Big-time Yast Issue!

[PHY_321]

I'm running Suse 9.3 PRO, and one day Yast decided it was never going to respond to anything whatsoever (including installing packages, changing settings, etc.) I can get the Yast app running but when I click on a specific system component (ie "sound" or "Date/Time") The little clock comes up like it going to open up the process I clicked then... nothing... As far as I know I haven't changed any major system settings to cause this crash, and I always be sure to log in as root before getting into the app so I that's not the problem either. On a side note, if it comes down to re-installing the entire program, is there a way to achieve this without blowing the entire OS away?

[falko]

Does YaST work if you run it from the command line? The command to use is

yast

Do you see anything in your logs in /var/log?

[davekeogh]

Do a: rpm -qa|grep yast|xargs -i rpm -V {}
from the command line, nothing much more than timestamps should be different. If there is, you can do an RPM forced freshen to reinstall it without screwing up too much.
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