software manager will not start

I’m very new to Suse… Opensuse 11.2 (gnome) is the first version of this distro I have ever ran. For the past few years I have been running Ubuntu. I have not had time to master the command lines for suse yet… So please bear with me if I ask stupid questions…

My software manager has been working fine for the last week, but today it just stopped loading. It gives this as the reason why:

System management is locked by the application with pid 6652 (zypper).
Close this application before trying again.

I have tried rebooting, and it still doesn’t work… Any ideas?

There is an updater applet that runs in the system tray. That is causing this. I always quit this application and choose not to have it start at boot. I then manually check for updates with the software manager.

You can always choose to start the updater applet again if you find you want it.

alright I did this, and the error message went away but it still stalls and won’t load. It stalls on “Load configured repositories: downloading: http://opensuse.org/.../repodata/repomd.xml:

I’m getting this too. I think there is something wrong on the servers. That or there is a bug in the recent updates.

I’m looking in to it and will come back as soon as I can.

download.opensuse.org is not responding.
I can ping it but nothing else.

Hi
Just select a local mirror;
http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Selection


Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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openSUSE Download Mirrors - 11.2

Apparently the redirector is down. Wait it out or you can switch mirrors.