Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[ramprasad potluri <potluri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 21 August 2003 14:10, Lee Ethridge wrote:

||  Bryan Tyson wrote:
||  > My susewatcher icon is yellow and I have this error:
||  >
||  > Error retrieving patches: ERROR(Media:connection failed):
||  > Unable to get './i386/update/8.2/patches/directory.3' or
||  > to read the directory (socket error: 110).
||  >
||  > I have been getting this for several days. If I manually
||  > click "check for updates," after a few minutes a dialog
||  > box comes up saying simply "unable to retrieve patches."
||  > What can I do?
||  >
||  > Thank you.
||
||  I had this problem, too.  I noticed that the mirror at USC
|| has removed its SuSE directories.  I think there was some
|| problem at Georgia Tech, too.  I just changed the source for
|| updates (through Yast), and I can now do updates through YaST
|| Online Update.  But, my YOU icon is yellow and stays that
|| way.
||


Following Filipe's post, I clicked on the SuSEwatcher icon 
(yellow) --> Start Online Update, and went through the rest of 
the procedure letting SuSE to find the appropriate server on its 
own. I did not see which server it logged into. I was able to 
successfully complete the desired update. Eversince, my 
SuSEwatcher icon has remained yellow.

- Ram.

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