Since a few days, I cannot update or install new software with “zypper up” or "zypper install [package-name]. I always receive the following error-message:
Downloading package opensc-0.11.4-37.2.i586 (1/34), 523.0 K (1.7 M unpacked)
Downloading delta: ./rpm/i586/opensc-0.11.4-37.1_37.2.i586.delta.rpm, 312.1 K
Downloading: opensc-0.11.4-37.1_37.2.i586.delta.rpm [done]
Can't provide file './rpm/i586/opensc-0.11.4-37.1_37.2.i586.delta.rpm' from repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/'
Downloading: opensc-0.11.4-37.2.i586.rpm [done]
Downloading: repomd.xml [done]
Problem downloading the package file from the repository:
Can't provide ./rpm/i586/opensc-0.11.4-37.2.i586.rpm : Can't copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/rpm/i586/opensc-0.11.4-37.2.i586.rpm to /var/cache/zypp/packages/http:__download.opensuse.org_update_11.0_
Repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/' is out of date. Running 'zypper refresh' might help.
I have already removed the “/var/cache/zypp”-directory. I also have recreated all repositories and refreshed with “zypper ref”. Then I also have rebuilded the rpm-database (rpm --rebuilddb) → no success. I also linked the repositories to an openSuSE-mirror → no success.
I’m successful with “zypper lr”. But as soon as I want to update with “zypper up”, the error-messages above appears.
I don’t have an idea, what this problem is.
Kind regards,
Tom
I Have so evenly installed opensuse 11,0 x86_64 on the basis of a net ISO CD, downloaded and installed from mirror.switch.ch; so far everything ok
After OS install:
Unfortunately as far as I try to install the patches from the update repository this misshapens. I suspect that possibly one rpm’ which is on update schedule did install wrongly during the opensuse operating system installation so that it cannot be correctly overwritten by the update patch When I start yast2update, shortly after the yast2 program has loaded it’s repositories I get the following error message:
Error with the initialization of the Repositorys. ’ repo-non-oss’: No valid meta data at the indicated address (URL) found The following errors arose: - Can’ t CoPy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/suse/setup/descr/packages.DU.gz ton of /var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-non-ossFNdn8d - Can’ t provide /suse/setup/descr/packages.DU.gz: Can’ t CoPy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/suse/setup/descr/packages.DU.gz ton of /var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-non-ossFNdn8d
I guess this is the same problem as yours?
Thank’s for your feedback
I think you have the same problem as ours because I tried to remove the sub-directories on the “/var/cache/zypp” directory and when I run “zypper refresh”, I have the same error message as yours:
Can’t provide /suse/setup/descr/packages.en.gz : Can’t copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/suse/setup/descr/packages.en.gz to /var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-non-ossGdR5bK
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Skipping repository ‘openSUSE-11.0-Non-Oss’ because of the above error.
For information, I’ve installed openSUSE 11.0 x86_64 early July and the updates was running fine until end of August.
Yes, it’s the same error as I receive. I replaced the opensuse-update, opensuse-oss and the opensuse-non-oss repositories with the ftp-server from “mirror.switch.ch”. So, I did not receive any error-messages, when I enter “zypper update”. I also can install software without any error-messages.
But, with the switch-mirror, I receive no update-list, when I enter “zypper lu”. When I configure zypper to get the updates from the the original openSuSE-mirrors, I receive four or fives recommended updates, but I’m not able to install them because of the following error-message:
Can't provide file './rpm/i586/opensc-0.11.4-37.1_37.2.i586.delta.rpm' from repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/'
Downloading: opensc-0.11.4-37.2.i586.rpm [done]
Downloading: repomd.xml [done]
Problem downloading the package file from the repository:
Can't provide ./rpm/i586/opensc-0.11.4-37.2.i586.rpm : Can't copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/rpm/i586/opensc-0.11.4-37.2.i586.rpm to /var/cache/zypp/packages/http:__download.opensuse.org_update_11.0_
Repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/' is out of date. Running 'zypper refresh' might help.
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Thank’s for your news, I don’t want to lure anyone into a missunderstanding, as far as I know mirror.switch.ch is an operating system installation mirror.
I ignore if mirror.switch.ch deserves updates but I guess it doesn’t I just mentionned it because of the thought to give any data of the circumnstances at my end of the wire,
There I’ve been told to change to another mirror.; I’ll do so these next days.
At german forum they told me that there was or is anything not in order with non-OSS Repo
so I asked back if it could be that a non working „non OSS Repo“ eventually would cause other patch updates installations from the other repositorys not to work anymore correctly?
Is it right Puzzled Penguin …? that in your case it is the update 11.0 repository which is not working? Do you know or do you suspect which repositories seem to be concerned in your case?
I have a full out of the net opensuse 11.0 installed.
All the repositories that I added are from the “official” list.
As follow :
BuildService - Database, PHP, Mail, Mozilla, X11:XGL, VitualBox, OpenOffice.org, KDE:Community, KDE:Backports, Wine CVS Builds, NVIDIA
Packman
VideoLan
Oss
and finally the non-OSS repository.
I have the same problem with the openSUSE-11-0-Updates repository. i.e.
Can’t provide ./rpm/adm/libopensc2-0.11.4-37.2.i586.rpm : Can’t copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/rpm/i586/libopensc2-0.11.4-37.2.i586.rpm to /var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-11.0-Updates Le dépoôt ‘openSUSE-11.0-Updates’ n’est plus à jour.
I have tried zypper refresh, rebuild the rpm db, erase the repository from list and recreate it.
All worked fine until last week, I though about some bug in the repository and told myself to try again later…
I replaced my repositories with the mirror-urls (also mirror.switch.ch for me) and the problem remains the same…
This is very strange because I selected to upgrade only the kernel (alone) and it worked fine.
So, after the kernel upgrade, I restarted opensuse and tried to update the others packages, but I still have the error
The following packages are going to be upgraded:
gvfs-backends libsmbclient0 cifs-mount
The following NEW patches are going to be installed:
gvfs samba
Overall download size: 2.7 M. After the operation, additional 4.1 M will be used.
Continue? [YES/no]:
Downloading package libsmbclient0-3.2.3-0.1.x86_64 (1/5), 1.1 M (3.7 M unpacked)
Downloading: libsmbclient0-3.2.3-0.1.x86_64.rpm [done]
Downloading: repomd.xml [done]
Problem downloading the package file from the repository:
Can't provide ./rpm/x86_64/libsmbclient0-3.2.3-0.1.x86_64.rpm : Can't copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000004/rpm/x86_64/libsmbclient0-3.2.3-0.1.x86_64.rpm to /var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE_Updates
And when we go to opensuse Mirror Selection site, it’s clearly said :
You don’t need to select a mirror yourself. If you use download.opensuse.org (Index of /distribution, respectively Index of /update), it takes care of everything. This site will automatically select one of the mirrors from a database and redirect the download. See Build_Service/Redirector for (technical) details on how this works.
But the Mirror Selection - openSUSE site also said: If you would like to use a different mirror, or want to see all mirrors where you could download a file from, you can browse to Index of /distribution and click on the ‘Mirrors’ link. Find the mirror lists for openSUSE 11.0 DVD images for example, here: Index of /distribution/11.0/iso/dvd
Did you refresh your zypper-repository with “zypper ref”? Did you also rebuild your rpm-database with “rpm --rebuilddb”?
thanks for your reply.
Yes, I’ve refreshed all the repositories after added the mirror-urls repositories (with zypper refresh) and all mirror-repo was refreshed without problems.
But I didn’t rebuild my rpm-database with rpm --rebuilddb…
Repository 'OpenOffice.org Extras' is up to date.
Repository 'VideoLan Repository' is up to date.
Downloading repository 'openSUSE Updates' metadata [done]
Building repository 'openSUSE Updates' cache [done]
Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - X11:XGL' is up to date.
Downloading repository 'Packman' metadata [done]
Building repository 'Packman' cache [done]
Downloading repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla' metadata [done]
Building repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla' cache [done]
Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports' is up to date.
Downloading repository 'Packman Repository' metadata [done]
Building repository 'Packman Repository' cache [done]
Repository 'OpenOffice.org' is up to date.
Repository 'Swiss opensuse Non OSS' is up to date.
Repository 'NVIDIA' is up to date.
Repository 'Swiss opensuse OSS' is up to date.
All repositories have been refreshed.
Then I made a rpm --rebuilddb.
It ran about 1 minute, and there is no result for this command.
Then I made a zypper up and the problem persists:
Reading installed packages...
The following packages are going to be upgraded:
gvfs-backends libsmbclient0 cifs-mount
The following NEW patches are going to be installed:
gvfs samba
Overall download size: 2.7 M. After the operation, additional 4.1 M will be used.
Continue? [YES/no]:
Downloading package libsmbclient0-3.2.3-0.1.x86_64 (1/5), 1.1 M (3.7 M unpacked)
Downloading: libsmbclient0-3.2.3-0.1.x86_64.rpm [done]
Downloading: repomd.xml [done (563 B/s)]
Problem downloading the package file from the repository:
Can't provide ./rpm/x86_64/libsmbclient0-3.2.3-0.1.x86_64.rpm : Can't copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000004/rpm/x86_64/libsmbclient0-3.2.3-0.1.x86_64.rpm to /var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE_Updates
Repository 'openSUSE_Updates' is out of date. Running 'zypper refresh' might help.
Excellent. Glad I could help.
You can go ahead and enable all the other repositories you need except VideoLAN(VLC). You will need the VLC repository only for installing vlc player and libdvdcss. Once you install only these 2 packages disable VLC repository. All your multimedia codecs should come from the PackMan repository for compatibility.
I am not sure if you will need the NVidia repository. If you have installed your graphics driver and if things are working as expected then you can disable NVidia repository.
There are more settings that you can do to make the updates work faster.
I’ll enable all repositories except VideoLAN(VLC).
About Nvidia, I need to update the nv graphic driver every time we had a kernel upgrade for openSUSE in order to integrate the nv module on the new kernel.
