I got this yesterday or the day before as well and it is continuing now,
in my case through the YAST software update/installer app.
This is a general subject that has been bothering me, specifically I
don't understand why pkg management under SUSE is so painful. There are
some basic things that I find curious:
- Why is there a single point of failure such as this for getting
packages? I've seen recommendations for choosing mirrors, but why
should I have to bother with that? Thats the kind of mundane chore
computers supposed to do for me. I'd think that there would be an
ability to query multiple servers for package lists and perhaps to even
get referrals from servers to others. In the words of an old US TV
show: "We have the technology". Shouldn't we even be able to find the
best set of sources while we are at it?
- Why is refreshing a source an all-or nothing proposition? When I
bring up the software management app. it refreshes those I've enabled
via another app (software sources). Can't I just pick what I want to
enable/disable at the start before I start this long time-out dance?
- Why does "abort" never seem to work? When a source hangs (which is
all to frequent) I want to move on, not sit and wait and wait and wait.
- Why does software sources have to refresh the very software sources
that I'm now going into this app. to try to remove so that I can get-on
with life in the other app?
- Why does Yast s/w apps. insist on being "in my face"? This is
supposed to be a multi-tasking, multi-app. computer letting me do
multiple things at a time. Yet when Yast starts refreshing software
sources and in general "doing its thing" it keeps popping into the
foreground and preventing me from doing other work.
Maybe I'm just not running things correctly on my SUSE box? I've read
that this is much improved in the coming 10.3. Is that true? In what
way? When I powered up B3 yesterday I experienced the same kinds of
wait-n-wait-n-wait that I now have with 10.2. Does the improvement come
in the RCs?
- Bruce
Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Starting yesterday evening I've been getting browser timeouts
> on http://software.opensuse.org/. Something wrong? It's been
> down about 24-hours now.
>
> I managed to find the iso's on http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version
> an got a successful download of the X86-64 dvd, but now when
> I try an "Online Update Configuration" in YaST on the fresh install
> I get a "Error 504: Gateway Time-Out" popup error. Online Update
> returns "No Patches Available" just like 10.1 did. Could my 504
> errors be related to the software.opensuse.org crash? Or am I
> just fouling up somehow?
>
> Regards
> Lew Wolfgang
>
>
>
>
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