Broken modules in YaST (OpenSuSE 10.3)

[Edward78]

When I am in YaST & click on the bootloader it never even opens, I just get the clock curser for 5 secs (?) then it just turns normal. When I go to the patitioner, it gets stuck at initailizing, unless I ctrl-alt-esc the window stays open.

 

[.walls]

Try using YaST from a virtual console - I used to find that it was much faster and things generally worked better that way, although - it's not as pretty using ncurses instead of qt/gtk.

Also, you can configure the GRUB menu using a text editor (vi/emacs/nano/etc) - it's located in /boot/grub/ and is either called menu.lst or grub.conf (some versions of GRUB use one, some use the other). To edit the bootloader itself - which you shouldn't normally have to do - you can use the

# grub

command. I recommend reading

$ man grub

first though!

 

[FirebarUK]

If you can get into the software manager, try reinstalling the yast modules. I think they are usually `yast2-whatever`. If the software management module doesn't work, use zypper to add / remove.