smart freezing in transaction

[Tom Miller]

Installed smart version 0.41 release 25 on SUSE 10.1 (x86_64).
GUI works fine, can set up channels, mark packages, looks to be a
fabulous package manager. However, once I commit installation of even on
package, the Processing Transaction window comes up, stays stuck at 0%
for apparently infinity. 

Tried installing one package with smart install pkgname.rpm, it still
gets stuck in the transaction.

Suggestions? TIA

Tom Miller