YAST (actually YOU) oddity

An update to the Yast2 YOU frontend keeps showing up in my "available 
updates" list and I see no reason not to put it in, but the attempt
yields:


Installation of 
[S9:1][package]yast2-online-update-frontend-2.15.24-0.1.noarch failed: 
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: cp: 
cannot stat `/var/lib/YaST2/cd_update.desktop': No such file or 
directory error: %post(yast2-online-update-frontend-2.15.24-0.1.noarch) 
scriptlet failed, exit status 1 (with --nodeps --force) Error

Now, I know what the error says, but what is the missing file, how 
should it get there, and why isn't it already (given a normal seeming 
10.3 64-bit install)?  I.e., what should I look for, either in file 
structure or packages?

Thanks!

[Sorry if this belongs in another list, such as "applications", but it

=DrD= wrote:
> An update to the Yast2 YOU frontend keeps showing up in my "available

> updates" list and I see no reason not to put it in, but the attempt
yields:
> 
> 
> Installation of 
> [S9:1][package]yast2-online-update-frontend-2.15.24-0.1.noarch failed: 
> (with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: cp: 
> cannot stat `/var/lib/YaST2/cd_update.desktop': No such file or 
> directory error: %post(yast2-online-update-frontend-2.15.24-0.1.noarch) 
> scriptlet failed, exit status 1 (with --nodeps --force) Error
> 
> Now, I know what the error says, but what is the missing file, how 
> should it get there, and why isn't it already (given a normal seeming 
> 10.3 64-bit install)?  I.e., what should I look for, either in file 
> structure or packages?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [Sorry if this belongs in another list, such as "applications",
but it 

DrD,

what if you run the update through Yast Online Update, not through the applet?
If that doesn't work, locate the rpm on an update server, download it and try
and install it with "rpm -Uvh filename"

Uwe

-- 
Novell Support Connection Volunteer SysOp

Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:
> DrD,
> 
> what if you run the update through Yast Online Update, not through the 
> applet?
> If that doesn't work, locate the rpm on an update server, download it 
> and try and install it with "rpm -Uvh filename"
> 
> Uwe
> 
Both the full Yast and the auto-updater fail on the "stat" error.
CLI is the next resort; sorry for forgetting that! KDE makes things too 
easy! :)
I'll let you know.

The error sounds as if it is looking for some file that is not already 
there and I have no idea where that file should have come from in the 
first place.

Thanks,