download.opensuse.org redirector not working

I have installed openSUSE Leap 42.3 dualboot with Win10 and having following issues. Can someone can help me out ?

  1. Software repository are not working.
  2. Amarok also not working.
  3. GRUB2 issue mostly like ‘Minimal BASH like’ error. Spend some time to fix it but no luck hence installed twice. Why GRUB2 is not stable ?

Thanks,
Kiran Teki

Please provide information, we cannot check or help out on ‘not working’.

Thanks for the reply. Below is the information regarding s/w repository issue.

When I installed OS it comes with around 10 repositories but none of them worked(got hanged when I launch S/w management and same if we do using zypper refresh command) hence I updated two(Packmen and Main Update) based on the info available in one of the forum thread but seems still updates not happening properly that is the reason Amarok issue not fixed.

So please help me on this. Let me know any other info required fro my side.

It seem s you have three issues. One is grub. One is zypper. Another is Multimedia (and a problem with Amarok). Lets do one at a time, start with zypper.

The zypper command is

sudo zypper ref

If that just “hangs” (or gives error messages like “could not resolve host” then the problem might be a bad internet connection. So perhaps test that. Let us know if internet is working. Then if that’s OK, look closer at the repos doing this command:

sudo zypper lr -u

Post the results here (copy/paste using the # buttong to wrap with CODE/CODE tags)

Yes I have total three issues namely Grub, Zypper and only Amarok having issue not all multimedia apps as Miami Player working fine but prefer Amarok as its more handy. Please find output below for zypper.

<<<<>>>>>:~ # **zypper ref**
Repository 'Main Update Repository' is up to date.                                                                                                                      
Repository 'Packman Repository' is up to date.                                                                                                                          
All repositories have been refreshed.

<<<<>>>>>:~ # **zypper lr -u**
Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.

# | Alias                     | Name                   | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | URI                                              
--+---------------------------+------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------------
1 | download.opensuse.org-oss | Main Update Repository | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/oss
2 | packman.inode.at-suse     | Packman Repository     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/

Is

zypper lr -u

complete?
Than you miss necessary Repos.

Try as root:

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/non-oss/ Non-OSS-Update
zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/non-oss/ Non-OSS
zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/oss/ OSS

Post:

zypper ve

Yes only these two repositories I added as default ones not worked. Let me give a try above and get back to you.

Think of that:
download.opensuse.org is a redirector, which means it will redirect you to a server near by you. Maybe this server is broken. So you can use a mirror:
https://mirrors.opensuse.org/

Yes I have tried above but again it got hanged at first instance itself as below. How to fix this ?

<<<<<>>>>>>:~ # zypper lr -u
Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.

# | Alias                     | Name                   | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | URI                                              
--+---------------------------+------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------------
1 | download.opensuse.org-oss | Main Update Repository | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/oss
2 | packman.inode.at-suse     | Packman Repository     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/ 

<<<<<>>>>>>:~ # zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/non-oss/ Non-OSS-Update
Adding repository 'Non-OSS-Update' ...............................................................................................................................[done]
Repository 'Non-OSS-Update' successfully added

URI         : http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/non-oss/
Enabled     : Yes                                                   
GPG Check   : Yes                                                   
Autorefresh : Yes                                                   
Priority    : 99 (default priority)                                 

Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.

<<<<<>>>>>>:~ # zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/non-oss/ Non-OSS
Adding repository 'Non-OSS' ......................................................................................................................................[done]
Repository 'Non-OSS' successfully added

URI         : http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/non-oss/
Enabled     : Yes                                                              
GPG Check   : Yes                                                              
Autorefresh : Yes                                                              
Priority    : 99 (default priority)                                            

Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.

<<<<<>>>>>>:~ # zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/oss/ OSS                                                                           
Adding repository 'OSS' ..........................................................................................................................................[done]
Repository 'OSS' successfully added                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                        
URI         : http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/oss/                                                                                             
Enabled     : Yes                                                                                                                                                       
GPG Check   : Yes                                                                                                                                                       
Autorefresh : Yes                                                          
Priority    : 99 (default priority)                                        

Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.

<<<<<>>>>>>:~ # zypper lr -u
Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.

# | Alias                     | Name                   | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | URI                                                              
--+---------------------------+------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | Non-OSS                   | Non-OSS                | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/non-oss/
2 | Non-OSS-Update            | Non-OSS-Update         | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/non-oss/           
3 | OSS                       | OSS                    | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/oss/    
4 | download.opensuse.org-oss | Main Update Repository | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/oss                
5 | packman.inode.at-suse     | Packman Repository     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/                 

<<<<<>>>>>>:~ # zypper ve
Retrieving repository 'Non-OSS' metadata ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\]
                                         

Delete them as root:

zypper rr 1 2 3 4

And add new one:

zypper ar -f http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/opensuse/update/leap/42.3/non-oss/ Non-OSS-Update
zypper ar -f http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/opensuse/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/non-oss/ Non-OSS
zypper ar -f http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/opensuse/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/oss/ OSS
zypper ar -f http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/opensuse/update/leap/42.3/oss/ OSS-Update

Perfect its successful now. So fix is that we have given nearer mirrors hence updates picked up ? Can you please help me Amarok issue as well please ?

Can you please help me Amarok issue as well please ?

Maybe I can help.

But please understand, only 1 Problem 1 thread.
If anyone is searching with the Problem of amarok, he have first read about wrong Repos…
Thats not good.
So my advise is to open for each Problem an extra thread with an significant title.

I will change the title of this thread in:
download.opensuse.org redirector not working

Glad to hear, that it is working.

But I do not know, in which country you live, I have choosen a mirror in Germany, which has worked for years for me.

Great and thanks for the help on major issue. I feel now my OS is stable. I will create new thread for other issue. Anyway I got another nice player ‘Clementine’ after new updates got reflected.

Clementine is an amarok fork on Version 1.4…
I only use Clementine.