Project

General

Profile

Actions

tickets #126689

closed

updating OpenSUSE Leap v15.4 fails on laptop

Added by wh14@posteo.de about 1 year ago. Updated 12 months ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
2023-03-27
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

Description

Hello,

I would like to inform you about an update issue (?) in which I ran into
for the last 3 days:

I was trying to update OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 on my laptop the "regular way"
(by running "PackageKit" from the GUI and finally "zypper up" on the
command line). To my surprise, both methods failed several times, as the
entire update process got stuck and didn't ever finish.

My final workaround was to temporarily change the urls of the software
repositories from "http://download.opensuse.org" to
"https://mirrorcache-eu.opensuse.org". After that, the update on my
laptop was successful.

Strangely enough, this issue only occured on my laptop. Any other PC in
my household apparently can be updated without any changes to the repo urls.

May I ask you the following questions:

a) Could you please provide me with some details about the possible
cause of this "error"? Is it possibly related to my private LAN
configuration (firewall, router etc.) or is it more likely to be caused
by a misconfigured mirror server?

b) Is it generally safe to change the repo-urls in the way described
above - or does this impose a security risk to my system?

Best regards
Winfried Hubbe (Germany)

Actions #1

Updated by pjessen about 1 year ago

  • Private changed from Yes to No

Dear Winfried,

a) Could you please provide me with some details about the possible cause of this "error"? Is it possibly related to my private
LAN configuration (firewall, router etc.) or is it more likely to be caused by a misconfigured mirror server?

Because you said "the last three days", the cause of your problem is almost certainly that download.opensuse.org has been under a lot of stress lately. This has caused time-outs and long download times.

b) Is it generally safe to change the repo-urls in the way described
above - or does this impose a security risk to my system?

No, there is no problem or risk in changing a repo like you have.

Actions #2

Updated by pjessen 12 months ago

  • Status changed from New to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
Actions

Also available in: Atom PDF