Repo refresh freezes YaST

[beeblebrox]

YaST (gui) says it’s downloading from cdn.opensuse.org at X KiB/s, where X looks normal for a split second, but then crawls to a halt… like bytes per second. Then when I try to “skip refresh”, YaST just stops responding completely.

Running zypper ref from the console also freezes.

Mirrors seem to work fine, so I tried deleting all repos and installing opensuse-repos from a mirror. Still the same issue.

This is a completely fresh install (Leap 15.6), nothing else has been changed in the system. Internet connection works just fine.

Any ideas please?

[OrsoBruno]

Welcome to the openSUSE Forums! Apparently there are several mirrors down (or perhaps currently refreshing) so processing might be slow, depending on mirrors in your area.
Here things complete eventually, so maybe try zypper -vvv refand you should see what mirrors are not found and what happens if you witness more severe errors.

[myswtest]

Yea, I’ve noticed some “hiccups” for the last day or so. I never use Yast2 to do updates … only use “zypper -vv up” at the command line.

When I run it, I can see where some mirrors are non-responsive, so they switch. And I’ve had to do a CTRL-C because of lengthy pauses. I simply wait about 5-10 minutes, then re-run it and it runs the “up” fine.

Just for fun, you might try this:

# zypper clean -a
# zypper -vv ref
# zypper -vv up

And if you want to show us:

# zypper lr -d

[beeblebrox]

Thanks!! It really does seem something is wrong but not on my side.

Fetching: http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss/repodata/c48a1f2cfdff1a633d474a2e173c548eeab35b9c7b2e40ceb9c6caecdeb91389-appdata.xml.gz ...[error (137 B/s)]

Reading metadata for 'repo-oss (15.6)'...[error]

Repository 'repo-oss (15.6)' is invalid.

[openSUSE:repo-oss|http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss] Valid metadata not found in specified URL

History:

- Download error (curl) for 'http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss/repodata/c48a1f2cfdff1a633d474a2e173c548eeab35b9c7b2e40ceb9c6caecdeb91389-appdata.xml.gz':

Error code: Curl error 56

Error message: Recv failure: Connection dropped by other party

(Pls excuse any deviations from official messages, I quickly translated localized output back into english).

zypper lr -d output (truncated repos which are disabled by default) :

#  | Alias                     | Name                    | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                          | Service
---+---------------------------+-------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------+---------
 4 | openSUSE:repo-non-oss     | repo-non-oss (15.6)     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/non-oss  | openSUSE
 6 | openSUSE:repo-openh264    | repo-openh264 (15.6)    | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Leap            | openSUSE
 7 | openSUSE:repo-oss         | repo-oss (15.6)         | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | N/A    | http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/repo/oss      | openSUSE
10 | openSUSE:update-backports | update-backports (15.6) | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | N/A    | http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/backports           | openSUSE
12 | openSUSE:update-non-oss   | update-non-oss (15.6)   | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | N/A    | http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/non-oss             | openSUSE
14 | openSUSE:update-oss       | update-oss (15.6)       | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | N/A    | http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/oss                 | openSUSE
16 | openSUSE:update-sle       | update-sle (15.6)       | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | N/A    | http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/sle                 | openSUSE