On Wed January 10 2007 9:23 pm, Curtis Rey scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 16:57, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote:
http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#Packm an and then
choose a mirror near you. In Konqueror I just mouse over the first USA mirror, right click, Copy Link Address and then go to YaST, Software, Installation Source. Click Add, HTTP, Next and in the Server Name either middle-click or Ctrl+V the copied link. Delete the http://. Then highlight the first slash after the server name and domain through the end of the directory list. Cut+Paste that into the Directory On Server area and delete the leading and trailing slashes. Click Next.
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I've been getting a lot of "server unreachable" and "access denied" do to too many connections today. I've also been getting these sorts of messages on and off over the last month or so. Pair this with the fact that many of the mirrors report the same and in some instances flat out aren't there anymore such as the Packman Unixheads ftp server. The kernel mirrors and many at the universities in the U.S. often aren't reachable. This is either due to bandwidth restrictions and that limits in said bandwidth hits max during peak hours - such as during normal school hours when students (grads. post-docs) are using sys resources for their projects - or the University admins just set a flat bandwidth that simply max's out.
The openSUSE sites are the ones that I personally find frustrating. I can't understand why these are unreachable on a fairly regular basis. A couple of reasons come to mind - that the servers are hit the max connections. The repos are being updated (though that shouldn't really make a diff) or after updating permissions or repodata files aren't sync'ed as they might be. One other issue may be with my ISP - but considering the complaints from others with differing providers I also find this unlikely.
On some of the non-OSS/factory/ and third person repositories such as guru, suser, jacklab, etc. I repeated find issues with gpg-keys not being accepted by apps such as yum, smart, etc (and I wonder if this may also have to do with YaST not being able to "reach" the repos).
Eitherway, just keep checking and posting as to the problems your having. If you've been following the list threads this is not a new complaint or issue apparently.
So in otherwords: Pt complaints continue, symptoms remain persistent and intermittent and cause/etiology undetermined at this time - more diagnostic recommended - will continue to follow. :)
yup, I've had repeted problems reaching many sites w/ great frustration following close on. No matter if I try Yast, or Smart, or fill in the blank.. even going so far as to add a directory on the local drive. That in 10.2 boxed version insists it can't do that because it doesn't know what the type is.. even tho there is a way to add a local directory to the install sources. I get the same complaints as above. I'm especially have problems getting the guru site added.. and the *problems* repete dosen't know the type, doesn't like the gpgkey... and on and on.. It won't even get added using konvenientSuse . I managed early on adding it to smart, but haven't got further since Smart also doesn't like the gpgkey. <shrug> Patience is a virtue to be practised, I guess. And sooner or later I'm going to be very practised. ;-) -- j I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org