After installing some dependencies, yast will no longer launch

I am using the newest opensuse install (13.1 I believe), fresh install off new HD with the ldxe gui.

I need to install automake and a few other deps to install the geda suite, and I installed them directly from the yast interface. However, right after the install from yast, I am no longer able to open the yast interface either from a xterm or launching any yast app from the gui interface.

For example, if I ssh into the box and type in yast, the command promp does nothing, no error messages, and just returns to the command prompt without loading the yast interface. I can of course just wipe the HD and reinstall linux fresh but I'm hoping to avoid that and instead find out what is going on. Im not sure if this is relevant but here are the contents of /var/log/YaST2/y2log:

2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):575 Launched YaST2 component 'y2base' 'menu' 'ncurses'
2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [ui-component] YUIComponentCreator.cc(createInternal):124 Creating UI component for ""
2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):764 YAST_IS_RUNNING is yes
2013-11-28 03:33:27 <3> compsrv1(3671) [Y2Ruby] binary/YRuby.cc(callClient):238 cannot require yast:cannot load such file -- fast_gettext at /usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in `require'
2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):778 Finished YaST2 component 'y2base'
2013-11-28 03:33:27 <1> compsrv1(3671) [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):783 Exiting with client return value 'false'