https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330988 Summary: online update to 10.3 with zypper fails Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp AssignedTo: kkaempf@novell.com ReportedBy: leo@unstable.be QAContact: kkaempf@novell.com Found By: Other I'm on a openSUSE 10.2 system and I want to update to 10.3. I replaced all my installation sources with the appropriate 10.3 sources. # zypper sl # | Enabled | Refresh | Type | Name | URI --+---------+---------+------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Yes | Yes | YUM | http://software.opensuse.org/download/openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_10.3/ | http://software.opensuse.org/download/openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_10.3/ 2 | Yes | Yes | YaST | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/ | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/ 3 | Yes | Yes | YaST | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/debug/ | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/debug/ 4 | Yes | Yes | YUM | http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/monitoring/openSUSE_10.3 | http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/monitoring/openSUSE_10.3 5 | Yes | Yes | YaST | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/ | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/ # zypper ref Refreshing http://software.opensuse.org/download/openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_10.3/ URI: http://software.opensuse.org/download/openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_10.3/ DONE Refreshing http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/ URI: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/ DONE Refreshing http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/debug/ URI: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/debug/ DONE Refreshing http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/monitoring/openSUSE_10.3 URI: http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/monitoring/openSUSE_10.3 DONE Refreshing http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/ URI: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/ DONE All system sources have been refreshed. # zypper update -t package Invalid object: Can't open /var/lib/zypp/cache/Source.3of7GK/DATA/descr/packages Unexpected exception. Can't parse packages file: Can't open /var/lib/zypp/cache/Source.3of7GK/DATA/descr/packages Please file a bug report about this. See http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper#Troubleshooting for instructions. One can fix the problem quite easily by going to the /var/lib/zypp/cache/Source.3of7GK/DATA/descr/ directory , do a gunzip packages.en.gz and ln packages.en packages I had to do this for every source. After doing this the zypper command worked # zypper update -t package Restoring system sources... Parsing metadata for http://software.opensuse.org/download/openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_10.3/... Parsing metadata for http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/... Parsing metadata for http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/debug/... Parsing metadata for http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/monitoring/openSUSE_10.3... Parsing metadata for http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/... Parsing RPM database... <snip> .. <install> [S5:1][package]zlib-1.2.3-75.i586 <install> [S5:1][package]zlib-devel-1.2.3-75.i586 <install> [S5:1][package]zsh-4.3.4-34.i586 <install> [S5:1][package]zypper-0.8.23-7.i586 Continue? [y/n] The version of zypper on my 10.2 system is # zypper -V zypper 0.6.15 -- 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.