xboxboy Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Hi all, since my install is now how I would like it I have been trying to update. I can add and easily update the PLF medias. I had trouble downloading the Official medias last night. I thought it might be my internet connection, so I left it. Tonight, still troubles downloading updates. So I removed the medias, readded the PLF medias with out trouble. I cannot add the official medias. Is anyone else having trouble???? The message I get is: Failure when adding medium There was a problem adding medium: Could not find a mirror from mirror list http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.$arch.lst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 I think the MIRRORLIST was down, however it's up now. BTW it's http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.$arch.list and $arch should be either i586 or x86_64. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted February 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 I just tried again, with no success :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Both http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list and http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list seem to work, at least they open in a browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 There's a file in /var/urpmi I think it goes by the name mirrors.list or something. You can delete this, and then try to add mirrors again, and it'll download a new one and be up-to-date. Either that, or just rename/copy it to another place in case I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I did this before when I had problems with mirrors updating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Yeah, Ian is right, it might just be a case of a stale mirror. The file is in /var/cache/urpmi/mirrors.cache . So as root in terminal: su rm -fv /var/cache/urpmi/mirrors.cache If it still doesn't work then post the exact error message here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted February 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 (edited) this is from using Easy urpmi: unable to add medium, errors reported: ...retrieving failed: aria2 failed: exited with 1 problem reading synthesis file of medium "contrib" This is from using the code line from easy urpmi: http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list: media/main/release/media_info/20090216-062133-synthesis.hdlist.cz...retrieving failed: ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Mandriva/o...hesis.hdlist.cz (7more) http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list: media/main/updates/media_info/20090219-132715-synthesis.hdlist.cz http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list: media/contrib/release/media_info/20081003-221855-synthesis.hdlist.cz ...retrieving failed: ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Mandriva/o...hesis.hdlist.cz (7more) ...retrieving failed: http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Mandriva/o...hesis.hdlist.cz (7more) ...retrieving failed: aria2 failed: exited with 1 problem reading synthesis file of medium "Contrib" Edited February 20, 2009 by xboxboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted February 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Could this occur just from busy servers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Try adding a specific mirror, open the Mandriva control centre>s/w management>configure media sources, press Ctrl+A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux_man Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 1-delete all mirrors you downloaded 2- go to easy urpmi 3- dont use the command line 4- just press on the button of adding official mirrors 5- a download dialogue appear to you 6- chose to open it with add urpmi media then press ok 7- do the same thing to plf media 8- open configure you computer then chose configure media source 9- then mark the enable check box if it didnt update the media source press the edit button then chose wget from the downloader list box Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 He should select manual selection in easyurpmi too, the mirrorlist is choosing a bad mirror for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux_man Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 i did it without selecting manual selection in easyurpmi , and it works well maybe you right i'm just trying to help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 tux_man: yes it should work but it seems his machine is stuck on a dead mirror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted February 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Try adding a specific mirror, open the Mandriva control centre>s/w management>configure media sources, press Ctrl+A. This is what I did, worked perfect, went through a Japanese mirror (I'm in Australia). Some 500mB of downloads, and I'm upto date. So I think it was purely a bad mirror or server. Seems all fine now. Thanks all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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