Penguin Geek Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 I was trying to install some software and kept getting errors downloading the mirrorlist. I ran this command from the CLI and got the following result: $ sudo urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' --debug getting exclusive lock on urpmi parsing: /etc/urpmi/mediacfg.d/Cooker-2010.0-i586 loading mirrors cache not using outdated cached mirror list $MIRRORLIST URPMI_ADDMEDIA_REASON reason=update getting mirror list from https://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2010.0.i586.list?reason=update retrieving basic.2010.0.i586.list?reason=update '/usr/bin/curl' '-q' '-s' '--location-trusted' '-R' '-f' '--disable-epsv' '--connect-timeout' '60' '--anyauth' '--stderr' '-' '-O' 'https://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2010.0.i586.list?reason=update' mirror list not found Could not find a mirror from mirrorlist $MIRRORLIST unlocking urpmi database EXITING (pid=18485) I put in https://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2010.0.i586.list?reason=update in my browser, and it just hung there. Is anyone else having issues similar to this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 I just tried your browser link and it worked OK for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Geek Posted December 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 (edited) I just tried your browser link and it worked OK for me. I tried it an hour ago in the browser and it didn't work. Now it does in the browser, but still no luck in the GUI or CLI for adding sources, I get the same error. Edit: For further troubleshooting, I used easyurpmi and tried adding a few mirrors manually. They came back with the error no media.cfg found on the destination URL. I found one that worked, gatech.edu. Is my system just hosed up, or is this a wide-spread problem? Edited December 22, 2009 by Penguin Geek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 I think it was a widespread problem. Over the past 24 hours I had all sorts of trouble downloading from numerous sites in France, USA. Australia. These are in different Time Zones. Then suddenly one came good. The Mandriva site wouldn't come up for ages. So you were not on your own. All the very best for Christmas. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Geek Posted December 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 (edited) Update: I have the problem resolved. It seemed to be two issues. First, api.mandriva.com was down for a day or so. Second, somehow my /etc/nsswitch.conf was configured in a way that stopped wget from resolving hosts to download the mirror info. It's odd, cause I didn't mess with that file, and I had just received updated a few days before. Anyways, all is fixed. For the wget fix action, see my other post: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?/topic/97613-wget-resolve-host-address-issue/page__gopid__663493entry663493 Edited December 23, 2009 by Penguin Geek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 NAT can be a royal pain for active FTP filetransfers, but PASV/HTTP should be easier to handle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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