Guest ladykrimson Posted August 21, 2010 Report Share Posted August 21, 2010 How does one uninstall and install urpmi? Edited: from a console screen. I do not have a workstation, therefore I have no MCC. Re-edited: Actually, I am trying to urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist. I received an error that stated "retrieval of [ftp://mirror...] failed (md5sum mismatch) problem reading synthesis file of medium "Main"" I have tried many other mirror sites, but I receive the same error. I have also attempted urpmi.removemedia but it says that there is no media. Again, I have no workstation. I am working strictly on a console. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 21, 2010 Report Share Posted August 21, 2010 Removing all media is done with: urpmi.removemedia -a then you can try adding the sources again as you were attempting before. If still failing, when adding the sources, add the extra parameter for wget: urpmi --wget that might help get you sorted out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ladykrimson Posted August 21, 2010 Report Share Posted August 21, 2010 When I did the urpmi.removemedia -a, it said: "nothing to remove" Thank you for the wget, though. It still will not let me add any media, no matter what the source. And when I remove media, it says there is nothing there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 21, 2010 Report Share Posted August 21, 2010 Using the easyurpmi link, you can switch to manual mirror selection. Maybe try this, and select a mirror closer to you and see if it makes a difference. Something should work eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ladykrimson Posted August 21, 2010 Report Share Posted August 21, 2010 After a ton of research, I found out that it is a bad sector on the hard disk drive. Looks like I need a new hard drive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 22, 2010 Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 You can use the badblocks command to check the disk for problems, it will probably take a while, but can give you an idea of what shape your disk is in. Sometimes you can reformat the disk with a new filesystem and partition layout and the problem might go away, but not forever. I'd make a copy of any data on there, and get a replacement as soon as you can or just use the disk for the time being but for nothing important in the event it does go down that you don't lose anything important. Chances are though it won't be long if the problems start to get worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ladykrimson Posted August 22, 2010 Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 Thank you very much. I will give that a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted August 22, 2010 Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 (edited) Most drives log any errors so if you run smartctl on the drive you'll be able tell how many errors there are and when they happened. Ken Edited August 22, 2010 by K Bergen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 smartctl (package: smartmontools) is a useful tool but doesn't work with SATA drives. Is there a similar tool for SATA drives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 smartctl (package: smartmontools) is a useful tool but doesn't work with SATA drives. Is there a similar tool for SATA drives? Have you tried it smartctl -a /dev/sda gives me about three pages of output. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted September 12, 2010 Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 Most of my computers use PATA drives. Today I was able to try smartctl on a desktop with a SATA drive, it worked. Previously I had tried to use smartctl on a laptop with a SATA drive, it didn't work then but that may have been due to some incompatible drive controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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