Re: SPARCstation 5 Online Update Hangs

I find using 'yast' much more effective than 'yast2'.

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:57:02 -0600
"rjmunson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have a SS5 running SuSE sparc 7.3, on the 2.2.20 kernel.  It is a
> totally vanilla install from the cd's.  Some of the recent sendmail
> vulnerabilities etc have encouraged me to get a regular update working
> for this system.
> 
> I fired up yast2, and went to the online update, picked the
> ftp.gwdg.de site and all seemed to be going well.  The first thing it
> made me do was update yast2-core-pkginfo, it was successful in
> downloading / installing this.
> 
> Then I went back into yast2 and connected again to get the rest of the
> package.  After the package update descriptions are downloaded the
> session disconnects from the ftp server, and then the system hangs. 
> CPU goes to 100%, with one process "y2bignfat" taking about 99%.  No
> other processes spawned from this session are running, and the system
> seems to stay in this state indefinitely.
> 
> I searched the archives on this list and followed the instructions
> regarding updating the /var/lib/YaST/update.inf, and the
> /var/adm/current_package_descr/ area.  I tried the update again, and
> got the same issue.
> 
> I also get 1000's of these lines in the /var/log/y2log file:
> [yast2-core-pkginfo] RawPackageInfo.cc(getProvides):485 common.pkd
> already closed
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan
> 
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