Has Packman Stopped Working with 12.1?

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For the past week software installations via Yast/Packman are not working. Some packages will download and others will not, leaving the installation process in a Retry loop or Abort.

The following is an example of installing mplayer. In every attempt it stops at 2% downloaded for libdca0.

Downloading libopencore-amrnb0 (download size 97 kB)
Downloading libfaac0 (download size 35 kB)
Downloading libx264-120 (download size 301 kB)
Downloading libxvidcore4 (download size 189 kB)
Downloading libdca0 (download size 84 kB)
Aborted

Some of the repositories installed are:

2011-12-28 21:55:29|radd   |libdvdcss repository|http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/12.1/
2011-12-30 23:30:50|radd   |LibreOffice_Stable|http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Stable/openSUSE_12.1/
2012-01-02 18:31:15|radd   |openSUSE-update|http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/
2012-01-02 18:31:15|radd   |openSUSE-12.1-KDEUpdatedApps|http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/UpdatedApps/openSUSE_12.1/
2012-01-02 18:31:15|radd   |Packman-12.1-All|http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_12.1

Thanks

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On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:26:02 +0000, rjmthezonenet wrote:

> For the past week software installations via Yast/Packman are not
> working.
> Some packages will download and others will not, leaving the
> installation process in a Retry loop or Abort.

I just did a refresh with Zypper, and it seemed fine here.

Jim

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Why not open up a terminal session and type the following command:

zypper repos

Then copy the output from this command into a forum message here using the advanced message editor, highlighting just this text you pasted with your mouse and pressing the code # button. It will be enclosed in a code field like the one I have above with the command to try. This can be helpful to understand any repository issues you might be having.

Thank You,

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Here are the installed repositories:

user@server:~> zypper repos
#  | Alias                              | Name                                          | Enabled | Refresh
---+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+---------+--------
 1 | LibreOffice_Stable                 | Stable Version of LibreOffice (openSUSE_12.1) | Yes     | Yes    
 2 | Packman-12.1-All                   | Packman-12.1-All                              | Yes     | Yes    
 3 | Updates-for-openSUSE-12.1-12.1-1.4 | Updates for openSUSE 12.1 12.1-1.4            | Yes     | Yes    
 4 | libdvdcss repository               | libdvdcss repository                          | Yes     | Yes    
 5 | openSUSE-12.1-12.1-1.4             | openSUSE-12.1-12.1-1.4                        | Yes     | No     
 6 | openSUSE-12.1-KDEUpdatedApps       | openSUSE-12.1-KDEUpdatedApps                  | Yes     | Yes    
 7 | openSUSE-12.1-NonOSS-Add-on_12.1-0 | openSUSE 12.1 NonOSS Add on                   | Yes     | No     
 8 | openSUSE-12.1_12.1-1.4             | openSUSE 12.1                                 | Yes     | No     
 9 | openSUSE-update                    | openSUSE-12.1-Update                          | Yes     | Yes    
10 | repo-debug                         | openSUSE-12.1-Debug                           | No      | Yes    
11 | repo-debug-update                  | openSUSE-12.1-Update-Debug                    | No      | Yes    
12 | repo-non-oss                       | openSUSE-12.1-Non-Oss                         | Yes     | Yes    
13 | repo-oss                           | openSUSE-12.1-Oss                             | Yes     | Yes    
14 | repo-source                        | openSUSE-12.1-Source                          | No      | Yes

Refresh reports no errors:

user@server:/var/log/zypp> sudo zypper -v refresh
Verbosity: 1
Initializing Target
Specified repositories: 
Checking whether to refresh metadata for Stable Version of LibreOffice (openSUSE_12.1)
Retrieving: repomd.xml [done]
Repository 'Stable Version of LibreOffice (openSUSE_12.1)' is up to date.
Checking whether to refresh metadata for Packman-12.1-All
Retrieving: repomd.xml [done]
Repository 'Packman-12.1-All' is up to date.
Checking whether to refresh metadata for Updates for openSUSE 12.1 12.1-1.4
Retrieving: repomd.xml [done]
Repository 'Updates for openSUSE 12.1 12.1-1.4' is up to date.
Checking whether to refresh metadata for libdvdcss repository
Retrieving: repomd.xml [done]
Repository 'libdvdcss repository' is up to date.
Checking whether to refresh metadata for openSUSE-12.1-KDEUpdatedApps
Retrieving: repomd.xml [done]
Repository 'openSUSE-12.1-KDEUpdatedApps' is up to date.
Checking whether to refresh metadata for openSUSE-12.1-Update
Retrieving: repomd.xml [done]
Repository 'openSUSE-12.1-Update' is up to date.
Skipping disabled repository 'openSUSE-12.1-Debug'
Skipping disabled repository 'openSUSE-12.1-Update-Debug'
Checking whether to refresh metadata for openSUSE-12.1-Non-Oss
Retrieving: content [done]
Retrieving: media [done]
Repository 'openSUSE-12.1-Non-Oss' is up to date.
Checking whether to refresh metadata for openSUSE-12.1-Oss
Retrieving: content [done]
Retrieving: media [done]
Repository 'openSUSE-12.1-Oss' is up to date.
Skipping disabled repository 'openSUSE-12.1-Source'
All repositories have been refreshed.

Still stuck on libdac0 when I last tested 5m ago. I have similar problems updating LibreOffice as well as installing a few other miscellaneous packages such as the Kaffeine prompt to add non-OSS software codecs.

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Please try the following
Open Software Management and apply this
http://www.su2root.ukfsn.org/files/Switcher%20Pics/11.4_packman_switch.png

Then do this
http://www.su2root.ukfsn.org/files/Software%20Management/system_update.png

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caf4926, I’m about to try your recommendations but this was in my copy/paste buffer.

Maybe its not Packman, but an openSUSE mirror…

user@server:~> wget -v http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/suse/i586/openldap2-2.4.26-3.1.3.i586.rpm
asking libproxy about url 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/suse/i586/openldap2-2.4.26-3.1.3.i586.rpm'
libproxy suggest to use 'direct://'
--2012-01-04 23:40:50--  http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/suse/i586/openldap2-2.4.26-3.1.3.i586.rpm
Resolving download.opensuse.org (download.opensuse.org)... 195.135.221.134, 2001:67c:2178:8::13
Connecting to download.opensuse.org (download.opensuse.org)|195.135.221.134|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://mirror.its.dal.ca/opensuse/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/suse/i586/openldap2-2.4.26-3.1.3.i586.rpm [following]
asking libproxy about url 'http://mirror.its.dal.ca/opensuse/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/suse/i586/openldap2-2.4.26-3.1.3.i586.rpm'
libproxy suggest to use 'direct://'
--2012-01-04 23:40:50--  http://mirror.its.dal.ca/opensuse/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/suse/i586/openldap2-2.4.26-3.1.3.i586.rpm
Resolving mirror.its.dal.ca (mirror.its.dal.ca)... 192.75.96.254, 2001:410:a000:50::20
Connecting to mirror.its.dal.ca (mirror.its.dal.ca)|192.75.96.254|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 981717 (959K) [application/x-redhat-package-manager]
Saving to: `openldap2-2.4.26-3.1.3.i586.rpm'

 1% =>                                                                                                                                         ] 15,820      --.-K/s  eta 38m 5s  ^C
user@server:~>

The transfer speeds are extremely slow…

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Resolved!

Thanks everyone for your help. Unfortunately it was on my end.

Incoming connections to the server work without a hitch. Outgoing connections work, and then stop working. This meant surfing the web was possible but larger files would hang.

Thanks to Netshark, iptop, and wget to diagnose a routing problem with 3 interfaces.

My bad. :\