[heroes] repos fubar again
I got timeouts trying to zypper dup TW now that 20200612 was announced over 5 hours ago, until fumbling through repo configuration to find download.opensuse.org was the primary obstacle and switching to something else. This is hardly the first time in the past month. It's got to be turning would-be openSUSE users off. I've been trying for days to help someone in a forum with a cantankerous laptop trying hopelessly to get a bootable installation of Xubuntu. Finally I convinced him to try openSUSE instead, which was anything but easy to do. He got an installation initiated finally after multiple failed starts, but his download speed is now trickling along at "about 100 kb/s so it's taking forever": <https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/sos-facing-the-black-screen-of-death-4175676989/page6.html#post6134434> -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner@opensuse.org
Felix Miata wrote:
I got timeouts trying to zypper dup TW now that 20200612 was announced over 5 hours ago, until fumbling through repo configuration to find download.opensuse.org was the primary obstacle and switching to something else. This is hardly the first time in the past month.
So you have time-outs on download.o.o ? I don't see any here, we might need some more information to be able to pursue this.
It's got to be turning would-be openSUSE users off. I've been trying for days to help someone in a forum with a cantankerous laptop trying hopelessly to get a bootable installation of Xubuntu. Finally I convinced him to try openSUSE instead, which was anything but easy to do. He got an installation initiated finally after multiple failed starts, but his download speed is now trickling along at "about 100 kb/s so it's taking forever":
Without knowing which mirror or IP address he was trying from, there is little I can suggest. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.8°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner@opensuse.org
Per Jessen composed on 2020-06-15 08:45 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata wrote:
I got timeouts trying to zypper dup TW now that 20200612 was announced over 5 hours ago, until fumbling through repo configuration to find download.opensuse.org was the primary obstacle and switching to something else. This is hardly the first time in the past month.
So you have time-outs on download.o.o ? I don't see any here, we might need some more information to be able to pursue this.
It's got to be turning would-be openSUSE users off. I've been trying for days to help someone in a forum with a cantankerous laptop trying hopelessly to get a bootable installation of Xubuntu. Finally I convinced him to try openSUSE instead, which was anything but easy to do. He got an installation initiated finally after multiple failed starts, but his download speed is now trickling along at "about 100 kb/s so it's taking forever":
Without knowing which mirror or IP address he was trying from, there is little I can suggest.
Zypper and the installer don't make such information obvious. Is there a HOWTO somewhere for getting it? https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/sos-facing-the-black... -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner@opensuse.org
Felix Miata wrote:
Per Jessen composed on 2020-06-15 08:45 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata wrote:
I got timeouts trying to zypper dup TW now that 20200612 was announced over 5 hours ago, until fumbling through repo configuration to find download.opensuse.org was the primary obstacle and switching to something else. This is hardly the first time in the past month.
So you have time-outs on download.o.o ? I don't see any here, we might need some more information to be able to pursue this.
It's got to be turning would-be openSUSE users off. I've been trying for days to help someone in a forum with a cantankerous laptop trying hopelessly to get a bootable installation of Xubuntu. Finally I convinced him to try openSUSE instead, which was anything but easy to do. He got an installation initiated finally after multiple failed starts, but his download speed is now trickling along at "about 100 kb/s so it's taking forever":
Without knowing which mirror or IP address he was trying from, there is little I can suggest.
Zypper and the installer don't make such information obvious. Is there a HOWTO somewhere for getting it?
Mirrors for a particular file can be found at mirrors.o.o, the "Details" link for each file. These depend on the requester's IP-address. Otherwise 'wget -S' is a good tool for seeing which mirror was picked. For finding one's external IP-address, there are a gazillion tools out there, like e.g. http://whatismyipaddress.com http://checkip.dns24.ch/ A very slow download speed like 100kb/s suggests a far away mirror, or just one to which the client has a poor connection. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (19.1°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner@opensuse.org
On 15/06/2020 09.05, Felix Miata wrote:
Per Jessen composed on 2020-06-15 08:45 (UTC+0200):
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Without knowing which mirror or IP address he was trying from, there is little I can suggest.
Zypper and the installer don't make such information obvious. Is there a HOWTO somewhere for getting it?
You could run "iptraf" in a terminal, which would show the active connections. If the connection is that slow, the line will stay there for minutes and allow you to see the IP address. Of course, I doubt it is available on the installation media, so you have to install the machine first from DVD. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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