Online Update autorefresh fails everytime

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OpenSuSe 11.1 i586 KDE4

Every single time I click on online update and yast starts refreshing for new packages it fails with this message:

File ‘/repodata/repomd.xml’ not found on medium ‘http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/’

But that happens to every single online repository I have (Including Non-OSS). If I retry it leads to the same situation over and over. The funny thing is that if I hit skip everytime it asks me, I do get to the download area and I am able to successfully get new packages.

I’m using a wireless network. Could it be that it is timing out my connection everytime?..I don’t think so.

Any help?

Andres

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I’m NOT a YaST hater, so don’t take this wrong, but…

Updating with YaST is a real kludge! :stuck_out_tongue:

Personally, this is the way I do it (terminal):

sudo zypper ref  # Refreshes the Repos
sudo zypper lu   # Shows you the changes
sudo zypper up   # Updates the Repos

Simple pimple! You might want to try it… :wink:

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Remove the trailing “/” on that link. The installer puts that one there, and it shouldn’t.

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Thanks for the help, it works now.

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Actually suse updater is the kludge, not yast.

Updating via “Online Update” and “Software Management” yast modules never gives headache.

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I’m no expert at this, but when I looked at the link on my 11.1 system, it ended with a trailing “/” as you mentioned above. In fact, all of my update links do.

When I looked at the directory on the download server it looked like this: oss/ So do all the other repo’s I looked at.

So why shouldn’t the trailing “/” be there?

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The programmer usually hides this from you, but if the trailing slash is on there, and the program itself adds a slash, the request gets transmitted as something like, “Einfache, sichere Zahlungen per Klick | Link” <- note two slashes.

I can’t say for sure, but I guess whoever wrote that little section of the code for the updater (and the software installer – I’ve had that problem there, too) just adds a trailing slash without checking to see if there’s already one there.

Technically, it’s a bug, but not a serious one. Surprising how many people have been klonged by this one, though … including yours truly! :slight_smile:

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OK thanks. So should I (and everyone else) remove ALL the trailing “/” from the repo URLs?

If the program is indeed adding yet another “/” making the URL end in “//”, shouldn’t EVERYONE have problems getting updates or does EVERYONE know to remove the trailing “/”. I would not have known to do, let alone check, that.

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OK I edited all my repo URLs - removed the trailing “/”, did a refresh, which failed. I get Timeout exceed messages anytime I attempt to do anything with the Software Updater software, with or w/o the trailing “/”. Gnome btw. Fresh retail (DVD) 11.1 install.

Using FireFox I can get to and see what’s in all the repo links w/no problems.

Thinking it might be an issue with http download stuff (I’m dong this on my company net), I was able to download other HTTP stuff from the laptop sitting next to this workstation.

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Now I don’t think it’s a problem of slashes…

I’m using GNOME right now and I confirm the same issue. However, it depends on the reliability of the wireless connection somehow. When I’m home with a slower wireless I get the connection time out message frequently, but when I’m at my university which has a faster and more reliable wireless I get the message only once in a while.

On KDE my problem was weirder, because I could skip the autorefresh and still get to download updates without problem…

I’m puzzled

Andres

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On-line update – update:

I now have the on-line update stuff working. What I stumbled on today was a missing HTTP proxy configuration. The workstation I’m running openSUSE on lives on a corporate network and a defined proxy is required to get “outside”. I should have checked for this long ago, but it completely slipped my mind.

All seems to be working well now. Onward and upward.

Dave…