On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:57:21 xPol wrote:
I have just successfully upgraded from 11.4 to 12.1 I cannot update my system any more, because repositories are claimed to be unreachable:. Here is the report:
Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/content': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Failed to connect to ::1: Network is unreachable
Yet network is up an i can update suse 12.1 from other computers of the same local network. It seems that destination download.opensuse.org has not been translated into its IP address. Any ideas?
thank you Pol
Curl is trying to connect to an IPv6 address (that is what the ::1 is). Are you on a network that uses (or tunnels) IPv6? If not, you probably need to disable IPv6 so that it uses IPv4 by default, rather than trying IPv6, timing out and then (supposedly, although maybe not in this case) trying IPv4 as a fallback. Alternatively, it may be that curl is configured to use a proxy server (its configuration is separate from your desktop proxy server settings - I believe it is in /root/.curlrc from memory) and thus the error is actually from attempting to connect to the (unreachable) proxy server rather than opensuse.org. I don't know your network configuration so I might be on completely the wrong path (which is why it woud have been good to have more detail in your question) but I've been caught exactly this way before. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org