Re: [SLE] Wow, possible bad YAS update.

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:26:43 -0500

On Tuesday 24 August 2004 10:12, Steve Michael wrote:
> I have had a SuSe 9.1 system running as a test web server for around three
> months now and it has been running well. Until today. Today I used YAST
> to get all the default updates and now the system is acting very weird. I
> will add that I changed my IP address, but I have changed it back.
>
> 1. Samba is dirt slow. Eventually times out
> 2. SSH is fine
> 3. Kde will not start as root or as a normal user
>
> The errors I get when starting kde is "could not start ksmserver. check
> your installation.
>
> It does load the Nvidia driver and comes up with a basic x screen,l but
> when I click on "okay" the screen goes away.
>
> I then get the following:
> Xset: bad font path element errors - the path appears to be correct though.
> DCOPServer self-test failed.
> kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started, aborting.
> Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused.
> .... more errors.
>
> Any ideas on what the heck is going on? I will also add that it just
> pulled down the latest KDE libs. what I would like to do is try GNOME, but
> I don't know how to switch to it via the command line in SuSe.
>
> Thanks for ANY help in this. I am at a point were I might have to
> reinstall :-(
The best thing you can do is an unconditional update --using the installation
CDs. I had to install/update/rinstall or install/update/unconditional update
eight times before I learned my lesson which is:
Rule of thumb to keep SuSE running like a well-oiled machine: NEVER apply
updates! That rule of thumb covers 9.1 & 9.0... prior versions seem not so
suseptible. If it ain't broke...

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