Well here’s a fine howdy-do… I installed openSUSE 11.1 KDE last night and was having a pretty care-free ride until I tried to open the installer. When I did, I got this error pretty much as soon as Autorefresh started: “Download (curl) error for http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/content....Error code: connection failed…Error Message: Couldn’t resolve host download.opensuse.org”
I’m guessing the English translation of all that is my YaST internet setting was never set up, and since my web browsers don’t seem quite as dead, it’s an easy fix. I tried poking around myself, but being a Linux rookie you could say I was…AGHaST by all the config possibilities. Can someone update me on what might be wrong with the setup? My firefox is also slower than Konqueror, and people say that’s a IPv6 or DNS thing.
Hi DigiTan. Do you have internet connectivity? Can you use browser ok? If all this is ok, then open a terminal window (console) and enter these commands:
su (to become root user, enter root password when prompted)
zypper up (zypper CLI update tool)
See how that goes.
If network is not working for you, can you post output of these commands:
Yeah the net works. It’s just YaST and Firefox to a lesser extent having the issues. When I ran Zypper it said: “Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.” I also get a few errors that pop up a few minutes after startup that basically say the same thing.
Have you tried disabling ipv6 ? if not go to YaST- network devices - network settings,click on global & disable.May require a re-boot.Also check your firewall
It was the IPv6 checkbox. Looks like unchecking it also fixed Firefox. I’d wager Konqueror defaults to IPv4 or detects the right setting since it never had any problems.