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Hello,

To get gcc 4.7 to compile my software I decided to try Mageia 3 alpha ... and it worked relatively well, except for some bugs:

1> I selected English, Polish and Portuguese from Brazil as languages and it installed a number of Breton language files o.O Possibly because it could not find a pt_br and fallbacked to br (Breton) which is completely wrong ... it should fallback to portuguese from portugal ...
2> The main KDE taskbar came without the usual task manager and only with a huge clock where it should be o.O

But those are not big problems ... I fixed them already. The real issue is that upon going to the Mageia control center to select remote sources to download things via urpmi I got the following message:

Unable to add medium, errors reported:

...retrieving failed: aria2 failed: exited with 3
problem reading synthesis file of medium "Core Release (distrib31)"
...retrieving failed: aria2 failed: exited with 3
problem reading synthesis file of medium "Core Release Debug (distrib32)"

Oh no ... problem in the most important source, Core Release =/

Any ideas for an alternative method of how to configure urpmi to use remote sources???

Using urpmi to install things from the DVD also fails:

Please insert the medium named "core media"
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
failed to mount /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0: org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Failed: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so


So I guess I will have a hard time....

Aria exit code 3 occurs when a resource is not found (According to it's man page). Have you checked the network connection sekelsenmat?

Assuming you are using it to post here though, it could be that the mirror you are using is having difficulties at the moment. Mirrors do occasionally have hardware or network problems, which would cause the errors you see there. It should correct itself, but if you don't want to wait you can change to a different mirror.

You can manually choose a mirror in MCC -> Software Management tab -> Configure media sources for install and update -> File menu -> Add a specific media mirror.

If it asks whether you want to add a full set of sources or just update media, choose the full set. (This is being deprecated so may not)

It should then present a list of Mageia mirrors to choose from. You should remove your existing medias before doing that though, just highlight them and select Remove.

For the KDE & l10n problems could you please create bugs on Mageia bugzilla , so the devs are aware. When you do, could you please add 3alpha3 into the whiteboard field too as that helps us to keep track of them. If you find the problems are fixed in beta 1 when it's released (Scheduled for 12th December) can you then please close the bugs.

KDE is kept at the latest version in cauldron and the alpha/beta's are snapshots of the current cauldron so bugs such as these may rectify themselves as time passes and KDE is updated. I've seen mention of issues with mounting in KDE which may account for the Udisks error but please create bugs for any you encounter in your testing

You can find the bugzilla here: https://bugs.mageia.org/

HTH

Thanks
Claire

Yes, I am using the internet connection of the computer to post here, so of course it is ok. Also all other mirrors work fine, only not Core Release, which is the most important.

Indeed setting manually another mirror fixes the problem, but I wanted to point out that the default mirror selection presents errors, and it is a persistent error, I had it for a couple of days now.

Had the same "Please insert the medium named 'core release' " here on a just installed Mageia 3 x_64 official release.
Problem was not in the selected mirrors, it wasn't even getting that far.
Had to remove CDROMs from MCC's "configure media" list and MCC started looking for mirrors and downloading - problem solved!

Is this problem soplved?
Both parties were upgrading with the ISO still in the drive?

I am getting it and mine are empty. However I believe it may be due to upgrading an initial app that requires rebooting before continuing with the upgrade.
(Commenting here because this is the first result my search engine threw up and it was supposed to be solved.) I've already commented on my own thread on the subject.

The last reply in this thread is from 2 years ago, chances are that nobody will reply.
Also there is no initial app that needs rebooting, there are either priority updates like mgaonline, rpm, urpmi & perl-URPM
which require a restart of the update applet, or other updates like kernel, glibc or udev for which a reboot is recommended so they are in effect.

Apart from that, removal of the installation media repos is also documented here, second screenshot: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Software_man ... omatic_way