ZMD: No software updates available / Why?

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Since 2 weeks, my Novell Software Updater does NOT indicate any available update? I think the message/info is wrong as I receive a few notifications from Novell about new patches available.

Unfortunately nothing occured on my system. My account is active at Novell, so I should be able to download/install patches with no problem.

But on my Suse console, the icon in the task bar is still on “No software updates available” (see http://spip.vector.ch/novell-update.gif)

What should I do in order to get the software updater working again?

Thank you in advance for your help.
Joel

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Recommend

  • Inspect YAST Online Update configuration
  • Verify Online Repositories updated
  • Verify a good network connection, eg ping your online repositories.
  • Are you behind a firewall, particularly a Proxy firewall? A Proxy firewall is more problematic than other firewalls, I’ve had problems passing proper credentials to the Proxy despite SuSE improvements (you can search the Forum for Proxy HTTP connectivity)
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similar problems…

Also several times have restarted and ended up with a blank screen or something else not working right.

Now suspect given several issues reappearing after thought resolved may be a good time to just reformat and rerun the entire installation…

Bugs followed after during my installation yesterday thought one power off was a restart, now suspect may have been a quickie power interruption…

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Hi,

maybe you should contact novell or use the SLED forum because here mainly opensuse is discussed.

Hope this helps