YaST2 Broken with YUIPluginException Error on xorg-x11-libxrender-7.4-1.20.1

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
xorg-x11-libxrender-7.4-1.20.1

Situation

When attempting to access the YaST2 GUI (this does not effect the ncurses version) an error will appear that will, in part, say:

"terminate called after throwing an instance of 'YUIPluginException'"

Screenshot:

Resolution

A patch has been released fixing the issue. Update to at least xorg-x11-libXrender-7.4-1.23.1, using zypper, to resolve:

# zypper update

or at least:

# zypper update xorg-x11-libXrender-7.4-1.23.1

Additional Information

Error message in text:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'YUIPluginException'
what(): Couldn't load plug-in qt

YaST got signal 6 at YCP file Wizard.ycp:708
/sbin/yast2: line 435: 5383
Aborted $ybindir/y2base $module
"$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY
$Y2UI_ARGS

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