Hi,
I have a new install of KDE 13.1 (last weekend) and then zypper was working. Now zypper isn’t. It’s persistently looking for the download servers using IPv6, which is failing.
Internet browsing, wget (from command line) work OK. curl (from command line) also fails.
I’ve disabled IPv6 in KDE, and set IPv6 to reject in sysconfig & rebooted. No change.
How can I fix this?
Thanks
p.s. I can’t download curl or whatever to revert to an earlier version in zypper 
No, it isn’t.
It tries IPv4 first, but it only reports the last thing it tried when it fails.
That’s a limitation of curl I think.
Anyway, there seems to be a general problem with download.opensuse.org at the moment, I cannot reach the repos either.
You don’t have a configuration issue.
Try again later and just be patient until this is fixed.
PS: It is working again now for me. 
Thanks. You’re right - it’s back now.
I’ll log the error message as a bug. I have no IPv6 on the local network and my ISP doesn’t yet support IPv6 properly, so zypper shouldn’t be saying IPv6 failed when it was an IPv4 issue.
David
This has been reported already:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863047
And I’m pretty sure this was not even the first bug report about that.
with this morning’s download.opensuse outage while the servers were changed, I’m sure a lot of other people have seen this error.
The bug was listed as priority 5 (which means it gets no attention). I’ve changed it to 4 (Low). The opensuse zypper maintainers may like to raise its priority further. It depends on how they feel about wasting people’s time.
No, that’s not true.
Priority 5 (None) means, that no specific priority has been set, not that it will be ignored.
It’s even more likely ignored with a priority of 4 (low) I suppose.
And you as bug reporter or commenter on a bug should not change the priority, that’s intended for the maintainer only.
From Bugzilla’s help:
Priority: The bug assignee uses this field to prioritize his or her bugs. It’s a good idea not to change this on other people’s bugs.
You could change the Severity instead though.
Severity: This indicates how severe the problem is - from blocker (“application unusable”) to trivial (“minor cosmetic issue”). You can also use this field to indicate whether a bug is an enhancement request.
Thanks for the correction. I’ll undo my mistake and do as you suggest.
On 2014-04-15 13:16, ezio84 wrote:
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> wolfi323;2637065 Wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, there seems to be a general problem with download.opensuse.org
>> at the moment, I cannot reach the repos either.
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html
I posted it here, on the opensuse-news forum.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 2014-04-15 14:16, wolfi323 wrote:
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> jetojedno;2637088 Wrote:
>> I’ll log the error message as a bug.
> This has been reported already:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863047
>
> And I’m pretty sure this was not even the first bug report about that.
Nope.
It has been discussed for years. See:
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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:08:40 +0000
From: “Myrosia Dzikovska” <>
To: SLE <opensuse@opensuse.org>
Subject: [opensuse] Zypper curl errors in 11.0
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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:47:15 +0200
From: Claudio Prono <>
X-Mailinglist: opensuse
To: suse <opensuse@opensuse.org>
Subject: [opensuse] Zypper ref and you uses IPV6…help!
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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:55:37 -0500
From: Adam Tauno Williams <>
To: opensuse@opensuse.org
Subject: [opensuse] download.opensuse.org (Domain name not found) -
“zypper up” fails after upgrade to 12.1
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:38:54 +0200
From: “Carlos E. R.” <>
X-Mailinglist: opensuse
To: oS-en <opensuse@opensuse.org>
Subject: Re: [opensuse] IPv6 and DNS
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From: Ilya Chernykh <>
To: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org
Subject: [opensuse-factory] Zypper uses IPv6 address when no IPv6 available
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:56:01 +0400
X-Mailinglist: opensuse-factory
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Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 11:30:19 -0400 (CLT)
From: Gerald Pfeifer <...@suse.com>
To: opensuse-project@opensuse.org
Subject: [opensuse-project] download.opensuse.org IPV6 address breaks
updates
X-Mailinglist: opensuse-project
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(Notice the domain in the address of that one)
By the way, comment 1 in the bugzilla is the key:
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All connection handling is done by libcurl, and it’s also libcurl which
returns the error message.
I’m forwarding it to the curl maintainer, maybe there’s a way to improve
the error reporting.
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which basically means that the zypper maintainers will do nothing.
You could try adding report comments to increase maintainer awareness of
the problem. If many people report they are affected, interest should raise.
For example, one suggestion on one of the posts above was to add a “-4”
parameter to zypper. It does not exist, yet. Better be a configuration
file used both by yast and zypper.
Another is to create “/root/.curlrc”
--ipv4
Maybe it works.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)