Package Manager fails to connect to everything

This just started a couple of days ago:

Errors occurred while restoring the repository configuration.
Error refreshing service SUSE_Package_Hub_15_SP1_x86_64 (https://scc.suse.com/access/services/1856?credentials=SUSE_Package_Hub_15_SP1_x86_64): Timeout exceeded when accessing ‘https://scc.suse.com/access/services/1856/repo/repoindex.xml?cookies=0&credentials=SUSE_Package_Hub_15_SP1_x86_64’.

I searched and searched but couldn’t find even a sniff about how to fix it.

Also, WHAT is the deal with some forums and support stuff pointing to rancher.com with NO explanation or obvious reason??

Hello,

It is not quite clear to me what you are trying. openSUSE 15.1 is End-of-Life and out of support for almost a year now. No wonder all repos are gone. And you seem to have a SLES/SLED repo there, which you probably should not use with openSUSE at all and I do not know if that should still work (SLEd/SLES knowledge is minimal on these openSUSE forums.

You statement about “some forums”, etc. is rather vague. What are “some forums”? Is one of them the openSUSE forums?

Hi
Since SUSE acquired Rancher, the https://forums.suse.com moved to https://community.suse.com/ which is a combination of SUSE and Rancher. Since (based on you last posts here in 2020) I suggest heading there to ask your questions.

The repos are NOT gone, If you note, it’s not connecting to the authentication server.

And you seem to have a SLES/SLED repo there, which you probably should not use with openSUSE at all and I do not know if that should still work (SLEd/SLES knowledge is minimal on these openSUSE forums.

Indeed, SUSE shut down the SYSTEM repos quite some time ago. That’s why the OpenSUSE Repos are in there. It works perfectly fine, so long as you pay attention and don’t let some oddball software back try to replace half of the system core.

You statement about “some forums”, etc. is rather vague. What are “some forums”? Is one of them the openSUSE forums?

Um… that bottom link right there?? That redirects to rancher.com
https://i.imgur.com/Mo6yXMA.png

Thank you Malcolm, I think some links are broken, I’ve been redirected to rancher.com numerous times, but I was never sent to community.suse.com

Also… it KIND OF feels like the SUSE resources are being hacked, because rancher.com isn’t actually mentioned anywhere. I wouldn’t give them my log-in details if you paid me. I suggest you make some official posts and blurbs about redirecting people there, if that’s actually what you actually intend to do. Also, I would suggest using the SUSE login method to log in to the site, instead of forcing people to hand over log-in details to (what looks like) a third party website.

I only understand half what you say. But my impression is that it is all about SLES/SLED and not openSUSE. That is what I try to tell you so you can go to the correct place, whatever that may be.

Wooow… I have to fill out a bunch of forms in order to submit a request in order to receive an invite from a third party service in order to reach out to an official SUSE resource and then actually submit a request for help…

How’s that working out in the era of the 5 minute attention span??

  1. I can’t review the cookie policy because when I click the link, it just redirects me back to these request_invite things.
  2. Who the heck is Mighty Networks, and WHY am I agreeing to THEIR terms on a SUSE.COM website?! WHere’s the SUSE authentication?
  3. If they’re going to be prejudiced about gmail email addresses, TELL ME THAT ON THE EMAIL RESUEST PAGE!! That way, I can submit a different email address if I want to!

Klicking on the suse-forum link here in the forum, login with my github account and all is fine in https://forums.rancher.com/.

You have to scroll down for the suse forums.

Hi
Fixed the link, now points to the SUSE and Rancher Community… There is a Linux section where you can post about SUSE Enterprise Linux…