u/AustinTX1985

Repository 'repo-oss' is inalid

Hello. I recently migrated to OpenSUSE after a Kubuntu installation was corrupted and would no longer boot. I am attempting to get updates and all that sorted, but it appears that something went wrong along the way with installation as the "repo-oss" repository is supposedly invalid with no metadata being retrieved. I have copied and pasted the result of trying to refresh zypper, the contents of my Leap.repo file, and the result of "zypper lr --url". Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

>:~> sudo zypper refresh

>Refreshing service 'openSUSE'.

>Looking for gpg keys in repository repo-openh264 (16.0).

>gpgkey=https://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Leap_16/repodata/repomd.xml.key

>Retrieving repository 'repo-openh264 (16.0)' metadata ..................................................[done]

>Building repository 'repo-openh264 (16.0)' cache .......................................................[done]

>Looking for gpg keys in repository repo-oss (16.0).

>gpgkey=http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.key

>Retrieving repository 'repo-oss (16.0)' metadata .......................................................[done]

>Building repository 'repo-oss (16.0)' cache ............................................................[done]

>Retrieving repository 'repo-oss' metadata .............................................................[error]

>Repository 'repo-oss' is invalid.

>[repo-oss|http://opensuse.org/] Failed to retrieve new repository metadata.

>History:

>- [repo-oss|http://opensuse.org/] Repository type can't be determined.

>Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.

>Skipping repository 'repo-oss' because of the above error.

>Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error.

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>GNU nano 8.6 /etc/zypp/repos.d/Leap.repo

>[Leap]

>name=Leap 16.0

>enabled=0

>autorefresh=0

>baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss

>type=rpm-md

>keeppackages=0

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># | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | URI

>--+-----------------------------+---------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------

>1 | Leap | Leap 16.0 | No | ---- | ---- | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss

>2 | brave-browser | Brave Browser | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64

>3 | openSUSE:repo-non-oss | repo-non-oss (16.0) | No | ---- | ---- | http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/non-oss/x86_64

>4 | openSUSE:repo-non-oss-debug | repo-non-oss-debug (16.0) | No | ---- | ---- | http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/non-oss/x86_64

>5 | openSUSE:repo-openh264 | repo-openh264 (16.0) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | https://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Leap_16

>6 | openSUSE:repo-oss | repo-oss (16.0) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64

>7 | openSUSE:repo-oss-debug | repo-oss-debug (16.0) | No | ---- | ---- | http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64

>8 | openSUSE:repo-oss-source | repo-oss-source (16.0) | No | ---- | ---- | http://cdn.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss

>9 | repo-oss | repo-oss | Yes | ( p) Yes | Yes | http://opensuse.org/

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