Giving that I need newer packages than the ones openSUSE 13.2 provides, but I did like the distribution much, I was planning to update to Tumbleweed tonight. Then I followed this installation guide, following the section to upgrade from a stable release to tumbleweed: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed_installation#Upgrade. Initially I couldn’t access some of the repos:
But I still decided to keep going and then download the ISO in case everything goes wrong. The problem is the connection to the servers is too slow! My connection is fine, to check it out I opened a video in HD and a could play it without interruptions, but then I closed the tab, came back to terminal, typed ‘zypper dup’ after adding the repositories that were available to me, and the average download speed was 10Kbps!
Is there a problem with the servers, or a way to speed it up? Tried to download the ISO and the speeds were the same.
I did not run into that. I have source and debug repos disabled.
Updating repo information was slow, but it happened. Downloading packages was happening at around 20K per second. On a good day, I get 2M per second.
Somebody probably goofed. It is usual to hide repos and download site of a new release, just before the release date (to prevent cheating, I suppose). And we are just before the release date of Leap 42.1. They may have mistakenly hidden the Tumbleweed repos and download site as well.
I see, I was following the guide to move from openSUSE 13.2 to Tumbleweed on the official wiki, weird thing but nrickert may be right.
I see, as long as I can live without those it’s all good, I just need the tumbleweed philosophy in my life in fact the speed is back to normal, it just fixed itself while I was reading the thread answers. Good to see I’ll have it ready tonight after all rotfl!
Hi everyone, same thingy here “permission denied” when trying to zypper dup today:
linux-ezequiel:/home/ezequiel # zypper dup
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command.
Retrieving repository 'packman' metadata ..............................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'packman' cache ...................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'packman-essentials' metadata ...................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'packman-essentials' cache ........................................................................................[done]
Permission to access 'http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/debug/content' denied.
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): r
Permission to access 'http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/debug/content' denied.
I was trying to download an ISO (Tumbleweed) but I had to cancel it because it would take 2 hours (net-install iso)
I had found a old snapshot on my computer and I tried to use that to install Tumbleweed on a laptop.
But it hangs when it tries to “Loading Installation system”
looks like it comes and goes, just like the karma chameleon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw) if you’re on a stable release try to update by pointing your repositories to Tumbleweed ones, there’s a guide for it on my first post. At first the speed was so slow, but after a couple repositories it went back to normal; the first ones were painfully slow though and so far I’m not sure if this is a infrastructure problem being under revision.
Just to confirm, I was trying to do an update last night as well (zypper dup) and it was pitifully slow - between 2 and 20 Kb/s!
I also got the permission problem with the debug repo (which I just excluded via YaST).
No idea what’s happened, but I hope it’s fixed by tonight, when I try again.
Well for my luck the pain is back, I tried to install new packages from tumbleweed repos and right now the average speed is back to 5Kbps, unbearable.
Is there someone to contact to inform this? Maybe they’re not aware of the problem.
Please someone let me know when it gets solved. I need to work and this situation is unacceptable; if this doesn’t gets solved soon (I can’t stay in Windows forever) I think I’ll switch to Fedora 23 when it gets released next week if it turns out to be more stable than this.
I don’t really understand this.
Why do you have to stay in Windows or switch to Fedora only because downloading updates is terribly slow in openSUSE at the moment?
Just wait a day or two with installing the updates…
Yes, it is slow here at the moment as well.
But it did work at normal speed some hours ago…
Is there anywhere we can go for a definitive answer on this - a status page or somewhere to report an issue?
I am not aware of a “status page” that would show the problem.
Reporting the issues could be done on some mailing list. I’m not sure which one would be best suited though, maybe opensuse-project or opensuse-factory.
But why not just be a little patient, and be grateful that you get to use all this infrastructure for free and it works “perfect” most of the time?
Just my 2 cents.
On 10/28/2015 01:36 PM, wolfi323 wrote:
> But why not just be a little patient, and be grateful that you get to
> use all this infrastructure for free and it works “perfect” most of
> the time?
> Just my 2 cents.
+1 It’s probably just a temporary issue.
I am on leap doing an update right now and I am getting ~1 MiB/s which is great for free updates
Because I use my computer for work. A month ago I had all my setup on Fedora 22 in an old laptop; then when I bought the new one I switched to openSUSE 13.2 but due to the relatively old packages (kernel and general ones) some of the pieces weren’t working properly so I had to switch back to Windows because I had some issues on Fedora with proprietary drivers and didn’t have time to deal with those (I needed my computer ready to work ASAP as you’d expect)
First, I don’t like Windows for work as a developer (that’s why I was using Fedora as my main environment to begin with) and second all of the servers I work with are built on Linux. Because of this and the fact I liked openSUSE, I switched to Tumbleweed, but the given time for setup the repos and install what I need for work makes it impossible for me to stay there. I need/want a Linux environment and I don’t want to stay on Windows for work, so if this doesn’t gets fixed soon I need to find a Linux distribution that works. Want me to tell my boss I can’t work for a couple days because the server sync is too slow? I don’t think so
in fact the speed is back to normal, it just fixed itself while I was reading the thread answers. Good to see I’ll have it ready tonight after all rotfl!
