YaST hangs during Software Management

[drwtg]

I'm experiencing a problem with Yast (SUSE 10.1, AMD64) when trying to install a package form either the command line version or the GUI version.

Yast initialises ok, and the package information is read ok, however, on the command line (ncurses) when a list of packages is displayed I cannot tab or navigate to any of the menu options it appears to hang here. The GUI version doesnt get even as far as displaying the package information. I have tried rebuilding the db with;

rpm --rebuilddb

but no joy, and the output of the /var/log/YaST2/ y2logRPM does not alude to anything interesting

Also, when I kill the command line version there is no cursor in the shell window.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[smolloy]

Interesting.

Has this problem existed since you installed SUSE, or has it just started recently?

[drwtg]

This problem has only just surfaced, the machines were built several months ago, and several packages have been installed successfully since the initial install.

[drwtg]

Not sure what the problem was, but it appears to have resolved itself after a reboot. Unfortunately due to the usage of the machine I cannot do this at will.

[smolloy]

Hmmm..... Could be one of "those" problems. I.e. the kind of problem that only happens once, you don't know how to make it happen again, and you never find a good explanation for it.