Hello,
This is my first day with KDE & SUSE.
I want to save the YaST Hardware inventory to a file: 'YaST Hardware Info .txt'. No matter where I attempt to save it (example: '/home/linux/'), I get this error: "Saving output to the file '/' failed." What am I doing wrong?

Thank You,
Mark.

how exactly are you saving it? in Dolphin? In Konsole using commands?

does /home/linux/ exist ? do you have write access to it?

Did you actually specify a filename?
It works fine here (I'm still using openSUSE 13.2).
Though I cannot even click on OK while the filename field is empty.

If you really typed in 'YaST Hardware Info .txt', I would suggest to try *without* spaces instead...

google01103 wrote:how exactly are you saving it? in Dolphin? In Konsole using commands?

YaST->Hardware Information has a button "Save into text file...", I suppose that's what the OP means.

does /home/linux/ exist ? do you have write access to it?

As YaST is running as root, it should not be a permission problem...

I'm saving as I would with any operating system...

Dialog Title: 'YaST2 - Hardware Information'.
In the lower right, Button: 'Save to File...'
I click the button and a dialog opens
Dialog Title: 'Save hwinfo Output to File'.
I fill 'File name:' textbox: 'YaST Hardware Info .txt' (without single-quotes).
I click 'Save' button.
I get the error mentioning '/'.

Repeat, except browse away from '/' to '/home/linux/'.
I click 'Save' button.
I get the error mentioning '/' once again as though browsing to '/home/linux/' didn't work.

I'm mystified.

markfilipak wrote:I fill 'File name:' textbox: 'YaST Hardware Info .txt' (without single-quotes).

Again: type in a filename *without* spaces (e.g. 'YaST-Hardware-Info.txt', without single-quotes), and it should work.

Reminder - your inability to use spaces in the name is not a KDE thing, it is an openSUSE thing - Yast is an openSUSE utility