It seems pretty obvious that the error is in the spelling of ‘mirros’ - but that text does not appear in any of my repository definitions. I have even deleted the 2 references I had to Packman and still get the error message.
Is this a temporary problem outside my installation or do I have to change something - and if so, what?
> When I start software repository management with Yast, I receive the
> following error message:
>
>> There were errors while restoring the repository configuration.
>> Download (curl) error for
>> ‘http://packman.mirros.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/repo/repoindex.xml’:
>> Error code: Connection failed Error message: Couldn’t resolve host
>> ‘packman.mirros.skynet.be’
>
> It seems pretty obvious that the error is in the spelling of ‘mirros’ -
> but that text does not appear in any of my repository definitions. I
> have even deleted the 2 references I had to Packman and still get the
> error message.
>
> Is this a temporary problem outside my installation or do I have to
> change something - and if so, what?
Aren’t you misspelling the domain name? I guess it should read:
> Is this a temporary problem outside my installation or do I have to
> change something - and if so, what?
there was, for a few hours today, a problem i think…try it
again…(this time it seems we didn’t have to wait for someone to come
to work monday to fix it, yeah!)
it seems that you have DELETED the pacman repo…and, need to add it
back in…i believe the error you reported in your initial post had
another, following section, which asked if you wanted to delete the
offending repo, or not…it is obvious that you elected to delete it…
man zypper will tell you how to add it back in again…
That’s my point: as i said in a previous post, I deleted the references to the Packman repo in order to prove to myself that there was no error in my url definitions. I think I have done that - but I continue to get the error, even after I have added Packman back to my list of repositories. And I didn’t do it by hand - I copy/pasted a zypper command from the Suse How To pages on adding support for restricted media formats. On the other hand, the url is quite straightforward to type and check, so I am quite sure it is correct.
But I still get the error - so that means that bad url information is help somewhere else either in my system or on-line.
When ‘Software Repositories’ is opened in Yast, the Configued Software Repositories window has 2 ‘categories’ on the left hand side: ‘Services’ and ‘Repositories’. The bad url information was in the Services category - obviously my fault, but I have no idea how I managed to (mis)-specify a Package url there. In fact I don’t even know what this Services category is for.
Interesting, I’ve never made use of a service before. The man page for zypper has some explanation of service and a link for more information. It looks like at some point you managed to add Packman to the services section. Anyway glad it’s sorted out.
