Gotta fix YaST FaST...

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Well here’s a fine howdy-do… I installed openSUSE 11.1 KDE last night and was having a pretty care-free ride until I tried to open the installer. When I did, I got this error pretty much as soon as Autorefresh started: “Download (curl) error for http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/content....Error code: connection failed…Error Message: Couldn’t resolve host download.opensuse.org”

I’m guessing the English translation of all that is my YaST internet setting was never set up, and since my web browsers don’t seem quite as dead, it’s an easy fix. I tried poking around myself, but being a Linux rookie you could say I was…AGHaST by all the config possibilities. Can someone update me on what might be wrong with the setup? My firefox is also slower than Konqueror, and people say that’s a IPv6 or DNS thing.

And “hello,” by the way.

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Usually this just means that Yast couldn’t connect to the online repository. 90% of the time you can just hit “retry” and it will connect.

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Nah, this happened today and yesterday. Even when I skip the errors, there’s another one not far behind. Any ideas?

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Hi DigiTan. Do you have internet connectivity? Can you use browser ok? If all this is ok, then open a terminal window (console) and enter these commands:

su (to become root user, enter root password when prompted)

zypper up (zypper CLI update tool)

See how that goes.

If network is not working for you, can you post output of these commands:

/usr/sbin/hwinfo --network
/sbin/ifconfig
route

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Yeah the net works. It’s just YaST and Firefox to a lesser extent having the issues. When I ran Zypper it said: “Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.” I also get a few errors that pop up a few minutes after startup that basically say the same thing.

HWInfo output:

green@linux-2v48:~> /usr/sbin/hwinfo --network
24: None 00.0: 10700 Loopback                                   
  [Created at net.124]                                          
  Unique ID: ZsBS.GQNx
  SysFS ID: /class/net/lo                                       
  Hardware Class: network interface                             
  Model: "Loopback network interface"                           
  Device File: lo                                               
  Link detected: yes                                            
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown    

25: None 00.0: 10701 Ethernet
  [Created at net.124]       
  Unique ID: usDW.ndpeuxxxx
  Parent ID: rBUF.jRtzOxxxx
  SysFS ID: /class/net/eth0  
  SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0
  Hardware Class: network interface
  Model: "Ethernet network interface"
  Driver: "forcedeth"
  Driver Modules: "forcedeth"
  Device File: eth0
  HW Address: 00:19:21:xx:xx:xx
  Link detected: yes
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #11 (Ethernet controller)

IFConfig output:

green@linux-2v48:~> /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:21:xx:xx:xx  
          inet addr:68.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:68.xxx.xxx.xxx  Mask:255.255.254.0    
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:576  Metric:1                     
          RX packets:9202 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0                 
          TX packets:1241 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0               
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000                                          
          RX bytes:971489 (948.7 Kb)  TX bytes:125750 (122.8 Kb)
          Interrupt:23 Base address:0xe000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:122 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:122 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:8420 (8.2 Kb)  TX bytes:8420 (8.2 Kb)

Route Output:

green@linux-2v48:~> /sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
68-xxx-xxx-xxx.dh *               255.255.254.0   U     1      0        0 eth0
loopback        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default         68-xxx-xxx-xxx.dh 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
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Have you tried disabling ipv6 ? if not go to YaST- network devices - network settings,click on global & disable.May require a re-boot.Also check your firewall

Andy

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> When I ran Zypper it said: “Please check if the URIs
> defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.”

to me it sound like you need to do what is says to do…another way to
say what is going on is:

you need to set up the repositories to use…
you can do that in YaST or zypper…

info on how to do that in either system is easy to find if you start
here in your browser:

file:///usr/share/doc/manual/opensuse-manual_en/manual/index.html
(bookmark that Documentation)

and look down to section 3…

the recommended FOUR repositories you need to set up are found in the
thread here:
http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/401696-newbies-suse-11-1-pre-installation-please-read.html
[a thread if you have not yet discovered is just FULL of great info
and links you NEED]

the four repositories to include are are OSS, Non-OSS, Update, and
Packman…none others until you get things smooth…

–
duo

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It was the IPv6 checkbox. Looks like unchecking it also fixed Firefox. I’d wager Konqueror defaults to IPv4 or detects the right setting since it never had any problems.