Update problem

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Hi all. I am new to Linux, I just installed OpenSuse 10.3 and I am having problem with update. This is what I do:

start-> System -> Yast (Administrator settings)
Community repositories
I check: NON-OSS and OSS.
After enormous efforts to add these repositories (because Yast either freezes, crashes or reports some segmentation fault) I finally added them.
But, when I check for updates I still get the question mark in the bottom right corner where the update applet is, with the following message:

Unable to check whether updates are available.
Please use “Add/Remove Update Sources…” from the tray icon menu to define an update repository.

Anyone please help…
Thanks.

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Quit the updater applet in the tray and tell it not to start at boot.

Open Yast - Software - Software Management
Filter by repository and select the Update channel from the list
If this is a kde desktop you can click the Packages menu and select update all in this list if newer ver. avail…

Or you could try Yast - Software- Online Update

I 'm just having trouble remembering 10.3 - it’s some time ago.

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icarus035 wrote:
> start-> System → Yast (Administrator settings)
> Community repositories
> I check: NON-OSS and OSS.
> After enormous efforts to add these repositories (because Yast either
> freezes, crashes or reports some segmentation fault) I finally added
> them.
> But, when I check for updates I still get the question mark in the
> bottom right corner where the update applet is, with the following
> message:
>
> Unable to check whether updates are available.
> Please use “Add/Remove Update Sources…” from the tray icon menu to
> define an update repository.

We like error messages, so use these commands:

zypper lr
zypper up

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@AndreasStieger
May have meant to say:

zypper ref

zypper up

That’s done from a su terminal

Correct me if I’m wrong: @AndreasStieger

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I would suggest all three commands (as root).


zypper lr

zypper ref

zypper up

If “zypper lr” does not work on 10.3, use “zypper sl”.

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Just to avoid any confusion
Zypper/Usage/10.3 - openSUSE

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As I didn`t find a direct reference if “zypper ref” was already implemented in 10.3, I just tested it myself with a 10.3-Live CD under VirtualBox.

All three commands should work under 10.3.

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Adding repositories is definitely much easier with zypper.
I added

Main Repository (NON-OSS)
Main Repository (OSS)
NVIDIA
Packman Repository
Main update repository

I tried using the zypper command as root:

zypper update

but almost immediately I get:

…
Refreshing ‘Main_update_repository’
Segmentation fault

This did not happen with NVIDIA repository.

What could be the reason for this?

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ok, after restart I tried again but it seems that there is only problem with this Main update repository.
I added it with:

zypper ar Index of /update/10.3 Main_update_repository

When updating I get:

Refreshing ‘Main_update_repository’
Repository ‘Main_update_repository’ is invalid.
Curl error for ‘http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/repodata/patch-epiphany-4870.xml’:
Error code: Connection failed
Error message: couldn’t connect to host
Please, check if the URLs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Disabling repository ‘Main_update_repository’ because of the above error.

  • Reading repository ‘Main Repository (NON-OSS)’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘NVIDIA’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Main Repository (OSS)’ cache
  • Reading repository ‘Packman Repository’ cache
  • Reading installed packages [100%]

Nothing to do.

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Before we advise - please give us the output of:

zypper lr

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ok, here is the output of zypper lr (I copied it from console).
I constantly get “Segmentation fault” when I try zypper ref

| Enabled | Refresh | Type | Alias | Name

–±--------±--------±-------±------------------------------------------------------------------±-------------------------
1 | Yes | Yes | yast2 | Index of /distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss | Main Repository (NON-OSS)

2 | Yes | Yes | rpm-md | NVIDIA | NVIDIA

3 | Yes | Yes | yast2 | Index of /distribution/10.3/repo/oss | Main Repository (OSS)

4 | Yes | Yes | rpm-md | Index of /pub/packman/suse/10.3 | Packman Repository

5 | Yes | Yes | rpm-md | Main_update_repository | Main_update_repository

6 | No | No | yast2 | openSUSE-10.3-DVD 10.3 | openSUSE-10.3-DVD 10.3

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ok, here is the output of zypper ref (I copied it from console).
I constantly get “Segmentation fault” with zypper ref

| Enabled | Refresh | Type | Alias | Name

–±--------±--------±-------±------------------------------------------------------------------±-------------------------
1 | Yes | Yes | yast2 | Index of /distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss | Main Repository (NON-OSS)

2 | Yes | Yes | rpm-md | NVIDIA | NVIDIA

3 | Yes | Yes | yast2 | Index of /distribution/10.3/repo/oss | Main Repository (OSS)

4 | Yes | Yes | rpm-md | Index of /pub/packman/suse/10.3 | Packman Repository

5 | Yes | Yes | rpm-md | Main_update_repository | Main_update_repository

6 | No | No | yast2 | openSUSE-10.3-DVD 10.3 | openSUSE-10.3-DVD 10.3

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oops, sorry for this duplicate message…my mistake :rolleyes:

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Now please do:

Use Yast - Software - Repositories
Delete the update repo
then add back by URL method:

Name = Updates
Url = Index of /update/10.3

copy and paste the above url in the url section and call it updates
finish

Now do:

Zypper ref

then
zypper up

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ok, I deleted the repo with Yast but I was unable to add it by URL using Yast because wheh I press finish it automatically starts to refresh and I get Segmentation fault, so I used zypper to add it and then refresh:

zypper ar Index of /update/10.3 Updates

zypper ref

It starts refreshing and after like a 2 minutes or so:

Refreshing ‘Updates’
Segmentation fault

I found exactly the same thing reported in the following URL:

[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3-418162] yast2 segmentation fault](http://webui.sourcelabs.com/yast/issues/418162)

I don’t know how, but the status says Resolved :confused:

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Also, I see that there is very similar topic on this forum:

YaST/zypper segmentation fault - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums

and the solution may be reinstalling the sqlite package. Can you please give some info on how to do that? Is it just:

zypper install -f sqlite

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zypper ar -t YUM http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3 10.3_updates
Adding repository '10.3_updates' [done]
Repository '10.3_updates' successfully added
Enabled: Yes
Autorefresh: No
URI: http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3

zypper mr -r 10.3_updates
Autorefresh has been enabled for repository '10.3_updates'.

zypper ref 10.3_updates
Retrieving repository '10.3_updates' metadata [done]
Building repository '10.3_updates' cache [done]
Specified repositories have been refreshed.

works for me™

You should also remove the other entry


zypper rr Main_update_repository
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Try it and see

Otherwise, download the package from the repo
Index of /distribution/10.3/repo/oss/suse

and install the .rpm manually with the force option

eg:
rpm -ihv sqlite-3.4.1-14.i586.rpm --force

Some have had success with

sudo rpmdb --rebuilddb

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Please, never use -i and --force together, use “-U” instead of “-i”, if the versions are not exactly the same, you will get double entries in the rpm-database.

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I have tried this, tried rebuilding and tried manually reinstallig sqlite but the segmentation fault just won’t go away.
Thanks anyway for your support on this. I am really running out of ideas here. The last thing seems reinstalling SUSE, maybe I did something wrong during the installation.