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I'm running up-to-date MGA6 on a Dell D90D7 that serves a couple of websites with Hiawatha. I can ssh to it or work in the GUI on a monitor. After looking at the distro upgrade instructions in the release notes: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_7_Release_Notes#Upgrading_from_Mageia_6, I first enabled "Check for newer default releases" in Software Management. I use mirrors.kernel.org for urpmi and have already updated another machine to 7 using that mirror and Mageia-7-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso on a usb key. Not wishing to reboot or wait on the mgaapplet, I followed the instruction in release notes:

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[root@d90d7 rolf]# mgaapplet-upgrade-helper --new_distro_version=7

The result is the title of this topic

From what I remember mirrors.kernel.org resolves to several actual mirrors, and not all of them might have synced completely yet. I'd say either wait a few days or try a different mirror in the meantime if it's that urgent.

AFAIK the mgapplet upgrade was not enabled yet.

OK, after no change in results, I checked mirror status: http://mirrors.mageia.org/status and that shows distrib-coffee, a primary mirror, iianm, up-to-date, albeit kernel.org is nearer to me, fast, and not far behind, typically. At any rate,

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[root@d90d7 ~]# urpmi.removemedia -a

[root@d90d7 ~]# urpmi.addmedia --distrib http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/6/x86_64/

[root@d90d7 ~]# urpmq --list-url
Core Release http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/6/x86_64/media/core/release
...

[root@d90d7 ~]# mgaapplet-upgrade-helper --new_distro_version=7
Ignore the following Glib::Object::Introspection & Gtk3 warnings
Subroutine Gtk3::main redefined at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22.3/Gtk3.pm line 525.
retrieved   x86_64?product=Default&version=6&mgaonline_version=3.24.1
could not find version '7' in the distro update list

[root@d90d7 ~]# cat /etc/release
Mageia release 6 (Official) for x86_64
[root@d90d7 ~]#

The commands were run in an ssh session from my main machine. The results are the same in the D90D7 gui.

Is this update failure intentionally implemented by devs or am I doing something wrong

See: https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/dev/2019-07/msg00010.html

Yes, tmb also explained this in a bug I filed yesterday: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25031 Thanks.