https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462545 Summary: YAST2 stops installing, with a modal dialog box, if a server returns a temporary 503 error. Retry always works. Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mystica@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Community User I've not touched SuSE since the days when RedHat 6 was the "hot" distro. I just started installing OpenSuSE 11.1, and I've been so far impressed by YAST2, with one flaw: While installing from your network repository, the server randomly gives out 503 errors. These appear to be temporary faults, in as much as perhaps too many people are accessing the server or somesuch. They are transient, and hitting "retry" on the installation dialog box always works. The issue is, WHY DO I NEED TO KEEP HITTING RETRY!? Is there NO LOGIC TO TRY AGAIN? FIX YAST2 so that it can retry on a 503, and if maybe after a sane number of retries (5 over the course of 5 mins) it cannot download the package, THEN present me with an installation-stopping dialog box. I cannot imagine someone wanting to sit infront of a computer for the better part of 2 hours, for THE SOLE REASON to make sure NO 503 BOX POPS UP. This is the -4th- time now during this install where I've been interrupted, and have had to click "Retry" FIX YOUR INSTALLER. That, or fix the damn 503 errors I'm not sure which is more critical........both seem to be rather distro-switching annoying so far. I can, with certainty, tell you that throughout umpteen package installs with Gentoo, Ubuntu, and even FreeBSD's ports, I've yet to find a SINGLE 503 error...Your server has given me 4. Not once throughout an entire ebuild process bootstrapping gentoo up to X and KDE, have I received a 503 from one of the mirrors (TDS or Kernel.org usually). So yes, fix your servers to not report spurious 503 errors, OR fix your YAST2 installer to AUTOMATICALLY RETRY. Else you will have a lot of people who want to net-install, and end up getting VERY frustrated I wanted to click "next" and go to bed...but apparently I am unable to do that. -- 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.