https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483189 User abittner@stud.fh-heilbronn.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483189#c1 --- Comment #1 from andreas bittner <abittner@stud.fh-heilbronn.de> 2009-03-07 12:38:52 MST --- additional info: i am trying the netinst isos to install current factory (x86) i am using: http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/openSUSE-Factory-NET-i586-Build0026... downloading from repository via http through proxy. i am experiencing the same problems at various packages: Sat Mar 7 20:32:11 2009 280 192.168.150.47 TCP_MISS/302 933 GET http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/noarch/bundle-lang-kde-en... - DIRECT/195.135.221.130 text/html Sat Mar 7 20:32:11 2009 102 192.168.150.47 TCP_MISS/404 1420 GET http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/factory/repo/oss/suse/noarch/bundle-lang-kd... - DIRECT/134.76.12.5 text/html and i thought i was remembering that the mirrorbrain infrastructure somehow kept track of the status of the mirrors, of their reliability, and what files are present on what servers and what files need to be served directly from the suse/novell infrastructure and so forth... either there is some serious bug in the mirrorbrain today or just for factory, or the mirrors are somewhat corrupted. if you ask me, the whole download mechanism (zypper?) or whatever component is involved need to get serious enhancements, needs to get more fault tolerant, more foolproof, failsafe measures or simple retries a few times before bringing up the error dialog boxes for a thousand rpm packages that are missing on various incomplete mirror servers. factory is pretty much uninstallable if you dont plan spending all day in front of your installation and interactively taking part and having fun with dialogboxes. thanks. -- 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.