Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/11/25 14:30 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:
When zypper is downloading upgrades in YaST2 (Online Update), a loss ofconnection to the internet can occur or some other hiccup where zypper either cannot connect to the URL or it cannot get the filename to download.
When this occurs zypper sits around for seems like an eternity doing nothing and then announces that an error occurred; it expects a click of the mouse on the OK button after which another window comes up giving you the chance to Retry etc. In 99+% of cases simply clicking on Retry get zypper to get on with the job.
This sitting around doing nothing is a PITA for 'hours' - and there is nothing that one can do except to wait until zypper decides to advise you that an error occurred. The ABORT button does not work so one just sits and waits. (Of course, there is always the drastic step of CTRL-ALT-ESC to exit zypper.)
Somewhere there must be timer setting which controls how long zypper keeps trying to resume its task. Does anyone know where this setting is located so that the user can set the timeout period. Nothing I can see in zypper help and nothing shows up in /etc/zypp.
Can anyone provide an answer, please?
Dunno about 11.0. I've not run into the timeouts with it. In Factory, I run zypper from runlevel 3 as root. The timeouts happen _much_ more quickly there.
If you're using download.opensuse.org for the standard repos, try switching to an alternate mirror for those, such as mirrors.kernel.org or gwdg.de.
Thanks for this, but moving to some other source/mirror doesn't really solve the problem because if zypper strikes a problem with the download it will still "hang" for some prescribed period before announcing that there has been error. What I want to do is to reset the built-in timer from x minutes to something reasonable like 30 seconds or so because what has been happening in the past is that once zypper "wakes up" and comes up with the menu where one of the options is to Retry then doing so (Retry) will immediately download the file it was "hung" on. There has to be a control file where the timer for zypper is set and can, therefore, be altered -- but what is that control file? :-) Ciao. -- Be nice to people on your way up - you'll see the same people on your way down. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org