Having trouble running howto "Updategrub for openSUSE Legacy Grub (not update-grub!)"

johannesjones · June 2, 2011, 3:14pm

I’m trying to follow the above howto, but when I try to run the “zypper refresh -r PTA” line, I get the following;-

Retrieving repository ‘PTA’ metadata [error]
Repository ‘PTA’ is invalid.
|] Repository type can’t be determined.
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Skipping repository ‘PTA’ because of the above error.
Could not refresh the repositories because of errors.

Can somebody please shed some light on this?

Thanks

John Jones

martin_helm · June 2, 2011, 3:43pm

Which version of openSUSE do you use and what does the output of


zypper lr -d

show (please post it). It will list your repositories with their URL so that
we can see what PTA is on your machine.

johannesjones · June 2, 2011, 4:36pm

Yeah, sorry, should have mentioned the version; it’s openSUSE 11.

Running “zypper lr -d” gave the following;-

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

–±---------------------------------±---------------------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | PTA | PTA | Yes | No | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...openSUSE_11.4/ |
2 | Updates-for-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.4 |
3 | nVidia Graphics Drivers | nVidia Graphics Drivers | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.4/ |
4 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-DVDR_PX-750A,/dev/sr0 |
5 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.4-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss |
6 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-11.4-Update-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/update/11.4 |
7 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss |
8 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/oss |
9 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.4-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss |

Thanks,

John Jones

gogalthorp · June 2, 2011, 4:58pm

Your PTA repository does not exist remove it.

Note if you put your code here on the board with code tags you will not get the full code not abbreviated stuff that we can not read. You can get the tags by going to advanced mode or placing tag] /tag] around the text where tag is code.

martin_helm · June 2, 2011, 5:21pm

+1 for the code tags.

@johannesjones
Beside that it simply looks as if you used a crippled url for this repository. Check where you had that link originally from and correct it, otherwise you can only do what gogalthorp told you - remove the repo.

martin_helm · June 2, 2011, 5:31pm

Do the following


su -
zypper rr PTA
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/please_try_again/openSUSE_11.4/ PTA 
zypper refresh -r PTA

report back if it worked.

johannesjones · June 2, 2011, 5:53pm

It worked. Thank you.

I think where I was going wrong was that I was substituting my username for “please_try_again” in the line “zypper ar Index of /repositories/home:/please_try_again/openSUSE_11.4 PTA”.

Thanks again.

gogalthorp

Note if you put your code here on the board with code tags you will not get the full code not abbreviated stuff that we can not read. You can get the tags by going to advanced mode or placing [tag] [/tag] around the text where tag is code.

Thanks for the tip, gogalthorp, I’ll keep it in mind if there’s a next time. I don’t do much posting, so I don’t know all the ins and outs.

John