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Title: YaST refuses to execute a system update

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YaST refuses to execute a system update

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: from 4.4 on
Kernel version: irrelevant

Symptom:

You want to update your entire system; not only a particular package and you start YaST for this purpose. YaST informs that you must update it first to be able to perform the update. YaST refuses to do anything else.

Cause:

You try to make an update from your running Linux system out.

This is very dangerous and not so clever.

An update overwrites among others important runtime libraries, whose dynamic update (i.e when the system is running) might lead into a total data destruction on the respective data carrier. YaST may not and certainly will not allow this.

Solution:

For an update, boot either from the supplied disk or from the 1st CD from DOS. It is the same process as for a first installation.

Choose your root partition when you are in "installation YaST" (menu option "assigne filesystem") and read from it the file /etc/fstab via F7. Now you can choose the system update and perform it.

You will get again your old updated system after a reboot.

This procedure is commented in detail in the manual.

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Keywords: YAST, UPDATE, INSTALLATION, INSTALL, BOOT

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