I'm running SUSE 9.0 and when I click in:
Start menu > System > YaST
Nothing happens, it seems that's going to start but never does.
I must run Yast always from console, what's happening?

Thanking your help in advance.
Alex.

"I'm running SUSE 9.0 and when I click in:
Start menu > System > YaST
Nothing happens, it seems that's going to start but never does."

You might be able to get a meaningful error message this way. Right click on the Start menu button. Click on menu editor -> menu editor -> YaST. Click on "Run in terminal" Save your changes by clicking on File -> Save.

Then when you try to run YaST from the menu you might get an error message that tells you whats wrong.

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Steve Stites

I've done what you told me but nothing have changed. Suse asks me for root password and then it continues loading until that moment when little square in menú bar dissapears and no news else from Yast. What's happening?

Thanks.
Alex.

"I've done what you told me but nothing have changed. Suse asks me for root password and then it continues loading until that moment when little square in menú bar dissapears and no news else from Yast. What's happening?"

Does the terminal close or remain open after you give SuSE the root password?

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Steve Stites

I've tried again and it worked, but it opened a terminal which is wat I usually did in order to use yast. No error or problem was shown. But I think that yast have a better gui not this console-looking, and that's the one I can't start, and I want to use.

Thanks.
Alex.

Do you work as root in KDE? It could be a display export problem...

You could try to run with 'kdesu yast2' from console. This should give you the graphical interface.

"But I think that yast have a better gui not this console-looking, and that's the one I can't start, and I want to use."

SuSe has two versions of YaST. The command yast gives you a command line oriented program. yast2 gives you the gui that you are looking for. Check and make sure the menu is starting /sbin/yast2.

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Steve Stites

if you start a kde konsole and then use "su root" you can't access the X server (because there'S no X server running for root).

there are 2 ways around it:
1. Run
"kdesu konsole"
This will give you a console with root privileges, but which uses the current X server to launch application
Now you can run X applications as root in an X user session and still get stdout.

2. Run
kdesu "/bin/yast2 >> /home/user/myyast.log"
This will redirect the output of the X programm to a file which you can read lateron
(You can also use a named pipe with mkfifo:
mkfifo /home/user/myyast.pipe;konsole -e "cat /home/user/myyast.pipe";kdesu "/bin/yast2 >> /home/user/myyast.pipe"
This will open a second window displaying the yast2 stdout