Post, Mark K wrote:
If your /usr/ filled up, things may be broken in a number of ways. Run "rpm -V" commands on all your packages, particularly the ones dealing with YaST and ncurses.
Thanks for that. When I queried, I got this. zlp1:/var/adm # rpm -V yast2-2.9.89-0.3 Unsatisfied dependencies for yast2-2.9.89-0.3: yast2-core >= 2.9.97 S.5..... /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/yast2 S.5....T /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/yast2-funcs S.5..... /usr/lib/YaST2/servers_non_y2/ag_cron There is no mention of ncurses!
You may also want to drop down to single user mode, unmount /usr, and do an fsck on it.
/usr is stabe and I re-made the file system yesterday during our downtime. We changed it from reiserfs to ext3. So there is no problem there.
SLES9 is most definitely not out of support.
That is assuring. However the support guy did not even bother to ask if it was SLES. Thanks
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 4:12 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Broken Yast2 - a rant When I applied software updates via Yast about 3months ago, my /usr file system filled up and broke Yast. Ever since I get the error message zlp1:~ # yast /sbin/yast: line 115: set_lang_from_sysconfig: command not found /sbin/yast: line 119: check_ncurses: command not found You need to install yast2-ncurses to use the YaST2 text mode interface ncurses appears to be installed! I see zlp1:~ # rpm -qa ncurses ncurses-5.4-61.4 I I have been corresponding with Novell and their support S-U-C-Ks. I have not been able to get anyone to help on this. Just today I finally managed to get to a human only to be told that SuSE9 is out of support and they expect me to re-install with SuSE 10. Is someone kidding me? The person tells me that it is the market trend - just like Microsoft Vista would require a new install in the place of XP. I would like to know what this forum is hearing about this issue. If this is the state of affairs when a big company buys open source, the trend is disturbing! If Novell can not support SuSE, I will go Debian or similar, if I have to install from scratch! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
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