Well MIRRORLIST is a way to dynamically select a mirror using geolocation everytime urpmi runs.
What sounds good in theory, often selects slow or mirrors which are not that reliable.
After initial installation I'll always remove all repos and specify one mirror directly via
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sudo urpmi.removemedia -a
sudo urpmi.addmedia --distrib --wget 'ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mageia/distrib/$VERSION/$ARCH'
(since Mageia2 or 3 you may have to replace $VERSION manually by the actual Mageia version, not sure currently)
And then enable nonfree and tainted repos in one go:
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sudo urpmi.update --no-ignore "Tainted Release" && sudo urpmi.update --no-ignore "Tainted Updates" && sudo urpmi.update --no-ignore "Nonfree Release" && sudo urpmi.update --no-ignore "Nonfree Updates" && sudo urpmi.update -av
You can look at the available mirrors here:
http://mirrors.mageia.org/Some are known to cause problems more often, e.g. ibiblio and also kernel.org which had issues with its load balancer some time ago.
You could also try one of the faster european mirrors if those in your region don't give good speed/response time or cause issues more
often than once every few months.
