YaST aborts when reading the description files

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Symptom:

You want to specify the desired packages with YaST during the installation. After having chosen the menue item Choose/Install packages YaST starts to read in the description files.

However YaST crashes with an error message like the following :

ERROR: Unknown Error!, DETAIL: 0 FILE: SerRetriever.cc LINE: 304
The error can appear in the modules:
SerRetriever.cc
PkgRetriever.cc
DuRetriever.cc
A similar error with a different cause might also appear here. It is described in the SDB article "YaST crashes when reading the description files"

Cause:

Your CDROM drive has difficulties with the data transmission from the CD into the main memory. The error appears at this point, because it is the first time that large amounts of data are being read from CD. There are several possible possible reasons for this behaviour : If you have an ATAPI CDROM drive: If you have a SCSI CDROM drive:

Solution:


Keywords: YAST, INSTALLATION, CD, DU, SWAP, MAIN MEMORY

Categories: IDE , CD-ROM

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