Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

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"Maria T. Reid" <mtreid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi there,
> i'm sure this is an obvious problem and a newbie issue...
> but i'll ask anyway after exhausting my online research
> as a last resort...
>
> i got suse 9 installed fine on my laptop, 
> dual boot system.  
>
> however, when i run Yast Online Update I get the following error...
>
>  "error Unable to get './i386/update/9.0/patches/directory.3' 
>   or to read the directory (socket error: 111)."
>
> has anyone seen this before or know how to fix it?  
> the research i've done hasn't produced any definitive answers.  
> thanks in advance for you time and patience.
>
>-maria
>

Congradulations on getting SUSE 9.0 installed.

The patches directory is the first thing YOU 
(YasST2 Online Update) installs,
so it knows what is available to download.

The "socket error: 111" is saying the server is too buzy,
there is no socket available for a download connection.

So try again, or try another server, or at a different time.
Remember about time zones.

(In YOU there is a window... "expert",
where you can change the "mirror"
I have often used:  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse
but sometimes "leo" or "sunet.se" or whatever is better..

Good luck,
Friendly greetings,

PS  post again if it still doesn't work...

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