Online update error after updating to SLES 12 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Updates
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I migrated from SLES 12 to SLES 12SP1 using the YaST migration tool and all appeared to go well. However, if i now run the yast2 online update applet I get an error message:

UI Syntax Error Couldn’t load plug-in qt-pkg. Check the log file!

If I run Online update from the text version of yast I get:

UI Syntax Error Couldn’t load plug-in ncurses.pkg. Check the log file!

If I run zypper patch it seems to update correctly.

Advice would be appreciated.

Rob

2

Hi
What happens if you force a cache rebuild and verify, run;

zypper ref -f
zypper ve

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No change, I’m afraid.

zypper ref -f gives:

Forcing raw metadata refresh
Retrieving repository ‘SLE-Module-Legacy12-Pool’ metadata …[done]
Forcing building of repository cache
Building repository ‘SLE-Module-Legacy12-Pool’ cache …[done]
Forcing raw metadata refresh
Retrieving repository ‘SLE-Module-Legacy12-Updates’ metadata …[done]
Forcing building of repository cache
Building repository ‘SLE-Module-Legacy12-Updates’ cache …[done]
Forcing raw metadata refresh
Retrieving repository ‘SLES12-SP1-Pool’ metadata …[done]
Forcing building of repository cache
Building repository ‘SLES12-SP1-Pool’ cache …[done]
Forcing raw metadata refresh
Retrieving repository ‘SLES12-SP1-Updates’ metadata …[done]
Forcing building of repository cache
Building repository ‘SLES12-SP1-Updates’ cache …[done]
Forcing raw metadata refresh
Retrieving repository ‘SLE-SDK12-SP1-Pool’ metadata …[done]
Forcing building of repository cache
Building repository ‘SLE-SDK12-SP1-Pool’ cache …[done]
Forcing raw metadata refresh
Retrieving repository ‘SLE-SDK12-SP1-Updates’ metadata …[done]
Forcing building of repository cache
Building repository ‘SLE-SDK12-SP1-Updates’ cache …[done]
All repositories have been refreshed.

zypper ve gives:

[I]Refreshing service ‘Legacy_Module_12_x86_64’.
Refreshing service ‘SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_12_SP1_x86_64’.
Refreshing service ‘SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Software_Development_Kit_12_SP1_x86_64’.
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
6 Problems:
Problem: nothing provides appdata(vmware-player.appdata.xml) needed by application:VMware Player-.noarch
Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-writer.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-writer-.noarch
Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-impress.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-impress-.noarch
Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-base.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-base-.noarch
Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-calc.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-calc-.noarch
Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-draw.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-draw-.noarch

Problem: nothing provides appdata(vmware-player.appdata.xml) needed by application:VMware Player-.noarch
Solution 1: deinstallation of application:VMware Player-.noarch
Solution 2: break application:VMware Player-.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): 2

Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-writer.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-writer-.noarch
Solution 1: deinstallation of application:libreoffice-writer-.noarch
Solution 2: break application:libreoffice-writer-.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): 2

Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-impress.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-impress-.noarch
Solution 1: deinstallation of application:libreoffice-impress-.noarch
Solution 2: break application:libreoffice-impress-.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): 2

Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-base.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-base-.noarch
Solution 1: deinstallation of application:libreoffice-base-.noarch
Solution 2: break application:libreoffice-base-.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): 2

Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-calc.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-calc-.noarch
Solution 1: deinstallation of application:libreoffice-calc-.noarch
Solution 2: break application:libreoffice-calc-.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): 2

Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-draw.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-draw-.noarch
Solution 1: deinstallation of application:libreoffice-draw-.noarch
Solution 2: break application:libreoffice-draw-.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): 2
Resolving dependencies…

Dependencies of all installed packages are satisfied.[/I]

Rob

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Hi
Hopefully those appdata ones will disappear… It looks like the libyui packages did not upgrade…?

Reading installed packages...

S | Name                | Summary                                                   | Type   
--+---------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+--------
i | libyui-ncurses-pkg7 | Libyui - yast2 package selector widget for the ncurses UI | package
i | libyui-ncurses6     | Libyui - Character Based User Interface                   | package
i | libyui-ncurses7     | Libyui - Character Based User Interface                   | package
i | libyui-qt-pkg7      | Libyui - Qt Package Selector                              | package
i | libyui-qt6          | Libyui - Qt User Interface                                | package
i | libyui-qt7          | Libyui - Qt User Interface                                | package
i | libyui6             | Libyui - GUI-abstraction library                          | package
i | libyui7             | Libyui - GUI-abstraction library                          | package

Are the above installed and from SP1 repositories.

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If I run:

zypper install -f libyui-ncurses-pkg7

I get:

[I]Refreshing service ‘Legacy_Module_12_x86_64’.
Refreshing service ‘SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_12_SP1_x86_64’.
Refreshing service ‘SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Software_Development_Kit_12_SP1_x86_64’.
Retrieving repository ‘SLE-SDK12-SP1-Updates’ metadata …[done]
Building repository ‘SLE-SDK12-SP1-Updates’ cache …[done]
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Forcing installation of ‘libyui-ncurses-pkg7-2.48.2-1.2.x86_64’ from repository ‘SLES12-SP1-Pool’.
Resolving package dependencies…

Problem: libyui-ncurses-pkg7-2.48.2-1.2.x86_64 requires libzypp.so.1519()(64bit), but this requirement cannot be provided
uninstallable providers: libzypp-15.19.5-1.14.x86_64[SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_12_SP1_x86_64:SLES12-SP1-Pool]
Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
deinstallation of libyui-ncurses-pkg6-2.46.1-3.4.x86_64
deinstallation of libyui-qt-pkg6-2.44.7-3.2.x86_64
Solution 2: do not install libyui-ncurses-pkg7-2.48.2-1.2.x86_64
Solution 3: break libyui-ncurses-pkg7-2.48.2-1.2.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/c] (c):[/I]

What should I do?

ROB

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Hi
So it looks like you don’t have all the repositories, plus an old one.

What does the output from;

zypper lr

You could also try re-registering the system, but lets have a look at the above first.

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zypper lr gives:

# | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh
—±---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------±--------------------------------------±--------±----------±-------
1 | Legacy_Module_12_x86_64:SLE-Module-Legacy12-Debuginfo-Pool | SLE-Module-Legacy12-Debuginfo-Pool | No | ---- | No
2 | Legacy_Module_12_x86_64:SLE-Module-Legacy12-Debuginfo-Updates | SLE-Module-Legacy12-Debuginfo-Updates | No | ---- | Yes
3 | Legacy_Module_12_x86_64:SLE-Module-Legacy12-Pool | SLE-Module-Legacy12-Pool | Yes | (r ) Yes | No
4 | Legacy_Module_12_x86_64:SLE-Module-Legacy12-Updates | SLE-Module-Legacy12-Updates | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes
5 | SLES12-12-0 | SLES12-12-0 | No | ---- | No
6 | SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_12_SP1_x86_64:SLES12-SP1-Debuginfo-Pool | SLES12-SP1-Debuginfo-Pool | No | ---- | No
7 | SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_12_SP1_x86_64:SLES12-SP1-Debuginfo-Updates | SLES12-SP1-Debuginfo-Updates | No | ---- | Yes
8 | SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_12_SP1_x86_64:SLES12-SP1-Pool | SLES12-SP1-Pool | Yes | (r ) Yes | No
9 | SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_12_SP1_x86_64:SLES12-SP1-Source-Pool | SLES12-SP1-Source-Pool | No | ---- | No
10 | SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_12_SP1_x86_64:SLES12-SP1-Updates | SLES12-SP1-Updates | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes
11 | SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Software_Development_Kit_12_SP1_x86_64:SLE-SDK12-SP1-Debuginfo-Pool | SLE-SDK12-SP1-Debuginfo-Pool | No | ---- | No
12 | SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Software_Development_Kit_12_SP1_x86_64:SLE-SDK12-SP1-Debuginfo-Updates | SLE-SDK12-SP1-Debuginfo-Updates | No | ---- | Yes
13 | SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Software_Development_Kit_12_SP1_x86_64:SLE-SDK12-SP1-Pool | SLE-SDK12-SP1-Pool | Yes | (r ) Yes | No
14 | SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Software_Development_Kit_12_SP1_x86_64:SLE-SDK12-SP1-Source-Pool | SLE-SDK12-SP1-Source-Pool | No | ---- | No
15 | SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Software_Development_Kit_12_SP1_x86_64:SLE-SDK12-SP1-Updates | SLE-SDK12-SP1-Updates | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes

Regards

ROB

PS Many thanks for your help.

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Have now got exactly the same issue updating a SLED12 machine to SP1.

ROB

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Hi Guys,

This solved it for me: https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/upgrading-running-demand-instances-public-cloud/

Here is the good part:

Problem: zypper-1.12.23-1.3.x86_64 requires libzypp.so.1519()(64bit), but this requirement cannot be provided

There is nothing to worry about the package that provides the necessary library was renamed and the proper (libyui-ncurses-pkg7) will automatically be pulled in. Therefore the solution is to select “Solution: 1”

Solution 1: deinstallation of libyui-ncurses-pkg6-2.46.1-3.4.x86_64

by entering “1” at the prompt. Then enter “y” at the next prompt

Cheers,
Craig.

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That sorted it.

Many thanks

ROB