I’m getting an abort when trying to install from DVD, at the early stage when my system is being scanned.
Unable to create repository from CD
Details
[1] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History
Can’t hardlink/copy/var/adm/mountAP*/media.1/media to var/cache/zyppr/raw/cd-kjl*
Can’t provide /media.1/media
I suspect the problem arises from yesterdays failed attempt to update to 12.3 via some zyppr commands and that something has become corrupted, but I’m stuck.
Any assistance would be gratefully welcomed
So I am confused here. Did you install openSUSE or not? If you boot from a DVD to do a new install, it matters not about your previous install. As for media problems, if you do not remove it, your DVD player becomes one of the media sources, requiring a DVD to be there when doing any online software installation or update. You must disable or delete the DVD drive from your repositories unless you are always off line to the internet. You say openSUSE 12.3, what desktop are you trying to use? More details on your install is in order.
I’ve installed each version of OpenSuse as it was released from a downloaded DVD for years on this machine with barely a problem. The 12.2 version works fine. The abort occurs at the last stage of the System Probing section of the install - Initialize Software Manager.
My only reason for “pointing the finger” at zyppr is that it is contained in the error message and that yesterday, I followed a recipe of zyppr instructions for upgrading to 12.3 which I aborted as I was not convinced I knew what was going on. Like you, I would have thought that a fresh install would have little to do with what was found on the machine, but I can think of nothing else which might prevent installation.
If you boot from a DVD and get such an error, I would say that you may have a media error. You have the option to check your installation media before you do the install. Once the media checks out OK, the installation proceeds, so opting to check your media is the same as doing a new installation once the media check completes successfully I think. You can also have DVD read problems where often just blowing out any dust in your DVD play can eliminate. So, in this case, you have booted from a openSUSE 12.3 installation DVD to load the KDE desktop and you did or did not do a media check before you began the installation?
I did not do a media check. I did however create two DVD’s, one from the torrent and later one from a direct download. Installing from either produces the same result. I have also attempted the install from both of the DVD readers on the computer with the same results.
I did not get far enough into the installation process to have the option of which desktop to choose.
I would even consider trying a text mode install, as it works, though harder to understand. I had to use it on one PC with an older nVIDIA video card. The installed openSUSE 12.3 worked OK once the Text mode install was complete.
I vaguely recall obtaining such an error years ago on a good/valid DVDs. Turns out the PC I was trying to install on had a CD/DVD reader on the brink of failing. Hence it did not matter which DVD I used.
Thus another speculative recommendation (from me) would be to try a difference CD/DVD reader, such as an external one.
Ensure as well any CD/DVD media is burned at the slowest speed possible to high quality media (+R or -R and not an RW). By using higher quality media one reduces the probability of such an error (as reported by the op) can occur.
Installation from the KDE Live DVD worked. Now however I am concerned that something has changed in the standard installation process that will make OpenSuse less of the preferred option to me than it once was.
I have a thought though. The error message relates to a partition on my computer labelled Media1 and mounted at /media1. This is obviously not standard (like /home, /var etc.). Might this now be a problem or the fact that there is a number in the mount point.
It refers to a file ‘media’ in the directory ‘media.1’. That’s just a standard openSUSE repository structure.
See f.e. here: Index of /distribution/12.3/repo/oss
That’s the standard openSUSE 12.3 OSS repo. You will find a directory ‘media.1’ there with a file ‘media’ inside (among others of course).
Thanks for the reply, I think it is beyond my competence to work-out what is going wrong. As I have managed to get a working system by other means, I’ll leave it there and hope that the same problem does not continually occur in future releases.
Well, the Live media just copies all the files to the harddisk. It doesn’t set itself up as repository (and this is what failed in your OP).
I still think the problem was related to the media.
You could try to install from an USB-stick the next time… (would be faster as well! ;))
Just use SUSE Studio ImageWriter to copy the iso to an USB-stick, and boot from it.
