Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3441 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running "zypper -n -q refresh" regularly from a cron job.  This was 
> working fine in the last couple of weeks.  But yesterday, it just got
> stuck.  Today, I noticed that it was hanging for about 20 hours, eating
> all the available CPU.  It also filled all my /var partition with a
> 16GB logfile.  Then I killed it (twice).  The only output was:
>
>     Timeout exceed
>     
>     OK OK! Exiting immediately...

Josef,

        I had the same problem all yesterday as well. I think there was a broken
update mirror site that was screwing things up. The easiest way to solve the
problem was just to add a specific mirror as your update source and disable the
normal update repository (the main redirector mirror).

        For example:

zypper ar http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/opensuse/update/11.1/ 
update-nluug

zypper mr -r update-nluug

zypper mr -d openSUSE-11.0-Updates

        Then retry and I bet all is good. (of course make sure you can reach the
mirror you choose)

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