My mistake; apparently I had recently set environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy to 127.0.0.1:8118. (Why? I dunno.) Clearing them fixed the problem.

Leslie

On 2022-06-10 19:47:45 J Leslie Turriff wrote:

|Hello, | I have been having trouble getting zypper and YaST to see the openSUSE | repositories from Leap 15.3, and now after installing Leap 15.4 into | newly formatted partitions as well. I'm getting a message that tells me | that they are trying to communicate with privoxy, which | |uses port 8118: || ~ || ● zypper ref || Retrieving repository 'Update Repository (Non-Oss)' metadata || ........................................................................ ||............................[done] Building repository ''Update || Repository (Non-Oss) cache || ........................................................................ ||.................................[done] Problem retrieving files from || 'Update Repository (Non-Oss)'. || Download (curl) error for || 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.4/non-oss/repodata/repomd.x ||ml': Error code: Connection failed || Error message: Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8118 after 0 ms: || Connection refused Please see the above error message for a hint. || Skipping repository 'Update Repository (Non-Oss)' because of the above || error. Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an || error. @19:18:51,root@pinto rc=4 | | Just to be sure, I checked to see if it's even installed: || ~ || $ zypper se -i privoxy || Loading repository data... || Reading installed packages... || No matching items found. || @19:20:08,leslie@pinto rc=104 | |Nope. | | Then I looked at sysconfig: || YaST2 - sysconfig @ pinto || || ┌Configuration Options───────────────────┐ /etc/sysconfig Editor || │─+─Applications │ Current Selection: || Network/Proxy │─+─Desktop │ || │─+─Hardware │ Setting of: PROXY_ENABLED || [Default] || │─┬─Network │ | |no▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ |▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒↓ but it says it's not enabled. | Just to be safe, I added software.opensuse.org the the NO_PROXY list | || YaST2 - sysconfig @ pinto || || ┌Configuration Options───────────────────┐ /etc/sysconfig Editor || │─+─Applications │ Current Selection: || Network/Proxy │─+─Desktop │ || │─+─Hardware │ Setting of: NO_PROXY || [Default] || │─┬─Network │ localhost, 127.0.0.1, || software.opensuse.org▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒↓ | |but that didn't make any difference. | I grepped the zypper .conf files for proxy and 8118, but found no | matches. Can anyone out there explain where zypper is getting the idea | that it needs to use privoxy? | |Leslie

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