I ma running openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE desktop on a laptop I have with me in New Zealand.
It has been a while since I used the device so ran sudo zupper dup as usual but I had all manner of issues with the downloading. The update required quite a large number of files to be downloaded, approx 1900, but I aborted after less than 100 because every other download failed with no media being available.
Could my problem be due to geo blocks or fences in place which could be frustrating my update or just an issue with the server or mirrors not yet being synced?
I’ve been running OpenSUSE for decades in New Zealand. I’ve no real issues aside from the selected mirror sometimes being slow. I zypper dup’ed TW to the latest today with no issues, fairly typical speeds for our home-fibre 300/100 Mbps - I think the mirror can’t sustain 300 Mbps, but it was fast enough and there were no errors.
My current setup in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf is to use a geoip mirror:
download.use_geoip_mirror = true
And the selected mirror in /var/cache/zypp/geoip.d/download.opensuse.org is
mirrorcache-au.opensuse.org
If you’re using a VPN, could that confuse things and cause an inappropriate mirror to be used?
I think I have, in the past, sometimes resorted to turning off the use of a mirror.