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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not using outdated cached mirror list $MIRRORLIST                               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?

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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?

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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.

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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

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