'repo-non-oss': Failed to cache repo (139).

**ChrisInNewYork1770** · 04-Jul-2008, 23:31

**Chrysantine** · 05-Jul-2008, 00:43

Sounds like the mirror you're being directed to is broken. Add a mirror manually.

Mirror - openSUSE

**ChrisInNewYork1770** · 05-Jul-2008, 03:31

Okay, I tried almost EVERY mirror in that list, and they always give me the same error -

Unable to create repository from mirror <whatever url i try here>

repo-non-oss: failed to cache repo (139)

History: -repo2solv.sh "/var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-non-oss" > "/var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-non-oss/solv"

Try again?

So I don't think the mirror is the problem. I can load almost all these mirrors manually with my browser - the pages all come up the same.

**Chrysantine** · 05-Jul-2008, 04:49

Try deleting the cache file that it points to:
su -c "rm -fr /var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-non-oss"

Then refresh the repositories and see what happens.

**ChrisInNewYork1770** · 05-Jul-2008, 08:36

I deleted the cache file as you instructed - no problems doing this.

I then went to YaST-->Software Repositories and used the "refresh" button. No problems doing this. (but there never was any either)

Then I went to YaST-->Online Update and I got the same exact problem again as above except now it says it's failed to cache repo on "/var/cache/zypp/solv/repo-oss/solv"

So... I tried your command line on repo-oss and removed that dir and ran the YaST--> Online Update again. I got the same error on repo-oss this time instead of non-repo-oss.

I then deleted both repo-oss and non-repo-oss dirs, refreshed software repositories, then went to Online Update again. It worked for a while and then bombed out again - same error - still on solv/repo-oss/solv instead of non-repo-oss.

Please note that this is a change from the original state. The original error was on non-repo-oss. now it's sticking on repo-oss.

Thanks very much for your help so far, but I still can't complete an update

**Chrysantine** · 05-Jul-2008, 09:07

Curious.

Try removing both repositories, closing the software repos utility, re-open it and re-add the repositories.

If this does not work, we'll see into cleaning the whole zypp cache and re-build it from scratch. If that doesn't work, we'll bring in the voodoo priestess

**ChrisInNewYork1770** · 05-Jul-2008, 09:11

Originally Posted by Chrysantine

Try removing both repositories, closing the software repos utility, re-open it and re-add the repositories.

I'm not new to Linux, but i haven't used it in about 9 years.

So this whole interface is new to me.

What I think you wanted me to do (and what I just did) was close all windows. Remove both repository directories using your commands above. (for non-oss and oss), opened repos utility, refresh, close repos utility, and then try the update again.

Everything worked until the update, when I got the same problem with repo-oss.

I just installed this from the download dvd about 2 weeks ago and I haven't done much in the OS yet. So if you give instructions be sure to be verbose.

**mistermartin75** · 17-Sep-2009, 11:20

I've resolved this issue with the repo-update by deleting the entire /var/cache/zypp directory. This made sure every file in the cache was rebuilt and resolved all problems.

Open a Terminal and type:

su
rm -rf /var/cache/zypp

Or, with sudo enabled:

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/zypp

Then go to 'Software Repositories' in Yast and refresh all repositories.

**gary_lankford** · 10-Dec-2009, 18:46

Originally Posted by mistermartin75

I've resolved this issue with the repo-update by deleting the entire /var/cache/zypp directory. This made sure every file in the cache was rebuilt and resolved all problems.

Open a Terminal and type:

su
rm -rf /var/cache/zypp

Or, with sudo enabled:

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/zypp

Then go to 'Software Repositories' in Yast and refresh all repositories.

Thanks!

I am having this exact problem with SUSE 11.2. Because satsolver was mentioned in my error message, I was fairly well convinced that satsolver was where the problem lay.

Seems likely not, and that your solution will work for me too... Since I don't have the internet at home, will have to wait till I get back there to try it, but I'm betting...

**johnjeffers** · 21-Apr-2010, 14:29

Originally Posted by mistermartin75

I've resolved this issue with the repo-update by deleting the entire /var/cache/zypp directory. This made sure every file in the cache was rebuilt and resolved all problems.

Open a Terminal and type:

su
rm -rf /var/cache/zypp

Or, with sudo enabled:

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/zypp

Then go to 'Software Repositories' in Yast and refresh all repositories.

It appears that if any of the files in cache/zypp/*/* become damaged the entire update process halts with a script message about broken pipe in script during update and another regarding the checksum so no files in cache can be updated.

This appears identically in 11.1 as well so I should imagine this is a 11.X issue.

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