During Registration or Migration/Upgrade the wrong architecture is added for repositories
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 (SLES 11 SP2)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 3 (SLES 11 SP3)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 Service Pack 1 (SLED 11 SP1)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 Service Pack 2 (SLED 11 SP2)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 Service Pack 3 (SLED 11 SP3)
Situation
The Novell Customer Center (NCC) and nu.novell.com are not available anymore.
Systems still registered to the Novell Customer Center (NCC) can be migrated
to the SUSE Customer Center (SCC) as outlined at:
https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000019508
While performing a registration or migration/upgrade the wrong repo architectures are returned. The following was taken from a SLES 11 SP2 x86_64 registration log exhibiting the issue (the output has been edited so that only the information related to the issue is shown):
---------------- currentSources --------------------
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLE11-SP2-Debuginfo-Core/sle-11-i586?credentials=NCCcredentials',
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLE11-WebYaST-SP2-Pool/sle-11-s390x?credentials=NCCcredentials',
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLE11-WebYaST-SP2-Updates/sle-11-ppc64?credentials=NCCcredentials',
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP1-Updates/sle-11-s390x?credentials=NCCcredentials',
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-Extras/sle-11-ia64?credentials=NCCcredentials',
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP2-Core/sle-11-x86_64?credentials=NCCcredentials',
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLE11-SP1-Debuginfo-Updates/sle-11-x86_64?credentials=NCCcredentials',
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP1-Pool/sle-11-i586?credentials=NCCcredentials',
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP2-Extension-Store/sle-11-i586?credentials=NCCcredentials',
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLE11-SP2-Debuginfo-Updates/sle-11-i586?credentials=NCCcredentials',
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP2-Updates/sle-11-ppc64?credentials=NCCcredentials',
URL' => 'https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLE11-SP1-Debuginfo-Pool/sle-11-ppc64?credentials=NCCcredentials',
Note that repositories with i586, ppc64, and s390x architectures have been added to a system that is running an x86_64 architecture.
Resolution
:/etc/products.d # l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 07:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x 103 root root 12288 Feb 6 07:09 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2805 Feb 6 2012 SUSE_SLES.prod
which should look like this:
:/etc/products.d # ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 07:09 ./
drwxr-xr-x 103 root root 12288 Feb 6 07:09 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Feb 6 07:09 baseproduct -> /etc/products.d/SUSE_SLES.prod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2805 Feb 6 2012 SUSE_SLES.prod
To resolve the issue do the following:
1. recreate the symbolic link
cd /etc/products.d/
ln -s SUSE_SLES.prod baseproduct
2. Remove the repo files:
rm /etc/zypp/repos.d/nu*
3. Make sure /etc/suseRegister.conf points to the SCC!
# Content of /etc/suseRegister.conf # register = command=register url = https://scc.suse.com/ncc/center/regsvc #
4. Refresh the registration
suse_register -r -d 3
The repos should then be returned with the correct architecture.
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- Document ID:7015056
- Creation Date: 14-May-2014
- Modified Date:21-Dec-2021
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