I have an HP Pavilion dv6258se running Suse 10.2. When I install anything using Yast it will install but during the system cleanup when it's writing the configuration it hangs. I even did a complete new reinstall out of desperation and I encountered the same problem after a while. It get's to the ...gtk2 step (that's shown below).

Setting up linker cache
Running SuSEconfig.desktop-file-utils
Running SuSEconfig.fonts
Running SuSEconfig.gnome-vfs2
Running SuSEconfig.groff
Running SuSEconfig.gtk2

What is really wierd is I did a ps -ef to see what's going on but what I saw was what looks like a run-away process spawning over and over. Hundreds of these processes.

root 18838 18837 42 20:41 ? 00:00:01 bash /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.gtk2
root 18839 18838 15 20:41 ? 00:00:00 bash /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.gtk2
root 18840 18839 11 20:41 ? 00:00:00 bash /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.gtk2
root 18841 18840 41 20:41 ? 00:00:00 bash /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.gtk2
root 18842 18841 42 20:41 ? 00:00:00 bash

Some more info on my system
OS Information
OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-0.1-default i686
Current user: fjd@fjd-laptop
System: openSUSE 10.2 (i586)
KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45"
Display Info
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Model: GeForce Go 6150
Driver: nv (No 3D Support)

Yast was working fine for a while and then started acting this way. I tried to figure out what i changed that may have affected it, but with no success.

I'm out of ideas and really need help. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
FJD

Could be a gtk2 upgrade gone mad. I'd try removing & re-installing gtk2, but you may end up removing a lot of software as dependencies.

I appreciate the help. I had become disenchanted with Suse after my 3rd reinstall this month. I've used Suse for many years and many versions but this pushed me to try Kubuntu. I had a lot of trouble installing kubuntu on my HP Pavilion laptop and after a couple days of frustration reinstalled Suse 10.2 with my entire dev environment. It works great (as it always had) but every time I go to yast2 for an install I cringe the problem will re-occurr. I'll just live day by day and enjoy for now. A stable environment to crank out code is my first priority.

Thanks again,
FJD

While I've never had any issues with Kubuntu, try PCLinuxOS. It uses apt-get/Synaptic for package management & a really nice control center that, in my own opinion, is better than yast.