[Bug 688454] New: Can't download particular packages from update repositories except in failsafe mode.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688454 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688454#c0 Summary: Can't download particular packages from update repositories except in failsafe mode. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.4 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: camw3@cam.ac.uk QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16 Certain packages (last week timezone, tk; this week plasma-addons) will not download onto the computer at all, although most packages are fine. These packages cannot be downloaded through YaST, zypper, firefox, or wget, but they can be downloaded using wget from an 11.3 machine on the same network. The only way to download them to the 11.4 machine is to boot into failsafe mode, at which point they download successfully just like all other packages. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run zypper up. 2. When you hit a package which fails, try wget-ing it. 3. Actual Results: 1. zypper up Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... The following packages are going to be upgraded: bootsplash bootsplash-branding-openSUSE flash-player openvpn timezone timezone-java yast2-control-center yast2-control-center-qt 8 packages to upgrade. Overall download size: 17.0 MiB. After the operation, additional 4.1 MiB will be used. Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y Do you agree with the terms of the license? [yes/no] (no): yes Retrieving package bootsplash-3.3-167.168.1.i586 (1/8), 199.0 KiB (586.0 KiB unpacked) Retrieving delta: /rpm/i586/bootsplash-3.3-166.1_167.168.1.i586.delta.rpm, 10.0 KiB Retrieving: bootsplash-3.3-166.1_167.168.1.i586.delta.rpm [done] Applying delta: ./bootsplash-3.3-166.1_167.168.1.i586.delta.rpm [done] Retrieving package openvpn-2.1.4-11.16.1.i586 (2/8), 396.0 KiB (1005.0 KiB unpacked) Retrieving delta: /rpm/i586/openvpn-2.1.4-11.14.1_11.16.1.i586.delta.rpm, 26.0 KiB Retrieving: openvpn-2.1.4-11.14.1_11.16.1.i586.delta.rpm [error (0 B/s)] Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/11.4/rpm/i...'. Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (r): Autoselecting 'r' after 1 second. Trying again... Retrieving: openvpn-2.1.4-11.14.1_11.16.1.i586.delta.rpm [error (0 B/s)] Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/11.4/rpm/i...'. Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (r): SKIP request: User-requested skipping of a file <snip a bunch of retry attempts before I tell it to abort> Retrieving: timezone-java-2011d-0.2.1.noarch.rpm [error (1 B/s)] Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/11.4/rpm/n...'. Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (r): Trying again... Retrieving: timezone-java-2011d-0.2.1.noarch.rpm [error (1 B/s)] Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/11.4/rpm/n...'. <snip more attempts and retries before aborting > 2. wget wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/rpm/noarch/timezone-java-2011b_2011... asking libproxy about url 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/rpm/noarch/timezone-java-2011b_2011...' libproxy suggest to use 'direct://' --2011-04-05 10:48:01-- http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/rpm/noarch/timezone-java-2011b_2011... Resolving download.opensuse.org... 195.135.221.134 Connecting to download.opensuse.org|195.135.221.134|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/r... [following] asking libproxy about url 'http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/r...' libproxy suggest to use 'direct://' --2011-04-05 10:48:01-- http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/r... Resolving anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk... 137.205.124.72 Connecting to anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk|137.205.124.72|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 48677 (48K) [application/x-rpm] Saving to: `timezone-java-2011b_2011d-1.2.1_0.2.1.noarch.delta.rpm' 58% [=======================================================> ] 28,652 --.-K/s eta 44s (It hangs indefinitely at this point.) Expected Results: The package should have successfully downloaded. Solutions which don't work: 1. Downloading from other mirrors. 2. Turning off the firewall. 3. Disabling ipv6. 4. Checking to see whether there were installation media errors (there weren't) 5. Checking for a proxy (there is no proxy either at machine level or network level). -- 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.
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are you using a wired network interface ?
Yes. I should add that I'm currently running 7 suse machines on this (university) network. The SLES 11, the 11.2 and the 11.3 machines all download all of their updates perfectly happily. -- 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.
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So... network card driver problem? Would be good to know which network cards affected users have.
Extracting info from forum posts: Trollicus: Dual core 2.88 MHz intel, Nvidia 8800 GTX 784 MB, 4 GB 800MHz RAM, 2x 500GB WD Serial ATA HD, 3c905x network card. HDMI Audio. hbco2: not known. akwatton: (home, no proxy; runlevel 3 works) "3Com 3C905c-TX/TXM ethernet card in PC." So, at least three people have the same card. -- 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.
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So... network card driver problem? Would be good to know which network cards affected users have.
Extracting info from forum posts:
Trollicus: Dual core 2.88 MHz intel, Nvidia 8800 GTX 784 MB, 4 GB 800MHz RAM, 2x 500GB WD Serial ATA HD, 3c905x network card. HDMI Audio.
hbco2: not known.
akwatton: (home, no proxy; runlevel 3 works) "3Com 3C905c-TX/TXM ethernet card in PC."
So, at least three people have the same card.
hbco2: Card model 3Com 3C902C-TXM Model: "Ethernet network interface" Driver: "3c59x" Great analysis! Should another card be used? -- 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.
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--- Comment #15 from Carlos Robinson
Ok, clearly is a kernel bug, cannot be just coincidence that affected users are using the same kernel driver...
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--- Comment #19 from Cristian Rodríguez
I've just added noapic to the kernel boot command line and tried to install acroread using Yast software manager. Still hangs in exactly the same place and gives the same error message as before.
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Can you try a newer kernel from Kernel:HEAD repository ?
I have installed the latest Kernel from Kernel:HEAD repo the output from cat /proc/version is: Linux version 2.6.39-rc4-10-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.5.1 20101208 [gcc-4_5-branch revision 167585] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP 2011-04-22 00:02:11 +0200 I rebooted the PC, logged in with the new kernel, ran software manager in yast and selected acroread for install. Unfortunately, this still hung at 99% of download. -- 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.
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I rebooted the PC, logged in with the new kernel, ran software manager in yast and selected acroread for install. Unfortunately, this still hung at 99% of download.
Thanks, will be cool if you keep running Kernel:HEAD packages in case kernel devs need more information on your setup. Also, please upload a txt file with the output of "hwinfo" as root. -- 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.
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also, try
rmmod 3c59x modprobe 3c59x debug=6
and then attempt to download stuff, after it hangs, post the the output of "dmesg"
This is very strange. I tried the above last night, then tried to download acroread, and believe it or not it downloaded. This is the first time it hasn't hung on download in the four weeks I've had the system installed. I couldn't see the point in posting the output of "dmesg" as the download had been successful. I then tried to download all the other problem files I'd had and they downloaded successfully too. That was with the original kernel 2.6.37.1 This morning I thought I try and install acroread again using the later kernel from the Kernel:HEAD repo. When I loaded software manager there were 3 files waiting for update, so I accepted them and they hung when trying to download. I typed "rmmod 3c59x" and "modprobe 3c59x debug=6" again and the same as last night, the files downloaded OK. I've since tried to download acroread again and that also downloads fine. This is really puzzling... -- 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.
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Since my last post, comment 24, I have deleted acroread. powered the PC down, rebooted and tried to reinstall acroread. As before, it hung, So again I typed "rmmod 3c59x" and "modprobe 3c59x debug=6", tried to the download again and it worked. There's obviously something happening after typing "rmmod 3c59x" and "modprobe 3c59x debug=6" that's making the files download successfully. I will post the output of dmesg as requested in case there is something in there that may point to something.
try making "debug" permanent ;) echo "options 3c59x debug=6" >> /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf reboot if you get an stall, post the dmesg output, 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.
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try making "debug" permanent ;)
reboot
if you get an stall, post the dmesg output, thanks.
I've just typed echo "options 3c59x debug=6" >> /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf I rebooted then tried to install acroread via yast software manager and it stalled. I aborted the install after a while. I have posted the output of dmesg. Hope I've done this correctly and it has what you need in there. -- 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.
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0.000000] Using APIC driver default [ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808 [ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs [ 0.000000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic" [ 0.016583] ACPI: Core revision 20110316 [ 0.019211] ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0820) [ 0.020157] weird, boot CPU (#0) not listed by the BIOS. [ 0.020160] SMP motherboard not detected. [ 0.020163] Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
can you try to boot the system with kernel boot option "lapic" (without quotes) does it actually boots and/or works correctly ?
OK, I've booted with kernel boot option "lapic" and kernel 2.6.39-rc4-10-default. Again tried to install acroread with TaST software manager and it stalled. i waited for the error message to show, and aborted at that point. I have posted output of dmesg again. When I've booted with this version of the kernel, it boots, but the graphics are all broken up on the bootsplash/login screen, but system seems to work ok after. When using the kernel boot option "lapic" the bootsplash/login screen is ok. Don't have problems with login screen at all if use kernel 2.6.37.1 Only other problems I've come across are dowmloading....... Hope this file is OK for you this time. -- 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.
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When I've booted with this version of the kernel, it boots, but the graphics are all broken up on the bootsplash/login screen, but system seems to work ok after. When using the kernel boot option "lapic" the bootsplash/login screen is ok.
Thta's a different issue, the problems star in your system BIOS, if you can please do this: Enter your BIOS setup program and select "load optimized defaults(or something similar)" Then a) in the power managment section, ensure ACPI is enabled. b) try to find an option like this one http://www.techarp.com/showfreebog.aspx?lang=0&bogno=269 and ensure the IOAPIC is enabled or LAPIC..whatever. b) This system is quite old it seems, ensure you have the latest BIOS from the motherboard manufacturer.. About the system messages,they seem normal Message: 234.896368] eth0: vortex_error(), status=0x8081 comes from http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=dr... line 1972 it always prints the device status when debug > 2... not something to worry about... It is either a regression somewhere else in kernel since 11.3 or is just that the new kernel doesnt handle bugs in your BIOS...huh. I'm done some kernel developer has to check this one, my knownledge stops aroud here ;-( -- 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.
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When I've booted with this version of the kernel, it boots, but the graphics are all broken up on the bootsplash/login screen, but system seems to work ok after. When using the kernel boot option "lapic" the bootsplash/login screen is ok.
Thta's a different issue, the problems star in your system BIOS, if you can please do this:
Enter your BIOS setup program and select "load optimized defaults(or something similar)"
Then
a) in the power managment section, ensure ACPI is enabled. b) try to find an option like this one http://www.techarp.com/showfreebog.aspx?lang=0&bogno=269 and ensure the IOAPIC is enabled or LAPIC..whatever. b) This system is quite old it seems, ensure you have the latest BIOS from the motherboard manufacturer..
About the system messages,they seem normal
Message: 234.896368] eth0: vortex_error(), status=0x8081
comes from http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=dr... line 1972 it always prints the device status when debug > 2... not something to worry about...
It is either a regression somewhere else in kernel since 11.3 or is just that the new kernel doesnt handle bugs in your BIOS...huh. I'm done some kernel developer has to check this one, my knownledge stops aroud here ;-(
Because I got exactly the same problem installing updates/patches and downloading acroread, Inkscape or Scribus as Tony Watson described earlier I would like to remind you that this bug is in the first place a problem within the 2.6.37.1-kernel for 32-bit-machines and not a possible failure of the motherboard BIOS. Until openSUSE 11.3 everything worked as it should and updating my 64-machine to 11.4 was successful also. -- 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.
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Because I got exactly the same problem installing updates/patches and downloading acroread, Inkscape or Scribus as Tony Watson described earlier I would like to remind you that this bug is in the first place a problem within the 2.6.37.1-kernel for 32-bit-machines and not a possible failure of the motherboard BIOS. Until openSUSE 11.3 everything worked as it should and updating my 64-machine to 11.4 was successful also.
I agree with you Juergen, 11.3 worked fine and downloaded OK on this PC, so does Ubuntu, Windows XP and Linux Mint. Problems started for me the minute I installed opensuse 11.4 with 2.6.37.1 kernel. As you can see I've updated to the latest kernel from the Kernel:Head repo but the problems remain. 11.4 is the only OS I'm getting this problem with. -- 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.
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I can confirm that if I "rmmod 3c59x; modprobe 3c59x" after booting file transfers work fine via eth1 (3c59x) too.
Ok, that's interesting, plz do the following. install package "netdiag" reboot when the card stalls, run # vortex-diag -aaee > vortex-diag.bad # mii-diag -v > mii-diag.bad then do rmmod 3c59x; modprobe 3c59x and then # vortex-diag -aaee > vortex-diag.good # mii-diag -v > mii-diag.good after that , create a tarball, with those files tar -jcvf 3comdiag.tar.bz2 *-diag.* upload the resulting tarball here. -- 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.
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I can confirm that if I "rmmod 3c59x; modprobe 3c59x" after booting file transfers work fine via eth1 (3c59x) too.
Ok, that's interesting, plz do the following. install package "netdiag" reboot when the card stalls, run
# vortex-diag -aaee > vortex-diag.bad # mii-diag -v > mii-diag.bad
then do rmmod 3c59x; modprobe 3c59x and then
# vortex-diag -aaee > vortex-diag.good # mii-diag -v > mii-diag.good
after that , create a tarball, with those files
tar -jcvf 3comdiag.tar.bz2 *-diag.*
upload the resulting tarball here.
OK, I've tried the above and uploaded the tarball as requested. I've also updated kernel to 11.4 - 2.6.39-rc5-16 but problem still remains. I also updated bios as you suggested to latest from manufacturers site. PC did not work next day. Took two days to get working again with original bios. -- 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.
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I also updated bios as you suggested to latest from manufacturers site. PC did not work next day.
huh, sometimes you can mess stuff up.. ;)
Took two days to get working again with original bios.
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I also updated bios as you suggested to latest from manufacturers site. PC did not work next day.
huh, sometimes you can mess stuff up.. ;)
Took two days to get working again with original bios.
ok, Saw your files, they dont provide any useful hint :| we are stuck here.
You guys at Novell should check the kernels of openSUSE 11.3 and openSUSE 11.4 of the 32-bit-version and surge for differencies. And you should also check the kernels of openSUSE 11.4 (32-bit) and openSUSE 11.4 (64-bit). Both my PCs have nearly the same hardware-equipment, the 64-bit-machine works fine with openSUSE 11.4, the 32-bit-machine causes the o.m. troubles. To download the latest kernel-update I had to go down to runlevel 3, but this is not the solution I wanted! Again: The problem are not Tony Wattons or mine "old" PCs but the bug lies inside the software. I'm very interested to know if there is any smooth running 32-bit-machine with openSUSE 11.4 and if "YES" which hardware is installed. -- 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.
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/dev/null % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 48677 100 48677 0 0 31783 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 51238
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Ok, that's interesting, plz do the following. ...
After the mentioned rmmod/modprobe action the problem did not reapear - even not after rebooting. I noticed that the kernel-firmware package was not installed by default, so I installed it manually. (Don't know, if it's relevant.) Unfortunatley I can't test very much with this computer as this is a production machine 24/7. -- 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.
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John Nash
rmmod 3c59x modprobe 3c59x debug=6
gets things downloading again for me. -- 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.
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Anton Samsonov
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running on 2.6.37.6-0.7-default i686 athlon. I must also add that I have a soft-bridge (created by system for Xen hypervisor), and that booting to either Xen Dom0 or simple bare-metal produces the same result. My observations are: 1. In runlevel 3 everything works fine. 2. Proceeding to runlevel 5 without logging into KDE4 leaves things working. 3. Logging into KDE4 desktop introduces the discussed problem. 4. Restarting the NIC driver (rmmod/modprobe) does not help; moreover, it puts the network subsystem in an unusable state, so "service network restart" is required. 5. Simply running "service network restart" (without preliminary rmmod/modprobe) solves the problem. 6. Logging out of KDE4 does not affect things (neither improves nor worsens). 7. Subsequent logging into KDE4 does not affect things, too. When I start the NIC driver with "debug=6", I actually do not see any additional information in dmesg, so I made a couple of tcpdump logs (attached in the next message). -- 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.
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Can you confirm that this is not just a broken mirror [...]
Clearly it is not a case of a broken mirror, because the workaround mentioned in earlier comments hides the problem! Also, I tried specifying different mirrors by hand, without that helping any. -- 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.
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Can you confirm that this is not just a broken mirror that you are being [...]
Yes, I had tried various mirrors already, and it does not help. I have also seen the problem occur for a range of repositories hosted on different servers. My usual work-around is logging into a text console straight after booting (and before anyone logs in via the graphical login) and running the downloads / installs from there using the old text-based yast, and I have never seen the problem when using that approach. -- 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.
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I too use a 3com 3C905c-TX/TXM ethernet card and have had problems downloading with YaST software manager or wget. Many files will download OK, but I'm getting repeated problems with acroread (which always hangs in the same spot
I also have a 3com 3C905c-TX/TXM card and have been having problems with downloads. Just installed opensuse 12.1. My solution was to use my wireless card instead of wired. Problem went away. K Brewer -- 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.
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I also have a 3com 3C905c-TX/TXM card and have been having problems with downloads. Just installed opensuse 12.1. My solution was to use my wireless card instead of wired. Problem went away.
K Brewer
There is a small improvement with openSUSE 12.1: Still I have to go down to runlevel 3 for installation of some patches. But now with the new version 12.1 I'm also able to install (zypper install ....) AdobeReader (acroread), Scribus etc. which was not possible in openSUSE 11.4 I don't believe that the only source of our problem is the 3com ethernet card because most of all patches are downloaded and installed properly. Juergen Moeller -- 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.
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I don't believe that the only source of our problem is the 3com ethernet card because most of all patches are downloaded and installed properly.
My theory is that some rare bit pattern in the data triggers this bug, which is approaching its anniversary :-(. I know the idea sounds bizarre (why should the driver care about the data), but I think I have seen the bug bite in other net usage as well: sometimes (rarely, and I cannot point to an example) large images or Flashes hang, unless I have done the modprobe hack described in prior comments. So I nowadays do it always by hand. For whatever reason I cannot automate it in RCs, it has to be done after the system has "settled" (possibly I have been doing some total loser's mistake in my attempts at automation). -- 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.
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Please re-test with openSUSE 12.1
I'm using openSUSE 12.1 i586 on a Pentium III, with the ethernet adapter 3C905CX-TX/TX-M Fast Etherlink for PC running with driver 3c59x, and I still experience the same problems, downloading software packages, or updating. Albeit with some difficulties (see http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-logi...) I have installed all online updates for 12.1. -- 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.
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