Op zaterdag 12 oktober 2002 11:29, schreef Frits Wüthrich:

I am still trying to dowmload the first one you mentioned, it seems endless. YOU should indicate how far it is with the download, there is no information. How big is the KDE 3.0.4 update? I have only a 28k modem connection.

All updates of yesterday together are about 85MB. Which will take you about 7 hours to download (assumption). The Advanced Package Tool (apt) shows the information you are asking for, that's why I know it. -- Richard

On Saturday 12 October 2002 06:14 pm, Frits Wüthrich wrote:

Richard,

I am afraid you are correct about the big size. I just looked at the total size for all the packages that are included in this update, and for me it is a total of 140.5MB. Yikes, that's a lot over my modem.

This brings me to another question. Since my ISP disconnects every two hours, if I start YAST2 YOU again, will it continue to download where it left off, or is it starting all over again? If the latter, I will be unable to get this update.

Next year, once I am back in the Netherlands, I'll get ADSL or so, but I have to stick with my 28k modem connection till then.

You might want to try another method of moving the bits. I believe a recent mozilla will maintain synchronization points in a transfer, as will gftp(perhaps the better choice for this). I'm not sure how to mimic the behavior of the SuSE ftp site - I should probably learn - but I'm confident it could be done. I don't believe YOU maintains synch points for transfer resumption, though I could be wrong. STH

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 08:31:46AM -0400, Rafael E. Herrera beat on the keyboard:

the suse folks: as root run these commands:

cd /var/adm/YaST mkdir ProdDB mkdir SelDB cp InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/DESCRIPTION/description \ ProdDB/prod_00000001 cp InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/DATA/descr/*.sel \ SelDB

That solved the problem in my machines.

-- Rafael

Rafael, That worked for me, though the file names were slightly different. toolbox:/var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager # ls . .. IS_CACHE_0x00000003 tmp Just created the above directories, but with 3 instead and everything updated fine. Thanks for the information. -- _ _ __ _____ _____ ___| |_ | '__| / __\ \ /\ / / _ \/ _ \ __| -o) | | _ \__ \\ V V / __/ __/ |_ /\\ |_|(_) |___/ \_/\_/ \___|\___|\__|_\_v rsweet@garagenetworks.net "unix soit qui mal y pense."

On Saturday 12 October 2002 05:32 pm, Peter B Van Campen wrote:

Dear Rafael,

These cp cmds produce errors, are you sure they are correct?

PeterB

I found my situation to differ from that of others. I had two directories: /var/adm/YaST/instSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001 and /var/adm/YaST/instSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000002 I originally followed the instructions provided to the letter. That did not correct the problem. I then repeated these instructions replacing the IS_CACHE_0x00000001 with IS_CACHE_0x00000002. That did not work. I then went to bed and slept for several hours. After sleeping on it, I deleted the newly created directories and their content. I repeated the instructions again, but *only* for the IS_CACHE_0x00000002. That worked. It would seem there was something left from the first attempt in the newly created directories which the second (of three) attempt did not overwrite, and which caused it to fail. So, my advice is: ls /var/adm/YaST/instSrcManager/ and find the IS_CACHE_0x000000* with the highest number at the end, and follow the instructions from scratch using that directory only. HTH, STH

On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:31, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:

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Steven T. Hatton wrote:

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Is everybody getting these errors with YOU?

Retrieving KDE_3.0.4-1: "KDE 3.0.4 update" Error Retrieving cdrecord: "Tool for writing CDR's" Error: Can't get files. Retrieving gtk2: "Library for creation of graphical user interfaces" Error: Can't get files. Retrieving mod_php4: "Latest version of the HTML embedded scripting language" Error Retrieving rpm: "RPM Package Manager" Error Retrieving xfsprogs: "Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem" Error Download finished.

What does this mean? Are there some broken symlinks SuSE are unaware of?

I got the same errors on systems I updated. The solution was provided by the suse folks: as root run these commands:

cd /var/adm/YaST mkdir ProdDB mkdir SelDB cp InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/DESCRIPTION/description \ ProdDB/prod_00000001 cp InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/DATA/descr/*.sel \ SelDB

That solved the problem in my machines.

** This email message from Robert Sweet on Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:05:17 -0700 Will be delivered via Owl Services Dept **Getting the same errors though the packages are downloaded. **YaST (YOU)throws up an error on download and dies. Another **project. I'm getting errors trying to connect ANYWHERE w/ yast2 on 8.1 When attempting to get to Suse last night even the website was down ... ( I have checked the permissions , and they are roughly what is on this box so I'm at a loss to know why I cant do an update on 8.1 ( gotta update the vidiot drivers at a minmum.. ) tho I can websurf I cant update <sigh> I probably did someting silly already, but I wont know what until I show up in person <sigh> as it's a weekend, probably around 3:30pm . Gnome loads beaucoup slow as well.. Kde is much faster ... Did they leave locat , make and simular off the defualt install again? -- j afterthought The four food groups: frozen, instant, takeout, microwave.

Dear Rafael, This worked great! Thanks for the extra attention. Let me do a bit of translation for the GUI users (you know who you are): Browse to the /var/adm/YaST directory then create these new directories: ProDB SelDB now browse to the /var/adm/YaST/ InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/DESCRIPTION directory (that is all one line, no spaces) copy the file called "description" to the clipboard ( use 'edit-copy' option) now browse back to /var/abm/YaST/ProdDB directory and paste the description file there (use 'edit-paste' option) now rename it to 'prod_00000001' now browse to /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/DATA/desc directory, then 'select all' from the edit function, then do 'edit-copy' to put all the *.sel files in the clipboard (this will select other files but that won't hurt, you can manually select only *.sel files if you want) now browse to /var/adm/YsST/SelDB and use 'edit-paste' to paste the *.sel files in the SelDB dir. Now if you have directories named IS_CACHE_0x0000000X where X is a number higher than '1' copy the files from the dir IS_CACHE_0x0000000x of the highest number. This worked perfectly for me, and doing it in Konqi made it MUCH easier for my dyslectic brain! Thanks again Rafael, PeterB On Saturday 12 October 2002 22:10, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:

Peter B Van Campen wrote:

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These cp cmds produce errors, are you sure they are correct?

The commands are, all are single line:

cd /var/adm/YaST

mkdir ProdDB

mkdir SelDB

cp InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/DESCRIPTION/description ProdDB/prod_00000001

cp InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/DATA/descr/*.sel SelDB

Someone indicated that if you have directories IS_CACHE_0x00000001, IS_CACHE_0x00000002, ..., you should copy the files from the directory with the highest number.

On the machines I had this problem, an update from 7.3 and another update from 8.0, there was only one directory, hence the instructions.

Try again.

Rafael