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Slackpkg is failing to update?

I have Slackpkg and slackpkg+

Okay, so the only thing that I can think of that may have caused something weird like this (besides the files actually being corrupt) is I moved my domain from GoDaddy to Networksolutions (was cheaper) and I messed around with the DNS config...which I guess could cause some problems with resolving domain names? (When I was running the slackpkg update command it would try to use my domain name to check for updates..which is strange, but it seems to have stopped doing that).

Whenever I run "slackpkg update" I get this

Code:

slackpkg update                        



Updating the package lists...

        Downloading...

2016-02-14 16:41:53 URL:https://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackware/slackware64-14.1/ChangeLog.txt [321262/321262] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.6oKtCW/ChangeLog.txt" [1]

2016-02-14 16:41:54 URL:http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+/CHECKSUMS.md5 [2086/2086] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.6oKtCW/CHECKSUMS.md5-slackpkgplus" [1]



                        !!! F A T A L !!!

    Repository 'alienbob' FAILS the CHECKSUMS.md5 download

    The repository may be invalid and will be SKIPPED.





                        !!! F A T A L !!!

    Repository 'multilib' FAILS the CHECKSUMS.md5 download

    The repository may be invalid and will be SKIPPED.





                No changes in ChangeLog.txt between your last update and now.

                Do you really want to download all other files (y/N)? 





==============================================================================

  WARNING! One or more errors occurred while slackpkg was running

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

alienbob: SKIPPING Invalid repository (fails to download CHECKSUMS.md5)

multilib: SKIPPING Invalid repository (fails to download CHECKSUMS.md5)

However if I run "slackpkg upgrade-all" I am shown gcc and glibc that can be updated..though I am afraid to do such things because it is saying my checksums failed..am I being attacked or something weird?

I have also now done "slackpkg update gpg" and I get

Code:

slackpkg update gpg



2016-02-14 16:46:11 URL:https://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackware/slackware64-14.1/GPG-KEY [1572/1572] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.jKR4mi/gpgkey" [1]

2016-02-14 16:46:11 URL:http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+/GPG-KEY [1823/1823] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.jKR4mi/gpgkey-tmp" [1]

gpg: key ED123FBC: "Matteo Rossini <zerouno@slacky.it>" not changed

gpg: Total number processed: 1

gpg:              unchanged: 1



                  !!! W A R N I N G !!!

    Repository 'alienbob' does NOT contain the GPG-KEY

    You SHOULD disable GPG check by setting 'CHECKGPG=off'

    in /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf or use slackpkg with

    '-checkgpg=off' : 'slackpkg -checkgpg=off install packge'

And yet again my virtual server (taper.alienbase.nl) had frozen up. This time when I told QEMU to reset the VM, it came back without internet connectivity.
Either the sysadmin of the host server has killed the internet link (the VM was serving insane amounts of mirror data to the inernet) or some automatic safeguard mechanism was triggered by the load on the VM.
Either way, taper.alienbase.nl is inaccessible from the outside (even though I can access the VM console, login and goof around) which causes the error above.

I would like to ask all of you to configure a different server, at least for now. The rsync and http URIs of slackware.uk/people/alien/sbrepos/ and slackware.uk/people/alien-kde/ are an alternative for my repositories on taper.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob (Post 5500181)

And yet again my virtual server (taper.alienbase.nl) had frozen up. This time when I told QEMU to reset the VM, it came back without internet connectivity.
Either the sysadmin of the host server has killed the internet link (the VM was serving insane amounts of mirror data to the inernet) or some automatic safeguard mechanism was triggered by the load on the VM.
Either way, taper.alienbase.nl is inaccessible from the outside (even though I can access the VM console, login and goof around) which causes the error above.

I would like to ask all of you to configure a different server, at least for now. The rsync and http URIs of slackware.uk/people/alien/sbrepos/ and http://slackware.uk/people/alien-kde/ are an alternative for my repositories on taper.

Okay so it was not in fact due to anything on my end, good for me at least, sucks for you though. If you could answer one thing for me though...why was slackpkg still going to update what appeared to have been gcc and glibc? Is that an update available from multilib that the system grabbed before your mirror went down?

Hello,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Altiris (Post 5500183)

...why was slackpkg still going to update what appeared to have been gcc and glibc? Is that an update available from multilib that the system grabbed before your mirror went down?

I guess the gcc/glibc updates that slackpkg suggests are the pure 64-bit versions from slackware repository. Given that the multilib repository has been skipped (remember the message from slackpkg+: multilib: SKIPPING Invalid repository) , there are no multilib gcc/glibc in slackpkg+ database, and, slackpkg+ selects the pure 64-bit from slackware repository instead.

--
SeB

Quote:

Originally Posted by phenixia2003 (Post 5500362)

Hello,

I guess the gcc/glibc updates that slackpkg suggests are the pure 64-bit versions from slackware repository. Given that the multilib repository has been skipped (remember the message from slackpkg+: multilib: SKIPPING Invalid repository) , there are no multilib gcc/glibc in slackpkg+ database, and, slackpkg+ selects the pure 64-bit from slackware repository instead.

--
SeB

Ahh, makes sense. Thank you for taking the time for answering.

I'm getting gpg md5 errors on multilib repository using slackpkg+.

Code:

2016-03-06 19:10:46 URL:http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/14.1/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [181/181] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.UdqmoQ/CHECKSUMS.md5-multilib.asc" [1]



                ERROR: Verification of the  gpg signature on CHECKSUMS.md5

                      failed! This could mean that the file is out of date

                      or has been tampered with.

I've tried changing the mirror too:

Code:

2016-03-06 19:17:59 URL:http://slackware.uk/people/alien/multilib/14.1/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [181/181] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.RoHIbN/CHECKSUMS.md5-multilib.asc" [1]



                ERROR: Verification of the  gpg signature on CHECKSUMS.md5

                      failed! This could mean that the file is out of date

                      or has been tampered with.