Suse / Java / YOU Updates

[Jesse Charbneau]

Hi Everyone,
First time to this group, so if I'm off topic, please direct me to
the proper group. I also posted this on the SuseLinux newsgroups but
received no responses. I have installed a SuSe Enterprise Linux 9
server
running WebSphere 5.1 and IBM Http Server (basically Apache).
Everything worked fine using this setup, but a couple of days ago I ran
the YaST2 tool to update recommended packages, and now the java binary
hangs. I ran an strace on the process and found java in some sort of
loop where it kept getting segmentation faults.

What I would like to do is find the updates that were installed in the
last two days and remove them, and see if that makes a difference. Can
anyone shed some light on how to:
1) Get a list of updates to the system
(I prefer cmd line, but anything would help)
2) Remove the updates once I figure out exactly which ones were
installed recently.

Here is some output from running strace ./java -version:

--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, ~[KILL USR2 STOP RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, ~[KILL USR2 STOP RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, ~[KILL USR2 STOP RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigreturn(0x40160bf8) = 537071893
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, ~[KILL USR2 STOP RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, ~[KILL USR2 STOP RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, ~[KILL USR2 STOP RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigreturn(0x40160bf8) = 537071893
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
= 0

I also noticed this output, but there is not a tls directory in the bin
directory and from what I recall, I never saw one. I compared this
with another server running Solaris/WebSphere and the directory doesn't
exist there either.
open("/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/java/bin/tls/i686/libpthread.so.0",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/java/bin/tls/i686", 0xbfffea6c) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Thanks for any help,

Jess