Inaccessible repo-oss for weeks now

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1

Hi all,

For quite a while now previously working repo-oss no longer does so:

Retrieving repository 'repo-oss (16.0)' metadata .......................................................................................................[error]
Repository 'repo-oss (16.0)' is invalid.
[openSUSE:repo-oss|http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64] Failed to retrieve new repository metadata.
History:
 - [|] Error trying to read from 'http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64'
 - Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64/content'.
   Timeout reached Curl error (28)

From what I read in previous posts the location and arch folder are already correct. Has anyone else experienced this? Perhaps is is some node in the CDN?

2

Check the mirrorlist and see if any of the reported mirrors for your area are functional.

3

What I see is

[
  {
    "prio": 0,
    "url": "https://opensuse.ipacct.com/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/"
  },
  {
    "prio": 1,
    "url": "https://opensuse.ipacct.com/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/"
  },
  {
    "prio": 2,
    "url": "https://mirrors.nxthost.com/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/"
  },
  {
    "prio": 3,
    "url": "https://mirrors.nxthost.com/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/"
  },
  {
    "prio": 4,
    "url": "https://mirror.ihost.md/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/"
  },
  {
    "prio": 5,
    "url": "https://mirror.ihost.md/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/"
  },
  {
    "prio": 6,
    "url": "https://tux.rainside.sk/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/"
  },
  {
    "prio": 7,
    "url": "https://tux.rainside.sk/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/"
  }
]

but more importantly shouldn’t the CDN have some status where one can check the health of all mirrors?

4

No, that is a different page ( https://mirrors.opensuse.org/ ).
Anyway I checked the first and the third mirrors in your list and both are working, as is http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/repodata/ where the metadata comes from.
So please check now, if it doesn’t work maybe you have a firewall or something?

5

If you still have problems, looking at:

zypper -vvv ref

and

zypper lr -d

might help.

6

No, that is a different page ( https://mirrors.opensuse.org/ ).
Anyway I checked the first and the third mirrors in your list and both are working, as is http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/repodata/ where the metadata comes from.

In any case what I first tried on my side before posting is accessing the URLs directly myself and verifying that the right folder and files exist. Definitely less sophisticated but I believe it confirmed the same suspicions successfully.

So please check now, if it doesn’t work maybe you have a firewall or something?

I don’t think just inspecting the mirrors would help and I have actually had this issue for weeks (repeated attempts) but just for the sake of explicitness I tried again and got

Retrieving repository 'repo-oss (16.0)' metadata .......................................................................................................[error]
Repository 'repo-oss (16.0)' is invalid.
[openSUSE:repo-oss|http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64] Failed to retrieve new repository metadata.
History:
 - [|] Error trying to read from 'http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64'
 - Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64/content'.
   Timeout reached Curl error (28)

So please check now, if it doesn’t work maybe you have a firewall or something?

As I used to have this working and haven’t changed any firewall settings (and can access all other repos but this one?) I doubt this is an issue.

zypper -vvv ref

I think I tried refreshing before but not verbose. This is the outcome:

Checking whether to refresh metadata for repo-oss (16.0)
Retrieving: http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml .........................................................[error]
Retrieving repository 'repo-oss (16.0)' metadata .......................................................................................................[error]
Repository 'repo-oss (16.0)' is invalid.
[openSUSE:repo-oss|http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64] Failed to retrieve new repository metadata.
History:
 - [|] Error trying to read from 'http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64'
 - Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64/content'.
   Timeout reached Curl error (28)
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Skipping repository 'repo-oss (16.0)' because of the above error.

And regarding

zypper -vvv ref
I see only

...
11 | openSUSE:repo-oss                     | repo-oss (16.0)                       | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | -    |   99     | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64           | openSUSE
12 | openSUSE:repo-oss-debug               | repo-oss-debug (16.0)                 | No      | ----      | ----    | -    |   99     | N/A    | http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64     | openSUSE
13 | openSUSE:repo-oss-source              | repo-oss-source (16.0)                | No      | ----      | ----    | -    |   99     | N/A    | http://cdn.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss           | openSUSE
14 | repo-source-non-oss                   | Source Repository (Non-OSS)           | No      | ----      | ----    | -    |   99     | N/A    | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/non-oss/ |

Note that all the other repos work fine before and after refreshing.

7

You need to remove that /x86_64 from the repo URL

8

That should not be a problem (the repo should be defined by the openSUSE-repos-Leap package) but I noticed that the first mirror in the OP’s list (https://opensuse.ipacct.com) might be somewhat slow when serving:

curl http://opensuse.ipacct.com/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml

Maybe explicitly choosing another mirror can fix the problem, at least temporarily?

9

Thanks for the continued replies @OrsoBruno, do you have any quick hints on how to configure a different mirror (and which one you think is a good choice) in the most OpenSUSE-idiomatic way?

10 
zypper addrepo -c -p 99 -f http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/ "Fixed oss repo"

should do the trick. You may adjust the URI to a mirror rather than the original download-opensuse.org if you think it would better serve your area.

11

I think an alternative mirror works. I assume there is no established way to report the need of a fix for the current mirror? Because if it stays on more people will hit this problem with it.

12

You may try to contact http://www.ipacct.com/en/contactus/

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