I got this yesterday or the day before as well and it is continuing now, in my case through the YAST software update/installer app. This is a general subject that has been bothering me, specifically I don't understand why pkg management under SUSE is so painful. There are some basic things that I find curious: - Why is there a single point of failure such as this for getting packages? I've seen recommendations for choosing mirrors, but why should I have to bother with that? Thats the kind of mundane chore computers supposed to do for me. I'd think that there would be an ability to query multiple servers for package lists and perhaps to even get referrals from servers to others. In the words of an old US TV show: "We have the technology". Shouldn't we even be able to find the best set of sources while we are at it? - Why is refreshing a source an all-or nothing proposition? When I bring up the software management app. it refreshes those I've enabled via another app (software sources). Can't I just pick what I want to enable/disable at the start before I start this long time-out dance? - Why does "abort" never seem to work? When a source hangs (which is all to frequent) I want to move on, not sit and wait and wait and wait. - Why does software sources have to refresh the very software sources that I'm now going into this app. to try to remove so that I can get-on with life in the other app? - Why does Yast s/w apps. insist on being "in my face"? This is supposed to be a multi-tasking, multi-app. computer letting me do multiple things at a time. Yet when Yast starts refreshing software sources and in general "doing its thing" it keeps popping into the foreground and preventing me from doing other work. Maybe I'm just not running things correctly on my SUSE box? I've read that this is much improved in the coming 10.3. Is that true? In what way? When I powered up B3 yesterday I experienced the same kinds of wait-n-wait-n-wait that I now have with 10.2. Does the improvement come in the RCs? - Bruce Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Hi Folks,
Starting yesterday evening I've been getting browser timeouts on http://software.opensuse.org/. Something wrong? It's been down about 24-hours now.
I managed to find the iso's on http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version an got a successful download of the X86-64 dvd, but now when I try an "Online Update Configuration" in YaST on the fresh install I get a "Error 504: Gateway Time-Out" popup error. Online Update returns "No Patches Available" just like 10.1 did. Could my 504 errors be related to the software.opensuse.org crash? Or am I just fouling up somehow?
Regards Lew Wolfgang
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