Hi, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:30:51AM +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, after a factory update with quite a few 504 file not found errors, with wireshark running to prove it was due to mirrors not having the file, I have added my bit to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425035 and voted for it as well. I have seen many complaints about leaving a system to update overnight and waking up in the morning to an http 504 error where if libzypp had automatically retried two or three times then the installation/update would have completed. The above bug is only an enhancement request so it needs your votes but I think libzypp not automatically retrying a few times ( nobody wants to wake up to retry loop due to another problem) should be a bug by now, all it would take is a few extra lines of code before the "file not found" error is reported. Things have come a long way since 11.0 alpha when I had the problem of libzypp retrying the same mirror, now it switches to another mirror on retry, this makes automatic retries possible without problems. Regards Dave P
some notes (details in the bug): 1. This is about HTTP 404 status (file not found), not 504. 2. The US mirror distro.ibiblio.org has a sync problem which caused /factory subdirectory to disappear. I have contacted them to sort it out. (1) is preventable by http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover (2) https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305320 would allow us to debug these things without reading wireshark traces! Peter -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development