https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748439 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748439#c0 Summary: yast2/zypper: "Bad media attach point" prevents refresh from repositories Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.1 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jimoe@sohnen-moe.com QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1 yasts/zypper can start emitting the error "bad media attach point" when refreshing repository data. The cause is an excess of temporary directories in /var/tmp/, both AP_0x* and zypp.*. There can be up to 1000 of AP_0x* dirs, and an similar number of zypp.* dirs. After deleting the zypp.* directories, updates started working again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Wait until /var/tmp fills up with 1000s of temporary directories. 2. Run Yast::Software::Online Update, or "zypper refresh". Actual Results: All attempts to refresh fail with "bad media attach point". Expected Results: Data is retrieved from repositories. Also that temporary files and directories would be removed after their usefulness is finished. Here is the entry in that gave me a clue: 2012-02-19 13:03:01 <1> sma-station11l(11666) [zypp++] MediaHandler.cc(createAttachPoint):393 Trying to create attach point in /var/adm/mount 2012-02-19 13:03:01 <3> sma-station11l(11666) [zypp] MediaHandler.cc(createAttachPoint):423 Unable to create an attach point below of /var/adm/mount 2012-02-19 13:03:01 <1> sma-station11l(11666) [zypp++] MediaHandler.cc(createAttachPoint):393 Trying to create attach point in /var/tmp 2012-02-19 13:03:01 <3> sma-station11l(11666) [zypp] MediaHandler.cc(createAttachPoint):423 Unable to create an attach point below of /var/tmp 2012-02-19 13:03:01 <5> sma-station11l(11666) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):137 MediaCurl.cc(attachTo):719 THROW: Bad media attach point: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/non-oss/ When I looked in /var/adm/mount/ and /var/tmp/, I found the huge number of temporary dirs. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.