking at this!
http://www.geocities.com/linuxvinh/nohup.out.html
Vinh
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what happens if you execute the following in, say, 'konsole'
/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2controlcenter
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<< http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >>
Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted. |
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