Online updates don't work as expected :(

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#1

Hi there. I noticed recently that despite having the online update option in yast enabled, I rarely see the notifier in the bottom taskbar reminding me of installing available updates. At first I thought that this version of suse is so great that it doesn’t need much patches :), however that was a false prediction. A few days ago firefox released a security update (version 3.5.8) check this page Firefox 3.5.8 Closes Security Holes, but unfortunately till now I didn’t get any update notification for it, so I tried to launch “Online Update” manualy from yast, but sill no luck, while on my laptop running Ubuntu 9.10, I got the firefox update the very next day.I wonder why is this so, is there something wrong with suse repos, or am I missing something? Probably it is the last one, so please help me with this. My repos look like this:

 zypper lr
# | Alias                               | Name                        | Enabled | Refresh
--+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------+--------
1 | http-download.opensuse.org-5b662660 | Updates for openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes     | Yes    
2 | nvidia_1                            | nvidia                      | Yes     | Yes    
3 | openSUSE 11.2-0                     | openSUSE 11.2-0             | Yes     | No     
4 | packman                             | packman                     | Yes     | Yes    
5 | repo-debug                          | openSUSE-11.2-Debug         | No      | Yes    
6 | repo-non-oss                        | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss       | Yes     | Yes    
7 | repo-oss                            | openSUSE-11.2-Oss           | Yes     | Yes    
8 | repo-source                         | openSUSE-11.2-Source        | No      | Yes

Thanks for help.

#2

Please post

zypper lr -d

In the mean time try

zypper ref

zypper up
#3 
zypper lr -d
# | Alias                               | Name                        | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                             | Service
--+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | http-download.opensuse.org-5b662660 | Updates for openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/                       |        
2 | nvidia_1                            | nvidia                      | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.2/                       |        
3 | openSUSE 11.2-0                     | openSUSE 11.2-0             | Yes     | No      |   99     | yast2  | cd:///                                                          |        
4 | packman                             | packman                     | Yes     | Yes     |  100     | rpm-md | http://packman.jacobs-university.de/suse/11.2/                  |        
5 | repo-debug                          | openSUSE-11.2-Debug         | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/  |        
6 | repo-non-oss                        | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss       | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/    |        
7 | repo-oss                            | openSUSE-11.2-Oss           | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/        |        
8 | repo-source                         | openSUSE-11.2-Source        | No      | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ |  

zypper ref

and

zypper up

didn’t seem to help :frowning:

#4

Please change the priority of Packman to 99 to match the rest.

Then do this:

zypper dup -r packman

post the result of

uname -a
#5 
uname -a
Linux Kanin 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-01-27 08:20:11 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Ok. did as suggested,but still no luck with firefox

zypper dup -r packman

did update some software but not FF

#6

You look up to date
What is wrong with FFox?

#7

You look up to date
What is wrong with FFox?
well I expected it to update to version 3.5.8, I don’t think I expect to much or do I :wink: As I said on ubuntu 9.10 with no extra setting up, I already got the update, but not on suse. Do I need an extra repo for this? Thanks again.

#8

Currently it’s v. 3.5.7

You can add a repo to get v 3.6

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.2/ Mozilla


zypper dup -r Mozilla
#9

Even i am new to OPENSUSE 11.2, have been previously using ubuntu.neither my updates do work.may be there is some problem accessing the mirror.Is there any way to get the updates working??? Neither i am able to install any other packages like VLC and other stuff… Can any one help me out.>???

#10

Ok, I got now the version 3.5.8 without adding FF repos

zypper dup -r packman

this obviously did the trick, but needed a reboot. Ok so via zypper I can get the updates, but would prefer if the updates would get installed automatically via the “update notifier”. Is there any special setup for this, except the “Automatic Online Update” tick in yast.

#11

If you are asking my advice. I would say do as I do, scrap the auto updater and tell it not to start at boot.
Do all updates via software management or yast online update

#12

Fair enough, thanks for advices.