Bug 1200458

Summary:	https_download-opensuse-org_repositories_devel:_languages:_R:_patched_15.4_] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Nick Dordea <ndordea>
Component:	libzypp	Assignee:	E-mail List <zypp-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P1 - Urgent	CC:	andrii.nikitin
Version:	Leap 15.4
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
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Description Nick Dordea 2022-06-12 18:50:23 UTC

A zypper ref ...... fails when using download.oo.org as well as when using mirrorcache.oo.org ....

Messages below ............

Repository 'R-patched' is invalid.
[R-patched|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/patched/15.4/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
- File './repodata/e80bb246d27b395865b2dc981e7b02620a89005dfe7e60fc2fc50d5ae6d5a37b-primary.xml.gz' not found on medium 'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/patched/15.4/'
- Can't provide ./repodata/e80bb246d27b395865b2dc981e7b02620a89005dfe7e60fc2fc50d5ae6d5a37b-primary.xml.gz

Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Skipping repository 'R-patched' because of the above error.
Could not refresh the repositories because of errors.

Repository 'R-patched' is invalid.
[R-patched|https://mirrorcache.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/patched/15.4/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
- File './repodata/e80bb246d27b395865b2dc981e7b02620a89005dfe7e60fc2fc50d5ae6d5a37b-primary.xml.gz' not found on medium 'https://mirrorcache.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/patched/15.4/'
- Can't provide ./repodata/e80bb246d27b395865b2dc981e7b02620a89005dfe7e60fc2fc50d5ae6d5a37b-primary.xml.gz

Comment 1 Michael Andres 2022-06-13 10:56:55 UTC

It looks like there are currently issues with d.o.o and metalink. We get sporadic 404(file not found) from the server although the files are indeed present. Often after a 2nd attempt it succeeds for a while.

You can try to disable using metalink by calling `ZYPP_MULTICURL=0 zypper ref`. This falls back to using plain curl, which seems to work flawless.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1200425 ***

Comment 2 Andrii Nikitin 2022-06-13 15:21:28 UTC

I cannot reproduce the problem at the moment, maybe it was related to a tweak I did for 1200425 , but it shouldn't affect behavior of mirrorcache.o.o
So please confirm if the problem is resolved or if any problems still exits.
Following Dockerfile was used to test:

from opensuse/leap:15.4
run zypper ar http://mirrorcache.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/patched/15.4 R
run zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys ref
run zypper -vvvn in R

Comment 3 Nick Dordea 2022-06-13 21:33:56 UTC

Hello, 

Late evening yesterday the repos were ok.  
zypper ref worked for download.o.o as well as mirrorcache,o.o .
Thank you for the tips.

Regrads,
ND