Cautiously moving forward -very slowly.

eastbay2359 · September 14, 2009, 6:36am

I have a functioning system. And, despite the frustration of not knowing HOW to do what I NEED to do - I’m moving forward.
Current issue:
Repositorries/11.1
Has instructions to "Just head over to YaST->Software->Software Repositories. Then in the menu: … hit the Add->Community Repositories and select…
Main (OSS)
Main (Non-OSS)
Packman
Main Update Repository

…from there. Easy :-)"

EXCEPT when I do that I get an error message
“Unable to download list of repositories or no repositories defined.”

Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks for your time.

caf4926 · September 14, 2009, 6:55am

If you are in the system now, open a terminal and do this

zypper lr -d

post result

eastbay2359 · September 14, 2009, 7:17am

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

–±----------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | dvd:/// |
2 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /mirror/ftp.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ |
3 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | widehat.opensuse.org |
4 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | widehat.opensuse.org |
5 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /mirror/ftp.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ |
6 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | 20 | rpm-md | widehat.opensuse.org |

As I’ve said before - thanks for your time and efforts

caf4926 · September 14, 2009, 7:26am

Now please open a terminal and become su and do

zypper mr -d 1

this will disable the dvd, which you don’t need if you have high speed internet

Now do this:

zypper ref

then

zypper up

This will run updates

eastbay2359 · September 14, 2009, 7:36am

I really appreciate the real time assistance!
I have followed those instructions.
I’m assuming that I can not proceed to the add repository packman?

eastbay2359 · September 14, 2009, 7:38am

Just tried that - dvd is still showing - so I’m going to re-boot.

caf4926 · September 14, 2009, 7:40am

Please post

zypper lr -d

again

eastbay2359 · September 14, 2009, 7:43am

Uh-oh.
Error message is still the same.

caf4926 · September 14, 2009, 7:44am

To add packman you need to be su

zypper ar http://mirror.geht-schon.de/packman.links2linux.de/suse/11.1/ packman

Then post your result of this again

zypper lr -d

eastbay2359 · September 14, 2009, 7:45am

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

–±----------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | No | No | 99 | yast2 | dvd:/// |
2 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /mirror/ftp.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ |
3 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | widehat.opensuse.org |
4 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | widehat.opensuse.org |
5 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /mirror/ftp.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ |
6 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | 20 | rpm-md | widehat.opensuse.org

swerdna · September 14, 2009, 7:45am

That message has been occurring for a few days now. I think it’s associated with the power outage. Should be gone tomorrow and working OK. Is that right Carl?

caf4926 · September 14, 2009, 7:49am

Tell you what use software management - repositories
delete them all

and add these back from here: Just that first section
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums

There is a howto on repo management here
Repository Management - openSUSE Forums

eastbay2359 · September 14, 2009, 7:49am

SORRY, Got a little behind your posts. I have run the cmd to add packman - as evidenced by the following. I’ll hold off on more actions untill I hear from you. THANKS!

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

–±----------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | No | No | 99 | yast2 | dvd:/// |
2 | packman | packman | Yes | No | 99 | NONE | Index of /packman.links2linux.de/suse/11.1 |
3 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /mirror/ftp.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ |
4 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | widehat.opensuse.org |
5 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | widehat.opensuse.org |
6 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /mirror/ftp.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ |
7 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | 20 | rpm-md | widehat.opensuse.org |

caf4926 · September 14, 2009, 7:51am

All my repos are working today
some are mirrors, but not all, oss, non-oss, updates are default

user · September 14, 2009, 1:43pm

I am unable to get the community repository list as well.

When I run updates there are no available updates. Fresh install. I chose to not update during the install to make sure. Disabled firewall and changed DNS (I run openDNS) for good measure and still nothing.

Getting the following error message.

“Unable to download list of repositories
or no repositories defined.”

knurpht · September 14, 2009, 1:51pm

Please open a terminal window and post output of ‘zypper lr’
That will make us see which repos have been defined, if any, and what their status is.

swerdna · September 14, 2009, 3:03pm

me too

When I run updates there are no available updates.

me too

Getting the following error message.

“Unable to download list of repositories
or no repositories defined.”

me too

Might have to wait for the repos to come back on line.
When this link works, probably too will Yast Software: http://software.opensuse.org/ (maybe?)

caf4926 · September 14, 2009, 4:37pm

Strange, I was having no trouble today. Umm…

user · September 14, 2009, 5:31pm

I have been running 11.1 for a while now on my laptop. Didn’t have an issue until the power outage. Tried to add repos on it and got the same message. Maybe DNS issue?

user · September 16, 2009, 12:42am

I am still having the “Unable to download list of repositories
or no repositories defined.” issue. Here is the output of zypper lr

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh

–±----------------------±----------------------±--------±-------
1 | home:Thruth | home:Thruth | Yes | Yes
2 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | No | No
3 | openSUSE-11.1-Updates | openSUSE-11.1-Updates | Yes | Yes
4 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | No | Yes
5 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes
6 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes
7 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | No | Yes
8 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes

Please help!!!