yast2 online_update - just hangs

I'm running SLES v10 (SLED-10-SP1)
Linux ascot 2.6.16.53-0.16-smp #1 SMP Tue Oct 2 16:57:49 UTC 2007 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I run "yast2 online_update" just like I've been doing for many months
now,
- it brings up the window "initializing Online Update"
- it pops up lots of little transient windows saying "Parsing
files..."
- eventually those stop, at that point the window has...
- a green checkmark next to: Initialize the target system
- a green checkmark next to: Refresh update sources
- the progress bar at the bottom is at 100%
- the column on the left says: The system is initializing the
installation and
update sources. Instllation and update sources can be altered
in the
Installation Source module.

It never does anything again. I've let it sit for as long as six
hours.

Eventually I ^C it and it says:
YaST got signal 2 at YCP file
/usr/share/YaST2/clients/online_update_select.ycp:80

How do I diagnose and/or fix this?


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gebarnes wrote:

Have you added any additional installation sources to the default ones?
If so you might wanna try removing these, to see if the problem lies
within one of these.

As I understand you're able to refresh the sources OK, but the problem
happens during parsing the data, it could indicate some corrupt file
that's downloaded from one of the sources during the refresh.


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I installed SUSE back in August. All I've done since then is run yast2
online_update. I haven't added any new facilities since August. In
early November the online_update simply stopped working.
I don't know what you mean by "refresh the sources". The problem would
seem to occur after parsing. There are lots of Parsing dialogs and
lots of Downloading dialogs while the progress meter at the bottom
slowly turns blue. Eventually it is all blue and says 100% at which
point it never does anything again. Other than trashing the system and
reinstalling from scratch, is there any way to force yast2 to tell me
what is wrong or any way I can smash something and make it start over
again? I'm assuming there that it is getting "stuck" on something that
I could perhaps delete and force it to recreate.


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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:26:01 GMT
gebarnes <gebarnes@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote:

>
> I installed SUSE back in August. All I've done since then is run
> yast2 online_update. I haven't added any new facilities since
> August. In early November the online_update simply stopped working.
> I don't know what you mean by "refresh the sources". The problem would
> seem to occur after parsing. There are lots of Parsing dialogs and
> lots of Downloading dialogs while the progress meter at the bottom
> slowly turns blue. Eventually it is all blue and says 100% at which
> point it never does anything again. Other than trashing the system
> and reinstalling from scratch, is there any way to force yast2 to
> tell me what is wrong or any way I can smash something and make it
> start over again? I'm assuming there that it is getting "stuck" on
> something that I could perhaps delete and force it to recreate.
>
>
Hi
So your running SLED 10 SP1? I posted some links over in
novell.support.sled.updates on the same sort of issue (Subject: zen
updater), it's probably better to post there about update issues :-)

One question though, do you have an active subscription to updates?

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Does "yast2 online_update" have anything to do with the zen updater? Or
the reverse? I tried stopping and restarting the novell-zmd server and
deleted the zmd.db in between and that made no difference.
I don't have any subscriptions to Novell services.


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On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:16:01 GMT
gebarnes <gebarnes@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote:

>
> Does "yast2 online_update" have anything to do with the zen updater?
> Or the reverse? I tried stopping and restarting the novell-zmd
> server and deleted the zmd.db in between and that made no difference.
> I don't have any subscriptions to Novell services.
>
>
Hi
If your running SLED 10 SP1 and don't have an active subscription you
won't get any updates. Did you originally register when you installed?

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Ah...that seems to be the problem. We have an internal update server
that Novell lets us use and when I run "yast2 inst_source" the Novell
servers are active and on the top of the sources list. They shouldn't
be there for my machine. If I deactivate them and leave only the
internal server then yast2 online_update starts working again. They
were deactivated when I did the original installation but I'd long
since forgotten about all of that. Thank you for reminding me about
that particular wrinkle. Apparently things just lock up if you need a
subscription but don't have one.


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