Unable to update after download

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#1

Hi

Today, I ran the update, it downloaded the files, and in the end it complained that it cannot update due to some other process.

I checked … but no other process was there.

I again ran:

zypper up
zypper dup

resulting to:

Nothing to do.

zypper refresh didnt help either.

cat /etc/os-release

NAME=“openSUSE Tumbleweed”

VERSION=“20171114”

ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE=“suse”
VERSION_ID=“20171114”
PRETTY_NAME=“openSUSE Tumbleweed”
ANSI_COLOR=“0;32”
CPE_NAME=“cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20171114”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.opensuse.org”
HOME_URL=“https://www.opensuse.org/”

Kindly advise.

Thankyou

#2 
# cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="**20171114**"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="20171114"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20171114"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"

Hi and welcome to the openSUSE Forums!
Apparently you are already running the current version, so unless you experience other problems we should assume that the update process actually did its work one way or another…
Please remember to always use “zypper dup” with Tumbleweed, since “zypper up” occasionally might leave you with a corrupt system.

#3

Hi
Thankyou!

It downloaded about more than 700MB of files… where did they go? if the system was already up to date.

Thankyou

#4

700MB is not unusual with Tumbleweed (every snapshot is in fact a new release). Files go to /var/cache/zypp/packages and remain there until they are installed, unless you specified the --keep-packages option when setting up your repositories.
Maybe those files were installed while the system looked “busy” or during the second “zypper dup” attempt…

#5

Hi

You mentioned above that the system is updated:

VERSION_ID=“20171114”

If that is so, then I just tested, today:

> zypper ref
…
> grep VERSION_ID cat /etc/os-release
/etc/os-release:VERSION_ID=“20171114”

Shouldnt it be either: 20171117 or **20171116

Or how should I confirm? As zypper ref doesnt inform me.
**
Thankyou

#6

Hi
Try another update…


zypper if openSUSE-release-ftp | grep Version

Version        : 20171115-1.2                     

cat /etc/os-release

NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20171115"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="20171115"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20171115"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"

Add some verbosity to see what is happening…


zypper -vvv ref
zypper -vvv dup
#7

Adding to Malcolm advice, at the time I wrote my previous comment the “current” release was still 20171114; the next one and “current” as I write this,** 20171115**, was published some 5 hours later (at least on the mirrors for Italy, might be slightly different on Asian mirrors).
See http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/iso/

If that is so, then I just tested, today:

Shouldnt it be either: 20171117 or **20171116

Or how should I confirm? As zypper ref doesnt inform me.
**
Thankyou

“zypper ref” refreshes the cached contents of the repositories but doesn’t install anything. As Malcolm wrote, you need a “zypper dup” to install the new files available; afterwards, you should be able to see an updated /etc/os-release on your system.

#8

Thankyou Sir! :slight_smile: