Re: [Sheflug] Oh gloom :(

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Steve Tickle wrote:

> I promise you I haven't done anything silly but YaST has taken it upon
> itself to suddenly refuse to run on my SuSE 6.3 box. I'd only recently
> successfully used it to uninstall some lo longer reguired app but now when
> I try to run it, it hangs at the splash screen. While the keyboard hasn't
> actually locked up (I can switch between VT's) I can't type anything in at
> the command prompt.
> 
> I'd really like YaST working again but does anyone have any suggestion what
> may have gone wrong and how to fix it without a complete reinstall? Is
> there likely to be any log entries tucked away somewhere which might shed
> some light on the problem?

Run strace yast 2>/tmp/log

Then type sync and view /tmp/log and see what the last few lines were, it's
probably waiting to open a file/device that is locked for some reason.

Damion

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