Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[S Glasoe <srglasoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 05 May 2006 5:32 pm, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > I received a call today from an other Consulting firm.  They are using
> > SUSE Linux 10.0 and tried to get online updates.  When they choose
> > Online update from the yast2 menu they get an error that can not get
> > mirrors or some such message and to check connection.  I had them click
> > ignore and then enter
>
> Here is the message.
>
> Warning
>
> Cannot fetch remote server lst.  Only user-defined patch sources will be
> available.
>
> Possible solution:
> Check network connection
>
> URL: http://www.suse.de/cgi-bin/suseservers.cgi<br>couldn't connect to
> host

This will happen. For whatever reason, YOU will sometimes not be able to 
contact the YOU server from its pre-configured list. I know this can be a 
geographical problem with the Internet also.

>
> Thanks for any ideas.  I tried to copy from a working server...
>
> /var/lib/YaST2/you/config
> /var/lib/YaST2/you/youservers
>
> It did not help.

You mentioned in your other post that by manually entering  
http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/suse/, YOU succeeded. That means the main 
SUSE YOU server was unavailable for whatever reason. It happens. Not often, 
but it will be unavailable on occasion.

> Boyd Gerber 

You did exactly the right thing to help your Consultants fix the problem. 

I don't seem to have a problem from my location at this time. Could be or 
may have been a local Internet problem from your location.

Stan