Re: SPARCstation 5 Online Update Hangs

Ditto.  I don't find all the same easy adminstration options in yast2 that I
find in yast.

Was this the intended design of yast2?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hieb" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] 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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