I have an instance running on the AWS cloud. I had attempted to use YaST, or more specifically YOU yast online updater. During the update it had many warning about dependencies, so I had skipped them all in order to make the updater run.
Now I have somehow lost the ability to use yast or zypper. Is there a way to fix this?
Most of the similar problems that I have found on Google searches require you to use a DVD to update/reinstall, but with this server being on the cloud I do not know how I would get a copy of the DVD to use.
SamMonk wrote:
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but with this server being
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You don’t say much about your system, its configuration, or software
versions. Can you not download and mount an ISO image?
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Thanks for replying Kevin. I decided to launch a new instance and scrap the old one after spending all morning in a worm hole. I am going to try to stay away from yast altogether from here on out.
The AWS instance was the 64 bit SLES 11 SP3
Hi SamMonk,
[QUOTE=SamMonk;21332]Thanks for replying Kevin. I decided to launch a new instance and scrap the old one after spending all morning in a worm hole. I am going to try to stay away from yast altogether from here on out.
The AWS instance was the 64 bit SLES 11 SP3[/QUOTE]
did you effectively skip all updates, or were only some updates applied, whichmay have left the system in an unstable state?
While I myself more often use direct config file editing than YaST, your description doesn’t sound like YaST was the root cause and other packages may have been affected, too… so re-starting with a new instance was probably a good thing - staying away from YaST (or worse, from updates) isn’t…
With regards,
Jens