[opensuse] packman off-line?

phanisvara das

4 Apr 2012 4 Apr '12

12:25

for some reason i'm unable to access http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/ today. is that because of my (notoriously flakey) internet connection, or does it happen to others, too? -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

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Ed Greshko

4 Apr 4 Apr

12:48

On 04/04/2012 06:25 PM, phanisvara das wrote:

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for some reason i'm unable to access http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/ today. is that because of my (notoriously flakey) internet connection, or does it happen to others, too?

All is well from Taiwan... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

phanisvara das

12:59

On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:18:03 +0530, Ed Greshko wrote:

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On 04/04/2012 06:25 PM, phanisvara das wrote:

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for some reason i'm unable to access http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/ today. is that because of my (notoriously flakey) internet connection, or does it happen to others, too?

All is well from Taiwan...

thanks, then it's me; no surprise there. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

phanisvara das

13:47

On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:29:43 +0530, you wrote in :

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On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:18:03 +0530, Ed Greshko wrote:

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On 04/04/2012 06:25 PM, phanisvara das wrote:

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for some reason i'm unable to access http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/ today. is that because of my (notoriously flakey) internet connection, or does it happen to others, too?

All is well from Taiwan...

thanks, then it's me; no surprise there.

actually, i can access the URL in a browser, including the .xml file zypper/YAST claim isn't available. the error zypper throws is this: ----------- Download (curl) error for 'http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Unrecognized error Error message: Empty reply from server ----------- has anybody seen this before? it's new to me... -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Ricardo Chung

23:30

El mié, 04-04-2012 a las 17:17 +0530, phanisvara das escribió:

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On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:29:43 +0530, you wrote in :

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On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:18:03 +0530, Ed Greshko wrote:

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On 04/04/2012 06:25 PM, phanisvara das wrote:

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for some reason i'm unable to access http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/ today. is that because of my (notoriously flakey) internet connection, or does it happen to others, too?

All is well from Taiwan...

thanks, then it's me; no surprise there.

actually, i can access the URL in a browser, including the .xml file zypper/YAST claim isn't available. the error zypper throws is this:

----------- Download (curl) error for 'http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Unrecognized error Error message: Empty reply from server -----------

has anybody seen this before? it's new to me...

-- phani.

Phani, Not sure if this command can help you. su - password: as root type # rpm -v --rebuilddb When it finish try again su -c "zypper patch" or su -c "zypper up" according what you are trying to do. Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | Panama Linux Ambassador openSUSE Projects -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

phanisvara das

5 Apr 5 Apr

06:05

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:00:08 +0530, Ricardo Chung wrote:

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actually, i can access the URL in a browser, including the .xml file zypper/YAST claim isn't available. the error zypper throws is this:

----------- Download (curl) error for 'http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Unrecognized error Error message: Empty reply from server -----------

has anybody seen this before? it's new to me...

-- phani. Phani, Not sure if this command can help you. su - password: as root type # rpm -v --rebuilddb When it finish try again su -c "zypper patch" or su -c "zypper up" according what you are trying to do.

i've used "rpm --rebuilddb" before, when the rpm DB got messed up, usually because of a system crash due to power outage that the UPS (cheap one, off-line) didn't catch. i didn't think this would help in this case, and it didn't. "rpm -v --rebuilddb" returned immediately, without any output in spite of the -v option -- means the rpm DB was ok. and i'm still getting the same error when zypper tries to refresh the packman repo. it's weird, "empty reply from the server," even though i can see the contents of the file (http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml ) in a browser. next thing i'll remove the packman repo & all it's cached contents, then re-add it. if that doesn't help, i'll try packman from a different URL. many thanks for trying though, -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Ricardo Chung

06:56

On Thursday, April 05, 2012 09:35:30 AM phanisvara das wrote:

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On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:00:08 +0530, Ricardo Chung

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actually, i can access the URL in a browser, including the .xml file zypper/YAST claim isn't available. the error zypper throws is this:

----------- Download (curl) error for 'http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Unrecognized error Error message: Empty reply from server -----------

has anybody seen this before? it's new to me...

-- phani.

Phani, Not sure if this command can help you. su - password: as root type # rpm -v --rebuilddb When it finish try again su -c "zypper patch" or su -c "zypper up" according what you are trying to do.

i've used "rpm --rebuilddb" before, when the rpm DB got messed up, usually because of a system crash due to power outage that the UPS (cheap one, off-line) didn't catch.

i didn't think this would help in this case, and it didn't. "rpm -v --rebuilddb" returned immediately, without any output in spite of the -v option -- means the rpm DB was ok. and i'm still getting the same error when zypper tries to refresh the packman repo.

it's weird, "empty reply from the server," even though i can see the contents of the file (http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml ) in a browser.

next thing i'll remove the packman repo & all it's cached contents, then re-add it. if that doesn't help, i'll try packman from a different URL.

many thanks for trying though,

-- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Phani, You are wellcome. In any case try another url or packman mirror before going to something harder. Check out one of these packman mirrors that works better for you (closer to your region) http://packman.links2linux.org/mirrors Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | Panama openSUSE Linux Ambassador openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.7 | Mesa-Nouveau 3D Linux for Education -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

phanisvara das

07:40

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:26:25 +0530, Ricardo Chung wrote:

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Phani, You are wellcome.

thank you.

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In any case try another url or packman mirror before going to something harder. Check out one of these packman mirrors that works better for you (closer to your region) http://packman.links2linux.org/mirrors

thanks, i'll probably do that. in my case i found out that the problem apparently lies with my proxy server. (i'm using squid, with an extra ip tabpe and some rules, to use two ISPs simultaneously, via different proxy ports). trying to download the repomd.xml file via wget from a terminal, i got this: --------- phani@phani:~/tmp> wget http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml --2012-04-05 10:44:25-- http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml Connecting to 192.168.1.3:3128... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... No data received. Retrying. --2012-04-05 10:44:26-- (try: 2) http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml Connecting to 192.168.1.3:3128... failed: Connection refused. phani@phani:~/tmp> --------- i'm not sure yet if my own proxy refuses to connect to the URL, or if the server doesn't like the proxy connection coming in. in any case, i could update the packman repo ok after switching off the proxy and using the connection directly. since this didn't happen with other repos, i suspect that whatever server i'm getting packman from is a little special in this regard. i'll try other packman URLs later, so i don't have to switch around my proxy settings every time i want to update packages. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Ricardo Chung

18:34

El jue, 05-04-2012 a las 11:10 +0530, phanisvara das escribió:

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On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:26:25 +0530, Ricardo Chung wrote:

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Phani, You are wellcome.

thank you.

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In any case try another url or packman mirror before going to something harder. Check out one of these packman mirrors that works better for you (closer to your region) http://packman.links2linux.org/mirrors

thanks, i'll probably do that. in my case i found out that the problem apparently lies with my proxy server. (i'm using squid, with an extra ip tabpe and some rules, to use two ISPs simultaneously, via different proxy ports). trying to download the repomd.xml file via wget from a terminal, i got this:

--------- phani@phani:~/tmp> wget http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml --2012-04-05 10:44:25-- http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml Connecting to 192.168.1.3:3128... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... No data received. Retrying.

--2012-04-05 10:44:26-- (try: 2) http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml Connecting to 192.168.1.3:3128... failed: Connection refused. phani@phani:~/tmp> ---------

i'm not sure yet if my own proxy refuses to connect to the URL, or if the server doesn't like the proxy connection coming in. in any case, i could update the packman repo ok after switching off the proxy and using the connection directly.

since this didn't happen with other repos, i suspect that whatever server i'm getting packman from is a little special in this regard. i'll try other packman URLs later, so i don't have to switch around my proxy settings every time i want to update packages.

-- phani.

I wouldn't think it is a direct proxy problem related with packman repo because I usually use proxy and updating my systems are not showing those issues. Although I can not assure a double proxy setting could make any differences. I would go with the hypothesis you are having something cached on proxy web server and it doesn't refresh a clean request (flag request already done)from packman repo. (Try to clean cache, fetch, temps on different levels you are allowed-local, remote) Any chances to try bypass the proxy server and making a direct request? Just for testing purposes. Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | Panama Linux Ambassador openSUSE Projects -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

phanisvara das

19:03

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:04:56 +0530, Ricardo Chung wrote:

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I wouldn't think it is a direct proxy problem related with packman repo because I usually use proxy and updating my systems are not showing those issues. Although I can not assure a double proxy setting could make any differences.

interesting; but we may not arrive at the same server. zypper & YAST use some fancy redirection to get a server close to my location, i think. "double proxy" shouldn't make any difference. the server just sees a request coming from one or the other proxy port.

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I would go with the hypothesis you are having something cached on proxy web server and it doesn't refresh a clean request (flag request already done)from packman repo. (Try to clean cache, fetch, temps on different levels you are allowed-local, remote)

that's quite possible. i'm experiencing some squid issues recently. often i have to repeat requests, because the proxy isn't available. until now i didn't worry about this, since i'm the only proxy user, and hitting <F5> once in a while isn't an issue. i'll have to look into that now. clearing the proxy cache will be the first step.

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Any chances to try bypass the proxy server and making a direct request? Just for testing purposes.

yes, that's what i did. without proxy everything works fine. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

23:33

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-04-05 19:03, phanisvara das wrote:

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On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:04:56 +0530, Ricardo Chung <> wrote:

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interesting; but we may not arrive at the same server. zypper & YAST use some fancy redirection to get a server close to my location, i think.

Yes, but that's with openSUSE own repos, and packman is not. packman has its own redirector or mirror infrastructure, and I don't remember which is the prime URL. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9+D7sACgkQIvFNjefEBxoJYQCdH9C+B27GVrbVBRJVRvR+unVE Al8An2XDv2QN3sYmrqZuQdyt1t4tTgyH =kvmx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

phanisvara das

6 Apr 6 Apr

02:02

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:03:47 +0530, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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interesting; but we may not arrive at the same server. zypper & YAST use some fancy redirection to get a server close to my location, i think.

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Yes, but that's with openSUSE own repos, and packman is not. packman has its own redirector or mirror infrastructure, and I don't remember which is the prime URL.

ah, thanks, that's interesting. i thought it was managed through the same system, mirror-brain, or what it's called. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

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