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#21

i just realized, what i told you to do is what needs to be done if
YaST is broke, but zypper still works (use zypper to fix YaST)…

so, try Knurpht’s way, step by step (and hold your breath)…if it
works let us know, if not, here are my next thoughts:

ok, lets at it another way:

-where are you, that is some places, dorms, countries, companies,
libraries, coffee shops, WHATEVER serve you though proxies and BLOCK
your ability to get to some IPs, etc…so, what is your situation?

-all of the addresses in YaST are to download.opensuse.org, which is
really a kind of clearing house machine…that is, the actual packages
you want to get at are all over the earth at mirrors…and,
download.opensuse.org is just a place that is supposed to ‘decide’ to
which mirror your request should be routed to…you can do that part
yourself, with a little effort to load a mirror into your YaST…

here is a full list of mirrors: http://mirrors.opensuse.org/list/11.2.html
find one near you, and see if you can’t use your browser to track down
though their directories to find the exact location for oss, non-oss
and etc…and, load those main four into your YaST (you do not have to
remove what you have there now, just mark them as disabled…

hmmm…and, hmmmm…do you have a DVD? are you sure it is without
errors? if so, you could try booting from it and select repair system!

–
palladium

#22

I suspect it acted weirdly due to the rollout of OBS 1.7 recently

#23

>>-where are you,

On a home network where I also have Suse notebook with the same 11.2 install. It updates just fine, no errors at all.

On a desktop I tried this so far:

delete all repos, add community repos - at least Yast got a list, but then “add main OSS” failed to download.

Tried adding local mirror via “Specify URL”- checking repository type failed.

Tried adding as HTTP but it demanded things like repository name and other things that were not immediately obvious.

#24

i now am pretty sure your zypper is damaged somehow…did you ever
abort a zypper/yast/online updater session because maybe it was taking
too long? OH! i just reread the thread (this is not the only one i’m
following) and see you have “termed” (terminated?)–do NOT do that!!
hate to tell you but patience is much better than none…of course, it
is your machine…if it is not fast enough for you then you may throw
it out the window–but . . .

so, while connected to the net try booting from the install DVD, do
this first http://tinyurl.com/yajm2aq then if it passes the checks
then select “Repair Installed System” from the same menu…

hopefully that will find and fix the damage…

good luck…(as far as i know if that does not work and another magic
worker doesn’t have another idea you may be forced to employ the
Wondrous Redmond Way…(full reinstall)…hmmmm, no i just thought
of one other thing that -might- work! but, you better hope this one works.

–
palladium

#25

Will try repairing as soon as I have a free hour with the machine.

I never termed updater just because it was too slow. **** thing hardly ever worked and pestered me with fail messages after every restart, offering manual updates instead. Manual updates failed, too - they said that updater keeps a lock somewhere that prevents yast from manually updating and the suggestion of terminating the offending process was in the yast popup box.

That was happening nearly everyday and so it is possible that I eventually termed it when the updater was actually working, but it wasn’t a problem with my patience - it had become a routine operation. Most of the times terming the updater let yast to continue manually.

Updater isn’t the only applet that refuses to work. I can’t get simple thing like weather to work, ever. Tried hald a dozen different applets. Some comic strips refuse to work, too.

So updater was just another one of many things that don’t work but don’t do any harm either. One day it apparently did.

#26

Stan Ice wrote:
> Will try repairing as soon as I have a free hour with the machine.
>
> I never termed updater just because it was too slow. **** thing hardly
> ever worked and pestered me with fail messages after every restart,
> offering manual updates instead. Manual updates failed, too - they said
> that updater keeps a lock somewhere that prevents yast from manually
> updating and the suggestion of terminating the offending process was in
> the yast popup box.
>
> That was happening nearly everyday and so it is possible that I
> eventually termed it when the updater was actually working, but it
> wasn’t a problem with my patience - it had become a routine operation.
> Most of the times terming the updater let yast to continue manually.
>
> Updater isn’t the only applet that refuses to work. I can’t get simple
> thing like weather to work, ever. Tried hald a dozen different applets.
> Some comic strips refuse to work, too.
>
> So updater was just another one of many things that don’t work but
> don’t do any harm either. One day it apparently did.
>
>

you are having FAR too many problems…

perhaps you either installed from a damaged install disk, or damaged
your installed system somehow…perhaps by trying to ‘fix’ things…

or maybe by installing with 1-Click installs and not then making sure
that errant and unnecessary repos are not left enabled…

have you read, and do you follow the advice to only have four repos
enabled: oss, non-oss, update and packman ??

do this and copy paste back to here–i may have a new idea about what
is wrong with your machine…


zypper lr -d

–
palladium

#27

It is certainly possible that I damaged my system, but I haven’t added any extra repos. This is a relatively new install, not fully configured yet. So far I got smplayer, wine, deluge, and chromium. I got packman for smplayer, the rest were one click installs or were in the repos already.

I haven’t “fixed” anything yet, no luck so far.

While I was typing this, yast managed to get packman - it got through to something!

here’s zypper lr -d

linux-j88c:~ # zypper lr -d

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

–±-------------------±-------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±--------------------------------------------±-------
1 | ftp.skynet.be-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.2/ |
linux-j88c:~ #

#28

You do not have the update repo should also have Oss and non-Oss repos. But you need the update one to get updates.

#29

Note Packman seems a bit slow today

#30

I saw problems with Packman repo yesterday. I disabled it in Yast and all went well from there on.

#31

> here’s zypper lr -d
>
> linux-j88c:~ # zypper lr -d
> # | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh |
> Priority | Type | URI |
> Service
> --±-------------------±-------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±--------------------------------------------±-------
> 1 | ftp.skynet.be-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99
> | rpm-md | http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.2/ |
> linux-j88c:~ #

very strange!
openSUSE 11.2 is “born” with several other repos enabled…

tell me again: did you md5sum check your install media prior to
installing??? something is so very bad wrong here!

–
palladium

#32

I followed Knurpht advice:

“Start Yast - Repo manager
Remove all repos
Accept and exit, start repo manager again and add repos from scratch…”

None of the repos could be downloaded, except for packman, and it only happened a few hours ago, first time in days.

Since then I tried adding Main OSS, too,it failed, but now it’s listed both in Yast and in zypper:

linux-j88c:~ # zypper lr -d

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

–±--------------------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±---------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | download.opensuse.org-oss | Main Repository (OSS) | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
2 | ftp.skynet.be-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | No | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.2

I can add NonOSS and Update repos in the same way - without actually downloading them, and get them on the list, it would take at least half an hour to wait for timeouts and error reports.

#33

Why do you have the refresh turned off? You still need the update repo.

Yast-Software-Software Repositories

#34

Stan please try this
Open a terminal and become su
Enter (copy and paste with mouse) the following one at a time and hit enter

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ Updates


zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/ Non-Oss

Report back with
zypper lr -d

#35

I downloaded new install DVD, checked it for errors, repaired the system, there was a bit about fixing repositories and it all went well.

Yast still refuses to download repos - gives an error about donwloading “media/products”, if I try to add repos from URL and give it an http link to opensuse mirrors it gives basically the same error message, just worded differenty.

Here is the latest zypper report:

linux-j88c:~ # zypper ar Index of /update/11.2 Updates
Adding repository ‘Updates’ [done]
Repository ‘Updates’ successfully added
Enabled: Yes
Autorefresh: No
URI: Index of /update/11.2

linux-j88c:~ # zypper ar Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss Non-Oss
Adding repository ‘Non-Oss’ [done]
Repository ‘Non-Oss’ successfully added
Enabled: Yes
Autorefresh: No
URI: Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss

linux-j88c:~ # zypper lr -d

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

–±-------------------±-------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±-------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | Non-Oss | Non-Oss | Yes | No | 99 | NONE | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss |
2 | Updates | Updates | Yes | No | 99 | NONE | Index of /update/11.2 |
3 | ftp.skynet.be-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | No | 99 | rpm-md | http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.2/ |
linux-j88c:~ # zypper up
Failed to download /media.1/media from Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/?] (a): a
Error building the cache:
Can’t provide /media.1/media : Failed to download /media.1/media from Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss
Warning: Disabling repository ‘Non-Oss’ because of the above error.
Failed to download /repodata/repomd.xml from Index of /update/11.2
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/?] (a): a
Error building the cache:
Can’t provide /repodata/repomd.xml : Failed to download /repodata/repomd.xml from Index of /update/11.2
Warning: Disabling repository ‘Updates’ because of the above error.

Then it went on and updated three packages for mplayer from packman.

#36

Where are you located? Maybe ISP is blocking something.

can you navigate to any of the addresses in a browser. Just click the links in your own post.

#37

Repos are accessible with a browser, always have been.

Moreover, another Suse on the same home network downloads repos and find updates without any problems.

At first I thought zypper couldn’t find its way out on the Internet, but it works with Packman, so that’s not it.

#38

caf4926, is there a reason why you let Stan add the update-repo without setting it to ‘autorefresh’? Non-oss is static, so it won’t need this option, but for update it should be

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ Updates

I recommend removing all repos and rebuild the list from scratch.¹

(Stan, do not type this code as caf4926 may have an idea I do not get yet).

¹oops that has been advised already, sorry.

#39

Regarding mirrors:

Link to find mirrors: mirrors

Doesn’t OpenSUSE use Metalink? So in theory we are already using mirrors, just not directly.
Redirector
Wiki Metalink

#40

i have this exact same problem actually, it is wierd

same thing, can browse repositories with a browser but yast, zypper, even smart wont work.