On Friday 21 February 2003 07:40 pm, Bryan Smith wrote:
This may or may not be the list, but I'm sure everyone has gone through this.
I have two 8.1 boxes and one 8.0 box. YOU on 8.1 does not want to work correctly. I've looked on the downloads/updates/patches site and manually updated the yast2 packages for YOU. However, this still doesn't seem to fix the error of hanging while "Initiallizing for HTTP/FTP..."
Is this something to just live with or has someone worked past this issue?
Could it depend on how you are connected to Internet, ie. does it get proper access to sites such as ftp.leo.org or whatever are configured for onlineupdate? I wanted mine to check from a local NFS share and it needed disabling a setting in the /etc/sysconfig/onlineupdate for NOT connecting/loading the initial FTP servers - as that would produce an error since my firewall did not let all of that out. And besides I wanted it to get it faster from local source. This setting is: YAST2_LOADFTPSERVER="no" The only problem I have had with downloading and installing patches was this. Then again, I don't run them fully automatically. But if your situation is different then this message is of no use:-( [And that would mean that you want it from official ftp sites but something between you machine and the sites is blocking the connection?] regards, timo