Zypper error mesage

swerdna · April 22, 2011, 3:29am

Hi I have openSUSE 11.4 + Gnome standard

I’m trying to update to newer packages in the 11.4 Updates repo using this command:

zypper up --repo 'Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0'

I get this response, note the error message:

linux-asyc:/home/john # zypper up --repo ‘Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0’
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…

The following package is going to be upgraded:
postfix

1 package to upgrade.

Can you explain the error message and/or tell me how to fix it.

Thanks

martin_helm · April 22, 2011, 4:23am

swerdna wrote:

>
> Hi I have openSUSE 11.4 + Gnome standard
>
> I’m trying to update to newer packages in the 11.4 Updates repo using
> this command:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> zypper up --repo ‘Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0’
> --------------------
>
> I get this response, note the error message:
>> linux-asyc:/home/john # zypper up --repo ‘Updates for openSUSE 11.4
>> 11.4-0’
>> **
>> GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed:
>> (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
>> Loading repository data…
>> Reading installed packages…
>>
>> The following package is going to be upgraded:
>> postfix
>>
>> 1 package to upgrade.
>
> Can you explain the error message and/or tell me how to fix it.
>
> Thanks
>
I cannot explain the error message, but if you used su before use “su -”
instead as proposed here
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2011-02/msg03456.html
(last line).

deano_ferrari · April 22, 2011, 4:41am

Hi John. Its a known bug apparently. Have a read of this thread. (Some links to bug report provided there). There is a workaround to use ‘su -’ then ‘zypper up’. (As I see martin_helm has explained already).

swerdna · April 22, 2011, 5:04am

Yes I did use “su” not “su -” so I switched and all is good. Thanks guys

stamostolias · April 22, 2011, 10:06am

inux-asyc:/home/john # zypper up --repo 'Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0'
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

The following package is going to be upgraded:
postfix

1 package to upgrade.

Sorry for the late response but this problem we had faced again in older threads
Read this
[Bug 672793] New: GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: a](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2011-02/msg03139.html)

hcvv · April 22, 2011, 11:22am

Hehe, that is an old one isn’t it? Still not having that habit in your fingers?

stamostolias · April 22, 2011, 1:58pm

This problem based on repos’ URLs.

swerdna · April 22, 2011, 2:16pm

It’s my youthful impulsiveness, don’t get time to remember.

swerdna · April 22, 2011, 2:18pm

Please explain what you mean.

hcvv · April 22, 2011, 2:19pm

You completely missed my remark. It was about the “su” vs. “su -” (as you could have seen from the quote I put before my remark). Not about the original problem.

stamostolias · April 22, 2011, 2:30pm

As I remember this problem(bug) with glib error I had faced it in a old thread. Now I remember that this problem had been solved with a update. Anyway this problem I have faced again and I had given the same link [Bug 672793] New: GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: a](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2011-02/msg03139.html)

What do you mean about that? That was a su problem? Explain to me.

swerdna · April 22, 2011, 2:42pm

This problem based on repos’ URLs.

then you said this to explain:

As I remember this problem(bug) with glib error I had faced it in a old thread. Now I remember that this problem had been solved with a update. Anyway this problem I have faced again and I had given the same link [Bug 672793] New: GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: a

I don’t understand how your second statement relates to “a problem based on repo’s URLs”, please explain what you mean.

stamostolias · April 22, 2011, 3:06pm

If I remember correctly this problem was solved in Greek forum with changing of URL of update repo. And in English forum with a patch update because there were all repos with this error,except update repo. Sorry for confusion.

hcvv · April 22, 2011, 6:55pm

Please reread post#7 above. There you quote me from post #6 where I comment on something Swerdna says. Your comment on this quote in post #7 has no relation to what I said to Swerdna. And Swerdna rightly asks you to explain that in his post #9.

I repeat, you seem not to understand what I was saying to Swerdna. That is not a problem at all (as long as Swerdna understands, which he proves in post#8), but why do you comment on it then? The only comment one could expect in such a case is asking for clarification. Not saying something about repos when I say something about “su” vs. “su -”, there is no connection between those two subjects.